CONTROLLING RETRIEVAL IN ADAPTIVE STREAMING Ghent University
A method and controller are provided to control HTTP adaptive streaming, preferably Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP [DASH]. In such HTTP adaptive streaming, a media stream is streamed from a server to a client device. To control the retrieval of chunks of the media stream by the client device, retrieval policy data is generated which defines a retrieval policy for restricting or derestricting said retrieval of chunks by the client device from the server. The retrieval policy data is then provided to the client device to enable the client device to perform the retrieval in accordance with ...