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 ? Yes Send Speech frame

No (background noise)
Send SID frame

Stop transmission

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Receiving Side

Traffic frame

SID frame detector

No
SID frame ? Speech decoder

Yes

Comfort noise generator

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 Improvements DTX With Frequency
Hopping

• 3 dB C/I gain on TCH

– tighter frequency plan
– more capacity
– TFR/MRP

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C/I Distributions
MS distribution

FHOP+BTSPC

FHOP+BTSPC+DTX
FHOP

Nothing

C/I
Acceptable C/I
Acceptable C/I
FHOP
no FHOP

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

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 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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