With companies such as Netflix and YouTube accounting for more than 50% of the peak
download traffic on North American fixed networks in 2015, video streaming represents a …

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 …

Today's commercial video streaming services use dynamic rate selection to provide a high-
quality user experience. Most services host content on standard HTTP servers in CDNs, so …

Video traffic already represents a significant fraction of today's traffic and is projected to
exceed 90% in the next five years. In parallel, user expectations for a high quality viewing …

Many prior efforts have suggested that Internet video Quality of Experience (QoE) could be
dramatically improved by using data-driven prediction of video quality for different choices …

Content delivery networks must balance a number of trade-offs when deciding how to direct
a client to a CDN server. Whereas DNS-based redirection requires a complex global traffic …

Netflix and Hulu are leading Over-the-Top (OTT) content service providers in the US and
Canada. Netflix alone accounts for 29.7% of the peak downstream traffic in the US in 2011 …

With smartphones making video recording easier than ever, new apps like Periscope and
Meerkat brought personalized interactive video streaming to millions. With a touch, viewers …

Performance of online applications directly impacts user satisfaction. A major component of
the user-perceived performance of the application is the time spent in transit between the …

The hybrid architecture of content distribution network (CDN) and peer to peer (P2P) is
promising in providing online streaming media services. In this paper, we conducted a …