Towards scalable delivery of video streams to heterogeneous receivers

Proceedings of the 14th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 347-356

  Qudah, Bashar ^a   Sarhan, Nabil J ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Client heterogeneity; Multimedia servers; Stream merging; Video streaming; Video on demand (VOD)

Indexed keywords

CLIENT HETEROGENEITY; MULTIMEDIA SERVERS; STREAM MERGING;

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA TRANSFER; SCALABILITY; SCHEDULING; SERVERS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; VIDEO ON DEMAND;

VIDEO STREAMING;

EID: 34547174125     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180639.1180716     Document Type: Conference Paper

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