A Survey on Quality of Experience of HTTP Adaptive Streaming

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 469-492

  Seufert, Michael ^a   Egger, Sebastian ^b   Slanina, Martin ^c   Zinner, Thomas ^a   Hoßfeld, Tobias ^a   Tran Gia, Phuoc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

dynamic streaming; HTTP adaptive streaming; Quality of Experience; variable video quality

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); HTTP; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SURVEYS; USER CENTERED DESIGN; VIDEO STREAMING;

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; ADAPTIVE STREAMING; BAND-WIDTH UTILIZATION; DYNAMIC STREAMING; NETWORKING RESEARCHERS; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT; VIDEO QUALITY;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84925857232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2014.2360940     Document Type: Article

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