Investigating redundant internet video streaming traffic on iOS Devices: Causes and solutions

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 510-520

  Liu, Yao ^a   Wei, Qi ^b   Guo, Lei ^c   Shen, Bo ^d   Chen, Songqing ^b   Lan, Yingjie ^e  

^a State University of New York at Binghamton   (United States)

^b George Mason University   (United States)

^c Ohio State University   (United States)

^d Vuclip   (United States)

^e Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

Internet mobile streaming; iOS; redundant traffic

Indexed keywords

CURRENT PRACTICES; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTS; INTERNET STREAMING; IOS; MOBILE STREAMING; MONETARY COSTS; REDUNDANT TRAFFIC; STREAMING TRAFFIC;

EXPERIMENTS; MOBILE DEVICES; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

INTERNET;

EID: 84893377818     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2013.2293312     Document Type: Article

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