Design issues relevant to developing an integrated voice/datamobile radio system

The various design issues related to developing an integrated voice/data mobile radio system, including high speed digital radio frequency modulation in a mobile environment, statistics for the talkspurt/silence gap composition of speech, switching schemes for voice/data integration, encoding techniques, and voice and data traffic statistics are discussed. A performance analysis is conducted for a typical design, showing that a voice-only mobile radio system can be upgraded to an integrated voice/data system capable of carrying the full voice and data loads without requiring additional radio channels and without compromising voice performance. Data traffic is only minimally delayed (46.2 ms mean delay) for a fully loaded system     

Policy for enhancement of traffic in TDMA hybrid switchedintegrated voice/data cellular mobile communications systems

Major types of data for multimedia with mobile communications are voice, WWW, and FTP. Different regimes for quality of service (QoS) exist for each with reference to delay sensitivity. Sharing available radio resource has been inherently based on the characteristics of data types and their associated QoS. In this paper, we present a new policy for integrated services of voice and data that is pertinent to a TDMA system using a hybrid-switching mode. Our method provides significant improvements in traffic capacity for data with virtual transparency to voice users     

Packet CDMA versus dynamic TDMA for multiple access in anintegrated voice/data PCN

A comparative evaluation of dynamic time-division multiple access (TDMA) and spread-spectrum packet code-division multiple access (CDMA) approaches to multiple access in an integrated voice/data personal communications network (PCN) environment are presented. After briefly outlining a cellular packet-switching architecture for voice/data PCN systems, dynamic TDMA and packet CDMA protocols appropriate for such traffic scenarios are described. Simulation-based network models which have been developed for performance evaluation of these competing access techniques are then outlined. These models are exercised with example integrated voice/data traffic models to obtain comparative system performance measures such as channel utilization, voice blocking probability, and data delay. Operating points based on typical performance constraints such as voice blocking probability 0.01 (for TDMA), voice packet loss rate 10^-3 (for CDMA), and data delay 250 ms are obtained, and results are presented     

Design and performance analysis of an advanced, narrowbandintegrated voice/data mobile radio system

Private land mobile communications have experienced significant demand for increased capacity and for new services, but congestion within the currently allocated 450 and 800 MHz bands has severely limited the capability of present generation systems to meet this demand. This paper proposes a narrowband integrated voice/data mobile radio system which triples current voice traffic capacity and simultaneously provides capacity for mobile data communications such as mobile data terminals, automatic vehicle location, and mobile facsimile by utilizing the silence gaps inherent in speech. The system is designed to fit within the narrowband 25 kHz channels in the 450 and 800 MHz frequency bands, and thus the system can replace existing private land mobile radio systems with minimum impact. The centerpiece of the system design is an evolutionary multiplexing and access control technique known as Packetized Data, Voice Dedicated (PDVD) Burst Switching which allows transmission of data within the silence gaps inherent in speech. Simulation results for various voice and data traffic loads show the flexibility and efficiency of the proposed narrowband integrated voice/data mobile radio system     

An integrated voice/data system for mobile indoor radio networks

A centralized, integrated voice/data radio network for fading multipath indoor radio channels is proposed and analyzed. The packets of voice and data are integrated through a movable boundary method. The uplink channel access uses a framed-polling protocol whereas the downlink uses a time-division multiple-access (TDMA) scheme. This system dynamically switches between two transmission rates and uses multiple antennas to maximize the throughput in the fading multipath indoor environment. Throughput and delay characteristics of the system are analyzed using four different techniques. The results are compared with those of Monte Carlo computer simulations. A simple relationship between the number of voice terminals and the throughput of the data traffic are derived for an upper bound of 10-ms delay for the data packets     

Output and delay process analysis for slotted CDMA wirelesscommunication networks with integrated voice/data transmission

This paper presents the output and delay process analysis of integrated voice/data slotted code division multiple access (CDMA) network systems with random access protocol for packet radio communications. The system model consists of a finite number of users, and each user can be a source of both voice traffic and data traffic. The allocation of codes to voice calls is given priority over that to data packets, while an admission control, which restricts the maximum number of codes available to voice sources, is considered for voice traffic so as not to monopolize the resource. Such codes allocated exclusively to voice calls are called voice codes. In addition, the system monitoring can distinguish between silent and talkspurt periods of voice sources, so that users with data packets can use the voice codes for transmission if the voice sources are silent. A discrete-time Markov process is used to model the system operation, and an exact analysis is presented to derive the moment generating functions of the probability distributions for packet departures of both voice and data traffic and for the data packet delay. For some cases with different numbers of voice codes, numerical results display the correlation coefficient of the voice and data packet departures and the coefficient of variation of the data packet delay as well as average performance measures, such as the throughput, the average delay of data packets, and the average blocking probability of voice calls     

Voice/data channel access integration in TDMA digital cellularnetworks

The integration of digital data capabilities in the soon to be widely deployed digital cellular networks, which were primarily designed for voice communications, offers a low-cost way to capture the large and ever growing market for mobile data services. The authors propose and evaluate a multiaccess protocol for integrating data traffic in the E(nhanced)-TDMA voice system with digital speech interpolation, which is an enhancement of the emerging North American digital cellular standard. The proposed, protocol combines random access with slot reservation mechanisms to statistically multiplex data packets with speech spurt packets over the shared terminal-to-base air channel. The integrated protocol requires no modification in the voice access protocol used in the E-TDMA system, and can attain performance close to that of an ideal voice/data multiplexer. Furthermore, the protocol may enable multislot assignment per TDMA frame to match the throughput needs of individual data terminals, and can accommodate application-dependent data transmission priorities     

Performance analysis for voice/data integration on a finite-buffermobile system

Personal communication service (PCS) networks offer mobile users diverse telecommunication applications, such as voice, data, and image, with different bandwidth and quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. This paper proposes an analytical model to investigate the performance of an integrated voice/data mobile network with finite data buffer in terms of voice-call blocking probability, data loss probability, and mean data delay. The model is based on the movable-boundary scheme that dynamically adjusts the number of channels for voice and data traffic. With the movable-boundary scheme, the bandwidth can be utilized efficiently while satisfying the QoS requirements for voice and data traffic. Using our model, the impact of hot-spot traffic in the heterogeneous PCS networks, in which the parameters (e.g., number of channels, voice, and data arrival rates) of cells can be varied, can be effectively analyzed. In addition, an iterative algorithm based on our model is proposed to determine the handoff traffic, which computes the system performance in polynomial-bounded time. The analytical model is validated by simulation     

Analytical Performance Estimation of a Wireless TDMA System with Traffic Classification

This paper describes an analytical model for performance estimation of a mobile communications system based on a TDMA/TDD access scheme. In accordance with the ATM classification of services and its terminology, three types of traffic have been taken into account: CBR for voice connections, VBR for real-time data applications and ABR for non real-time data services. Both voice and data traffic is modeled following Poisson processes. Moreover, three different policies for data resource assignment are evaluated: FCFS, NPPS and silence exploitation (SAD). Theoretical versus simulated results show the suitability of the model when the real-time traffic load is relatively low compared to non real-time traffic.     

Performance of a cellular hybrid C/TDMA mobile radio systemapplying joint detection and coherent receiver antenna diversity

For future mobile radio systems, an appropriately chosen multiple access technique is a critical issue. Multiple access techniques presently under discussion are code division multiple access (CDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), and hybrids of both. In the paper, a hybrid C/TDMA system using joint detection (JD-C/TDMA) with coherent receiver antenna diversity (CRAD) at the base station (BS) receiver is proposed. Some attractive features of the JD-C/TDMA system are the possibility to flexibly offer voice and data services with different bit rates, soft capacity, inherent frequency and interferer diversity, and high system capacity due to JD. Furthermore, due to JD, a cluster size equal to 1 can be realized without needing soft handover. The single cell E_b/N₀ performance and the interference situation in a cellular environment of the uplink of a JD-C/TDMA mobile radio system with CRAD is investigated in detail. It is shown that the cellular spectrum efficiency is remarkably high, taking values up to 0.2 bit/s/Hz/BS in the uplink, depending on the actual transmission conditions     

A narrowband, high capacity integrated voice/data mobile radiosystem for dispatch-related broadcast applications

This paper presents the design and performance analysis of a narrowband, mobile radio system optimized for dispatch-oriented broadcast applications in the 450 and 800 MHz frequency bands. The proposed system is significant since present-generation systems have proven incapable of providing the increased capacity demanded by new data services such as mobile data terminals, automatic vehicle location, and mobile facsimile. The centerpieces of the proposed design are a dynamic multiplexing technique known as packetized data, voice dedicated (PDVD) burst switching, which allows transmission of data within the silence gaps inherent in speech, and a noncausal signal processing technique called lookahead, which provides the data sources with advance knowledge of where the silence gaps will occur. Simulation results are given for two dispatch-oriented broadcast applications with widely differing traffic statistics, showing the flexibility and efficiency of the proposed system. The results show that for either application, the proposed integrated voice/data system can be retrofitted into existing 450 and 800 MHz public and private land mobile radio channels and, compared to conventional voice-only systems, can provide the user with full data services plus a tripling of voice capacity     

An Integrated Voice/Data System for VHF/UHF Mobile Radio

This paper presents the basic architecture and performance of a mobile radio multiaccess voice/data system. Natural pauses in conversational speech allow bandwidth saving through interleaving of data packets and talkspurts from different voice sources. A speech detector designed specifically for the mobile environment is presented. Blocking and delay performance of the multiaccess uplink is analyzed for voice traffic, assuming no traffic effects from the low priority data packets. Performance results from simulation are then presented for two downlink strategies in a two-hop virtual circuit in which a base station acts as a relay. The results verify also that the uplink analysis is valid for low voice traffic. For the data traffic, simulation results are presented in terms of data packet transmission delay and probability of collision with talkspurts. The results indicate that data flow may be limited by the collision factor. This work concludes that relative to conventional radio telephoning in which two channels are dedicated to each transmitter/receiver pair, a bandwidth reduction of 30-35 percent can be achieved.     

Performance analysis of integrated-services load-adaptive/TDMA satellite networks

A load-adaptive/TDMA multiple-access communications system which serves to interconnect broad-band multimedia packet streams is considered. In particular, the use of a satellite backbone communications link whose channels are dynamically assigned to network stations is investigated. Each station supports packetized voice and data message streams. Incoming streams to a station are statistically multiplexed by the station across the backbone channels currently allocated to this station. To enhance the multiplexing process, a variable bit-rate packet-voice encoding scheme is also employed. Stations periodically issue requests for backbone channel allocations, based upon their estimated loading status. We introduce two distinct multiple-access algorithms for allocating the shared backbone channels to the stations. We develop analytical methods for the analysis and design of such integrated multiplexing/multiple-access networks. Performance measures include voice and data packet delays and packet blocking probabilities. Voice stream performance is also characterized by the average number of bits per sample used by the voice encoding scheme. The effects of the propagation delay across the backbone link are especially demonstrated. Also illustrated are the performance improvements attained due to the use of the load-adaptive/TDMA scheme. Under the example of the ’all-voice’ traffic loading, an LA/TDMA scheme exhibits no obvious performance improvement over a fix-assigned scheme. However, as the burstiness of the traffic loading increases in the example of the ’data-voice’ traffic loading, a significant amount of improvement (36 per cent bandwidth savings) is realized by a LA/TDMA scheme.     

Design and performance analysis for data transmission in GSM/GPRSsystem with voice activity detection

To efficiently utilize the bandwidth of cellular mobile systems and offer service of high quality to both voice and data users, we propose a protocol to integrate packet-switched data traffic into current time-division multiple-access (TDMA)-type circuit-switched digital voice systems. We analyze the performance of the proposed system, which transmits data packets in the silent periods of a conversation with voice activity detection and adapts itself to the GSM/GPRS system, which uses the idle channels to provide data services. We show that the proposed protocol can increase the bandwidth utilization efficiency and improve the throughput/delay performance of the data transmission while minimizing the impact on the current GSM/GPRS service     

A Space-Division Multiple-Access Protocol for Spot-Beam Antenna and Satellite-Switched Communication Network

This paper identifies the characteristics of a point-topoint demand-assignment satellite-switched spot-beam antenna communication network for integrated data voice traffic. The described protocol is known as space-division multiple-access (SDMA) which uses an on-board central traffic controller, a fixed-assignment timedivision multiple-access (TDMA) protocol for reservations, and a rigid frame structure with separate data and voice subframes. Message and circuit switching are utilized for data and voice traffic, respectively. Synchronization is maintained by a looped-back reservation burst. A detailed delay analysis of data and voice traffic is presented for an arbitrary compound arrival process. A new method for the calculation of the data reservation and scheduling delays is derived. A comparison of the performance of the SDMA protocol to other protocols is shown. This paper demonstrates the feasibility and illustrates the design of the SDMA protocol.     

一种固定宽带无线接入系统中话音业务的动态接入技术

在简单介绍固定宽带无线接入系统之后 ,给出了一个 3.5GHz固定宽带无线接入系统中的MAC实现方案 ,着重研究了话音业务如何动态地接入骨干网 ;最后给出了话音业务通过E1接口接入PSTN的实现框图。本系统工作在 3.5GHz频段 ,采用FDD的双工技术、TDM/TDMA的复用多址技术、MAC技术实现了数据 /话音混合传送 ,并且通过动态资源分配保证了带宽的有效利用。     

Optimum Power Assignment for Maximum Throughput in CDMA Personal Communication Systems with Integrated Voice/Data Traffic

A CDMA personal communication system with integrated voice/data traffic is considered, in which the link error performance is controlled according to the voice error rate requirement, and the acceptable data traffic error rate is ensured by ARQ. Optimum power assignment (or allocation) between voice and data users is investigated to maximize the total system throughput. A graphical method (the tangent method) is described to obtain this optimum power allocation. The maximum throughput is expressed as a function of other system parameters. The tangent method is further used to measure the impact of transmission quality on the maximum data throughput. Numerical results and a design example are given for a power controlled wideband IS-95 type wireless personal communication system.     

Performance of a priority-based dynamic capacity allocation schemefor wireless ATM systems

The performance of a priority-based dynamic capacity allocation suitable for wireless ATM systems is presented. The scheduling of ATM cell transmission in each uplink TDMA frame is based on a priority scheme with priority given to real-time traffic over nonreal-time traffic. Real-time traffic exceeding the uplink capacity is lost while nonreal-time traffic that cannot be served is stored in a first-in first-out (FIFO) queue. An analytical model is developed to evaluate the cell loss ratio (CLR) of both real-time and nonreal-time traffic. Aggregate voice, video, and data traffic is modeled by three two-state Markov-modulated Poisson processes (MMPPs). Analytical results for different system capacities and various traffic loads and scenarios are discussed. Simulation results with on-off sources and approximating MMPP sources are also presented     

A Protocol for Multimedia CDMA Personal Communication Networks

In this paper, a joint CDMA/TDMA protocol has been proposed for integratedvideo-phone/voice/data traffic in personal communication networks (PCN). Thevideophone service is implemented according to H.261 standard. The concept ofdynamic boundary is adopted in both code and time domains to meet thedifferent requirements for videophone, voice and data traffic.Two mathematical analysis methods are adopted to evaluate the systemperformance. One is the traditional Markov analysis (TDMA), which is used tocalculate the average videophone and voice call blocking probabilities. Theother is Transient Fluid Analysis (TFA), which is adopted to evaluate the datadelay and channel utilization performance. Results show that two dynamicboundaries can be adjusted to achieve the optimal system performance, andsuggestions of how to adjust these boundaries are also given.     

Theoretical analyses of data communications integrated intocordless voice channels

Dynamic integration of data into voice channels of second-generation cordless systems provides effective channel utilization. This paper proposes and theoretically examines an inhibit and random multiple access (IRMA) protocol for data terminals in an integrated voice and data system by assuming that real-time voice traffic has priority over data. Analytical expressions are derived to quantify the effect of data inhibition on data performance, i.e., throughput and delay for both infinite and finite population models for data terminals. In order to find the possible data throughputs with our channel access scheme for data communication using voice channels while not affecting the voice quality, we investigate the data performance under two extreme situations: 1) no voice load and 2) full voice load. The numerical results indicate that IRMA data performance is comparable to that of slotted ALOHA (S-ALOHA) at lighter loads of less than 0.2 while efficiently sharing the network resources between real-time voice and nonreal-time data traffic. For the data loads above 0.2, IRMA pays a price, but an affordable one, in terms of throughput performance for its ability to accommodate data while assuring quality of voice even when all channels are occupied by voice traffic. An optimum number of terminals and the range of data-transmission probabilities have been deduced as 16 and 0.05-0.15, respectively, in order to achieve maximum throughput with minimum delay while maintaining stable data transmission and voice quality in an integrated system