Source-driven packet marking for speech transmission over differentiated-services networks

  • Authors:
  • J. C. De Martin

  • Affiliations:
  • IRITI-CNR, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ICASSP '01 Proceedings of the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 200. on IEEE International Conference - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present a source-driven approach to packet marking for speech transmission over packet networks implementing the Differentiated Services model. Packets generated by the speech coder are examined: if deemed perceptually critical, they are marked as premium and sent on a "virtual wire;" otherwise, they are sent as regular best-effort traffic. Applied to speech coded with the ITU-T 8 kb/s speech coding standard G.729, the proposed source-driven packet marking scheme outperforms source-transparent techniques and provides clearly better perceptual quality than the unprotected case sending as little as 1/5 of the coded bitstream as premium traffic.