The highly demanding Over-The-Top (OTT) multimedia applications pose increased
challenges to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for assuring a reasonable Quality of …

Video-on-demand streaming services have gained popularity over the past few years. An
increase in the speed of the access networks has also led to a larger number of users …

Over the last few years, the evolution of network and user handsets' technologies, have
challenged the telecom industry and the Internet ecosystem. Especially, the unprecedented …

This chapter investigates HTTP video streaming over the Internet for the YouTube platform.
YouTube is used as concrete example and case study for video delivery over the Internet …

Application-Aware Networking is a promising approach to provide good application quality
to users in scenarios with limited network resources, like today's access networks. With SDN …

YouTube currently accounts for a significant percentage of the Internet's global traffic.
Hence, understanding the characteristics of the YouTube traffic generation pattern can …

Triggered by the explosion of mobile traffic, 5G (5th Generation) cellular network requires
evolution to increase the system rate 1000 times higher than the current systems in 10 years …

The performance of YouTube in mobile networks is crucial to network operators, who try to
find a trade-off between cost-efficient handling of the huge traffic amounts and high …

YouTube is changing the way operators manage network performance monitoring. In this
paper we introduce YOUQMON, a novel on-line monitoring system for assessing the Quality …

Cloud-based systems are gaining enormous popularity due to a number of promised
benefits, including ease of use in terms of deployment, administration and maintenance …