Measuring Interaction QoE in Internet Videoconferencing

Internet videoconferencing has emerged as a viable medium for communication and entertainment. However, its widespread use is being challenged. This is because videoconference end-users frequently experience perceptual quality impairments such as video frame freezing and voice dropouts due to changes in network conditions on the Internet. These impairments cause extra end-user interaction effort and correspondingly lead to unwanted network bandwidth consumption that affects user Quality of Experience (QoE) and Internet congestion. Hence, it is important to measure and subsequently minimize the extra end-user interaction effort in a videoconferencing system. In this paper, we describe a novel active measurement scheme that considers end-user interaction effort and the corresponding network bandwidth consumption to provide videoconferencing interaction QoE measurements. The scheme involves a “Multi-Activity Packet-Trains” (MAPTs) methodology to dynamically emulate a videoconferen...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: MMNS
• Authors: Prasad Calyam, Mark Haffner, Eylem Ekici, Chang-Gun Lee
• Keywords: End-user Interaction Effort, Extra End-user Interaction, MMNS 2007, Multimedia, Network Bandwidth Consumption