Quality of Experience Assessment of Video-Based Applications – Introduction to Research

Most telecommunication operators are moving cautiously with their video-based services rollouts because of video service assurance concerns. Competition between providers is fierce and the key to success is to provide a service with the highest possible level of user satisfaction (QoE – Quality of Experience) is to some extent related to network transmission parameters (commonly referred to as QoS – Quality of Service) and to the quality of communicated video data. Providers, of course, can’t afford the risk of going to market with a sub-standard TV offer and need to resolve their video quality problems.