Optimal multicast smoothing of streaming video over an internetwork

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn 2, Issue , 1999, Pages 455-463

  Sen, Subhabrata ^a   Towsley, Don ^a   Zhang, Zhi Li ^b   Dey, Jayanta K ^c  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c VERIZON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER ALLOCATION; BURSTINESS; COMPRESSED VIDEO; DISTRIBUTION TREE; HIGH BANDWIDTH; INTERMEDIATE NODE; INTERNET VIDEO BROADCAST; MULTICASTS; NETWORK BANDWIDTH; NETWORK RESOURCE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RATE CONSTRAINTS; SMOOTHING PROBLEMS; STREAMING MULTIMEDIA; STREAMING VIDEOS; TOTAL TRANSMISSION;

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; DISTANCE EDUCATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS); BUFFER STORAGE; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA RECORDING; INTERNET; MULTICASTING; STANDARDS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MULTICASTING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (MPEG) STANDARDS; MULTICAST SMOOTHING;

EID: 0032623708     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.1999.751378     Document Type: Conference Paper

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