Quality of Experience Driven Rate Adaptation for Adaptive HTTP Streaming

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 602-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venkata Phani M. Kumar ◽  
Sudipta Mahapatra
2014 ◽  
Vol 08 (02) ◽  
pp. 229-243
Author(s):  
Sachin Deshpande

The newly approved High Efficiency Video Coding Standard (HEVC) includes temporal sub-layering feature, which provides temporal scalability. Two types of pictures — Temporal Sub-layer Access Pictures and Step-wise Temporal Sub-layer Access Pictures are provided for this purpose. This paper utilizes the temporal scalability in HEVC to provide bandwidth adaptive HTTP streaming. We describe our HTTP streaming algorithm, which is media timeline aware and which dynamically switches temporal sub-layers on the server side. We performed subjective tests to determine user perception regarding acceptable frame rates when using temporal scalability of HEVC. These results are used to control the algorithm's temporal switching behavior to provide a good quality of experience to the user. We applied Internet and 3GPP error-delay patterns to validate the performance of our algorithm.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
qahhar muhammad qadir ◽  
Alexander A. Kist ◽  
ZHONGWEI ZHANG

The emergence of video applications and video capable devices have contributed substantially to the increase of video traffic on Internet. New mechanisms recommending video rate adaptation towards delivering enhanced Quality of Experience (QoE) at the same time making room for more sessions. This paper introduces a cross-layer QoE-aware architecture for video traffic over the Internet. It proposes that video sources at the application layer adapt their rate to the network environment by controlling their transmitted bit rate dynamically; and the edge of network at the network layer protects the quality of the active video sessions by controlling the acceptance of new session through a video-aware admission control. In particular, it will seek the most efficient way of accepting new video session and adapting transmission rates to free up resources for more session while maintaining the QoE of active sessions. The proposed framework will contribute to the preparation for the extreme growth of video traffic in the foreseeable future. Simulation results show that the proposed cross-layer architecture guarantees the QoE for the admitted sessions and utilizes the link more efficiently comparing to the rate adaptation only architecture.


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