QoE-based traffic and resource management for adaptive HTTP video delivery in LTE

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 988-1001

  El Essaili, Ali ^a,b   Schroeder, Damien ^a   Steinbach, Eckehard ^a   Staehle, Dirk ^c,d   Shehada, Mohammed ^c,e  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c DOCOMO EURO LABS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^e ROHDE AND SCHWARZ GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) streaming; Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH); Long term evolution (LTE); Quality of experience (QoE); Resource allocation; Video transport

Indexed keywords

HTTP; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VIDEO STREAMING; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DYNAMIC ADAPTIVE STREAMING OVER HTTP; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; PERCEIVED VIDEO QUALITY; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIMENTS; TRANSMISSION RATES; VIDEO TRANSPORT;

LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE);

EID: 84951738961     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2014.2367355     Document Type: Article

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