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A non-intrusive estimation for high-quality Internet TV services

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This paper presents a non-intrusive estimator for Internet TV services based on streaming technology. Analyzing the video packets received by the client application, the estimator is capable of selecting the most suitable encoding bitrate for the available bandwidth in the end-to-end path. The estimator has been integrated in a real client/server architecture and evaluated with different network traffic situations. The results of the performed evaluation have revealed the stability and adaptation speed as the best qualities of our proposal.

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This work was partially supported by the Spanish National Research Program within the project TSI2007-60474 and the PCTI Asturias Basic Research Project IB09-005.

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Fraga, A., Pozueco, L., Garcia Pañeda, X. et al. A non-intrusive estimation for high-quality Internet TV services. Multimed Tools Appl 54, 569–588 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-010-0566-3

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