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1 At the level of provided functionality and architectural structure, ETSI GSM |
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3 FR and EFR: the same DTX functionality is specified for both codecs, with the |
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4 same overall architecture. However, there is one important difference: in the |
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5 case of EFR the complete implementation of all DTX functions (for both Tx and |
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6 Rx) forms an integral and inseparable part of the reference codec (implemented |
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7 in C) from the beginning, whereas in the case of FR1 the addition of DTX is |
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8 somewhat of an afterthought. GSM 06.10 defines a "pure" FR codec without any |
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9 DTX functions, and this most basic spec can be and has been implemented in this |
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10 "pure" form - classic Unix libgsm from 1990s is a proper, fully compliant |
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11 implementation of GSM 06.10, but only this spec, without any DTX. In contrast, |
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12 there has never existed a "pure" implementation of GSM 06.60 EFR codec without |
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13 associated Tx and Rx DTX functions. Furthermore, there is an important |
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14 distinction between Tx and Rx DTX handlers for FR1: |
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16 * Anyone who seeks to implement Tx DTX for FR1 would have to dig into the guts |
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17 of GSM 06.10 encoder and augment it with VAD and SID encoding functions per |
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18 GSM 06.32 and 06.12 specs. |
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20 * In contrast, the Rx DTX handler for FR1 is modular: the way it is specified |
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22 On the Rx side, the interface from the radio subsystem to the Rx DTX handler |
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23 consists of 260 bits of frame plus BFI and TAF flags (the spec also defines a |
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24 SID flag, but it is determined from frame payload bits), and then the |
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25 interface from the Rx DTX handler to the GSM 06.10 decoder is another FR frame |
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26 of 260 bits. |
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28 What are the implications of this situation for the GSM published-source |
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29 software community? Prior to the present Themyscira offering, there has always |
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30 been libgsm, but no Rx DTX handler. If you are working with a GSM uplink RTP |
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31 stream from a BTS or a GSM downlink frame stream read out of TI Calypso DSP or |
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32 some other GSM MS PHY, feeding that stream directly to libgsm (without passing |
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33 through an Rx DTX handler) is NOT acceptable: a "bare" GSM 06.10 decoder won't |
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34 recognize SID frames and won't produce the expected comfort noise output, and |
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35 what are you going to do in those 20 ms windows in which no good traffic frame |
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37 reading received downlink frames out of TI Calypso DSP: the DSP's buffer will |
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42 The correct solution is to implement an Rx DTX handler, pass the stream of |
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45 some updated port thereof). Themyscira libgsmfrp was our first Free Software |
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46 implementation of Rx DTX handler for GSM-FR, implementing SID classification, |
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47 comfort noise generation and error concealment. Our new libgsmfr2 offering |
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48 takes the harmonization effort (between GSM-FR and other GSM codecs) one step |
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49 further, eliminating the dependency on old libgsm and putting all GSM-FR codec |
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50 functions "under one roof". |
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52 libgsmfrp/libgsmfr2 API documentation |
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56 except for dropping the use of <gsm.h> and its types and needing to include our |
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57 new API header <tw_gsmfr.h>. The present article previously contained the full |
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58 description of this API; that description has now been moved to FR1-library-API |
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59 article, where the whole of libgsmfr2 is documented. |
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61 Standalone exerciser utility |
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62 ============================ |
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65 utility that exercises our Rx DTX handler for GSM-FR. This utility is |
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66 gsmfr-preproc, to be run as follows: |
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70 The input is an extended-libgsm file that can contain SIDs and BFI frame gaps |
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71 in addition to regular GSM 06.10 speech frames (see Binary-file-format article); |
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72 the output is GSM 06.10 speech frames only. |
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74 False SID detection |
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75 =================== |
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77 The intent of GSM-FR spec authors was that the sets of possible speech frames |
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78 and possible SID frames be disjoint. Prior to introduction of DTX, there were |
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79 only regular speech frames per GSM 06.10, no SID, and a receiver had to deal |
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81 frame was lost to radio errors or FACCH stealing (unusable frame). When SID |
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84 distinct from regular speech frames. There is, however, a small blemish in the |
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85 actual system as realized: if the SID frame detector and the Rx DTX handler |
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86 that follows it in the Rx chain follow the rules of GSM 06.31 sections 6.1.1 |
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89 nonzero failure rate in this mechanism. |
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91 Official test sequence 02 in the set of 5 provided by ETSI exhibits this effect: |
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92 Seq02.inp is a legitimate 13-bit linear PCM input to the speech encoder, and the |
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93 corresponding output of GSM 06.10 encoder is contained in Seq02.cod. However, |
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94 that output contains some frames that are mistakenly classified as SID=1 |
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95 (invalid SID) by the rules of GSM 06.31 section 6.1.1! It is true that these |
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96 ancient test sequences chronologically predate the invention of DTX and |
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97 GSM 06.31, but we still need to bear in mind that this problematic Seq02.cod is |
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98 not an artificially constructed sequence of 06.10 codec parameters: it is the |
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99 required output of the prescribed bit-exact encoder given a legitimate PCM |
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103 gear-slip or wrong detection events, and engineer our systems to reduce this |
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115 gsmfr-preproc utility) is fed to another utility such as gsmfr-decode that also |
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119 Most of the time, the second preprocessor pass will be an identity transform |
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121 of good speech frames, no SIDs and no BFIs. Any speech frames in the original |
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122 input that were mistakenly classified as SID (valid or invalid) have already |
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124 invalid SID), hence they are no longer present in the output to trigger this |
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125 effect a second time. However, there is still a small possibility that a |
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126 second pass will be a non-identity transform: pseudorandom RPE pulse parameters |
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130 CN frame will be liable to misinterpretation as SID (invalid SID most of the |
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131 time, or even more rarely valid SID if at least 94 out of 95 SID codeword bit |
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133 pass would then further alter those affected frames, but no others. |