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Key research themes
1. How can network-layer innovations and protocols (HTTP/2, HTTP/3, QUIC) improve latency, throughput, and Quality of Experience (QoE) in adaptive HTTP video streaming?
This research area investigates leveraging recent HTTP protocol advancements—especially HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 (based on QUIC)—to overcome traditional limitations such as head-of-line (HOL) blocking, latency, and throughput inefficiencies in adaptive video streaming. By exploiting features like multiplexing, server push, stream priority, partial reliability, and optimized retransmission techniques, research aims to enhance delivery efficiency, reduce startup and playout delays, and improve overall client-side QoE, especially in lossy and variable network conditions.
Key finding: This paper demonstrates that HTTP/2 features such as server push and multiplexing effectively reduce server-to-display latency and startup delay significantly (up to 90.1% and 40.1% respectively) by enabling push-based... Read more
Key finding: By integrating DASH adaptive streaming with QUIC's partial reliability, this work achieves 46% higher throughput and 33% fewer playout interruptions compared to reliable HTTP/3 and HTTP/2 under bursty loss conditions,... Read more
Key finding: This study reveals that QUIC’s UDP-based transport, combined with scalable video coding (SHVC), outperforms HTTP/2 by mitigating head-of-line blocking and retransmission overheads, improving average video quality and... Read more
Key finding: Introducing H2BR, which utilizes HTTP/2 features (stream priority, server push, stream termination), the study achieves up to 70% reduction in time viewing lowest-quality video segments by enabling mid-session retransmission... Read more
Key finding: By implementing MPEG-DASH with JavaScript leveraging HTML5 video element and Media Source API, the study shows seamless adaptive streaming integration into browsers without proprietary plugins, enabling browser-independent... Read more
2. What innovations in Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) algorithms improve QoE under dynamic and low-latency constraints in HTTP adaptive streaming?
This theme explores the design and evaluation of ABR algorithms tailored for adaptive HTTP streaming, focusing on maximizing QoE metrics such as reducing rebuffering, startup delay, video quality oscillations, and ensuring smooth, consistent quality especially under variable network conditions or low-latency live streaming scenarios. It includes machine learning, deep reinforcement learning-based approaches, and optimized control algorithms that dynamically select video segment quality based on measured throughput, buffer state, and QoE models.
Key finding: The proposed Llama ABR algorithm effectively operates with small client buffers (targeting 2-4 seconds latency), adapting quickly to network changes while minimizing rebuffering and video quality oscillations; evaluated... Read more
Key finding: This work introduces a DRL-based ABR algorithm that optimizes QoE by controlling the perceptual quality distance between consecutive segments, incorporating buffer occupancy and network conditions; simulation results show... Read more
Key finding: Through code-level analysis and reverse engineering of six popular HAS clients, this paper reveals that rate adaptation algorithms vary substantially; common issues include repeated overestimation of available bandwidth,... Read more
Key finding: ASViS protocol using scalable video coding and UDP flow control applies a deadline-based layer-discarding strategy that improves QoE by reducing video buffer underrun and pauses common in DASH over TCP; simulations show... Read more
3. How can architectural designs and scheduling optimizations improve efficiency and resource utilization in adaptive HTTP video streaming and transcoding pipelines?
This theme focuses on system-level and architectural advancements for adaptive video streaming delivery and video content processing. It includes content delivery network (CDN) architectures that enhance QoE and cost-efficiency, multipath and software-defined networking (SDN) based solutions to optimize bandwidth, load balancing and transcoding time prediction, and scheduling algorithms to maximize hardware utilization and minimize latency in the video streaming pipeline.
Key finding: The proposed architecture integrates load balancers, web and caching servers, and transcoding servers to efficiently process, store, and deliver multi-bitrate HTTP Adaptive Streaming content, leveraging CDNs and segment-based... Read more
Key finding: The study designs a Dynamic Multi Path Finder (DMPF) scheduler running on an SDN controller that uses multipath TCP (MPTCP) to split scalable video coding layers across multiple network paths, enhancing throughput,... Read more
Key finding: FastTTPS employs data engineering, an ANN-based transcoding time predictor, and a Max-Min scheduling algorithm to accurately forecast transcoding time of x264 encoded segments and optimize task deployment on multiple cores,... Read more
Key finding: The CSAS algorithm merges video smoothing and optimal cache (OC) strategies to selectively cache video segments after smoothing, minimizing WAN backbone bandwidth requirements while reducing proxy storage needs compared to... Read more
Key finding: The ADWS method dynamically adjusts window-sliding sizes and aggressively applies work-ahead traffic smoothing for online VBR stream delivery, reducing peak bandwidth demand compared to static window sizes while maintaining... Read more