%0 Conference Paper %1 info3-inproceedings-2019-9 %A Moldovan, Christian %A Wamser, Florian %A Hoßfeld, Tobias %B 2019 International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys) %D 2019 %K myown dfg-sdn energy-efficiency streaming can net-man %T Energy-Efficient Adaptation Logic for HTTP Streaming in Mobile Networks %X The requirements for video streaming have changed drastically during the past years. In today's Internet, high definition resolutions are considered default for videos, even in mobile settings, and with 4G penetration reaching 90 percent in the US, this no longer poses a big problem. However, while mobile bandwidth has increased, the battery life time of mobile devices has not increased significantly. Furthermore, current data plans are still not large enough to regularly stream movies during the commute. Users still resort to downloading media before travel. In this paper we propose a new HTTP adaptive streaming algorithm that delivers videos in high quality while avoiding stalling events, schedules the download of video segments so that a energy conserving idle state is often reached and keeps the buffer low at points in the video where many viewers abandon the video to save data. While most adaptive streaming algorithms optimize quality and stalling, this is the first attempt to use an adaptive streaming algorithm to reduce energy consumption. Since video streaming providers mostly care about the Quality of Experience when watching videos, energy efficiency is left to the device manufacturers. Therefore, both parties have little incentive to cooperate in this regard. But on the Internet of tomorrow, where most videos are watched on mobile devices, energy efficiency and the Quality of Experience must go hand in hand.

@inproceedings{info3-inproceedings-2019-9, abstract = {The requirements for video streaming have changed drastically during the past years. In today's Internet, high definition resolutions are considered default for videos, even in mobile settings, and with 4G penetration reaching 90 percent in the US, this no longer poses a big problem. However, while mobile bandwidth has increased, the battery life time of mobile devices has not increased significantly. Furthermore, current data plans are still not large enough to regularly stream movies during the commute. Users still resort to downloading media before travel. In this paper we propose a new HTTP adaptive streaming algorithm that delivers videos in high quality while avoiding stalling events, schedules the download of video segments so that a energy conserving idle state is often reached and keeps the buffer low at points in the video where many viewers abandon the video to save data. While most adaptive streaming algorithms optimize quality and stalling, this is the first attempt to use an adaptive streaming algorithm to reduce energy consumption. Since video streaming providers mostly care about the Quality of Experience when watching videos, energy efficiency is left to the device manufacturers. Therefore, both parties have little incentive to cooperate in this regard. But on the Internet of tomorrow, where most videos are watched on mobile devices, energy efficiency and the Quality of Experience must go hand in hand.}, added-at = {2019-04-01T11:07:28.000+0200}, author = {Moldovan, Christian and Wamser, Florian and Hoßfeld, Tobias}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/235c8f8eeb3bef098de136f1e88880577/uniwue_info3}, booktitle = {2019 International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys)}, interhash = {3946c65e4b352015b52b9d82ab48bb0b}, intrahash = {35c8f8eeb3bef098de136f1e88880577}, keywords = {myown dfg-sdn energy-efficiency streaming can net-man}, month = {3}, timestamp = {2022-03-14T00:14:15.000+0100}, title = {Energy-Efficient Adaptation Logic for HTTP Streaming in Mobile Networks}, year = 2019 }