An evaluation of bitrate adaptation methods for HTTP live streaming

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 693-705

  Thang, Truong Cong ^a   Le, Hung T ^a   Pham, Anh T ^a   Ro, Yong Man ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

adaptivity; DASH; HTTP streaming

Indexed keywords

HTTP; VIDEO STREAMING;

ADAPTIVE HTTP STREAMING; ADAPTIVITY; COST-EFFECTIVE MEANS; DASH; HTTP STREAMING; HTTP-LIVE STREAMING; LIVE VIDEO STREAMING; MULTIPLE REPRESENTATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84897129982     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2014.140403     Document Type: Article

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