MicroCast
Lorenzo Keller, Anh Le, Blerim Cici, Hülya Seferoğlu, Christina Fragouli, Athina P. Markopoulou · 2012
Video streaming is one of the increasingly popular, as well as demanding, applications on smartphones today. In this paper, we consider a group of smartphone users, within proximity of each other, who are interested in watching the same video from the Internet at the same time. The common practice today is that each user downloads the video independently using her own cellular connection, which often leads to poor quality.