In-Network quality optimization for adaptive video streaming services

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2281-2293

  Bouten, Niels ^a   Latre, Steven ^b   Famaey, Jeroen ^b   Van Leekwijck, Werner ^c   De Turck, Filip ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive systems; HTTP adaptive streaming; integer linear programming; multimedia communication; quality of experience; quality of service; streaming media

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; HTTP; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; VIDEO STREAMING;

ADAPTIVE STREAMING; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTI-MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); STREAMING MEDIA;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84912137862     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2014.2362856     Document Type: Article

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