Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC)

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Push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) service is instant in the sense that the voice connection is established by simply pushing a single button and the receiving user hears the speech without even having to answer the call. While ordinary voice is bi-directional, the PoC service is a one directional service. The basic PoC application may hence be described as a walkie-talkie application over the packet switched domain of the cellular network. In addition to the basic voice communication functionality, the PoC application provides the end user with complementary features like, for example:

      ·         Ad hoc and predefined communication groups;

·         Access control so that a user may define who is allowed to make calls to him/her;

·         ‘Do-not-disturb’ in case immediate reception of audio is not desirable.

With ordinary voice calls a bi-directional communication channel is reserved between the end users throughout the duration of the call. In PoC, the channel is only set up to transfer a short speech burst from one to possibly multiple users. Once this speech burst has been transferred, the packet switched communication channel can be released. This difference is highlighted in Figure.




 
 
The speech packets are in the PoC solution carried from the sending mobile station to the server by the OPRS/UMTS network. The server then forwards the packets to the receiving mobile stations. In the case of a one-to-many connection, the server multiplies the packets to all the receiving mobile stations. This is illustrated in Figure  The PoC service is independent of the underlying radio access network.

 

 
 


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