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An efficient software defined network controller based routing adaptation for enhancing QoE of multimedia streaming service

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SDN (Software-Defined Networks) is a new network communication prototype. SDN can control the wide range of network activities and its responsibilities to select an optimum route for end-users. Recent studies are focusing on issues regarding routing congestion and delay of packets within SDNs. In this research work, an efficient and smart-based algorithm is proposed to change the directions of packets in SDN networks. The proposed model estimates the cost of the given paths in networks depending on five criteria; adaptive network packet size, accurate packet numbers, the overall required time interval, QoS (Quality of Service) link capacity (bandwidth), and the number of hops (shortest path). In this way, the optimal paths from sender to receiver can be easily determined. This mechanism allows the SDN controller to minimize the decision time that is needed for selecting the flows. According to the aforementioned criteria, a dataset has been created which contains information about routing delay. From the proposed model, three criteria which are packet size, number, and time have been used to find the optimal packet delay to be used later in the model to find the cost of each path. A benchmark comparison between state-of-the-art and the suggested algorithm reveals that the time consumption of selecting an optimal recovery path has a significant delay reduction which is estimated to be a few milliseconds. Consequently, it can reduce bottleneck routes and resource utilization. Experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm has increased the QoE (Quality of Experience) of both objective and subjective video streaming.The model reduced the delay time of route selection up to 96.3% and this leads to end-user satisfaction.

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Acknowledgments

This research is a part of the research work of the University of Sulaimani in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Special thanks to the College of Science at University of Sulaimani for providing a healthy environment to fulfill this project. We would also like to express our deep gratitude for the generous support and funds from the presidency of university of Sulaimani.

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Appendix

Appendix

Acronym

Description

AP

Access Point

APIs

Application Programming Interface

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

AVC

Advanced Video Coding

BR

Bit-rate

BVIHFR

Bristol Vision Institute High Frame Rate

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CP

Capacity path

DAL

Device and resource Abstraction Layer

DFS

Depth-first search

DMOS

Differential Mean Opinion Score

FDSP

Flexible Dual TCP-UDP Streaming Protocol

FFMPEG

Fast Forward MPEG

FFPLAY

Fast Forward Play

FHD

Full High Definition

HD

High Definition

HFRs

High Frame Rates

HTB

Hierarchy Token Bucket

HTTP

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

HVS

Human Vision system

ICMP

Internet control message protocol

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

ILP

Integer Linear Program

IP

Internet Protocol

IPTV

Internet Protocol Television Service

ISP

Internet Service Providers

LAN

local area network

LLDP

Link Layer Discovery Protocol

LTE

Long Term Evolution

MAN

Metropolitan Area Network

MB

Megabit

MOS

Mean Opinion Score

ms

Milliseconds

MSE

Mean Square Error

NETCONF

Network Configuration

NETEM

Network Emulator

NoRF

Number of Reference Frames

NSAL

Network Services Abstraction Layer

OSP

OpenStack Platform

OSPF

Open Shortest Path First

PC

Personal Computer

PSNR

Peak Signal to Noise Ratio

QoE

Quality of Experience

QoS

Quality of Service

RESTful

Representational State Transfer

RMSG

Recurrent Neural Network Accompanied by Modified Sea gull Optimization

RSL

Random Selected Leader

SDN

Software Defined Network

SSIM

Structure Similarity

STP

Spanning Tree Protocol

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TV

Television

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

UHD

Ultra-High Definition

VBR

Variable Bitrate Error

VLC

VideoLAN Client

VMAF

Video Multi-Method Assessment Fusion

VOD

Video on Demand

VQM

Video Quality Monitoring

Wi-Fi

Wireless Fidelity

WPAN

Wireless Personal Area Network

WSN

Wireless Sensor Networks

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Taha, M. An efficient software defined network controller based routing adaptation for enhancing QoE of multimedia streaming service. Multimed Tools Appl 82, 33865–33888 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-14938-5

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