3B-ARA: Bandwidth, Buffer and Battery Aware Rate Adaptation for Dynamic HTTP Streaming

Authors

Hasnah Ahmad, Sungkyunkwan UniversityFollow
Navrati Saxena, Sungkyunkwan UniversityFollow
Abhishek Roy, Samsung ElectronicsFollow
Pradipta De, Georgia Southern UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-2018

Publication Title

IEEE Communications Letters

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2799878

ISSN

1558-2558

Abstract

This letter proposes a novel rate adaptation framework for dynamic adaptive streaming where three factors-available bandwidth, buffer state, and residual battery status, jointly determine the bit rate selected. We model the rate adaptation problem as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) with a goal to optimize video streaming experience as measured by video playback quality and buffer occupancy. Using simulation study, we show that our approach, termed as 3B-ARA, reduces rebuffering rate by over 20% while delivering a comparable average video rate and maintaining an average of 93% buffer occupancy as compared to other existing rate adaptation approaches.

Recommended Citation

Ahmad, Hasnah, Navrati Saxena, Abhishek Roy, Pradipta De. 2018. "3B-ARA: Bandwidth, Buffer and Battery Aware Rate Adaptation for Dynamic HTTP Streaming." IEEE Communications Letters, 22 (5): 962-965. doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2799878
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/compsci-facpubs/211