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A Quest for an Internet Video Quality-of-Experience Metric Athula Balachandran Vyas Sekar Aditya Akella Srinivasan Seshan Ion Stoica Hui Zhang Carnegie Mellon University University of Wisconsin Madison Stony Brook University University of California Berkeley ABSTRACT An imminent challenge that content providers, CDNs, thirdparty analytics and optimization services, and video player designers in the Internet video ecosystem face is the lack of a single “gold standard” to evaluate different competing solutions. Existing techniques that describe the quality of the encoded signal or controlled studies to measure opinion scores do not translate directly into user experience at scale. Recent work shows that measurable performance metrics such as buffering, startup time, bitrate, and number of bitrate switches impact user experience. However, converting these observations into a quantitative quality-of-experience metric turns out to be challenging since these metrics are interrelated in complex and sometimes counter-intuitive ways,and their relationship to user experience can be unpredictable.To further complicate things, many confounding factors are introduced by the nature of the content itself (e.g., user interest, genre). We believe that the issue of interdependency can be addressed by casting this as a machine learning problem to build a suitable predictive model from empirical observations. We also show that setting up the problem based on domain-specific and measurement-driven insights can minimize the impact of the various confounding factors to improve the prediction performance. Categories and Subject Descriptors C.4 [Performance of Systems]: measurement techniques, performance attributes General Terms Human Factors, Measurement, Performance 1. INTRODUCTION With the decreasing cost of content delivery and the growing success of subscription and ad-based business models(e.g., [2]), video traffic over the Internet is predicted to increase in the years to come, pos