Video staging: A proxy-server-based approach to end-to-end video delivery over wide-area networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 429-442

  Zhang, Zhi Li ^a,b   Wang, Yuewei ^a,c   Du, David H C ^a,b   Su, Dongli ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c 3CX Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

End to end video delivery; Heterogeneous networking environment; MPEG; Proxy server; Video smoothing; Video staging; Video streaming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); HEURISTIC METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; STANDARDS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

END-TO-END VIDEO DELIVERY; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKING; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP (MPEG) STANDARDS; VIDEO SMOOTHING; VIDEO STREAMING;

WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 0034238573     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/90.865072     Document Type: Article

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