A Video-Quality Controller for QoE Enhancement in HTTP Adaptive Streaming

• KUROSAKA Takumi

  Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University

• MORI Shungo

  Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University

• BANDAI Masaki

  Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a quality-level control method based on quality of experience (QoE) characteristics for HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS). The proposed method works as an adaptive bitrate controller on the HAS client. The proposed method consists of two operations: buffer-aware control and QoE-aware control. We implement the proposed method on an actual dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) program and evaluate the QoE performance of the proposed method via both objective and subjective evaluations. The results show that the proposed method effectively improves both objective and subjective QoE performances by preventing stalling events and quality-level switchings that have a negative influence on subjective QoE performance.

Journal

• IEICE Transactions on Communications

  IEICE Transactions on Communications E101.B (4), 1163-1174, 2018

  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Keywords

• HTTP adaptive video streaming
• DASH
• QoE

Details

• CRID: 1390282679352834048
• NII Article ID: 130006602246
• DOI: 10.1587/transcom.2017ebp3099
• ISSN: 17451345
• ISSN: 09168516
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/transcom/E101.B/4/E101.B_2017EBP3099/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
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