Assessing how Differences in Implementation Technologies and Platforms Affect Application-level Mobile Device Quality of Experience Measures

With the growth of mobile device platforms such as smartphones and tablets, users now primarily
experience the wireless networks they uses, whether cellular or WiFi based, through the context of
the apps that they use. Hence, a heavy 8kype user may perceive a given network to be of
substantially different quality than would be perceived by a heavy text-messaging user. This reality
has lead to a growing interest in quality-ot-experience (OoE) measures as a compliment to’ more
traditional network-level quality-of-service (008) measures. This internship will study how QoE
measure are affected by changes in mobile device technologies, with the popular Android and i08
platforms servicing as the exemplar platform technologies. Quantifying and understanding how QoE
changes with platform changes is -important as, particularly for cellular and cable operators, it goes
directly to the core issues such as how operators would use these new types of measure to improve
their services to their customers, how to design and improve -better apps.

Faculty Supervisor:

Thomas Darcie

Student:

Partner:

Alacrity Foundation

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Education; Management of companies and enterprises; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program: