A novel QoE-centric SDN-based multipath routing approach for multimedia services over 5G networks

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dc.creatorBarakabitze, Alcardo Alex
dc.creatorSun, Lingfen
dc.creatorMkwawa, Is-Haka
dc.creatorIfeachor, Emmanuel
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-24T11:10:21Z
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-05T07:37:24Z
dc.date.available2023-03-24T11:10:21Z
dc.date.created2023-03-24T11:10:21Z
dc.date.issued2018-07-27
dc.description.abstractThe explosion of enhanced applications such as live video streaming, video gaming and Virtual Reality calls for efforts to optimize transport protocols to manage the increasing amount of data traffic on future 5G networks. Through bandwidth aggregation over multiple paths, the Multi-Path Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) can enhance the performance of network applications. MPTCP can split a large multimedia flow into subflows and apply a congestion control mechanism on each subflow. Segment Routing (SR), a promising source routing approach, has emerged to provide advanced packet forwarding over 5G networks. In this paper, we explore the utilization of MPTCP and SR in SDN-based networks to improve network resources utilization and end-user’s QoE for delivering multime- dia services over 5G networks. We propose a novel QoE-aware, SDN-based MPTCP/SR approach for service delivery. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach, we implemented an intelligent QoE-centric Multipath Routing Algorithm (QoMRA) on an SDN source routing platform using Mininet and POX controller. We carried out experiments on Dynamic Adaptive video Steaming over HTTP (DASH) applications over various network conditions. The preliminary results show that, our QoE- aware SDN-based MPTCP/SR scheme performs better compared to the conventional TCP approach in terms of throughput, link utilization and the end-user’s QoE.
dc.identifierhttp://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/5099
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.costech.or.tz/handle/20.500.14732/99005
dc.languageen
dc.publisherPEARL
dc.subjectSDN
dc.subject5G
dc.subjectQuality of experience
dc.subjectSegment Routing (SR)
dc.subjectMultimedia applications
dc.subjectMultiple Path TCP (MPTCP)
dc.titleA novel QoE-centric SDN-based multipath routing approach for multimedia services over 5G networks
dc.typeArticle

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