A Hybrid P2P/Multi-Server Quality-Adaptive Live-Streaming Solution Enhancing End-User's QoE
Joachim Bruneau‐Queyreix, Mathias Lacaud, Daniel Négru · 2017
HTTP Adaptive Streaming have become the de-facto solutions to deliver video over the Internet due to their ability to enhance consumers' Quality of Experience (QoE). Nevertheless, they do not have the possibility to improve the actual delivered video quality, limited by the available client-server throughput. In comparison, multiple-server and P2P streaming offer the opportunity to obtain enhanced QoE by benefiting from expanded bandwidth, link diversity and reliability in distributed streaming infrastructures. We present a prototype for a hybrid P2P/multi-server quality-adaptive streaming solution, simultaneously using several servers and peers, and trading off the server infrastructure capacities and QoE gains.