SwarmLayer: A Hybrid P2P Assisted Solution for MPEG-DASH Streaming
SwarmLayer is a hybrid P2P layer for MPEG-DASH that uses WebRTC and Service Workers to offload up to 96% of server traffic with no changes to existing players.
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Román Belda
Associate Professor at Universitat Politècnica de València
Professional Summary
Román Belda received his degree in Computer Science in 2004 and an M.S. in Telematics in 2013 from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. He obtained his Ph.D. in Telecommunications from UPV in 2021. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València and a member of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM). His research interests include mobile applications and multimedia transmission protocols.
Education
BS Computer Science
Universitat Politècnica de València
MS in Communication Technologies, Systems and Networks
Universitat Politècnica de València
PhD in Telecommunications
Universitat Politècnica de València
Interests
Multimedia Communications
Transport Protocols
Software Development
Computer Networks
📚 My Research
I’m a passionate software developer with broad experience in multimedia communications. Every day, I’m amazed by the technology that hides the astonishingly complicated inner bits of the digital world we have created, and I want to be a part of building it.
Featured Publications
A DASH server-side delay-based representation switching solution to improve the quality of experience for low-latency live video streaming
SSRS for LL-DASH live streaming uses server-measured client request delays to adapt video quality, achieving good quality-latency trade-offs without player modifications.
Recent Publications
(2025).
From Radio Telemetry to Perceptual Quality: A QoE-as-a-Service Framework for Multi-User OTT Streaming in 5G Vehicular Environments.
SSRN.
(2025).
SwarmLayer: A Hybrid P2P Assisted Solution for MPEG-DASH Streaming.
2025 International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM).
(2023).
A DASH server-side delay-based representation switching solution to improve the quality of experience for low-latency live video streaming.
Computer Networks.
(2022).
Performance evaluation and testbed for delivering SRT live content using DASH low latency streaming systems.
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, & Ubiquitous Networks.