Profiling Skype video calls: Rate control and video quality

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 621-629

  Zhang, Xinggong ^a   Xu, Yang ^b   Hu, Hao ^b   Liu, Yong ^b   Guo, Zongming ^a   Wang, Yao ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEC PROTECTION; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; NETWORK BANDWIDTH; NETWORK CONDITION; NETWORK TESTBEDS; PACKET LOSS RATES; PROPAGATION DELAYS; QUALITY DEGRADATION; RATE CONTROL SCHEME; RATE CONTROLS; TCP-FRIENDLY; VIDEO CALLS; VIDEO QUALITY; VIDEO TELEPHONY;

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

DEGRADATION;

EID: 84861632982     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2012.6195805     Document Type: Conference Paper

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