SIST ETS 300 972 E1:2003

Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half rate speech; Discontinuous transmission (DTX) for half rate speech traffic channels (GSM 06.41 version 5.0.1)

This European Telecommunication Standard (ETS) gives a description of the general baseband operation of half rate speech traffic channels in the transmitter and in the receiver of GSM Mobile Stations (MS)s and Base Station Systems (BSS)s during Discontinuous Transmission (DTX). For clarity, the description is structured according to the block diag rams in figures 1 and 4. Except in the case described below, this stru cture of distributing the various functions between system entities is not mandatory for implementation, as long as the operation on the air interface and on the speech decoder output remains the same. In the case of BSSs where the speech transcoder is located remotely in the Base Station Controller (BSC), the implementation of the interfac es between the DTX Handlers and the Radio Sub System (RSS) as describe d in this ETS together with all their flags is mandatory, being a part of the A-bis interface as described in GSM 08.61 (ETS 300 979) [10]. The DTX functions described in this ETS are mandatory for implementati on in all GSM MSs. The receiver requirements are mandatory for impleme ntation in all GSM BSSs, the transmitter requirements only for those w here downlink DTX will be used.

Digitalni celični telekomunikacijski sistem – Govor s pol hitrosti – Prekinjano oddajanje (DTX) pri kanalih za prenos govora s pol hitrosti (GSM 06.41, različica 5.0.1)

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 30-Nov-2003
• ICS: 33.070.50 - Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM)
• Technical Committee: SS EIT - Technical Board for the electrotechnical, information technology and telecommunications fields
• Current Stage: 6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 01-Dec-2003
• Due Date: 01-Dec-2003
• Completion Date: 01-Dec-2003
• Mandate: T-172
• Ref Project: ETSI ETS 300 972 ed.1 (1997-05) - Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half rate speech; Discontinuous transmission (DTX) for half rate speech traffic channels (GSM 06.41 version 5.0.1)

Standards Content (Sample)

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Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half rate speech; Discontinuous transmission
(DTX) for half rate speech traffic channels (GSM 06.41 version 5.0.1)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: ETS 300 972 Edition 1
ICS:
33.070.50 Globalni sistem za mobilno Global System for Mobile
telekomunikacijo (GSM) Communication (GSM)
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN ETS 300 972
TELECOMMUNICATION May 1997
STANDARD
Source: ETSI TC-SMG Reference: DE/SMG-110641Q
ICS: 33.020
Key words: Digital cellular telecommunications system, Global System for Mobile communications (GSM)
R
GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR
MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
Digital cellular telecommunications system;
Half rate speech;
Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) for half rate
speech traffic channels
(GSM 06.41 version 5.0.1)
ETSI
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© European Telecommunications Standards Institute 1997. All rights reserved.

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Whilst every care has been taken in the preparation and publication of this document, errors in content,
typographical or otherwise, may occur. If you have comments concerning its accuracy, please write to
"ETSI Editing and Committee Support Dept." at the address shown on the title page.

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Contents
Foreword .5
1 Scope .7
2 Normative references.7
3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations.8
3.1 Definitions .8
3.2 Symbols .9
3.3 Abbreviations .9
4 General.9
4.1 General Organisation.9
5 Transmit (TX) side.10
5.1 General Operation .10
5.1.1 Functions of the TX DTX handler.10
5.1.2 Functions of the TX radio subsystem.11
6 Receive (RX) side .13
6.1 General operation .13
6.1.1 Functions of the RX radio subsystem .13
6.1.2 Functions of the RX DTX handler .14
History.15

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Foreword
This European Telecommunication Standard (ETS) has been produced by the Special Mobile Group
(SMG) Technical Committee of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
This ETS describes the general baseband operation of half rate speech traffic channels in the transmitter
and in the receiver of GSM Mobile Stations (MS)s and Base Station Systems (BSS)s during Discontinuous
Transmission (DTX) within the digital cellular telecommunications system. This ETS is part of ETSs series
covering the half rate speech traffic channels as described below:
GSM 06.02 ETS 300 966: "Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half rate speech;
Half rate speech processing functions".
GSM 06.06 ETS 300 967: "Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half rate speech;
ANSI-C code for the GSM half rate speech codec".
GSM 06.07 ETS 300 968: "Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half rate speech;
Test sequences for the GSM half rate speech codec".
GSM 06.20 ETS 300 969: "Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half rate speech;
Half rate speech transcoding".
GSM 06.21 ETS 300 970: "Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half rate speech;
Substitution and muting of lost frames for half rate speech traffic channels".
GSM 06.22 ETS 300 971: "Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half rate speech;
Comfort noise aspects for half rate speech traffic channels".
GSM 06.41 ETS 300 972: "Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half rate
speech; Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) for half rate speech traffic
channels".
GSM 06.42 ETS 300 973: "Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half rate speech;
Voice Activity Detector (VAD) for half rate speech traffic channels".
Transposition dates
Date of adoption: 4 April 1997
Date of latest announcement of this ETS (doa): 31 August 1997
Date of latest publication of new National Standard
or endorsement of this ETS (dop/e): 28 February 1998
Date of withdrawal of any conflicting National Standard (dow): 28 February 1998

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1 Scope
This European Telecommunication Standard (ETS) gives a description of the general baseband operation
of half rate speech traffic channels in the transmitter and in the receiver of GSM Mobile Stations (MS)s
and Base Station Systems (BSS)s during Discontinuous Transmission (DTX).
For clarity, the description is structured according to the block diagrams in figures 1 and 4. Except in the
case described below, this structure of distributing the various functions between system entities is not
mandatory for implementation, as long as the operation on the air interface and on the speech decoder
output remains the same.
In the case of BSSs where the speech transcoder is located remotely in the Base Station Controller
(BSC), the implementation of the interfaces between the DTX Handlers and the Radio Sub System (RSS)
as described in this ETS together with all their flags is mandatory, being a part of the A-bis interface as
described in GSM 08.61 (ETS 300 979) [10].
The DTX functions described in this ETS are mandatory for implementation in all GSM MSs. The receiver
requirements are mandatory for implementation in all GSM BSSs, the transmitter requirements only for
those where downlink DTX will be used.
2 Normative references
This ETS incorporates by dated and undated reference, provisions from other publications. These
normative references are cited at the appropriate places in the text and the publications are listed
hereafter. For dated references, subsequent amendments to or revisions of any of these publications
apply to this ETS only when incorporated in it by amendment or revision. For undated references, the
latest edition of the publication referred to applies.
[1] GSM 01.04 (ETR 350): "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+);
Abbreviations and acronyms".
[2] GSM 04.08 (ETS 300 940): "Digital cellular telecommunications system
(Phase 2+); Mobile radio interface layer 3 specification".
[3] GSM 05.05 (ETS 300 910): "Digital cellular telecommunications system
(Phase 2+); Radio transmission and reception".
[4] GSM 05.08 (ETS 300 911): "Digital cellular telecommunications system
(Phase 2+); Radio subsystem link control".
[5] GSM 06.02 (ETS 300 966): "Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half
rate speech; Half rate speech processing functions".
[6] GSM 06.20 (ETS 300 969): "Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half
rate speech; Half rate speech transcoding".
[7] GSM 06.21 (ETS 300 970): "Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half
rate speech; Substitution and muting of lost frames for half rate speech traffic
channels".
[8] GSM 06.22 (ETS 300 971): "Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half
rate speech; Comfort noise aspects for half rate speech traffic channels".
[9] GSM 06.42 (ETS 300 973): "Digital cellular telecommunications system; Half
rate speech; Voice Activity Detector (VAD) for half rate speech traffic channels".
[10] GSM 08.61 (ETS 300 979): "Digital cellular telecommunications system; In-band
control of remote transcoders and rate adaptors for half rate traffic channels".

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3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of this ETS, the following definitions apply:
accepted SID frame: A traffic frame which is flagged with SID= "1" or SID= "2" by the Radio Subsystem.
bad traffic frame: A traffic frame flagged BFI= "1" (Bad Frame Indication) or with UFI= "1" (Unreliable
Frame Indication) by the Radio Subsystem.
frame: Time interval of 20 ms corresponding to the time segmentation of the half rate speech transcoder
defined in GSM 06.20 (ETS 300 969) [6]), also used as a short term for a traffic frame.
good speech frame: A good traffic frame which is not an accepted SID frame.
good traffic frame: A traffic frame flagged BFI= "0" and UFI= "0" by the Radio Subsystem.
GS averaging period: The period in which the quantized energy tweak parameters GS are averaged: it
corresponds to the hangover period.
hangover period: A period of 7 frames added at the end of a speech burst in which VAD flag = "0" and
SP flag = "1".
invalid SID frame: An accepted SID frame which was not classified as valid SID frame. This frame is not
valid for updating comfort noise parameters, but the frame conveys information that comfort noise
generations should be started or continued.
lost SID frame: An unusable frame received when the RX DTX Handler is generating comfort noise and a
SID frame is expected (Time Alignment Flag TAF= "1").
lost speech frame: An unusable frame received when the RX DTX Handler is passing on traffic frames
directly to the speech decoder.
SID code word: Fixed bit pattern defined in GSM 06.22 (ETS 300 971) [8], for labelling a traffic frame as
a SID frame.
SID field: The bit positions defined in GSM 06.22 (ETS 300 971) [8], of the SID codeword within a SID
frame.
SID frame: Frame characterised by the SID (Silence Descriptor) code word. It conveys information on the
acoustic background noise.
SP flag
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