Applications that allow sharing of user-created short videos exploded in popularity in recent
years. A typical short video application allows a user to swipe away the current video being …

Recent years have witnessed the rising of short-form video platforms such as TikTok. Apart
from conventional videos, short-form videos are much shorter and users frequently change …

Short videos have received extraordinary success in recent years. To provide smooth
playback and avoid rebuffering delay, prefetching upcoming videos is commonly used in …

This paper considers the problem of providing users playing one streaming video the option
of instantaneous and seamless playback of alternative videos. Recommendation systems …

Even though user generated video sharing sites are tremendously popular, the experience
of the user watching videos is often unsatisfactory. Delays due to buffering before and during …

High quality video streaming over cellular networks is expensive for users and often limited
by data caps. Offloading the traffic over other cheap wireless networks, eg WLAN, would be …

Online media services are reshaping the way video content is watched. People with similar
interests tend to request same content. This provides enormous potential to predict which …

We present an integrated prefetching and caching proxy, termed iPac, for HTTP-based
adaptive video streaming services like Netflix and YouTube. The challenge we address is …

The real-time streaming of bursty continuous media, such as variable-bit rate encoded
video, to buffered clients over networks can be made more efficient by collaboratively …

Multimedia prefetching is able to reduce the end-to-end latency and improve the video
quality perceived by users. Previous work modeled prefetching as applying sequential …