Abstract:
An apparatus and method of detecting whether data exists in a received signal while a mobile communication terminal is in discontinuous transmission mode. The apparatus and method comprises generating and transmitting a forward power control command for providing the forward power control, and performing forward power control in a mobile communication system. According to the forward power control method, a power control command is generated based on a received frame including a plurality of slots each of which includes power control bits. The ratio of the power control bit energy to noise energy, which is given by a ratio of the accumulated energy of the power control bits in the slots of the received frame to an accumulated energy value of noise in the slots of the received frame, is provided, and the power control command based on a ratio of the accumulated energy value of traffic symbol bits in the slots to the accumulated energy value of the power control bits is generated when the provided ratio of the power control bits to noise is acceptable.
Abstract:
An apparatus for detecting a frame transmission period in a CDMA mobile communication system supporting a discontinuous transmission mode. A first frame detector performs primary frame detection by calculating a signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) using traffic symbol energy, pilot symbol energy and noise energy measured for a predetermined time period, and comparing the SIR with a predetermined frame detection threshold value. A decoder calculates a symbol error rate (SER) by decoding symbols received for the predetermined time period. A second frame detector selects an SER threshold value according to frame detection information from the first frame detector, and compares the selected SER threshold value with the SER to determine whether a frame has been transmitted.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for detecting errors in a real-time data entity received at a receiver of a radio communication network, the real-time data entity being transported in a radio block over a radio channel, the real time data frame comprising at least two bit portions having different relevance. According to the present invention, the method comprises the steps of: i estimating a first bit error rate for a first bit portion; ii checking if the first estimated bit error rate is higher than a first predefined threshold, iii estimating a second bit error rate for a second bit portion having a lower relevance than the first bit portion; iv checking if the second estimated bit error rate is higher than a second predefined threshold higher than the first predefined threshold, v replacing the entire real-time data entity by using a concealment algortihm if one of the checks is true.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses a method for identifying unusable data blocks (bad frames) during communication in a network. The method comprises the steps of determining (S1) a classifier (CL_C) in a current data block, calculating (S3) a mean (M) of classifiers (CLnull1 to CL_N) of a predetermined number (N) of data blocks, calculating (S4) a standard deviation (a) of the classifiers (CLnull1 to CL_N), calculating (S5) a threshold for identifying bad frames on the basis of the mean (M) and the standard deviation (null) of the classifiers (CLnull1 to CL_N), and distinguishing (S6) whether the current data block is usable or not on the basis of a comparison of the threshold (TH) and the current classifier (CL_C). The present invention also includes a device for carrying out this method. By the method and the device, changing conditions of a radio channel can be taken into account quickly.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for supervising a dedicated control channel when in the discontinuous transmission mode. The mobile station monitors the frames it receives from a base station and maintains a counter of bad, good, and empty frames, referred to as CNT1, CNT2, CNT3, respectively. If a received frame is a good frame, CNT1 is reset to zero and CNT2 is incremented. If the received frame is a bad frame, CNT1 is incremented and CNT2 is reset to zero. If the received frame is an empty frame, CNT1 and CNT2 are unchanged but CNT3 is incremented. A transmitter coupled to the mobile station is enabled or disabled depending upon which, if any, of the CNTs reaches or exceeds a designated threshold value. In another embodiment, an average aggregated value reflecting the strength of the pilot signals in an active set, measured at the mobile station, is used for comparison to a threshold.
Abstract:
A base station controller includes circuitry for determining whether a transmitter is transmitting in a DTX mode or operation for a supplemental channel in a CDMA network. The invention includes the steps of determining frame quality metrics for data received on a fundamental and a supplemental channel. If the frame quality metric is good, meaning that the number of errors is below a defined threshold, on the supplemental channel, then the mobile station is not, by definition, within a DTX mode of operation. However, if each of the base stations that are on the active list of base stations for the mobile station report that the mobile station frame quality metric is not below or within a specified threshold, then the base station performs a calculation to determine whether the mobile station is in a DTX mode of operation or is transmitting the mobile set. Specifically, the base station calculates a signal to noise ratio for the pilot channel as well as for the supplemental channel and compares or determines a ratio of these two calculations. If the ratio is within or below a specified threshold, then an erasure has occurred. If not, then the mobile station did transmit in a DTX mode of operation.
Abstract:
The present invention is a novel and improved method and apparatus for supervising a potentially gated channel in a wireless communication system. The first method is an extension of the method used in IS-95 with empty frames simply ignored, but with potentially different thresholds. The mobile station maintains a counter of consecutive bad frames, COUNT1, and a counter of consecutive good frames, COUNT2. COUNT1 and COUNT2 are set to zero at the beginning of a call. For each frame received, the mobile station determines if it is a good frame, a bad frame, or an empty frame. If the received frame is a good frame, COUNT1 is reset to zero and COUNT2 is incremented by 1. If the received frame is a bad frame, COUNT1 is incremented by one and COUNT2 is reset to zero. If the received frame is an empty frame, COUNT1 and COUNT2 are unchanged. If COUNT1 reaches a threshold value, TH1, the mobile station shall disable its transmitter. Thereafter, if COUNT2 reaches a threshold value, TH2, the mobile station shall re-enable its transmitter. The mobile station resets its fade timer to X seconds whenever COUNT2 is greater than or equal to TH3.
Abstract:
A frame error detection method includes the steps of determining a plurality of comparison values which include a given comparison value depending on a frame energy of a given speech frame or a change in frame energy between the given speech frame and a preceding speech frame. The given speech frame is identified as a bad speech frame if a logical combination of a plurality of criteria is met. One of the criteria is based on a comparison of a threshold value with the given comparison value depending on the frame energy or the change in frame energy. A device for frame error detection and a receiver including the device for frame error detection are also provided.
Abstract:
In a synchronous fixed frame boundary system with variable data rates, a transmitter inserts into a current frame an indication of the data rate of the next frame. After the first frame is received and processed at a receiver, the variable data rates of subsequent frames are known before processing, thereby reducing processing load. Furthermore, because the rate indication is inserted into the frame to be error protected along with the rest of the frame information, reliability is high, while additional data overhead and complexity are very low. For example, North American code division multiple access (CDMA) digital cellular telephone systems and personal communication system (PCS) utilize variable data rate transmissions. As a station modem (SM) assembles a current frame for convolutional encoding and further processing, the SM inserts a rate indication for the subsequent frame in accordance with information from a vocoder and CPU of the appropriate data rate for the subsequent frame. On the receiving end, rather than needing to decode multiple times to determine the appropriate data rate for every frame, the receiving SM discovers the rate of each frame by analyzing the information contained in the immediately preceding frame. The rate determination process also includes a verification method to ensure accurate data rate determination.
Abstract:
An improved error detection and error concealment for Viterbi decoding of convolutionally encoded data is provided. The most sensitive part of the data is parity encoded and sent with parity and this data with the next most sensitive data are convolutionally encoded and sent with the least sensitive data over a transmission channel to a receiver. At the receiver the convolutionally encoded data is decoded using the Viterbi algorithm. The decoder compares the parity computed from decoded data with the decoded parity and if they are not equal generates a Bad Frame Indicator (BFI) flag and also determines which decoded parameters are likely bad and hence generates a Bad Parameter Indicator (BPI) flag for those parameters, by determining the confidence levels for the parameters and comparing against pre-selected thresholds. The decision to discard a decoded parameter is dependent on the BFI flag and the BPI flag of that parameter.