ENCODING AND ERROR CORRECTION SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED PERFORMANCE OF LEGACY COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

摘要

An encoding and error correction system and method employs an AMR codec (18) by stripping header data from a plurality of legacy system frames (10) having header and traffic channel (TCH) data blocks. Speech data is then encoded using the AMR to create bits for a data block substantially the same as contained in the plurality of frames. The stripped header data is encoded as a long frame header using a fixed convolution coder (24). The speech data is then convolutionally encoded and the long frame header and encoded speech data are combined as a long frame (32). The long frame is then deconstructed into a plurality of equal segments (106, 110) and the segments are transmitted as TCH data in the legacy system frame format.