High-Quality HTTP Live Streaming System for Limited Communication Bandwidth

Abstract

Considering the increased demand of live streaming services, in this paper, we present a novel video transmission way that maximizes the quality when the communication bandwidth is limited. Based on the HTTP live streaming (HLS) protocol, the proposed segment-level interpolation allows to generate the quality-aware sequence without increasing the storage demands of media server, but reducing the amount of unused bandwidth. Simulation results show that the proposed approach drastically enhances the quality of HLS-based services by utilizing bandwidth up to 102.67% compared to the conventional solution.