An End-to-End Approach for Optimal Mode Selection in Internet Video Communication: Theory and Application

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 977-995

  Wu, Dapeng ^a   Hou, Yiwei Thomas ^b   Li, Bo ^c   Zhu, Wenwu ^d   Zhang, Ya Qin ^d   Chao, H Jonathan ^e  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^e POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR DETECTION; IMAGE CODING; INTERNET; OPTIMIZATION; PACKET NETWORKS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; STANDARDS; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

ERROR CONCEALMENT METHOD; ERROR RESILIENCE; OPTIMAL MODE SELECTION; QUANTIZATION DISTORTION;

IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034206593     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.848251     Document Type: Article

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