Title
Improving a Parametric Model for Speech Quality Assessment in Wireless Communication Systems
Date Issued
2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Federal University of Lavras
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Telecommunication operators need tools to evaluate and improve the quality of the their services offered. In the case of telephony services, the speech quality perceived by the users is relevant. There are different speech quality assessment methods, one of them is the parametric method that is generally used in network planning. The ITU-T Rec. G107, and its recent updates, is the most representative parametric method. However, it does not consider the impairments occurred in a wireless channel. In this context, we propose the inclusion of parameters, such as fading channel model, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and maximum Doppler shift using different modulation schemes. Several wireless communication scenarios were simulated using actual speech samples as input. Then, the impairment speech samples were evaluated by an intrusive signal-based method described in ITU-T Rec. P.862.2, which results are used as ground-truth. Experimental results demonstrated that there is a high correlation between wireless channel parameters and mean opinion score (MOS) index. Thus, an impairment wireless function, namedI w is proposed and added to the E-model wide-band algorithm. Performance validation test results demonstrated thatI w represents a reliable wireless degradation model, reaching a Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) and a normalized RMSE (NRMSE) of 0.973 and 0.085, respectively.
Start page
332
End page
337
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Telecomunicaciones
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85060226364
ISBN
9789532900873
Resource of which it is part
2018 26th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, SoftCOM 2018
ISBN of the container
978-953290087-3
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by CAPES-Von Humboldt foundations Process. 88881.145495/2017-01; and Fundac¸ão de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) under Grant 2015/25512-0 and Grant 2015/24496-0.
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