Evaluating HTTP Adaptive Streaming Algorithms Under Parallel TCP Connections

Online video streaming services have been gaining rapid growth, and that has led to an increase in Internet traffic and have matched with traditional television video services in terms of content consumption. HTTP Adaptive streaming service has been adopted as the medium for video delivery over the Internet with its variants, HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HLS) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) supporting all playback devices.