Voice over IP quality of service using active queue management

This paper presents a comprehensive study about the impact of active queue management (AQM) on voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) quality of service. One of the most representative AQM scheme is analyzed through extensive simulation and its effect on the perceived quality of voice calls is evaluated. Different network scenarios, changing network loads and different scheme control parameters are investigated. Network impairments are related to user perception by means of well known algorithmic models, expressing user satisfaction in the MOS scale. The main results obtained show that the use of active queue management schemes like adaptive random early detection (ARED) significantly improve the perceived quality of voice calls.