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Streaming video requires handling dynamic information density under strict latency budgets. Yet, existing methods typically employ static strategies, such as fixed memory compression or reliance on a single model, forcing a trade-off: fast…

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This paper describes a new approach for allocating resources to video streaming traffic. Assuming that the future channel state can be predicted for a certain time, we minimize the fraction of the bandwidth consumed for smooth streaming by…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Sanam Sadr , Stefan Valentin

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

We present a straightforward, non-intrusive adaptive bit rate streaming segment quality selection policy which aims at extending battery lifetime during playback while limiting the impact on the user's quality of experience, thus benefiting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-12 César Díaz , Antonio Fernández , Fernando Sacristán , Narciso García

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

In anticipatory networking, channel prediction is used to improve communication performance. This paper describes a new approach for allocating resources to video streaming traffic while accounting for quality of service. The proposed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Dimitrios Tsilimantos , Amaya Nogales-Gómez , Stefan Valentin

Recently, HTTP-based adaptive streaming has become the de facto standard for video streaming over the Internet. It allows clients to dynamically adapt media characteristics to network conditions in order to ensure a high quality of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Konstantin Miller , Abdel-Karim Al-Tamimi , Adam Wolisz

The Quality of Experience (QoE) of streaming service is often degraded by frequent playback interruptions. To mitigate the interruptions, the media player prefetches streaming contents before starting playback, at a cost of delay. We study…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Yuedong Xu , Salaheddine Elayoubi , Eitan Altman , Rachid El-Azouzi , Yinghao Yu

This paper aims to improve video streaming by leveraging a simple observation: users are more sensitive to low quality in certain parts of a video than in others. For instance, rebuffering during key moments of a sports video (e.g., before…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Xu Zhang , Yiyang Ou , Siddhartha Sen , Junchen Jiang

Proactive streaming video understanding requires models to continuously process video streams and decide when to respond, rather than merely what to respond. This naturally introduces a decision-making problem under partial observations,…

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The Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network is crucial due to its ability to efficiently transmit data, provide reliable connections, and support various service classes with specific Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. In this paper,…

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Client-side video players employ adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithms to optimize user quality of experience (QoE). We evaluate recently proposed RL-based ABR methods in Facebook's web-based video streaming platform. Real-world ABR contains…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Hongzi Mao , Shannon Chen , Drew Dimmery , Shaun Singh , Drew Blaisdell , Yuandong Tian , Mohammad Alizadeh , Eytan Bakshy

Adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming enables video users to adapt the playing bitrate to the real-time network conditions to achieve the desirable quality of experience (QoE). In this work, we propose a novel crowdsourced streaming framework…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Lin Gao , Ming Tang , Haitian Pang , Jianwei Huang , Lifeng Sun

Adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR) has become thede factotechnique for videostreaming over the Internet. Despite a flurry of techniques, achieving high quality ABRstreaming over cellular networks remains a tremendous challenge. First, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yanyuan Qin

We propose a robust scheme for streaming 360-degree immersive videos to maximize the quality of experience (QoE). Our streaming approach introduces a holistic analytical framework built upon the formal method of stochastic optimization. We…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Arnob Ghosh , Vaneet Aggarwal , Feng Qian

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

Streaming network intrusion detection systems must process flows continuously while keeping memory bounded, but most current methods leave alerting threshold selection as a post-hoc tuning problem poorly suited to production. Operators need…

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Quality of Experience (QoE) prediction is a critical component of modern multimedia systems, particularly for adaptive video streaming in 5G networks. Accurate QoE estimation enables intelligent resource management and supports user centric…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Syeda Zunaira Ahmed , Hejab Tahira Beg , Maryam Khalid

Driven by the tremendous technological advancement of personal devices and the prevalence of wireless mobile network accesses, the world has witnessed an explosion in crowdsourced live streaming. Ensuring a better viewers quality of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Fatima Haouari , Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Amr Mohamed , Mohsen Guizani

This paper proposes and evaluates a novel algorithm for streaming video over HTTP. The problem is formulated as a non-convex optimization problem which is constrained by the predicted available bandwidth, chunk deadlines, available video…

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