Smart Television Services Using NFV/SDN Network Management

Nawar Jawad , Mukhald Salih (1) , Kareem E. Ali (2) , B. Meunier , Yue Zhang (3) , Xun Zhang , Rudolf Zetik , Charilaos Zarakovitis , Harilaos Koumaras (4) , Michail-Alexandros Kourtis (4) , Lina Shi (5) , Wojciech Mazurczyk (6) , John Cosmas

1 Division of Pediatric Neurology
2 INP-HB - Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny [Yamoussoukro]
3 Department of Math and Computer Science
4 NCSR - National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos"
5 TU DELFT - DIMES
6 Warsaw University of Technology [Warsaw]

Integrating joint network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networks (SDNs) with digital televisions (TVs) into home environments, has the potential to provide smart TV services to users, and improve their quality of experience (QoE). In this regard, this paper focuses on one of the next generation services so-called follow me service (FMS). FMS is a service offered by 5gNB to user equipments (UEs) in indoor environments (e.g., home), it enables its clients to use their smart phones to select media content from content servers, then cast it on the nearest TV set (e.g., living room) and continue watching on the next TV set (e.g., kitchen) while moving around the indoor coverage area. FMS can be provisioned by utilizing UEs geoloca-tion information and robust mechanisms for switching between multiple 5G radio access technologies (RATs), based on the intelligence of the SDN/NFV intelligent home IP gateway of the Internet of Radio Light (IoRL) project paradigm. In view that the actual IoRL system is at its early development stage, we step forward by using Mininet platform to integrate SDN/NFV virtualization into 5G multi-RAT scenario and provide performance monitoring with measurements for the identified service. Simulation results show the effectiveness of our proposal under various use case scenarios by means of minimizing the packet loss rate and improving QoE of the home users. Index Terms-Software defined networks, network function virtualisation, quality of experience, Internet of radio light, intelligent home IP gateway.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Nawar Jawad, Mukhald Salih, Kareem E. Ali, B. Meunier, Yue Zhang, et al.. Smart Television Services Using NFV/SDN Network Management. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2018, ⟨10.1109/TBC.2019.2898159⟩. ⟨hal-02333663⟩