Achieving high-level QoS in multi-party video-conferencing systems via exploitation of global time

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, ISORC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 151-160

  Liu, Sheng ^a   Lee, Seok Pil ^b   Kim, K H ^c   Zhang, Zhen ^c   Rim, Kee Wook ^d  

^a Korea Electronics Technology Inst ^*

^b Korea Electronic Technology Institute (KETI)   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Sunmoon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Component; Fairness; MP VC; Multimedia; Object; QoS; Real time; Skew bounded; Streaming; Synchronization; Target play time; TCoDA; TMO; TPT; Video conference

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SYNCHRONIZATION;

COMPONENT; FAIRNESS; MP VC; MULTIMEDIA; OBJECT; REAL TIME; SKEW-BOUNDED; TCODA;

VIDEO CONFERENCING;

EID: 70350584477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISORC.2009.51     Document Type: Conference Paper

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