MOQ-n-Roll: Live Sports Watch Parties

Proceedings of the conference on Proceedings of the 5th Mile-High Video Conference 2026 Open access

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Authors: Ayse B. Demir, Mervegul Parlak, Zafer Gürel, Ali C. Begen, Burak Kara, Gwendal Simon
DOI: 10.1145/3789239.3793290
Cited by: 2
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Abstract

Live sports watch parties must deliver broadcast content reliably while enabling low-latency group interaction. We address these conflicting requirements using MOQ Transport (MOQT) through a dual-pipe architecture. The context pipe carries the main program over reliable QUIC streams, enforcing a spoiler prevention model that keeps participants synchronized. The excitement pipe carries participant audio and video, selecting transport primitives by modality: unreliable datagrams minimize delay for independent audio frames, while multiplexed (reliable) streams with early discard preserve decoding order for video without accumulating latency.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Multimedia Communication and Technology Video Analysis and Summarization Video Coding and Compression Technologies

Publication details

Journal / source
Proceedings of the conference on Proceedings of the 5th Mile-High Video Conference
Publisher
ACM
Pages
66–67
Publication date
2 February 2026
Language
EN