Service provider anD Content Aware Network Provider cross-layer optimisation of multimedia distribution

This work is a part of complex multi-domain eco-system specification and design aiming to deliver multimedia Quality of Services (QoS) enabled services. A cooperation framework is proposed between a high level Service Provider (SP) - managing high level services - and a Content Aware Network Provider (CANP), managing an overlay, multi-domain, transportation network. The virtual CANs are requested by a SP, negotiated with, and realised by the CANP. This cooperation, through online Service Level Agreements, creates a cross-layer optimization loop between the transport, application, and services layers. Inside the VCANs the resources for QoS assurance are assured by static and dynamic provisioning, service differentiation and media flow dynamic adaptation.