Multiple TFRC connections based rate control for wireless networks

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1045-1061

  Chen, Minghua ^a,b   Zakhor, Avideh ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

All In One TFRC; MULTFRC; Parallel connections; Streaming rate control; TFRC; Video over wireless; Video streaming; Video transmission; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

PACKET LOSS; STREAMIMG RATE CONTROL; TCP FRIENDLY RATE CONTROL (TFRC); VIDEO OVER WIRELESS; VIDEO STREAMING;

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749519558     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2006.879837     Document Type: Article

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