Performance Evaluation of Selected Adaptive Filters for Acoustic Echo Cancelation over Voice over Internet Protocol

Advancement of technology has increased the value of the telecommunications industry. One of the services with the rapid growth is Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). However, echo is a common disturbing effect in VoIP calls. Instead of suppressing the presence of echo in the VoIP communication channel, echo cancellation works better in full-duplex mode. This paper compares performances of some selected adaptive filters for cancelation of acoustic echo in VoIP channel. The framework for adaptive echo cancellation is built around finite impulse response and fourth-order infinite impulse response Chebyshev type II filters for the modeling of echo and acoustic environment, respectively. Selected adaptive algorithms for analysis are least mean square, recursive least square and frequency domain adaptive filter. The analysis is carried out in MATLAB 2018a environment. Echo return loss enhancement, error estimate and convergence rate are the performance indices employed for performance comparison of selected adaptive algorithms. It was found that the FDAF algorithm performed best based on computed error return loss enhancement and error estimate figures. In addition, FDAF converges faster than LMS and RLS with average time of 0.026431 s over 2048 filter lengths. Thus, FDAF shows a better promise over the two variants of time domain adaptive algorithm (LMS and RLS) analyzed in this paper.