Device and Method for Locating Voice Transmission Problems

• US 20120281546A1
• Filed: 11/26/2010
• Published: 11/08/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Lu, Donghua, Li, Pinghua, Zhang, Jiangang, Huang, Baiqiu
• Application Number:
  US13/257,762
• Publication Number:
  US 20120281546A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/242
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/18 Monitoring during normal operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/26 using historical data, averaging values or statistics

Abstract

A method and device for locating voice transmission problems are provided. The method includes: configuring a data transmitting/receiving statistics module at each transmission stage of a media stream to perform statistics on data transmitting/receiving of the transmission stage; the data transmitting/receiving statistics module reporting data after statistics to a preset data analysis module; and the data analysis module locating the voice transmission problems after analyzing the data reported by the data transmitting/receiving statistics module. The device includes the data transmitting/receiving statistics module and the data analysis module. The method and device can automatically detect the voice transmission problems such as getting through in one-way, discontinuous, etc., and discover the voice transmission problems existing in the system in time, thereby quickly locating the transmission stage of the media stream at which the voice transmission problems appear, enhancing the location efficiency of the voice transmission problems, and shortening the fault location period.

Claims

1. A device for locating voice transmission problems, comprising:

a data transmitting/receiving statistics module, configured to report data to a data analysis module after performing statistics on data transmitting/receiving of a transmission stage of a media stream, and

the data analysis module, configured to locate the voice transmission problems after analyzing the data reported by the data transmitting/receiving statistics module.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the data analysis module comprises:

a master control module, configured to inform the data transmitting/receiving statistics module to perform or stop the statistics on the data transmitting/receiving and to start or stop reporting;

a data collection module, configured to collect and save the data reported by each data transmitting/receiving statistics modules, and forward the data to the data analysis module after the data reported by all the data transmitting/receiving statistics modules have been gathered together or after a certain period of time; and

a display module, configured to display a analysis result of the data analysis module.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein, the certain period of time is preset according to a condition of each transmission stage of the media stream.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein, the data transmitting/receiving statistics module(s) is located at one or more media plane processing nodes.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein, the media plane processing nodes comprise a channel processing module at a base station transceiver side, a selected distribute multiplex demultiplex module at a base station controller side, an interface board and a voice transcoder board.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein, the data transmitting/receiving statistics module is further configured to perform statistics on types of received frames.

7. The device of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of data analysis modules, which are located on the same board or resided in different boards.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein, the data analysis module is configured to locate the voice transmission problems according to following steps:

locating the voice transmission problems by comparing statistics values of the data transmitting/receiving of each transmission stage of the media stream.

12. The device of claim 4, wherein, the data transmitting/receiving statistics module is further configured to perform statistics on types of received frames.

9. A method for locating voice transmission problems, comprising following steps:

configuring a data transmitting/receiving statistics module at each transmission stage of a media stream to perform statistics on data transmitting/receiving of the transmission stage;

the data transmitting/receiving statistics module reporting data after statistics to a preset data analysis module; and

the data analysis module locating the voice transmission problems after analyzing the data-reported by the data transmitting/receiving statistics module.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein, the step of the data transmitting/receiving statistics module performing the statistics on the data transmitting/receiving of each processing stage of the media stream further comprises:

performing statistics on the number of transmitted and received frames.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein, the step of the data analysis module locating the voice transmission problems comprises:

the data analysis module deriving a difference between the number of the received frames and the number of the transmitted frames of two transmission stages of the media stream which are adjacent or nonadjacent, and judging whether the difference is within a predetermined range; and

if the difference is within the predetermined range, a voice transmission is normal, and if the difference is beyond the predetermined range, there is a problem in the voice transmission.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein, the step of the data analysis module locating the voice transmission problems comprises:

the data analysis module deriving a difference between the number of the received frames and the number of the transmitted frames of two transmission stages of the media stream which are adjacent or nonadjacent, and judging whether the difference is within a predetermined range; and

if the difference is within the predetermined range, a voice transmission is normal, and if the difference is beyond the predetermined range, there is a problem in the voice transmission.