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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
May. 31, 2007
Mehdi Rezaei, Tampere, FI;
Imed Bouazizi, Tampere, FI;
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere, FI;
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
In accordance with an aspect of the invention, flexible burst boundaries, within an allowable range, allow statistical multiplexing to be performed in conjunction with time slicing in a digital broadcast network. The signalling of the delta-t is performed such that data of the service is not missed. Similar to deterministic multiplexing, aspects of the invention split the multiplex into several time-cycles and allocate, for each service, a time slot (data burst) from the total time-cycle according to the service's average bit rate. In accordance with aspects of the invention, however, the boundaries of each data burst are allowed to grow or shrink by a limited amount.