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Rate Adaptation Techniques for WebTV

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User Centric Media (UCMEDIA 2009)

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This paper presents a novel hybrid RTSP, SIP and HTTP solution for providing converged WebTV services with automatic Rate Adaptation of multimedia content. The prototypical solution, being developed under the scope of the My-eDirector 2012 european project, was deployed in a high-bandwidth LAN and some preliminary tests were performed.

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Santos, H., Cruz, R.S., Nunes, M.S. (2010). Rate Adaptation Techniques for WebTV. In: Daras, P., Ibarra, O.M. (eds) User Centric Media. UCMEDIA 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12630-7_19

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