QoE-Aware Bandwidth Broker for HTTP Adaptive Streaming Flows in an SDN-Enabled HFC Network.

This paper proposes a software defined networking based bandwidth broker solution for improving viewer experience for any type of content delivered to any type of consumer device using HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) in a hybrid fiber coax network. This solution is designed to meet per-session and per-group quality-of-experience objectives, to avoid common HAS culprits such as video instability, unf...