Latency Target based Analysis of the DASH.js Player

Autor: O'Hanlon, Piers, Aslam, Adil
Rok vydání: 2023
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1145/3587819.3590971
Popis: We analyse the low latency performance of the three Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) algorithms in the dash.js Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) player with respect to a range of latency targets and configuration options. We perform experiments on our DASH Testbed which allows for testing with a range of real world derived network profiles. Our experiments enable a better understanding of how latency targets affect quality of experience (QoE), and how well the different algorithms adhere to their targets. We find that with dash.js v4.5.0 the default Dynamic algorithm achieves the best overall QoE. We show that whilst the other algorithms can achieve higher video quality at lower latencies, they do so only at the expense of increased stalling. We analyse the poor performance of L2A-LL in our tests and develop modifications which demonstrate significant improvements. We also highlight how some low latency configuration settings can be detrimental to performance.
Comment: To be published in Proceedings of the 14th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys '23), June 7-10, 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Databáze: arXiv