Enhancing MPEG DASH Performance via Server and Network Assistance
Abstract
MPEG-Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) provides formats that are suitable to stream media content over HTTP. Typically, the DASH client adaptively requests small chunks of media based on the available bandwidth and other resources. This client-pull technology has proven to be more flexible, firewall-friendly, and CDN-scalable than server-push technologies. However, service providers have less control given the decentralized and client-driven nature of DASH, which introduces new challenges for them to offer a consistent and possibly higher quality of service for premium users. MPEG addresses this issue in a new work referred to as Server and Network-assisted DASH (SAND). The key features of SAND are asynchronous network-to-client and network-to-network communication, and the exchange of quality-related assisting information in such a way that it does not delay or interfere with the delivery of the streaming media content. MPEG has completed the work on SAND first edition and will be published as a new part of the
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SAND is an extension of the MPEG-DASH standard that has been recently finalized.
“Server and Network assisted DASH (SAND) is an extension of the MPEG-DASH standard that has been recently finalized, [109], [110] to enhance the delivery of DASH content.”
From QoE Management of Multimedia Streaming Services in Future Networks: A Tutorial and Survey (2020) · cites this paper as [110]
Practical and scalable implementation of SAND requires modification of network nodes/elements to provide a set of messages exchanged by network, servers, and DASH clients during video quality delivery optimization.
“However, this requires a modification of the network nodes/elements to provide a set of messages that can be exchanged by the network, servers, and DASH clients during video quality delivery optimization [110].”
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- Authors
- Thomas, E., van Deventer, M. O., Stockhammer, T., Begen, A. C., & Famaey, J.
- Venue
- SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal
- Published
- 2017-01
- Volume
- 126
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 22-27
- ISSN
- 1545-0279 (ISSN-L)
- 2160-2492
- OpenAlex
- W3022166040
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 2.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal (publishedVersion)
- eResearch@Ozyegin (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image and Video Quality Assessment
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Caching and Content Delivery
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Network Traffic and Congestion Control
- Keywords
- MPEG-DASH, dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP, quality of service, bandwidth adaptation
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