Q-score: Proactive service quality assessment in a large IPTV system

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 195-208

  Song, Han Hee ^a   Ge, Zihui ^b   Mahimkar, Ajay ^b   Wang, Jia ^b   Yates, Jennifer ^b   Zhang, Yin ^a   Basso, Andrea ^b   Chen, Min ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

analysis; assessment; IPTV; QoE; quality; service; video

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ASSESSMENT; QOE; SERVICE; VIDEO;

BENCHMARKING; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERNET; IPTV; RATING; SALES; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 82955197367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2068816.2068836     Document Type: Conference Paper

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