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Many of you have asked me who is on the CHINADebate Advisory Council…and here's the answer…
Many of you have asked me who is on the CHINADebate Advisory Council…and here's the answer…
Among the many extraordinary resources on the Web is Artsy. Artsy describes itself this way..'Artsy's mission is to make all the world's art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.' And since it's beginning two years ago Arty has made impressive strides toward accomplishing this. (Note that here 'accessible' includes selling works of art, which I presume is how Artsy makes money and takes nothing away from it usefulness.)
Readers here know that one of my favorite artists is Ai Weiwei. More importantly though he is one of my heroes for his bravery, in the face of persecution, in criticising and resisting those segments of the Chinese government that repress the Chinese people. Artsy came across these posts, and a couple of days ago I received this from Anthony Williams…
Hi Malcolm,
I was looking through your post that mentions Ai Weiwei but, unfortunately, couldn't find any additional resources. I suggest linking to Artsy's Ai Weiwei page as a solution for a missing resource. We've been building out Artsy for the past 2 years, and now, we have editorial content, biographical material, exclusive images, and up-to-date exhibitions that is openly available to you and your audience. Since you write about art, I thought you might be interested!
As he suggested, I went to the Ai Weiwei page. Here I found a brief bio, some excellent posts, and nearly 100 photos linked to related works and exhibitions. As a fan, I of course wanted more and noted omissions. Objectively though this is a terrific, one-stop, spot to survey the breadth of Ai Weiwei's art and career. Highly recommend not only for those who are interested in contemporary art but especially for those who admire courage–Ai Weiwei is breaking more than Han vases.
Main Conference – Sunday, November 9, 2014
Hilton Hotel
The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA) is pleased to announce that the 20th TCFA Annual Conference entitled "U.S. and China in a Shifting Global Economic Order: A Finance Perspective at TCFA's 20th Anniversary" will be held on Sunday, November 9th, 2014 at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City.
This TCFA signature event provides an outstanding platform for industry leaders, academic experts, government regulators, and TCFA members to share thoughts on the latest developments in the global economy and the financial markets. This year's conference will highlight the challenges faced by China and other emerging economies for continued growth; the increasing tension in geopolitical environment; and heightened pressure between the U.S. and China to collaborate on major global issues, given the still gradually recovering U.S. economy.
This year our distinguished keynote speakers include Dr. Robert Engle, Nobel Laureate in Economics and Michael Armellino Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University, and Boming Cheng (程博明), President, CITIC Securities (中信证券).
In addition, we will have many other prominent speakers from major investment banks, hedge funds, regulatory bodies, and other institutions, both from U.S. and China. Continue Reading
Mercy Kuo, CHINADebate's Chief Strategy Officer, and Angie Tang, Senior Advisor of Asia Value Advisors, a leading venture philanthropy advisory firm based
in Hong Kong, have published in The Diplomat 'Asian Philanthropy: Strategic Social Stewardship.' Portending a trend, Mercy and Angie, assert in the tagline 'Philanthropy from the region is growing, despite some significant challenges.'
What I found especially interesting is this…
For many Asian HNWI families, wealth brings a sense of social responsibility. The characteristics of Asian philanthropy reflect cultural values. The family unit plays an important role in driving philanthropy in Asia, seeking out and reaping many benefits from philanthropy: "1) it teaches principles like compassion, courage and tolerance, 2) it fosters capacities for leadership, innovation and responsibility, and 3) it supports family cohesion by providing a common activity and goal for the family to pursue as a unit," a 2011 UBS INSEAD philanthropy in Asia report explains.
The outlook for Asian philanthropy is promising, but there are myriad challenges. "The litmus test of effective philanthropy is not determined by how much is given, but whether the stewardship of that gift was properly administered and its intended outcomes were achieved," observes Victor Kuo, former board member of the American Evaluation Association and founder of VK Global Advising. In China, pervasive state control and lack of regulatory accountability are formidable challenges in the country's non-profit space. Despite such obstacles, Asian philanthropists and philanthropic entities affirm that universal values transcend national and cultural borders to benefit all of humanity.
By defining the tension between characteristics and the challenges, Mercy and Angie provide a rough template for tracking Asia philanthropy's growth or perhaps stifling.
As the demonstrations in Hong Kong continue, I get calls and emails from CHINADebate Members, especially hedge funds concerned about what the impact will be on investments, asking what I think will happen. I have had to answer that I don't know. Any serious impact would come from the actions of China's leadership, and we don't have any precedents from the Xi Jinping regime.
That said, insightful China watchers can give us analyses that will at least allow us to weigh expectations. Of these, one of my handful of go-to experts is Tony Saich.
Besides his positions as Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School, Tony Saich is, I am honored to say, a frequent speaker at the CHINARoundtable and a member of CHINADebate's Advisory Council. And I am pleased to say that he will be a speaker at the November 11 CHINARoundtable.
Tony has commented on the demonstrations in Hong Kong in an interview with the Harvard Gazette and in an op-ed in The Boston Globe, 'Hong Kong Protesters Shouldn't Push China Too Far.' From the Harvard Gazette interview…
GAZETTE: Is the protest movement likely to change Beijing's view, and if not, is there a resolution both sides could live with?
SAICH: I think it's hard to see what the resolution is. I don't think Beijing will back down on the decision that was made earlier. The demonstrators say that they have a number of core objectives, one of which is to rescind that decision, but also for [Leung] to step down. I don't think they're going to get the first. They may, through some maneuverings, get the second. Because the only tactic for Beijing, short of greater oppression, is to distance themselves and not say their decision was wrong, but to say that [Leung] and the senior Hong Kong leadership have implemented their control around the demonstrations poorly, and that they haven't explained this sufficiently to the Hong Kong people, that they haven't allowed sufficient negotiation — that might be one area of wiggle room for them. The only other hope is that if there's not continued repression of the demonstrations, over time the enthusiasm might just fade away, and that might allow for a calming period where some kind of discussion could take place. But I think it's very problematic for Beijing. In a sense, they are really losing a generation. You have a group of young people — college students, high school students — who've clearly expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the way Hong Kong is being managed. It's hard to see what Beijing could do that would win back trust from that group, which is not a very promising situation for the future.
And for a fuller analysis, listen to Tony's 13 minute 'The Aims and Aftermath of the Hong Kong Protests,' on the Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast.
Mercy comes to us from the Committee of 100, where she was successively Director of Research and then Managing Director. The Committee of 100 describes itself in this way…
The Committee of 100 is an international, non-profit, non-partisan membership organization that brings a Chinese American perspective to issues concerning Asian Americans and U.S.-China relations. Our organization draws upon the collective experience, knowledge and resources of our members – Chinese Americans who have achieved prominence in a variety of fields and work in partnership towards our mission.
It is a who's who of Chinese-Americans from Lucy Liu to Yo Yo Ma to Ronnie Chan and Victor Fung.
Close to my heart–and adding fuel to speculation that CHINADebate is a CIA cabal–Mercy also served for six years in the Agency's Directorate of Intelligence.
I hope you will welcome Mercy, as we do, to the CHINADebate family.
Finally, here is her formal statement of background…
Mercy A. Kuo is Chief Strategy Office at CHINADebate.
She was formerly managing director and director of research at the Committee of 100, an international, non-profit leadership organization focused on strengthening US-China relations.
From 2006-2008, Dr. Kuo was a senior project director and director of the Southeast Asia Studies and Strategic Asia Programs at the National Bureau of Asian Research, a US-based foreign policy think tank.
She served with the Central Intelligence Agency as an analyst of Chinese foreign policy and Northeast and Southeast Asian political, security, and military issues from 2000-2006.
She was the first Chinese-American lecturer in the Sinology Department at the University of Warsaw in Poland and a visiting researcher at the Polish Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Studies.
Her China-related publications include:
She earned a Ph.D. in Modern History from Oxford University, M.A. in Chinese Studies from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and B.A. in Asian Studies from Pomona College in Claremont, California, and is proficient in Chinese, Polish and Italian.


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The Cleveland Browns continued their practice preparations on Thursday for the Sunday season finale at Heinz Field against the Pittsburgh Steelers and their daily injury report is now out. Cornerback Sheldon Brown (head, foot), tight end Jordan Cameron (head), quarterback Colt McCoy (right shoulder), running back Trent Richardson (ankle) and quarterback Brandon Weeden (right shoulder) all failed to practice for a second consecutive day on Thursday and it is looking more and more likely that third-string quarterback Thaddeus Lewis and backup running back Montario Hardesty will start against the Read more [...]
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I've tried to run either the ddb or nvidia-bug-report.sh script with no success. The
system seems to either lock up completely or respond only to pings when I try
to exit Xorg normally.
The lockup appears to be random. It happens whether KDE is running or not and it
happens when exiting Xorg when running under the root or user account. It does seem
to happen much more consistently when running under a user account.
Sometimes , I can still ping the system, but the ping responses go from 0.080 mS
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machine , and ran "systat -vmstat 1" in 2 logins to monitor the problem system.
What I noticed is that the page faults go from (0-200) to (10K - 20K) and the window
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since it is too long to post here. The next thing I am going to try is to kill the Xorg
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Rick and I did a little comparison testing last night. We set up 550' from a mostly deserted 'T' and aimed at the signs. He has a a set of PIAA 910's and a set of Warn 2" HID's. We blanketed off the the main headlights so we could compare just the Aux lighting.
You know the old saw of 'pics don't do it justice'? Very true. He did captures off of his Go-Pro Drift set up, less than stellar results.
From the vantage point of behind the bikes: The Cyclops had better 'whiteness' and longer throw than the HID's. LED's are also instant on/off as opposed to the warm up cycle of the HID's.
Rick rode down and looked back towards me- he said the lights merged into 1 intense beam from head on and were blinding at that 550' range, once he got off to the side a bit the individual lights stood out.
Riding back through a few twisties- great cone of light shooting ahead of you, however their needs to be fill to the sides. Possibly another set angled more outward or a set of driving LED's would do the trick.
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"Screening children and adolescents for elevated blood pressure allows for earlier detection and has the potential to allow effective lifestyle modification to begin earlier in life," said Dr. Gregg Fonarow, a spokesman for the American Heart Association and a professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. This could reduce the risk of death and disability from cardiovascular disease in adulthood, he explained.
This review did not identify any studies directly evaluating the effects of blood pressure screening on health outcomes, Fonarow noted.
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The task force, an independent group of experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine working to improve Americans' health, welcomes public comment on this report until March 25.
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Xinguang Chen, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pediatrics in the School of Medicine, and Feng Lin, Ph.D., professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering, have found a way to provide policymakers with some hard evidence.
Most adult smokers in the United States report trying their first cigarette before age 18, according to government statistics, with more than 80 percent of established smokers starting before high school graduation. Earlier initiation has been shown to be associated with greater smoking frequency and number of cigarettes smoked per day.
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Jay, I'm not going to touch BTZS use of terminology, but Subject Luminance Range does only refer to the scene. The luminance from the scene is then illuminant upon the film after it enters the camera. At which point it is referred to as the exposure E, the amount of light falling on the film in one second, or the photographic exposure H with represents the exact amount of light striking the film in a given exposure. Remember the old I x t = E? It's now E x t = H. Exposure times time equals photographic exposure. This equation is good for either sensitometric exposure or camera exposure. Of course, finding E is a whole other story.
My concern about Davis' use of the different terms is that while it works within the limited number of people using BTZS, it creates confusion when attempting to communicate the ideas to the outside community. My personal opinion why Davis uses such outdated terms such as SBR and ES is because they were used in the seminal papers Davis must have read when learning theory. He used them in the first edition and then was stuck, so in the later editions he was forced to use a disclaimer. Personally, I think he should have corrected the terminology before it became too engrained. Note: The BTZS part is just conjecture and opinion, so please do not consider it a call to arms.


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The album, CompOWLation Vol. 3 will be the largest release in the 11-year-history of FAU's Hoot/Wisdom's music label. The album will feature 20 bands, rappers, and singer-songwriters who are all either current FAU students or alumni.
I wrote a story last year about how FAU commercial music students worked tirelessly to sell enough copies of the 11-song CompOWLation Vol. 2 to make the Billboard Heatseeker chart for independent artists.
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My husband and I have a new shared interest: Vietnamese Pho.
Pho real.
Nope, actually, here in California, I've learned it's pronounced "Pha" as the "Fa" in "Far," not "Pho." The small accent over the "o" apparently changes the pronunciation.
On the east coast, we called it "pho." I suppose due to the large Asian population here in California, you can't go for long saying it the wrong way.
Now, it's "pha."
Given how often we find ourselves stopping into a Vietnamese restaurant for a hot bowl of this yumminess, we decided to try our hand at making it ourselves.
Our first attempt involved my taking a trip to a local Asian store, where I found to my surprise that the Asian pho noodles cost roughly $1.70 for a package of 6 servings. That was a deal.
For multiple reasons, I decided to use my essential oils to provide flavor (not to mention therapeutic benefits) to the pho, rather than buying roots, stalks, and spices to flavor it.
The basics to good pho, as I'm learning include a couple of things:
(1) Good broth – while I used the oils in my broth, and boiled the broth for about 20 minutes, I learned afterward from a foodie who is familiar with making vegetable pho, that the best way to do the broth is to cut 2 lemongrass stalks in quarters, and simmer the broth (after bringing to a boil) for what I believe he said was 30 minutes. This reduction of the broth will increase it's concentration. Once the broth has reduced, add one thumb-sized worth piece of ginger, shredded. (I recommend a ginger grater for this part.)
(2) Lemongrass and ginger – these are key components. When my husband added actual finely chopped ginger to our leftover pho, he proclaimed there was a definite difference. Next time, we obviously need to use lemongrass and ginger.
(3) Steam vegetables separate from the broth – you don't want to cook the vegetables in the broth because, per my foodie friend, it makes everything taste the same. The thing about steaming the vegetables separately is that when you combine all ingredients for the pho at the time of serving, you still get the individual tastes of the vegetables.
(4) Use Asian pho rice noodles – I got the large size which seemed most authentic as compared to the noodles used by the Vietnamese restaurants. Directions on how to "cook" the noodles are here. I used those directions, but found the noodles weren't thoroughly cooked, so we had to put the noodles and their soaking water back on the stove until they were done. As with other gluten-free noodles, you have to be careful to avoid overcooking. But in this case, I'd just cook these vietnamese noodles the same as other brown rice noodles, rather than simply pouring boiling water over them and letting them sit for several minutes. That didn't work.
Based on this, here's my recipe for pho:
*1 crown of Broccoli (cut into florets)
*Carrots (2, thinly sliced at an angle)
*Mushrooms, sliced (about 1/2 a dozen)
*Baby corns (about 1/2 a dozen)
*Pho rice noodles (also called "Pad Thai" – available at an Asian market)
*Vegetable broth
*2 stalks lemongrass, each quartered (use cooking scissors to cut them)
*1 thumb-sized piece of ginger, peeled and grated
*Salt and pepper to taste
*Lime slices to garnish
*White Bean sprouts to garnish
*Jalapeno (sliced) to garnish
*Pat of butter
Add lemongrass to a quart of vegetable broth. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and let it reduce for 30 minutes. After that time, add grated ginger upon removing from heat.
While broth is boiling, slice mushrooms and saute in pat of butter over medium heat in saucepan. Midway through cooking, toss in your 1/2 dozen baby corns to heat them with the mushrooms.
While mushrooms are starting to cook, cut up broccoli and carrots and steam in a small amount of water (under a closed lid) on the stove, until vegetables are crisp tender and bright in color. Do not overcook vegetables.
Boil enough water to cover rice noodles. Once water is boiling, add rice noodles and cook approximately 7 minutes or until just tender. Do not overcook or they will become mushy. Once cooked, drain off all cooking water immediately. If you are not consuming the noodles immediately, rinse them with cold water to halt the cooking process. Same with the steamed vegetables. If not consuming immediately, rinse with cold water to halt the cooking.
When broth is ready, put noodles in the bottom of an ample-sized serving bowl. Add all vegetables (steamed and sauteed), and top with garnishes of bean sprouts, jalapenos, and spritz with juice by squeezing lime slices over the top. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Enjoy your homemade vegetable pho!


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That is unfortunate if only for the fact that with the proliferation of larger and larger HDTV screens, all older TV shows - not just ST - don't look all that great when played. It is almost to the point now where I only want to watch HD signals or Blu-rays on the large screen. If I want to watch anything else I go to the Sony CRT. When it goes, I'll need to get a 'small' HDTV so the signal still remains relatively decent. There is, of course, upscaling, but frankly the quality of the picture is still noticeable. I would hope than in the future, technology will be in a position to be able to overcome the problems that exist now with transfers. Don't really know enough about these things, though.
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SCHROON LAKE A pair of course records fell during the 11th annual Adirondack Marathon Distance Festival on Sept. 16.
David Herr, of Canaan, VT, took advantage of the cool weather to win the marathon in 2 hours, 36 minutes, 55 seconds. That broke the old mark for the 26.2-mile course set by James Garrett in the inaugural race in 1997. Garrett ran 2:37:21.
David Severance, of Melvin Village, NH, was second in 2:51:24.
Kitty Earl-Torniainen, of St. Paul, MN, won the womens race in 3:24:16. Brett Harris, of Albany, was second in 3:26:42.
Patrick Standen, of Burlington, VT, won the handcycle race in 2:01:13. Bill Schwarz, of Kinderhook, was second in 2:06:44.
The course record also fell in the womens half marathon.
Annette Acuff, of Binghamton, raced to victory in 1:23:13. Thats better than the old mark of 1:23:55 set by Katherine Danner, of Mecklenberg, last year.
Ashley Brown, of Rensselaer, was second in 1:28:38.
Adam Kuklinski, of Kew Gardens, won the mens half marathon in 1:19:56. Larry Reyes, of Rome, was second in 1:24:32.
The marathon, 26 miles, 385 yards, started on Main St. The single-loop course circumnavigated Schroon Lake over challenging forest roads with lakeside views until it finished back at the town beach.
The marathoners had company over the second half of the course as the half marathoners started in Adirondack and raced to the finish in Schroon Lake 13.1 miles later.
The marathon had 192 finishers, while the half marathon had 416 runners complete the race.
The Adirondack Marathon Distance Festival began on Sept. 15 with 5- and 10K races in Chestertown.
The winner of the 10K (6.2 miles) was Anne Hessberg, of Slingerlands, with a time of 39 minutes, 39 seconds.
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A method to buffer a data stream at its reception, performed by a receiver of the data stream. Data sent by a sender is transferred over a connection-less network in packets encapsulated into frames. The method of buffering itself includes the steps of storing the packets into a buffer of a specific size (Bs). When the receiver received at least one of the packets, its delay (jitter) is measured and compared with some predefined value. Depending on the result of that comparison, said buffer size (Bs) will be adapted dynamically such to optimize the transfer of the packets according to some predefined criteria.
1. Method of buffering a data stream at its reception, said data stream being transferred from a sender to a receiver over a connection-less network in packets encapsulated into frames, the method comprising the steps of:
storing said packets into a buffer of a specific size (Bs), and characterized in that said method comprises the supplementary steps of:
measuring the delay (jitter) of at least one of said packets,
performing a comparison between said measured and a predefined delay,
depending on the result of the previous step, adapting dynamically said buffer size (Bs) such to optimize said transfer of said packets according to some predefined criteria.
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The present invention relates to a method of buffering a data stream at its reception as set forth in the preamble of claim 1.
In a circuit switching network as actual telephony network, every connection is set-up by blocking a single channel or fixing some bandwidth per connection. Such channel will be release as soon as the users decide to terminate the call. Due to the reservation of bandwidth during the complete call, the quality of the call is predictable. But this type of network has also disadvantages. At first, every connection must be set-up which consumes time and resources. Secondly, every connection has a fixed bandwidth allocated (usually 64 kbps). A user can not ask for more or less bandwidth. Even during silence periods, the resources are used completely. Further unused circuit are unused capacity. Circuit switching does not provide easily the capability to fill this unused capacity with elastic traffic.
All these explains, among others, the interest to use internet protocol (IP) networks to perform usual telecommunications connections. There, no connection must be set-up. Such networks are therefore called connection-less or packet-switched networks. No resources are allocated and connectivity is already provided by IP. In that case the data (audio like voice or video messages) are transferred over that network as data stream made of packets encapsulated into frames. The packets will mostly follow different routes through the network, what will result in different not necessarily predictable delays (jitter delay) between them. Furthermore, the time taken to insert these packets into a network (time access) will vary a lot according to how busy this network will be. This is in fact the main cause of jitter delay. It may even vary substantially during a same telecommunications. This delay is intrinsic to the technology used like e.g. in a LAN ethernet the Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detect.
Voice over IP (VoIP) is a typical application using such network and requesting a high level of quality of service (QoS). A real time communications between a sender and a receiver will then be possible only if such requirement of QoS will be fulfilled. Therefore, it is crucial to control and minimize all delays occurring on such a network. This is obtain among other by storing at the receiver some amount of received data in a buffer before restituting it (timestamp-dejittering). In such a way it is possible to rebuild the data stream with the same sequence of packets as when the data stream left the sender.
The delays occurring on a packet-switched network are mostly of two nature, one fixed due to the speed of the stream on that network, and the other variable (jitter) due to the chosen path and mostly to the amount of the already present traffic in that network. Since latter can change a lot from a communication to another or even during a communication e.g. due to some overload of the network at some special hours of the day, it is of interest to adapt some characteristics of the used buffer to the circumstances.
In WO97/39409 is disclosed a communications system utilizing a buffer of variable size. That invention is developed in the field of native processing environment modems such to permit to adapt the software controlling the modem to the constraints of changing standards (e.g. V.32 and V.34). Two different buffer sizes are available. The choice is made according to the latency time period desired. There, small buffers will provide the communication system with short and accurate response times. On the other hand, increasing the buffer size will make the modem processing more robust, reducing the implementation overhead, making it more resistant to operating system latencies and giving it greater flexibility in the exact time within the time slice i.e. between interruptions occurring during processing without necessarily disturbing the transferred data stream.
The available sizes for the buffer are already predefined in WO97/39409. Therefore, the choice of the buffer size is very restricted in fact to only two values. Furthermore, the switching from one buffer size to the other one is performed in a fixed manner at some definite time identical for all communications. This method is absolutely not adequate if high QoS is demanded for a transfer of data stream on a packet-switched network where the delay (jitter) of each packet sent through it may be different and not predictable.
It is an object of the present invention to optimize the reception quality in a connection-less network such that real time telecommunications with a very high QoS are possible.
This object is attained, according to the invention, by a method of buffering a data stream at its reception as claimed in claim 1.
To overcome the problem of the non-predictable delay taken by the packets when inserted into a packet-switched network and transferred over one almost randomly chosen path of that network, it is of great advantage to store temporarily part of the data stream at its reception on the receiver. This is performed using a buffer of specific size where the packets will be store and classified in the right order. Indeed, the delay taken by different packets can be so different that some packets may reach the receiver before other packets sent first by the sender.
The size of that buffer must be chosen such that it is big enough to permit to rebuild at the receiver the same data stream as the one leaving the sender. On the other hand, this buffer size must be kept as small as possible so not to provoke any audible scrambling or chopping. Advantageously, the method according to the invention comprises the steps of measuring regularly the delay (jitter) of at least one packet when reaching the receiver. Afterwards, said measured delay is compared in some way with a predefined delay obtained e.g. by some averaged estimation of the time taken by several packets for the transfer on that network. And finally, the result of that comparison is used to adapt regularly the buffer size. If, for example, the measured delay is much bigger than the estimated one, it will be a hint that with such to small buffer some packets will get lost. Therefore, the method according to the present invention comprises the step of taking an action onto the size of the buffer i.e. in that case the possibility to increase that buffer size. On the other hand, if the measured delay is much smaller than the estimated one, it will be a hint that the buffer size has to be reduced increasing then also the QoS of the performed telecommunications over such packet-switched network.
An embodiment of said method of buffering according to the present invention is characterized in that the action on the buffer size is taking following some predefined criteria. Latter consists of several different cases to which the result of the performed comparison shall be affected according to its value, and which will imply a change or not of the buffer size. Such step is advantageously applied regularly so to provide a dynamic adaptation (auto-adaptive) of the buffer size to the present circumstances of the network. The different sizes of the buffer are not predefined but rather completely variable and limited at last by the unity used for storing said data into said buffer.
Further advantageous features of the invention are defined in the dependent claims and will become apparent from the following description and the drawing.
One embodiment of the invention will now be explained in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which:
FIG. 1 is a flow chart showing steps of a method of buffering a data stream at its reception according to the invention.
The present invention concerns a method to buffer a data stream at its reception.
The method is performed by a receiver of said data stream. Latter sent by a sender is transferred over a connection-less network (packet-switched network) in packets encapsulated into frames. The method of buffering itself comprises the steps of storing said packets into a buffer of a specific size (Bs).
When said receiver received at least one of said packets, its delay (jitter) is measured and compared with some predefined value. Depending on the result of that comparison, said buffer size (Bs) will be adapted dynamically such to optimize said transfer of said packets according to some predefined criteria specified later on in this description.
The step concerning said comparison can be performed in different ways. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention a measured time difference ΔT between the real time and the expected one for said transfer of said packet is compared with a maximum admissible time difference ΔM which corresponds to said buffer size Bs.
The received packets or frames are then classified relatively to the result of said comparison according to some predefined criteria such to weight said different cases Ci relatively to the number of time a result of said comparison was affected to one of said cases. The predefined criteria consist of at least three different cases. A first one (i) corresponding to the situation that said measured time difference ΔT is noticeably less then said maximum admissible time ΔM, a second one (ii) corresponding to the situation that both are of same amplitude, and a third one (iii) corresponding to the situation that said measured time difference ΔT is noticeably greater then said maximum admissible time ΔM.
In a further embodiment said predefined criteria consists of four cases. There is a supplementary case when the measured time difference ΔT is a little less then said maximum admissible time ΔM. The different predefined cases are then defined as follow:
For practicability, two coefficients are introduced Δ1 and Δ2 such to clearly defined the four above cases to which are respectively affected four comparators with four counters C1, C2, C3, and C4 in the following way:
These two coefficients Δ1 and Δ2 are defined such that Δ1 is noticeably less then said maximum admissible time ΔM (Δ1<<ΔM), and Δ2 is only little less then said maximum admissible time ΔM (Δ2<ΔM). The counters C1 to C4 are used to count the number of packets (weight) affected to each of these four cases.
To each of these four comparators is defined a threshold parameter respectively S1, S2, S3 and S4. They are used to define when a step of taking an action will be activated. Typically, when the counter C1 exceeds the value S1, then the buffer size Bs (ΔM) will be reduced of some amount.
If the counter C2 exceeds the value S2, then a check is performed of a possible time-lag between the sender and the receiver. An increase of the fixed delay for any transmission may be agreed between them. A resynchronization of the clock of both sender and receiver are performed such that in a same interval of time, a same amount of data is at least approximately transmitted by said sender as received by said receiver. Usually the clock of the sender will be taken as the reference and therefore, it is the clock of the receiver which must be adapted to the former.
In the third case when the counter C3 exceeds the threshold S3, the buffer size Bs is increased. The same action may be taken in the fourth case when the counter C4 will exceed the threshold S4. These two last cases are not redundant since in the fourth case, a non null counter C4 is tolerated. Therefore a percentage of lost of data will be accepted when the packets are stored or gathered into the buffer. This is not the case in the third one, since that counter C3 counts the number of packets or frames stored in the buffer till its completely fullness but without any loss.
On FIG. 1 is shown a flow chart that depicts an example of the method of buffering a data stream at its reception according to the invention. Such kind of procedure is implemented on the receiver side. The method starts when the receiver received a frame or packet out of the data stream sent by the sender, and stores or gathers it into a buffer. At first, the measured time difference ΔT between the real time and the expected one for said transfer of said packet is calculated 1. Afterwards, a drift or difference between said value ΔT and the maximum admissible time difference ΔM is obtained 2. It is immediately followed by an up to date 3 of the counters C1 till C4 i.e. most probably the counter corresponding to the case obtained will be incremented by one (weighting).
Then, a first comparison is performed 4 between the counter C4 and its threshold to test if C4 exceeds S4. If it is the case, then the buffer size Bs is increased 6 and the procedure is terminated 20. In the other case, a second comparison 5 is performed between the counter C3 and its threshold S3 and a similar action is taken as before if C3 exceeds S3.
If it is not the case, then a third comparison 7 is performed between the counter C1 and its threshold S1. If C1 exceeds S1, then this time the buffer size Bs is diminished 8 and the procedure is terminated 20. In the other case, it is checked 9 if the drift or difference between said value ΔT and the maximum admissible time difference ΔM is bigger then a packet or frame. If yes, then a resynchronization of the clock of both sender and receiver are performed 10 such to improve the communication between the sender and the receiver and the procedure is terminated 20.
If the check at step 9 was not successful, then it is checked how many frames or packets where already treated 11. If more then some predefined value Nmax were already treated then the procedure is terminated 20. If not then a supplementary comparison 12 is made between the counter C2 and its threshold S2. If that counter C2 exceeds S2 then it is checked 13 if the drift or difference between said value ΔT and the maximum admissible time difference ΔM is bigger then e.g. half of a packet or frame. If yes, a resynchronization as in step 10 is performed but then afterwards all the counters C1 till C4 are reset 14 by e.g. dividing their value by four. In the other case, the reset of the counters 14, as said before, are performed directly.
The predefined value Nmax defines the period during which the counters are calculated. It measures the number of packets or frames treated. At the end of that period, if no action was taken, then a stable operating state is attained. The counters are no more reset but only divided by some amount e.g. by four to obtain a smoothing effect.
Generally, the threshold S1 is much bigger then S3 or S4. This implies that the reaction time is much shorter for increasing the buffer size Bs than to diminish it. This is related to the wish to react rapidly to some degradation in the transfer of the data stream over the packet-switched network. On the other hand, a reaction must not be so fast when an improvement is noticed. Indeed, a to big reduction of the buffer size must be avoided after a short improvement since this would lead, later on, to some lost of data. Indeed, if the buffer size Bs will be to strongly shorten, not enough time will be left between the emptying of that buffer and the receiving of new packets ending up by the lost of latter packets.
In the above example according to the present invention, up to seven parameters must be set before starting: Δ1, Δ2, S1, S2, S3, S4, Nmax. Occasionally, also Bs must be set, if the procedure shall start with a non-zero buffer size. The value of all these parameters are obtained by some experiment and depending on the used packet-switched network. The aim is to find values such that on one side only a minimal supplementary delay (jitter) is tolerated and on the other side a lost of data is kept to a minimum (e.g. a lost of ˜2% of data is not heard with a G.723 compression). The QoS during communication when using present method of an auto-adaptive buffering is noticeable increased in comparison to the use of fixed buffer, and kept at that high level even in a case of bad transfer situation thanks to this auto-adaptive buffer.
The above example does not exclude a method according to the present invention having different predefined criteria as the above one i.e. different parameters to set for the test of the size of the buffer Bs.
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