Assessing the quality of VoIP transmission affected by playout buffer scheme

Measurement of Speech and Audio Quality in Networks, MESAQIN 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Narbutt, Miroslaw ^a   Davis, Mark ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adaptive playout algorithms; Call quality assessment; E model user satisfaction; Jitter compensation; Voice over IP (Voip)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERNET TELEPHONY; PACKET LOSS; SOUND REPRODUCTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CALL QUALITY; JITTER COMPENSATION; PLAYOUT ALGORITHM; USER SATISFACTION; VOICE OVER IP;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84906969244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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