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6. Supplement No.30 (new)
Recommendation G.173
TRANSMISSION PLAN ASPECTS OF LAND MOBILE TELEPHONY NET-
WORKS
(This Supplement is proposed for study during the present study period with the aim
of converting it into a Recommendation.)
1. General
This Recommendation is primarily concerned with the special planning aspects
which pertain to analogue or digital land mobile systems. Such systems, due to
technical or economic factors, will prevent a full compliance with the general char-
acteristics of international telephone connections and circuits recommended by
CCITT.
The scope of this Recommendation is thus to give guidelines and advice to adminis-
trations as to what kind of precautions, measures and minimum requirements which
are needed for a successful incorporation of such networks in the national PSTN.
The performance objectives of such systems may vary between different groups of
customers. For normal customers the objective should be to reach a quality as close
as possible to CCITT standards. For other groups of very disciplined customers,
other performance objectives might be acceptable.
2. Network configurations
Under study.
Under this headline administrations should be advised to use four-wire transmission
to avoid problems when accessing inherently four-wire mobile links.
3. Nominal transmission loss of mobile links
Under study.
Under this headline the problems with the application of loudness ratings and the
correct loading of the radio channels should be discussed.
The recommended LR values in CCITT RecommendationG.121 are not directly
applicable due to the fact that the background noise level is higher in a car than that
assumed in RecommendationG.121.
What is the design objective for the speech levels from the radio path and what lev-
els should be delivered to the network?
4. Stability
Under study.
5. Echo
Under study.
Under this headline the need for echo control devices should be discussed.
6. Noise
Under study.
(Can the European group give indications of the inherent noise performance of the
codec algorithms being considered?)
7. Delay
Under study.
8. Effects of errors in digital systems
Several coding methods, such as SBC, ATC, RELP and APC-AB with transmission
bit rates below 16kbit/s have been proposed to achieve spectrum utilization effi-
ciency and quality comparable with conventional analogue FM systems. However,
the application of such highly efficient speech coding methods to land mobile radio
can lead to a significant degradation in quality because of transmission errors.
Mobile radio links are not always error-free. Burst errors occur frequently due to
multipath fading. It has been reported that the average bit error rate (BER) perfor-
mance of diversity reception is 10-2-10-4 in the
10-20dB range of the average carrier-to-noise power ratio (CNR), and burst error
length reaches 20-100bits in case of 16kbit/s digital signal transmissions. There-
fore, robustness against burst error is an important characteristic for speech coding
applied to mobile communication. Speech CODECs in mobile radio links should
involve error control techniques so as to provide robustness in multipath fading
channels. Thus, the transmission bit rate includes redundancy bits for error control.
Concerning quality evaluations, it may be better to use the average CNR as the
receiving level for comparisons among analogue and digital systems. This is
because it can present the receiving level as a normalized unit for both analogue FM
and digital systems. In quality evaluations between digital systems, the average sig-
nal energy per bit to noise power density ratio (Eb/No) is suitable for the presenta-
tion of the receiving level. This is because it can describe the receiving level as a
normalized unit for any transmission bit rate and receiving bandwidth.
9. Quantizing distortion
Under study.
10. Effect of transmission impairments on voice band
Under study.
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