Tuning Skype's redundancy control algorithm for user satisfaction

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1179-1187

  Huang, Te Yuan ^a   Chen, Kuan Ta ^b   Huang, Polly ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

MOS; PESQ; Piggyback; QoE (quality of experience); QoS (quality of service); VoIP

Indexed keywords

MOS; PESQ; PIGGYBACK; QOE (QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE); QOS (QUALITY OF SERVICE); VOIP;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REDUNDANCY; TUNING; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INTERNET TELEPHONY;

EID: 70349694002     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2009.5062031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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