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Title
Minimizing the impact of delay on live SVC-based HTTP adaptive streaming services
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Abstract
HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) is becoming the de-facto standard for Over-The-Top video streaming services. Video content is temporally split into segments which are offered at multiple qualities to the clients. These clients autonomously select the quality layer matching the current state of the network through a quality selection heuristic. Recently, academia and industry have begun evaluating the feasibility of adopting layered video coding for HAS. Instead of downloading one file for a certain quality level, scalable video streaming requires downloading several interdependent layers to obtain the same quality. This implies that the base layer is always downloaded and is available for playout, even when throughput fluctuates and enhancement layers can not be downloaded in time. This layered video approach can help in providing better service quality assurance for video streaming. However, adopting scalable video coding for HAS also leads to other issues, since requesting multiple files over HTTP leads to an increased impact of the end-to-end delay and thus on the service provided to the client. This is even worse in a Live TV scenario where the drift on the live signal should be minimized, requiring smaller segment and buffer sizes. In this paper, we characterize the impact of delay on several measurement-based heuristics. Furthermore, we propose several ways to overcome the end-to-end delay issues, such as parallel and pipelined downloading of segment layers, to provide a higher quality for the video service.
Language
English
Source (book)
Proceedings of the 6th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems (DANMS), Ghent, Belgium, 2013
Publication
New york : Ieee , 2013
ISBN
978-3-901882-51-7; 978-1-4673-5229-1
978-1-4673-5229-1
Volume/pages
(2013) , p. 1399-1404
ISI
000327159900233
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Creation 12.02.2014
Last edited 26.01.2023
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