Optimizing User Quality of Experience through Overlay Routing, Bandwidth Management and Dynamic Trans-Coding

Accessing multimedia services via fixed and wireless networks has become common practice. These services are typically much more sensitive to packet loss, delay and/or congestion than traditional services. In particular, multimedia data is often time critical and, as a result, network issues are not well tolerated and significantly deteriorate the user’s Quality of Experience (QoE). Therefore, the authors Piet Demeester IBCN – INTEC Ghent University – IBBT, Belgium Peter Lambert MMLab ELIS Ghent University – IBBT, Belgium Dieter Van de Walle MMLab ELIS Ghent University – IBBT, Belgium Jan De Cock MMLab ELIS Ghent University – IBBT, Belgium Stijn Notebaert MMLab ELIS Ghent University – IBBT, Belgium Rik Van de Walle MMLab ELIS Ghent University – IBBT, Belgium DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0255-7.ch010