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Study Group 12 and
ITU QoS Coordination
Dr. Charles (Chuck) Dvorak
SG12 Vice-Chairman
Where are the world’s QOS experts?
A primary core competence of the ITU-T is
the substantial expertise that it has across
several Study Groups in the areas of QOS
and Performance. The experts who work in
the ITU-T do related work in regional SDOs
(for example, ETSI, T1, TTC), but nowhere
else does this same level of expertise reside.
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SG12 Area of Responsibility
End-to-end transmission performance of
networks, terminals and their interactions,
in relation to the perceived quality and
acceptance by users of text, speech, and
image applications; including the related
transmission implications of all networks
(PDH, SDH, ATM and IP) and terminals.
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IP and Multimedia in SG12
Q.2-Transm. Requirements for IP gateways and terminals
Q.8-E-Model (planning tool for speech quality incl. VoIP)
Q.11-Transmission of multiple interconnected networks
Q.12-Voiceband services transmission via IP networks
Q.13-Multimedia QOS and performance requirements
Q.14-Effects of interworking multiple IP domains on VoIP
Q.15-QOS coordination in the ITU (Lead Study Group work)
Q.16-In-service non-intrusive assessment of VoIP
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Examples of new SG12 work
G.17x: Transmission of Voiceband Services Over IP Flows
G.IPP: Transmission Performance Parameters Of IP Networks
Affecting Speech Quality And Other Voiceband Services
G.QoSRQT: Multimedia QoS Requirements
G.VoIP-Islands: Trans. Plan. for interconnected IP-based networks
supporting VoIP services
G.VBS-Islands: Trans. Plan. for interconnected IP-based networks
supporting PSTN-type speech and voiceband data services
P.VOIP: Speech requirements and measurements for IP terminals
P.GTWY: Speech requirements and measurements for Gateways
IP Networking and MediaCom 2004Speech quality requirements and measurement
methods for IP terminals and gateways.
IP network
PSTN GW
IP
Terminal
Non-IP
Terminal
GW
Scope of Question 2/12
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Scope of Question 14/12Speech quality guidelines for connecting multiple IP networks.
Speech
Interconnection may be PDH, ATM, IP etc
IP network
IP network
SG12 as the QOS Lead SG
Internal to the ITU-T, provide a roadmap for
QOS activities that can be used to identify,
communicate and resolve QoS-related issues.
External to the ITU-T, improve the visibility
and utilisation of ITU-T expertise in QoS, and
better leverage this expertise in specifications
being developed elsewhere in the industry.
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One example of an industry-wide issue
End-end performance and allocation of
objectives can be done for an end-to-end
architecture like that of the PSTN. But the
Internet is not an end-to-end network, but
a set of protocols that work across domains.
How to do effective performance planning?
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