Optimal multicast smoothing of streaming video over the Internet

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1345-1359

  Sen, Subhabrata ^a,b   Towsley, Don ^a,c   Zhang, Zhi Li ^a,d   Dey, Jayanta K ^e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

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

^d University of Minnesota   (United States)

^e Knumi Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth smoothing; Differential caching; Multicast distribution tree; Multimedia communication; Multimedia proxy; Multimedia systems; Overlay networks; Variable bit rate video

Indexed keywords

VIDEO STREAMING;

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; BROADCASTING; CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MULTICASTING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

INTERNET;

EID: 0036733234     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2002.802063     Document Type: Article

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