Abstract

GAONA GARCIA, Elvis Eduardo; AVILA ANGULO, Miguel Antonio  and  MUSKUS, Elkin Gabriel. SURVEY ANALYSIS OF VOICE QUALITY AND COVERAGE IN A GSM EMERGENCY NETWORK. Cienc. Ing. Neogranad. [online]. 2014, vol.24, n.2, pp.23-36. ISSN 0124-8170.

This paper contains the results obtained by measuring the voice quality parameters in a mobile telecommunications network for disaster attention in an emergency situation. The infrastructure used free software, an IP telephony system based on Asterisk, to interconnect calls, also used communications protocols of GSM (Global System Mobile) in the DCS-1800 (Digital Cellular Service band -1800MHz) that facilitates the use of any commercial mobile terminal. The system also used USRP (Universal Software Radio Peripheral), that is responsible for emulating the operation of a BTS (Base Transceiver Station) performing the functions of a PBX (Private Branch Exchange), further allows the coordination of different entities in charge of responding to these type of emergencies. The measurements of network performance were made from three probabilistic parameters: GoS (Grade of Service), DCR (Dropped Call Rate) and MOS (Mean Opinion Score). Using eight mobile stations and choosing a GoS of 2%, traffic up to 3.6 Erlang was generated. This measurement was performed using probabilistic models of Erlang B. Comparison the coverage of the BTS is carried out by applying the model Okumura-Hata without amplifiers.

Keywords : Voice quality; coverage; propagation model; cellular mobile telephony; Dropped rate.

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