Implementation, measurement, and analysis of an image-based virtual environment streaming protocol for wireless mobile devices

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1894-1907

  Pazzi, Richard Werner Nelem ^a   Boukerche, Azzedine ^a   Huang, Tingxue ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Softroute Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image based rendering (IBR); Multimedia streaming; Sensor networks; Virtual environment (VE) buffering; Virtual walk through; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOBILE DEVICES; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

3-D VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS; CRITICAL INFORMATION; DATA TRAFFIC; EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; END-TO-END THROUGHPUT; ERROR RATE; FRAME RATES; GEOMETRIC DATA; IMAGE-BASED; IMAGE-BASED RENDERING (IBR); IMAGE-BASED-RENDERING; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES; MOBILE HARDWARE; MULTIMEDIA STREAMING; NEW APPROACHES; NEW CLASS; ON-LINE GAMING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; RATE CONTROL; RATE CONTROL SCHEME; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME STREAMING; REMOTE RENDERING; REMOTE RENDERING SERVER; SCHEDULING MECHANISMS; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; TARGET ENVIRONMENT; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT (VE) BUFFERING; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL GUIDES; VIRTUAL WALK-THROUGH; WIRELESS CHANNELS; WIRELESS MOBILE DEVICES;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 49549094473     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.919901     Document Type: Article

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