Title
Adaptive streaming: The network HAS to help
Abstract
HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) is becoming popular for video delivery because it dynamically provides high quality content. A HAS client does this by requesting a small chunk of video at a time, selecting the chunk quality based on inferred network conditions and its own buffer state. Because chunks are requested using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), they traverse firewalls and are cacheable like any other Web content. Even though HAS is compatible with existing infrastructure, HAS's near-real time demands and the new request patterns it causes require an understanding of the interaction between the network and HAS algorithms. In this paper, we evaluate the responsiveness of HAS algorithms under dynamic conditions and how it affects the overall user experience as well as key infrastructure resources, particularly intermediate caches. Relevant scenarios we evaluate include varying delays, available bandwidth, cache response times, and interaction with competing traffic. © 2011 Alcatel-Lucent. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1002/bltj.20505
Bell Labs Technical Journal
Field
DocType
Volume
User experience design,Video delivery,Cache,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Bandwidth (signal processing),Hypertext Transfer Protocol,Web content,Traverse,Network conditions
Journal
16
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1089-7089
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.59
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steven A. Benno1151.54
Jairo O. Esteban215512.06
Ivica Rimac329723.46