Quality of experience for communication sessions

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• analyzing, by a computing device, network conditions associated with each of a plurality of participants of a communication session for conducting bidirectional communications between the plurality of participants of the communication session and hardware capacities associated with each of the plurality of participants of the communication session;
• determining, in response to a change in a quantified perceived quality of experience associated with one or more participants of the plurality of participants, a participant focus metric for each of the plurality of participants of a the communication session based upon, at least in part, the network conditions and hardware capacities associated with each of the plurality of participants of the communication session, wherein the participant focus metric is a combined score of the network conditions and hardware capacities associated with each of the plurality of participants of the communication session, wherein the participant focus metric is a function that is specific to one or more individual codecs utilized for the communication session, including at least one of millions of instructions per second (MIPS) for processing the one or more individual codecs utilized for the communication session and RAM requirements for processing the one or more individual codecs utilized for the communication session;
• identifying one of the plurality of participants of the communication session as having sufficient capacity to support the communication session based upon, at least in part, the participant focus metric for each of the plurality of participants of the communication session, wherein the sufficient capacity to support the communication session includes sufficient capacity to achieve a best available quantified perceived quality of experience for each of the plurality of participants of the communication session;
• selecting the one of the plurality of participants having a sufficient capacity to support the communication session as a selected focus for the communication session;
• and
• adaptively implementing a centralized communication session architecture utilizing the selected focus.