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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/ieek.2013.50.7.010

An Integrated E-model Implementation for Speech Quality Measurement in VoIP and VoLTE  

Kim, Bog-Soon (Div. of Computer Science and Engineering (Cloud Open R&D Center), Chonbuk University)
Baek, Kwang-Hyun (Div. of Computer Science and Engineering (Cloud Open R&D Center), Chonbuk University)
Cho, Gi-Hwan (Div. of Computer Science and Engineering (Cloud Open R&D Center), Chonbuk University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers / v.50, no.7, 2013 , pp. 10-18 More about this Journal
Abstract
With advancing of mobile communication services and commercializing of VoLTE (Voice of LTE), it is getting to pay attention on QoS of VoLTE. This paper proposes an integrated E-model in which some factors influenced to service quality of VoIP and VoLTE based voice communication system are considered in calculating the voice quality of Wideband Codec. The model aims to calculate R value which reflects the situations of access network, network characteristics, terminals' usage and mobility. We mainly deal with the integrated E-model's structure, related algorithms and optimal parameters for VoLTE. Some experiments show that the voice quality difference between VoIP and VoiceChecker, and VoLTE and POLQA, is below 10%. With the proposed model, we can calculate the voice quality by making use of the factors directly affected to service quality and the environment of VoLTE terminal and network. As a result, we can estimate the service quality in advance, without measuring it in real wireless environment.
Keywords
LTE; VoIP; VoLTE; E-model; WB E-model;
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