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Power control method and system in a TDMA radio communication system

US5982766A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 25, 1997
Grant dateNov 9, 1999
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Expiry dateApr 25, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W28/22
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A power control system in a TDMA radio communication system has traffic channels which are associated with a set of speech/channel encoding modes. Each mode has a different mix of speech encoder bit rate and data protection bit rate but the same total available gross bit rate. The transmitter includes a power control unit that replaces a mode allocated to a channel by another mode having either a higher or a lower data protection bit rate and either a lower or a higher speech encoder bit rate if the sound to be encoded requires either a lower or a higher speech encoding bit rate. The power control unit also controls a power adjustment unit that either reduces or increases the output power of the transmitter to a lower or a higher level such that an estimated decoded speech quality measure at the receiver is substantially constant.

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