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A Methodology for Performance Benchmarking of Mobile Networks for Internet Video Streaming

Abstract

Video streaming is a dominant contributor to the global Internet traffic. Consequently, gauging network performance w.r.t. the video Quality of Experience (QoE) is of paramount importance to both telecom operators and regulators. Modern video streaming systems, e.g. YouTube, have huge catalogs of billions of different videos that vary significantly in content type. Owing to this difference, the QoE of different videos as perceived by end users can vary for the same network Quality of Service (QoS). In this paper, we present a methodology for benchmarking performance of mobile operators w.r.t Internet video that considers this variation in QoE. We take a data-driven approach to build a predictive model using supervised machine learning (ML) that takes into account a wide range of videos and network conditions. To that end, we first build and analyze a large catalog of YouTube videos. We then propose and demonstrate a framework of controlled experimentation based on active learning to build the training data for the targeted ML model. Using this model, we then devise YouScore, an estimate of the percentage of YouTube videos that may play out smoothly under a given network condition. Finally, to demonstrate the benchmarking utility of YouScore, we apply it on an open dataset of real user mobile network measurements to compare performance of mobile operators for video streaming.
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hal-01855264 , version 1 (07-08-2018)

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Muhammad Jawad Khokhar, Thierry Spetebroot, Chadi Barakat. A Methodology for Performance Benchmarking of Mobile Networks for Internet Video Streaming. MSWIM 2018 - The 21st ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Oct 2018, Montreal, Canada. ⟨10.1145/3242102.3242128⟩. ⟨hal-01855264⟩
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