Omnidirectional or 360° video is increasingly being used, mostly due to the latest
advancements in immersive Virtual Reality (VR) technology. However, its wide adoption is …

In this survey, we present state-of-the-art bitrate adaptation algorithms for HTTP adaptive
streaming (HAS). As a key distinction from other streaming approaches, the bitrate …

Today, the technology for video streaming over the Internet is converging towards a
paradigm named HTTP-based adaptive streaming (HAS), which brings two new features …

HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) is the most recent attempt regarding video quality
adaptation. It enables cheap and easy to implement streaming technology without the need …

HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) is quickly becoming the de facto standard for video
streaming services. In HAS, each video is temporally segmented and stored in different …

Video streaming is a major source of Internet traffic today and usage continues to grow at a
rapid rate. To cope with this new and massive source of traffic, ISPs use methods such as …

The evolution of broadband connection technologies, along with the explosive growth of
mobile handheld devices, has made video content one of the major Internet traffic types …

A continuous evaluation of the end user's quality-of-experience (QoE) is essential for
efficient video streaming. This is crucial for networks with constrained resources that offer …

HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) services allow the quality of streaming video to be
automatically adapted by the client application in face of network and device dynamics. Due …

This paper presents a novel method for global anomaly detection in crowded scenes. The
proposed method introduces the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) method as a robust …