On the evaluation of VoIP perceived QoS for low-bit rate voice codecs

Tasos Dagiuklas, George Papazafirioit

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Abstract

This paper considers the evaluation of the perceived VoIP QoS of three low bit rate voice codecs (GSM, ADPCM and CELP) under bursty packct loss and large end-to-end delay conditions. For this purpose, samples of voicc conversations that last several minutes have been evaluated periodically by a non-homogeneous team of listeners, based on the MOS (mean opinion score). It has been evaluated that the GSM codec has shown the largest toleration to packct loss among the three codecs. As the packct loss increases, the MOS drops sharply for all types of codecs. One-way end-to-end delay up to 100 ms can be tolerated without affecting significantly the measure MOS. As the end-to-end delay gets larger than 150 ms, it affects significantly the MOS. This is due to the fact that packcts arrive late at the rcccivcr (playout buffer) and arc considered as lost. Among the three codecs, CELP experiences the largest sensitivity in terms of long one-way delays.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 5th International Network Conference, INC 2005
Pages137-144
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Network Conference, INC 2005 - Samos, Greece
Duration: 5 Jul 20057 Jul 2005

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 5th International Network Conference, INC 2005

Conference

Conference5th International Network Conference, INC 2005
Country/TerritoryGreece
CitySamos
Period5/07/057/07/05

Keywords

  • Mean opinion score (MOS)
  • Voice over internet protocol (VoIP)
  • VoIP QoS

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