Video-on-demand streaming services have gained popularity over the past few years. An
increase in the speed of the access networks has also led to a larger number of users …

This chapter investigates HTTP video streaming over the Internet for the YouTube platform.
YouTube is used as concrete example and case study for video delivery over the Internet …

YouTube is one of the most popular and volume-dominant services in today's Internet, and
has changed the web for ever. Consequently, network operators are forced to consider it in …

Adaptive video streaming has already been a major scheme to transmit videos with high
quality of experience (QoE). However, the improvement of network traffics and the high …

Video streaming applications constitute a significant portion of the Internet traffic today, with
mobile accounting for more than half of the online video views. The high share of video in …

To improve user engagement such as viewing time, this paper addresses the understanding
and prediction of the user quitting ratio for users watching videos using adaptive bit rate …

Clouds and CDNs are systems that tend to separate the content being requested by users
from the physical servers capable of serving it. From the network point of view, monitoring …

On video streaming platforms, users expect a high Quality of Experience (QoE). In contrast,
service and content providers aim at high User Engagement, most notably because their …

Abstract The popular Internet service, YouTube, has adopted by default the HyperText
Markup Language version 5 (HTML5). With this adoption, YouTube has moved to Dynamic …

For the last decade, YouTube has consistently been a dominant source of traffic on the
Internet. To improve the quality of experience (QoE) for YouTube users, broadband access …