Distributed media-aware rate allocation for wireless video streaming

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1462-1474

  Zhu, Xiaoqing ^a   Girod, Bernd ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross layer design; distributed rate allocation; video streaming; wireless networking

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149292863     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2010.2077492     Document Type: Article

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