Playout buffer and rate optimization for streaming over IEEE 802.11 wireless networks

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Li, Mingzhe ^a   Claypool, Mark ^a,b   Kinicki, Robert ^a  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Multimedia networking; Playout buffer; Streaming rate; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH; BANDWIDTH ESTIMATION; BUFFER DELAY; BUFFER SIZES; CLIENT-SERVER SYSTEMS; FRAME LOSS; HIGH DATA RATE; IEEE 802.11 WIRELESS NETWORKS; IEEE 802.11S; JITTER REMOVAL; MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PLAYOUT BUFFER; RATE ADAPTATION; RETRANSMISSIONS; STREAMING ALGORITHM; STREAMING DATA; STREAMING RATE; UNDERFLOWS; WIRED NETWORKS; WIRELESS MAC; WIRELESS TESTBED;

BANDWIDTH; JITTER; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 69149106026     PISSN: 15516857     EISSN: 15516865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1556134.1556143     Document Type: Conference Paper

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