21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '24)

Hairpin: Rethinking Packet Loss Recovery in Edge-based Interactive Video Streaming

Zili Meng / Xiao Kong / Jing Chen / Bo Wang / Mingwei Xu / Rui Han / Honghao Liu / Venkat Arun / Hongxin Hu / Xue Wei

Hairpin is a packet loss recovery mechanism for edge-based interactive streaming. It jointly optimizes data packets, retransmissions, and redundant packets across multiple transmission rounds, reducing both bandwidth cost and deadline miss rate for production interactive video workloads.

packet lossinteractive videoedge