Queueing analysis of delay constrained voice traffic in a packet switching system

  • Authors:
  • C. Yuan;J. A. Silvester

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Unlike data traffic, the voice packet stream from a node has very high correlation between consecutive packets. In addition, in order for the speech to be properly reconstructed, a delay constraint must be satisfied. A queueing model that accurately predicts packet loss probabilities for such a system is presented. Analytical results are obtained from an embedded bivariate Markov chain and are validated by a simulation program. Based on this model, the impact of the delay constraint, talkspurt detection thresholds, and packet size on packet loss are studied. Two schemes, named `instant' and `random', for discarding late packets are considered. Simulation results show that better performance can be obtained by using the latter scheme