An adaptive rate-control streaming mechanism with optimal buffer utilization

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 271-282

  Chen, Shu Ching ^a   Shyu, Mei Ling ^b   Gray, Irina ^a   Luo, Hongli ^b  

^a Florida International University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive transmission rates; Buffer utilization; Multimedia streaming; Protocol

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); INTERNET; JITTER; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION RATE; BUFFER UTILIZATION; MULTIMEDIA STREAMING; QUADRATIC PROBING ALGORITHM;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 9944236740     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2003.10.031     Document Type: Article

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