Study of voice data communication using network streams on dataflow programming

Abstract

In this paper, we implement a voice data communications between sender and receiver through Wi-Fi. The system was designed and implemented using network stream protocol which was developed by National Instruments on Lab-VIEW between two devices. The device which acts as the sender was My-RIO board and the receiver device was Personal Computer. The voice data communication system was tested by observing the effect of various buffer sizes on the throughput, latency and CPU usage. The result showed that the larger the buffer size being used, the throughput values were also getting bigger. However, particular buffer size made the throughput became saturated. The change on the buffer size also directly affects CPU usage. It seemed that the buffer size did not affect latency significantly. It showed that the latency was stable with an average of 13 milliseconds on voice data transmission.