An approach towards mapping quality of perception to quality of service in multimedia communications

Author

Ghinea, G. ; Thomas, J.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Reading Univ., UK

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

497

Lastpage

501

Abstract

An approach to the design of user-centred communications protocols is presented. Quality of perception (QoP) is a novel term which includes not only users´ enjoyment and satisfaction with a multimedia presentation, but also their ability to assimilate its informational content. We show that a relation of proportionality can be obtained between QoP and low-level quality of service (QoS) parameters if the multimedia presentation content is taken into account. This relation could provide the basis for a preferential QoS parameter management scheme which is also user-oriented

Keywords

human factors; multimedia communication; quality of service; transport protocols; user centred design; information content assimilation; low-level service quality parameters; multimedia communications; multimedia presentation; perception quality; proportionality; user enjoyment; user satisfaction; user-centred communication protocols; user-oriented preferential QoS parameter management scheme; Computer science; Humans; Information analysis; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Network synthesis; Operating systems; Protocols; Quality of service; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Signal Processing, 1999 IEEE 3rd Workshop on

Conference_Location

Copenhagen

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5610-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMSP.1999.793898

Filename

793898