QoE Assessment of Video Codecs for Video Streaming over 5G Networks

Nowadays, the need for more efficient video compression algorithms is growing, due to the increasing consumption of video content in higher resolutions. Thus, it is obvious that video compression technologies play a key role in the distribution of video content in broadcasting. In this paper, a comparative analysis and QoE assessment over the most recent video codecs in terms of video transmission over 5G networks are presented. The video compression comparison takes into account performance metrics considering the bitrate savings versus the image quality, in order to provide evidence about their adaptation under real-time streaming conditions. The video test sequences used in our experiments were retrieved from miscellaneous sources and their common characteristic is that they have High, Full or Ultra High Definition resolution. Video codecs’ performance was tested by using commercial coding libraries and reference software of the coding standards.