Comparative Evaluation of User Perceived Quality Assessment of Design Strategies for HTTP-based Adaptive Streaming

HTTP-based Adaptive Streaming (HAS) is the dominant Internet video streaming application. One specific HAS approach, Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), is of particular interest, as it is a widely deployed, standardized implementation. Prior academic research has focused on networking and protocol issues, and has contributed an accepted understanding of the performance and possible performance issues in large deployment scenarios. Our...