Characteristics of streaming media stored on the web

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 601-626

  Mingzhe, L I ^a,b   Claypool, Mark ^a,b   Kinicki, Robert ^a,b   Nichols, James ^a,b  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Apple QuickTime; Long tailed; Microsoft Windows Media Player; Multimedia; RealNetworks RealPlayer; Self similarity; Streaming

Indexed keywords

APPLE QUICKTIME; LONG-TAILED; MICROSOFT WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER; REALNETWORKS REALPLAYER; SELF-SIMILARITY; STREAMING;

BIT ERROR RATE; BROADBAND NETWORKS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745229699     PISSN: 15335399     EISSN: 15335399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1111627.1111629     Document Type: Article

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