Rate-distortion optimized distributed packet scheduling of multiple video streams over shared communication resources

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 207-217

  Chakareski, Jacob ^b   Frossard, Pascal ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Multimedia streaming; Optimization; Packet scheduling; Rate distortion; Video communication; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

MULTIMEDIA STREAMING; MULTIPLE VIDEO STREAMS; PACKET TRANSMISSION; RATE-DISTORTION; SHARED COMMUNICATION RESOURCES; VIDEO COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BANDWIDTH; BITS; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PACKET NETWORKS; SCHEDULING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645133968     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2005.864284     Document Type: Article

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