Energy-minimized multipath video transport to mobile devices in heterogeneous wireless networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1160-1178

  Wu, Jiyan ^a,b   Yuen, Chau ^c   Cheng, Bo ^a   Wang, Ming ^a   Chen, Junliang ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b Department of Research and Development   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

Author keywords

energy efficiency; heterogeneous wireless networks; Multipath transport protocol; Raptor codes; real time video

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VIDEO STREAMING; WI-FI; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORK; MULTIPATH TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS; MULTIPATH VIDEO TRANSPORT; PEAK SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; RAPTOR CODES; REAL TIME VIDEOS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84976340278     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2016.2551483     Document Type: Article

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