ABSTRACT
Competition among adaptive video streaming players severely diminishes user-QoE. When players compete at
a bottleneck link many do not obtain adequate resources. This imbalance eventually causes ill effects such as
screen flickering and video stalling. This scenario worsens when Long-lived TCP flows compete with the video
flows. It is a known fact that adaptive video players perform poorly in the presence of Long-lived TCP flows. This
work evaluates current heuristic adaptive video players at a bottleneck link in the presence of Long-lived TCP
flows. Experimental setup includes the TAPAS player and emulated network conditions. The results show
ELASTIC outperforms PANDA, FESTIVE and the Conventional players.
Keywords: - adaptive video streaming, bottleneck, flickering, stalling, TAPAS, ELASTIC, PANDA, FESTIVE