WebRTC quality assessment: Dangers of black-box testing

  • Yusuf Cinar
  • , Hugh Melvin

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Abstract

We expect that WebRTC will experience high adoption rate as a peer-to-peer realtime communication standard for browsers. WebRTC allows direct media and data transport between browsers without having to go through a web server. In this study, we use a black-box testing technique to evaluate, via PESQ, the voice quality of WebRTC sessions under varying network delay and jitter. Network emulators are employed to implement the delay and jitter variations. Our results highlight the dangers of black-box testing, whereby test-bed issues can result in very misleading results. This is especially the case when executed on a single machine. This paper also provides an extendable baseline methodology for WebRTC centric research.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDT 2014 - 10th International Conference on Digital Technologies 2014
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages31-35
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781479933013
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event10th International Conference on Digital Technologies, DT 2014 - Zilina, Slovakia
Duration: 9 Jul 201411 Jul 2014

Publication series

NameDT 2014 - 10th International Conference on Digital Technologies 2014

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Digital Technologies, DT 2014
Country/TerritorySlovakia
CityZilina
Period9/07/1411/07/14

Keywords

  • Network emulator
  • Voice quality testing
  • WebRTC

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