Performance evaluation of smoothing algorithms for transmitting prerecorded variable-bit-rate video

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 302-313

  Rexford, Jennifer ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth smoothing; Compressed video; Traffic management; Video traces; Video on demand server

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001006542     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/6046.784468     Document Type: Article

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