Design and experimental evaluation of an adaptive playout delay control mechanism for packetized audio for use over the internet

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-53

  Roccetti, Marco ^a   Ghini, Vittorio ^a   Pau, Giovanni ^a   Salomoni, Paola ^a   Bonfigli, Maria Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Internet; Multimedia applications; Packet loss; Packetized audio; Playout delay control

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; PACKET SWITCHING; SPEECH CODING; SYNCHRONIZATION;

AUDIO PACKET TRANSMISSION DELAYS; PACKET LOSS; PACKETIZED AUDIO; PLAYOUT DELAY CONTROL;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035337204     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011303506685     Document Type: Article

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