Title
Integrated Bandwidth Variation Pattern Differentiation for HTTP Adaptive Streaming over 4G Cellular Networks
Abstract
HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) is the state-of-the-art technology for improving the quality of user experience under conditions of time-varying available bandwidth. Developing the bitrate adaptation algorithm becomes more challenging with the transition to 4G cellular networks. The features of bandwidth variation caused by changes in radio channel quality are significantly different from the pattern caused by changes in radio channel resources. In this paper, we propose a bitrate adaptation algorithm for 4G cellular networks with bandwidth variation pattern differentiation. By investigating the bandwidth data profiles collected from an actual 4G cellular network with the field test approach, we distinguish the pattern of bandwidth capacity variations as sustained fluctuations and instantaneous hopping. With bandwidth variation pattern differentiation, the proposed algorithm performs a smoothed bitrate adaptation to sustained fluctuations and an instant bitrate adaptation to instantaneous hopping. Performance evaluations obtained on a 4G cellular network testbed demonstrate that the algorithm achieves reductions in bitrate switching frequency and playback stalls while increasing the average bitrate.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/PCCC.2018.8710772
2018 IEEE 37th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
HTTP adaptive streaming,4G cellular network,bitrate adaptation
Computer science,Computer network,Bandwidth (signal processing),Cellular network
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1097-2641
978-1-5386-6809-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haipeng Du143.80
Weizhan Zhang210118.64
Xuanyu Wang363.58
Qinghua Zheng41261160.88