Distributed rate allocation policies for multihomed video streaming over heterogeneous access networks

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 752-764

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

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distributed rate allocation; Heterogeneous access networks; Multihomed video streaming

Indexed keywords

ACCESS NETWORK; AVAILABLE BIT RATE; BACKGROUND TRAFFIC; CONGESTION AVOIDANCE; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; DISTRIBUTED RATE ALLOCATION; HETEROGENEOUS ACCESS; HETEROGENEOUS ACCESS NETWORKS; HEURISTIC SCHEMES; HIGH-DEFINITION VIDEOS; MULTIHOMED; MULTIHOMED VIDEO STREAMING; MULTIPLE ACCESS NETWORK; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL RATE ALLOCATION; PACKET LOSS RATES; RATE ALLOCATION; ROUND-TRIP-TIME; VIDEO DISTORTIONS; VIDEO PLAYOUT; VIDEO QUALITY; VIDEO STREAMS;

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; VIDEO STREAMING; VIDEOTEX;

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS;

EID: 67349144136     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2009.2017641     Document Type: Article

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