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A Performance Analysis of VoIP in the FMC Network to provide QoE for users

융합 망에서 사용자에게 QoE를 제공하기 위한 VoIP 성능 분석

  • 이규환 (아주대학교 전자공학과 무선 인터넷 연구실) ;
  • 오성민 (아주대학교 전자공학과 무선 인터넷 연구실) ;
  • 김재현 (아주대학교 전자공학과 무선 인터넷 연구실)
  • Received : 2009.10.13
  • Accepted : 2010.03.05
  • Published : 2010.03.31
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Abstract

Due to increase of user requirement for various traffics and the advance of network technology, each distinct network has converge into FMC(Fixed Mobile Convergence) networks. However, we need to research the performance analysis of VoIP(Voice over Internet Protocol) in the FMC network to provide QoE for the voice user of FMC network. Therefore, this paper introduces the scenario which is the situation of voice quality degradation when a user uses VoIP to communicate with other users in the FMC network. Especially, this paper presents scenario in terms of the component of the network and finds the improvement point of voice quality. In the simulation results, three improvement points of voice quality are found as following: voice quality degradation by packet loss in the physical layer of the HSDPA network, by utilizing GGSN without QoS parameter mapping mechanism which is gateway between 3GPP and IP backbone, and by using non-QoS AP in the WLAN network.

다양한 트래픽에 대한 사용자의 요구 증대와 망 기술의 발전은 각각의 분리된 망을 하나의 망으로 융합해가고 있다. 하지만 융합 망에서 음성 사용자에게 QoE를 제공하기 위해서는 융합 망에서 VoIP 성능분석 연구가 필요하다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 사용자가 융합 망에서 VoIP를 사용할 때 발생할 수 있는 음성 품질저하 시나리오를 제시한다. 특히, 본 논문에서는 융합 망 구성요소 별로 시나리오를 나타내고 음성 품질 개선 포인트를 찾는다. 시뮬레이션 결과, HSDPA 무선 계층에서 패킷 손실이 발생했을 경우와 3GPP와 인터넷 프로토콜 백본의 게이트웨이인 GGSN에서 QoS 파라미터 mapping을 하지 않았을 경우, 그리고 무선 랜에서 non-QoS AP를 사용하였을 경우에 음성 품질저하가 발생하는 것을 살펴 볼 수 있었다.

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