MDASH: A Markov Decision-Based Rate Adaptation Approach for Dynamic HTTP Streaming

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 738-751

  Zhou, Chao ^a   Lin, Chia Wen ^b   Guo, Zongming ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dynamic adaptive streaming overHTTP (DASH); Markov decision; quality of experience; rate adaptation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; INTERNET; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TESTBEDS; VIDEO STREAMING;

DYNAMIC ADAPTIVE STREAMING OVER HTTP; DYNAMIC-ADAPTIVE; MARKOV DECISION; OPTIMAL GREEDY ALGORITHM; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); RATE ADAPTATION; REAL-TIME VIDEOSTREAMING; TIME-VARYING CHANNEL CONDITIONS;

HTTP;

EID: 84963813660     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2016.2522650     Document Type: Article

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