Smoothing variable-bit-rate video in an Internetwork

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 202-215

  Rexford, Jennifer ^a,c   Towsley, Don ^b,c  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

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

^c IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); CONSTRAINT THEORY; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; STANDARDS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INTERNETWORK; JOINT PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (JPEG) STANDARD; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (MPEG) STANDARD; VARIABLE-BIT-RATE VIDEOS;

INTERNET;

EID: 0032627195     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/90.769768     Document Type: Article

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