Performance Measurement for Voice Services in Heterogeneous Wired Networks

Basel Alawieh; Rana Ahmed; Hussein T.  Mouftah

4th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities

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Performance Measurement for Voice Services in Heterogeneous Wired Networks

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/tridentcom.2008.3222,
    author={Basel Alawieh and Rana Ahmed and Hussein T.  Mouftah},
    title={Performance Measurement for Voice Services in Heterogeneous Wired Networks},
    proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks \& Communities},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={Testbed VoIP SIP H.323 QoS Tunneling},
    doi={10.4108/tridentcom.2008.3222}
}

Basel Alawieh
Rana Ahmed
Hussein T. Mouftah
Year: 2010
Performance Measurement for Voice Services in Heterogeneous Wired Networks
TRIDENTCOM
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/tridentcom.2008.3222

Basel Alawieh¹^,*, Rana Ahmed²^,*, Hussein T. Mouftah³^,*

1: Department of Electrical Engineering Concordia University Montreal, Quebec,Canada
2: Department of Computer Engineering American University of Sharjah Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
3: Optical Networks Research Lab SITE, University of Ottawa Ottawa,Ontario,Canada

*Contact email: b_alawi@encs.concordia.ca, rahmed@aus.edu, mouftah@site.uottawa.ca

Abstract

Voice over IP (VoIP) service providers implementing different protocols in their core networks are required to coordinate in order to provision, support and deliver voice services to end clients. This paper presents a performance measurement experience for the transport of voice services across multiple heterogeneous wired networks. Our test results show that Multiple Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) protocol slightly outperforms IP in delivering voice services. Moreover, the type of call signaling protocol used, tunneling category adopted and the type of Virtual Private Network (VPN) implemented affect the overall quality and performance of voice services in terms of jitter and delay.

Keywords: Testbed VoIP SIP H.323 QoS Tunneling

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ICST
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/tridentcom.2008.3222