Comparing Advancements in Caching and Content Delivery Techniques for Video Streaming Contexts

Abstract

This paper considers various novel proposals for improving different steps of the content delivery process in the specific usecase of video streaming. Focusing on video on demand, it looks at improvements in ABR techniques and caching algorithms, concluding that work towards these techniques has overall been successful in improving Quality of Experiene metrics, reflecting development in industry solutions like Netflix’s OpenConnect.