A novel multicast adaptive logic for dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP network

Video streaming is now responsible for the majority of Internet traffic and is expected to keep growing over the coming years. Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) [1] is an ISO/IEC MPEG multi-quality layer streaming solution that is designed to enable interoperability between servers and clients of different vendors. In the DASH protocol, the client-side player is assumed to have Adaptation Logic (AL). The AL evaluates the various video...