Using In-Network Adaptation to Tackle Inefficiencies Caused by DASH in Information-Centric Networks

The consumption of audio-visual content is the most dom-inant traffic source in today’s Internet. Novel architectural approaches, such as Information-Centric Networking (ICN), are developed to support efficient multimedia dissemination. As ICN and MPEG-DASH have several concepts in com-mon, recent proposals consider a fusion of both technologies. However, MPEG-DASH relies on pure client-driven adapta-tion. This often rather selfish adaptation strategy inhibits benefits gained from ICN’s inherent caching and multi-path transmission capabilities. In order to overcome this chal-lenge, the contribution of this work is the integration of in-network adaptation (INA) in ICN. We illustrate that INA can be realized despite ICN’s content-based security model. Our proposal rests on scalable content, which enables INA without management and transmission overhead