Liberal Malaina Fidel

Liberal Malaina, Fidel

Personal information

Liberal Malaina, Fidel

Address: Alda. de Urquijo s/n. C.P.: 48013. Bilbao
Office: 3A18
Email: fidel.liberal@ehu.es
Telephone: +34 94 601 4129
Fax: +34 94 601 4259

 

Academic degrees

University degrees

Career: Engineering in Telecommunications
Intensification: Telematics
Center: University of the Basque Country
Date of achievement: 2001

Doctorate

Program title: Tecnologías de la Información Electrónica y Control
DEA date of achievement: 2003
Thesis titlePropuesta de un modelo y una metodología para la gestión de la calidad en los servicios de telecomunicación
Date of achievement: 2005

Publications

QoE in multi-service multi-agent networks

Authors:
Fidel Liberal, Armando Ferro, Harilaos Koumaras, Anastasios Kourtis, Lingfen Sun, Emmanuel C. Ifeachor
Year:
2010
Journal:
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
Volume:
4, Issue 2
Initial page - Ending page:
183 - 206
Description:

The growth of emerging multimedia applications with different quality requirements has made the objective network QoS (NQoS) to be commonly considered as an inadequate metric for quality assessment in telecommunication services, being the quality of experience (QoE) concept the most predominant alternative. However, most QoE-related research studies are service-specific, not easily expandable to other multimedia services and unsuitable for tuning up network management procedures. Instead, we propose an integrated QoE management model and a calculus process that estimates final user-satisfaction over multi-service scenarios and identifies those elements that have a greater impact on users' QoE. In order to evaluate this impact, new VoIP and video perception assessment methods were developed, while state-of-the-art methods were used for web and online game services. The effectiveness of the model is demonstrated by applying a stepwise multiple linear regression method to identify both subjective and objective bottlenecks in the network.

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