Nonintrusive measurement of echo-path parameters in VoIP environments

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2062-2071

  Ding, Lijing ^a,b   El Hennawey, Mohamed Samy ^a,c   Goubran, Rafik A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross correlation; Delay estimation; Echo measurement; Nonintrusive method; Speech processing; Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

Indexed keywords

CROSS CORRELATION; DELAY ESTIMATION; DELAY MEASUREMENT; ECHO MEASUREMENT; NONINTRUSIVE METHOD; VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (VOIP);

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; NONLINEAR DISTORTION; PACKET LOSS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 33947318227     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.884138     Document Type: Article

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