Experimental Analysis of ViLTE Service

• Main Authors: Christian Callegari, Rosario Giuseppe Garroppo, Stefano Giordano, Calogero Carlo Labrozzo, Gregorio Procissi, Giovanni Minissale, Simone Topazzi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Video over LTE (ViLTE); quality of experience (QoE); LTE; packet loss (PL); packet delay variation (PDV)
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8329138/

Long-term evolution (LTE) is a broadband wireless cellular system currently available in about 200 countries. From the mobile network operator point of view, one of the most appealing characteristics of LTE is the possibility of providing the users with mobile broadband services like voice over LTE and video over LTE (ViLTE), with strict quality of service (QoS) guarantees. The success of such services, which usually require a subscription fee, is obviously tightly bound to the users' quality of experience (QoE), that must be significantly better than the quality perceived in case of free services. This paper attempts to evaluate the perceived quality of the ViLTE service. In more detail, we present the results of an experimental test-bed realised at one of the most popular italian MNO, aimed at evaluating the impact of several network layer QoS parameters on the QoE of the ViLTE service.