eprintid: 1535829
rev_number: 32
eprint_status: archive
userid: 608
dir: disk0/01/53/58/29
datestamp: 2017-01-14 22:46:30
lastmod: 2021-10-15 22:55:53
status_changed: 2017-11-07 12:41:55
type: working_paper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: D'Aronco, S
creators_name: Toni, L
creators_name: Frossard, P
title: Price-based Controller for Quality-Fair HTTP Adaptive Streaming (Extended Version)
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: F46
keywords: Streaming media, Bit rate, Bandwidth, Servers, Internet, Resource management, HTTP adaptive streaming, K.6.2.e Pricing and resource allocation, K.6.2 Installation Management, K.6 Management of Computing and Information Systems
abstract: HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) has become the universal technology for video streaming over the Internet. Many HAS system designs aim at sharing the network bandwidth in a rate-fair manner. However, rate fairness is in general not equivalent to quality fairness as different video sequences might have different characteristics and resource requirements. In this work, we focus on this limitation and propose a novel controller for HAS clients that is able to reach quality fairness while preserving the main characteristics of HAS systems and with a limited support from the network devices. In particular, we adopt a price-based mechanism in order to build a controller that maximizes the aggregate video quality for a set of HAS clients that share a common bottleneck. When network resources are scarce, the clients with simple video sequences reduce the requested bitrate in favor of users that subscribe to more complex video sequences, leading to a more efficient network usage. The proposed controller has been implemented in a network simulator, and the simulation results demonstrate its ability to share the available bandwidth among the HAS users in a quality-fair manner.
date: 2017-01-05
publisher: ArXiv
official_url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01392
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1200909
lyricists_name: Toni, Laura
lyricists_id: LTONI29
full_text_status: public
series: ArXiv
publication: arXiv
volume: 2017
number: 1701.013
article_number: arXiv:1701.01392 [cs.NI]
place_of_pub: Ithaca, NY, USA
pages: 19
citation:        D'Aronco, S;    Toni, L;    Frossard, P;      (2017)    Price-based Controller for Quality-Fair HTTP Adaptive Streaming (Extended Version).                    (ArXiv  1701.013). ArXiv: Ithaca, NY, USA.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1535829/1/Toni_1701.01392v1.pdf