Author
Bentaleb, A., Beğen, Ali Cengiz, Harous, S., Zimmermann, R.
Publication Date
2018
Publication Place
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ACM
Type
Document
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
978-145035665-7
Record ID
c0b78d6b-8e9b-43fd-b120-3aa1e32dc1bb
Library Location
Computer Science
Date
2018
Notes
National Natural Science Foundation of China ; National University of Singapore (Suzhou) Research Institute ; UAE University
Sample Text
Past research has shown that concurrent HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) players behave selfishly and the resulting competition for shared resources leads to underutilization or oversubscription of the network, presentation quality instability and unfairness among the players, all of which adversely impact the viewer experience. While coordination among the players, as opposed to all being selfish, has its merits and may alleviate some of these issues. A fully distributed architecture is still desirable in many deployments and better reflects the design spirit of HAS. In this study, we focus on and propose a distributed bitrate adaptation scheme for HAS that borrows ideas from consensus and game theory frameworks. Experimental results show that the proposed distributed approach provides significant improvements in terms of viewer experience, presentation quality stability, fairness and network utilization, without using any explicit communication between the players.
DOI
10.1145/3240508.3240589
