A buffer-based approach to rate adaptation: Evidence from a large video streaming service

SIGCOMM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 187-198

  Huang, Te Yuan ^a   Johari, Ramesh ^a   McKeown, Nick ^a   Trunnell, Matthew ^b   Watson, Mark ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Netflix ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

http based video streaming; video rate adaptation algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUFFER AMPLIFIERS; VIDEO STREAMING;

CAPACITY ESTIMATION; COMMERCIAL SERVICES; CURRENT BUFFER; HTTP-BASED VIDEO STREAMING; RATE ADAPTATION; START-UP PHASE; VIDEO RATE ADAPTATION; VIDEO STREAMING SERVICES;

CONVOLUTIONAL CODES;

EID: 84907374376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2619239.2626296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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