A method for voice based communication between a number of mobile terminals of a telecommunication network, the method comprising the steps of creating a group of said number of terminals and storing group information in each of the number of terminals, recording a voice message in one of the terminals of the group, dispatching the voice message to the terminals of the group from the one of the terminals, and receiving the voice message at at least all other terminals of the group. The step of creating a group of terminals further comprises the steps of coupling together a number of mobile terminals, initiating a group creation command from at least one of the terminals, sending predetermined information from terminal to terminal to each terminal of the number of terminals for forming a group information, and transmitting the group information to all of the terminals thus forming a group of the terminals.

Group communication device and method

Methods and systems for dynamic spectrum access (DSA) in a wireless network are provided. A DSA-enabled device may sense spectrum use in a region and, based on the detected spectrum use, select one or more communication channels for use. The devices also may detect one or more other DSA-enabled devices with which they can form DSA networks. A DSA network may monitor spectrum use by cooperative and non-cooperative devices, to dynamically select one or more channels to use for communication while avoiding or reducing interference with other devices.

Method and system for dynamic spectrum access using specialty detectors and improved networking

Methods and an apparatus for enhancement of source coding systems utilizing high frequency reconstruction (HFR) are introduced. The problem of insufficient noise contents is addressed in a reconstructed highband, by using Adaptive Noise-floor Addition. New methods are also introduced for enhanced performance by means of limiting unwanted noise, interpolation and smoothing of envelope adjustment amplification factors. The methods and apparatus used are applicable to both speech coding and natural audio coding systems.

Enhancing Perceptual Performance of SBR and Related HFR Coding Methods by Adaptive Noise-Floor Addition and Noise Substitution Limiting

A signal processing system which discriminates between voice signals and data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier. The signal processing system includes a voice exchange, a data exchange and a call discriminator. The voice exchange is capable of exchanging voice signals between a switched circuit network and a packet based network. The signal processing system also includes a data exchange capable of exchanging data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier on the switched circuit network with unmodulated data signal packets on the packet based network. The data exchange is performed by demodulating data signals from the switched circuit network for transmission on the packet based network, and modulating data signal packets from the packet based network for transmission on the switched circuit network. The call discriminator is used to selectively enable the voice exchange and data exchange.

Voice and data exchange over a packet based network with voice detection

In a 3rd Generation Partnership Project communication system a base station (103) comprises a scheduler (105) allocating communication resource of at least one of a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel, PUSCH, and a Physical Downlink Shared CHannel, PDSCH to a User Equipment (UE) (101). The scheduling may either be a dynamic scheduling wherein a resource allocation for a single frame is provided to the UE or a persistent scheduling wherein a resource allocation for multiple frames is provided to the UE. A resource allocator (107) assigns resource of a Physical Uplink Control CHannel, PUCCH, to the UE dependent on whether dynamic scheduling or persistent scheduling is performed by the scheduler for the UE. The UE transmits uplink control data on a physical uplink channel which is selected as the PUCCH or the PUSCH in response to whether persistent scheduling is used for the UE. The invention allows reduced PUCCH loading.

Use of the physical uplink control channel in a 3rd generation partnership project communication system

An improved method for generating comfort noise (CN) in a mobile terminal operating in a discontinuous transmission (DTX) mode. In one embodiment the invention provides an improved method for comfort noise generation, in which a random excitation is modified by a spectral control filter so that the frequency content of comfort noise and background noise become similar. In another embodiment the transmitter identifies speech coding parameters that are not representative of the actual background noise, and replaces the identified parameters with parameters having a median value. In this manner the non-representative parameters do not skew the result of an averaging operation.

Methods for generating comfort noise during discontinuous transmission

A method to detect a presence of a hangover period in a speech decoder in a communication system that utilizes discontinuous transmission between a transmitter and a receiver. The discontinuous transmission is defined by temporally sequential frame periods of which some periods will contain a transmitted frame and some periods will contain no transmission. The discontinuous transmission is constituted by information transmission periods of at least one frame that contain information given by a user to the transmitter, and silence periods having a length of at least one frame period and containing other information than that given by the user. An irregularly occurring period (T) of at least one frame exists between an information transmission period and the following silence period, the irregularly occurring period forming a hangover period for determining the information relating to the silence period. In the receiver the number of frame periods is counted until a certain moment; the beginning of the silence period is detected; and, based on said counted number of frame periods and the beginning of the silence period, a determination is made whether or not there is a hangover period (T) between the information transmission period and the silence period.

Method and apparatus for detecting hangover periods in a TDMA wireless communication system using discontinuous transmission

This invention is related to tandem free operation (TFO) in mobile cellular systems. The present invention implements a tandem free operation by using a special feedback loop which makes the decoded parameters available, performs the comfort noise insertion and bad frame handling operations, produces the parameter quantisation indices corresponding to the output of these operations, and synchronises the speech encoders and the speech decoders in the transmission path from the uplink mobile station to the downlink mobile station. This functionality is realized by partly decoding and re-encoding the parameters and synchronising and resetting the quantiser prediction memories in a specific manner. A basic idea of the invention is, that during BFH and CNI processes, a re-encoding block produces models of encoded speech parameters from the BFH/CNI processed speech parameters. These models of encoded speech parameters are then transmitted to the receiving end. The present invention provides a solution to the problem created by predictive, more generally non-stateless encoders in TFO operation.

A decoding method, speech coding processing unit and a network element

An improved method for generating comfort noise (CN) in a mobile terminal
operating in a discontinuous transmission (DTX) mode. In one embodiment the
invention provides an improved method for comfort noise generation, in which a
random excitation is modified by a spectral control filter so that the frequency
content of comfort noise and background noise become similar. In another
embodiment the transmitter identifies speech coding parameters that are not
representative of the actual background noise, and replaces the identified
parameters with parameters having a median value. In this manner the non-representative
parameters do not skew the result of an averaging operation.

Methods for generating comfort noise during discontinous transmission

The invention relates to a method for transmitting background noise information including a silence descriptor identifier and background noise parameters in a communication system in which the information to be transmitted is formed into data frames. The data frames are subjected to channel coding to form channel-coded frames. The channel-coded frames are interleaved to be transmitted in two or more data transmission frames, and information of two channel-coded frames is transmitted in each data transmission frame. A first silence descriptor frame is formed provided with the silence descriptor identifier. The first silence descriptor frame is subjected to channel coding to form a channel-coded silence descriptor frame. The channel-coded silence descriptor frame is transmitted in two or more data transmission frames, and at least one data transmission frame transmitting part of the channel-coded silence descriptor frame is also used to transmit at least the background noise parameters.

Kapanen Pekka

Papers

Methods for generating comfort noise during discontinuous transmission

Method and apparatus for detecting hangover periods in a TDMA wireless communication system using discontinuous transmission

A decoding method, speech coding processing unit and a network element

Methods for generating comfort noise during discontinous transmission

Method for transmitting background noise information in data transmission in data frames