Cloud-based Transcoding and Adaptive Video Streaming-asa-Service

Real-time entertainment services such as streaming video and audio are currently accounting for more than 60% of the Internet traffic, e.g., in North America’s fixed access networks during peak periods [1]. Interestingly, these services are all delivered over-thetop (OTT) of the existing networking infrastructure using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) which resulted in the standardization of MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) [2]. The MPEG-DASH standard enables smooth multimedia streaming towards heterogeneous devices and commonly assumes the usage of HTTP-URLs to identify the segments available for the clients [3].