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Design and Implementation of a Network-Adaptive Mechanism for HTTP Video Streaming

  • Kim, Yo-Han (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Shin, Jitae (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Park, Jiho (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
  • Received : 2011.12.13
  • Accepted : 2012.08.22
  • Published : 2013.02.01
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Abstract

This paper proposes a network-adaptive mechanism for HTTP-based video streaming over wireless/mobile networks. To provide adaptive video streaming over wireless/mobile networks, the proposed mechanism consists of a throughput estimation scheme in the time-variant wireless network environment and a video rate selection algorithm used to increase the streaming quality. The adaptive video streaming system with proposed modules is implemented using an open source multimedia framework and is validated over emulated wireless/mobile networks. The emulator helps to model and emulate network conditions based on data collected from actual experiments. The experiment results show that the proposed mechanism provides higher video quality than the existing system provides and a rate of video streaming almost void of freezing.

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