Using RTT Variability for Adaptive Cross-Layer Approach to Multimedia Delivery in Heterogeneous Networks

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1194-1203

  Choi, Baek Young ^a   Park, Eun Kyo ^a   Song, Sejun ^b   Wang, Yue ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross layer approach; heterogenous networks; round trip time (RTT) variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008047705     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: 19410077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2009.2026103     Document Type: Article

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