Abstract:
Quality of Service (QoS) is an issue commonly concerned in bi-directional
communications especially in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). This study is
concerned with the effect of packetization interval for CODEC in VoIP application with
respect to QoS as packet loss, packet delay, and jitter. Packet sizes and packet per
second for all bitrate at each packetization interval are also reported. The study is based
on a case study of using CELT in VoIP over WLAN 802.11g deployment. CELT is
selected for this study for its advantages of providing high audio quality with low
algorithmic delay comparing other CODEC in the comparable audio quality. Also,
CELT is the only open source and free royalty in its CODEC category. Presently, CELT
is already incorporated in VoIP by an open source softphone. This study has shown that
packetization interval and number of packets per second used in VoIP have direct
influence on QoS parameter in this study. The result reveals that the commonly default
20 ms. packetization interval is not always suitable for all network conditions. Using
this default, in the network condition in this study, leads to a rather high packet loss
rate, which in turn has an impact to the audio signal quality. Using packetization
interval at 50 ms. is recommended, apart from achieving better performance, it allows
packet size to be varied depends on used CODEC while packet loss is still acceptable,
average packet delay and average jitter are also still within the recommended value.
However, packet size for suitable packetization interval must not violate the maximum
transmission unit (MTU) size.