With the rapid growth of streaming media services, users have higher and higher
requirements for streaming media transmission rates and network experience. Experiments …

Video is extensively used in everyday applications and services by heterogeneous users.
High-definition video information corresponds to high-data-rate representation. Video …

Video streaming dominates traffic on the global Internet. User Quality of Experience (QoE) is
managed by Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) players that request and …

In challenging environments, opportunistic networks can provide limited communication
features in a delay tolerant manner. It is extremely difficult to transmit large data like videos …

When we couple the rise in video streaming with the growing number of portable devices
(smart phones, tablets, laptops), we see an ever-increasing demand for high-definition video …

In this thesis, we study the design of a system that adaptively streams video over
Opportunistic-networks (Opp-Nets). It also studies optimizations at application layer (payload …

Frequent packet loss of media data is critical problem that degrades the quality of streaming
service in wireless networks. During scalable streaming service, only partial of data can be …

Frequent packet loss of media data is a critical problem that degrades the quality of
streaming services over mobile networks. Packet loss invalidates frames containing lost …

Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth in the demand for streaming video over the
Internet, exposing challenges in co** with heterogeneous device capabilities and varying …