Utility-Centric Networking: Balancing Transit Costs With Quality of Experience

Service-Centric Networking with SCAFFOLD

Online services are typically replicated on multiple servers in different datacenters, and have (at best) a loose association with specific end-hosts or locations. To meet the needs of these online services, we introduce SCAFFOLD—an architecture that provides flowbased anycast with (possibly moving) service instances. SCAFFOLD allows addresses to change as end-points move, in order to retain th...

User-Centric Quality of Experience Measurement

Quality-of-experience (QoE) produces the blue print of human perception, feelings, needs and intentions, while Quality-of-Service (QoS) is a technology centric metric used to assess the performance of a multimedia services and/or network. .It is quite important for service/content providers to understand user/customer experience requirements in order to improve the service quality or the conten...

Fair Quality of Experience (QoE) Measurements Related with Networking Technologies

This paper addresses the topic of Fair QoE measurements in networking. The research of new solutions in networking is oriented to improve the user experience. Any application or service can be improved and the deployment of new solutions is mandatory to get the user satisfaction. However, different solutions exist; thus, it is necessary to select the most suitable ones. Nevertheless, this selec...

User-Centric Networking

Content-Centric Networking

This paper introduces to the alternative internet architecture of information-centric networking as opposed to the common host-to-host oriented design approach. Since the rise of computer networking until the internet becoming an incremental part of people’s everyday life, it has undergone severe changes in usage scenarios. Users are interested in content and services and not in locations where...