The popularity of distributed interactive applications has exploded in the last few years. For example, massive multi-player online games have become a fast growing, multi-million...
Since multimedia data are characterized by continuity and massive volume, compression techniques such as MPEG are used for efficient transmission. However, a transmission error oc...
In this paper we explore use of a new rate-distortion metric for optimizing real-time Internet video streaming with the transmission control protocol (TCP). The basic idea is to c...