Toward Robust Low-Latency Live Streaming: Measurement, Prediction, and Rate Adaptation Under Uncertainty.

Tianchi Huang https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9378-6329 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130881345

Jiahui Chen 0009 Yiding Yu Libo Wang Ying Chen 0011 Tianchi Huang Lifeng Sun Toward Robust Low-Latency Live Streaming: Measurement, Prediction, and Rate Adaptation Under Uncertainty. 2026 July 9997-10014 25 IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 7 https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2026.3656223 db/journals/tmc/tmc25.html#ChenYWCHS26 streams/journals/tmc

Fengxiao Tang Xiaonan Wang Xun Yuan Linfeng Luo Ming Zhao 0007 Tianchi Huang Nei Kato MSADM: Large Language Model (LLM) Assisted End-to-End Network Health Management Based on Multi-Scale Semanticization. 2026 August 11965-11977 25 IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 8 https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2026.3668817 db/journals/tmc/tmc25.html#TangWYLZHK26 streams/journals/tmc

Jiahui Chen 0009 Bo Peng Lianchen Jia Zeyu Zhang Tianchi Huang Lifeng Sun HiVid: LLM-Guided Video Saliency For Content-Aware VOD And Live Streaming. 2026 February abs/2602.14214 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.14214 db/journals/corr/corr2602.html#abs-2602-14214 streams/journals/corr

Jiahui Chen 0009 Yiding Yu Libo Wang Ying Chen 0011 Tianchi Huang Lifeng Sun Enhanced Bandwidth Measurement and Robust Rate Adaptation for Low-Latency Live Streaming. 1-10 2025 INFOCOM https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM55648.2025.11044628 conf/infocom/2025 db/conf/infocom/infocom2025.html#ChenYWCHS25 Lianchen Jia Chaoyang Li 0002 Ziqi Yuan Jiahui Chen 0009 Tianchi Huang Jiangchuan Liu Lifeng Sun Beyond Interpretability: Exploring the Comprehensibility of Adaptive Video Streaming through Large Language Models. 12035-12044 2025 ACM Multimedia https://doi.org/10.1145/3746027.3755257 conf/mm/2025 db/conf/mm/mm2025.html#Jia0YCHLS25 Zhaohui Jiang Xuening Feng Tianchi Huang Ruixiao Zhang Paul Weng Yifei Zhu 0001 Progressive Learning with Human Feedback for Personalized Adaptive Video Streaming. 12045-12053 2025 ACM Multimedia https://doi.org/10.1145/3746027.3755323 conf/mm/2025 db/conf/mm/mm2025.html#JiangFHZWZ25 Rui-Xiao Zhang Tianchi Huang Bo Chen 0025 Klara Nahrstedt NeRFlow: Towards Adaptive Streaming for NeRF Videos. 388-401 2025 MobiSys https://doi.org/10.1145/3711875.3729160 conf/mobisys/2025 db/conf/mobisys/mobisys2025.html#ZhangH0N25 Lianchen Jia Chaoyang Li 0002 Qian Houde Tianchi Huang Jiangchuan Liu Lifeng Sun Crucible: Quantifying the Potential of Control Algorithms through LLM Agents. 2025 NeurIPS http://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2025/hash/b2647998bc953781490049fe2ac28bf0-Abstract-Conference.html conf/nips/2025 db/conf/nips/neurips2025.html#JiaLHHLS25

Lianchen Jia Chaoyang Li 0002 Ziqi Yuan Jiahui Chen 0009 Tianchi Huang Jiangchuan Liu Lifeng Sun Beyond Interpretability: Exploring the Comprehensibility of Adaptive Video Streaming through Large Language Models. 2025 August abs/2508.16448 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.16448 db/journals/corr/corr2508.html#abs-2508-16448 streams/journals/corr

Lianchen Jia Chaoyang Li 0002 Qian Houde Tianchi Huang Jiangchuan Liu Lifeng Sun Crucible: Quantifying the Potential of Control Algorithms through LLM Agents. 2025 October abs/2510.18491 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.18491 db/journals/corr/corr2510.html#abs-2510-18491 streams/journals/corr

Hairong Su Shibo Wang 0002 Shusen Yang Tianchi Huang Xuebin Ren Reducing Traffic Wastage in Video Streaming via Bandwidth-Efficient Bitrate Adaptation. 10361-10377 2024 November 23 IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 11 https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2024.3373498 db/journals/tmc/tmc23.html#SuWYHR24 streams/journals/tmc

Rui-Xiao Zhang Tianchi Huang Adversarial Attacks on Federated-Learned Adaptive Bitrate Algorithms. 419-427 2024 AAAI https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v38i1.27796 conf/aaai/2024 db/conf/aaai/aaai2024.html#ZhangH24 Lianchen Jia Chao Zhou 0003 Tianchi Huang Chaoyang Li 0002 Lifeng Sun Dancing with Shackles, Meet the Challenge of Industrial Adaptive Streaming via Offline Reinforcement Learning. 2169-2178 2024 INFOCOM https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM52122.2024.10621126 conf/infocom/2024 db/conf/infocom/infocom2024.html#Jia0HLS24 Lianchen Jia Chao Zhou 0003 Tianchi Huang Chaoyang Li 0002 Lifeng Sun Meet Challenges of RTT Jitter, A Hybrid Internet Congestion Control Algorithm. 2768-2776 2024 WWW https://doi.org/10.1145/3589334.3645338 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130914728 conf/www/2024 db/conf/www/www2024.html#Jia0HLS24

Hairong Su Shibo Wang 0002 Shusen Yang Tianchi Huang Xuebin Ren Reducing Traffic Wastage in Video Streaming via Bandwidth-Efficient Bitrate Adaptation. 2024 abs/2412.07270 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.07270 db/journals/corr/corr2412.html#abs-2412-07270 streams/journals/corr

Rui-Xiao Zhang Changpeng Yang Xiaochan Wang Tianchi Huang Chenglei Wu Jiangchuan Liu Lifeng Sun Practical Cloud-Edge Scheduling for Large-Scale Crowdsourced Live Streaming. 2055-2071 2023 July 34 IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. 7 https://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2023.3267731 db/journals/tpds/tpds34.html#ZhangYWHWLS23

Tianchi Huang Chao Zhou 0003 Rui-Xiao Zhang Chenglei Wu Lifeng Sun Buffer Awareness Neural Adaptive Video Streaming for Avoiding Extra Buffer Consumption. 1-10 2023 INFOCOM https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM53939.2023.10229002 conf/infocom/2023 db/conf/infocom/infocom2023.html#HuangZZWS23 Lianchen Jia Chao Zhou 0003 Tianchi Huang Chaoyang Li 0002 Lifeng Sun RDladder: Resolution-Duration Ladder for VBR-encoded Videos via Imitation Learning. 1-10 2023 INFOCOM https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM53939.2023.10228995 conf/infocom/2023 db/conf/infocom/infocom2023.html#JiaZHLS23 Rui-Xiao Zhang Tianchi Huang Chenglei Wu Lifeng Sun Who is the Rising Star? Demystifying the Promising Streamers in Crowdsourced Live Streaming. 1-10 2023 INFOCOM https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM53939.2023.10228881 conf/infocom/2023 db/conf/infocom/infocom2023.html#ZhangHWS23 Rui-Xiao Zhang Chaoyang Li 0002 Chenglei Wu Tianchi Huang Lifeng Sun Owl: A Pre-and Post-processing Framework for Video Analytics in Low-light Surroundings. 1-10 2023 INFOCOM https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM53939.2023.10229059 conf/infocom/2023 db/conf/infocom/infocom2023.html#ZhangLWHS23 Tianchi Huang Rui-Xiao Zhang Chenglei Wu Lifeng Sun Optimizing Adaptive Video Streaming with Human Feedback. 1707-1718 2023 ACM Multimedia https://doi.org/10.1145/3581783.3611771 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130881353 conf/mm/2023 db/conf/mm/mm2023.html#HuangZWS23 Chaoyang Li 0002 Rui-Xiao Zhang Tianchi Huang Lianchen Jia Lifeng Sun Concerto: Client-server Orchestration for Real-Time Video Analytics. 9215-9223 2023 ACM Multimedia https://doi.org/10.1145/3581783.3611770 conf/mm/2023 db/conf/mm/mm2023.html#LiZHJS23

Tianchi Huang Rui-Xiao Zhang Chenglei Wu Lifeng Sun Optimizing Adaptive Video Streaming with Human Feedback. 2023 abs/2308.04132 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.04132 db/journals/corr/corr2308.html#abs-2308-04132

Tianchi Huang Chao Zhou 0003 Rui-Xiao Zhang Chenglei Wu Lifeng Sun Learning Tailored Adaptive Bitrate Algorithms to Heterogeneous Network Conditions: A Domain-Specific Priors and Meta-Reinforcement Learning Approach. 2485-2503 2022 40 IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. 8 https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2022.3180804 db/journals/jsac/jsac40.html#HuangZZWS22

Tianchi Huang Rui-Xiao Zhang Lifeng Sun Zwei: A Self-Play Reinforcement Learning Framework for Video Transmission Services. 1350-1365 2022 24 IEEE Trans. Multim. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMM.2021.3063620 db/journals/tmm/tmm24.html#HuangZS22

Lianchen Jia Tianchi Huang Lifeng Sun ZiXia: A Reinforcement Learning Approach via Adjusted Ranking Reward for Internet Congestion Control. 365-370 2022 ICC https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC45855.2022.9838901 conf/icc/2022 db/conf/icc/icc2022.html#JiaHS22 Rui-Xiao Zhang Changpeng Yang Xiaochan Wang Tianchi Huang Chenglei Wu Jiangchuan Liu Lifeng Sun AggCast: Practical Cost-effective Scheduling for Large-scale Cloud-edge Crowdsourced Live Streaming. 3026-3034 2022 ACM Multimedia https://doi.org/10.1145/3503161.3547807 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131021079 conf/mm/2022 db/conf/mm/mm2022.html#ZhangYWHWLS22 Tianchi Huang Chao Zhou 0003 Lianchen Jia Rui-Xiao Zhang Lifeng Sun Learned Internet Congestion Control for Short Video Uploading. 3064-3075 2022 ACM Multimedia https://doi.org/10.1145/3503161.3548436 conf/mm/2022 db/conf/mm/mm2022.html#HuangZJZS22 Wenzhe Li Zirui Zhu 0001 Tianchi Huang Lifeng Sun Chun Yuan 0003 Federated Knowledge Transfer for Heterogeneous Visual Models. 5:1-5:7 2022 MMAsia https://doi.org/10.1145/3551626.3564955 conf/mmasia/2022 db/conf/mmasia/mmasia2022.html#LiZHSY22 Chao Zhou 0003 Wenjun Wu Dan Yang Tianchi Huang Liang Guo Bing Yu Deadline and Priority-aware Congestion Control for Delay-sensitive Multimedia Streaming. 4740-4744 2021 ACM Multimedia https://doi.org/10.1145/3474085.3479208 conf/mm/2021 db/conf/mm/mm2021.html#ZhouWYHGY21 Tianchi Huang Rui-Xiao Zhang Lifeng Sun Deep reinforced bitrate ladders for adaptive video streaming. 66-73 2021 NOSSDAV https://doi.org/10.1145/3458306.3458873 conf/nossdav/2021 db/conf/nossdav/nossdav2021.html#HuangZS21

Tianchi Huang Chao Zhou 0003 Xin Yao 0003 Rui-Xiao Zhang Chenglei Wu Bing Yu Lifeng Sun Quality-Aware Neural Adaptive Video Streaming With Lifelong Imitation Learning. 2324-2342 2020 38 IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. 10 https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2020.3000363 db/journals/jsac/jsac38.html#HuangZYZWYS20

Rui-Xiao Zhang Ming Ma Tianchi Huang Haitian Pang Xin Yao 0003 Chenglei Wu Lifeng Sun A Practical Learning-based Approach for Viewer Scheduling in the Crowdsourced Live Streaming. 67:1-67:22 2020 16 ACM Trans. Multim. Comput. Commun. Appl. 2s https://doi.org/10.1145/3397226 db/journals/tomccap/tomccap16.html#ZhangMHPYWS20

Rui-Xiao Zhang Tianchi Huang Lifeng Sun A Long-Short-Term Fusion Approach For Video Cache. 1-6 2020 GLOBECOM https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM42002.2020.9322287 conf/globecom/2020 db/conf/globecom/globecom2020.html#ZhangHS20 Tianchi Huang Lifeng Sun Deepmpc: A Mixture Abr Approach Via Deep Learning And Mpc. 1231-1235 2020 ICIP https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP40778.2020.9191198 conf/icip/2020 db/conf/icip/icip2020.html#HuangS20 Tianchi Huang Chao Zhou 0003 Rui-Xiao Zhang Chenglei Wu Xin Yao 0003 Lifeng Sun Stick: A Harmonious Fusion of Buffer-based and Learning-based Approach for Adaptive Streaming. 1967-1976 2020 INFOCOM https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOM41043.2020.9155411 conf/infocom/2020 db/conf/infocom/infocom2020.html#HuangZZW0S20 Rui-Xiao Zhang Ming Ma Tianchi Huang Hanyu Li Jiangchuan Liu Lifeng Sun Leveraging QoE Heterogenity for Large-Scale Livecaset Scheduling. 3678-3686 2020 ACM Multimedia https://doi.org/10.1145/3394171.3413918 conf/mm/2020 db/conf/mm/mm2020.html#ZhangMHLLS20 Tianchi Huang Rui-Xiao Zhang Lifeng Sun Self-play reinforcement learning for video transmission. 7-13 2020 NOSSDAV https://doi.org/10.1145/3386290.3396930 conf/nossdav/2020 db/conf/nossdav/nossdav2020.html#HuangZS20 Tianchi Huang Lifeng Sun Optimized bitrate ladders for adaptive video streaming with deep reinforcement learning. 46-48 2020 SIGCOMM Posters and Demos https://doi.org/10.1145/3405837.3411387 conf/sigcomm/2020p db/conf/sigcomm/p2020.html#HuangS20

Tianchi Huang Rui-Xiao Zhang Lifeng Sun Self-play Reinforcement Learning for Video Transmission. 2020 abs/2005.12788 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12788 db/journals/corr/corr2005.html#abs-2005-12788

Xin Yao 0003 Tianchi Huang Chenglei Wu Rui-Xiao Zhang Lifeng Sun Adversarial Feature Alignment: Avoid Catastrophic Forgetting in Incremental Task Lifelong Learning. 2266-2291 2019 31 Neural Comput. 11 https://doi.org/10.1162/neco_a_01232 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90124203 db/journals/neco/neco31.html#YaoHWZS19

Xin Yao 0003 Tianchi Huang Chenglei Wu Rui-Xiao Zhang Lifeng Sun Towards Faster and Better Federated Learning: A Feature Fusion Approach. 175-179 2019 ICIP https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2019.8803001 conf/icip/2019 db/conf/icip/icip2019.html#0003HWZS19 Zhengyuan Pang Lifeng Sun Tianchi Huang Zhi Wang 0001 Shiqiang Yang Towards QoS-Aware Cloud Live Transcoding: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach. 670-675 2019 ICME https://doi.org/10.1109/ICME.2019.00121 conf/icmcs/2019 db/conf/icmcs/icme2019.html#PangSH0Y19 Tianchi Huang Xin Yao 0003 Chenglei Wu Rui-Xiao Zhang Zhengyuan Pang Lifeng Sun Tiyuntsong: A Self-Play Reinforcement Learning Approach for ABR Video Streaming. 1678-1683 2019 ICME https://doi.org/10.1109/ICME.2019.00289 conf/icmcs/2019 db/conf/icmcs/icme2019.html#Huang0WZPS19 Rui-Xiao Zhang Ming Ma Tianchi Huang Haitian Pang Xin Yao 0003 Chenglei Wu Jiangchuan Liu Lifeng Sun Livesmart: A QoS-Guaranteed Cost-Minimum Framework of Viewer Scheduling for Crowdsourced Live Streaming. 420-428 2019 ACM Multimedia https://doi.org/10.1145/3343031.3351013 conf/mm/2019 db/conf/mm/mm2019.html#ZhangMHP0WLS19 Tianchi Huang Chao Zhou 0003 Rui-Xiao Zhang Chenglei Wu Xin Yao 0003 Lifeng Sun Comyco: Quality-Aware Adaptive Video Streaming via Imitation Learning. 429-437 2019 ACM Multimedia https://doi.org/10.1145/3343031.3351014 conf/mm/2019 db/conf/mm/mm2019.html#HuangZZW0S19 Tianchi Huang Rui-Xiao Zhang Chenglei Wu Xin Yao 0003 Chao Zhou 0003 Bing Yu Lifeng Sun Generalizing Rate Control Strategies for Realtime Video Streaming via Learning from Deep Learning. 52:1-52:6 2019 MMAsia https://doi.org/10.1145/3338533.3366606 conf/mmasia/2019 db/conf/mmasia/mmasia2019.html#HuangZW0ZYS19 Rui-Xiao Zhang Tianchi Huang Ming Ma Haitian Pang Xin Yao 0003 Chenglei Wu Lifeng Sun Enhancing the crowdsourced live streaming: a deep reinforcement learning approach. 55-60 2019 NOSSDAV https://doi.org/10.1145/3304112.3325607 conf/nossdav/2019 db/conf/nossdav/nossdav2019.html#ZhangHMP0WS19 Tianchi Huang Rui-Xiao Zhang Xin Yao 0003 Chenglei Wu Lifeng Sun Being more Effective and Interpretable: Bridging the Gap Between Heuristics and AI for ABR Algorithms. 12-14 2019 SIGCOMM Posters and Demos https://doi.org/10.1145/3342280.3342291 conf/sigcomm/2019p db/conf/sigcomm/p2019.html#HuangZ0WS19

Rui-Xiao Zhang Tianchi Huang Chenglei Wu Lifeng Sun Reactive Video Caching via long-short-term fusion approach. 2019 abs/1905.06650 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06650 db/journals/corr/corr1905.html#abs-1905-06650

Tianchi Huang Chao Zhou 0003 Rui-Xiao Zhang Chenglei Wu Xin Yao 0003 Lifeng Sun Comyco: Quality-Aware Adaptive Video Streaming via Imitation Learning. 2019 abs/1908.02270 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02270 db/journals/corr/corr1908.html#abs-1908-02270

Xin Yao 0003 Tianchi Huang Chenglei Wu Rui-Xiao Zhang Lifeng Sun Federated Learning with Additional Mechanisms on Clients to Reduce Communication Costs. 2019 abs/1908.05891 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05891 db/journals/corr/corr1908.html#abs-1908-05891

Xin Yao 0003 Tianchi Huang Rui-Xiao Zhang Ruiyu Li Lifeng Sun Federated Learning with Unbiased Gradient Aggregation and Controllable Meta Updating. 2019 abs/1910.08234 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08234 db/journals/corr/corr1910.html#abs-1910-08234

Xin Yao 0003 Tianchi Huang Chenglei Wu Rui-Xiao Zhang Lifeng Sun Adversarial Feature Alignment: Avoid Catastrophic Forgetting in Incremental Task Lifelong Learning. 2019 abs/1910.10986 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10986 db/journals/corr/corr1910.html#abs-1910-10986

Tianchi Huang Rui-Xiao Zhang Chao Zhou 0003 Lifeng Sun QARC: Video Quality Aware Rate Control for Real-Time Video Streaming based on Deep Reinforcement Learning. 1208-1216 2018 ACM Multimedia https://doi.org/10.1145/3240508.3240545 conf/mm/2018 db/conf/mm/mm2018.html#HuangZZS18 Tianchi Huang Rui-Xiao Zhang Chao Zhou 0003 Lifeng Sun Delay-Constrained Rate Control for Real-Time Video Streaming with Bounded Neural Network. 13-18 2018 NOSSDAV https://doi.org/10.1145/3210445.3210446 conf/nossdav/2018 db/conf/nossdav/nossdav2018.html#HuangZZS18

Tianchi Huang Rui-Xiao Zhang Chao Zhou 0003 Lifeng Sun Delay-Constrained Rate Control for Real-Time Video Streaming with Bounded Neural Network. 2018 abs/1805.00619 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00619 db/journals/corr/corr1805.html#abs-1805-00619

Tianchi Huang Xin Yao 0003 Chenglei Wu Rui-Xiao Zhang Lifeng Sun Tiyuntsong: A Self-Play Reinforcement Learning Approach for ABR Video Streaming. 2018 abs/1811.06166 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06166 db/journals/corr/corr1811.html#abs-1811-06166

Bo Chen 0025 Jiahui Chen 0009 Ying Chen 0011 Xuening Feng Liang Guo Qian Houde Lianchen Jia Zhaohui Jiang Nei Kato Chaoyang Li 0002 Hanyu Li Ruiyu Li Wenzhe Li Jiangchuan Liu Linfeng Luo Ming Ma Klara Nahrstedt Haitian Pang Zhengyuan Pang Bo Peng Xuebin Ren Hairong Su Lifeng Sun Fengxiao Tang Libo Wang Shibo Wang 0002 Xiaochan Wang Xiaonan Wang Zhi Wang 0001 Paul Weng Chenglei Wu Wenjun Wu Changpeng Yang Dan Yang Shiqiang Yang Shusen Yang Xin Yao 0003 Bing Yu Yiding Yu Chun Yuan 0003 Xun Yuan Ziqi Yuan Rui-Xiao Zhang Ruixiao Zhang Zeyu Zhang Ming Zhao 0007 Chao Zhou 0003 Yifei Zhu 0001 Zirui Zhu 0001