OpenQoS: An OpenFlow controller design for multimedia delivery with end-to-end Quality of Service over Software-Defined Networks

OpenFlow is a Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm that decouples control and data forwarding layers of routing. In this paper, we propose OpenQoS, which is a novel OpenFlow controller design for multimedia delivery with end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) support. Our approach is based on QoS routing where the routes of multimedia traffic are optimized dynamically to fulfill the required QoS. We measure performance of OpenQoS over a real test network and compare it with the performance of the current state-of-the-art, HTTP-based multi-bitrate adaptive streaming. Our experimental results show that OpenQoS can guarantee seamless video delivery with little or no video artifacts experienced by the end-users. Moreover, unlike current QoS architectures, in OpenQoS the guaranteed service is handled without having adverse effects on other types of traffic in the network.