Quality of service analysis for audio over cellular voice networks and cellular wireless wide area networks

Cellular Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWANs) are most prevalent and offer high-bandwidth data transfer. We believe WWANs can be availed for voice communications employing Voice Over IP technologies. Such a communication will be of better quality and offer higher resilience compared to voice communication over a cellular phone (using cellular voice networks). We present a Quality of Service analysis of one-way voice communication over cellular voice networks and cellular WWANs. By studying different quality metrics we test if WWANs offer a better solution for voice communications compared to traditional cellular voice networks. We also study if employing more than one WWANs or cellular voice networks leads to a higher resilience in voice communication.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Malik, Omair S. (Omair Safwan)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• John V. Guttag.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45975

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/45975