Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Kenichi Endou

Takafumi Okuyama

Seishou Yasukawa

Masataka Masuda

A quality prediction apparatus includes a first acquisition unit acquiring a first throughput for an access network of a terminal from the terminal, the terminal acquiring video data in a divided state from a plurality of video streaming servers, a second acquisition unit acquiring a second throughput for a core network to which the plurality of video streaming servers connect, the terminal being to acquire the video data from one of the video streaming servers, and a prediction unit selecting smaller one of the first throughput and the second throughput as a prediction value of a throughput for the video data to be acquired, and therefore, an efficient prediction of the throughput for the video data streaming can be enabled.

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Kenichi Endou