Raptor code-aware link adaptation for spectrally efficient unicast video streaming over mobile broadband networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 401-415

  Sgardoni, Victoria ^a   Nix, Andrew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross layer design; Forward Error Correction; link adaptation; mobile broadband communications; resource allocation

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; BUDGET CONTROL; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ERROR CORRECTION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK LAYERS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VIDEO STREAMING;

APPLICATION LAYERS; AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST; CROSS LAYER OPTIMIZATION; CROSS-LAYER DESIGN; LINK ADAPTATION; MOBILE BROADBAND; MODULATION AND CODING SCHEMES; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY;

FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION;

EID: 84919897458     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2014.2331967     Document Type: Article

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