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Implementation and Evaluation of Multi-Hopping Voice Transmission over ZigBee Networks

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The wireless sensor network (WSN) technology has been one of the most active research topics in the last several years. Besides sensing the environmental or physical data, there has been a growing need on supporting voice communication, particularly under emergency conditions, in WSNs. In this paper, we will conduct the implementation of voice codec on embedded system using multi-hopping ZigBee communication. The implementation issues, in terms of codec and transmission rate-dependence consideration, as well as the voice quality with multi-hopping are analyzed and evaluated for the designed test-bed.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge the support from the National Science Council of Taiwan (No. NSC 101-2221-E-142-003, NSC100-2221-E-142-008) and National Taichung University regarding the MoE project (No. 1020035480A).

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  1. Department of Computer Science, National Taichung University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Lin-Huang Chang, Chen-Hsun Chang & Tsung-Han Lee

  2. Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, Taipei Chengshih University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    H. F. Chang

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  1. ES Department, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan

    Yueh-Min Huang

  2. Engineering, National Ilan University Inst. Computer Science & Information, I-Lan, Taiwan

    Han-Chieh Chao

  3. Dept of Computer Sci. and Inf. Bao-Shan Campus, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua City, Taiwan

    Der-Jiunn Deng

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul University of Science & and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

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Chang, LH., Chang, CH., Chang, H.F., Lee, TH. (2014). Implementation and Evaluation of Multi-Hopping Voice Transmission over ZigBee Networks. In: Huang, YM., Chao, HC., Deng, DJ., Park, J. (eds) Advanced Technologies, Embedded and Multimedia for Human-centric Computing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 260. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7262-5_136

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