Content-aware playout and packet scheduling for video streaming over wireless links

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 885-895

  Li, Yan ^a,b   Markopoulou, Athina ^a,c   Apostolopoulos, John ^a,d   Bambos, Nicholas ^e  

^a IEEE

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive media playout; Cross layer optimization; Multimedia delivery over wireless networks; Network control; Packet scheduling; Video aware adaptation and communication

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PACKET NETWORKS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SCHEDULING; VIDEO RECORDING; VIDEOTEX;

ADAPTIVE PLAYOUT CONTROL; CHALLENGING PROBLEM; CONTENT AWARE; DELIVERY REQUIREMENTS; JOINT CONTROL; JOINT SCHEDULING; LOW MOTION; MARKOV DECISION PROCESS (MDP); MEDIA STREAMING; MEDIA TRAFFIC; MOTION CHARACTERISTICS; PACKET SCHEDULING; TIME-VARYING; VIDEO SEQUENCING; WIRELESS CHANNELS; WIRELESS LINK; WIRELESS LINKS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 47649129042     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2008.922860     Document Type: Article

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