Mobile video quality testing

How to test your own video services vs. OTT applications from third parties?

The most popular video services today are OTT services (e.g. YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, etc.). If you want to know how OTT applications are performing in your network, then you should use precisely those applications to conduct tests and measure the perceived quality of experience (QoE).

Social media services are starting to offer video services (e.g. Facebook, WhatsApp, etc.). Mobile network operators are also starting to offer their own video services (often live video services).

Rohde & Schwarz Mobile Network Testing can provide the most reliable way to measure the QoE of the video applications and the quality of the network using e.g. the Network Performance Test (capacity and coverage).

Optimizing a network’s readiness for video transmission

In previous entries of this blog series about the challenges of mobile video services, we discussed video quality as a perceived metric, how it can be measured, and how quality measuring algorithms work. To conclude the series, this post focuses on how to apply a video quality measure to quantify video services as consumed by subscribers. What are the challenges and what are the results telling you about your network?

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Different models for predicting visual quality and related test cases

In this post, we will take a closer look at automated video quality measurement methods, often called objective measurements, which are applied in real field video quality measurements.

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Overview of video services in mobile networks

Arnd Sibila, technology marketing manager, explains the growing importance of video quality in mobile networks, and the limitations that mobile operators face to control this quality that is dependent on the network resources and how these resources are allocated.

User-perceived network performance test

Arnd Sibila, technology marketing manager, explains how to measure the real network performance, capacity and coverage, as perceived by end-users. In the video, Arnd describes the scope of tests performed and what parameters to consider in making these tests.

Testing perceived video quality in mobile networks - part I and II

The video series explains how objective methods and algorithms, such as MOS, J.343.1, etc., are used to measure the subjective nature of video quality in a mobile network. It show in detail how video quality can and should be tested using J.343.1. As a very robust algorithm, J.343.1 takes into account all video characteristics into a single score; e.g., coding, compression, rescaling artifacts, perceived freezing, etc.

End-to-end assessment of mobile video services

Videos are the most popular web content and have long formed the bulk of data volume in mobile networks. Which is why not only video consumers but also video service providers and network operators have a vested interest in a high quality experience. Mobile measuring systems assess this automatically just as reliable as human viewers.

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Important Facts for video quality testing in mobile networks

The application card summarizes in a compact 2-page-format all the important facts concerning about video quality testing in mobile networks.

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Quality evaluation of streaming video on mobile networks

The whitepaper consists a detailed description of all aspects that affect video services (from delivery strategies for video services to protocol info via video codecs, compression and technical background information to QoE testing for video services and test solutions.

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