A QoE-Driven Multicast Strategy With Segment Routing—A Novel Multimedia Traffic Engineering Paradigm

Quality of Experience (QoE) reflects end users’ overall experience and feeling with network services, but needs support in terms of end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS). Segment routing (SR) as a new routing paradigm can provide good end-to-end QoS guarantee, making traditional multimedia traffic routing more efficient and scalable. In this paper, we address two problems related to the new SR mechanism: enabling fine-grained end-to-end QoS routing under a complex network environment and constructing the multicast routing tree with branch node load balancing. To solve these problems, an Inaccurate information-based QoE-driven Routing algorithm (IQdR) and a Branch-aware Multicast Tree (BaMT) algorithm were proposed. Simulation test results that have compared the performance of our proposed solution against that of other algorithms show that the previous works were outperformed. Additionally, the results also show that our multicast architecture improves the scalability of the network in terms of the number of flows.

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