User Centric Quality of Experience Testing for Video on Demand over IMS

Author

Kuwadekar, Alhad ; Al-Begain, Khalid

Author_Institution

Integrated Commun. Res. Centre, Univ. of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

23-25 July 2009

Firstpage

497

Lastpage

504

Abstract

Video call capabilities in 3G mobile handsets and higher data rate in 3G UMTS networks are fuelling resurgence in video telephony. This enables the delivery of exciting video applications to subscribers. The addition of interactive voice and video response (IVVR) opens up a wide stream of interactive video applications. In this paper we present a comparative study on the encoding tools and the techniques used to store and stream video on demand to subscribers. The paper presents the performance results obtained on a IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) based next generation network test-setup connected to a live operator network. These results are based on the quality of experience (QoE) that end user perceive. These results can help service operators to deliver content rich applications to the end users as per their expectations.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; IP networks; mobile handsets; multimedia communication; video on demand; videotelephony; 3G UMTS networks; IMS; IP multimedia subsystem; encoding tools; interactive voice and video response; mobile handsets; next generation network test-setup; quality of experience; video call capabilities; video on demand; video telephony; Computational intelligence; Humans; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Next generation networking; Quality of service; Streaming media; System testing; Transcoding; Video on demand; IMS; QoE; Quality of Experience; User Centric; Video on Demand; VoD;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks, 2009. CICSYN '09. First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Indore

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3743-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICSYN.2009.35

Filename

5231821