Abstract :
This special issue solicits novel contributions and breaking results on all aspects of Adaptive Streaming of Multimedia. The main objectives of this special issue are (but not limited to): Efficient delivery of multimedia content in an adaptive, progressive download/streaming fashion (incl. over HTTP); Support for streaming of live multimedia, to mobile users, low-capacity channels, bandwidth variations, as well as multipoint streaming over heterogeneous channels or paths; Efficient and ease of use of existing content distribution infrastructure components such as CDNs, proxies, caches, NATs and firewalls; Efficient content generation (encoding) techniques for content delivery (e.g., segmentation); Detailed performance analyses of deployed standard technologies or that uncover and rectify major problems in the behavior of such technologies; Measurement techniques for collecting consumption data (both application and transport-level performance metrics, viewer behavior, etc.) in content delivery; The effects of adaptation techniques on the end-user quality of experience; Viewer experiences from large-scale experiments and events (such as Olympics, World Cup, etc.).
