Server selection for video streaming applications over Software Defined Networks

Software Defined Networks (SDN) is a new technology providing a programmable network by separating control and data planes of computer networks. SDN technology can provide an increase in the performance of Internet applications by implementing routing approaches specific to such applications. In this paper, we propose a server and end-to-end path selection approach for a content distribution network (CDN) based video streaming system. Simulation results show that the proposed approach can increase the performance of CDN based video streaming systems.