Adaptive Push-based Media Streaming in the Web

Luigi Lo Iacono, Silvia Santano Guillén

2016

Abstract

Online media consumption is the main driving force for the recent growth of the Web. As especially realtime media is becoming more and more accessible from a wide range of devices, with contrasting screen resolutions, processing resources and network connectivity, a necessary requirement is providing users with a seamless multimedia experience at the best possible quality, henceforth being able to adapt to the specific device and network conditions. This paper introduces a novel approach for adaptive media streaming in the Web. Despite the pervasive pullbased designs based on HTTP, this paper builds upon a Web-native push-based approach by which both the communication and processing overheads are reduced significantly in comparison to the pull-based counterparts. In order to maintain these properties when enhancing the scheme by adaptation features, a server-side monitoring and control needs to be developed as a consequence. Such an adaptive push-based media streaming approach is introduced as main contribution of this work. Moreover, the obtained evaluation results provide the evidence that with an adaptive push-based media delivery, on the one hand, an equivalent quality of experience can be provided at lower costs than by adopting pull-based media streaming. On the other hand, an improved responsiveness in switching between quality levels can be obtained at no extra costs.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lo Iacono L. and Santano Guillén S. (2016). Adaptive Push-based Media Streaming in the Web . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-186-1, pages 121-129. DOI: 10.5220/0005813501210129

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist16,
author={Luigi Lo Iacono and Silvia Santano Guillén},
title={Adaptive Push-based Media Streaming in the Web},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2016},
pages={121-129},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005813501210129},
isbn={978-989-758-186-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Adaptive Push-based Media Streaming in the Web
SN - 978-989-758-186-1
AU - Lo Iacono L.
AU - Santano Guillén S.
PY - 2016
SP - 121
EP - 129
DO - 10.5220/0005813501210129