Impact of media-related SIFs on QoE for H.265/HEVC video streaming

• Main Authors: Irma Osmanovic, Jasmina Barakovic Husic, Sabina Barakovic
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Croatian Communications and Information Society (CCIS) 2018-06-01
• Series: Journal of Communications Software and Systems
• Subjects: ANOVA; H.265; LTE; media-related SIF; MOS; QoE; video streaming
• Online Access: https://jcomss.fesb.unist.hr/index.php/jcomss/article/view/516

Long term evolution (LTE) is the fastest-deployed mobile broadband technology driven by demand for improved user experience. It has distinguished itself compared to other mobile broadband technologies in its ability to handle the growth of video traffic that has become an important part of user’s mobile broadband experience. Growing trend of video consumption implies that that media-related system influence factors (SIFs) should be identified and well-understood in order to determine how they affect the user’s quality of experience (QoE). Therefore, this paper aims to provide a deeper understanding of media-related SIFs and their impact on QoE for video streaming. Experimental study has included two phases, i.e., H.265/ high efficiency video coding (HEVC) coded video streaming emulation over LTE network and end-user survey for collecting mean opinion score (MOS). Results obtained from statistical analysis imply that there exists strong and statistically significant impact of individual media-related SIFs and their interaction on QoE for video streaming.