QoE management of multimedia streaming services in future networks: A tutorial and survey

AA Barakabitze, N Barman, A Ahmad… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The highly demanding Over-The-Top (OTT) multimedia applications pose increased
challenges to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for assuring a reasonable Quality of …

Segment routing in software defined networks: A survey

ZN Abdullah, I Ahmad, I Hussain - … Communications Surveys & …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Segment routing (SR) has emerged as a promising source-routing methodology to
overcome the challenges in the current routing schemes. It has received noticeable attention …

Dynamic routing and failure recovery approaches for efficient resource utilization in OpenFlow-SDN: a survey

B Isyaku, KBA Bakar, FA Ghaleb, A Al-Nahari - IEEe Access, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software Defined Networks (SDN) is a new network paradigm that emerged to offer better
network management by separating network control logic and data forwarding element. This …

QualitySDN: Improving video quality using MPTCP and segment routing in SDN/NFV

AA Barakabitze, IH Mkwawa, L Sun… - 2018 4th IEEE …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a novel QoE-aware SDN/NFV system by utilizing and integrating
Multi-path TCP (MPTCP) and Segment Routing (SR) paradigms. We propose a QoE-based …

An adaptive and lightweight update mechanism for SDN

C Yu, J Lan, Z Guo, Y Hu, T Baker - IEEE Access, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To improve the network resources utilization and the quality of service, the provision of an
adaptive and customizable network service is deemed a feasible approach. In this paper …

Multipath protections and dynamic link recoveryin softwarized 5G networks using segment routing

AA Barakabitze, L Sun, IH Mkwawa… - 2019 IEEE Globecom …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Future softwarized 5G networks have to be robust enough so as to ensure high network
reliability and services availability. 5G network architecture should make sure that any failed …

QoEMultiSDN: Management of multimedia services using MPTCP/SR in softwarized and virtualized networks

AA Barakabitze, IH Mkwawa, A Hines, L Sun… - IEEE …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
5G networks are set to empower new user experiences for multimedia streaming services by
offering high data rates and low latency. The rapid growth of multimedia services, such as …

Nous: Drop-Freeness and Duplicate-Freeness for Consistent Updating in SDN Multicast Routing

X Gao, A Majidi, Y Gao, G Wu… - IEEE/ACM …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Consistent routing updates through Software-Defined Networking (SDN) can be difficult due
to the asynchronous and distributed nature of the data plane. Recent studies have achieved …

QoE-centric control and management of multimedia services in software defined and virtualized networks

AA Barakabitze - 2020‏ - pearl.plymouth.ac.uk
Multimedia services consumption has increased tremendously since the deployment of
4G/LTE networks. Mobile video services (eg, YouTube and Mobile TV) on smart devices are …

CentFlow: centrality-based flow balancing and traffic distribution for higher network utilization

R Challa, S Jeon, DS Kim, H Choo - IEEE Access, 2017‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Next-generation networks (NGNs) are embracing two key principles of software defined
networking (SDN) paradigm functional segregation of control and forwarding plane, and …