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Real-time interactive Virtual Reality (VR) streaming is a significantly challenging use case for Wi-Fi given its high throughput and low latency requirements, especially considering the constraints imposed by the possible presence of other…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Miguel Casasnovas , Ferran Maura , Isjtar Vandebroeck , Haryo Sukmawanto , Eric Joris , Boris Bellalta

Quality of Experience~(QoE)-driven adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithms are typically optimized using QoE models that are based on the mean opinion score~(MOS), while such principles may not account for user heterogeneity on rating scales,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Tianchi Huang , Rui-Xiao Zhang , Chenglei Wu , Lifeng Sun

This paper presents NANCY, a system that generates adaptive bit rates (ABR) for video and adaptive network coding rates (ANCR) using reinforcement learning (RL) for video distribution over wireless networks. NANCY trains a neural network…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Paresh Saxena , Mandan Naresh , Manik Gupta , Anirudh Achanta , Sastri Kota , Smrati Gupta

With the advent of 5G, the internet has entered a new video-centric era. From short-video platforms like TikTok to long-video platforms like Bilibili, online video services are reshaping user consumption habits. Adaptive Bitrate (ABR)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Pengcheng Luo , Yunyang Zhao , Bowen Zhang , Genke Yang , Boon-Hee Soong , Chau Yuen

Recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology have revolutionized a broad class of civil and military applications. However, the designs of wireless technologies that enable real-time streaming of high-definition video between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-25 Xuedou Xiao , Wei Wang , Taobin Chen , Yang Cao , Tao Jiang , Qian Zhang

Internet traffic is dramatically increasing with the development of network technologies and video streaming traffic accounts for large amount within the total traffic, which reveals the importance to guarantee the quality of content…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Bo Wei , Hang Song , Makoto Nakamura , Koichi Kimura , Nozomu Togawa , Jiro Katto

Adaptive video streaming plays a crucial role in ensuring high-quality video streaming services. Despite extensive research efforts devoted to Adaptive BitRate (ABR) techniques, the current reinforcement learning (RL)-based ABR algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Shuoyao Wang , Jiawei Lin , Fangwei Ye

Learning-based Adaptive Bit Rate~(ABR) method, aiming to learn outstanding strategies without any presumptions, has become one of the research hotspots for adaptive streaming. However, it typically suffers from several issues, i.e., low…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Tianchi Huang , Chao Zhou , Rui-Xiao Zhang , Chenglei Wu , Xin Yao , Lifeng Sun

Nowadays Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is the most prevalent solution on the Internet for multimedia streaming and responsible for the majority of global traffic. DASH uses adaptive bit rate (ABR) algorithms, which select the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Pablo Gil Pereira , Andreas Schmidt , Thorsten Herfet

Contemporary real-time video communication systems, such as WebRTC, use an adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithm to assure high-quality and low-delay services, e.g., promptly adjusting video bitrate according to the instantaneous network…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yueheng Li , Zicheng Zhang , Hao Chen , Zhan Ma

HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) techniques are now the dominant solution for video delivery in mobile networks. Over the past few years, several HAS algorithms have been introduced in order to improve user quality-of-experience (QoE) by…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Theodoros Karagkioules , Dimitrios Tsilimantos , Cyril Concolato , Stefan Valentin

User-space Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) algorithms cannot see the transport layer signals that matter most, such as minimum RTT and instantaneous delivery rate, and they respond to network changes only after damage has already propagated to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Mahdi Alizadeh

The rapid development of multimedia and communication technology has resulted in an urgent need for high-quality video streaming. However, robust video streaming under fluctuating network conditions and heterogeneous client computing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Junyan Yang , Yang Jiang , Shuoyao Wang

Recently, HTTP-Based Adaptive Streaming has become the de facto standard for video streaming over the Internet. It allows the client to adapt media characteristics to varying network conditions in order to maximize Quality of Experience…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Konstantin Miller , Abdel-Karim Al-Tamimi , Adam Wolisz

With the dramatically increasing video streaming in the total network traffic, it is critical to develop effective algorithms to promote the content delivery service of high quality. Adaptive bitrate (ABR) control is the most essential…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Bo Wei , Hang Song , Jiro Katto

This paper introduces a novel dynamic optimization framework for video streaming that leverages Network Digital Twin (NDT) technology to address the challenges posed by fluctuating wireless network conditions. Traditional adaptive streaming…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zurh Farus , Betty Searcy , Tina Nassisid , Kevin Muhammad

360-degree video streaming provides users with immersive experience by letting users determine their field-of-views (FoVs) in real time. To enhance the users' quality of experience (QoE) given their limited bandwidth, recent works have…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Ming Tang , Vincent W. S. Wong

As the video streaming traffic in mobile networks is increasing, improving the content delivery process becomes crucial, e.g., by utilizing edge computing support. At an edge node, we can deploy adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithms with a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jesús Aguilar-Armijo , Ekrem Çetinkaya , Christian Timmerer , Hermann Hellwagner

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) demonstrates its promising potential in the realm of adaptive video streaming and has recently received increasing attention. However, existing DRL-based methods for adaptive video streaming use only…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Lingzhi Zhao , Ying Cui , Yuhang Jia , Yunfei Zhang , Klara Nahrstedt

The QUIC transport protocol represents a significant evolution in web transport technologies, offering improved performance and reduced latency compared to traditional protocols like TCP. Given the growing number of QUIC implementations,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jashanjot Singh Sidhu , Abdelhak Bentaleb