An experimental evaluation of rate-adaptive video players over HTTP

Signal Processing: Image Communication

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 271-287

  Akhshabi, Saamer ^a   Narayanaswamy, Sethumadhavan ^a   Begen, Ali C ^b   Dovrolis, Constantine ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

AdapTech Streaming; Adaptive player; Adaptive streaming; Experimental evaluation; Video streaming over HTTP

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION ALGORITHMS; ADAPTECH; ADAPTIVE PLAYER; AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH; BIT RATES; BOTTLENECK LINK; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS; OPEN-SOURCE; PLAYBACK DELAY; RATE-ADAPTATION; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; UNDERLYING NETWORKS; VIDEO PLAYERS;

HTTP; VIDEO STREAMING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84859557481     PISSN: 09235965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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