VoIP on a bare PC
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2013-05-09
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Towson University. Department of Computer and Information Sciences
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Abstract
This dissertation proposes a novel VoIP softphone architecture for a bare Intel-386 (or above) based PC without an operating system. First, we provide an overview of bare PC computing and note the advantages of a bare PC softphone including its inherent simplicity and ability to provide secure, reliable and efficient voice communication. Next, we discuss the design of a bare PC softphone and describe its architecture and implementation. We then present performance measurements from LAN and Internet experiments, which consider delay, jitter, packet loss, and MOS. They indicate that a bare PC softphone has less jitter, less security overhead, and is able to sustain larger voice packet sizes and a heavier load than a WinRTP softphone while maintaining acceptable call quality with or without background traffic. A bare PC softphone also has acceptable call quality when running Voice over Ethernet (voice packets with Ethernet headers only) on a LAN.