On the influence of best-effort network conditions on the perceived speech quality of VoIP connections

Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 334-339

  Duysburgh, B ^a   Vanhastel, S ^a   De Vreese, B ^a   Petrisor, C ^a   Demeester, P ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Circuits; Degradation; Delay; Distortion; Jitter; Quality assessment; Sampling methods; Speech; System testing; Telecommunication traffic

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; DELAY CIRCUITS; DISTORTION (WAVES); INTERNET TELEPHONY; JITTER; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PACKET LOSS; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

BEST EFFORT NETWORKS; CIRCUIT-SWITCHED NETWORKS; DELAY; OBJECTIVE SPEECH QUALITY ASSESSMENT; PACKET-BASED NETWORKS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING METHOD; SYSTEM TESTING;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 0842310662     PISSN: 10952055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCCN.2001.956284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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