Supporting end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) in existing network architectures is an
ongoing problem. Although researchers from both academia and industry have proposed …

The Internet has led to the creation of a digital society, where (almost) everything is
connected and is accessible from anywhere. However, despite their widespread adoption …

Monitoring is an important concept in network management as it helps network operators to
determine the behavior of a network and the status of its components. Traffic engineering …

The fundamental role of the software defined networks (SDNs) is to decouple the data plane
from the control plane, thus providing a logically centralized visibility of the entire network to …

The term Software Defined Networking (SDN) is prevalent in today's discussion about future
communication networks. As with any new term or paradigm, however, no consistent …

Quality of Experience (QoE) has received much attention over the past years and has
become a prominent issue for delivering services and applications. A significant amount of …

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 …

In this paper we investigate several network-assisted streaming approaches which rely on
active cooperation between video streaming applications and the network. We build a Video …

Emerging network services and subsequent growth in the networking infrastructure have
gained tremendous momentum in recent years. Application performance requiring rapid real …

YouTube is one of the most popular and volume-dominant services in today's Internet, and
has changed the web for ever. Consequently, network operators are forced to consider it in …