Control of perceived quality of service in multimedia retrieval services: Prediction-based mechanism vs. compensation buffers

Multimedia Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 102-112

  La Corte, Aurelio ^a,b   Lombardo, Alfio ^a,c,d   Palazzo, Sergio ^a,c,d,e,f,g   Schembra, Giovanni ^a,d,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b Electronic and Computer Science   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d European ACTS Project DOLMEN   (Italy)

^e Italtel SpA   (Italy)

^f CREI   (Italy)

^g INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h CEFRIEL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intramedia and intermedia synchronization; Jitter; Multimedia communications; Skew

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003092456     PISSN: 09424962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005300050079     Document Type: Article

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