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Not All Packets Are Equal, Part I: Streaming Video Coding and SLA Requirements
January/February 2009 (vol. 13 no. 1)
pp. 70-75
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Jason Greengrass, John Evans, Ali C. Begen, "Not All Packets Are Equal, Part I: Streaming Video Coding and SLA Requirements," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 70-75, January/February, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MIC.2009.14,
author = {Jason Greengrass and John Evans and Ali C. Begen},
title = {Not All Packets Are Equal, Part I: Streaming Video Coding and SLA Requirements},
journal ={IEEE Internet Computing},
volume = {13},
number = {1},
issn = {1089-7801},
year = {2009},
pages = {70-75},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2009.14},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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In this first part of a two-part article, the authors consider the network factors that impact the viewers' quality of experience (QoE) for IP-based video-streaming services such as IPTV. They describe the IP service-level requirements for a transported video service and explain MPEG encoding to help readers better understand the impact that packet loss has on viewers' QoE.

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9. SMPTE 421M, "Television —VC-1 Compressed Video Bitstream Format and Decoding Process," Society of Motion Picture Television Engineers, 2006.

Index Terms:
IP, video, SLAs, QOE, MPEG, video packet loss, packets & protocols
Citation:
Jason Greengrass, John Evans, Ali C. Begen, "Not All Packets Are Equal, Part I: Streaming Video Coding and SLA Requirements," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 70-75, Jan.-Feb. 2009, doi:10.1109/MIC.2009.14
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