Subjective video quality assessment of HTTP adaptive streaming technologies

Bell Labs Technical Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 5-23

  Robinson, David C ^a   Jutras, Yves ^b   Craciun, Viorel ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH; END USERS; END-USER EXPERIENCE; GAME CONSOLES; MEAN OPINION SCORES; NETWORK IMPAIRMENTS; STREAMING TECHNOLOGY; SUBJECTIVE VIDEO QUALITY; VIDEO CONTENTS; VIDEO QUALITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EXPERIMENTS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

HTTP;

EID: 84858643136     PISSN: 10897089     EISSN: 15387305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bltj.20531     Document Type: Review

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