An end-to-end virtual environment streaming technique for thin mobile devices over heterogeneous networks

Computer Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2716-2725

  Boukerche, Azzedine ^a   Pazzi, Richard W N ^a   Feng, Jing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

End to end rate control; Image based pre fetching and buffering; Image based rendering; Interactive multimedia streaming

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; GEOMETRY; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MOBILE DEVICES; MONITORING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SET THEORY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; (E ,3E) PROCESS; 3-D ENVIRONMENTS; 3D GRAPHICS; 3D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; AND MONITORING SYSTEMS; BUFFER MANAGEMENT; ELSEVIER (CO); END TO END (ETE); GEOMETRIC DATA; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; IMAGE-BASED RENDERING (IBR); IN ORDER; INTERACTIVE FRAME RATES; LARGE SCALES; MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES; MOBILE HARDWARE; NEW CLASS; ON-LINE GAMING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION (PE); RATE CONTROL (RC); REMOTE RENDERING SERVER; RESEARCH WORKS; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT (VE); VIRTUAL GUIDES; WIRELESS MOBILE DEVICES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 45849096791     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2008.02.032     Document Type: Article

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