Proactive Energy-Aware Adaptive Video Streaming on Mobile Devices

Proactive Energy-Aware Adaptive Video Streaming on Mobile Devices

Explore a conference talk on proactive energy-aware adaptive video streaming for mobile devices. Learn about the challenges of traditional reactive energy-aware app adaptation and discover how integrating user-specified energy budgets with app adaptation logic can improve quality-of-experience. Examine the design, implementation, and performance tradeoffs between reactive and proactive approaches in ABR-based video streaming. Understand how proactive energy-aware ABR video streaming can be easily implemented by leveraging built-in adaptation of modern apps, potentially improving QoE by up to 44.8% when streaming 360-degree videos to certain mobile devices under low power budgets.