Traffic and quality characterization of single-layer video streams encoded with the H.264/MPEG-4 advanced video coding standard and scalable video coding extension

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 698-718

  Van Der Auwera, Geert ^a   David, Prasanth T ^a   Reisslein, Martin ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Frame loss ratio; H.264 AVC; Hierarchical B frames; Rate variability distortion (VD); Rate distortion (RD); Single layer video; Statistical multiplexing; SVC; Video quality; Video traffic

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; IMAGE CODING; MOTION ESTIMATION; PROGRAMMING THEORY; SIGNAL DISTORTION; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ADVANCED VIDEO CODING; APPLICATION SCENARIOS; BIT RATES; FRAME LOSS RATIO; FRAME LOSSES; FRAME SIZE; H.264/AVC; HIERARCHICAL B FRAMES; INFORMATION LOSSES; LINK CAPACITIES; LOWER AVERAGE; NETWORK TRANSPORT; RATE VARIABILITY- DISTORTION (VD); RATE-DISTORTION (RD); SCALABLE VIDEO; SCALABLE VIDEO CODING; SINGLE LAYERS; SINGLE-LAYER VIDEO; STATISTICAL MULTIPLEXING; SVC; TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS; VIDEO ENCODERS; VIDEO QUALITY; VIDEO STREAMING; VIDEO TRAFFIC;

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS;

EID: 50549096754     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2008.2000422     Document Type: Article

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