Evaluating Quality of Encrypted VoIP Calls in a Simulation Environment

The purpose of this work is to evaluate the quality of encrypted VoIP calls with different encryption algorithms through OpenVPN software, in order to identify differences in results between encryption algorithms and also differences between non-encrypted and encrypted calls. This evaluation will take into account the MOS (Mean Opinion Score), a method to indicate user satisfaction of voice communication quality. The encrypted VoIP calls will occur in several network scenarios, each one with different network bandwidth configurations and problems, like packet loss, out-of-order packets, and delay. These network scenarios are constructed in a simulation environment based on VirtualBox virtualization software, Linux Traffic Control tool and IxChariot performance assessment tool.