streamer

A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.

Brave Rupert from afar appears, / Whose waving streamers the glad general knows.

A second squire held aloft his master's lance, from the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole, or streamer, bearing a cross of the same form with that embroidered upon his cloak.

Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.

[…] from a cancan to a gothic tableau featuring mock-beheaded women at the windows of the Conciergerie with red streamers that looked like macabre spurting blood.

A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.

A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.

Any mechanism for streaming data.

However, integration of a bandwidth estimation algorithm into an adaptive video streamer is not an easy task. Firstly, bandwidth estimation requires sending extra burst packets that brings a considerable overhead into the system.