YouTube live and Twitch: a tour of user-generated live streaming systems

K Pires, G Simon - Proceedings of the 6th ACM multimedia systems …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
User-Generated live video streaming systems are services that allow anybody to broadcast
a video stream over the Internet. These Over-The-Top services have recently gained …

Soft actor–critic DRL for live transcoding and streaming in vehicular fog-computing-enabled IoV

F Fu, Y Kang, Z Zhang, FR Yu… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of automotive industry and telecommunication technologies, live
streaming services in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) play an even more crucial role in …

{SENSEI}: Aligning video streaming quality with dynamic user sensitivity

X Zhang, Y Ou, S Sen, J Jiang - 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked …, 2021 - usenix.org
This paper aims to improve video streaming by leveraging a simple observation—users are
more sensitive to low qualityin certain parts of a video than in others. For instance, re …

QoS aware transcoding for live streaming in edge-clouds aided HetNets: An enhanced actor-critic approach

Z Zhang, R Wang, FR Yu, F Fu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the advances in hand-held devices (smartphones and tablets, etc.) and high speed
wireless networks, users have an explosive growth demand for live streaming service. Due …

Efficient cloud provisioning for video transcoding: Review, open challenges and future opportunities

MG Koziri, PK Papadopoulos, N Tziritas… - IEEE Internet …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Video transcoding is the process of encoding an initial video sequence into multiple
sequences of different bitrates, resolutions, and video standards, so that it can be viewed on …

Optimizing Fixation Prediction Using Recurrent Neural Networks for 360 Video Streaming in Head-Mounted Virtual Reality

CL Fan, SC Yen, CY Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the problem of predicting the viewing probability of different parts of 3600 videos
when streaming them to head-mounted displays. We propose a fixation prediction network …

Coping with heterogeneous video contributors and viewers in crowdsourced live streaming: A cloud-based approach

Q He, J Liu, C Wang, B Li - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the advances in personal computing devices and the prevalence of broadband network
and wireless mobile network accesses, end-users are no longer pure content consumers …

When game becomes life: The creators and spectators of online game replays and live streaming

AL Jia, S Shen, DHJ Epema, A Iosup - ACM Transactions on Multimedia …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Online gaming franchises such as World of Tanks, Defense of the Ancients, and StarCraft
have attracted hundreds of millions of users who, apart from playing the game, also socialize …

FastTTPS: fast approach for video transcoding time prediction and scheduling for HTTP adaptive streaming videos

P Agrawal, A Zabrovskiy, A Ilangovan, C Timmerer… - Cluster …, 2021 - Springer
HTTP adaptive streaming of video content becomes an integrated part of the Internet and
dominates other streaming protocols and solutions. The duration of creating video content …

Cost-effective, quality-oriented transcoding of live-streamed video on edge-servers

D Lee, Y Kim, M Song - IEEE Transactions on Services …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Live-streaming video requires a lot of CPU-intensive transcoding so that viewers can receive
video at bitrates appropriate to their devices and network conditions, which is necessary for …