A systematic framework for dynamically optimizing multi-user wireless video transmission

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 308-320

  Fu, Fangwen ^a   Van Der Schaar, Mihaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lagrangian relaxation; Markov decision process; Multi user video transmission; Online learning

Indexed keywords

ACROSS TIME; CROSS LAYER OPTIMIZATION; DYNAMIC COUPLINGS; ENVIRONMENT DYNAMICS; LAGRANGIAN MULTIPLIERS; LAGRANGIAN RELAXATION; LEARNING PERFORMANCE; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; MULTI-USER; MULTIUSER VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS; NETWORK UTILITY MAXIMIZATION; ONLINE LEARNING; ONLINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS; RESOURCE PRICE; SINGLE USERS; STATISTICAL KNOWLEDGE; SYSTEMATIC FRAMEWORK; TIME SLOTS; TRANSMISSION TIME; VIDEO QUALITY; VIDEO TRAFFIC; VIDEO TRANSMISSIONS; WIRELESS USERS; WIRELESS VIDEO TRANSMISSION;

COMMUNICATION; E-LEARNING; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 78249276723     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2010.100403     Document Type: Article

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