EFR

GBSS12.0
Feature Parameter Description

Issue 02

Date 2011-09-30

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EFR Contents

Contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................1-1
1.1 Scope ............................................................................................................................................ 1-1
1.2 Intended Audience ........................................................................................................................ 1-1
1.3 Change History.............................................................................................................................. 1-1

2 Overview of EFR .......................................................................................................................2-1

3 Technical Description ..............................................................................................................3-1
4 Parameters .................................................................................................................................4-1
5 Counters ......................................................................................................................................5-1
6 Reference Documents .............................................................................................................6-1

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EFR 1 Introduction

1 Introduction
1.1 Scope
This document describes the improvement of EFR on FR and HR. (GBFD-113301 Enhanced Full Rate)

1.2 Intended Audience

This document is intended for:
 Personnel who need to understand EFR
 Personnel who work with Huawei products

1.3 Change History

This section provides information on the changes in different document versions.
There are two types of changes, which are defined as follows:
 Feature change: refers to the change in the EFR feature of a specific product version.
 Editorial change: refers to the change in wording or the addition of the information that was not
described in the earlier version.

Document Issues
The document issues are as follows:
 02 (2011-09-30)
 01 (2010-06-30)
 Draft (2010-03-30)

02(2011-09-30)
This is the second commercial release of GBSS12.0.
Compared with issue 01 (2010-06-30), issue 02 (2011-09-30) incorporates the changes described in the
following table.

Change Change Description Parameter Change

Type

Feature Deleted the description for TFO. Deleted the following

change parameters:
 NBAMRTFOSWITCH
Editorial None. None.
change

01 (2010-06-30)
This is the first release of GBSS12.0.
Compared with issue draft (2010-03-30) of GBSS12.0, issue 01 (2010-06-30) of GBSS12.0 incorporates
the changes described in the following table.

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Change Change Description Parameter Change

Type
Feature None. None.
change
Editorial Parameters are presented in None.
change the form of Parameter ID
instead of Parameter Name.

Draft (2010-03-30)
This is the draft release of GBSS12.0. .

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EFR 2 Overview of EFR

2 Overview of EFR
With the development of the GSM network, subscribers have increasing requirements for high speech
quality. Thus, enhanced full rate (EFR) is adopted.
In comparison to FR, EFR optimizes the speech codec algorithm and improves the speech quality, thus
improving the user experience.

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3 Technical Description
EFR is implemented on the basis of the Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP). FR and HR, however,
are implemented on the basis of Regular Pulse Excited - Linear Predictive Coder (RPE-LPC). The
differences between CELP and RPE-LPC are as follows: In the CELP model, the excitation signal is a
quantified vector. A group of codevectors that are obtained in advance through calculation forms a
codebook. For each frame of speech signals, a codevector with the minimum perceptually weighted
error is selected from the codebook to serve as the irregular excitation source. In the RPE-LPC model, a
regular excitation source such as the sine wave is adopted, and thus the speech lacks clarity.
The VOICEVER parameter specifies whether to enable EFR.
The EFR function can be enabled forcibly on the BSC. That is, when the BSC determines that the circuit
pool on the A interface and the MS support the EFR, the BSC can actively selects the EFR as the
speech version to improve the speech quality if the speech versions carried in the Assignment Request
message do not include the EFR. The parameter FORCEDCELLEFRSWITCH specifies whether the
EFR function can be forcibly enabled.

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EFR 4 Parameters

4 Parameters
Table 4-1 Parameter description
Parameter ID NE MML Command Description
FORCEDCEL BSC6900 SET Meaning: Whether to forcibly enable the EFR function.
LEFRSWITCH GCELLSOFT(Optio When this parameter is set to YES, if both the MS and
nal) the BSC6900 support the enhanced full rate (EFR), the
BSC6900 forcibly enables the EFR function even if the
MSC does not support the function.

GUI Value Range: NO(No), YES(Yes)

Actual Value Range: NO, YES
Unit: None
Default Value: NO
VOICEVER BSC6900 SET Meaning: Speech version supported by a cell
GCELLCCACCES
S(Optional) GUI Value Range: FULL_RATE_VER1(Full-rate VER 1),
FULL_RATE_VER2(Full-rate VER 2),
FULL_RATE_VER3(Full-rate VER 3),
HALF_RATE_VER1(Half-rate VER 1),
HALF_RATE_VER2(Half-rate VER 2),
HALF_RATE_VER3(Half-rate VER 3),
FULL_RATE_VER5(Full-rate VER 5)
Actual Value Range: Full_rate_Ver1, Full_rate_Ver2,
Full_rate_Ver3, Half_rate_Ver1, Half_rate_Ver2,
Half_rate_Ver3, Full_rate_Ver5
Unit: None
Default Value:
FULL_RATE_VER1-1&FULL_RATE_VER2-1&FULL_R
ATE_VER3-0&HALF_RATE_VER1-1&HALF_RATE_VE
R2-0&HALF_RATE_VER3-0&FULL_RATE_VER5-0

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EFR 5 Counters

5 Counters
For the counters, see the BSC6900 GSM Performance Counter Reference.

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EFR 6 Reference Documents

6 Reference Documents
[1] GSM 08.08: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+)"
[2] GSM 08.58: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+)"
[3] GSM 04.08: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+)"
[4] BSC6900 Feature List
[5] BSC6900 Optional Feature Description
[6] BSC6900 GSM Parameter Reference
[7] BSC6900 GSM MML Command Reference
[8] BSC6900 GSM Performance Counter Reference

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