Perceived Quality Measurement Model Supporting Full Session Mobility in Multimedia Service Delivery

Abstract

Context-awareness is associated with the concept of machines being able to both recognize and react to the surrounding environment, which has accelerated multimedia computing technology to provide user-oriented intelligent services. The goal of this research focuses on the modeling of video quality measurement in seamless video service delivery process considering the mobility patterns of users. Mobility supporting schemes providing seamless multimedia services are classified into host mobility and user mobility. The former refers to a host-level handoff while the latter indicates a user-level handoff. In host-level handoff, the decisive factors affecting the quality of video contents consumption are the total distance between hosts, the distance to resume streaming while the user is in mobility mode as well as the screen size of the end host. The influential parameters affecting the degree of video quality and seamlessness are evaluated by a subjective quality assessment and then a perceived video quality model was developed, accordingly. In addition, the optimal video delivery switching point to enable user mobility based video service is studied through the quality analysis of host mobility services at varying distances among the hosts. Experimental results show that the proposed quality model has high correlation with assessed quality and is useful to enable an adequate seamless mobility for multimedia service delivery.