Video telephony for end-consumers: Measurement study of Google+, iChat, and Skype

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 371-384

  Xu, Yang ^a   Yu, Chenguang ^a   Li, Jingjiang ^a   Liu, Yong ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

measurement; video conferencing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION SCHEME; APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE; BEST-EFFORT; BURSTY LOSS; HIGH BANDWIDTH; HIGH QUALITY; LOSS RECOVERY; LOW DELAY; MEASUREMENT STUDY; NETWORK CONDITION; PASSIVE MEASUREMENTS; VIDEO GENERATION; VIDEO TELEPHONY; VOICE AND VIDEO;

IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENTS; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

INTERNET;

EID: 84870945308     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2398776.2398816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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