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Quality of Experience (QoE) prediction plays a crucial role in optimizing resource management and enhancing user satisfaction across both telecommunication and OTT services. While recent advances predominantly rely on deep learning models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Vinti Nayar , Kanica Sachdev , Brejesh Lall

We provide in this paper a tutorial and a comprehensive survey of QoE management solutions in current and future networks. We start with a high level description of QoE management for multimedia services, which integrates QoE modelling,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Alcardo Alex Barakabitze , Nabajeet Barman , Arslan Ahmad , Saman Zadtootaghaj , Lingfen Sun , Maria G. Martini , Luigi Atzori

Quality of Experience (QoE) modeling is crucial for optimizing video streaming services to capture the complex relationships between different features and user experience. We propose a novel approach to QoE modeling in video streaming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Kamal Singh , Priyanka Rawat , Sami Marouani , Baptiste Jeudy

The rapid development of 5G communication technology has given birth to various real-time broadband communication services, such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and cloud games. Compared with traditional services, consumers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Hao Wang , Lei Ji , Zhenxing Gao

We provide a unified framework using which we design scalable dynamic adaptive video streaming algorithms based on index based policies (dubbed DAS-IP) to maximize the Quality of Experience (QoE) provided to clients using video streaming…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Rahul Singh , P. R. Kumar

The emerging video applications greatly increase the demand in network bandwidth that is not easy to scale. To provide higher quality of experience (QoE) under limited bandwidth, a recent trend is to leverage the heterogeneity of quality…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Xu Zhang , Paul Schmitt , Marshini Chetty , Nick Feamster , Junchen Jiang

HTTP based adaptive video streaming has become a popular choice of streaming due to the reliable transmission and the flexibility offered to adapt to varying network conditions. However, due to rate adaptation in adaptive streaming, the…

Quality of Experience~(QoE)-driven adaptive bitrate (ABR) algorithms are typically optimized using QoE models that are based on the mean opinion score~(MOS), while such principles may not account for user heterogeneity on rating scales,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Tianchi Huang , Rui-Xiao Zhang , Chenglei Wu , Lifeng Sun

Measuring Quality of Experience (QoE) and integrating these measurements into video streaming algorithms is a multi-faceted problem that fundamentally requires the design of comprehensive subjective QoE databases and metrics. To achieve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-14 Christos G. Bampis , Zhi Li , Ioannis Katsavounidis , Te-Yuan Huang , Chaitanya Ekanadham , Alan C. Bovik

In video streaming services, predicting the continuous user's quality of experience (QoE) plays a crucial role in delivering high quality streaming contents to the user. However, the complexity caused by the temporal dependencies in QoE…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Tho Nguyen Duc , Chanh Minh Tran , Phan Xuan Tan , Eiji Kamioka

Immersive media streaming, especially virtual reality (VR)/360-degree video streaming which is very bandwidth demanding, has become more and more popular due to the rapid growth of the multimedia and networking deployments. To better…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Wei Huang , Lianghui Ding , Hung-Yu Wei , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Yiling Xu , Wenjun Zhang

The rapid adoption of QUIC as a transport protocol has transformed content delivery by reducing latency, enhancing congestion control (CC), and enabling more efficient multiplexing. With the advent of 5G networks, which support ultra-low…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jashanjot Singh Sidhu , Jorge Ignacio Sandoval , Abdelhak Bentaleb , Sandra Cespedes

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) demonstrates its promising potential in the realm of adaptive video streaming and has recently received increasing attention. However, existing DRL-based methods for adaptive video streaming use only…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Lingzhi Zhao , Ying Cui , Yuhang Jia , Yunfei Zhang , Klara Nahrstedt

The predominant use of wireless access networks is for media streaming applications, which are only gaining popularity as ever more devices become available for this purpose. However, current access networks treat all packets identically,…

User-perceived quality-of-experience (QoE) is critical in internet video delivery systems. Extensive prior work has studied the design of client-side bitrate adaptation algorithms to maximize single-player QoE. However, multiplayer QoE…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Xiaoqi Yin , Mihovil Bartulović , Vyas Sekar , Bruno Sinopoli

The rapid uptake of intelligent applications is pushing deep learning (DL) capabilities to Internet-of-Things (IoT). Despite the emergence of new tools for embedding deep neural networks (DNNs) into IoT devices, providing satisfactory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Yang Bai , Lixing Chen , Shaolei Ren , Jie Xu

The popularity of the video services on the Internet has evolved various mechanisms that target the Quality of Experience (QoE) optimization of video traffic. The video quality has been enhanced through adapting the sending bitrates.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Qahhar Muhammad Qadir , Alexander A. Kist , Zhongwei Zhang

Traditional optimization methods based on system-wide Quality of Service (QoS) metrics have approached their performance limitations in modern large-scale streaming systems. However, aligning user-level Quality of Experience~(QoE) with…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Lianchen Jia , Chao Zhou , Chaoyang Li , Jiangchuan Liu , Lifeng Sun

Social media, professional sports, and video games are driving rapid growth in live video streaming, on platforms such as Twitch and YouTube Live. Live streaming experience is very susceptible to short-time-scale network congestion since…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Sharat Chandra Madanapalli , Alex Mathai , Hassan Habibi Gharakheili , Vijay Sivaraman

The optimization of quality of experience (QoE) in multi-user virtual reality (VR) interactions demands a delicate balance between ultra-low latency, high-fidelity motion synchronization, and equitable resource allocation. While adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ziru Zhang , Jiadong Yu , Danny H. K. Tsang