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

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2001-2014

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

^a AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Internet content delivery; multimedia; quasi experimental design; streaming video; user behavior; video quality

Indexed keywords

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

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

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84891627785     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2013.2281542     Document Type: Article

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