Quality of experience in cloud services: Survey and measurements

Computer Networks

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 149-165

  Casas, Pedro ^a   Schatz, Raimund ^a  

^a TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH CENTER VIENNA FTW   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Access network dimensioning; Cloud services; MOS; Quality of Experience; Subjective lab tests and field trials

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; VIDEO CONFERENCING; VIDEO STREAMING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; WEB SERVICES;

ACCEPTABILITY; ACCESS NETWORK; CLOUD SERVICES; FIELD TRIAL; MOS; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE);

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84902384700     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2014.01.008     Document Type: Article

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