Video streaming over HTTP with dynamic resource prediction

Adaptive HTTP streaming has become a new trend to support adaptivity in video delivery. A HTTP streaming client needs to estimate exactly resource availability and resource demand. In this paper, we focus on the most important resource which is bandwidth. To this end, our proposed streaming approach consists of 1) throughput prediction and 2) content bitrate prediction. The experiments show that our approach can effectively cope with large fluctuations in connection throughput and video bitrate.