Quantifying the temporal characteristics of network congestion events for multimedia services

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 458-465

  Frost, Victor S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Network congestion; Prediction of quality of service (QoS); QoS

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PACKET NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

NETWORK CONGESTION EVENTS; NETWORK QUALITY; PACKET LOSS;

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION);

EID: 0042913152     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2003.813276     Document Type: Article

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