Interactions between HTTP adaptive streaming and TCP
Jairo O. Esteban, Steven A. Benno, Andre Beck, Yang Yong Guo, Volker Hilt, Ivica Rimac · 2012
HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) is quickly becoming a popular mechanism for delivering on-demand video content over the Internet. The chunked transmission and application-layer adaptation create a very different traffic pattern than traditional progressive video downloads where the entire video is downloaded with a single request.