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Control Plane Design and Implementation for a Media Streaming System Working in Over the Top Style

Authors:
Eugen Borcoci
Serban Georgica Obreja
Cristian Cernat
Radu Iorga
Jordi Mongay Batalla
Daniel Negru

Keywords: Content delivery, Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP, Monitoring, Server and Path selection

Abstract:
Content/media streaming services are frequently used in the current Internet and this trend is estimated to continue in the next years. Complex architectures, like Content Delivery Networks, have been developed and are currently exploited on a large scale, or novel architectures like Content Oriented Networks are proposed. In parallel, cheaper and light architecture, working in over-the-top (OTT) style above the current IP networks multi-domain infrastructures have been recently considered, as an attractive solution for media distribution. A content streaming OTT-like system is considered here, working on top of a multi-domain IP network. The system integrates functionalities such as content server initial selection based on multi-criteria algorithm and then performs dynamic media adaptation and/or server switching - during the media session. This paper continues and extends a preliminary work; it presents more deeply the main design concepts, then develops the implementation solutions and presents the functional conformance testing for the Control Plane of the above system. The functional testing is described, performed on a real-life multi-domain testbed as a part of the overall validation campaign.

Pages: 1 to 12

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2016. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2016

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ISSN: 1942-2601