Seamless Mobile Video Streaming over HTTP/2 with Gradual Quality Transitions

Hung T. LE; Thang VU; Nam PHAM NGOC; Anh T. PHAM; Truong Cong THANG

doi:10.1587/transcom.2016EBP3250

Seamless Mobile Video Streaming over HTTP/2 with Gradual Quality Transitions

Hung T. LE, Thang VU, Nam PHAM NGOC, Anh T. PHAM, Truong Cong THANG

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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.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E100-B No.5 pp.901-909

Publication Date: 2017/05/01

Publicized: 2016/11/16

Online ISSN: 1745-1345

DOI: 10.1587/transcom.2016EBP3250

Type of Manuscript: PAPER

Category: Multimedia Systems for Communications

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Hung T. LE
  University of Aizu
Thang VU
  Hanoi University of Science and Technology
Nam PHAM NGOC
  Hanoi University of Science and Technology
Anh T. PHAM
  University of Aizu
Truong Cong THANG
  University of Aizu

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HTTP adaptive streaming, adaptation, HTTP/2, server push

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Hung T. LE, Thang VU, Nam PHAM NGOC, Anh T. PHAM, Truong Cong THANG, "Seamless Mobile Video Streaming over HTTP/2 with Gradual Quality Transitions" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, vol. E100-B, no. 5, pp. 901-909, May 2017, doi: 10.1587/transcom.2016EBP3250.
Abstract: 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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