QoE-based server selection for content distribution networks

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2803-2815

  Tran, Hai Anh ^a   Hoceini, Said ^a   Mellouk, Abdelhamid ^a   Perez, Julien ^a   Zeadally, Sherali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

content distribution network (CDN); multimedia; Quality of experience (QoE); quality of service (QoS); server selection

Indexed keywords

CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; MULTIMEDIA; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); SERVER SELECTION;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84908047030     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2013.33     Document Type: Article

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