Rate allocation for multi-user video streaming over heterogenous access networks

Proceedings of the ACM International Multimedia Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 37-46

  Zhu, Xiaoqing ^a   Agrawal, Piyush ^b   Pal Singh, Jatinder ^c   Alpcan, Tansu ^c   Girod, Bernd ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed rate allocation; Heterogeneous access networks; Video streaming

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL DISTORTION; STANDARDS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED RATE ALLOCATION; HETEROGENEOUS ACCESS NETWORKS;

VIDEO STREAMING;

EID: 38049055729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1291233.1291247     Document Type: Conference Paper

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