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Learn MoreNightShift optimizes customers’ bandwidth usage when using streaming services. It does this by taking advantage of off-peak bandwidth availability to cache digital media content
addressing both problems of limited bandwidth (which impacts real-time streaming) and bandwidth quotas (which can result in bandwidth throttling or overage charges). The goal of
this research is to explore interfaces that allow end-user control of local storage and download while still preserving digital rights security and the platform (e.g. Netflix) experience
of viewing content. In particular, we will explore:
? Intuitive web interfaces to manage local content.
? Intuitive web interfaces to communicate bandwidth consumption trade-offs to end users.
? Multi-device set-ups to support simultaneous viewing and content management both in terms of download and in terms of local content storage.
Edward Lank
Shaishav Siddhpuria
Aterlo Networks Inc
Computer science
Information and communications technologies
University of Waterloo
Accelerate
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