Compressed mode for UMTS enhanced dedicated channel for circuit switched voice services

1. An apparatus, comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code,

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:

configure a compressed mode during performing of a circuit switched voice service over a dedicated channel according to Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access operation in case a demand for network specific measurement is determined;

create measurement gaps in the data transmission;

in uplink, cause transmission of a voice frame to be compressed using a 10 ms transmission; and

in downlink, transmission of a voice frame to be compressed is stopped after a fixed number of slots have been transmitted, wherein the fixed number of slots results in a measurement gap with at least 14 slots.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a voice frame to be compressed is a voice frame that overlaps a measurement gap.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein power control is performed using a signal to interference ratio offset on top of an internal signal to interference ratio target starting from the first slot of the voice frame that overlaps the measurement gap.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein transmission of a voice frame which does not overlap a measurement gap is performed according to a policy of an uncompressed mode.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the fixed number of slots is 15 or 16.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein uplink transmission is performed in a dedicated physical control channel, and the uplink transmission is stopped after 10 ms.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein in downlink, further comprising setting a signal to interference ratio target boosting for increasing the downlink transmission power to compensate for the smaller number of transmitted slots.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the downlink transmission is terminated prior to the set termination point when the voice frame is decoded correctly.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein correct decoding is indicated by a frame early termination acknowledgment message.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, when an uplink coverage limit is reached, the voice frame transmission spans over a 20 ms transmission duration.

11. An apparatus, comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code,

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:

determine configuration of a compressed mode of a user equipment during performing a circuit switched voice service over a dedicated channel according to Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access operation upon demand for network specific measurement, whereby measurement gaps are created in the data transmission;

in uplink, receive a voice frame to be compressed using a 10 ms transmission; and

in downlink, cause transmission of a voice frame to be compressed, wherein transmission is stopped after a fixed number of slots have been transmitted, wherein the fixed number of slots results in a measurement gap with at least 14 slots.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein a voice frame to be compressed is a voice frame that overlaps a measurement gap.

13. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein transmission of a voice frame which does not overlap a measurement gap is performed according to a policy of an uncompressed mode.

14. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the fixed number of slots is 15 or 16.

15. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein uplink acknowledgement for the DL voice frame reception is performed in a dedicated physical control channel, and the uplink transmission is stopped after 10 ms even if the DL voice frame was not yet positively acknowledged.

16. The apparatus according to claim 11 , further comprising adjusting the transmission power of the dedicated channel to get the channel power more close to a signal to a boosted interference ratio target, which has been boosted for increasing the downlink transmission power to compensate for the smaller number of transmitted slots.

17. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the voice frame is transmitted until the user equipment indicates in the uplink that the voice frame is correctly received.

18. The apparatus according to claim 17 , wherein correct reception is determined upon reception of a frame early termination acknowledgment message.

19. A computer program product, embodied as a non-transitory computer-readable medium or directly loadable into a computer, comprising a set of instructions which, when executed on an apparatus, is configured to cause the apparatus to at least:

determine configuration of a compressed mode of a user equipment during performing a circuit switched voice service over a dedicated channel according to Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access operation upon demand for network specific measurement, whereby measurement gaps are created in the data transmission;

in uplink, receive a voice frame to be compressed using a 10 ms transmission; and

in downlink, cause transmission of a voice frame to be compressed, wherein transmission is stopped after a fixed number of slots have been transmitted, wherein the fixed number of slots results in a measurement gap with at least 14 slots.