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Vol. 31 No. 61 (2022)
July-September 2022 (Continuous Publication)

Papers

Construction of a Video Transmission Scenario in Software-Defined Networks for QoE Estimation

https://doi.org/10.19053/01211129.v31.n61.2022.14807

Published 2022-09-28

Vicko Quizza-Hernández
Universidad del Quindío

Juan-Camilo Arango-Colorado
Universidad del Quindío

Wilmar-Yesid Campo-Muñoz
Universidad del Quindío

Abstract

The services supported by data networks have become widespread, so the architectures of the new data networks are service-oriented. They are endowed with intelligence, flexibility, and programmability. The preceding is with the aim of providing acceptability by users. Thus, this paper presents the construction of a video transmission scenario over a software-defined network (SDN, Software-Defined Networking) using free software and modifying its behavior with background traffic, on which the Quality of Experience (QoE) is estimated. Subjective and objective metrics were used for the QoE estimation. For the first one, the Mean Opinion Score (MOS) was used, while the second one was studied with the Full Reference Image Quality Assessment (FR-IQA). Finally, a correlation between the two types of metrics was proposed.

Keywords

IQA-FR, MOS, QoE, SDN, Video streaming

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Author Biography

Vicko Quizza-Hernández

Roles: Conceptualization, formal analysis, writing-review and editing.

Juan-Camilo Arango-Colorado

Roles: Conceptualization, formal analysis, writing-review and editing.

Wilmar-Yesid Campo-Muñoz

Roles: Supervision, methodology, investigation, writing-review and editing.

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