Optimizing multi-rate peer-to-peer video conferencing applications

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 856-868

  Ponec, Miroslav ^a   Sengupta, Sudipta ^b   Chen, Minghua ^c   Li, Jin ^b   Chou, Philip A ^b  

^a AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Multimedia traffic management; quality of service; videoconferencing and collaboration environment

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ADAPTATION; BITRATES; LAYERED CODING; MULTI RATE; MULTI-PARTY VIDEO CONFERENCING; MULTIMEDIA TRAFFIC; NETWORK CONDITION; OPTIMAL SETS; PEER TO PEER; PRIMAL-DUAL; TREE STRUCTURES; USER EXPERIENCE; UTILITY FUNCTIONS; VIDEO BITRATE; VIDEO CONFERENCING SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANT EXTRACTS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TREES (MATHEMATICS); USER INTERFACES;

VIDEO CONFERENCING;

EID: 80052918172     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2011.2161759     Document Type: Conference Paper

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