On in-service perceptual speech quality monitoring in cellular radio systems

Authors:
Behrooz Rohani;Bijan Rohani;Manora Caldera;Hans-Jürgen Zepernick
Affiliations:
Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute, Perth, WA, Australia;Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute, Perth, WA, Australia;Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute, Perth, WA, Australia;Blekinge Institute of Technology, Ronneby, Sweden
Venue:
WTS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Wireless Telecommunications Symposium
Year:
2009

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Abstract

A method for in-service monitoring of the end-user perceptual speech quality in cellular radio systems is proposed. This method incorporates the perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) algorithm to monitor the quality experienced by the end-user. Here, the monitoring is carried out at the transmitting side. In this case, the speech signal received by the end-user is estimated at the transmitter in accordance with a feedback signal. The performance of the proposed scheme has been investigated through extensive simulations for the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) using different speech coding rates and channel conditions. The results indicate that the proposed scheme can predict end-user quality with a root-mean-squared error (RMSE) of at most 0.15 using the mean opinion score (MOS) rating scheme. Such accuracy can be beneficial in applications such as radio resource management for satisfying the desired level of quality of service.