Outputs (43)

Improving quality of experience in adaptive low latency live streaming (2023)
Journal Article
Lyko, T., Broadbent, M., Race, N., Nilsson, M., Farrow, P., & Appleby, S. (2024). Improving quality of experience in adaptive low latency live streaming. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 83, 15957-15983. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-15895-9

HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS), the most prominent technology for streaming video over the Internet, suffers from high end-to-end latency when compared to conventional broadcast methods. This latency is caused by the content being delivered as segment... Read More about Improving quality of experience in adaptive low latency live streaming.

4MIDable: Flexible Network Offloading For Security VNFs (2023)
Journal Article
Lewis, B., Broadbent, M., Rotsos, C., & Race, N. (2023). 4MIDable: Flexible Network Offloading For Security VNFs. Journal of Network and Systems Management, 31(3), Article 52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-023-09744-1

The ever-growing volume of network traffic and widening adoption of Internet protocols to underpin common communication processes augments the importance of network security. In order to enforce network security policies, network managers adopt a wid... Read More about 4MIDable: Flexible Network Offloading For Security VNFs.

5G in the Wild: Performance of C-Band 5G-NR in Rural Low-Power Fixed Wireless Access (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davies, E., Chung, A., Broadbent, M., Macleod, A., & Race, N. (2022). 5G in the Wild: Performance of C-Band 5G-NR in Rural Low-Power Fixed Wireless Access. In 2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF) (18-23). https://doi.org/10.1109/fnwf55208.2022.00

In this paper, we have evaluated the performance of one of the first community-led rural applications of standalone 5G for fixed wireless access on the n77 band in the UK. This was achieved through a full-stack holistic monitoring platform, evaluatin... Read More about 5G in the Wild: Performance of C-Band 5G-NR in Rural Low-Power Fixed Wireless Access.

Practical Intrusion Detection of Emerging Threats (2021)
Journal Article
Mills, R., Marnerides, A. K., Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2022). Practical Intrusion Detection of Emerging Threats. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 19(1), 582-600. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2021.3091517

The Internet of Things (IoT), in combination with advancements in Big Data, communications and networked systems, offers a positive impact across a range of sectors including health, energy, manufacturing and transport. By virtue of current business... Read More about Practical Intrusion Detection of Emerging Threats.

Effectiveness of Vicinity-based Content Finding in Mobile NDN Environments (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Suwannasa, A., Broadbent, M., & Mauthe, A. (2021). Effectiveness of Vicinity-based Content Finding in Mobile NDN Environments. In 2021 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN) (343-348). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOIN50884.2021.9333948

In Named Data Networking (NDN), consumer mobility is supported by letting a consumer re-transmit an Interest packet to re-request a lost content object through a new NDN Access Router (NAR). The object is often replicated at a previous NAR, located c... Read More about Effectiveness of Vicinity-based Content Finding in Mobile NDN Environments.

Llama-Low Latency Adaptive Media Algorithm (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyko, T., Broadbent, M., Race, N., Nilsson, M., Farrow, P., & Appleby, S. (2021). Llama-Low Latency Adaptive Media Algorithm. In 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM) (113-121). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISM.2020.00027

In the recent years, HTTP Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) streaming including Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) has become the most popular technology for video streaming over the Internet. The client device requests segments of content using HTTP,... Read More about Llama-Low Latency Adaptive Media Algorithm.

Sdn heading north: Towards a declarative intent-based northbound interface (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alalmaei, S., Elkhatib, Y., Bezahaf, M., Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2020). Sdn heading north: Towards a declarative intent-based northbound interface. In 2020 16th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). https://doi.org/10.2391

The Intent-Based Northbound Interface (NBI) offers users the ability to express what they want to achieve instead of how to achieve it, enabling improvements to network management and reducing operational costs. However, development of an Intent-Base... Read More about Sdn heading north: Towards a declarative intent-based northbound interface.

Impact of Content Popularity on Content Finding in NDN: Default NDN vs. Vicinity-based Enhanced NDN (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Suwannasa, A., Broadbent, M., & Mauthe, A. (2020). Impact of Content Popularity on Content Finding in NDN: Default NDN vs. Vicinity-based Enhanced NDN. In 2020 10th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST) (163-168). https:/

Named Data Networking allows a consumer to locate a desired content object by its name prefix. By using the best route strategy of the default NDN architecture, an Interest packet is forwarded along a default path indicated by the packet's name to fi... Read More about Impact of Content Popularity on Content Finding in NDN: Default NDN vs. Vicinity-based Enhanced NDN.

From One Edge to the Other: Exploring Gaming's Rising Presence on the Network (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Marsden, M., Hazas, M., & Broadbent, M. (2020). From One Edge to the Other: Exploring Gaming's Rising Presence on the Network. In ICT4S2020: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (247-254). https://doi.org/10.1145/3401

Audio and video streaming and on-demand services have dramatically changed how, and how much, media is consumed. Streaming generally allows a much larger selection of content, and arguably greater convenience. Gaming is the latest medium to place del... Read More about From One Edge to the Other: Exploring Gaming's Rising Presence on the Network.

Evaluation of cmaf in live streaming scenarios (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyko, T., Broadbent, M., Race, N., Nilsson, M., Farrow, P., & Appleby, S. (2020). Evaluation of cmaf in live streaming scenarios. In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (21-26). https:

HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) technologies such as MPEG DASH are now used extensively to deliver television services to large numbers of viewers. In HAS, the client requests segments of content using HTTP, with an ABR algorithm selecting the quality... Read More about Evaluation of cmaf in live streaming scenarios.

Citrus: Orchestrating Security Mechanisms via Adversarial Deception (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mills, R., Race, N., & Broadbent, M. (2020). Citrus: Orchestrating Security Mechanisms via Adversarial Deception. In NOMS 2020-2020 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium. https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS47738.2020.9110443

Despite the Internet being an apex of human achievement for many years, malicious activity and cyber attacks are becoming more prevalent than ever before. Large scale data collection using threat sources such as honeypots have recently been employed... Read More about Citrus: Orchestrating Security Mechanisms via Adversarial Deception.

P4ID: P4 enhanced intrusion detection (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lewis, B., Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2020). P4ID: P4 enhanced intrusion detection. In 2019 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN) (1-4). https://doi.org/10.1109/NFV-SDN47374.2019.9040044

The growth in scale and capacity of networks in recent years leads to challenges of positioning and scalability of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). With the flexibility afforded by programmable dataplanes, it is now possible to perform a new level... Read More about P4ID: P4 enhanced intrusion detection.

Safe and Secure Software-Defined Networks for Smart Electricity Substations (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holik, F., Broadbent, M., Findrik, M., Smith, P., & Race, N. (2020). Safe and Secure Software-Defined Networks for Smart Electricity Substations. In Intelligent Information and Database Systems: 12th Asian Conference, ACIIDS 2020, Phuket, Thailand, March

The next generation of smart electricity substations and grids are on the horizon. Part of the drive behind this movement is a need to improve safety and security. In parallel, software-defined networking has been proposed as a disruptive approach wh... Read More about Safe and Secure Software-Defined Networks for Smart Electricity Substations.

Vicinity-based replica finding in named data networking (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Suwannasa, A., Broadbent, M., & Mauthe, A. (2020). Vicinity-based replica finding in named data networking. In 2020 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN) (146-151). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOIN48656.2020.9016429

In Named Data Networking (NDN) architectures, a content object is located according to the content's identifier and can be retrieved from all nodes that hold a replica of the content. The default forwarding strategy of NDN is to forward an Interest p... Read More about Vicinity-based replica finding in named data networking.

Self-generated intent-based system (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bezahaf, M., Hernandez, M. P., Bardwell, L., Davies, E., Broadbent, M., King, D., & Hutchison, D. (2020). Self-generated intent-based system. In 2019 10th International Conference on Networks of the Future (NoF) (138-140). https://doi.org/10.1109/NoF4774

We propose an intent-based system where, on top of the user intentions, the system itself generates suitable Quality of Service and resilience parameters and may augment the intent characteristics if it detects any room for improvement. We demonstrat... Read More about Self-generated intent-based system.

Opencache: Distributed sdn/nfv based in-network caching as a service (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alalmaei, S., Broadbent, M., Race, N., & Chelloug, S. (2019). Opencache: Distributed sdn/nfv based in-network caching as a service. In Advances in Data Science, Cyber Security and IT Applications: First International Conference on Computing, ICC 2019 (26

In-network content caching allows content to be located towards the edge of the network, closer to users. This approach addresses the challenge of exponentially increasing video traffic. We consider OpenCache: an open-source, highly configurable, eff... Read More about Opencache: Distributed sdn/nfv based in-network caching as a service.

Evaluating the real-world performance of 5G fixed wireless broadband in rural areas (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abozariba, R., Davies, E., Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2019). Evaluating the real-world performance of 5G fixed wireless broadband in rural areas. In 2019 IEEE 2nd 5G World Forum (5GWF) (465-470). https://doi.org/10.1109/5GWF.2019.8911655

Rural communities are often neglected in the rollout of communication infrastructure, delaying or even preventing the delivery of common digital services that are now ubiquitous in modern society. Addressing this technological gap is of paramount imp... Read More about Evaluating the real-world performance of 5G fixed wireless broadband in rural areas.

CityFlow: Supporting Spatial-Temporal Edge Computing for Urban Machine Learning Applications (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kawano, M., Yonezawa, T., Tanimura, T., Giang, N. K., Broadbent, M., Lea, R., & Nakazawa, J. (2019). CityFlow: Supporting Spatial-Temporal Edge Computing for Urban Machine Learning Applications. In 3rd EAI International Conference on IoT in Urban Space (

A growing trend in smart cities is the use of machine learning techniques to gather city data, formulate learning tasks and models, and use these to develop solutions to city problems. However, although these processes are sufficient for theoretical... Read More about CityFlow: Supporting Spatial-Temporal Edge Computing for Urban Machine Learning Applications.

An integrated precision farming application based on 5G, UAV and deep learning technologies (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Razaak, M., Kerdegari, H., Davies, E., Abozariba, R., Broadbent, M., Mason, K., …Remagnino, P. (2019). An integrated precision farming application based on 5G, UAV and deep learning technologies. In Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (109-119). h

Wireless communication technology has made tremendous progress over the last two decades providing extensive coverage, high data-rate and low-latency. The current major upgrade, the fifth generation (5G) wireless technology promises substantial impro... Read More about An integrated precision farming application based on 5G, UAV and deep learning technologies.

Using P4 to enable scalable intents in software defined networks (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lewis, B., Fawcett, L., Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2018). Using P4 to enable scalable intents in software defined networks. In 2018 IEEE 26th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) (442-443). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNP.2018.00064

When designing Software Defined Networks (SDNs), there is a risk that the additional abstractions available can result in reduced scalability and performance. One such abstraction, intents, are a way in which network administrators can express polici... Read More about Using P4 to enable scalable intents in software defined networks.

Tennison: A Distributed SDN Framework for Scalable Network Security (2018)
Journal Article
Fawcett, L., Scott-Hayward, S., Broadbent, M., Wright, A., & Race, N. (2018). Tennison: A Distributed SDN Framework for Scalable Network Security. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 36(12), 2805-2818. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsac.2018.28713

Despite the relative maturity of the Internet, the computer networks of today are still susceptible to attack. The necessary distributed nature of networks for wide area connectivity has traditionally led to high cost and complexity in designing and... Read More about Tennison: A Distributed SDN Framework for Scalable Network Security.

Digital Authoring of Interactive Public Display Applications (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mills, R., Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2018). Digital Authoring of Interactive Public Display Applications. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (127-136). https://doi.org/10.1145/32108

HbbTV (Hybrid broadcast broadband TV) is an emerging force in the entertainment industry, and proper standarisation of technologies would be hugely beneficial for the creation of content. HbbTV aims to realise this vision and has been widely successf... Read More about Digital Authoring of Interactive Public Display Applications.

Siren: A platform for deploying virtual network services in the cloud to Fog continuum (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fawcett, L., Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2018). Siren: A platform for deploying virtual network services in the cloud to Fog continuum. In 2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WCNCW) (202-207). https://doi.org/10.1109/WCN

The burden put on network infrastructures is changing. The increasing number of connected devices, along with growing demand, are creating an unsustainable future for the Internet. The recently introduced concept of Fog computing predicts a future In... Read More about Siren: A platform for deploying virtual network services in the cloud to Fog continuum.

“Sustainability... it’s just not important.”: The Challenges of Academic Engagement with Diverse Stakeholders (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Remy, C., Bates, O. E. G., Thomas, V., & Broadbent, M. H. (2018). “Sustainability... it’s just not important.”: The Challenges of Academic Engagement with Diverse Stakeholders. In ICT4S2018. 5th International Conference on Information and Communica

Research at the intersection of sustainability and computing often engages with external stakeholders, and those engagements can determine success and impact of the sustainable goals as well as the entire research. In this paper, we reflect on variou... Read More about “Sustainability... it’s just not important.”: The Challenges of Academic Engagement with Diverse Stakeholders.

SDQ: enabling rapid QoE experimentation using Software Defined Networking (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fawcett, L., Mu, M., Broadbent, M., Hart, N., & Race, N. (2017). SDQ: enabling rapid QoE experimentation using Software Defined Networking. In 2017 IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM) (656-659). https://doi.org/10.23919/

The emerging network paradigm of Software Defined Networking (SDN) has been increasingly adopted to improve the Quality of Experiences (QoE) across multiple HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) instances. However, there is currently a gap between research a... Read More about SDQ: enabling rapid QoE experimentation using Software Defined Networking.

Combinatorial auction-based resource allocation in the fog (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fawcett, L., Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2017). Combinatorial auction-based resource allocation in the fog. In 2016 Fifth European Workshop on Software-Defined Networks (EWSDN) (62-67). https://doi.org/10.1109/EWSDN.2016.16

Network service composition is becoming increasingly flexible, thanks in part to advances in virtualisation and cloud technologies. As these penetrate further into networks, providers are often looking to leverage this infrastructure to improve their... Read More about Combinatorial auction-based resource allocation in the fog.

Multi-Platform Application Toolkit (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zwicklbauer, M., Broadbent, M., Dufourd, J., Fuhrhop, C., Miccoli, S., Schiller, F., & Tuominen, V. (2016). Multi-Platform Application Toolkit. In TVX '16: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video

This paper presents the current status of the Multi-Platform Application Toolkit, an extensible platform for the simple creation of interactive multi-media applications for connected TVs. Developing applications from scratch requires considerable res... Read More about Multi-Platform Application Toolkit.

A scalable user fairness model for adaptive video streaming over SDN-assisted future networks (2016)
Journal Article
Mu, M., Broadbent, M., Farshad, A., Hart, N., Hutchison, D., Ni, Q., & Race, N. (2016). A scalable user fairness model for adaptive video streaming over SDN-assisted future networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 34(8), 2168-2184. http

The growing demand for online distribution of high quality and high throughput content is dominating today's Internet infrastructure. This includes both production and user-generated media. Among the myriad of media distribution mechanisms, HTTP adap... Read More about A scalable user fairness model for adaptive video streaming over SDN-assisted future networks.

Leveraging SDN to provide an in-network QoE measurement framework (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farshad, A., Georgopoulos, P., Broadbent, M., Mu, M., & Race, N. (2015). Leveraging SDN to provide an in-network QoE measurement framework. In 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS) (239-244). https://doi.org/10.1109/I

Online video streaming using HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) is becoming the most popular content delivery mechanism for media services. Network and content providers would like to ensure a high degree of video Quality of Experience (QoE) for their end... Read More about Leveraging SDN to provide an in-network QoE measurement framework.

Using software defined networking to enhance the delivery of video-on-demand (2015)
Journal Article
Georgopoulos, P., Broadbent, M., Farshad, A., Plattner, B., & Race, N. (2015). Using software defined networking to enhance the delivery of video-on-demand. Computer Communications, 69, 79-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2015.06.015

High quality online video streaming, both live and on-demand, has become an essential part of many consumers’ lives. The popularity of video streaming, however, places a burden on the underlying network infrastructure. This is because it needs to be... Read More about Using software defined networking to enhance the delivery of video-on-demand.

OpenCache: A software-defined content caching platform (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Broadbent, M., King, D., Baildon, S., Georgalas, N., & Race, N. (2015). OpenCache: A software-defined content caching platform. In Proceedings of the 2015 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). https://doi.org/10.1109/NETSOFT.2015.71161

Network operators recognise that Content Delivery Networks are essential for meeting user Internet application and content demands. The infrastructure must be tightly integrated to provide request routing, content caching, load balancing, scalability... Read More about OpenCache: A software-defined content caching platform.

C-BAS: Certificate-based AAA for SDN experimental facilities (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Toseef, U., Zaalouk, A., Rothe, T., Broadbent, M., & Pentikousis, K. (2014). C-BAS: Certificate-based AAA for SDN experimental facilities. In 2014 Third European Workshop on Software Defined Networks (91-96). https://doi.org/10.1109/EWSDN.2014.41

Efficient authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) management mechanisms will be key for the widespread adoption of SDN experimentation facilities beyond the confines of academic labs. In particular, we are interested in a robust AAA infra... Read More about C-BAS: Certificate-based AAA for SDN experimental facilities.

Cache as a service: Leveraging sdn to efficiently and transparently support video-on-demand on the last mile (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Georgopoulos, P., Broadbent, M., Plattner, B., & Race, N. (2014). Cache as a service: Leveraging sdn to efficiently and transparently support video-on-demand on the last mile. In 2014 23rd International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (

High quality online video streaming, both live and on-demand, has become an essential part of consumers' every-day lives. The popularity of video streaming has placed a heavy burden on the network infrastructure that now has to transfer an enormous a... Read More about Cache as a service: Leveraging sdn to efficiently and transparently support video-on-demand on the last mile.

Large-scale SDN experiments in federated environments (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Carrozzo, G., Monno, R., Belter, B., Krzywania, R., Pentikousis, K., Broadbent, M., …et al. (2014). Large-scale SDN experiments in federated environments. In 2014 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT). https

International cooperation on Software-Defined Networking (SDN), crossing the boundaries of Europe, the Americas and Asia, builds a strong foundation for pursuing experimental research through advanced programmable network testbeds. The EU-Japan joint... Read More about Large-scale SDN experiments in federated environments.

Opencache: Leveraging sdn to demonstrate a customisable and configurable cache (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Broadbent, M., Georgopoulos, P., Kotronis, V., Plattner, B., & Race, N. (2014). Opencache: Leveraging sdn to demonstrate a customisable and configurable cache. In 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS) (151-152). https

Efficient content delivery is a constantly evolving challenge on the modern Internet. Reducing the impact of duplicate deliveries of identical content is a key factor in reducing congestion and transit costs for smaller networks. This work leverages... Read More about Opencache: Leveraging sdn to demonstrate a customisable and configurable cache.

The FELIX Architecture for Testbed Federation (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pentikousis, K., Broadbent, M., Krzywania, R., Carrozzo, G., Vico-Oton, A., Kudoh, T., …Rothe, T. (2014, June). The FELIX Architecture for Testbed Federation. Poster presented at 2014 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC2014), Bolog

Network programmability emerges as a key ingredient of Future Internet testbeds, which are established through international collaborations across country boundaries throughout Europe and around the world. Software Defined Networking challenges long-... Read More about The FELIX Architecture for Testbed Federation.

Performance evaluation of congestion window validation for DASH transport (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nazir, S., Hossain, Z., Secchi, R., Broadbent, M., Petlund, A., & Fairhurst, G. (2014). Performance evaluation of congestion window validation for DASH transport. In NOSSDAV '14: Proceedings of Network and Operating System Support on Digital Audio and Vi

A recent proposed update to TCP congestion control, TCP-newCWV, has targeted congestion control for rate-limited applications. These methods need to be explored in the context of rate-adaptive applications, such as DASH. The new method enables a clie... Read More about Performance evaluation of congestion window validation for DASH transport.

Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling (2013)
Journal Article
Mu, M., Simpson, S., Bojko, C., Broadbent, M., Brown, J., Mauthe, A., …Hutchison, D. (2013). Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling. IEEE Communications Magazine, 51(8), 112-119. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2013.6576348

Conventional television services have been increasingly challenged by the more interactive and user-centric video sharing applications. With the growing popularity of social networks and video services, users are becoming the editors and broadcasters... Read More about Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling.

Homevisor: Adapting home network environments (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fratczak, T., Broadbent, M., Georgopoulos, P., & Race, N. (2013). Homevisor: Adapting home network environments. In 2013 Second European workshop on software defined networks (32-37). https://doi.org/10.1109/EWSDN.2013.12

This paper considers SDN, and OpenFlow in particular, as technology to develop the next generation of more flexible, configurable and automated home networks. We identify the problems with the current state of the art in home networking, which includ... Read More about Homevisor: Adapting home network environments.

Homeflow: inferring device usage with network traces (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bates, O., & Broadbent, M. (2013). Homeflow: inferring device usage with network traces. In UbiComp '13 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication (815-820). https://doi.org/10.1145/2494091.2

Previous studies in home energy have taken a service oriented approach to disaggregating direct energy consumption. With a particular focus on media and ICT services in the home, our proposed platform builds upon this work by providing activity orien... Read More about Homeflow: inferring device usage with network traces.

Towards network-wide QoE fairness using openflow-assisted adaptive video streaming (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Georgopoulos, P., Elkhatib, Y., Broadbent, M., Mu, M., & Race, N. (2013). Towards network-wide QoE fairness using openflow-assisted adaptive video streaming. In FhMN '13: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Future human-centric multimedia net

Video streaming is an increasingly popular way to consume media content. Adaptive video streaming is an emerging delivery technology which aims to increase user QoE and maximise connection utilisation. Many implementations naively estimate bandwidth... Read More about Towards network-wide QoE fairness using openflow-assisted adaptive video streaming.

OpenCache: exploring efficient and transparent content delivery mechanisms for video-on-demand (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2012). OpenCache: exploring efficient and transparent content delivery mechanisms for video-on-demand. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on CoNEXT student workshop (15-16). https://doi.org/10.1145/2413247.2413258

Watching 'on-demand' video content is a popular activity facilitated by the Internet. Existing distribution methods typically rely on unicast flows to deliver this media. This can be inefficient if identical content is delivered at a later point in t... Read More about OpenCache: exploring efficient and transparent content delivery mechanisms for video-on-demand.

Storisphere: Let’s Make a Video Story Together (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mu, M., Simpson, S., Brown, J., Bojko, C., & Broadbent, M. (2012, October). Storisphere: Let’s Make a Video Story Together. Paper presented at Digital Futures 2012: The Digital Economy All Hands Conference (DE 2012), Aberdeen