Chen Chang Wen - Multimedia Quality of Experience (QoE)

Edited by

Chang Wen Chen

State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

Periklis Chatzimisios

Alexander Technological Educational Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece

Tasos Dagiuklas

Hellenic Open University, Greece

Luigi Atzori

University of Cagliari, Italy

This edition first published 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dagiuklas, Tasos, author.

Multimedia quality of experience (QoE) : current status and future requirements / Tasos Dagiuklas, Luigi Atzori, Periklis Chatzimisios, Chang Wen Chen.

pages cm

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-118-48391-6 (hardback)

1. Multimedia communicationsQuality control. I. Title.

TK5105.15.D34 2015

006.70685dc23

2015033891

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN: 9781118483916

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Chang Wen Chen is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He was Allen Henry Endow Chair Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology from July 2003 to December 2007; on the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Rochester from 1992 to 1996; and on the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1996 to 2003.

Professor Chen has been the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia since January 2014. He has also served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology from 2006 to 2009, and been an editor for several other major IEEE transactions and journals.

Professor Chen received a BS from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1983, an MSEE from the University of Southern California in 1986, and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. He and his students have received eight Best Paper Awards or Best Student Paper Awards over the past two decades. He has also received several research and professional achievement awards, including the Sigma Xi Excellence in Graduate Research Mentoring Award in 2003, the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2009, and the State University of New York at Buffalo Exceptional Scholar Sustained Achievement Award in 2012. He is an IEEE Fellow and a SPIE Fellow.

Tasos Dagiuklas received his first degree from the University of Patras (Greece) in 1989, an MSc from the University of Manchester (UK) in 1991, and a PhD from the University of Essex (UK) in 1995, all in Electrical Engineering. He is Assistant Professor at the School of Science and Technology at the Hellenic Open University, Greece. He currently leads the Converged Networks and Services (CONES) Research Group (http://cones.eap.gr), carrying out research in the areas of Future Internet Architectures, Media Optimization, and Cloud Infrastructures and Services. Dr. Dagiuklas is a Senior Member of the IEEE, the Chair for IEEE MMTC 3DIG WG, and an IEEE MMTC E-Board Member. He has served as Vice-Chair for IEEE MMTC QoE WG and a Key Member for IEEE MMTC MSIG and 3DIG WGs. He is Associate Technical Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine. He has served as guest editor for many scientific journals. He is a reviewer for journals such as IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Communication Letters, and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. His research interests include FTV, 3DV, media optimization across heterogeneous networks, QoE, and cloud infrastructures and services.

Luigi Atzori is Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Cagliari (Italy) and Research Associate at the Multimedia Communications Laboratory of CNIT (Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni). His research interests are in multimedia communications and computer networking (wireless and wireline), with emphasis on multimedia QoE, multimedia streaming, NGN service management, service management in wireless sensor networks, architecture and services in the Internet of Things.

Professor Atzori is a Senior Member of the IEEE (since 2009), Chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Multimedia Communications Committee (MMTC), and Co-Chair of the IEEE 1907.1 standard on Network-Adaptive Quality of Experience (QoE) Management Scheme for Real-Time Mobile Video Communications. He is the coordinator of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network on QoE for multimedia services, involving ten European institutions and one in South Korea.