An Inter-arrival Delay Jitter Model using Multi-Structure Network Delay Characteristics for Packet Networks

Data traversing packet networks experience varying delays, resulting in inter-arrival jitter. This can result in degraded performance in real-time multimedia communications applications if the jitter delays are large or unaccounted for in the receiver application. This paper examines modeling and simulation of network jitter delay for real-time multimedia communications applications. We examine the multi-structure characteristics of network delay and develop a model for simulation of jitter. The model is confirmed empirically using collected packet network jitter delay statistics.