Deutsch Intern
Chair of Computer Science III

DFG ÖkoNet

ÖkoNet: Design and Performance Evaluation of New Mechanisms for the Future Internet – New Paradigms and Economic Aspects


Research Project initiated and financed by

ÖkoNet Project Team

Heads

Florian Wamser,

  Tobias Hoßfeld
Researchers Valentin Burger,
  Matthias Hirth,
  Frank Lehrieder,
    Christian Schwartz

Summary

The importance of the Internet in economic and social areas has been growing strongly in the recent past. Since economic and social aspects did not play a role when the Internet was developed in the 70s, today’s Internet reaches its limits because of unpredictable problems and conflicts of interest between network and service providers. An example is the cost effective traffic routing between network providers, which can lead to quality degradations in the delivery of multimedia content. Based on primer orthogonal approaches as "Economic Traffic Management" and "Design for Tussle", these economic aspects are systematically taken into account to design and evaluate Internet mechanisms. A collection of existing and future Internet mechanisms is deployed, which shows the impact of economic aspects and the underlying paradigms. It makes fundamental understanding for design and evaluation of technical mechanisms and analysis of economic factors possible. These factors are demonstrated by two spanning case studies. In the first case appropriate routing mechanisms for so called Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) are developed and evaluated. In the second case energy efficient mechanisms for video-streaming in distributed overlay networks are designed and evaluated. In an iterative process the findings of both cases influence the abstract, systematic point of view and vice versa. This process ends in the fusion of the developed mechanisms.

More details and project results can be found online at http://www.oekonet.de.

Publications


  • Applicability and Limitations of a Simple WiFi Hotspot Model for Cities. Seufert, Michael; Moldovan, Christian; Burger, Valentin; Hoßfeld, Tobias. In 13th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). Tokio, Japan, 2017.
  • Evaluating the Impact of WiFi Offloading on Mobile Users of HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming. Seufert, Michael. 5th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Experience for Multimedia Communications (QoEMC), Washington, DC, USA, 2016, December 8.
  • Performance Analysis of Hierarchical Caching Systems with Bandwidth Constraints. Burger, Valentin; Zinner, Thomas. In Proceedings of the International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference. Dunedin, New Zealand, 2016.
  • Evaluating the Impact of WiFi Offloading on Mobile Users of HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming. Seufert, Michael; Burger, Valentin; Kaup, Fabian. In 5th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Experience for Multimedia Communications (QoEMC). Washington, DC, USA, 2016.
  • Correlating QoE and Technical Parameters of an SAP System in an Enterprise Environment. Borchert, Kathrin; Hirth, Matthias; Zinner, Thomas; Mocanu, Decebal Constantin. In QCMan IEEE Workshop on QoE centric Management. 2016.
  • Impact of Intermediate Layer on Quality of Experience of HTTP Adaptive Streaming. Seufert, Michael; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Sieber, Christian. In 11th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). Barcelona, Spain, 2015.
  • Impact of Intermediate Layer on Quality of Experience of HTTP Adaptive Streaming. Seufert, Michael; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Sieber, Christian. Barcelona, Spain, 2015, November.
  • Trade-Off between QoE and Operational Cost in Edge Resource Supported Video Streaming. Burger, Valentin; Darzanos, George; Papafili, Ioanna; Seufert, Michael. In 10th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC). Krakow, Poland, 2015.
  • Augmenting Home Routers for Socially-Aware Traffic Management. Lareida, Andri; Petropoulos, George; Burger, Valentin; Seufert, Michael; Soursos, Sergios; Stiller, Burkhard. In 40th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). Clearwater Beach, FL, USA, 2015.
  • Analysis of Group-based Communication in WhatsApp. Seufert, Michael. 7th EAI International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management (MONAMI), Santander, Spain, 2015, September 18.
  • Analysis of Group-based Communication in WhatsApp. Seufert, Michael; Schwind, Anika; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tran-Gia, Phuoc. In 7th EAI International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management (MONAMI). Santander, Spain, 2015.
  • Utilizing Home Router Caches to Augment CDNs towards Information-Centric Networking. Seufert, Michael; Burger, Valentin; Wamser, Florian; Tran-Gia, Phuoc; Moldovan, Christian; Hoßfeld, Tobias. In European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC). Paris, France, 2015.
  • Identifying QoE Optimal Adaptation of HTTP Adaptive Streaming Based on Subjective Studies. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Seufert, Michael; Sieber, Christian; Zinner, Thomas; Tran-Gia, Phuoc. In Computer Networks, 81, pp. 320–332. 2015.
  • A Survey on Quality of Experience of HTTP Adaptive Streaming. Seufert, Michael; Egger, Sebastian; Slanina, Martin; Zinner, Thomas; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tran-Gia, Phuoc. In IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 17, pp. 469–492. 2015.
  • Close to Optimum? User-centric Evaluation of Adaptation Logics for HTTP Adaptive Streaming. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Seufert, Michael; Sieber, Christian; Zinner, Thomas; Tran-Gia, Phuoc. In PIK - Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation, 37, pp. 275–285. 2014.
  • Assessing Effect Sizes of Influence Factors Towards a QoE Model for HTTP Adaptive Streaming. Seufert, Michael. 6th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Singapore, 2014, September 19.
  • Assessing Effect Sizes of Influence Factors Towards a QoE Model for HTTP Adaptive Streaming. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Seufert, Michael; Sieber, Christian; Zinner, Thomas. In 6th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX). Singapore, 2014.
  • Crowdsourced Subjective User Study Results on QoE Influence Factors of HTTP Adaptive Streaming. Technical Report (491), . Hoßfeld, Tobias; Seufert, Michael; Sieber, Christian; Zinner, Thomas. University of Wuerzburg, 2014.
  • A Survey on Quality of Experience of HTTP Adaptive Streaming. Technical Report (490), . Seufert, Michael; Egger, Sebastian; Slanina, Martin; Zinner, Thomas; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tran-Gia, Phuoc. University of Wuerzburg, 2014.
  • QoE of YouTube Video Streaming for Current Internet Transport Protocols. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Schatz, Raimund; Krieger, Udo. In Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems (MMB 2014). Bamberg, Germany, 2014.
  • Best Practices for QoE Crowdtesting: QoE Assessment with Crowdsourcing. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Keimel, Christian; Hirth, Matthias; Gardlo, Bruno; Habigt, Julian; Diepold, Klaus; Tran-Gia, Phuoc. In Transactions on Multimedia, 16. 2014.
  • Trade-Offs for Video-Providers in LTE Networks: Smartphone Energy Consumption Vs Wasted Traffic. Schwartz, Christian; Scheib, Marc; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tran-Gia, Phuoc; Manuel Gimenez-Guzman, Jose. In 22nd International Teletraffic Congress Specialist Seminar on Energy Efficient and Green Networking. Christchurch, New Zealand, 2013.
  • Asking Costs Little? The Impact of Tasks in Video QoE Studies on User Behavior and User Ratings. Sackl, Andreas; Seufert, Michael; Hoßfeld, Tobias. In 4th International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems (PQS). Vienna, Austria, 2013.
  • Need for Speed? On Quality of Experience for File Storage Services. Amrehn, Philipp; Vandenbroucke, Karel; Hoßfeld, Tobias; de Moor, Katrien; Hirth, Matthias; Schatz, Raimund; Casas, Pedro. In 4th International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems (PQS 2013). Vienna, Austria, 2013.
  • Smart-Phone Energy Consumption Vs. 3G Signaling Load: The Influence of Application Traffic Patterns. Schwartz, Christian; Lehrieder, Frank; Wamser, Florian; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tran-Gia, Phuoc. In Tyrrhenian International Workshop 2013 on Digital Communications: Green ICT. Genova, Italy, 2013.
  • Implementation and User-centric Comparison of a Novel Adaptation Logic for DASH with SVC. Sieber, Christian; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Zinner, Thomas; Tran-Gia, Phuoc; Timmerer, Christian. In IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Experience Centric Management (QCMan), Best Paper Award. Ghent, Belgium, 2013.
  • Pippi Longstocking Calculus for Temporal Stimuli Pattern on YouTube QoE. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Strohmeier, Dominik; Raake, Alexander; Schatz, Raimund. In 5th ACM Workshop on Mobile Video (MoVid 2013). Oslo, Norway, 2013.
  • Internet Video Delivery in YouTube: From Traffic Measurements to Quality of Experience. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Schatz, Raimund; Biersack, Ernst; Plissonneau, Louis. In Data Traffic Monitoring and Analysis: From measurement, classification and anomaly detection to Quality of experience, C. C. Ernst Biersack (ed.). Springer’s Computer Communications and Networks series, Volume 7754, 2013.
  • From Packets to People: Quality of Experience as New Measurement Challenge. Schatz, Raimund; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Janowski, Lucjan; Egger, Sebastian. In Data Traffic Monitoring and Analysis: From measurement, classification and anomaly detection to Quality of experience, C. C. Ernst Biersack (ed.). Springer’s Computer Communications and Networks series, Volume 7754, 2013.
  • Who Profits from Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing? Traffic Optimization Potential in BitTorrent Swarms. Burger, Valentin; Lehrieder, Frank; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Seedorf, Jan. In International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 24). Krakow, Poland, 2012.