A QoE Evaluation Methodology for HD Video Streaming Using Social Networking

Abstract

A novel methodology for QoE evaluation in the social network environment is proposed. It provides high applicability for subjective testing of the multimedia services with respect to real usage scenarios. The environment of social networks provides also significant demographic data and ability to contact extremely many test subjects while allows to focus on or filter specific social groups. QoE results for HD internet video services are presented and followed by discussion on their statistical significance.