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Improving video QoE with IP over ICN
Author(s) -
Doumanis Ioannis,
Phinikarides Alexander,
Xylomenos George,
Porter Stuart C.M.,
Georgiades Michael
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of network management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1099-1190
pISSN - 1055-7148
DOI - 10.1002/nem.2057
Subject(s) - computer science , iptv , the internet , computer network , quality of experience , upgrade , resilience (materials science) , enhanced data rates for gsm evolution , internet protocol suite , exploit , telecommunications , quality of service , world wide web , computer security , operating system , physics , thermodynamics
Summary Information‐centric networking (ICN) has long been advocating for radical changes to the Internet, but the upgrade challenges that these entail have hindered its adoption. To break this loop, the POINT project proposed a hybrid, IP‐over‐ICN, architecture: IP networks are preserved at the edge, connected to each other over an ICN core. This exploits the key benefits of ICN, enabling individual network operators to improve the performance of their IP‐based services, without changing the rest of the Internet. This paper first provides an overview of POINT and outlines how it can improve upon IP in terms of performance and resilience. It then describes a trial of the POINT prototype in a production network, where real users operated actual IP‐based applications. As part of the trial, we carried out experiments to evaluate the quality of experience (QoE) for video services offered via either HLS or IPTV, using either IP or POINT as a substrate. The results from the trial verify that the IP‐over‐ICN approach of POINT offers enhanced QoE to the users of these video services, compared with traditional IP, especially under exceptional network conditions.