A DASH-based Efficient Throughput and Buffer Occupancy-based Adaptation Algorithm for Smooth Multimedia Streaming

Today, the dynamic network environment poses severe challenging issues to multimedia streaming services that account for an enormous part of network traffic all over the world. Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) facilitates seamless video playback by allowing for dynamic adjustment of the video bitrate to the ongoing network situation. Despite several attempts, there is still a challenge to design solutions which use DASH to adjust video delivery to the dynamic network environment and achieve high user quality of experience levels. This paper presents a novel DASH-based throughput and buffer occupancy-based adaptation (TBOA) algorithm to provide an improved streaming experience for remote users. TBOA was compared against alternative solutions such as FDASH and SFTM in single- and multiple-client scenarios. Testing results show how TBOA selects higher video bitrates while performing fewer video bitrate switches and reduces the risk of buffer underrun in comparison with the competitors.