Video stream quality impacts viewer behavior: Inferring causality using quasi-experimental designs

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 211-224

  Krishnan, S Shunmuga ^a   Sitaraman, Ramesh K ^b  

^a AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

causal inference; internet content delivery; multimedia; quasi experimental design; streaming video; user behavior; video quality

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL INFERENCE; INTERNET CONTENT; MULTIMEDIA; STREAMING VIDEOS; USER BEHAVIORS; VIDEO QUALITY;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; ECONOMICS; INTERNET; STATISTICS; VIDEO STREAMING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84870939426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2398776.2398799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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