CONFLICT DETECTION AND RESOLUTION IN AN ABR NETWORK USING CLIENT INTERACTIVITY

摘要

A scheme for managing conflict resolution in an ABR streaming environment with respect to a bandwidth pipe serving a customer premises, in one aspect when a session request is received from a new ABR client launched in the customer premises that includes one or more existing ABR clients having corresponding streaming sessions, a bandwidth forecasting module is configured to forecast bandwidth, requirements with respect to the corresponding ABR streaming sessions after accounting for a bandwidth requirement for the new ABR client's session request, A conflict condition may be detected if any of forecasted band width requirements violates a bitrate threshold policy relative to the corresponding ABR streaming sessions and/or the new session being requested, if there is a conflict, an interactive session may be launched with one or more clients for facilitating user selection of one or more options relative to the impending conflict condition.