Service Provisioning and Profit Maximization in Network-assisted Adaptive HTTP Streaming

2015/01/18 by Zhisheng Yan, Cédric Westphal, Yan, Zhisheng +5
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced Wireless Network Optimization #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Image and Video Quality Assessment #Multimedia (cs.MM) #Network Traffic and Congestion Control #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1501.04254

openalex publication_date 2015/01/18 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Adaptive HTTP streaming with centralized consideration of multiple streams has gained increasing interest. It poses a special challenge that the interests of both content provider and network operator need to be deliberately balanced. More importantly, the adaptation strategy is required to be flexible enough to be ported to various systems that work under different network environments, QoE levels, and economic objectives. To address these challenges, we propose a Markov Decision Process (MDP) based network-assisted adaptation framework, wherein cost of buffering, significant playback variation, bandwidth management and income of playback are jointly investigated. We then demonstrate its promising service provisioning and maximal profit for a mobile network in which fair or differentiated service is required.

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