Towards heterogeneous network convergence: Policies and middleware architecture for efficient flow assignment, rate allocation and rate control for multimedia applications

Middleware Conference - Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Middleware for Next-generation Converged Networks and Applications 2007, MNCNA'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Singh, Jatinder Pal ^a   Alpcan, Tansu ^a   Agrawal, Piyush ^b   Zhu, Xiaoqing ^c  

^a DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Design

Indexed keywords

ACCESS NETWORKS; APPLICATION SPECIFICS; DRIVING FORCES; FLOW ASSIGNMENTS; HETEROGENEOUS CHARACTERISTICS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS; INTERFACE ASSIGNMENTS; MEDIA APPLICATIONS; MIDDLEWARE ARCHITECTURES; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCES; OPTIMAL RATE ALLOCATIONS; RATE ALLOCATIONS; RATE CONTROLS; TRANSPORT DYNAMICS; TRANSPORT MECHANISMS;

ACCESS CONTROL; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE CODING; MIDDLEWARE; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 57349124107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1376878.1376879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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