Enhancing QoE for Mobile Users by Environment-Aware HTTP Adaptive Streaming

HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) has become a dominated media streaming paradigm in today’s Internet, which enriches the user’s experience by matching the video quality with the dynamic network conditions. A range of HAS mechanisms have been proposed to enhance the Quality of Experi...

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Main Authors: Weizhan Zhang, Hao He, Shuyan Ye, Zhiwen Wang, Qinghua Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-10-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/11/3645
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author Weizhan Zhang
Hao He
Shuyan Ye
Zhiwen Wang
Qinghua Zheng
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Hao He
Shuyan Ye
Zhiwen Wang
Qinghua Zheng
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description HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) has become a dominated media streaming paradigm in today’s Internet, which enriches the user’s experience by matching the video quality with the dynamic network conditions. A range of HAS mechanisms have been proposed to enhance the Quality of Experience (QoE). However, existing mechanisms ignore the environmental impact in the QoE evaluation of mobile users, while the popularity of mobile video allows users to watch videos in diversified scenarios. In this paper, we propose an environment-aware HAS scheme that fully concentrates on the different criteria for evaluating video QoE under different environments. Using the advantage of the sensors in mobile phones, the scheme constructs and validates a video QoE model based on environment perception and then designs a model-driven, environment-aware HAS rate adaptation algorithm. We also evaluate the scheme with an environment-aware DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) player in real mobile environments. Compared to the benchmark HAS mechanism, the experimental results demonstrate that our scheme can provide appropriate differentiated rate adaptation for different environments, resulting in a higher QoE.
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spelling doaj.art-791a7fc8c1574447b13a338cce7eb8942022-12-22T04:23:10ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202018-10-011811364510.3390/s18113645s18113645Enhancing QoE for Mobile Users by Environment-Aware HTTP Adaptive StreamingWeizhan Zhang0Hao He1Shuyan Ye2Zhiwen Wang3Qinghua Zheng4MOEKLINNS Lab, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, ChinaMOEKLINNS Lab, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, ChinaMOEKLINNS Lab, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, ChinaMOEKLINNS Lab, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, ChinaMOEKLINNS Lab, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, ChinaHTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) has become a dominated media streaming paradigm in today’s Internet, which enriches the user’s experience by matching the video quality with the dynamic network conditions. A range of HAS mechanisms have been proposed to enhance the Quality of Experience (QoE). However, existing mechanisms ignore the environmental impact in the QoE evaluation of mobile users, while the popularity of mobile video allows users to watch videos in diversified scenarios. In this paper, we propose an environment-aware HAS scheme that fully concentrates on the different criteria for evaluating video QoE under different environments. Using the advantage of the sensors in mobile phones, the scheme constructs and validates a video QoE model based on environment perception and then designs a model-driven, environment-aware HAS rate adaptation algorithm. We also evaluate the scheme with an environment-aware DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) player in real mobile environments. Compared to the benchmark HAS mechanism, the experimental results demonstrate that our scheme can provide appropriate differentiated rate adaptation for different environments, resulting in a higher QoE.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/11/3645sensors in mobile phoneenvironment-awareHTTP adaptive streamingquality of experience
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sensors in mobile phone
environment-aware
HTTP adaptive streaming
quality of experience
title Enhancing QoE for Mobile Users by Environment-Aware HTTP Adaptive Streaming
title_full Enhancing QoE for Mobile Users by Environment-Aware HTTP Adaptive Streaming
title_fullStr Enhancing QoE for Mobile Users by Environment-Aware HTTP Adaptive Streaming
title_full_unstemmed Enhancing QoE for Mobile Users by Environment-Aware HTTP Adaptive Streaming
title_short Enhancing QoE for Mobile Users by Environment-Aware HTTP Adaptive Streaming
title_sort enhancing qoe for mobile users by environment aware http adaptive streaming
topic sensors in mobile phone
environment-aware
HTTP adaptive streaming
quality of experience
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/11/3645
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