Influence of Routing Protocol on VoIP Quality Performance in Wireless Mesh Backbone

In this paper we focus on the following question: how routing protocols, working under different channel conditions, can influence the human perceived quality of VoIP calls in a wireless mesh backbone? In order to respond this question, we propose a study case where we analyze two routing approaches in a 802.11 wireless mesh backbone, namely, reactive AODV and proactive OLSR. We calculated the voice speech quality by making use of a reviewed version of ITU-T E-model proposed in previous work. Results obtained from highly credible stochastic simulation environment, also described in this paper, showed that AODV performs better in very hostile mediums while OLSR presents better results when more friendly mediums take place.