Traffic shaping, bandwidth allocation, and quality assessment for MPEG video distribution over broadband networks

IEEE Network

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 94-107

  Gringeri, Steven ^a,b   Shuaib, Khaled ^a,c,d   Egorov, Roman ^a,e,f   Lewis, Arianne ^a,g,h   Khasnabish, Bhumip ^a,h   Basch, Bert ^a,i  

^a VERIZON   (United States)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

ⁱ DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TELEVISION STANDARDS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (MPEG) STANDARDS; RESIDENTIAL VIDEO DELIVERY SYSTEMS;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 0032208593     PISSN: 08908044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/65.752648     Document Type: Article

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