A Survey on Quality of Experience of HTTP Adaptive Streaming
University of Würzburg · Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien · +1 more institution
Abstract
Changing network conditions pose severe problems to video streaming in the Internet. HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) is a technology employed by numerous video services that relieves these issues by adapting the video to the current network conditions. It enables service providers to improve resource utilization and Quality of Experience (QoE) by incorporating information from different layers in order to deliver and adapt a video in its best possible quality. Thereby, it allows taking into account end user device capabilities, available video quality levels, current network conditions, and current server load. For end users, the major benefits of HAS compared to classical HTTP video streaming are reduced…
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6Topics & keywords
- Quality of experience
- Computer science
- Adaptation (eye)
- Video quality
- The Internet
- Multimedia
- Quality of service
- Bandwidth (computing)