A low-latency scheduling approach for high-definition video streaming in a heterogeneous wireless network with multihomed clients

Multimedia Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 411-425

  Wu, Jiyan ^a,b   Qiao, Xiuquan ^a   Xia, Yamei ^a   Yuen, Chau ^b   Chen, Junliang ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous wireless networks; High definition video streaming; Multihoming; Network calculus; Sub frame; Water filling

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CALCULATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VIDEO STREAMING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORK; HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO; MULTI-HOMING; NETWORK CALCULUS; SUB-FRAME; WATER FILLING;

DIGITAL TELEVISION;

EID: 84930414780     PISSN: 09424962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00530-014-0388-7     Document Type: Article

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