Dynamic versus Static Traffic Policing: A New Approach for Videoconference Traffic over Wireless Cellular Networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1153-1166

  Koutsakis, Polychronis ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

H.263 video encoding; Token bucket; Traffic modeling; Traffic policing; Wireless videoconference

Indexed keywords

H.263 VIDEO ENCODING; TOKEN BUCKET; TRAFFIC MODELING; TRAFFIC POLICING; WIRELESS VIDEOCONFERENCE;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); WIRELESS NETWORKS;

LAW ENFORCEMENT;

EID: 67651152566     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2009.18     Document Type: Article

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