ADAPTIVE MOBILE TELEPHONY VOICE TRANSPORT VIA AN INTERNET PROTOCOL NETWORK

摘要

Codec rate adaptation for wireless circuit-switched voice communications routed through a packet-based network. A Mobile Station (MS) preferably with Circuit Switched services participating in a voice communication with a distant terminal transmits an initial CMR identifying an initial maximum speech coding rate selected as a function of a downlink radio quality. At each intermediate network node, one or more operational parameters are determined by using an Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) protocol. When a CMR is received at each network node, if the operational parameters are not within a predetermined range suitable for the transmission of speech packets through the network using the initial maximum speech coding rate the maximum speech coding rate identified in the CMR is reduced as a function of the operational parameters and then forwarded toward the distant terminal.