Quantifying the influence of rebuffering interruptions on the user's quality of experience during mobile video watching

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-61

  De Pessemier, Toon ^a   De Moor, Katrien ^a   Joseph, Wout ^a   De Marez, Lieven ^a   Martens, Luc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Mobile; quality of experience (QoE); subjective evaluation; video

Indexed keywords

MOBILE; MOBILE MARKETS; MOBILE SERVICE; MOBILE VIDEO; NETWORK CONDITION; NETWORK DIMENSIONING; OVERALL ACCEPTABILITY; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); SERVICE DESIGN; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIMENTS; SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTIONS; TECHNICAL QUALITY; VIDEO; VIDEO PARAMETERS;

BROADCASTING; MEDIA STREAMING;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84874653785     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2012.2220231     Document Type: Article

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