Probe and adapt: Rate adaptation for HTTP video streaming at scale

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 719-733

  Li, Zhi ^a   Zhu, Xiaoqing ^a   Gahm, Joshua ^a   Pan, Rong ^a   Hu, Hao ^a   Begen, Ali C ^a   Oran, David ^a  

^a CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

CDN; DASH; HAS; HTTP Adaptive Streaming; TCP; Video

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SYSTEM FIREWALLS; EQUIPMENT TESTING; PROBES; VIDEO STREAMING;

ADAPTIVE STREAMING; CDN; DASH; HAS; TCP; VIDEO;

HTTP;

EID: 84897140882     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2014.140405     Document Type: Article

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