Applies To:
Show VersionsBIG-IP PEM
- 14.0.1, 14.0.0, 13.1.5, 13.1.4, 13.1.3, 13.1.1, 13.1.0
Overview: Reporting quality of experience and video usage
In Policy Enforcement Manager™ (PEM), you can gather report on subscriber video traffic consumption across different devices (phone, tablet, PC or TV). This information helps to analyze user quality of experience (QoE).
After a PEM and QoE profile is enabled on a virtual, the QoE module detects video flows and gathers data. When the QoE data is passed to PEM, a subscriber QoE report is generated based on the corresponding policy settings. The reports can be sent over syslog (HSL) or IPFIX.
- Subscriber
- The media traffic
- Control for video optimization
- The point of control for TCP optimization.
- Custom policy provisioning using iRules®
Task summary
Creating a publisher
Adding Quality of Experience profile to the virtual server
Configuring QoE Reporting
QoE-based reporting format
In an enforcement policy, a rule can send QoE-based information about traffic that matches certain criteria to an external high-speed logging (HSL) server. The logs include the following comma-separated values in the order listed.
Field | Description |
---|---|
Report id | Identifies the reporting module (PEM) and the field value is 23003143. |
Subscriber ID | A unique identifier (up to 64 characters) for the subscriber initiating the session, such as a phone number. The subscriber ID type determines the format. |
Source IP | The IPv4 source address in the IP packet header. |
Source Transport Port | The source (L4) port. |
Destination IP | The IPv4 destination address in the IP packet header. |
Destination Transport Port | The IPv4 destination address in the IP packet header. |
Protocol Identifier | The IP Protocol field. |
Media Type | Different types of media, for example, MP4. |
URL X SessionId | The ID used to associate different segments of a whole video or audio. |
Width Height | The resolution of the video. |
Bit Rate | The number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. |
Frame Rate | The frequency (rate) at which an imaging device produces unique consecutive images called frames. |
Duration | The length of time of the media. |
Watched | It is the length of time that the video has been watched. |
Mos | It is the value ranging 1 to 5, that evaluates the user-experience. |
Example QoE-based reporting format
Apr 30 14:30:14 slot2/sush_vic_172 info tmm[4243]: 23003143,6,1.0.0,1430429414,610,404234567123456,IMSI,10.1.1.11,37112,11.1.1.100,80,6,2426616,0,320x240,FLV,,1,0,5 Apr 30 14:30:46 slot2/sush_vic_172 info tmm[4243]: 23003143,6,1.0.0,1430429446,88,404234567123456,IMSI,10.1.1.11,37113,11.1.1.100,80,6,164771,0,480x320,MP4,,70,0,4