Advanced Transport Options for the Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
This work addresses performance optimization for DASH-based streaming services, which is an incremental improvement in network protocols for multimedia delivery.
The paper investigates the use of advanced transport protocols, specifically HTTP/2.0 and QUIC, for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) to improve multimedia streaming performance, but does not report concrete numerical results in the abstract.
Multimedia streaming over HTTP is no longer a niche research topic as it has entered our daily live. The common assumption is that it is deployed on top of the existing infrastructure utilizing application (HTTP) and transport (TCP) layer protocols as is. Interestingly, standards like MPEG's Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) do not mandate the usage of any specific transport protocol allowing for sufficient deployment flexibility which is further supported by emerging developments within both protocol layers. This paper investigates and evaluates the usage of advanced transport options for the dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP. We utilize a common test setup to evaluate HTTP/2.0 and Google's Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) protocol in the context of DASH-based services.