Media-friendly and TCP-friendly rate control protocols for multimedia streaming

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1516-1531

  Sterca, Adrian ^a   Hellwagner, Hermann ^b   Boian, Florian ^a   Vancea, Alexandru ^a  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Media friendly congestion control; multimedia streaming; TCP friendly congestion control

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); MEDIA STREAMING; VIDEO STREAMING;

MULTIMEDIA STREAMING; MULTIMEDIA STREAMING APPLICATIONS; RATE CONTROL ALGORITHMS; TCP CONGESTION CONTROL; TCP FRIENDLY RATE CONTROL; TCP-FRIENDLY CONGESTION CONTROL; TCP-FRIENDLY RATE CONTROL PROTOCOLS; TRANSMISSION RATES;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 84981332983     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2015.2469075     Document Type: Article

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