Efficient delivery techniques for variable bit rate multimedia

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4673, Issue , 2002, Pages 142-155

  Zhao, Yanping ^a   Eager, Derek ^a   Vernon, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bandwidth skimming; Multicast; Streaming media; Variable bit rate; Work ahead smoothing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTICASTING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VIDEO ON DEMAND;

STREAMING MEDIA; VARIABLE BIT RATES (VBR);

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036030126     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.449976     Document Type: Conference Paper

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