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Design and experimental evaluation of network-assisted strategies for HTTP adaptive streaming

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A. Nguyen-Ngoc,

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MMSys '16: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Multimedia Systems

Article No.: 3, Pages 1 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/2910017.2910597

Published: 10 May 2016 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we investigate several network-assisted streaming approaches which rely on active cooperation between video streaming applications and the network. We build a Video Control Plane which enforces Video Quality Fairness among concurrent video flows generated by heterogeneous client devices. To the purpose, a max-min fairness optimization problem is solved at run-time. We compare two approaches to actuate the optimal solution in an SDN network: the first one allocating network bandwidth slices to video flows, the second one guiding video players in the video bitrate selection. Performance is assessed through several QoE-related metrics, such as Video Quality Fairness, video quality, and switching frequency. The impact of client-side adaptation algorithms is also investigated.

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Design and experimental evaluation of network-assisted strategies for HTTP adaptive streaming
1. Information systems
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    1. Multimedia information systems
      1. Multimedia streaming
2. Networks
  1. Network services
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DOI:10.1145/2910017

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