A NOVEL METHOD FOR THE CODECS’ PERFORMANCE ANALYSISIN MOBILE TELEPHONY SYSTEMS

Aleksandar Lebl, Dragan Mitic, Vladimir Matic, Mladen Mileusnic, Zarko Markov

DOI Number
https://doi.org/10.2298/FUEE2002243L
First page
243
Last page
259

Abstract


This paper presents a novel method of expressing the quality of service in a mobile telecommunication system when its performance depends on several factors including applied codecs’ characteristics (voice quality and data flow rate) and telecommunications traffic service possibilities. The influence of these factors is unified in one variable - quality of service measure. The proposed method is especially applicable in the cases when two-dimensional systems are analyzed – for example when two codecs with different flow rate and different achievable connection quality are used in a system. As an example, we also studied system with full-rate or mixed full-rate and half-rate codec implementation depending on the offered traffic. The system performances – mean data-flow and mean connection quality as a function of offered traffic are presented graphically and also expressed quantitatively by the novel quality of service measure. The systems with different number of available traffic channels may be compared on the base of this novel evaluation value such that the system with the highest value is the most suitable one for the concrete situation. In this way mobile system design is simplified to the great extent. The developed model is applicable generally for mobile telephony systems defining, but in this paper we studied its implementation for Global System for Mobile communications.

Keywords

Quality of service measure, full-rate codec, half-rate codec, E-model

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