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Performance Analysis of the Opus Codec in VoIP Environment Using QoE Evaluation

Authors:
Péter Orosz
Tamás Skopkó
Zoltán Nagy
Tamás Lukovics

Keywords: Opus codec; Speex codec; VoIP communication; speech quality; MOS; QoE evaluation

Abstract:
VoIP has been a focus area of network communications for more than a decade now. The presence of VoIP traffic becomes more and more significant in the global Internet traffic. Although available access bandwidth is constantly increasing, higher capacity itself cannot guarantee higher quality of experience of the VoIP service. While QoE predicting methods are under active research, audio codecs also evolved greatly. The introduction and standardization of the Opus codec in 2012 is an important milestone in the voice codec evolution and Opus will probably be a royalty-free alternative for many VoIP applications in the near future. Past studies showed that audio quality of the Opus codec is superior when compared to almost every alternative. Mean Opinion Score (MOS) is a standardized scale for rating service quality. Our paper investigates the Opus codec in VoIP environment in terms of the relation between measured network QoS parameters and MOS value gained by subjective QoE assessments.

Pages: 89 to 93

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: October 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2163-9027

ISBN: 978-1-61208-305-6

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from October 27, 2013 to October 31, 2013