Towards Agile and Smooth Video Adaptation in HTTP Adaptive Streaming

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2386-2399

  Tian, Guibin ^a   Liu, Yong ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Emulab; HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS); multiple server; Support Vector Regress (SVR); wireless

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); INTERNET; VIDEO STREAMING;

ADAPTIVE STREAMING; CONGESTION LEVEL; MULTIPLE SERVERS; NETWORK BANDWIDTH; NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS; NETWORK TESTBEDS; VIDEO RATE CONTROL; WIRELESS CONNECTION;

HTTP;

EID: 84941363182     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2015.2464700     Document Type: Article

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