Programmable networks, Human factors and Machine learning.
SDCN is an R&D project supported by EPSRC (now part of UKRI – UK Research and Innovation). The PI of the project is Dr Mu Mu at the University of Northampton.
The non-cooperative competition of network resources between a growing number of adaptive media applications has a significant detrimental impact on user experience and network efficiency. This can lead to knock-on effects on the digital economy and digital public services, which are increasingly dependent on high quality and reliable media streaming. Future network management must leverage application and user-level cognitive factors in order to allocate scarce network resources effectively and intelligently.
SDCN aims at developing software-defined cognitive networking to ensure the user experience, user-level fairness and network efficiency of online adaptive media using SDN-assisted and QoE-aware resource management. SDCN will lay the groundwork for a great leap from the conventional resource provisioning and traffic engineering schemes to context-aware network management especially in the context of future online video streaming, 5G and big data.
The project is partnered with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Aruba and Lancaster University.
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SDCN: Software Defined Cognitive Networking 