Application-level differentiated multimedia web services using quality aware transcoding

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2544-2565

  Chandra, Surendar ^a   Ellis, Carla Schlatter ^a,b,c   Vahdat, Amin ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; INTERNET; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SIGNAL ENCODING; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

JOINT PICTURE EXPERT GROUP; LOW LATENCY ACCESS; MULTIMEDIA WEB SERVICES; QUALITY AWARE TRANSCODING; TRANSCODING TECHNIQUE;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0041453122     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.898736     Document Type: Article

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