The application of neural networks to improve the quality of experience of video transmission over IP networks

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 27, Issue , 2014, Pages 137-147

  Santos, Carlos Eduardo Maffini ^a,b   Ribeiro, Eduardo Parente ^c   Pedroso, Carlos Marcelo ^c  

^a INSTITUTO FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Multimedia systems; Neural networks; Quality of experience; Selective packet discard; Traffic classification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; LOW COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; PEAK SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); REAL-TIME MULTIMEDIA STREAMS; SELECTIVE PACKET DISCARD; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL REDUNDANCIES; TRAFFIC CLASSIFICATION;

BANDWIDTH; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORK LAYERS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PACKET LOSS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84888298090     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2013.08.014     Document Type: Article

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