Janus - A Software-Defined Networking MPEG-DASH Video Streaming Load Balancer

Recently, with popularisation of video streaming service, new video distribution technologies have been created. Currently, one of the most promising ones is the Moving Picture Expert Group Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP or MPEG-DASH. Even so, with the limitation of the TCP/IP network structure, the end user Quality of Experience (QoE) may be affected. One issue that can affect user QoE is the workload of content distribution servers. Thus, the unbalancing of server's workload comprising user's attendance can lead to a content server provider non optimised choice. This work presents two load-balancing solutions between MPEG-DASH video servers based on Software-Defined Networks, using as a balancing workload metric the throughput of the content server as well as the CPU load.