Context-Aware HTTP Adaptive Video Strea...

In recent years, HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) has been a predominant video delivery technology over the Internet. The existing HAS-based techniques ignore the context and the affective content of the video, rather its prime focus relies on determining the video quality of the fore coming data based on the current network conditions [4, 5]. By highlighting the video traffic based on the context (e.g., the goal in a soccer match or the climax of a movie) and allocating more network resources (e.g., prioritizing the important segments) to the highlighted segments will lead to end user satisfaction with a pleasant Quality of Experience (QoE). Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC), a recently standardized transport protocol, has gained popularity due to its promising features, e.g., reduced connection establishment latency, stream multiplexing and stream priority. This paper leverages QUIC's stream priority to support context-based streaming by introducing a novel video delivery approach.