[HTML][HTML] 5G network slicing using SDN and NFV: A survey of taxonomy, architectures and future challenges

AA Barakabitze, A Ahmad, R Mijumbi, A Hines - Computer Networks, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The increasing consumption of multimedia services and the demand of high-quality services
from customers has triggered a fundamental change in how we administer networks in terms …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] SDN and NFV for QoE-driven multimedia services delivery: The road towards 6G and beyond networks

AA Barakabitze, R Walshe - Computer Networks, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The concept for develo** the future mobile communication systems has been explored in
recent years with a vision towards 5G and 6G systems. Meeting performance targets such as …

A Greener Experience: Trade-Offs between QoE and CO2 Emissions in Today's and 6G Networks

T Hoßfeld, M Varela, L Skorin-Kapov… - IEEE communications …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While users of Internet multimedia services demand high Quality of Experience (QoE),
meeting these demands results in energy consumption along the service delivery path, from …

Trends in over the top (OTT) research: a bibliometric analysis

N Singh, S Arora, B Kapur - VINE Journal of Information and …, 2022‏ - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine current trends in over the top (OTT)
research through bibliometric analysis of Scopus and Web of Science indexed publications …

Measuring, modeling and integrating time-varying video quality in end-to-end multimedia service delivery: A review and open challenges

CTER Hewage, A Ahmad, T Mallikarachchi… - IEEE …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The multimedia delivery chain consists of multiple stages such as content preparation,
content delivery via Over-The-Top delivery network and Internet Service Providers network …

MNO-OTT collaborative video streaming in 5G: The zero-rated QoE approach for quality and resource management

A Ahmad, L Atzori - IEEE Transactions on Network and Service …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Quality of Experience (QoE) management procedures for multimedia services benefit
from an effective collaboration between the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and the Over …

Timber: An SDN-based emulation platform for experimental research on video streaming

A Ahmad, A Floris, L Atzori - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present an open source Software-Defined Networking (SDN) based
emulation platform called Timber. We aim to provide the research community with an …

Towards information-centric collaborative QoE management using SDN

A Ahmad, A Floris, L Atzori - 2019 IEEE Wireless …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies implemented collaboration between Over-The-Top (OTT) service and
Internet Service Provider (ISP) concerning information exchange between the providers …

Multimedia privacy and security landscape in the wake of ai/ml

CTER Hewage, SK Khattak, A Ahmad… - Social Media …, 2022‏ - api.taylorfrancis.com
Privacy and security of multimedia content came under scrutiny with the wider application of
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)-based technologies. The issues range …