A Software Defined Network Based Research on Fairness in Multimedia

Ahmed Osama Basil, Mu Mu, Ali Al-Sherbaz

Abstract

The demand for online distribution of high quality and high throughput content has led to non-cooperative competition of network resources between a growing number of media applications. This causes a significant impact on network efficiency, the quality of user experience (QoE) as well as a discrepancy of QoE across user devices. Within a multi-user multi-device environment, measuring and maintaining perceivable fairness becomes as critical as achieving the QoE on individual user applications. This paper discusses application- and humanlevel fairness over networked multimedia applications and how such fairness can be managed through novel network designs using programmable networks such as software-defined networks (SDN).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in MultiMedia
Publisher	ACM Press
Pages	11-18
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781450369152
Publication status	Published - 25 Oct 2019
Event	FAT/MM: Fairness Accountability and Transparency in Multimedia : An ACM MM 2019 Workshop - Nice, France Duration: 21 Oct 2019 → 25 Oct 2019 https://acmmm.org/workshops/

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in MultiMedia

Internet address	https://acmmm.org/workshops/

DOI: 10.1145/3347447.3356750

Paper available at: http://www.mendeley.com/research/software-defined-network-based-research-fairness-multimedia


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SDQ: Software Defined Networking experimentation framework

Fawcett, L., Mu, M., Broadbent, M., Hart, N. and Race, N. (2016) SDQ: enabling rapid QoE experimentation using Software Defined Networking. In: IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management. New York: IEEE. (Accepted)

Abstract
The emerging network paradigm of Software Defined Networking (SDN) has been increasingly adopted to improve the Quality of Experiences (QoE) across multiple HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) instances. However, there is currently a gap between research and reality in this field. QoE models, which offer user-level context to network management processes, are often tested in a simulation environment. Such environments do not consider the effects that network protocols, client programs, and other real world factors may have on the outcomes. Ultimately, this can lead to models not functioning as expected in real networks. On the other hand, setting up an experiment that reflects reality is a time consuming process requiring expert knowledge. This paper shares designs and guidelines of an SDN experimentation framework (SDQ), which offers rapid evaluation of QoE models using real network infrastructures.

To be presented at:
15th International Federation for Information Processing/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IFIP/IEEE) International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM2017) http://im2017.ieee-im.org/
Lisbon, Portugal
08-12 May 2017

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