1 Scope
2 References
3 Definitions
3.1 Terms defined elsewhere
3.2 Terms defined in this Recommendation
4 Abbreviations and acronyms
5 Conventions
6 Assessment of quality of service
6.1 QoS background
6.2 QoS assessment process
6.3 Basic settings for QoS assessments
6.4 Service independent QoS criteria
6.5 Service dependent QoS criteria
7 Definition of quality of service parameters and their computation
7.1 QoS parameter basics
7.2 Service independent QoS parameters
7.3 Direct services QoS parameters
7.4 Store‑and‑forward services QoS parameters
8 Typical procedures for quality of service measurement equipment
8.1 Aim of measurement
8.2 Classification of services
8.3 General aspects for all types of services
8.4 Telephony measurements
8.5 Store-and-forward services measurement
8.6 Data measurements
9 Requirements for quality of service measurement equipment
9.1 Overview
9.2 General requirements
9.3 Fixed QoS test equipment (FQT)
9.4 Mobile QoS test equipment (MQT)
9.5 Mobile based measurement equipment
10 Definition of typical measurement profiles
10.1 Measurement profiles
11 Post processing and statistical methods
11.1 Important measurement data types in mobile communications
11.2 Distributions and moments
11.3 Visualization techniques
11.4 Time series modelling
11.5 Data aggregation
11.6 Assessment of performance indices
12 Network based quality of service measurements
12.1 Network measurement basics
12.2 Measuring QoS parameters in the network
12.3 Comparing network and end-point test measurements
Appendix I – Examples for measuring trigger points
Appendix II – Streaming explanations
Appendix III – Push to talk over cellular information
III.1 Signal grouping
III.2 PoC service registration
III.3 PoC publish
III.4 PoC session initiation, originating part
III.5 PoC session initiation, terminating part
III.6 Media Streaming
III.7 Talk burst request
III.8 Leaving PoC session
III.9 Deregistration
Appendix IV – QoS parameter export
IV.1 Overview
IV.2 XML bodies
Appendix V – Parameters with an impact on the effect of blocking
V.1 What is blocking?
V.2 Which parameters have an impact on the effect of blocking?
V.3 The standards
V.4 The situation
V.5 Possible solutions
Appendix VI – Reference SMS or SDS message
Appendix VII – Content integrity checking
VII.1 HTTP
VII.2 FTP
VII.3 MMS
Appendix VIII – Transfer times versus used data rate and content size
Appendix IX – Examples of statistical calculations
IX.1 Confidence intervals for binomial distribution
IX.2 Transition from binomial to normal distribution
IX.3 Definitions of EG 201 769
IX.4 Calculation of confidence intervals
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IX.5 Different sample sizes
IX.6 Calculation methods
IX.7 Reporting of results
Appendix X – The concept of QoE reporting
Appendix XI – Examples of network based QoS measurements
XI.1 Accessibility and retainability parameters
XI.2 Media quality parameters
XI.3 Response time parameters
XI.4 Data rate parameters
Appendix XII – 3GPP SA5 "UE management"
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