Performance Analysis of Video Call using Skype |
Skype is one of the most popular VoIP applications nowadays. Skype’s benefits, beyond its free and low costs, are said to include quality assurance (both audio and video) even in adverse network conditions, reliability and its easy set-up. This paper mainly concentrates on the video quality of the most popular VoIP application, Skype. The main aim of the research is to find out how Skype adapts to its video send bit rate in extreme network congestions and also to analyse its video performance in various network conditions. This involves in conducting a user behaviour analysis for Skype, which examines how users respond to the degradation of the video call quality, i.e. with regard to packet loss, to which extend users continue to disregard to the call quality before dropping the call. This paper also aims at rating what Skype’s performance are in terms of Quality of Experience and Mean Opinion Score under various network conditions.
Mathew KK, Sun L