Optimizing the quality of scalable video streams on P2P networks

Computer Networks

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2641-2658

  Rajendran, Raj Kumar ^a   Rubenstein, Dan ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

P2P; Quality; Scheduling; Streaming; Video

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METRIC SYSTEM; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

P2P; QUALITY; STREAMING; VIDEO;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 33746608953     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2005.10.001     Document Type: Article

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