A Novel Adaptation Method for HTTP Streaming of VBR Videos over Mobile Networks

Algorithm 1

Representative bitrate computation (after receiving the last segment and for all video versions).

Input: , ,

Output:

for    do

  // Check if bitrate is the original bitrate

  if    then

    ;

  // Otherwise the bitrate is the estimated bitrate

  else

    Estimate by (2);

    ;

  end

  // Compute

  ;

end