HTTP Based Adaptive Streaming over HSPA
Muhammad Fahd Siraj · 2011
MPEG has developed various technologies for multimedia storage and delivery, such as MPEG-2 TS and MP4 file format. HTTP-based Adaptive Streaming is a new technology to deliver such multimedia streams over the Open Internet to a variety of consumer devices including set-top boxes, hybrid TVs, PC and portable devices. The examples include Apple HTTP Live Streaming, Microsoft SmoothStreaming, 3GPP Adaptive HTTP Streaming and the recent MPEG standardization activity related to Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH). The optimization tools used within these techniques try to cope with the underlying network conditions such as the bit rate variations and delay, along with user interaction. In this work I intend to setup and evaluate the performance of HTTP-based Adaptive Streaming Technologies over an HSPA network.