improvements in speech services of geran masters thesis presentation author: tommi jokela...
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Objectives and motivation 1.Assess the link level performance of speech services in GSM/EDGE radio access network (GERAN) Release 5. 2.Find out whether the performance of these services can be improved in GERAN Release 6. 3.Compare the performance of circuit-switched and packet- switched speech services of GERAN and state reasons for the possible differences. The work was carried out for Nokia Research Center. The results were contributed to the ongoing GERAN standardization that occurs on third generation partnership project (3GPP).TRANSCRIPT
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Improvements in speech services of GERANMaster’s Thesis presentation
Author: Tommi Jokela
Supervisor: Prof. Sven-Gustav Häggman
Instructor: M.Sc. Benoist Sébire
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Contents
Objectives and motivation
Background
Simulations
Results
Conclusion
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Objectives and motivation
1. Assess the link level performance of speech services in GSM/EDGE radio access network (GERAN) Release 5.
2. Find out whether the performance of these services can be improved in GERAN Release 6.
3. Compare the performance of circuit-switched and packet-switched speech services of GERAN and state reasons for the possible differences.
The work was carried out for Nokia Research Center.
The results were contributed to the ongoing GERAN standardization that occurs on third generation partnership project (3GPP).
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GSM standardization
Phase 1-2 Phase 2+
1996
Rel’96: High speech circuit-switched data (HSCSD)
1997
Rel’97: General packet-radio service (GPRS)
1998
Rel’98: Adaptive multi-rate codec (AMR)
1999
Rel’99: Enhanced data rates for GSM evolution (EDGE)
2002
Rel’5: GSM/EDGE radio access network (GERAN)
2003?
Rel’6: Flexible layer one (FLO)
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GERAN
BSC
BTS
BSS
GERAN
MS
MS BTS
UTRANRNC
CNUMTS multi-
radio network
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BSS
GERAN GSM/EDGE radio access
network
UTRANUMTS terrestrial radio
access network
CNCore network
BSCBase station controller
BTSBase transceiver station
RNCRadio network controller
BSSBase station subsystem
MSMobile station
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Flexible Layer One (1/2)
The problem at GERAN Release 5:• The spectrum efficiency of real-time packet-switched
applications is relatively bad.
• The problem is largely due to the inflexible radio bearers, whose properties cannot be negotiated at call setup.
The solution at GERAN Release 6:• Introduce a new physical layer concept that is based on the
physical layer of UTRAN.
• The main advantage of FLO is that the properties of radio bearers can be negotiated at call setup in a flexible manner.
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Flexible Layer One (2/2)
CRCattachment
Basic physical subchannels
Logical channel
Convolutionalcoding
Modulation
Interleaving Interleaving
CRCattachment
CRCattachment
CRCattachment
Convolutionalcoding
Convolutionalcoding
Convolutionalcoding
Ratematching
Ratematching
Ratematching
Basic physical subchannels
TrCH 1 TrCH nTrCH 2
Modulation
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Adaptive Multi-Rate codec (1/2)• Provides various codec modes with different speech qualities.
• Key operation: The codec mode adaptation (figure below).S
peec
h qu
ality
Channel quality
Codec mode 1
Codec mode 2
Codec mode 3
Switchingthreshold A
Switchingthreshold B
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Adaptive Multi-Rate codec (2/2)
Narrowband AMR (GERAN Rel’98)• Audio bandwidth equal to 300-3400 Hz.
• Speech quality lower than the quality of wireline communications.
• Most spectrum efficient codec among the speech codecs of GSM.
Wideband AMR (GERAN Rel’5)• Audio bandwidth extended to 50-7000 Hz.
• The extension improves intelligibility and naturalness of speech.
• The quality of the highest codec modes exceeds the quality of 64 kbit/s PCM speech.
• High quality means more bits and reduced network capacity.
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Circuit-switched speech versus VoIP
Spectrum efficiency
Voice quality
Service flexibility
Circuit-switchedspeech
VoIP
Ideal
CS speech• Good speech quality and
spectrum efficiency
• Quite inflexible
VoIP• Poor spectrum efficiency
• Good speech quality harder to achieve
• Very flexible
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Simulations (1/2)
Objectives1. Assess the performance of circuit-switched speech services and
VoIP in GERAN Release 5.
2. Determine suitable FLO configurations for circuit-switched speech services and VoIP in GERAN Release 6.
3. Assess the performance of proposed FLO configurations.
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Simulations (2/2)
Source Channelcoding Interleaving Burst
formatting Modulation
PropagationmodelNoise InterferenceEstimation/
detection Impairments
Inner receiver Channel
Transmitter
Channeldecodingdeinterleaving
Outer receiver
Errorestimates
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Results from the CS simulations (1/2)
Observations• CS performance
equal in GERAN Releases 5 and 6.
• FLO can be safely used to replace the logical channels of GERAN Release 5.
CS speech performance in GERAN Releases 5 and 6
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CIR
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CIR@1%FER (Rel'5)
CIR@1%FER (Rel'6)
AMR-NB, GMSK AMR-WB, GMSK AMR-WB, 8PSK
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Results from the CS simulations (2/2)
Observations• The link level performance
of the current narrowband AMR service can be significantly improved in GERAN Release 6 with the 8PSK modulation.
• However, it is important to note that this link level gain may not translate directly on a system level gain!
Improvements on narrowband AMR
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CIR
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CIR@1%FER (NB/GMSK, Rel'5)
CIR@1%FER (NB/8PSK, Rel'6)
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Results from the VoIP simulations (1/2)
Observations• The link level
performance of VoIP services is very poor in GERAN Release 5.
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CIR
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CIR@1%FER (CS Rel'5)CIR@1%FER (VoIP Rel'5)
AMR-NB, GMSK AMR-WB, GMSK AMR-WB, 8PSK
VoIP performance in GERAN Release 5
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Results from the VoIP simulations (2/2)
Observations• VoIP performance is
significantly improved in GERAN Release 6.
• VoIP performance is still remarkably lower than the performance of CS speech.
• The EEP/EED schme outperforms the UEP/UED scheme.
VoIP performance in GERAN Release 6
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CIR
[dB
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CIR@1%FER (Rel'5)CIR@1%FER (Rel'6, EEP/EED)
CIR@1%FER (Rel'6, UEP/UED)
AMR-NB, GMSK AMR-WB, GMSK AMR-WB, 8PSK
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CS speech vs. VoIP (1/2)Link level performance of AMR-NB 12.2 on GMSK channels
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CIR [dB]
FER
CS speech - Rel'5
CS speech - Rel'6
VoIP - Rel'5
VoIP - Rel'6 (EEP/EED)
VoIP - Rel'6 (UEP/UED)
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CS speech vs. VoIP (2/2)Link level performance of AMR-NB 12.2 on 8PSK channels
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CS speech - Rel'6
VoIP - Rel'5
VoIP - Rel'6 (EEP/EED)
VoIP - Rel'6 (UEP/UED)
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Conclusion (1/2)
Circuit-switched speech• The circuit-switched speech channels of GERAN Release 5 can
be replaced with FLO in GERAN Release 6. The link level performance remains unchanged.
• The link level performance of narrowband AMR can be improved in GERAN Release 6 with the 8PSK modulation.
• In addition to the direct improvements in link level performance, FLO also provides a possibility to reduce the complexity of CS speech by offering radio bearers that can be configured at call setup.
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Conclusion (2/2)
Packet-switched speech (VoIP)• The link level performance of VoIP over EGPRS is very poor.
• The link level performance of VoIP can be improved in GERAN Release 6, although the performance remains still well below the performance of CS speech.
• The EEP/EED scheme should be preferred over UEP/UED in channel coding.