One (emerging) area is ABR video delivered over a WebSocket. Throughput estimation can be done using server-side TCP statistics that are updated at each ACK seg

One (emerging) area is ABR video delivered over a WebSocket. Throughput estimation can be done using server-side TCP statistics that are updated at each ACK segment (the tcp_info structure includes a delivery_rate member that is pretty helpful), which is more reliable than using client-side info that comes from the reconstructed reliable byte stream. The MPEG-DASH part 6 spec starts going in this direction, and we tried to run with these ideas in Puffer (https://puffer.stanford.edu https://puffer.stanford.edu). Empirically you can get quick channel changes and better first-chunk quality with this approach; we haven't tried to minimize end-to-end latency below standard levels. And there's probably nothing fundamental that you can do with a WebSocket that you can't do with a sufficiently smart chunked HTTP response. For really low latency, you want to couple the video codec parameters with the transport's capacity estimate in a way that the WebRTC.org/Chromium codebase is not really capable of doing. See https://snr.stanford.edu/salsify https://snr.stanford.edu/salsify .