Distortion-aware scalable video streaming to multinetwork clients

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 469-481

  Freris, Nikolaos M ^a   Hsu, Cheng Hsin ^b   Singh, Jatinder Pal ^c   Zhu, Xiaoqing ^d  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Quality optimization; rate control; stream adaptation; video streaming

Indexed keywords

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; DATAGRAM CONGESTION CONTROL PROTOCOLS; QUALITY OPTIMIZATION; RATE CONTROLS; SCALABLE VIDEO STREAMING; SERVICE DIFFERENTIATION; STREAM ADAPTATION; TRACE DRIVEN SIMULATION;

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; CONVEX PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MOBILE DEVICES; PACKET NETWORKS; SCALABLE VIDEO CODING; VIDEO STREAMING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84876224163     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2012.2203608     Document Type: Article

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