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access icon free Efficient codebook design for digital communication through compressed voice channels

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Received 25/08/2015, Accepted 21/08/2016, Revised 14/07/2016, Published 15/12/2016

The common voice channels existing in cellular communication networks provide reliable, ubiquitously available and top priority communication mediums. These properties make voice dedicated channels an ideal choice for high priority, real time communication. However, such channels include voice codecs that hamper the data flow by compressing the waveforms prior to transmission. This study designs codebooks of speech-like symbols for reliable data transfer through the voice channel of cellular networks. An efficient algorithm is proposed to select proper codebook symbols from a database of natural speech to optimise a desired objective. Two variants of this codebook optimisation algorithm are presented: One variant minimises the symbol error rate and the other maximises the capacity achievable by the codebook. It is shown both analytically and by the simulation results that under certain circumstances, these two objective functions reach the same performance. Simulation results also show that the proposed codebook optimisation algorithm achieves higher data rates and lower symbol error rates compared with previously reported results while requiring lower computational complexity for codebook optimisation. The Gilbert–Elliot channel model is utilised to study the effects of adaptive compression rate adjustment of the vocoder on overall voice channel capacity. Finally, practical implementation issues are addressed.

Inspec keywords: channel coding; error statistics; speech coding; minimisation; data compression; cellular radio; computational complexity; vocoders

Other keywords: digital communication; codebook optimisation algorithm; waveform compression; voice codec; natural speech database; cellular communication network; vocoder adaptive compression rate adjustment effects; voice channel; voice channel capacity; compressed voice channel; Gilbert-Elliot channel model; common voice channel; data transfer reliability; speech-like symbol codebook design; computational complexity; data flow hampering; voice dedicated channel; symbol error rate minimisation

Subjects: Mobile radio systems; Optimisation techniques; Codes; Other topics in statistics; Speech and audio coding

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