Stochastic Dynamic Programming in DASH

Abstract

Koffka Khan Department of Computing and Information Technology The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I Email: [email protected] Wayne Goodridge Department of Computing and Information Technology The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I Email: [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT--------------------------------------------------------------Stochastic Dynamic Programming (SDP) is an important class of optimization which has recently been used in the area of dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH). Though DASH is very popular method of video delivery in recent years it is plagued with problems when multiple players share a bottleneck link. Thus, this area has become a very active area of research. Two works which implement SDP in DASH are selected and their performances compared against the Conventional DASH player. It is shown that SDP works well for various network conditions.