Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) has been widely used in video
streaming recently. In DASH, the client downloads video chunks in order from a
server. The rate adaptation function at the video client enhances the user's
quality-of-experience (QoE) by choosing a suitable quality level for each video
chunk to download based on the network condition. Today networks such as
content delivery networks, edge caching networks, content-centric networks,...
usually replicate video contents on multiple cache nodes. We study video
streaming from multiple sources in this work. In multi-source streaming, video
chunks may arrive out of order due to different conditions of the network
paths. Hence, to guarantee a high QoE, the video client needs not only rate
adaptation but also chunk scheduling. Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged
as the state-of-the-art control method in various fields in recent years. This
paper proposes two algorithms for streaming from multiple sources: RL-based
adaptation with greedy scheduling (RLAGS) and RL-based adaptation and
scheduling (RLAS). We also build a simulation environment for training and
evaluating. The efficiency of the proposed algorithms is proved via extensive
simulations with real-trace data.

该研究提出了两种源于动态自适应流传输的算法：基于强化学习的自适应与调度算法（RLAGS）和基于强化学习的自适应与调度算法（RLAS）。通过真实轨迹数据的广泛模拟，证明了所提出算法的有效性。