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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+) (GSM);
Half rate speech;
Discontinuous Transmission (DTX)
for half rate speech traffic channels
(3GPP TS 46.041 version 15.0.0 Release 15)
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Foreword
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 2
Foreword . 2
Modal verbs terminology . 2
Foreword . 4
1 Scope . 5
2 References . 5
3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations . 6
3.1 Definitions . 6
3.2 Symbols . 6
3.3 Abbreviations . 7
4 General . 7
4.1 General Organisation . 7
5 Transmit (TX) side . 7
5.1 General Operation . 8
5.1.1 Functions of the TX DTX handler . 8
5.1.2 Functions of the TX radio subsystem . 9
6 Receive (RX) side . 11
6.1 General operation . 11
6.1.1 Functions of the RX radio subsystem . 11
6.1.2 Functions of the RX DTX handler . 12
Annex A (informative): Change history . 13
History . 14
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Foreword
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This Technical Specification has been produced by the 3 Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).
The present document is a GSM technical specification version 7 and is part of the 1998 release of the GSM Technical
Specifications. The present document is part of a series covering the half rate speech traffic channels as described
below:
GSM 06.02 "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Half rate speech; Half rate speech
processing functions".
GSM 06.06 "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Half rate speech; ANSI-C code for the
GSM half rate speech codec".
GSM 06.07 "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Half rate speech; Test sequences for the
GSM half rate speech codec".
GSM 06.20 "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Half rate speech; Half rate speech
transcoding".
GSM 06.21 "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Half rate speech; Substitution and muting
of lost frames for half rate speech traffic channels".
GSM 06.22 "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Half rate speech; Comfort noise aspects
for half rate speech traffic channels".
GSM 06.41 "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Half rate speech; Discontinuous
Transmission (DTX) for half rate speech traffic channels".
GSM 06.42 "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Half rate speech; Voice Activity Detector
(VAD) for half rate speech traffic channels".
The contents of the present document are subject to continuing work within the TSG and may change following formal
TSG approval. Should the TSG modify the contents of the present document, it will be re-released by the TSG with an
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1 Scope
The present document 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 the
present document together with all their flags is mandatory, being a part of the A-bis interface as described in
GSM 08.61 [10].
The DTX functions described in the present document 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 References
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present
document.
• References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or
non-specific.
• For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
• For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including a
GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same
Release as the present document.
[1] GSM 01.04: "Digital cellular telecommunication system (Phase 2+); Abbreviations and
acronyms".
[2] GSM 04.08: "Digital cellular telecommunication system (Phase 2+); Mobile radio interface layer 3
specification".
[3] GSM 05.05: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Radio transmission and
reception".
[4] GSM 05.08: "Digital cellular telecommunication system (Phase 2+); Radio subsystem link
control".
[5] GSM 06.02: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Half rate speech Part 1: Half
rate speech processing functions".
[6] GSM 06.20: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Half rate speech; Half rate
speech transcoding".
[7] GSM 06.21: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Half rate speech;
Substitution and muting of lost frames for half rate speech traffic channels".
[8] GSM 06.22: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Half rate speech; Comfort
noise aspects for half rate speech traffic channels".
[9] GSM 06.42: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Half rate speech; Voice
Activity Detector (VAD) for half rate speech traffic channels".
[10] GSM 08.61: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Inband control of remote
transcoders and rate adaptors for half rate traffic channels".
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[11] GSM 06.06: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Half rate speech Part 7:
ANSI-C code for the GSM half rate speech codec".
3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of the present document, the following terms and definitions apply:
accepted SID frame: traffic frame which is flagged with SID= "1" or SID= "2" by the Radio Subsystem.
bad traffic frame: 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: good traffic frame which is not an accep
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