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Quality of Experience-Centric Management of Adaptive Video Streaming Services: Status and Challenges

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Petrangeli, Stefano, Hooft, Jeroen Van Der, Wauters, Tim, Turck, Filip De·2018·ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications

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Video streaming applications currently dominate Internet traffic. Particularly, HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) has emerged as the dominant standard for streaming videos over the best-effort Internet, thanks to its capability of matching the video quality to the available network resources. In HAS, the video client is equipped with a heuristic that dynamically decides the most suitable quality to stream the content, based on information such as the perceived network bandwidth or the video player buffer status. The goal of this heuristic is to optimize the quality as perceived by the user, the so-called Quality of Experience (QoE). Despite the many advantages brought by the adaptive streaming principle, optimizing users’ QoE is far from trivial. Current heuristics are still suboptimal when sudden bandwidth drops occur, especially in wireless environments, thus leading to freezes in the video playout, the main factor influencing users’ QoE. This issue is aggravated in case of live events, where the player buffer has to be kept as small as possible in order to reduce the playout delay between the user and the live signal. In light of the above, in recent years, several works have been proposed with the aim of extending the classical purely client-based structure of adaptive video streaming, in order to fully optimize users’ QoE. In this article, a survey is presented of research works on this topic together with a classification based on where the optimization takes place. This classification goes beyond client-based heuristics to investigate the usage of server- and network-assisted architectures and of new application and transport layer protocols. In addition, we outline the major challenges currently arising in the field of multimedia delivery, which are going to be of extreme relevance in future years.

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  • Existing survey papers on QoE management do not explain how QoE can be improved or optimized using SDN and NFV.

    “However, the survey papers mentioned above do not explain how QoE can be improved or optimized using SDN and NFV.”
  • Existing studies do not provide insights into how network or service providers can utilize the capabilities of SDN and NFV for QoE management to meet end users' quality demands.

    “As such, these studies do not provide insights into how network or service providers can utilize the capabilities of SDN and NFV for QoE management (e.g., to achieve automation, programmability, flexibility, scalability and network control) to meet the end users' quality demands.”
  • The user in VR is immersed in a virtual environment and can dynamically and freely decide the preferred viewpoint.

    “The user in VR is immersed in a virtual environment and can dynamically and freely decide the preferred viewpoint [31].”
  • The current QoE models for delivery of adaptive video streams have three limitations: they are developed to capture the behavior of the average user and hence some are not personalized; they do not consider the context in which the streaming session takes place; and only the QoE model of the users is inserted into the control loop, but not the user herself.

    “The current QoE models for delivery of adaptive video streams have three limitations: (1) they are developed to capture the behavior of the”

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  1. L. De Cicco, V. Caldaralo, V. Palmisano, and S. Mascolo. 2014. TAPAS: A Tool for rApid Prototyping of Adaptive Streaming Algorithms. In Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Design, Quality and Deployment of Adaptive Video Streaming (VideoNext '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1-6.
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Authors
Petrangeli, S., Hooft, J. V. D., Wauters, T., & Turck, F. D.
Affiliations
Ghent University (BE)
Venue
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
Published
2018-04-30
Volume
14
Issue
2s
Pages
1-29
ISSN
  • 1551-6857 (ISSN-L)
  • 1551-6865
OpenAlex
W2801125139
Cited by
38
References
117
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 6
FWCI
2.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (publishedVersion)
  • Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image and Video Quality Assessment
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Network Traffic and Congestion Control
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Caching and Content Delivery
Keywords
adaptive video streaming, HTTP adaptive streaming, quality of experience, transport protocols, live events, multimedia transmission

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