Effect of Packet Loss and Reorder on Quality of Audio Streaming

Asif Ali Laghari; Rashid Ali Laghari; Asif Ali Wagan; Aamir Iqbal Umrani

doi:10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.160390

Effect of Packet Loss and Reorder on Quality of Audio Streaming

Asif Ali Laghari^*
, Rashid Ali Laghari
, Asif Ali Wagan
, Aamir Iqbal Umrani

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper, Audio QoE assessment experiments were conducted by using network parameters such as packet loss and reorder. The network model was created by using three computers, which includes sender, receiver, and middle between Linux based router machines was configured. NetEm tool was used to disturb the on-going network traffic to real-time packet loss and reorder in the broadcasting environment. VLC player was used to broadcasting and recording audio from sender to receiver machines and audios were presented to users to listen, and assign ratings according to their level of satisfaction. The results show the user’s satisfaction level is decreased when packet loss and reorder level is increased in audio streams. The user accepted a certain level of network traffic disturbance, however, the increment of disturbance in network traffic damage the audio quality below the then acceptable level. This research work will help to cloud service providers to provide QoE to users according to singed in service level agreements.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-7
Number of pages	7
Journal	EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems
Volume	7
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.160390
State	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes

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© 2019 Asif Ali Laghari et al., licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.

Keywords

Audio Quality
Packet Loss
Packet Reorder
Quality of Experience (QoE)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Information Systems
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Science Applications
Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems and Management

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