IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
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Chunk Grouping Method to Estimate Available Bandwidth for Adaptive Bitrate Live Streaming
Daichi HATTORIMasaki BANDAI
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2023 Volume E106.B Issue 11 Pages 1133-1142

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The Common Media Application Format (CMAF) is a standard for adaptive bitrate live streaming. The CMAF adapts chunk encoding and enables low-latency live streaming. However, conventional bandwidth estimation for adaptive bitrate streaming underestimates bandwidth because download time is affected not only by network bandwidth but also by the idle times between chunks in the same segment. Inaccurate bandwidth estimation decreases the quality of experience of the streaming client. In this paper, we propose a chunk-grouping method to estimate the available bandwidth for adaptive bitrate live streaming. In the proposed method, by delaying HTTP request transmission and bandwidth estimation using grouped chunks, the client estimates the available bandwidth accurately due to there being no idle times in the grouped chunks. In addition, we extend the proposed method to dynamically change the number of grouping chunks according to buffer length during downloading of the previous segment. We evaluate the proposed methods under various network conditions in order to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

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