Using bandwidth aggregation to improve the performance of quality-adaptive streaming

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 312-328

  Evensen, Kristian ^a   Kaspar, Dominik ^a   Griwodz, Carsten ^a,b   Halvorsen, Pål ^a,b   Hansen, Audun F ^a   Engelstad, Paal ^c  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c TELENOR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bandwidth aggregation; HTTP; Multihoming; Quality adaptive streaming; Video streaming

Indexed keywords

3G MOBILE NETWORK; BANDWIDTH AGGREGATIONS; BANDWIDTH LIMITATION; CORE FUNCTIONALITY; DATA RETRIEVAL; FIXED SIZE; HIGH QUALITY; MULTI-HOMING; MULTI-LINK; MULTIPLE INTERFACES; ON THE FLIES; ON-DEMAND STREAMING; PICTURE QUALITY; QUALITY ADAPTIVE STREAMING; STREAMING VIDEOS; SUBSEGMENTS; SWITCH QUALITY; VIDEO QUALITY; VIDEO SEGMENTS;

BANDWIDTH; HTTP; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; VIDEO STREAMING;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84859538549     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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