Multipath live streaming via TCP: Scheme, performance and benefits

Proceedings of 2007 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 3rd International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wang, Bing ^a   Wei, Wei ^b   Guo, Zheng ^a   Towsley, Don ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; AVAILABLE BANDWIDTHS; INTERNET EXPERIMENTS; LIVE STREAMING; MULTIPATH; MULTIPATH STREAMING; MULTIPLE PATHS; PARAMETER SPACES; PERFORMANCE STUDIES; SINGLE PATHS; START-UP; TCP THROUGHPUTS; VIDEO BIT RATES;

BANDWIDTH; EXPERIMENTS; VIDEO STREAMING;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 56749101871     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1364654.1364668     Document Type: Conference Paper

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