Bandwidth-Efficient Multipath Transport Protocol for Quality-Guaranteed Real-Time Video over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2477-2493

  Wu, Jiyan ^a,b   Yuen, Chau ^c   Cheng, Bo ^a   Yang, Yuan ^d   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)

^d SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

bandwidth efficiency; heterogeneous wireless networks; Multipath transport; Real time video communication

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ERROR CORRECTION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MOTION ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VIDEO STREAMING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BANDWIDTH EFFICIENCY; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORK; MULTIPATH TRANSPORT; MULTIPATH TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS; MULTIPATH VIDEO TRANSPORT; PEAK SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; REAL-TIME VIDEO COMMUNICATION; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT;

WI-FI;

EID: 84976487262     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2016.2553138     Document Type: Article

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