• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.5C
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• pp.476-485
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• 2003

This paper proposers a preprocessing approach to improving the quality of the music produced by the EVRC(enhanced variable rate codec) which is one of the CDMA(Code Division Multiple Access) voice codecs. Since the EVRC is optimized only for speech signals, it can deteriorate the quality of the music passed through it. One of the problems with the EVRC-coded music is time-clipping, which usually occurs when subsequent frames are encoded at Rate l/8. Since the EVRC determines the bit rate for an input frame based on the long-term prediction gain, we increase the long-term prediction gain in order for the most of the frames to be encoded at Rate 1 or Rate 1/2. Experimental results show that the approach works well on music signals and the number of time-clipped frames is considerably reduced.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.16C no.5
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• pp.661-668
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• 2009

The Extended real-time Polling Service (ErtPS) is proposed tosupport QoS of VoIP service with silence suppression which generates variable size data packets in IEEE 802.16e systems. If the silence is suppressed, VoIP should support Comfort Noise Generation (CNG) which generates comfort noise for receiver's auditory sense to notify the status of connection to the user. CNG mode in silent-period generates a data with lower bit rate at long packet transmission intervals in comparison with talk-spurt. Therefore, if the ErtPS, which is designed to support service flows that generate data packets on a periodic basis, is applied to silent-period, resources of the uplink are used inefficiently. In this paper, we proposed the Improved ErtPS algorithm for efficient resource utilization of the silent-period in VoIP traffic supporting CNG. In the proposed algorithm, the base station allocates bandwidth depending on the status of voice at the appropriate interval by havingthe user inform the changes of voice status. The Improved ErtPS utilizes the Cannel Quality Information Channel (CQICH) which is an uplink subchannel for delivering quality information of channel to the base station on a periodic basis in 802.16e systems. We evaluated the performance of proposed algorithm using OPNET simulator. We validated that proposed algorithm improves the bandwidth utilization of the uplink and packet transmission latency

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.410-415
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• 2002

This paper describes the implementation of a SoC(System-on-a-Chip) and an ISDN communication terminal by the SoC in ISDN network. The SoC has been developed with the functions of 32-bit ARM7TDMI RISC core processor, network connection with S/T interface, TDM--bus interface and voice codec, user interface. And we also review the developed software structure and the ISDN service protocol procedures which are working on the SoC. And finally this paper describers a structure of an ISDN terminal equipment using the implemented SoC and terminal software.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.293-296
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 다양한 멀티미디어 서비스를 위해 가변율 half rate 음성 부호화기를 설계하였다. 유, 무성음과 묵음의 구분을 위해 본 논문에서는 프레임 에너지와 음성 파라메터들을 이용한 효과적인 voicing 결정 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 유성음을 위한 half rate 음성 부호화기는 저속에서 좋은 특성을 보이는 generalized AbS구조를 이용하였다. LPC 계수는 LSP 계수로 변환한 후 predictive 2-stage VQ를 통해서 양자화하며, 여기 신호는 음질저하를 최소화하며 복잡도를 감소시킨 shift 방식의 대수적 고정 코드북 구조를 사용하고, 적응코드북과 여기코드북의 이득은 VQ로 양자화 하였다. 무성음을 위한 부호화기는 대부분이 유성음을 위한 부호화기와 동일하지만, 무성음에서는 피치간 상관도가 매우 낮으므로 피치 보간 방법을 사용하지 않고 개루프로 피치 lag를 찾은 후 전체 프레임에 사용한다. 1 kb/s 부호화기는 묵음 구간과 주변소음 구간에 사용되며 이 구간의 신호를 피치 성분이 미약한 주변소음들로 제한하고 이에 최적인 부음성 부호화기를 설계하였다. 최종적으로 완성된 가변율 half rate 부호화기는 voice activity factor(VAF)가 0.47인 시험음성에서 약 2.6 kb/s의 평균 전송률을 보였다. 주관적 음질 평가의 일환으로 IS-96 표준 코덱인 가변율 8 kb/s QCELP와 A-B preference 시험을 실시하였다. 시험 결과 평균전송률이 약 2배인 가변율 8 kb/s QCELP 보다 우수한 음질 성능을 보였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.6B
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• pp.575-584
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• 2009

In this paper, we design and implement a VoIP traffic generator for simulating call processing in IP contact center systems. Creating a VoIP call based on H.323 and SIP and generating RTP traffic which uses G.711 codec, the generator lets many users simulate situations on which they call each other. With this tool, which is named VoIPTG, users can combine H.323 or SIP session control protocol, the number of users, time variation, and voice codecs and then direct various situations for simulation. This traffic generator can be used for testing functions of an IP contact center and especially it is necessary for testing the quality of IP based call recording systems.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.1696-1702
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• 2005

Real Time Transport Protocol (RTP) is the Internet standard protocol for transport of real time data audio/video IP Telephony, Multimedia Seivece. In case of 8kbps voice codec, the size of packet per data is 20bytes and become more large to minimal 40bytes with adding each layer's header in RTP/UDP/IP. To solve this problem, various header compression skill were suggested on point-to-point networks. But it compress even IP header and cannot be suitable to apply to end-to-end network Thus, We will renew header compression protocol to apply wired router-based network.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.12C
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• pp.273-279
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• 2001

This paper describes a design and implementation of ISDN system on a chip which provides ISDN service and used to develop a low-price multimedia communication terminal. This ISDN SOC is an ISDN system control chip which has 32bit RISC processor, and it includes ISDN S interface transceiver, G.711 voice CODEC, PC interface for data communication, ISDN protocol which includes Q.931 call control protocol and internet protocol. It provides good solution to develope ISDN terminal equipment and ISDN terminal adaptor which connected with basic rate interface, because it minimize external peripheral devices.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.1285-1288
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• 2002

Bluetooth wireless technology is a publicly available specification proposed for Radio Frequency (RF) communication for short-range and point-to- multipoint voice and data transfer. It operates in the 2.4GHz ISM(Industrial, Scientific and Medical) band and offers the potential for low-cost, broadband wireless access for various mobile and portable devices at range of about 10 meters. In this paper, we describe the structure and the test results of the bluetooth baseband module we have developed. This module was developed based on IP reuse. So Interface of each module such as link controller UART, and audio CODEC is designed based on ARM7 comfortable processor. We also considered various interfaces of related external chips. The fully synthesizable baseband module was fabricated in a $0.25{\mu}m$ CMOS technology occupying $2.79{\times}2.8mm^2$ area including the ARM TDMI processor. And a FPGA implementation of this module is tested for file and bit-stream transfers between PCs.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.40 no.11
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• pp.63-71
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• 2003

This paper suggests the packet loss recovery method to communicate in real time in the Internet. To reduce the effects of packet loss, Forward Error Correction (FEC) that adds redundant information to voice packets can be used. Adaptive Multi Rate Wideband(AMR-WB) codec which is recently selected by the Third Generation Partnership Project(3GPP) for GSM and the third generation mobile communication WCDMA system and has also been standardized in ITU-T for providing wideband speech services is used. The major cause for speech qualitly degradation in IP-networks is packet loss. So, We recovered single lossy packet by using FEC method and concealed continued errors. The proposed scheme if evaluated in the Gilbert Internet channel model. The high quality of audio maintained up to 30% packet loss.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.687-695
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• 2002

Media-specific FEC techniques, suggested to confront with VoIP speech packet loss, improve speech quality at the expense of generating additional one-frame delay. In this paper, we suggest new media-specific FEC, i.e, LSF FEC technique which is able to improve speech quality with much shortened additional delay. In the proposed technique, the LSF parameters of the future frame are utilized to recover a lost packet. To evaluate performance of the proposed technique, we use ITU-T G.723.1 and G.729 Codec and apply Gilbert packet loss model and estimate MOS per every packet loss rate using PESQ speech quality estimation algorithm. The proposed technique has effect of shortening delay over from 6.5ms to 27ms compared with existing media-specific FEC techniques. Simulation results for comparison of reconstructed speech quality show this novel technique improves the MOS over 0.1 in practical lossy environment of 5 % packet loss rate.