The concept of quality of service (QoS) has been recently extended to the new concept of quality of experience (QoE), as the first only focuses on the network performance (e.g., packet loss, delay and jitter) without a direct link to the perceived quality, whereas the QoE reflects the overall experience of the consumer accessing and using the provided service. Although measuring QoE presents a number of challenges, objective QoE evaluation enables user centric design of novel multimedia systems through an optimal use of the available resources based on such utility index.

This special session will consist of papers on the latest research on QoE-driven media delivery. We particularly welcome papers reporting original research on QoE-aware systems exploiting and analyzing QoE information at the different layers of the communication protocol stack and addressing multiple and new media sources (audio, images, 2D/3D/multiview video,…).