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The aim of this paper is to improve the G.711 standard, which is widely used, especially in the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Two solutions are proposed. The first solution uses only lossless coder, achieving a bit-rate decrease of 0.82 bits/sample, compared to the G.711 codec. The second solution uses forward adaptation and a lossless coder, further decreasing the bit-rate (by 1.25 bits/sample) and achieving higher average signal-to-quantization noise ratio (SQNR) in comparison with the G.711 codec. Also, the second solution is more robust than the G.711 codec, which means that it has near constant SQNR for a wide range of input signal power. That is very important for signals whose input power varies with time, such as speech and video signals. Our solutions are compatible with the G.711 codec, they have little additional complexity and delay and therefore can be applied in real-time systems, such as PSTN or VoIP. They can also be used in many other systems, such as WiMax and OFDM, as a replacement or improvement of the G.711 codec. Standardization process of the G.711.1 standard (which is a wide-band extension of the G.711 standard) is largely present. Our solutions fulfill all the requirements for that new standard; therefore they can be implemented in its low-frequency part.
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Peric, Z.H., Dincic, M.R., Denic, D.B. et al. Forward Adaptive Logarithmic Quantizer with New Lossless Coding Method for Laplacian Source. Wireless Pers Commun 59, 625–641 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-010-9929-3
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