The present document is part of a TS-family covering the 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects; Telecommunication management, as identified below:
TS 28.404:
"Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement collection; Concepts, use cases and requirements";
TS 28.405:
"Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement collection; Control and configuration";
TS 28.406:
"Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement collection; Information definition and transport".
One main motivation of the mobile network evolution is to improve the user experience, which is why the evaluation of the user experience? at the UE side is vital to network operators. This is especially true when the operators provide high bit rate real-time services like streaming services (typically video services), where even intermittent quality degradation is very annoying. Many of these streaming services are a significant part of the commercial traffic growth rate, therefore the focus is on the end users' experience.
Quality of Experience (QoE) information collection provides detailed information at session level on a number of UEs.
The capability to log information within a UE, and in particular the QoE of an end user service, initiated by an operator, provides the operator with QoE information. The collected information (specified in
TS 26.247) cannot be deduced from performance measurements in the mobile network.
The QoE information is information collected by the end user application in the UE.
The QoE information is collected by the management system for analysis and/or KPI calculations.
The present document describes Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement collection record content definition and management. It covers the Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement data content, their format and transfer across UMTS networks and LTE networks. The measurements that are collected are
DASH [7] and
MTSI [8] measurements.
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present document.
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References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or non-specific.
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For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
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For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same Release as the present document.
[1]
TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".
[2]
TS 28.404: "Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement collection; Concepts, use cases and requirements".
[3]
TS 28.405: "Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement collection; Control and configuration".
[4]
TS 28.307: " Telecommunication management; Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement collection Integration Reference Point (IRP); Information Service (IS)".
[5]
TS 28.308: "Management of Quality of Experience (QoE) measurement collection Integration Reference Point (IRP); Information Service (IS)".
[6]
TS 25.331: "Radio Resource Control (RRC) protocol specification".
[7]
TS 26.247: "Transparent end-to-end Packet-switched Streaming Service (PSS); Progressive Download and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (3GP-DASH)".
[8]
TS 26.114: "IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS); Multimedia Telephony; Media handling and interaction".
For the purposes of the present document, the terms given in
TR 21.905 and the following apply. A term defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same term, if any, in
TR 21.905.
Void.
For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations given in
TR 21.905 and the following apply. An abbreviation defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same abbreviation, if any, in
TR 21.905.
3GP
3GPP file format
3GP-DASH
3GPP Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
MPD
Media Presentation Description
MTSI
Multimedia Telephony Service for IMS
QMC
QoE Measurement Collection
QoE
Quality of Experience