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View article: Beyond Swiping through Short-Form Videos
Beyond Swiping through Short-Form Videos Open
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View article: Media-over-QUIC Transport vs. Low-Latency DASH
Media-over-QUIC Transport vs. Low-Latency DASH Open
Low-Latency Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (LL-DASH) leverages Common Media Application Format's (CMAF) chunked packaging and HTTP's chunked transfer encoding capabilities to cater to the demand for media delivery with latencies of t…
View article: Offline Reinforcement Learning for Bandwidth Estimation in RTC Using a Fast Actor and Not-So-Furious Critic
Offline Reinforcement Learning for Bandwidth Estimation in RTC Using a Fast Actor and Not-So-Furious Critic Open
The increasing demand for real-time communication (RTC) applications necessitates robust and reliable systems. Seamless media delivery depends on an accurate assessment of the network conditions, with bandwidth estimation (BWE) being cruci…
View article: V2RA
V2RA Open
The quality-bitrate relationship is not necessarily as straightforward in volumetric video content as in 2D video. This is caused by the different volumetric video components affecting the overall quality of the content disproportional to …
View article: Content Steering
Content Steering Open
DASH-IF Content Steering [4] (to be soon published as ETSI TS 103 998) is a new standard developed by the DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF), defining means for managing DASH [5] media delivery using multiple content delivery networks (CDNs). A…
View article: Toward WebTransport Support in dash.js
Toward WebTransport Support in dash.js Open
Over the recent years, video streaming has gained more and more popularity [14]. This not only puts much strain on the Internet infrastructure [4, 10] but also creates a drive to continue improving the viewer experience. One avenue to tack…
View article: This is The Way
This is The Way Open
Media-over-QUIC transport is a new application-layer protocol currently under development for low-latency media ingest and distribution. Used in both browser (i.e., HTTP/3 WebTransport) and non-browser (i.e., raw QUIC) environments, the so…
View article: Toward One-Second Latency: Evolution of Live Media Streaming
Toward One-Second Latency: Evolution of Live Media Streaming Open
This survey presents the evolution of live media streaming and the technological developments behind today's IP-based low-latency live streaming systems. Live streaming primarily involves capturing, encoding, packaging and delivering real-…
View article: Dynamic CDN Switching - DASH-IF Content Steering in dash.js
Dynamic CDN Switching - DASH-IF Content Steering in dash.js Open
This paper overviews the content steering specification currently being developed in DASH Industry Forum and first implemented in the dash.js reference player.
View article: Common Media Server Data (CMSD) – Update on Implementations and Validation of Key Use Cases
Common Media Server Data (CMSD) – Update on Implementations and Validation of Key Use Cases Open
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View article: Bandwidth Prediction in Low-Latency Media Transport
Bandwidth Prediction in Low-Latency Media Transport Open
Designing a robust bandwidth prediction algorithm for low-latency media transport that can quickly adapt to varying network conditions is challenging. In this paper, we present the working principles of a hybrid bandwidth predictor (termed…
View article: BoB: Bandwidth Prediction for Real-Time Communications Using Heuristic and Reinforcement Learning
BoB: Bandwidth Prediction for Real-Time Communications Using Heuristic and Reinforcement Learning Open
Bandwidth prediction is critical in any Real-time Communication (RTC) service or application. This component decides how much media data can be sent in real time. Subsequently, the video and audio encoder dynamically adapts the bitrate to …
View article: The benefits of server hinting when DASHing or HLSing
The benefits of server hinting when DASHing or HLSing Open
Streaming clients almost always compete for the available bandwidth and server capacity. Not every client's playback buffer conditions will be the same, though, nor should be the priority with which the server processes the individual requ…
View article: Take the red pill for H3 and see how deep the rabbit hole goes
Take the red pill for H3 and see how deep the rabbit hole goes Open
With the introduction of HTTP/3 (H3) and QUIC at its core, there is an expectation of significant improvements in Web-based secure object delivery. As HTTP is a central protocol to the current adaptive streaming methods in all major stream…
View article: Common media client data (CMCD)
Common media client data (CMCD) Open
In September 2020, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) published the CTA-5004: Common Media Client Data (CMCD) specification. Using this specification, a media client can convey certain information to the content delivery network ser…
View article: Catching the Moment With LoL$^+$ in Twitch-Like Low-Latency Live Streaming Platforms
Catching the Moment With LoL$^+$ in Twitch-Like Low-Latency Live Streaming Platforms Open
Our earlier Low-on-Latency (dubbed as LoL) solution offered an accurate bandwidth prediction and rate adaptation algorithm tailored for live streaming applications that targeted an end-to-end latency of up to two seconds. While LoL was a s…
View article: From Capturing to Rendering: Volumetric Media Delivery with Six Degrees of Freedom
From Capturing to Rendering: Volumetric Media Delivery with Six Degrees of Freedom Open
Technological improvements are rapidly advancing holographic-type content distribution. Significant research efforts have been made to meet the low latency and high bandwidth requirements set forward by interactive applications such as rem…
View article: Forward Error Correction (FEC) Framework Extension to Sliding Window Codes (RFC 8680)
Forward Error Correction (FEC) Framework Extension to Sliding Window Codes (RFC 8680) Open
RFC 8680, Standards Track, TSVWG (Transport Area) working group of IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8680.html
View article: Forward Error Correction (FEC) Framework Extension to Sliding Window Codes
Forward Error Correction (FEC) Framework Extension to Sliding Window Codes Open
Working document of the TSVWG (Transport Area Working Group) group of IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), draft-ietf-tsvwg-fecframe-ext-00 (work in progress), https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-fecframe-ext/
View article: Guest Editorial Trustworthiness in Social Multimedia Analytics and Delivery
Guest Editorial Trustworthiness in Social Multimedia Analytics and Delivery Open
The papers in this special issue focus on trustworthiness in multimedia communications. Recently, social multimedia content is being delivered to users with a high quality of experience (QoE) with the advance of multimedia technologies and…
View article: A Survey on Bitrate Adaptation Schemes for Streaming Media Over HTTP
A Survey on Bitrate Adaptation Schemes for Streaming Media Over HTTP Open
In this survey, we present state-of-the-art bitrate adaptation algorithms for HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS). As a key distinction from other streaming approaches, the bitrate adaptation algorithms in HAS are chiefly executed at each client…
View article: Quickly Starting Media Streams Using QUIC
Quickly Starting Media Streams Using QUIC Open
Originally proposed by Google, QUIC is a low-latency transport protocol currently being developed and specified in the IETF. QUIC's low-latency, improved congestion control, multiplexing features are promising and may help improve viewer e…
View article: A Framework for Adaptive Delivery of Omnidirectional Video
A Framework for Adaptive Delivery of Omnidirectional Video Open
Omnidirectional or 360-degree videos are considered as a next step towards a truly immersive media experience. Such videos allow the user to change her/his viewing direction while consuming the video. The download-and-play paradigm (includ…
View article: Best Papers of the 2016 ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys) Conference and Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV) 2016
Best Papers of the 2016 ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys) Conference and Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV) 2016 Open
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