Using In-Network Adaptation to Tackle Inefficiencies Caused by DASH in Information-Centric Networks

Abstract

The consumption of audio-visual content is the most dominant traffic source in today's Internet. Novel architectural approaches, such as Information-Centric Networking (ICN), are developed to support efficient multimedia dissemination. As ICN and MPEG-DASH have several concepts in common, recent proposals consider a fusion of both technologies. However, MPEG-DASH relies on pure client-driven adaptation. This often rather selfish adaptation strategy inhibits benefits gained from ICN's inherent caching and multi-path transmission capabilities. In order to overcome this challenge, the contribution of this work is the integration of innetwork adaptation (INA) in ICN. We illustrate that INA can be realized despite ICN's content-based security model. Our proposal rests on scalable content, which enables INA without management and transmission overhead.

A scalable video coding dataset and toolchain for dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP

“…Evaluations of existing research, such as the proposal of In-Network Adaptation in NDN/ICN by using SVC [14], could be extended to multiple videos and representations. In addition, advanced caching and routing strategies can be applied when using SVC content, e.g., prioritizing the base layer(s) to reduce video playback stalls.…”