Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP Dataset

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP Dataset


S. Lederer, C. Müller, C. Timmerer

In Proceedings of the Second ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys)
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
February 22-24, 2012


Adaptive HTTP streaming got lot of attention in recent years and with dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) a standard is available. Many papers cover this topic and present their research results, but unfortunately all of them use their own private dataset which - in most cases - is not publicly available. Hence, it is difficult to compare, e.g., adaptation algorithms in an objective way due to the lack of a common dataset which shall be used as basis for such experiments. In this paper, we present our DASH dataset featuring our DASHEncoder, an open source DASH content generation tool. We also provide basic evaluations of the different segment lengths, the influence of HTTP server settings, and, in this context, we show some of the advantages as well as problems of shorter segment lengths.


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