A Survey of Rate Adaptation Techniques for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1842-1866

  Kua, Jonathan ^a   Armitage, Grenville ^a   Branch, Philip ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ABR; adaptive multimedia streaming; DASH; HTTP; measurement; QoE; TCP; traffic

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HTTP; MEASUREMENTS; SURVEYS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; VIDEO STREAMING;

ADAPTIVE MULTIMEDIA STREAMING; CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES; DASH; DYNAMIC ADAPTIVE STREAMING OVER HTTP; INTERNET TRAFFIC; MULTIMEDIA DELIVERY; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; USER DATAGRAM PROTOCOL;

MEDIA STREAMING;

EID: 85029176964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2017.2685630     Document Type: Review

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