Media- and TCP-friendly congestion control for scalable video streams

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 196-206

  Yan, Jinyao ^b   Katrinis, Kostas ^c   May, Martin ^a,c,d,e,f   Plattner, Bernhard ^a,c,d,e,g  

^a IEEE   (Switzerland)

^b Communication University of China ^*  (China)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d ACM   (Switzerland)

^e Internet Society   (United States)

^f IETF ^*  (Switzerland)

^g SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Control; Internet; Multimedia communication; Optimal

Indexed keywords

MEDIA- AND TCP-FRIENDLY CONGESTION; MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION; SCALABLE VIDEO STREAMS; TCP-FRIENDLY RATE CONTROL (TFRC) ALGORITHM; TIMESCALE APPROACH; VIDEO STREAMING;

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL; INTERNET; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMIZATION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION);

EID: 33645154293     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2005.864265     Document Type: Article

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