What Happens When Adaptive Video Streaming Players Compete with Long-Lived TCP Flows?

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.