An efficient synchronization scheme of multimedia streams in wireless and mobile systems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 911-923

  Boukerche, Azzedine ^a   Hong, Sungbun ^a   Jacob, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed algorithm; End to end protocol; Mobile multimedia; Synchronization; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SYNCHRONIZATION; THEOREM PROVING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; END TO END PROTOCOL; MOBILE HOSTS; MOBILE MULTIMEDIA;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036766566     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2002.1036065     Document Type: Article

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