Rate flow control for packetised voice on Ethernet local area network

Author

Ng, W.T. ; Chua, K.C. ; Lye, K.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

Volume

1

fYear

1993

fDate

6-11 Sep 1993

Firstpage

88

Abstract

Ethernet Local Area Network (LAN) is widely used in the industry and academic environment for data communications. It has good throughput but poor delay characteristics, rendering it unsuitable for voice communications. However, the potential cost benefit of integrating data and voice users in a single LAN provides a strong motivation for packetised voice transmission. This paper proposes a rate control scheme to improve the performance of voice users on an Ethernet LAN. The rate control scheme adaptively adjusts the source coding rate based on the network load. Simulation models are used to characterise the performance of the rate control schemes. Subjective listening test is subsequently carried out to assess the speech quality of various rate control schemes

Keywords

adaptive control; data communication; local area networks; packet switching; source coding; speech coding; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication equipment testing; variable rate codes; voice communication; Ethernet LAN; local area network; network load; packetised voice transmission; performance; rate control scheme; source coding rate; speech quality; subjective listening test; Communication industry; Communication system control; Data communication; Delay; Ethernet networks; Load modeling; Local area networks; Source coding; Testing; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 1993. International Conference on Information Engineering '93. 'Communications and Networks for the Year 2000', Proceedings of IEEE Singapore International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1445-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICON.1993.515733

Filename

515733