Everything about HTTP Live Streaming

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: HTTP Live StreamingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: QAVA: QoE-Aware Adaptive Video Bitrate Aggregation for HTTP Live Streaming Based on Smart Edge ComputingInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Computer NetworksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: An Evaluation of Bitrate Adaptation Methods for HTTP Live StreamingCited 140 times
5. Go sideways: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTPA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Helix Universal ServerA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• An Evaluation of Bitrate Adaptation Methods for HTTP Live Streaming

  Truong Cong Thang, Hung T. Le, Anh T. Pham · 2014 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 140 citations

• QoE-Assured 4K HTTP Live Streaming via Transient Segment Holding at Mobile Edge

  Chang Ge, Ning Wang, Wei Koong Chai · 2018 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 60 citations

• Cloud-assisted real-time transrating for http live streaming

  Chin-Feng Lai, Han-Chieh Chao, Ying-Xun Lai · 2013 · IEEE Wireless Communications · 50 citations

• A buffer-aware HTTP live streaming approach for SDN-enabled 5G wireless networks

  Chin-feng Lai, Ren-hung Hwang, Han-chieh Chao · 2015 · IEEE Network · 43 citations

• An HTTP/2 Push-Based Approach for Low-Latency Live Streaming with Super-Short Segments

  Jeroen van der Hooft, Stefano Petrangeli, Tim Wauters · 2017 · Journal of Network and Systems Management · 36 citations

• QoE-Driven Adaptive K-Push for HTTP/2 Live Streaming

  Zhimin Xu, Xinggong Zhang, Zongming Guo · 2019 · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 25 citations

• $\mathsf{HxL3}$: Optimized Delivery Architecture for HTTP Low-Latency Live Streaming

  Farzad Tashtarian, Abdelhak Bentaleb, Alireza Erfanian · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Multimedia · 16 citations

• HTTP/2 Push-Based Low-Delay Live Streaming Over Mobile Networks With Stream Termination

  Hung T. Le, Thoa Nguyen, Nam Pham Ngoc · 2018 · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 13 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• QAVA: QoE-Aware Adaptive Video Bitrate Aggregation for HTTP Live Streaming Based on Smart Edge Computing

  Xiaoteng Ma, Qing Li, Longhao Zou · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting · 67 citations

• A Novel Distributed Multi-Source Optimal Rate Control Solution for HTTP Live Video Streaming

  Shujie Yang, Chuxing Fang, Lujie Zhong · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting · 11 citations

• TDS-KRFI: Reference Frame Identification for Live Web Streaming Toward HTTP Flash Video Protocol

  Dandan Niu, Guang Cheng, Zihan Chen · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management · 5 citations

• Dynamic Bitrate Adjustment in Web-based Video Streaming Applications Using HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)

  Mabrur Roh Bintang Jaya, Widyastuti Andriyani, Domy Kristomo · 2024 · Journal of Intelligent Software Systems · 2 citations

• Video stalling identification for web live streaming under HTTP-FLV

  Dandan Niu, Guang Cheng, Zihan Chen · 2024 · Computer Networks · 2 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Computer NetworksAndrew S. Tanenbaum, John David Wetherall · 1981
• History of the World's FairBenjamin Cummings Truman · 1893
• Angular 2 Development with TypeScriptYakov Fain, Anton Moiseev · 2017
• 📕~Ver^^Municipal vs Pachuca en vivo online FOX Sports · 2014
• ROHAN IDEA OF POLUTION.ROHAN CHOUDHARY. · 2009
• 📕Biochemistry · 2014
• The Human Planet · 2009
• A Heritage of Open Air Square Temple Discovered In Russia · 2010

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