Proxy-Assisted Techniques for Delivering Continuous Multimedia Streams

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 884-894

  Gao, Lixin ^a   Zhang, Zhi Li ^b   Towsley, Don ^c  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MULTICASTING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SERVERS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONTINUOUS MULTIMEDIA STREAMS; SERVICE LATENCY; VIDEO STREAMING TECHNIQUES;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0347316607     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2003.820423     Document Type: Review

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