MOS-based congestion control for conversational services in wireless environments

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1225-1236

  Habachi, Oussama ^a   Hu, Yusuo ^b   Van Der Schaar, Mihaela ^c   Hayel, Yezekael ^a   Wu, Feng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning algorithms; POMDP; QoE; TCP

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE INCREASE MULTIPLICATIVE DECREASE; BI-DIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION; CONGESTION CONTROL MECHANISM; CONGESTION WINDOW; CONVERSATIONAL SERVICES; MEAN OPINION SCORES; MICROSOFT; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; MULTIMEDIA TRAFFIC; MULTIMEDIA TRANSMISSIONS; NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS; ONLINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OPTIMAL POLICIES; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; POMDP; PRACTICAL ISSUES; QOE; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); RETRANSMISSIONS; STATISTICAL KNOWLEDGE; TCP; TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES; TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS; WIRELESS DEVICES; WIRELESS ENVIRONMENT; WIRELESS SYSTEMS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 84864570204     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2012.120808     Document Type: Article

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