A-PSQA: PESQ-like non-intrusive tool for QoE prediction in VoIP services

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2124-2128

  Cherif, Wael ^a,b   Ksentini, Adlen ^b   Negru, Daniel ^c   Sidibe, Mamadou ^a  

^a Viotech Communiction   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

E model; iLBC; MOS; Perceived Speech Quality; PESQ; QoE; Speex

Indexed keywords

E-MODEL; ILBC; MOS; PESQ; QOE; SPEECH QUALITY; SPEEX;

ESTIMATION; INTERNET TELEPHONY; NEURAL NETWORKS; QUALITY CONTROL; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84871993987     PISSN: 15503607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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