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A Survey on Virtual Network Functions for Media Streaming: Solutions and Future Challenges

Authors:

Ángel Martín,

Mikel Zorrilla,

Jon Montalbán,

Pablo Angueira,

Gabriel-Miro MunteanAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 55, Issue 11

Article No.: 221, Pages 1 - 37

https://doi.org/10.1145/3567826

Published: 09 February 2023 Publication History

Abstract

Media services must ensure an enhanced user’s perceived quality during content playback to attract and retain audiences, especially while the streams are distributed remotely via networks. Thus, media streaming services rely heavily on good and predictable network performance when delivered to a large number of people. Furthermore, as the quality of media content gets high, the network performance demands are also increasing, and meeting them is challenging. Network functions devoted to improving media streaming services become essential to cope with the high dynamics of network performance and user mobility. Furthermore, new networking paradigms and architectures under the 5G networks umbrella are bringing new possibilities to deploy smart network functions, which monitor the media streaming services through live and objective metrics and boost them in real-time. This survey overviews the state-of-the-art technologies and solutions proposed to apply new network functions for enhancing media streaming.

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A Survey on Virtual Network Functions for Media Streaming: Solutions and Future Challenges
1. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Computing platforms
    2. Multimedia information systems
      1. Multimedia streaming
2. Networks
  1. Network services
    1. Network monitoring

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ACM Computing Surveys Volume 55, Issue 11

November 2023

849 pages

ISSN:0360-0300

EISSN:1557-7341

DOI:10.1145/3572825

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Published: 09 February 2023

Online AM: 13 October 2022

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Revised: 26 September 2022

Received: 19 September 2021

Published in CSUR Volume 55, Issue 11

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