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: Received: 29 October 2020 / Approved: 30 October 2020 / Online: 30 October 2020 (12:55:01 CET)
How to cite:
Arnab, A.A.; Schormans, J.; Razibulhasan Raj, S.; Ahmad, N. Analysis of the Cost of Varying Levels of User Perceived Quality for Internet Access. Preprints2020, 2020100637. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0637.v1
Arnab, A.A.; Schormans, J.; Razibulhasan Raj, S.; Ahmad, N. Analysis of the Cost of Varying Levels of User Perceived Quality for Internet Access. Preprints 2020, 2020100637. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0637.v1
Arnab, A.A.; Schormans, J.; Razibulhasan Raj, S.; Ahmad, N. Analysis of the Cost of Varying Levels of User Perceived Quality for Internet Access. Preprints2020, 2020100637. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0637.v1
APA Style
Arnab, A.A., Schormans, J., Razibulhasan Raj, S., & Ahmad, N. (2020). Analysis of the Cost of Varying Levels of User Perceived Quality for Internet Access. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0637.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Arnab, A.A., Sheikh Razibulhasan Raj and Nafi Ahmad. 2020 "Analysis of the Cost of Varying Levels of User Perceived Quality for Internet Access" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202010.0637.v1
Abstract
Quality of Service (QoS) metrics deal with network quantities, e.g. latency and loss, whereas Quality of Experience (QoE) provides a proxy metric for end-user experience. Many papers in the literature have proposed mappings between various QoS metrics and QoE. This paper goes further in providing analysis for QoE versus bandwidth cost. We measure QoE using the widely accepted Mean Opinion Score (MOS) rating. Our results naturally show that increasing bandwidth increases MOS. However, we extend this understanding by providing analysis for internet access scenarios, using TCP, and varying the number of TCP sources multiplexed together. For these target scenarios our analysis indicates what MOS increase you get by further expenditure on bandwidth. We anticipate that this will be of considerable value to commercial organizations responsible for bandwidth purchase and allocation.
Keywords
Mean Opinion Score (MOS); Quality of Experience (QoE); bandwidth; bandwidth cost; Quality of Service (QoS)
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Networks and Communications
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
