A Monitor Plane Component for Adaptive Video Streaming

Video components have become an important part of many popular Internet services, and at an aggregated level they are now a dominant service type in terms of generated traffic volume. Many of these services are provided from content providers utilizing the best effort part of an Internet service. In this paper we provide an introduction to the technical evolutions in this area and also present the capabilities of the more recent enhancements in terms of adaptive streaming services. These services are put into the context of an established QoE optimization framework, and a candidate Monitor Plane (measurement and reporting) component is described. The potential use of this component in order to provide an objective QoE indicator and as input to a home gateway bandwidth broker is proposed.