Project Abstract

This project security sinusoidal transform of speech coding for mobile communication centers on the transformation of speech codes used in communication. Speech coding is the efficient representation of speech on digital form. It is one of the key technologies in current and evolving digital cellular and wireless voice communication offerings. The speech coders in existing standards exhibit a level of sophistication and performance unimaginable just 15 years ago. Chapter one tends to look at the introduction of the topic and the characteristics of mobile communications. It also looks at the statement of the problem, why the study is being carried out, significance of the study and the limitations of the study imposed by the wireless channel and by background impairments. Chapter two looks at the literature review of previous researchers on the project topic. Chapter three looks at the presentation of approaches to address their resulting effects by researchers. Chapter four discusses the designing of speech codes. Finally, chapter five summarizes the project topic in a nutshell. It also discusses the conclusion and recommendation made by researchers for future research in speech coding for mobile communication problem

Project Overview

INTRODUCTION

The introduction of speech coding for mobile communication through security sinusoidal transformation. Speech coding is the application of data compression of digital audio signal containing speech. Speech coding uses speech-specific parameter estimation using audio signal processing techniques to model the speech signal, combined with generic data compression algorithms to represent the resulting modelled parameters in a compact bitstream. The two most important applications of speech coding are mobile telephony and voice over IP.

The techniques employed in speech coding are similar to those used in audio data compression and audio coding where knowledge in psychoacoustics is used to transmit only data that is relevant to the human auditory system. For example, in voice band speech coding, only information in the frequency band 400HZ to 3500Hz is transmitted but the reconstructed signal is still adequate for intelligibility.

Speech coding differs from other forms of audio coding in that speech is a much simpler signal then most other audio signals, and a lot more statistical information is available about the properties of speech. As a result, some auditory information which is relevant in audio coding can be unnecessary in the speech coding context. In speech coding, the most important criterion is preservation of intelligibility and pleasantness of speech, with a constrained amount of transmitted data. The intelligibility of speech includes, the actual literal content, speaker identity, emotions, intonation, timbre etc. In addition, most speech applications require low coding delay, as long as coding delays interfere with speech interaction.

Communication is the exchange of thoughts, messages or information, as by speech, signals, writing or behaviour. It is derived from the latin word.

“Communis”, which means to share. Communication requires a sender, a message and a recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender’s intent to communicate at the time of communication, thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality. The communication process is complete once the receiver has understood the message of the once the receiver has understood the message of the sender. Feedback is critical to effective communication between participants. Bandwidth is a key concept in many telephony applications. In radio communications, for example, band width is the frequency range occupied by a modulated carrier wave, whereas in optics, it is the width of an individual spectral line or the entire spectral range.

In many signal processing contexts, bandwidth is a valuable and limited range of frequencies. A government agency may apportion the regionally available bandwidth to broadcast license holders so that their signals do not mutually interfere.

For different applications there are different precise definitions for bandwidth. It could be defined as the range of frequencies beyond which the frequency function is zero. This would correspond to the mathematical notion of the support of a function. Bandwidth can also be referred to as the frequencies where the frequency function is small.

Bandwidth typically refers to base band or as a pass band for communication systems. 

CHARACTERISTICS OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION WITH RESPECT TO SPEECH CODERS

There are a number of additional characteristics of mobile communication, some of which are closely linked with handover.

The most important characteristics includes:

1. a) Adaptive frame Alignment: Mobile staggers is transmitted by three timeslots after a burst from the base station. This means that there is a nominal delay of three TDM slots between transmit and receive frames at the base station. However, the propagation time between base and mobile depends on distance and it is possible for a burst from a mobile near the perimeter of a cell to overlap with a burst from a mobile close to the base station. GSM calculates the timing advance required to ensure that bursts arrive at the base station at the beginning of their timeslots. This information is transmitted to the mobile on the SACCH.

       The initial timing advance is obtained by monitoring the RACH from the mobile which contains only access bursts with a long guard interval of 68.25 bit periods. This ensures that there will not be any overlap problems for a mobile separation from the base station of up to 37Km.

The required timing advance is specified in terms of bit periods by a 6 bit number transmitted on the SACCH. This means that an advance between 0 and 63 bit periods can be requested.

1. b) Adaptive power control: If the transmit power is constant then the mean CIR is a function only of frequency re-use distance. However, it is not necessarily desirable to work with a constant power and the goal is rather to ensure that a minimum transmitted power is used on both the uplink and downlink in order to maintain adequate speech quality. It also has the advantage of conserving battery power for hand-help mobile. For a class I mobile, there are sixteen (16) possible power levels separated by 2dB. Adaptive power control is an alternative to handover.
2. c) Slow frequency hopping: If a mobile is moving with reasonably high velocity, the duration of the fades will be short and the error correction procedures combines with interleaving will be sufficient to provide an acceptable service. However, if the mobile is moving slowly (or is stationary), the fade duration becomes longer and can exceed the internal over which bit interleaving is effective. This will result in errors in the class 1 bits of the transmitted encoded voice signal and will give rise to bad frames and degraded speech quality. If a mobile is in stationary and in a deep fade, communication can be lost completely.

To overcome the problem of long duration fades, the sequence of bursts making up a traffic channel are cyclically assigned to different carrier frequencies defined by the base station. Timing signals are available at the base and mobile to keep transmitters and receivers in synchronism on the defined hoping sequence. An advantage of slow frequency hopping. Is that, C0-channel interference is more evenly spread between all the mobile stations.

1. d) Discontinuous transmission and reception (DTX): During normal conversation a speaker is active for only about 44% of the time. The rest of the time the speaker is listening and pausing for breath. Measurements have show that the percentage of time that both speakers talk simultaneously is very low. This means that a traffic channel will only be used in one direction for approximately 50% of any conversation. Voice activity detectors (VAD) are employed to suppress TCH transmission during silent periods.

This has two advantages which includes:

1. The level of co-channel interference is reduced, on average by 3dB.
2. The battery life of the mobile can be significantly increased since it is not necessary to transmit a carrier during silent periods.

Discontinues reception may be employed to conserve battery power when a mobile is in the stand by mode. The paging channel on the downlink CCCH is organized in such a way that the mobile needs to listen only to a subset of all paging frames. Hence a mobile can be designed to make the receiver active only when needed.

1.3     STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

    When the mobile phone or data device is turned on, it registers with the mobile telephone exchange, or switch, with its unique identifiers, and can then be alerted by mobile when there is an incoming telephone call. The handset constantly listens for the strongest signal being received for the surrounding base stations, and is able to switch seamlessly between sites. As the user moves around the network, the “handoffs” are performed to allow the device to switch sites without interrupting the call.

Cell sites have relatively low- power radio transmitters which broadcast their presence and delay communications between the mobile handsets and the switch. The switch in turn connects the call to another subscriber of the same wireless services provider or to the public telephone network, which includes the networks of other wireless carriers. Many of these sites are camouflaged to blend with the existing environments, particularly in scenic areas.

The dialogue between the handset and the cell site is a stream of digital data that includes digitized audio (except for the first generation analog networks). The technology that achieves this depends on the system which the mobile phone operator has adopted. These technologies are grouped by generation. The first generation systems started in 1979 with Japan, and are all analog and include AMPS and NMT. Second generation systems started in 1991 in Finland, and are all digital and include GSM, CDMA and TDMA.

1.4     PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

The objective of this study is to help us know the importance of mobile communication, which facilitates individual subscribers to travel globally with continuous personal communications.

Much of the later work in speech compression was motivated by military research into digital communications for secure military radios, where very low data rates were required to allow effective operation in a hostile radio environment. At the same time, far more processing power was available, in the form of VLSI integrated circuits, than was available for earlier compression techniques. As a result, modern speech compression algorithms could use far more complex techniques than were available in the 1960s to achieve far higher compression ratios.

These techniques were available through the open research literature to be used for civilian applications, allowing the creation of digital mobile phone networks with substantially higher channel capacities than the analog systems that preceded them.

The most common speech coding is Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) coding, which is used for example in the GSM standard. In CELP, the modeling is divided into two stages.

1. A linear predictive stage that models the spectral envelope.
2. A code-book based model of the residual of linear predictive model.

1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY.  

       As can be seen, with a 3dB bandwidth of only approximately 4KHZ, code acquisition is futile unless counter measures are taken against possible Doppler offsets.

The most common approach to overcome this obstacle is to sequentially search all code phase over the range of anticipated frequency offsets. This brute force approach is laborious and can lead to large acquisition times. The approach outlined in this project, utiliizes the SPC combined with an FFT techniques, as proposed in, to simultaneously search all possible code Doppler offsets at one time, thus reducing the 2-dimensional search problem to a 1- dimensional search for code phase.

1.6 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY.

The near-far problem is a condition in which a receiver captures a strong signal and thereby makes it impossible for the receiver to detect a weaker signal.

The near-far problem is particularity difficult in CDMA systems, where transmitters share transmission frequencies and transmission time.

There is a long-standing issue that the dynamic range of one or more stages of a receiver can limit that receiver’s ability to detect a weak signal in the presence of strong signal. The near-far problem usually refers to a specific case of this in which ADC resolution limits the range of signals a receiver can detect in a direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) system such as CDMA. The receiver’s ADC must reduce its gain to prevent ADC salutation, which causes the weaker signal to fall into the noise of the ADC. This is different from a condition of one signal interfering with another because if the ADC had sufficient resolution, it would be possible to recover both signals.

DSSS allows multiple transmitters to use the same bandwidth at the same time. One price of such a system is that the dynamic range of the system is limited by the dynamic range of the receiver ADC.

1.7 DEFINITIONS OF TERMS

1. i) ADC       Analogue to Digital Conversion
2. ii) AMPS     Advanced Mobile Phone System.

iii)   CCCH     GSM Common Control Channel

1. iv) CDMA    Code Division Multiple Access.
2. v) CELP     Code Excited Linear Prediction
3. vi) CIR     Carrier to Interference Ratio

vii)   DSSS     Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum System.

viii)   FDMA     Frequency Division Multiple Access.

1. ix) FFT Fast Fourier Transform.
2. x) GSM Global System for Mobile Communication
3. xi) MAC Medium Access Control

xii)   NMT       Nordic Mobile Telephone System.

xiii) RACH       GSM Random Access Channel

xiv) SACCH     GSM Slow Associated Control Channel

1. xv) SPC Serial-Parallel Correlator

xvi) TACS       Total Access Communication System

xvii) TDM       Time Division Multiplexing.

xviii) TDMA     Time Division Multiple Access.

xix) VAD       Voice Activity Detector

1. xx) VLSI Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit.