Patent ID: 8908547

Claim:
A terminal, comprising: a processor; and a codec controller, controlled by the processor, including a channel status measurement and management (CSMM) unit adapted to measure a status of a wireless channel as a first measurement and provide results of the first measurement as channel quality information, and measure a transfer performance of a received packet as a second measurement and provide results of the second measurement as packet measurement parameter information, and a service quality control (SQC) unit adapted to measure a quality of a service based on the channel quality information and the packet measurement parameter information, provide results of the measuring of the service quality as service quality information and determine a codec mode of the terminal in a convergence IP network communicating with the terminal based on the service quality information, wherein the status of the wireless channel and the transfer performance of a received packet are measured via a PHY/MAC(physical/media access control)-layer processor of a receiver.