On Securing Real-Time Speech Transmission Over the Internet: An Experimental Study

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2003, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1027-1042

  Aldini, Alessandro ^a   Roccetti, Marco ^b   Gorrieri, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Internet; Multimedia applications; Real time; Security

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PACKET SWITCHING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA; CRYPTOGRAPHY; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

AUDIO COMMUNICATION; AUDIO TOOLS; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; DECODING PHASIS; ENCRYPTION/DECRYPTION; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; REAL- TIME; SECURE TRANSMISSION; SECURITY; SOFT REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS;

SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0141923373     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865703304019     Document Type: Article

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