FIELD: electrical communication engineering.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a proxy server for efficient Moving Picture Experts Group-Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH). Disclosed is a proxy server, comprising: a monitoring portion that monitors a request for acquisition of a metafile containing information that a terminal device needs to receive a stream of content, the request being transmitted by the terminal device to a content supply device that delivers the content over a network in accordance with adaptive streaming technology; an analysis portion that analyses the monitored request for acquisition of the metafile and a database portion that accumulates an analysis result of the analysis portion.
EFFECT: technical result is improved response to requests from the receiving side by optimising the caching of the proxy server.
8 cl, 9 dwg
