Empirical evaluation of the congestion responsiveness of RealPlayer video streams

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 171-193

  Chung, Jae ^a   Claypool, Mark ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Protocols; RealPlayer; Streaming media; TCP Friendly; Unresponsive flows

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SERVERS; STATISTICS;

ENCODING RATE; MEDIA SCALING; ROUND-TRIP TIME; VIDEO CLIPS;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33750922710     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: 15737721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-006-0040-4     Document Type: Article

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