The well-tempered conversation: Interactivity, delay and perceptual VoIP quality

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 244-249

  Hammer, Florian ^a   Reichl, Peter ^a   Raake, Alexander ^b  

^a TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH CENTER VIENNA FTW   (Austria)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conversational Interactivity; Conversational Temperature; Delay; Parametric Conversation Analysis; Perceived QoS; VoIP

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTIVITY; CONVERSATIONAL TEMPERATURE; DELAY; PARAMETRIC CONVERSATION ANALYSIS; PERCEIVED QOS; VOIP;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 24344477613     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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