IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
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VoIP Accounting Model: Using the Gap Ratio as a Quality Metric
Younchan JUNGJ. William ATWOOD
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2011 Volume E94.B Issue 9 Pages 2638-2641

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Providing quality-of service (QoS) guarantees in VoIP applications has become an urgent demand in wireless and mobile networks. One of the important issues is to find a simple quality metric fitted to low power mobile devices such as smart phones. This paper considers the gap ratio (the proportion of the accumulated gap periods over the whole call session) as a simple quality metric. Our study aims to find the optimum packet count threshold between two adjacent lost packets (referred to as Gmin in RTCP-XR), which is needed for the purpose of identifying whether the current packet at the receiver belongs to the gap state or the burst state, because quality prediction errors depend on the Gmin value when the gap ratio is used as a simple quality metric. Based on this metric, we propose an accounting model that can be a candidate accounting metric useful for a quality-based accounting mechanism.

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