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Recent Advances on Intelligent Multimedia Networks

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Networks".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 12046

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Dimitris Kanellopoulos

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Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, 26500 Patras, GR, Greece
Interests: multimedia networks; quality of service (QoS); mobile ad hoc networks; wireless networks; wireless sensor networks; computer networks design; modeling and implementation
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Dr. Miguel García-Pineda

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Computer Science Department, University of Valencia, 46100 Valencia, Spain
Interests: multimedia networks; streaming; QoE; QoS; IoTs; cloud computing
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Dr. Daniel G. Costa

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC), Faculty of Engineering (FEUP), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Interests: smart cities; Internet of Things; sensor networks; embedded systems; multimedia sensing
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, multimedia networking applications benefit from the rapid development of encoding techniques for multimedia data sources, effective Quality of Service (QoS) control mechanisms, and Quality of Experience (QoE) criteria for system optimization. Interoperability solutions are also being proposed to integrate wired and wireless heterogeneous networking systems for multimedia communication. Another challenge is ensuring that the multimedia-networked content is fully interoperable, with ease of management and standardized multimedia content adapted for interoperable delivery, as well as intellectual property management and protection (i.e., digital rights management) being successfully incorporated into the system. Meanwhile, multimedia networks can be more secure and intelligent by integrating some type of intelligence. Existing research works still need to find out efficient ways to establish Intelligent Multimedia Networks (IMNs). Intelligent Networks can be applied in several network shapes like edge/Fog/Cloud/p2p networks and even sensor/mesh networks to increase the performance and throughput of such systems as well as providing better QoE to satisfy customers’ experiences.

This Special Issue solicits novel work in terms of solutions and techniques for intelligent multimedia networks. We look forward to creating a forum in which researchers in the domain of intelligent multimedia networks can share their results, techniques, surveys, analyses, and discussions of the problems of intelligent multimedia networks. Topics of interest for this Special Issue are not limited strictly to traditional multimedia networking problems, but also include topics that address related fields over multimedia sensor networks such as (but not limited to):

  • Transmission techniques for multimedia information over IMNs
  • Scheduling and routing in IMNs
  • Effective QoS control mechanisms
  • Scalability, reliability, and performance of IMNs
  • Network services and applications in IMNs
  • Performance evaluation of IMNs
  • Anomaly detection in IMNs
  • QoS and security support in IMNs
  • Multimedia system optimization through QoE criteria/support
  • Encoding techniques to improve the end-user’s QoE in IMNs
  • Digital rights and digital forensic management in IMNs
  • Multimedia security mechanisms to protect content and privacy
  • Video optimization in multimedia sensor networks
  • Optimization algorithms in IMNs
  • IMNs support for Edge Computing
  • IMNs for IoT applications
  • Network monitoring and analytical modeling in IMNs

Dr. Dimitris Kanellopoulos
Dr. Miguel García-Pineda
Dr. Daniel G. Costa
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • QoS control mechanisms
  • Scheduling and routing
  • Network services and applications in IMNs
  • Optimization algorithms in IMNs
  • Video optimization in multimedia sensor networks
  • Multimedia security mechanisms to protect content and privacy

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Sprinkle Prebuffer Strategy to Improve Quality of Experience with Less Data Wastage in Short-Form Video Streaming
by Chanh Minh Tran, Tho Nguyen Duc, Nguyen Gia Bach, Phan Xuan Tan and Eiji Kamioka
Electronics 2022, 11(13), 1949; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11131949 - 22 Jun 2022
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In mobile short-form video streaming, the video application usually provides the user with a playlist of recommended videos to be played one by one. In order to prevent playback stalls caused by possible fluctuations in the mobile network, after finishing buffering the currently-playing [...] Read more.
In mobile short-form video streaming, the video application usually provides the user with a playlist of recommended videos to be played one by one. In order to prevent playback stalls caused by possible fluctuations in the mobile network, after finishing buffering the currently-playing video, commercial video players continue to prebuffer (i.e., buffer in advance before playback) one subsequent video in the playlist with as much content as possible. However, since the user can skip a video at any time if he/she does not like it, prebuffering too much video content leads to the wastage of mobile data. Contrarily, without prebuffering any subsequent video, the video player is exposed to high risks of stalling events, which threaten the user’s quality of experience (QoE). In this paper, a novel Sprinkle Prebuffer Strategy (SPS) is proposed to overcome such drawbacks. Once the currently-playing video’s buffer reaches an optimal buffer threshold, the proposed SPS attempts to concurrently prebuffer all subsequent videos in the playlist, each up to an optimal prebuffer threshold. Based on the evaluation results, it is proven that the proposed SPS outperforms the referenced methods in providing the best user’s QoE with reasonable compensation for data wastage. Full article
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Video Streaming Adaptive QoS Routing with Resource Reservation (VQoSRR) Model for SDN Networks
by Majda Omer Elbasheer, Abdulaziz Aldegheishem, Nabil Alrajeh and Jaime Lloret
Electronics 2022, 11(8), 1252; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081252 - 15 Apr 2022
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Video streaming has become extremely widespread, especially with the growing number of users and the spread of mobile devices, along with the increase in the availability and diversity of multimedia applications and communication technologies. Real-time video communication requires awareness of the quality of [...] Read more.
Video streaming has become extremely widespread, especially with the growing number of users and the spread of mobile devices, along with the increase in the availability and diversity of multimedia applications and communication technologies. Real-time video communication requires awareness of the quality of experience (QoE) to provide customers with a satisfactory service, for example, in smart cities that use video surveillance systems. The quality of service (QoS) is dependent on network performance, which directly affects the QoE. However, reliance on traditional network infrastructure and routing protocols cannot assure QoS. The emergence of software defined networks (SDN) may eliminate current network limitations. Due to SDN’s global view and programmability characteristics, such capabilities could help in providing an automated QoS control and management. This paper introduces video streaming adaptive QoS-based routing and resource reservation (VQoSRR), which gives SDN networks the ability to meet video demands and enhance user experience over best effort networks, such as the ones required for video surveillance in smart cities. In order to implement QoS-based routing (QBR), we developed algorithms for calculating routing, installing routing paths in the forwarding devices, and shifting traffic to an alternative path when QoE is violated. As well, we used queuing mechanisms to allocate resources based on the QoE requirements of video streaming. Our results indicate that resource reservation mechanisms combined with QoS-based routing enable effective control over routes and resources. Our framework guarantees the video quality as well. This technique of using video streaming would improve the tools and applications used for smart cities such as surveillance systems for hospitals and civil defense organizations. Full article
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CMT-SCTP and MPTCP Multipath Transport Protocols: A Comprehensive Review
by Parul Tomar, Gyanendra Kumar, Lal Pratap Verma, Varun Kumar Sharma, Dimitris Kanellopoulos, Sur Singh Rawat and Youseef Alotaibi
Electronics 2022, 11(15), 2384; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11152384 - 30 Jul 2022
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A huge amount of generated data is regularly exploding into the network by the users through smartphones, laptops, tablets, self-configured Internet-of-things (IoT) devices, and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. In such a situation, satisfying critical quality-of-service (QoS) requirements (e.g., throughput, latency, bandwidth, and reliability) is [...] Read more.
A huge amount of generated data is regularly exploding into the network by the users through smartphones, laptops, tablets, self-configured Internet-of-things (IoT) devices, and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. In such a situation, satisfying critical quality-of-service (QoS) requirements (e.g., throughput, latency, bandwidth, and reliability) is a large challenge as a vast amount of data travels into the network. Nowadays, strict QoS requirements must be satisfied efficiently in many networked multimedia applications when intelligent multi-homed devices are used. Such devices support the concept of multi-homing. To be precise, they have multiple network interfaces that aim to connect and communicate concurrently with different networking technologies. Therefore, many multipath transport protocols are provided to multi-homed devices, which aim (1) to take advantage of several network paths at the transport layer (Layer-4) and (2) to meet the strict QoS requirements for providing low network latency, higher data rates, and increased reliability. To this end, this survey first presents the challenges/problems for supporting multipath transmission with possible solutions. Then, it reviews recent research efforts related to the concurrent multipath transmission (CMT) protocol and the multipath transmission control protocol (MPTCP). It reviews the latest research efforts by considering (1) how a multipath transport protocol operates (i.e., its functionality); (2) in what type of network; (3) what path characteristics it should consider; and (4) how it addresses various design challenges. Furthermore, it presents some lessons learned and discusses open research issues in multipath transport protocols. Full article
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