Trading Delay for Distortion in One-Way Video Communication over the Internet

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 711-723

  Wu, Jiyan ^a,b   Cheng, Bo ^a   Yuen, Chau ^b   Cheung, Ngai Man ^b   Chen, Junliang ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

Author keywords

burst packet loss; differentiated scheduling; forward error correction; multiple destination; One way video communication

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ERROR CORRECTION; ERRORS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; PACKET LOSS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSMISSIONS; VIDEO STREAMING;

ALLOCATION AND SCHEDULING; BURST PACKET LOSS; FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION CODING; MULTIPLE DESTINATIONS; PACKET TRANSMISSIONS; PEAK SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS; VIDEO-TRANSMISSION SYSTEM;

FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION;

EID: 84963823055     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2015.2412774     Document Type: Article

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