quic-streaming

This repository contains the modified player code, the QUIC and the TCP clients for Packet Video 2018 submission

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3210426

Modules

QUIC Client and Server (C++)
TCP Client (C++)
AStreamPlayerQUIC (Python)
CsvMerger (Java)

QUIC Client and Server

To build the quic_server and quic_server, follow the instructions at Google's page

Then replace the following files below and build again

To disable quic_server's in-memory cache:

quic_http_response_cache.h
quic_http_response_cache.cc
quic_simple_server_bin.cc

To keep quic_client running when downloading segment files with same QUIC connection:

quic_simple_client_bin.cc

TCP Client

Use only this .cpp file to build the client

LibCurlCppConsole.cpp

AStreamPlayerQUIC

Modified from original version: https://github.com/pari685/AStream

AStream is a Python based emulated video player to evaluate the perfomance of the DASH bitrate adaptation algorithms.

Command line options

dash_client.py [-h] [-m MPD] [-l] [-p PLAYBACK] [-n SEGMENT_LIMIT] [-d]

Process Client parameters

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -m MPD, --MPD MPD     Url to the MPD File
  -l, --LIST            List all the representations and quit
  -p PLAYBACK, --PLAYBACK PLAYBACK Playback type ('basic', 'sara', 'netflix', or 'all')
  -n SEGMENT_LIMIT, --SEGMENT_LIMIT SEGMENT_LIMIT The Segment number limit
  -d, --DOWNLOAD        Keep the video files after playback
  -quic, --QUIC         Use QUIC client for downloading segments
  -curl, --CURL         Use TCP client for downloading segments  
  -host, --HOST			Host Ip for Quic server
  -jump, --JUMP			Jump feature enabled
  -js, --JUMP_SCENARIO  Jump Scenario Example: -js 40->100,150->200

CsvMerger

A utility to merge the player's log files into a single CSV file