CA2283085A1 - Echo controller with compensation for variable delay networks - Google Patents

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CA2283085A1
CA2283085A1 CA002283085A CA2283085A CA2283085A1 CA 2283085 A1 CA2283085 A1 CA 2283085A1 CA 002283085 A CA002283085 A CA 002283085A CA 2283085 A CA2283085 A CA 2283085A CA 2283085 A1 CA2283085 A1 CA 2283085A1
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R. Scott Mcclennon
Andre J. Robert
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Rockstar Consortium US LP
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Nortel Networks Corporation
R. Scott Mcclennon
Andre J. Robert
Northern Telecom Limited
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M3/00—Automatic or semi-automatic exchanges
    • H04M3/002—Applications of echo suppressors or cancellers in telephonic connections
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B3/00—Line transmission systems
    • H04B3/02—Details
    • H04B3/20—Reducing echo effects or singing; Opening or closing transmitting path; Conditioning for transmission in one direction or the other
    • H04B3/23—Reducing echo effects or singing; Opening or closing transmitting path; Conditioning for transmission in one direction or the other using a replica of transmitted signal in the time domain, e.g. echo cancellers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M7/00—Arrangements for interconnection between switching centres
    • H04M7/12—Arrangements for interconnection between switching centres for working between exchanges having different types of switching equipment, e.g. power-driven and step by step or decimal and non-decimal
    • H04M7/1205—Arrangements for interconnection between switching centres for working between exchanges having different types of switching equipment, e.g. power-driven and step by step or decimal and non-decimal where the types of switching equipement comprises PSTN/ISDN equipment and switching equipment of networks other than PSTN/ISDN, e.g. Internet Protocol networks
    • H04M7/1275—Methods and means to improve the telephone service quality, e.g. reservation, prioritisation or admission control
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04J—MULTIPLEX COMMUNICATION
    • H04J3/00—Time-division multiplex systems
    • H04J3/02—Details
    • H04J3/06—Synchronising arrangements
    • H04J3/0635—Clock or time synchronisation in a network
    • H04J3/0682—Clock or time synchronisation in a network by delay compensation, e.g. by compensation of propagation delay or variations thereof, by ranging

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of and system for controlling and effectively reducing the echo introduced in telephone connections over variable delay networks such as LAN/WAN networks. The invention includes estimation of the round-trip user-to-user delay in the telephone connection. This estimation can be made in a number of different ways, including using timestamps in existing data packets according to a Real-Time Protocol (RTP) or a Real-Time Control Protocol (RTCP) and by sending timestamps in data packets according to an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP). The invention further includes determination of an echo control target for the telephone connection based upon the estimated user-to-user delay. This target represents the total amount of echo control required to limit the probability of objectionable echo to less than a predetermined threshold. The amount of echo control required increases as the length of the estimated user-to-user delay increases. The invention further includes determination of the minimum amount of signal-dependent loss required to supplement the acoustic echo cancellation in order to reach the determined echo control target. Then, in the invention, the determined amount of signal- dependent loss is applied to the telephone connection to effectively reduce echo based upon the estimated user-to-user delay.
CA002283085A 1998-09-10 1999-09-09 Echo controller with compensation for variable delay networks Expired - Fee Related CA2283085C (en)

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