[39] | Christian Kreuzberger, Benjamin Rainer, Hermann Hellwagner, Laura Toni, Pascal Frossard, A Comparative Study of DASH Representation Sets Using Real User Characteristics, In Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (ACM, ed.), ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 4:1-4:6, 2016.
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[38] | Christian Timmerer, Daniel Weinberger, Martin Smole, Reinhard Grandl, Christopher Mueller, Stefan Lederer, Live Transcoding and Streaming-as-a-Service with MPEG-DASH, In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEW) (Enrico Magli, Stefano Tubaro, Anthony Vetro, eds.), IEEE, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 1-4, 2015.
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Abstract: Multimedia content delivery and real-time streaming over the top of the existing infrastructure is nowadays part and parcel of every media ecosystem thanks to open standards and the adoption of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) as its primary mean for transportation. Hardware encoder manufacturers have adopted their product lines to support the dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP but suffer from the inflexibility to provide scalability on demand, specifically for event-based live services that are only offered for a limited period of time. The cloud computing paradigm allows for this kind of flexibility and provide the necessary elasticity in order to easily scale with the demand required for such use case scenarios. In this paper we describe bitcodin, our transcoding and streaming-as-as-ervice platform based on open standards (i.e., MPEG-DASH) which is deployed on standard cloud and content delivery infrastructures to enable high-quality streaming to heterogeneous clients. It is currently deployed for video on demand, 24/7 live, and event-based live services using bitdash, our adaptive client framework.
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[37] | Christian Timmerer, Daniel Weinberger, Martin Smole, Reinhard Grandl, Christopher Mueller, Stefan Lederer, Cloud-based Transcoding and Adaptive Video Streaming-as-a-Service, In IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee E-Letter, IEEE Communications Society [online], New York, NY, USA, pp. 7-11, 2015.
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[36] | Christian Timmerer, Matteo Maiero, Benjamin Rainer, Stefan Petscharnig, Daniel Weinberger, Christopher Mueller, Stefan Lederer, Quality of Experience of Adaptive HTTP Streaming in Real-World Environments, In IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee E-Letter, IEEE Communications Society [online], New York, NY, USA, pp. 6-9, 2015.
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[35] | Christian Kreuzberger, Daniel Posch, Hermann Hellwagner, A Scalable Video Coding Dataset and Toolchain for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP, In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (Tsang Ooi Wei, ed.), ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 213-218, 2015.
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Abstract: With video streaming becoming more and more popular, the number of devices that are capable of streaming videos over the Internet is growing. This leads to a heterogeneous device landscape with varying demands. Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) offers an elegant solution to these demands. Smart adaptation logics are able to adjust the clients' streaming quality according to several (local) parameters. Recent research indicated benefits of blending Scalable Video Coding (SVC) with DASH, especially considering Future Internet architectures. However, except for a DASH dataset with a single SVC encoded video, no other datasets are publicly available. The contribution of this paper is two-fold. First, a DASH/SVC dataset, containing multiple videos at varying bitrates and spatial resolutions including 1080p, is presented. Second, a toolchain for multiplexing SVC encoded videos is provided, therefore making our results reproducible and allowing researchers to generate their own datasets.
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[34] | Christian Timmerer, Carsten Griwodz, Ali Cengiz Begen, Thomas Stockhammer, Bernd Girod, Guest Editorial: Adaptive Media Streaming, In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Communications Society, vol. 32, no. 4, New York, NY, USA, pp. 681-683, 2014.
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[33] | Christian Timmerer, Benjamin Rainer, The Social Multimedia Experience, In IEEE Computer, IEEE Computer Society, vol. 47, no. 3, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, pp. 67-69, 2014.
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Abstract: Inter-destination multimedia synchronization and quality of experience are critical to the success of social TV, which integrates television viewing with social networking.
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[32] | Christian Timmerer, Ali Cengiz Begen, Over the Top Content Delivery: State of the Art and Challenges Ahead, In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Multimedia Conference (Kien Hua, Yong Rui, Ralf Steinmetz, Alan Hanjalic, Apostol Natsev, Wenwu Zhu, eds.), ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1231-1232, 2014.
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Abstract: In this tutorial we present state of the art and challenges ahead in over-the-top content delivery. It particular, the goal of this tutorial is to provide an overview of adaptive media delivery, specifically in the context of HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) including the recently ratified MPEG-DASH standard. The main focus of the tutorial will be on the common problems in HAS deployments such as client design, QoE optimization, multi-screen and hybrid delivery scenarios, and synchronization issues. For each problem, we will examine proposed solutions along with their pros and cons. In the last part of the tutorial, we will look into the open issues and review the work-in-progress and future research directions.
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[31] | Christian Timmerer, Christopher Mueller, Stefan Lederer, Adaptive Media Streaming over Emerging Protocols, In 2014 NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference Proceedings & CD (not available, ed.), National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), Washington DC, USA, pp. 4, 2014.
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Abstract: The emerging MPEG standard Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) is designed for media delivery over the top of existing infrastructures and enables smooth multimedia streaming towards heterogeneous devices including both wired and wireless environments. The MPEG-DASH standard was designed to work with HTTP-URLs but mandates neither the actual version nor which underlying protocols to be used. This paper will provide a detailed introduction into emerging protocols (HTTP/2.0 and beyond) to be used in the context of adaptive media streaming, specifically DASH.
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[30] | Matthais Klusch, Patrick Kapahnke, Xiaoqi Cao, Benjamin Rainer, Christian Timmerer, Stefan Mangold, MyMedia: Mobile Semantic Peer-to-Peer Video Search and Live Streaming, In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Moustafa Youssef, ed.), ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 10, 2014.
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Abstract: Mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) computing with applications such as for video on demand, file sharing, and video conferencing is gaining momentum based on new standards and technologies such as IETF PPSP, WiFi-Direct and BitTorrent live streaming. In this paper, we describe the mobile system MyMedia, that allows users to search, share and experience videos and live recordings using P2P and at the best quality possible with respect to available network capacity. In particular, the MyMedia system features a high-precision semantic P2P search and dynamic network-adaptive P2P live streaming of MPEG videos over HTTP based on the ISO/IEC standard MPEG-DASH from mobile to mobile devices in unstructured wireless P2P networks. These features have been integrated in the mobile application TIFF EventLive of the 54th Thessaloniki international film festival. The evaluation of their performance and device energy consumption, and a first user evaluation at the festival showed that the MyMedia system is suitable and accepted by users for its purpose in practice. The MyMedia system is available as open-source software for the Android operating system.
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[29] | Benjamin Rainer, Christian Timmerer, Self-Organized Inter-Destination Multimedia Synchronization For Adaptive Media Streaming, In Proceedings of the 22st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM, ed.), ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 10, 2014.
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Abstract: Social networks have become pervasive and have changed the way of social interaction. The traditional TV experience drifts from an event tied to a certain place with the family or friends to a location-independent and distributed social experience. Additionally, more and more video on-demand services adopt a pull-based streaming approach. In order to provide a synchronized and distributed TV experience we introduce a self-organized Inter-Destination Multimedia Synchronization (IDMS) framework for adaptive media streaming. In particular, we extend the principles of IDMS to adaptive media streaming over HTTP (i.e., MPEG-DASH) and enable a synchronized multimedia playback among geographically distributed clients. Therefore, we introduce session management to MPEG-DASH and for negotiating on a reference playback timestamp among the participating peers in an IDMS session we propose a distributed control scheme. We evaluate our proposed scheme with respect to scalability and time required for negotiating on the reference playback timestamp. Furthermore, we investigate how to compensate the identified asynchronism by using adaptive media playout with respect to the Quality of Experience (QoE). Therefore, we define a temporal distortion measure for audio and video which allows us to model the impact of playback rate variations on the QoE. This measure is evaluated by conducting a subjective quality assessment using crowdsourcing.
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[28] | Benjamin Rainer, Christian Timmerer, Quality of Experience of Web-based Adaptive HTTP Streaming Clients in Real-World Environments using Crowdsourcing, In First International Workshop on VideoNext: Design, Quality and Deployment of Adaptive Video Streaming (N N, ed.), ACM, Australia, Sydney, pp. 1-6, 2014.
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[27] | Daniel Posch, Christian Kreuzberger, Benjamin Rainer, Hermann Hellwagner, Using In-Network Adaptation to Tackle Inefficiencies Caused by DASH in Information-Centric Networks, In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, VideoNext Workshop (Colin Dixon, ed.), ACM Digital Library, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1-6, 2014.
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Abstract: The consumption of audio-visual content is the most dominant traffic source in today's Internet. Novel architectural approaches, such as Information-Centric Networking (ICN), are developed to support efficient multimedia dissemination. As ICN and MPEG-DASH have several concepts in common, recent proposals consider a fusion of both technologies. However, MPEG-DASH relies on pure client-driven adaptation. This often rather selfish adaptation strategy inhibits benefits gained from ICN's inherent caching and multi-path transmission capabilities. In order to overcome this challenge, the contribution of this work is the integration of in-network adaptation (INA) in ICN. We illustrate that INA can be realized despite ICN's content-based security model. Our proposal rests on scalable content, which enables INA without management and transmission overhead.
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[26] | Daniel Posch, Christian Kreuzberger, Benjamin Rainer, Hermann Hellwagner, Client Starvation: A Shortcoming of Client-driven Adaptive Streaming in Named Data Networking, In Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (Paulo Mendes, ed.), ACM Digital Library, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1-2, 2014. (to appear)
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Abstract: Information-centric Networking (ICN) as a potential Future Internet architecture has to efficiently support the consumption of multimedia content. Recent proposals consider the reuse of MPEG-DASH to provide adaptive streaming in ICN. Due to the fact that MPEG-DASH relies on pure client-driven adaptation, it encounters difficulties dealing with ICN's inherent caching and multi-path transmission. By conducting simulations using the concrete ICN approach Named Data Networking (NDN), we show that pure client-driven adaptation leads to shortcomings. Furthermore, we propose to use in-network adaptation based on scalable content for overcoming these shortcomings in NDN.
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[25] | Christian Sieber, Tobias Hoßfeld, Thomas Zinner, Phuoc Tran-Gia, Christian Timmerer, Implementation and User-centric Comparison of a Novel Adaptation Logic for DASH with SVC, In Integrated Network Management (IM 2013), 2013 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on (Filip De Turck, Yixin Diao, Choong Seon Hong, Deep Medhi, Ramin Sadre, eds.), IEEE Communications Society, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1318-1323, 2013.
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Abstract: The MPEG-DASH standard allows the client-centric access to different representations of video content via the HTTP protocol. The client can flexibly switch between different qualities, i.e., different bit rates and thus avoid waiting times during the video playback due to empty playback buffers. However, quality switches and the playback of lower qualities is perceived by the user which may reduce the Quality of Experience (QoE). Therefore, novel algorithms are required which manage the streaming behavior with respect to the user's requirements and which do not waste network resources. As indicated by recent studies, scalable video coding (SVC) may use the current network and content distribution infrastructure in a more efficient way than with single layer codecs. The contribution of this paper is the design and the implementation of a novel DASH/SVC streaming algorithm. By means of measurements in a test-bed, its performance and benefits are evaluated and compared to existing algorithms from an user-centric view point with objective performance metrics. Our findings show that the proposed algorithm outperforms other DASH mechanisms in terms of video quality, low switching frequency and usage of the available resources in a realistic mobile network scenario. This is a first step towards true QoE management of video streaming in the Internet with DASH and SVC.
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[24] | Daniel Posch, Hermann Hellwagner, Peter Schartner, On-Demand Video Streaming based on Dynamic Adaptive Encrypted Content Chunks, In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec' 13) (Jun Li, Olaf Maennel, eds.), IEEE, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, pp. 6, 2013.
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Abstract: This paper proposes a framework for on-demand video streaming that enables secure and efficient delivery of data towards the end user. Our proposal requires the combined usage of three different technologies. The first one is a recent proposal by Jacobsen et al. called Content-Centric Networking (also known as Named Data Networking). It is a network architecture that introduces named data as the most valuable element in the network and divides it into so called content chunks, which are self-identifying and self-authenticating data units. The second concept we utilize derives from the approach of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP, which allows clients to dynamically choose the quality of the received video stream according to their available resources. Finally, we adapt the concept of Broadcast Encryption to form a tool to control the access to provided content streams. The combination of these technologies enables us to design a framework that allows streaming providers to transport data to customers as dynamic adaptive encrypted content chunks, which is an efficient, flexible and scalable way of multimedia data transport.
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[23] | Christopher Mueller, Stefan Lederer, Jörg Pöcher, Christian Timmerer, libdash – An Open Source Software Library for the MPEG-DASH Standard, In In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2013 (Antonio Servetti, Alatan Aydin, eds.), IEEE, San Jose, USA, pp. 1-2, 2013.
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Abstract: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is an ISO/IEC MPEG standard which enables the convenient and smooth transportation of multimedia data to heterogeneous end devices over networks with variable bandwidth conditions. This kind of streaming technology is mainly used with HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 respectively, which both have some drawbacks. Therefore, the IETF has started the development of HTTP 2.0, which is based on Google’s SPDY proposal and already supported by several major companies, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Akamai, Mozilla and obviously Google. Furthermore, Content Centric Networking (CCN) is another novel approach for future networks that is considered as an revolutionary approach compared to HTTP 2.0. The CCN communication paradigm is completely different and does not rely on direct connections between hosts, it rather focuses on the content. This paper demonstrates DASH with HTTP 2.0/SPDY and CCN using our universal libdash library. Moreover, different mechanisms of DASH will be shown that can be used to provide on-demand and live content in an efficient and comfortable way.
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[22] | Christopher Mueller, Stefan Lederer, Christian Timmerer, Fair Share Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP, In IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee E-Letter, IEEE Communications Society [online], vol. 8, no. 2, New York, NY, USA, pp. 30-33, 2013.
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Abstract: Multimedia delivery over the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is currently very popular and with MPEGs' Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) a standard is available to provide interoperability and enable large-scale deployments using existing infrastructures (servers, proxies, caches, etc.). This paper identifies some issue when multiple DASH clients compete for a bandwidth bottleneck when transparent proxy caches are deployed. Therefore, we propose a fair share adaptation scheme to be included within the client which – through experimental results – achieve a more efficient utilization of the bottleneck bandwidth and less quality switches.
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[21] | Christopher Mueller, Stefan Lederer, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP/2.0, In In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2013 (Jin Li, ed.), IEEE, San Jose, USA, pp. 1-6, 2013.
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Abstract: MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is a new streaming standard that has been recently ratified as an international standard (IS). In comparison to other streaming systems, e.g., HTTP progressive download, DASH is able to handle varying bandwidth conditions providing smooth streaming. Furthermore, it enables NAT and Firewall traversal, flexible and scalable deployment as well as reduced infrastructure costs due to the reuse of existing Internet infrastructure components, e.g., proxies, caches, and Content Distribution Networks (CDN). Recently, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis (httpbis) working group of the IETF has officially started the development of HTTP 2.0. Initially three major proposals have been submitted to the IETF i.e., Googles' SPDY, Microsofts' HTTP Speed+Mobility and Network-Friendly HTTP Upgrade, but SPDY has been chosen as working draft for HTTP 2.0. In this paper we implemented MPEG-DASH over HTTP 2.0 (i.e., SPDY), demonstrating its potential benefits and drawbacks. Moreover, several experimental evaluations have been performed that compare HTTP 2.0 with HTTP 1.1 and HTTP 1.0 in the context of DASH. In particular, the protocol overhead, the performance for different round trip times, and DASH with HTTP 2.0 in a lab test scenario has been evaluated in detail.
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[20] | Yaning Liu, Joost Geurts, Jean-Charles Point, Stefan Lederer, Benjamin Rainer, Christopher Mueller, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over CCN: A Caching and Overhead Analysis, In Proceedings of the IEEE international Conference on Communication (ICC) 2013 – Next-Generation Networking Symposium (Christopher Mattheisen, Tutomu Murase, eds.), IEEE, Budapest, pp. 2222-2226, 2013.
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Abstract: In this paper, we present our implementation and evaluation of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over Content centric networking (DASC) which implements MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) utilizing a Content Centric Networking (CCN) naming scheme to identify content segments in a CCN network. In particular, video segments formatted according to MPEG-DASH are available in different quality levels but instead of HTTP, CCN is used for referencing and delivery. Based on the conditions of the network, the DASC client issues interests for segments achieving the best throughput. Due to segment caching within the network, subsequent requests for the same content can be served quicker. As a result, the quality of the video a user receives progressively improves, effectively overcoming bottlenecks in the network. We present two sets of experiments to evaluate the performance of DASC showing that throughput indeed improves. However, the generated overhead is relatively large and the adaptation strategy used for DASH that assumes an end-to-end connection could be revised for the hop-by-hop architecture of CCN.
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[19] | Stefan Lederer, Christopher Mueller, Benjamin Rainer, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, An Experimental Analysis of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP in Content Centric Networks, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2013 (Haohong Wang, ed.), IEEE, San Jose, USA, pp. 1-6, 2013.
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Abstract: This paper presents the usage of CCN, which is a candidate for the next-generation Internet, in combination with the new Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) standard, which was recently ratified by ISO/IEC MPEG. In contrast to the Internet Protocol, which is mainly based on the host-to-host connection paradigm originated in the 1970s, Content Centric Networking (CCN) focuses on the content itself, instead of its location. Considering the dominance of multimedia traffic in todays' Internet, the streaming performance of DASH over CCN as well as the problems introduced by this combination is worth to be investigated in detail. Therefore, we evaluate the protocol overhead introduced by the usage of CCN compared to the HTTP versions 1.0 and 1.1. Furthermore, the performance of DASH over CCN under different network conditions is compared to the performance of HTTP 1.0/1.1. Our results showed that although CCN comes together with higher protocol overhead than HTTP 1.0/1.1 as well as a prototype implementation, it can definitely compete with HTTP 1.0 in media streaming. Based on the evaluation results, problems as well as improvement possibilities are identified, which are the basis for future work in this area.
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[18] | Stefan Lederer, Christopher Mueller, Benjamin Rainer, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Adaptive Streaming over Content Centric Networks in Mobile Networks using Multiple Links, In In Proceedings of the IEEE ICC'13 - Workshop on Immersive & Interactive Multimedia Communications over the Future Internet (Pedro Assuncao, Luigi Atzori, Tasos Dagiuklas, Ahmet Kondoz, eds.), IEEE, Budapest, pp. 687-691, 2013.
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Abstract: This paper presents the usage of Content Centric Networking (CCN) for adaptive multimedia streaming in mobile environments, leveraging the recent ISO/IEC MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) standard. The performance of DASH over CCN is evaluated using real-world mobile bandwidth traces and compared to previous evaluations of different DASH-based as well as proprietary systems. As there are no client-server connections in CCN, it offers the possibility to transfer data from multiple sources as well as over multiple links in parallel, which is definitely an important feature, e.g., for mobile devices offering multiple network links. This functionality is used and evaluated in this paper in combination with DASH, making it possible to dynamically choose the best performing link for media streaming, which is a clear advantage over DASH using HTTP and the TCP/IP protocol stack. The evaluation therefore investigates DASH over CCN in two scenarios using synthetic and real-world mobile bandwidth traces respectively, showing a significantly better performance than conventional DASH using only one connection.
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[17] | Stefan Lederer, Christopher Mueller, Christian Timmerer, Cyril Concolato, Jean Le Feuvre, Karel Fliegel, Distributed DASH Dataset, In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (Carsten Griwodz, ed.), ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. pp. 131-135, 2013.
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Abstract: The delivery of multimedia content over HTTP and on top of existing Internet infrastructures is becoming the preferred method within heterogeneous environment. The basic design principle is having an intelligent client which selects given and applicable media representations by issuing HTTP requests for individual segments based on the users' context and current conditions. Typically, this client behavior differs between implementations of the same kind and for the objective evaluations thereof appropriate datasets are needed. This paper presents a distributed dataset for the recently published MPEG-DASH standard which is mirrored at different sites across Europe, namely Klagenfurt, Paris, and Prague. A client implementation may choose to request segments from these sites and dynamically switch to a different location, e.g., in case the one currently used causes any issues. Thus, this distributed DASH dataset can be used for real-world evaluations enabling the simulation of switching between different content delivery networks.
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[16] | Michael Grafl, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Wael Cherif, Adlen Ksentini, Evaluation of Hybrid Scalable Video Coding for HTTP-based Adaptive Media Streaming with High-Definition Content, In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Video Everywhere (ViDEv 2013) (Terence D Todd, Michael Paterakis, eds.), IEEE, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, pp. 7, 2013.
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Abstract: Scalable Video Coding (SVC) in media streaming enables dynamic adaptation based on device capabilities and network conditions. In this paper, we investigate deployment options of SVC for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) with a special focus on scalability options, which are relevant for dynamic adaptation, especially in wireless and mobile environments. We evaluate the performance of SVC with respect to spatial and quality scalability options and compare it to non-scalable Advanced Video Coding (AVC). Performance evaluations are performed for various encoder implementations with high-definition (1080p) content. We show that a hybrid approach with multiple independent SVC bitstreams can have advantages in storage requirements at comparable rate-distortion performance.
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[15] | Michael Grafl, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Wael Cherif, Adlen Ksentini, Hybrid Scalable Video Coding for HTTP-based Adaptive Media Streaming with High-Definition Content, In Computer Communications, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 11, 2013.
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Abstract: Scalable Video Coding (SVC) in media streaming enables dynamic adaptation based on device capabilities and network conditions. In this paper, we investigate deployment options of SVC for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) with a special focus on scalability options, which are relevant for dynamic adaptation, especially in wireless and mobile environments. We establish encoding recommendations and evaluate the performance of SVC with respect to spatial and quality scalability options and compare it to non-scalable Advanced Video Coding (AVC). Performance evaluations are performed for various encoder implementations with high-definition (1080p) content. We show that a hybrid approach with multiple independent SVC bitstreams can have advantages in storage requirements at comparable rate-distortion performance.
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