An adaptive protocol for synchronizing media streams

Multimedia Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 324-336

  Rothermel, Kurt ^a,c,d,e,f   Helbig, Tobias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^c IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d IBM's European Networking Center   (Germany)

^e Distributed Systems Research Group   (Germany)

^f IEEE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communication networks; Distributed systems; Multimedia; Quality of service; Stream synchronization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003270989     PISSN: 09424962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005300050064     Document Type: Article

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