A monotonic-decreasing rate scheduler for variable-bit-rate video streaming

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 221-231

  Lai, Hin Iun ^a   Lee, Jack Yiu Bun ^a   Chen, Lian Kuan ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Performance guarantee; Scheduling; Smoothing; Variable bit rate (VBR) video

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

BANDWIDTH REALLOCATION; PERFORMANCE GUARANTEE; SMOOTHING; VARIABLE-BIT-RATE (VBR) VIDEO;

VIDEO ON DEMAND;

EID: 13944278927     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2004.841687     Document Type: Article

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