Title:

On the Influence of Network Impairments on YouTube Video Streaming, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2012, nr 3

Creator:

Tutschku, Kurt ; Metzger, Florian ; Biernacki, Arkadiusz

Subject and Keywords:

quality of service ; video streaming ; multimedia communication ; network measurements

Description:

Video sharing services like YouTube have become very popular which consequently results in a drastic shift of the Internet traffic statistic. When transmitting video content over packet based networks, stringent quality of service (QoS) constraints must be met in order to provide the comparable level of quality to a traditional broadcast television. However, the packet transmission is influenced by delays and losses of data packets which can have devastating influence on the perceived quality of the video. Therefore, we conducted an experimental evaluation of HTTP based video transmission focusing on how they react to packet delay and loss. Through this analysis we investigated how long video playback is stalled and how often re-buffering events take place. Our analysis revealed threshold levels for the packet delay, packet losses and network throughput which should not be exceeded in order to preserve smooth video transmission.

Publisher:

Instytut Łączności - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Warszawa

Date:

2012, nr 3

Resource Type:

artykuł

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

ISSN 1509-4553, on-line: ISSN 1899-8852

DOI:

10.26636/jtit.2012.3.1282

ISSN:

1509-4553

eISSN:

1899-8852

Source:

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology

Language:

ang

Rights Management:

Biblioteka Naukowa Instytutu Łączności