Research on the User Behavior-Based QoE Evaluation Method for HTTP Mobile Streaming

With the development of mobile network technology, HTTP mobile steaming is deployed by most of the video websites. Thus a lot of research works have been done on the Quality of experience (QoE) evaluation for HTTP mobile streaming. However, in most of them, only the factors in the network layer was considered, and the important information about user dissatisfaction with the video quality may be ignored. In this paper, we have made a survey to analyze the relationship between user satisfaction and user behaviors while a HTTP video is viewed, and we find that user behaviors will affect their QoE evaluation. Base on the findings, we propose a novel QoE evaluation method for HTTP mobile streaming which is based on user behaviors. The method combines user QoE with user expectations and moods inferred by user behaviors. In addition, not only the video fluency but also video clarity is considered in our work.