An Improved QoE Evaluation Model for HTTP Adaptive Streaming

Zaixin Yang, Tiantian He, Li Song, Rong Xie, Xiao Gu

Abstract: HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) is an adaptive bitrate streaming technique that enables high quality streaming of media content over the Internet delivered from conventional HTTP web servers. ITU-T Rec. P.1203.3 is the first standardized Quality of Experience model for audiovisual HTTP Adaptive Streaming. It takes into account the subjective impact of HAS-typical effects(such as buffering, quality switches) on users. But the buffering inputs required for the model is too complex and redundant, and it does not consider the impact of the worst video quality on QoE. In the paper we optimize the ITU-T Rec. P.1203.3 model in the above two aspects, simplify model input and improve model accuracy and stability.