CREDIT/PENALTY-BASED NETWORK-GUIDANCE OF BITRATES FOR CLIENTS

摘要

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium having instructions to obtain network state information pertaining to at least a portion of a network that provides an adaptive bitrate streaming service; generate a recommended bitrate for delivery of a program based on the network state information; transmit the recommended bitrate to user devices; monitor a compliance and a non-compliance of the recommended bitrate by the user devices; and assign a credit commensurate with the compliance of the recommended bitrate to each of the user devices that complied with the recommended bitrate and a penalty commensurate with the non-compliance of the recommended bitrate to each of the user devices that did not comply with the recommended bitrate.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
providing an adaptive bitrate streaming service of programs; obtaining, by a network device, network state information pertaining to at least a portion of a network that provides the adaptive bitrate streaming service; generating, by the network device, a recommended bitrate for delivery of a program based on the network state information; transmitting the recommended bitrate to user devices; monitoring, by the network device, a compliance and a non-compliance of the recommended bitrate by the user devices; and assigning, by the network device, a credit commensurate with the compliance of the recommended bitrate to each of the user devices that complied with the recommended bitrate and a penalty commensurate with the non-compliance of the recommended bitrate to each of the user devices that did not comply with the recommended bitrate.