Advanced Video Communications over Wireless Networks

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Cooperative Video Provisioning in Mobile Wireless Environments

Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, and Carlo Giannelli

CONTENTS

8.1    Introduction

8.1.1    Application Case and Problem Statement

8.2    Multimedia Streaming in Mobile Wireless Environments

8.3    Related Work

8.3.1    End-to-End Solutions

8.3.2    Proxy-Based Solutions

8.3.3    Collaborative Solutions

8.4    The RAMP Case Study

8.4.1    RAMP-Based Collaborative Multimedia Recasting

8.4.2    Distributed and Collaborative Quality Tailoring

8.4.2.1    Per-Segment Quality Metric

8.4.2.2    Per-Segment Quality Tailoring

8.4.3    Performance Evaluation

8.5    Conclusive Remarks

References

8.1    Introduction

In the last years, the wireless Internet has received evergrowing attention ...