Where are the Sweet Spots?
Denny Stohr, Alexander Frömmgen, Amr Rizk, Michael Zink, Ralf Steinmetz, Wolfgang Effelsberg · 2017
The current body of research on Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) contributes various adaptation algorithms aiming to optimize performance metrics such as the Quality of Experience. Intuitively, the heterogeneity of the streaming environment and the underlying technologies lead many of the developed approaches to possess clear performance affinities denoted here as sweet spots. We observe, however, that systematic comparisons of these algorithms are usually conducted within homogeneous player environments.