HAVS: Hybrid adaptive video streaming for mobile devices

Jaehyun Hwang, Junghwan Lee, Nakjung Choi, Chuck Yoo

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    Abstract

    This paper presents a new Scalable Video Codec (SVC)-based hybrid adaptive video streaming scheme, named HAVS, for mobile devices in wireless environments. The proposed approach takes two existing video streaming technologies, viz., progressive download and adaptive streaming, and switches them in a hybrid manner. To this end, HAVS employs the H.264/SVC encoding scheme, where each video chunk is encoded into one base layer and several enhancement layers. Since clients request the base layer every time a video is streamed, HAVS performs progressive download for the base layer and adaptive streaming for the enhancement layers. Through wireless test-bed experiments, it is demonstrated that the proposed scheme can be easily implemented on mobile devices without any server-side modification. This scheme effectively prevents video freeze thereby providing better quality video streaming than the existing non-hybrid streaming technologies.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number6851996
    Pages (from-to)210-216
    Number of pages7
    JournalIEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
    Volume60
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014 May

    Keywords

    • Dynamic Adaptive Streaming
    • Hybrid Adaptive Video Streaming
    • Progressive Download
    • Video Freeze

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Media Technology
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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