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- 6. Supplement No.30 (new)
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- Recommendation G.173
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- TRANSMISSION PLAN ASPECTS OF LAND MOBILE TELEPHONY NET-
- WORKS
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- (This Supplement is proposed for study during the present study period with the aim
- of converting it into a Recommendation.)
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- 1. General
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 2. Network configurations
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- Under study.
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- Under this headline administrations should be advised to use four-wire transmission
- to avoid problems when accessing inherently four-wire mobile links.
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- 3. Nominal transmission loss of mobile links
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- Under study.
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- Under this headline the problems with the application of loudness ratings and the
- correct loading of the radio channels should be discussed.
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- 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.
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- What is the design objective for the speech levels from the radio path and what lev-
- els should be delivered to the network?
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- 4. Stability
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- Under study.
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- 5. Echo
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- Under study.
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- Under this headline the need for echo control devices should be discussed.
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- 6. Noise
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- Under study.
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- (Can the European group give indications of the inherent noise performance of the
- codec algorithms being considered?)
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- 7. Delay
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- Under study.
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- 8. Effects of errors in digital systems
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 9. Quantizing distortion
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- Under study.
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- 10. Effect of transmission impairments on voice band
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- Under study.
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