An experimental evaluation of voice quality over the datagram congestion control protocol

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2009-2017

  Balan, Horia Vlad ^a   Eggert, Lars ^b   Niccolini, Saverio ^c   Brunner, Marcus ^c  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NEC Network Laboratories

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); INTERNET; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DATAGRAM CONGESTION CONTROL PROTOCOL (DCCP); VOICE QUALITY;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 34548335126     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2007.233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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