Giuseppe Cofano
Luca De Cicco
Saverio Mascolo
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This article investigates several network-assisted streaming approaches that rely on active cooperation between video streaming applications and the network. We build a Video Control Plane that enforces Video Quality Fairness among concurrent video flows generated by heterogeneous client devices. For this purpose, a max-min fairness optimization problem is solved at runtime. We compare two approaches to actuate the optimal solution in an Software Defined Networking network: The first one allocates network bandwidth slices to video flows, and the second one guides video players in the video bitrate selection. We assess performance through several QoE-related metrics, such as Video Quality Fairness, video quality, and switching frequency. The impact of client-side adaptation algorithms is also investigated.
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