Title
Improving video QoE with IP over ICN
Abstract
AbstractSummaryInformation‐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.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 paper presents a trial of the POINT prototype in a production network, where real users operated actual IP‐based video delivery services (IPTV and HLS). 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. View Figure
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1002/nem.2057
Periodicals
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
30
3
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1099-1190
0
0.34
References 
Authors
2
5