In-service nonintrusive measurement of noise and active speech level in telephone-type networks

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 869-874

  Bertocco, Matteo ^a   Lorenzin, Dennis ^b   Paglierani, Pietro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Necsy Network Control Systems SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Communication system maintenance; Communication systems fault diagnosis; Estimation; Measurement; Noise measurement; Signal processing; Telephony

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE SPEECH LEVELS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 0032131131     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.744635     Document Type: Article

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