{"title":"Comprehensive improvement in low bit rate speech coding","authors":"Changxin Fan, Hongfei Ma","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64271","url":null,"abstract":"A comprehensive improved LPC (linear prediction coding) vocoder scheme is suggested. Many effective techniques are used in the scheme, such as vector quantization (VQ), line-spectrum pair parameters, and the just-noticeable-difference error criterion. By using these techniques it is possible to increase the linear prediction order from 10 to 14, and the sampling rate from 8 to 10 kHz without increasing the transmission bit rate. The design principles and the specifications of the scheme are introduced. Computer simulation shows that it gives very good synthetic speech quality at 2400 b/s. The sonograms of the original and synthesized speeches are also given for comparison.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256305,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 1989, and Exhibition. 'Communications Technology for the 1990s and Beyond","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127967489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tackling productivity and quality through customer involvement and software technology","authors":"H.S. Burns, R.A. Halliburton","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64046","url":null,"abstract":"The authors report on a project designed on the principle that significant advances in software productivity and quality can only come from diverse yet coordinated attacks across many fronts. The two primary fronts link detailed customer involvement with the use of modern software technology options such as object-oriented design and application generators. The authors assert that these technology thrusts lend themselves to building systems that work on an end-to-end basis from nearly the beginning of the development cycle. When coupled with strong customer involvement and living requirements, the system evolves to cleaner, simpler designs that approach the original customer vision. Specifically, the project dealt with technology initiative involving TRANSVU II, a new operations system designed to support telecommunications network providers in the operation of high-capacity largely digital transmission networks.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256305,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 1989, and Exhibition. 'Communications Technology for the 1990s and Beyond","volume":"186 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121626078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-speed self-healing ring architectures for future interoffice networks","authors":"Tianyuan Wo, D. Kolar, R. H. Cardwell","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64075","url":null,"abstract":"The authors discuss potential new capabilities for SHRs (self-healing ring architectures) using SONET add-drop multiplexers (ADMs) (i.e. fast automated changes to high-bandwidth office-to-office channels and a broadband, broadcast application) and a possible use of wavelength division multiplexing in SHRs to ensure smooth network growth and provide a very high-bandwidth point-to-point connection when the ADM SHR capacity is exhausted. They also discuss some planning and engineering concerns of employing these new types of SHR. It is concluded that more global planning methods will be needed to determine the optimal mix of SHR and the traditional hubbing architecture in the interoffice networks of the future.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256305,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 1989, and Exhibition. 'Communications Technology for the 1990s and Beyond","volume":"59 35","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113936719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrated OS features for geographically distributed switching exchanges","authors":"G. Arrigoni, G. Fantauzzi","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64131","url":null,"abstract":"The operation and maintenance features that tend to be more naturally integrated in digital switching exchanges are analyzed, together with the other functions that should be included in operations systems and operation and support systems but not in the exchange proper. The architectural characteristics of the operation and maintenance modules that must be included in digital exchanges are also considered. The impact of intelligent workstations on the whole scenario of TMN (telecommunication management networks) is examined.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256305,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 1989, and Exhibition. 'Communications Technology for the 1990s and Beyond","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134017708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scattered microwave energy and building surface features","authors":"A.R. Noerpel, A. Ranade","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.63943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.63943","url":null,"abstract":"It has been shown previously by the authors (Electron. Lett., vol.23, no.18, p.922-4, 1987) that city structures with regular layouts of streets and buildings present an ordered geometry whose effect on scattered interference, although heretofore neglected, is significant. A method is developed to characterize the effect of such building features. Scattering patterns from building structures are described in terms of a functionality equivalent facade made of finite number of smooth panels with small random tilts about its plane. The scattering problem is defined by the orientation of the buildings, and the gross structure of building surfaces is characterized by the number of panels with distinct offset from each other azimuthal tilt and attenuation by the material of the building facade. The reasonable bounds for the first two parameters are 1<N<or=10; 0<S/sub tau /<or=1 degrees . Within these bounds, for a facade of given surface area the level of off-specular interference increases nearly linearly with the number of panel subdivisions. The degree of tilt determines the broadening of the beam pattern in the near specular direction. The amount of interference in the nonspecular region is estimated using both the physical and geometrical theories of diffraction. The observed interference in Kansas City is within bounds predicted by the building model.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256305,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 1989, and Exhibition. 'Communications Technology for the 1990s and Beyond","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134282360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new approach to the provision of POTS and CATV over passive optical networks","authors":"P. Rosher, A. Cooper, S. Fenning, L. Bickers","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64228","url":null,"abstract":"A novel approach to the provision of POTS (plain old telephone systems) and CATV over passive optical networks utilizing mature analog carrier technologies is described. Specifically, a network providing 32 subscribers with POTS (with pulse code modulation quality) and 16 CATV channels (with a signal-to-noise ratio of 50 dB) from a single headend laser is described. Two subscriber terminals were constructed. They were compact and of relatively low power consumption. The system is expected to be economically feasible on short- to medium-term timescales. System upgrades in terms of additional channels, subscribers, and premium services are discussed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256305,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 1989, and Exhibition. 'Communications Technology for the 1990s and Beyond","volume":"154 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131587172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tradeoff of horizontal decomposition versus vertical stacking in rearrangeable nonblocking networks","authors":"C. Lea, D. Shyy","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64142","url":null,"abstract":"It is noted that, when choosing between strictly nonblocking and rearrangeable nonblocking architectures, the following dilemma is often faced: strictly nonblocking networks require too much hardware and the rearrangement occurs too often in rearrangeable nonblocking networks. A class of fault-tolerant switching networks is proposed where the design principle is based on the combination of horizontal decomposition and vertical stacking. This approach makes it possible to make the best tradeoff between the hardware cost and the frequency of rearrangement activities in the network. In addition, the proposed networks are self-routing and do not possess the time and space bottlenecks in conventional switching architectures.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256305,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 1989, and Exhibition. 'Communications Technology for the 1990s and Beyond","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132785698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flexible power and bandwidth allocation in mobile satellites","authors":"L. Keyes","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64065","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction of L-band mobile communication services by spot beam satellites creates a payload design challenge due to uncertainty in the location and size of the new market to be served. A combination of payload technologies that allow a flexible allocation of power and bandwidth to any portion of the coverage area is described. Power flexibility is achieved by a novel combination of a low-level beam-forming network and a matrix power module which ensures equal sharing of power among individual amplifiers. This eliminates the loss of efficiency and increased mass when an amplifier associated with a beam must be over-designed to meet uncertainties in power distribution between beams. The matrix power amplifier also benefits from the spreading of intermodulation products among output ports such that only a portion falls in the beam of interest, yielding lower system-level intermodulation. Flexibility in allocation of bandwidth to beams is achieved by intermediate frequency subdivision of the L-band service categories defined by ITU (AMSS, LMSS, MMSS). These spectral subdivisions are assigned to beams by an IF interconnect matrix having beam ports and filter ports as inputs and outputs, respectively. Two such filter switch matrices are required, one for the inbound L-band to feeder link transponder, and one for the outbound feeder link to L-band transponder.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256305,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 1989, and Exhibition. 'Communications Technology for the 1990s and Beyond","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133072359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optical signal processing for local-access networks","authors":"L. Kazovsky","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.63926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.63926","url":null,"abstract":"A number of optical signal processing functions that might be potentially important for future lightwave communication networks are described. As an example, an optical network with a distribution capacity of 100 HDTV channels is considered, and it is shown how such a network can be implemented using the following components: frequency converters, transmitter banks, modified WDM (wavelength division multiplexing) demultiplexers, and tunable optical receivers. Also discussed is the hardware implementation of these components using three basic building blocks: tunable amplifiers/filters; phase locked loops; and comb generators. The nature of optical signal processing needed in the future is addressed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256305,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 1989, and Exhibition. 'Communications Technology for the 1990s and Beyond","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133526586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance analysis of multiple-packet messages in uni-directional bus networks","authors":"C. Chao, M. Ilyas","doi":"10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.1989.64100","url":null,"abstract":"A slotted p/sub i/-persistent protocol and the effects of random message length are considered. Since the length of messages is not fixed, a message is divided into a number of equal-size packets such that a packet can fit into one slot. The utilization of the network degrades because of the increasing transmission overhead owing to excess packet headers and a possible empty portion in the last packet of any message. Furthermore, the increasing ratio of message-to-packet length increases the interdependence among the nodes and thus affects the bus access probabilities. An analytical model is presented to determine the upper and lower bounds to the access probabilities. Due to the complexity of this problem, only two nodes are considered. Simulation results showing average queue length performance versus different message statistics are also presented.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256305,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 1989, and Exhibition. 'Communications Technology for the 1990s and Beyond","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133136981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}