RaDiO edge: Rate-distortion optimized proxy-driven streaming from the network edge

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1302-1311

  Chakareski, Jacob ^b,c,d   Chou, Philip A ^a,e  

^a IEEE

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d Vidyo Inc   (United States)

^e MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Audio coding; Channel coding; Edge based streaming; Error control; Internet; Markov processes; Multi media communication; Optimal control; Protocols; Proxy servers; Rate distortion; Video coding

Indexed keywords

EDGE-BASED STREAMING; MULTI-MEDIA COMMUNICATION; PROXY SERVERS; RATE DISTORTION;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE CODING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMIZATION; PACKET SWITCHING; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 33947267952     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2006.886299     Document Type: Article

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