Wireless H.264 video quality enhancement through optimal prioritized packet fragmentation

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1480-1495

  Kambhatla, Kashyap K R ^a,b   Kumar, Sunil ^b   Paluri, Seethal ^c   Cosman, Pamela C ^b  

^a UTC Aerospace Systems   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

H264; MAC layer; packet fragmentation; priority aware; PSNR; real time; video compression; video quality; video slice; video streaming; VQM; weighted goodput

Indexed keywords

GOOD PUT; H264; MAC LAYER; PACKET FRAGMENTATION; PRIORITY-AWARE; PSNR; REAL-TIME; VIDEO QUALITY; VIDEO SLICES; VQM;

IMAGE COMPRESSION; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; VIDEO STREAMING;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84866516671     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2012.2196508     Document Type: Article

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