Discontinuous Transmission, DTX

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Primary Functions

Uplink
save battery in the MS
reduce the interference in the system

Downlink
reduce the interference in the system
decrease BTS power consumption
reduce the intermodulation products

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Transmitting Side
Traffic frame

VAD

Speech frame ?
No

(background noise)

Send SID frame

Stop transmission

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Yes

Send Speech frame

Receiving Side
Traffic frame

SID frame detector

SID frame ?

No

Yes

Comfort noise generator

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Speech decoder

Improvements DTX With Frequency

Hopping

3 dB C/I gain on TCH

tighter frequency plan
more capacity
TFR/MRP

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MS distribution

C/I Distributions
FHOP+BTSPC

FHOP

FHOP+BTSPC+DTX

Nothing

C/I
Acceptable C/I
FHOP

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Acceptable C/I
no FHOP

Influenced Measurements

Signal strength
Signal quality
Time alignment
Full set
Based on all 104 TDMA frames in an SACCH period
(for full rate 100, i.e. 104 minus 4 idle, and 52 for half rate)

Sub set
Consists of 12 TDMA frames
(8 SID frames and 4 SACCH frames)

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Influenced Features

MS & BTS Power Control

Locating

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Load sharing
Assignment to another cell
HCS
Intra cell handover
OL/UL
Call disconnect

Parameters

Uplink DTX
DTXU = 0 ; MS may use DTX
DTXU = 1 ; MS shall use DTX
DTXU = 2 ; MS shall not use DTX

Downlink DTX
DTXD = ON ;
DTXD = OFF ;

DTXFUL

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