Footnotes

Mega-bits per second.

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... $1408 \times 1152$ ).^2.2

Frame dimensions are with respect to the luminance samples, unless otherwise stated.

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... ATM-based ^3.1

ATM is better described by the terms cell switching or cell relay, but, for the sake of simplicity, it will be included in the networks referred to as packet switched.

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... functions,^3.2

The OSI Session and Presentation Layers can be safely ignored for the following discussion, as they do not have a direct effect to the QoS, and they do not have an Internet equivalent.

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... routers,^3.3

Routers are essentially the switches of IP networks.

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... RTCP ^3.4

The Real-Time Control Protocol is transferring control information, such as QoS status reports, which are related to the RTP data stream.

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... SNR ^4.1

Signal to Noise Ratio.

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... service,^4.2

As already described, RTP was intentionally designed with minimal transport functionality, according to the Application Level Framing (ALF) guidelines.

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... loss.^4.3

However, this argument is currently challenged, as discussed in page

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... system.^5.1

Of course, this list of options is not exhaustive.

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... Web.^5.2

The Web, or WWW for World Wide Web, is the set of interlinked documents throughout the Internet, accessible through point-and-click applications known as browsers.

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... encoding,^5.3