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

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 826-839

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

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement; video conferencing

Indexed keywords

IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENTS; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

ADAPTATION SCHEME; APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE; HIGH-QUALITY VIDEOS; MEASUREMENT STUDY; NETWORK CONDITION; PASSIVE MEASUREMENTS; VIDEO GENERATION; VOICE AND VIDEO;

INTERNET;

EID: 84903318400     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2013.2260354     Document Type: Article

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