Study on Dynamic Adaptive Bitrate Selection Algorithm for Mobile Streaming Media

Abstract

An energy-aware dynamic adaptive Bitrate selection algorithm (EDABS) was proposed to solve the problem of rate switching frequency and low energy utilization efficiency while receiving streaming media data. According to the monitored network bandwidth and streaming media coding rate, the algorithm adaptively adjusted the lower limit threshold of the terminal cache area, so that the size of the cache space was more fit the current bandwidth and streaming media coding rate. And then, it set a dynamic security boundary and response delay factor, and adaptively selected the next target video block's code rate. The experimental results show that proposed algorithm can better reduce rate switching frequency and improve the utilization efficiency of the energy.