Title :
Application of a PQoS Based Quality Management Model to Identify Relative Importance of the Agents
Author :
Liberal, Fidel ; Ferro, Armando ; Fajardo, Jose Oscar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Univ. of the Basque Country, Bilbao
Abstract :
In last years there have been some governmental initiatives aimed at the regulation of quality of service evaluation in telecommunications services. However this has proven to be a complex task especially for Internet services, where it is difficult to objectively assess the quality of a service and to identify whether one or more of the provider agents are responsible of final dissatisfaction of users. This paper affords the cited problem and intends to provide a methodology to asses the quality of service as perceived by end users. The aims of the proposed model are twofold: the evaluation of perceived quality of service (PQoS) based on subjective and objective measurements and the identification of responsibilities of the different agents involved in a service provision
Keywords :
multi-agent systems; quality management; quality of service; PQoS; objective measurement; perceived quality-of-service; provider agents; quality management; subjective measurement; Analysis of variance; Analytical models; Bibliographies; Concrete; Feedback; Quality management; Quality of service; Statistical analysis; Telecommunication services; Web and internet services; PQoS assessment; VoIP; analytical model; statistical analysis; technical support; web;
Conference_Titel :
Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 2005 Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9283-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICICS.2005.1689042