Characterizing the behaviour of RealVideo Streams

International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems 2005, SPECTS'05, Part of the 2005 Summer Simulation Multiconference, SummerSim'05

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 783-791

  Boyden, Sean ^a   Mahanti, Anirban ^a   Williamson, Carey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Media streaming performance; Network emulation; Network measurement; RealVideo; TCP friendliness

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL TESTBED; HIGH BANDWIDTH; NETWORK CONDITION; NETWORK EMULATION; NETWORK MEASUREMENT; NETWORKING APPLICATIONS; REALVIDEO; STREAMING MEDIA; STREAMING VIDEOS; TCP FRIENDLINESS; TCP-FRIENDLY;

INTERNET; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77954902537     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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