Hi, the following talk by ANRP 2013 prize winner Laurent Vanbever is probably of interest to some RAI and TSV folks. The talk will start at approx. 9:15AM on Tuesday:
> *** TE-YUAN HUANG *** for insights into the difficulties of rate > adaptation for streaming video: > > Te-Yuan Huang, Nikhil Handigol, Brandon Heller, Nick McKeown > and Ramesh Johari. Confused, Timid, and Unstable: Picking a > Video Streaming Rate is Hard. Proc. ACM Internet Measurement > Conference (IMC),November 2012, Boston, MA, USA. > > Today’s commercial video streaming services use dynamic rate > selection to provide a high-quality user experience. We > measure three popular video streaming services and find that > accurate client-side bandwidth estimation above the HTTP > layer is hard. As a result, rate selection based on > inaccurate estimates can trigger a feedback loop, leading to > undesirably variable and low-quality video. In this talk, we > will present insights into its root causes and validate > initial solutions to prevent it. Lars
