Analyzing Watch Party Feature In Aviation With Case Study

Authors: Arjun Agaram Mangad

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14785732

Short DOI: https://doi.org/g83sw4

Country: USA

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Abstract: Over the years, In-Flight Entertainment (IFE), a crucial part of airlines, has evolved from simple overhead monitors with speakers showing the same content for all the passengers to complex personalized content delivered to the seats of each passenger. One such recent development is the watch party feature, which gained traction worldwide during COVID-19. As airlines look to adapt to this technology in aircraft, allowing multiple passengers to stream and watch video content together, we look at the technology stack behind it and take a use case to look at the features, challenges, and future of this feature in aviation. The paper also looks at the Jetblue implementation of the feature in its In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) and discusses challenges, potential directions for innovation, collaboration, and future.

Keywords: Watch Party, Adaptive Bitrate, Webrtc, HLS, MPEG-DASH, Latency, Synchronization, Edge Computing

Paper Id: 232088

Published On: 2024-09-03

Published In: Volume 12, Issue 5, September-October 2024

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