A First Look at Quality of Mobile Live Streaming Experience: the Case of Periscope
This addresses the lack of knowledge about QoE in mobile live streaming for users and service providers, but it is incremental as it focuses on a specific case study.
The paper tackled the problem of understanding the quality of experience (QoE) for mobile live streaming by examining the Periscope service, analyzing usage patterns, protocols, and indicators like playback smoothness, latency, video quality, and energy consumption.
Live multimedia streaming from mobile devices is rapidly gaining popularity but little is known about the QoE they provide. In this paper, we examine the Periscope service. We first crawl the service in order to understand its usage patterns. Then, we study the protocols used, the typical quality of experience indicators, such as playback smoothness and latency, video quality, and the energy consumption of the Android application.