As we are moving forward to the 5G era, we are witnessing a transformation in the way
networks are designed and behave, with the end-user placed at the epicenter of any …

This paper presents novel QoS extensions to distributed control plane architectures for
multimedia delivery over large-scale, multi-operator Software Defined Networks (SDNs). We …

HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) is receiving much attention from both industry and
academia as it has become the de facto approach to stream media content over the Internet …

Following considerable research into quality-of-service-aware application programming
interface design and QoS specification language development for multimedia systems, we …

The increasing popularity of live video streaming from mobile devices, such as Facebook
Live, Instagram Stories, Snapchat, etc. pressurizes the network operators to increase the …

Due to the explosive growth of the Internet and increasing demand for multimedia
information on the Web, streaming video over the Internet has received tremendous …

A growing number of industrial applications incorporate multimedia information processing.
These multimedia applications are commonly distributed and subject to time constraints that …

OpenFlow is a Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm that decouples control and
data forwarding layers of routing. In this paper, we propose OpenQoS, which is a novel …

OpenFlow is a programmable network protocol and associated hardware designed to
effectively manage and direct traffic by decoupling control and forwarding layers of routing …

Today's over the top (OTT) video service providers take advantage of content distribution
networks (CDNs) and adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming where a video player adjusts …