Infopipes: An abstraction for multimedia streaming

Multimedia Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 406-419

  Black, Andrew P ^a   Huang, Jie ^a   Koster, Rainer ^b   Walpole, Jonathan ^a   Pu, Calton ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Feedback; Quality of service; Real rate systems; Streaming

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MIDDLEWARE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

INFOPIPES;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038320245     PISSN: 09424962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005300200062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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