6.829 Fall 2020 Paper Questions

For each paper, by 12AM the evening before lecture:

Submit your answer for each lecture's paper question via the submission web site

Lec14: Software-Defined Networks (SDN)

What is the OpenFlow protocol?

Lec15: Video Streaming

1. How are ABR algorithms similar to congestion control algorithms? How are they different?
2. Which signal, playback buffer occupancy or network capacity estimate, do you expect to be more useful for ABR decisions for live video streaming? Why?

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