Bridging between Quality of Experience and Quality of Service through TCP Flag Ratios
2016 (English)In: Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN, IEEE Computer Society , 2016, Vol. Part F126504, p. 192-198, article id 7856156Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Since the early days of Quality of Experience (QoE) research, relationships to Quality of Service (QoS) and corresponding QoE-QoS models have been of great interest to the research community. However, the manifold quality transformations throughout the communication stack, together with accessibility issues of QoS parameters inside networks, hamper availability, applicability and generality of such models. On this background, the paper proposes the use of specific transport layer information, in particular the ratios of selected flags used by the TCP protocol, as QoE indicators. In our work, we show that such flag ratios help identifying, characterizing and quantifying user annoyance from observations anywhere along the TCP connection. As use case, we address video streaming from a TCP CUBIC web server in a wireless setting. © 2016 IEEE.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE Computer Society , 2016. Vol. Part F126504, p. 192-198, article id 7856156
Keywords [en]
Quality of Experience (QoE), Quality of Service (QoS), TCP flags, video streaming, Web server, Computer networks, Transmission control protocol, Web crawler, Web services, Communication stacks, QoS parameters, Research communities, TCP connections, Transport layers, Web servers, Quality of service
National Category
Communication Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-14147DOI: 10.1109/LCN.2016.047ISI: 000406028400026Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85017523965ISBN: 9781509023479 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-14147DiVA, id: diva2:1092891
Conference
41st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks Workshops, LCN Workshops 2016, Dubai
2017-05-042017-05-042021-05-04Bibliographically approved