Introduction

This chapter introduces the concepts of network traffic monitoring and analysis (NTMA) and video quality assessment (VQA). It discusses the significance of NTMA and VQA in modern telecommunications by emphasizing the need to achieve optimal network performance and to boost user experience, which encompasses both the flow of network parameters and the video streaming quality. The sections in this chapter set the tone for the implementation phase by first exploring the need for NTMA and VQA with regard to preserving the quality of service (QoS) in different network environments. With the aim of executing these processes on any device irrespective of the operating system, a combination of machine learning (ML), JavaScript, and Java, with Node.js and Apache HTTP Server as the backend frameworks, is used. Network traffic parameters are read from the local device before streamlining client–server interactions to produce meaningful prediction and classification results. Likewise, a combination of distortion artifacts is applied to a playing video to produce a video quality score. The following sections provide an overview of the book’s structure and offer a glimpse into what will be covered in the next chapters.