Acronyms

ACR: Absolute Category Rating.

ADPCM: Adaptive Differential PCM.

AM-LM: LM with Adaptive Momentum.

ANN: Artificial Neural Networks.

ARQ: Automatic Repeat reQuest.

ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode.

BR: Bit Rate.

BSD: Bark Spectral Distortion.

CIF: Common Interchange Format.

CLP: Consecutive Lost Packets.

CMPQM: Color MPQM.

Codec: COder and DECoder .

DCR: Degradation Category Rating.

DCT: Discrete Cosine Transform.

DSCQS: Double-Stimulus Continuous Quality-Scale.

EB-TFRC: Equation-based TFRC.

EBSD: Enhanced Modified BSD.

FEC: Forward Error Control.

FR: Frame Rate.

GD: Gradient Descent.

GOP: Group Of Pictures.

GSM: Global System for Mobile Communication.

HVS: Human Visual System.

IP: Internet Protocol.

ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network.

ITU: International Telecommunication Union.

LM: Levenberg-Marquardt.

LR: Loss Rate.

MB: Macro Bloc.

MNB: Measuring Normalizing Blocks.

MOS: Mean Opinion Score.

MPEG: Moving Picture Expert Group.

MPQM: Moving Picture Quality Metric.

MSE: Mean Square Error.

NN: Neural Networks.

NVFM: Normalization Video Fidelity Metric.

PAMS: Perceptual Analysis Measurement System.

PCM: Pulse Code Modulation.

PI: Packetization Interval.

PSQM: Perceptual Speech Quality Measure.

QP: Quantization Parameter.

QoS: Quality of Service.

RA: Ratio of the Encoded Intra Macro-Blocs to Inter Macro-Blocs.

RLC: Run Length Coding.

RNN: Random Neural Networks.

RTCP: Real Time Control Protocol.

RTP: Real time Transport Protocol.

RTT: Round-Trip Time.

SN: Sequence Number.

SNR: Signal-to-Noise Ratio.

SNRseg: Segmental SNR.

TCP: Transport Control Protocol.

TFRC: TCP-Friendly Rate Control.

TS: Time Stamp.

UDP: User Datagram Protocol.

VoD: Video on Demand.