2 papers
cs.NI2020
Implementing BOLA-BASIC on Puffer: Lessons for the use of SSIM in ABR logic
Emily Marx, Francis Y. Yan, Keith Winstein
One ABR algorithm implemented on Puffer is BOLA-BASIC, the simplest variant of BOLA. BOLA finds wide use in industry, notably in the MPEG-DASH reference player used as the basis fo…
cs.NI2019
Learning in situ: a randomized experiment in video streaming
Francis Y. Yan, Hudson Ayers, Chenzhi Zhu +5
We describe the results of a randomized controlled trial of video-streaming algorithms for bitrate selection and network prediction. Over the last eight months, we have streamed 14…