Fundamentals of Voice-Quality Engineering in Wireless Networks (Paperback)

Introduction; Part I. Voice Quality Foundations: 1. An overview of voice coding architectures in wireless communications; 2. Quantitative assessment of voice quality; Part II. Applications: 3. Electrical echo and echo cancellation; 4. Acoustic echo and its control; 5. Noisy ambience, mobility, and noise reduction; 6. Speech level control; Part III. Wireless Architectures: 7. Mobile-to-mobile stand-alone VQS architectures and their implications on data communications; 8. The VQS evolution to 3G; Part IV. A Network Operator Guide for Selecting, Appraising, and Testing VQS: 9. A network operator guide to testing and appraising voice quality systems; 10. Service provider's system, management, and delivery, requirements; 11. Making economically sound investment decisions concerning voice quality systems; Part V. Managing the Network: 12. Trouble shooting and case studies; Part VI. Afterthoughts and Some Fresh Ideas: 13. Tracer probe; 14. My sound; 15. A procedure for evaluating and contrasting new wireless codecs performance with and without VQS; 16. The theory of sleep; Part VII. Recordings: 17. Audio illustrations; Glossary of common voice quality systems terminology; Abbreviations.