Combining speech coders and entropy coders to reduce the bit rate in the compression of speech

The combination of speech coders and entropy coders is investigated, for bit rate reduction. Three speech coders of the celp (code excited linear prediction) type are considered and the residual correlation in lsp (line spectrum pairs) coefficients and gains in a speech frame is exploited. The lossless entropy coders use Huffman, Lzw (lempel ziv welch) and gzip (LZ-Huffrnan) techniques. The greatest efficiency is provided by the adaptive Huffman approach, with a 15 % gain in each type of compressed parameter and an overall average bit rate reduction of 7 % for the FS1016 coder and 5 % for the Tetra and lbc coders.     

Performance of ITU-T G.729 8 kb/s CS-ACELP speech codec withnonvoice narrowband signals

A report is given on the results of a series of objective measurements conducted by COMSAT in a laboratory environment aimed at characterizing the narrowband performance of the ITU-T G.729 8 kb/s conjugate-structure algebraic code-excited linear prediction (CS-ACELP) speech coder. The test procedures followed ITU-T Recommendation G.720, “Characterization of Low-Rate Voice Coder Performance with Non-Voice Signals”. It was concluded that the G.729 algorithm has excellent performance with narrowband signals in general (e.g., single tones and DTMF signals). As for Signaling System No. 5 (SS5) interregister signals, the G.729 CS-ACELP frequently failed to correctly identify SS5 digit 6 in a number of occurrences, using worst-case analysis equipment. This indicates that the SS5 performance of G.729 codecs in trunks where SS5 is used should be carefully measured before the network planner decides on its deployment. Great care should also be taken for tandem connections, since no test has been performed for these configurations     

基于局部余弦变换的低比特变速率语音编码算法研究

提出将局部余弦变换(LCT)算法应用于语音编码中,系统设计了一个平均比特率近1.6kbit/s的低比特变速率语音编码器。在变比特率编码器设计中采用SVM算法进行VAD检测。激活语音帧的语音模式采用GSM半速率编码中的划分方法,但将其中的强浊音模式和中浊音模式合并为一个中强浊音模式。对各类语音模式和无声帧(背景噪声)的局部余弦变换系数采用分维矢量量化算法进行量化,码书设计采用LGB算法。编码中的码书搜索采用树形快速搜索算法。通过主观非正式听力测试表明设计的变比特率编码器编码的重建语音MOS约为3.15,与比特率为2.4kbit/s美国联邦声码器标准MELP的重建语音相当,具有较强的顽健性,适合于对存在各种环境噪声的语音进行编码。     

Application of 32 and 16 kb/s speech encoding techniques to digital satellite communications

This paper describes the performance of various voice encoding techniques at 32 and 16 kb/s for applying to digital satellite communication systems. The subjective performances of adaptive differential PCM (ADPCM), adaptive predictive coding (APC), subband coding (SBC) and adaptive delta modulation (ADM) are compared under various satellite channel environments, that is, random and burst channel errors in satellite link and an ambient noise in the ship-to-shore direction in a maritime satellite channel. The performance of the voiceband data at 4·8 and 2·4 kb/s is also evaluated for these coders. ADPCM encoding at 32 kb/s is very attractive for conventional fixed satellite systems, keeping the equivalent quality to 64 kb/s PCM. On the other hand, APC encoding at 16 kb/s is also most suitable for maritime satellite communication systems at the sacrifice of a small degradation of speech quality.     

变误码率的无线信道中TCP性能研究

描述了TCPReno、TCPVegas和TCPSACK的实现原理,并在NS2中仿真出一个误码率时变的无线信道,把TCP三个版本置于NS仿真环境中进行了仿真,对仿真结果进行了分析,指出了无线信道中TCP的研究方向。     

兼容H.263/H.263+的低码率视频编解码算法优化

针对视频编码各部分功能模块进行了算法研究和性能分析,在保证最后解码图像的质量下降不大的前提下,提高编解码的处理速度。对于DCT／IDCT、运动估计以及P帧编码中的条件性略过宏块等作了分析,同时给出了判据和实验结果。最后对程序的体系结构和程序设计给出了一般性的规则。     

OFDM系统中动态子信道和功率的分配

在分析一种多用户OFDM系统中自适应子信道和比特功率分配算法的基础上,根据多径频率选择性衰落信道的瞬时特性,动态地为多用户分配子信道和传输比特数,并服从MA优化准则.并且进一步考虑了系统中有固定速率用户和可变速率用户同时存在的情况:在子信道分配时,先给固定速率的用户分配子信道,再给可变速率用户按照子信道链路增益最大化分配剩余的子信道;在信号发射功率分配上,按照"注水"法则分配,链路增益大的子信道分配的功率大,链路增益小的子信道分配的功率小,则系统的目标函数,总传输速率可以达到最大.仿真证明了此方案优于一般的方案.     

Probability of error in a spread spectrum network with variable bit rate and constant chip rate

The local communications network of the future will be a single-mode fibre optic network handling voice, data, and high resolution video. A reasonable approach to the problem of interfacing the wide variety of users to such a network is by means of electrical sub-networks. This paper deals with frequency hopping spread spectrum sub-networks with user equipment (devices) of variable rates and a constant chip rate. In such a network, there can be three types of users: slow-frequency hopped, simple-frequency hopped and fast-frequency hopped users. This paper investigates the probabilities of bit losses for all three types of users in such a sub-network.     

Investigation of 9.6 kb/s data transmission via a pcm link at 64 kb/s with and without link errors

The problem of pulse code modulation (PCM) bit errors causing voice frequency (VF) modem errors has been studied in detail. The error mechanism consists of the addition of an impulse response type error signal added to the reconstructed VF data signal waveform at the digital-to-analogue (D/A) output of the PCM decoder. This error signal may cause a burst of errors registering in the VF modem receiver, depending on which PCM bit is in error. Numerous data have been collected in a laboratory experiment and analysed in various ways. The average bit error rate (BER) enhancement factor of VF data over PCM is between 10 and 20. For each PCM bit in error, an average of two VF data bits are in error. The analysis leads to suggestions for possible solutions to the problem.     

双极性和单极性编解码的性能比较

介绍了采用光正交码与素数码的单极性光延迟编解码器和采用光延迟平衡与非平衡结构的双极性编解码OCDMA系统,并对它们的性能进行了比较.结果表明,双极性编解码比单极性编解码的误码率有几个数量级的改善,用户数可提高近10倍.     

A feedback strategy to improve the entropy of a chaos-based random bit generator

In this paper, the guidelines to design a true random bit generator (TRBG) circuit with a predefined minimum entropy are discussed. The approach is proposed for a TRBG based on a one-dimensional piecewise-linear chaotic map; it does not require bit throughput reduction, and it is suitable for the development of integrated TRBG circuits. In particular, the proposed design strategy is based on a feedback control procedure that allows to dynamically change the system parameters for the correction of the circuit "nonidealities" (e.g., the circuit offsets). The correction algorithm does not require a direct measurement of the system "nonidealities" or of the effective value of the map parameters, but only a dynamic estimation of these quantities based on the observation of the TRBG output. The design approach is validated by a hardware prototype implemented on a field-programmable analog array. The results of the NIST FIPS 140-2 test suite, the DIEHARD test suite, and the Coron's Universal test, applied to the TRBG output sequences before and after a simple post processing without throughput reduction, are reported and discussed.     

Optical transmission of 16 digitised TV channels over 21 km fibre at a bit rate of 1.12 Gbit/s

The letter describes an optical transmission system which carries 16 digitised TV channels over a distance of 21 km without repeater at a bit rate of 1.12 Gbit/s.     

RoFSO系统中4FSK仿真及其误比特率性能分析

将射频技术应用到自由空间光通信具有独到的优势。为了研究自由空间光载射频技术,在四进制频移键控调制解调理论基础上,以自由空间光通信为应用背景,采用仿真,从时域角度对四进制频移键控系统进行了编码及解码研究,并推导了经过高斯噪声和瑞利信道后系统误比特率及信道容量。两种解调法的系统误比特率仿真结果表明,当信噪比为12dB时,过零检测法的系统误比特率达到10-15,明显优于相干解调法。     

High-speed large-signal digital modulation of a 1.3 ?m InGaAsP constricted mesa laser at a simulated bit rate of 16 Gbit/s

Recently, high-frequency 1.3?m InGaAsP constricted mesa lasers have shown a small-signal ?3 dB bandwidth of more than 15 GHz at 15°C, and have been modulated with pseudorandom pulses at 8 Gbit/s (NRZ format). The letter reports large-signal digital modulation of such a constricted mesa laser using time-multiplexed electrical pulses 80 Ps in duration and 125 Ps apart which demonstrates the high-speed modulation capability of this laser at a simulated bit rate of 16 Gbit/s (NRZ).     

Pseudowhitening of weather Radar signals to improve spectral moment and polarimetric variable estimates at low signal-to-noise ratios

Pseudowhitening of oversampled signals in range is proposed as a method to improve the performance of spectral moment and polarimetric variable estimators on weather surveillance radars. In an attempt to overcome the noise sensitivity of the whitening transformation, a solution based on the minimum mean-square-error criterion is considered first; however, this transformation is less practical than whitening because it requires knowledge of the signal-to-noise ratio at every range location. Pseudowhitening techniques are introduced as practical solutions that achieve a suboptimal compromise between variance reduction and noise sensitivity. Based on regularization methods for the solution of ill-conditioned problems, two pseudowhitening schemes are proposed: the clipped singular value decomposition transformation and the sharpening filter. By comparing their statistical performance with theoretical minimum bounds, it is shown that pseudowhitening-based estimators are almost optimal under practical conditions. Estimators based on pseudowhitening techniques avoid the pitfalls of their whitening-transformation-based counterparts and lead to more accurate radar products and/or rapid data acquisition for a much wider range of signal-to-noise ratios.     

The use of a high sampling rate and ternary quantization to improve the performance of the random reference correlator (Corresp.)

The performance of random reference correlators is examined in terms of sample rate and signal-to-noise ratio. A method to improve the performance is suggested that requires three-level quantization. Comparisons are made using weakly correlated jointly Gaussian processes as inputs to the correlator and independent samples in each channel.     

High bit rate digital subscriber line: a copper bridge to thenetwork of the future

It is argued that the high bit rate digital subscriber line (HDSL), permitting low-cost 1.5 Mb/s copper access, will ease the transition to fiber access by accelerating the use of higher speed services. Copper will dominate over fiber customer access for at least the next ten years. During this period, the success of high-speed switched services will depend on the connectivity provided by both fiber and copper access. HDSL will initially be used to serve private-line DS 1, ISDN primary rate access, and digital loop carrier feeders. Later, the HDSL will be applied to switched services such as metropolitan area networks (MANs) and circuit switched DS1s     

Using code sensing and chip rate division techniques to improve stability and throughput-delay performance for distributed DS/SSMA wireless networks

The code sensingR ³ code protocol designed for wireless data networks is proposed and its performance is analysed in this paper. The communication between two terminals is initiated by hand-shaking packets (the REQ and ACK packets), followed by data packet transmission. The destructive collisions among terminals are avoided by utilising busy code sensing and chip-rate division multiple access (CRDMA) techniques in transmissions of the REQ packet and the data packet (or ACK packet). A two-dimensional continuous-time Markov model is used to analyse the behaviour of the network. Analytical results are given which show that a remarkable improvement in throughput-delay performance can be achieved by the proposed protocol when compared to those for other reported protocols.     

高性能低功耗模数转换器ADS4249的介绍及其应用

现代信息处理应用中,对模数转换器的速度、精度、功耗和动态性能等关键性能指标不断提出更高的要求。针对模数转换的实际应用,提出并设计了一种基于TI公司生产的双通道14位250MSPS低功耗A/D转换器ADS4249的RGB视频编码器电路设计。这款A/D转换器的技术创新点在于其完美的实现高动态性能的同时又能拥有1.8 V超低功耗。这一特性使得ADS4249非常适合多载波,宽带通信的信号处理应用。     

12位100MS/s ADC中采样/保持电路的分析与设计

设计了一种高性能的采样保持(S/H)电路,在1.8V的电源电压下,其性能满足12位精度、100MS/s转换速率的ADC的要求。设计中采用了一种新型的自举采样开关,提高了S/H电路的可靠性和线性度;对于高增益大带宽的运算跨导放大器OTA的带宽设计,在分析了主运放和辅助运放在带宽和相位裕度等方面的关系的基础上,提出了新的设计方法。仿真结果表明:S/H电路的差动输出摆幅达到了2V;对于输入为49MHz的正弦波,测得其信号噪声失真比达到了82dB,满足12位ADC的要求;整个电路的功耗约为20mW。