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Improving Speech Quality of VoIP by Packet Prioritization  

Yoon, Jae-Yul (광운대학교 전자공학과)
Park, Ho-Chong (광운대학교 전자공학과)
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea / v.29, no.5, 2010 , pp. 347-353 More about this Journal
Abstract
In VoIP system, the speech quality is seriously degraded due to packet loss, and the degree of degradation by each packet loss depends on the characteristics of the corresponding packet. Therefore, it is possible to improve the speech quality of VoIP by selectively controlling the packet to be lost during transmission based on the expected degradation by the loss of each packet. In this paper, a new scheme to improve speech quality of DiffServ-based VoIP by assigning priority to each packet is proposed, and a method to determine the priority of each packet is developed. The performance of proposed method was measured in packet loss environment based on Gilbert model, and it was verified both objectively and subjectively that the speech quality is improved by the proposed method.
Keywords
VoIP; Packet Loss; DiffServ; Packet Prioritization; Speech Codec;
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