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The Logarithmic Nature of QoE and the Role of the Weber-Fechner Law in QoE Assessment
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The Weber-Fechner Law (WFL) is an important principle in psychophysics which describes the relationship be- tween the magnitude of a physical stimulus and its perceived intensity. With the sensory system of the human body, in many cases this dependency turns out to be of logarithmic nature. Re- cent quantitative QoE research shows that in several different scenarios a similar logarithmic relationship can be observed be- tween the size of a certain QoS parameter of the communication system and the resulting QoE on the user side as observed during appropriate user trials. In this paper, we discuss this surprising link in more detail. After a brief survey on the background of the WFL, we review its basic implications with respect to related work on QoE assessment for VoIP, most notably the recently published IQX hypothesis, before we present results of our own trials on QoE assessment for mobile broadband scenarios which confirm this dependency also for data services. Finally, we point out some conclusions and directions for further research.
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“In the literature, simple-regression models with a single feature are most dominant [145, 240, 383, 408], although the collective impact of different QoS parameters was also considered [23,132].”
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“While some find it sufficient to correlate the QoE to a single network QoS parameter [145, 240, 383, 408], e.g.delay or throughput, others argue that multiple QoS parameters impact the QoE and need to be considered in tandem as features in a QoE/QoS correlation model [89,102,114,235,287,328,432].”
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- Reichl, P., Egger, S., Schatz, R., & D'Alconzo, A.
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- Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (AT)
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- 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications
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- IEEE
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- 2010-05
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- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image and Video Quality Assessment
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Network Traffic and Congestion Control
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Acoustics and Ultrasonics › Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Keywords
- quality of experience, Weber-Fechner law, psychophysics, VoIP, mobile broadband, data services, user testing, QoS parameters
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