Confused, timid, and unstable: picking a video streaming rate is hard
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...However, many of these goals are inherently conflicting [3, 18, 21]....
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...However, selecting the right bitrate can be very challenging due to (1) the variability of network throughput [18, 41, 48, 51, 52]; (2) the conflicting video QoE requirements (high bitrate, minimal rebuffering, smoothness, etc....
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...occupancy and chunk download times [18, 21]....
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...Hulu [9] and YouTube [21] are based on capacity estimation....
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...In the presence of competing TCP flows, the ON-OFF pattern can trigger a bad interaction between TCP and the ABR algorithm, causing a further underestimate of capacity and a downward spiral in video quality [9]....
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...the case of network-oblivious P2P applications [14] and video streaming rate picking [15]....
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...The problem is that during the 4-second OFF period, the TCP congestion window (cwnd) times out — due to inactivity longer than 200ms — and resets cwnd to its initial value of 10 packets [5, 6]....
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