Multimedia Communications in Internet of Things QoT or QoE?

Abstract

Multimedia communications play a major role in Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as traffic control and management, environmental monitoring, healthcare, surveillance, event recognition and home monitoring and automation. To ensure the quality of multimedia content to be collected, processed and delivered appropriately in such applications, it is necessary to design and develop a quality aware IoT architecture for multimedia IoT applications. Research on Quality of Experience (QoE) in multimedia communications in IoT has gained attention in recent years. However, the concept of IoT is to connect everything in a smart way without human interaction. Therefore, this paper introduces a new concept of Quality of Things (QoT) for multimedia communications in IoT, a new architecture based on the QoT for multimedia communications in IoTs is also proposed together with its challenges and future research directions.