Skype video responsiveness to bandwidth variations

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 81-86

  Cicco, Luca De ^a   Mascolo, Saverio ^a   Palmisano, Vittorio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Congestion control; Skype; Video over IP

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION LAYERS; BANDWIDTH VARIATION; BEST-EFFORT; CO-EXISTING; CONGESTION CONTROL; MULTIMEDIA CONTENT DELIVERY; NETWORK STABILITY; RELIABLE DELIVERY; RETRANSMISSIONS; SENDING RATE; SKYPE; VIDEO DISTRIBUTION; VIDEO OVER IP; YOUTUBE;

AUDIO SYSTEMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; INTERNET; INTERNET TELEPHONY; NETWORK LAYERS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 67650046383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1496046.1496065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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