Video capacity of WLANs with a multiuser perceptual quality constraint

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1465-1478

  Hu, Jing ^a   Choudhury, Sayantan ^a   Gibson, Jerry D ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple users; Perceptuial video quality; Video capacity; WLAN

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; STANDARDS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AVC/H.264; END USERS; IEEE 802.11; MULTIPLE USERS; MULTIUSER; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURES; PERCEPTUAL QUALITIES; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY MEASURES; PERCEPTUIAL VIDEO QUALITY; TRANSMISSION CHANNELS; USER CAPACITIES; VIDEO CAPACITY; VIDEO CODECS; VIDEO TRAFFICS; VOICE AND DATUMS; WLAN;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 58049202162     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2008.2007329     Document Type: Article

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