A quality-centric tcp-friendly congestion control for multimedia transmission

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 14, Issue 3 PART 2, 2012, Pages 896-909

  Shiang, Hsien Po ^a   Van Der Schaar, Mihaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite horizon Markov decision process; quality based fairness; TCP friendly congestion control for multimedia

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION MECHANISM; DIFFERENTIAL SERVICES; FINITE-HORIZON MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; IP NETWORKS; MULTIMEDIA QUALITY; MULTIMEDIA STREAMING; MULTIMEDIA TRANSMISSIONS; NETWORK CONDITION; PLAYBACK DELAY; QUALITY-BASED FAIRNESS; REAL TIME STREAMING; SENDING RATE; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; TCP APPLICATIONS; TCP CONGESTION; TCP CONGESTION CONTROL; TCP-FRIENDLINESS; TCP-FRIENDLY CONGESTION CONTROL; VIDEO PACKETS;

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDIA STREAMING;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 84861155008     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2012.2187178     Document Type: Article

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