IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
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Seamless Mobile Video Streaming over HTTP/2 with Gradual Quality Transitions
Hung T. LEThang VUNam PHAM NGOCAnh T. PHAMTruong Cong THANG
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2017 Volume E100.B Issue 5 Pages 901-909

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HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) has become a popular solution for media delivery over the mobile Internet. However, existing HAS systems are based on the pull-based HTTP/1.1 protocol, leading to high overheads (e.g., in terms of energy, processing, bandwidth) for clients, servers, as well as network nodes. The new HTTP/2 protocol provides a server push feature, which allows the client to receive more than one video segment for each request in order to reduce request-related overheads. In this study, we propose an adaptation method to leverage the push feature of HTTP/2. Our method takes into account not only the request-related overhead but also buffer stability and gradual transitions. The experimental results show that our proposed method performs well under strong throughput variations of mobile networks.

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