Control-based adaptive middleware for real-time image transmission over bandwidth-constrained networks

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 779-793

  Wang, Xiaorui ^a   Chen, Ming ^a   Huang, Hiang Ming ^b   Subramonian, Venkita ^c   Lu, Chenyang ^b   Gill, Christopher D ^b  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed Systems; Distributed systems; Real time and embedded systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MIDDLEWARE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

CONTROL THEORETIC METHODOLOGY; CONTROL-BASED ADAPTIVE MIDDLEWARE FRAMEWORK FOR REAL-TIME IMAGE TRANSMISSION;

IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 44049090485     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2008.41     Document Type: Article

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