Predicting speech quality under random packet loss: Individual impairment and additivity with other network impairments

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1061-1083

  Raake, Alexander ^a,b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERNET; INTERNET TELEPHONY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

NETWORK IMPAIRMENTS; RANDOM PACKET LOSSES; SPEECH QUALITY; VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (VOIP);

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 11244298076     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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