Why Is HTTP Adaptive Streaming So Hard?
Sangwook Bae, Dahyun Jang, KyoungSoo Park · 2015
HTTP adaptive streaming is increasingly popular in video delivery. This is mainly because HTTP allows easy deployment while it simplifies content delivery, and chunk-based delivery enables dynamic adaptation of video quality to varying network bandwidth. However, we find that the very nature of chunk delivery on HTTP causes some fundamental problems in efficient bandwidth utilization.