Date: Friday, September 16, 2016 (full day)
Location: Computer Science Building of the University of Würzburg, Turing lecture hall
Description: In recent years, the Internet has evolved from a pure packet forwarder to a provider of complex and high demanding services and applications (e.g., video, voice, on-line gaming, cloud applications). These services and applications are typically managed through a set of Quality of Services parameters (e.g. packet loss, delay, jitter). However, it is widely agreed that the management of these services and applications should be centered on their quality as perceived by the end user: the Quality of Experience (QoE). However, this QoE centric management is greatly challenged in today’s Internet by (i) the stringent QoE requirements of the supported services and applications (e.g., timing constraints, loss intolerance) and users (e.g., unpredictability of user behavior, request for high quality services), (ii) the plethora of service consumption possibilities (e.g. for video: live vs on-demand, managed vs over-the-top), (iii) the inherent complexity of services and applications which can be offered to users in several ways to reach the same QoE level and (iv) the difficulty in assessing the quality as perceived by the end user also due to insufficient insight in the psychological and sociological factors of the service and application consumption.
Website: http://qcman.org
Workshop co-chairs
- Thomas Zinner, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
- Oliver Hohlfeld, RWTH Aachen, Germany
- Raimund Schatz, FTW Wien, Austria
- Prasad Calyam, University of Missouri, USA
The preface for QCMan 2016 as well as the welcome message from the QCMan 2016 Co-Chairs is available for download.
QCMan Program
Friday, September 16, 2016, 9.00 - 16.00
9:00 - 10:00 Welcome & Keynote
Keynote Speaker: Alexander Raake
10:00 - 10:30 Full Paper
- "Multi-agent Systems for Personalized QoE-Management" by
Amro Najjar, Xavier Serpaggi, Christophe Gravier, Olivier Boissier
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Full Paper Session: Video Streaming
- "YouTube Can Do Better: Getting the Most Out of Video Adaptation" by
Christian Moldovan, Christian Sieber, Poul Heegaard, Tobias Hoßfeld, Wolfgang Kellerer - "Towards a Framework for Comparing QoE-Centric Mechanisms of Application-Network Interaction" by
Susanna Schwarzmann, Thomas Zinner, Ognjen Dobrijevic - "Impact of Variances on the QoE in Video Streaming" by
Christian Moldovan, Tobias Hossfeld
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:00 Full Paper
- "Application-Aware Infrastructure Clustering for Cloud Service Placement to Enhance User QoE" by
Dmitrii Chemodanov, Prasad Calyam
14:00 - 14:40 Short Paper Session
- Insensitivity to Network Delay: Minecraft Gaming Experience of Casual Gamers by
Oliver Hohlfeld, Hannes Fiedler, Enric Pujol, Dennis Guse - Correlation of Technical Parameters with User Perceived Quality of Working Experience in Enterprise Environments by
Kathrin Borchert, Matthias Hirth, Thomas Zinner, Decebal Constantin Mocanu
14:40 - 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:00 Panel: What are challenges in managing the QoE of the upcoming wave of immersive media-rich applications?
16:00: Closing
