Patent Publication Number: US-6212207-B1

Title: Robbed bit signal detection and compensation

Description:
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     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     A. Field of the Invention 
     The present invention relates to detecting and compensating for a periodic disturbance in sampled data, and more particularly to detecting in-band robbed bit signaling (RBS) in a digital carrier system for adjusting corrupted frame signals to compensate for the error introduced by robbed bit signaling. 
     B. Description of the Related Art 
     Previous implementations of analog data communications terminated in digital equipment simulate the analog codec with a μ-law or A-law expansion and compression functions. The compression and expansion functions may be provided in software as a look-up table or a small section of firmware implementing the equations used for the μ-law or A-law expansion and compression functions. Robbed bit signaling (RBS) is a communication signaling system used by the digital telephone network to transmit multiple frames of data over a digital carrier system. Analog encoded data such as voice and video applications sent over the public switched telephone network and terminated on a T-1, primary rate ISDN, basic rate ISDN or other digital service may encounter increased error rates in the analog modulations over transmission lines introduced by the in-band robbed bit signaling. Nevertheless, the effect of in-band robbed bit signaling on the companded data sample typically has been ignored. 
     Robbed bit signaling uses the least significant bit (lsb) of every six datum, byte or octet of a transmitted frame for signaling. In a typical digital carrier system applying robbed bit signaling, the channel banks insert an in-band signaling bit into the least significant bit position of the eight bit code words in every sixth frame, and thus every sixth code word actually contains only seven bit of voice or data information such that the effective of number of bits per sample is 7 ⅚ th  bits instead of 8 bits. The affect upon the analog pulse code modulated (PCM) data sent over the public switched telephone network results in the introduction of a periodic disturbance in the sampled data. Depending upon the exact signaling in use, once a call is established the affected insignificant bits are typically set to either a binary one or zero consistently, but it is also possible that the digital carrier system may alternate the robbed bits between zeros and ones. Moreover, since multiple network switches may be used in a communications path which is not superframe aligned with each other, there may be several, e.g., 2, 3, 4, 5, or even 6, out of every 6 octets for which the least significant bit is being used for signaling. For data communications using modulations such as ITU-T V.34, this error is compounded by the need to interpolate, and then decimate the data from the 8 kHz network rate to the sample rates used in the modulation, such as 2400, 2749, 2800, 3000, 3200, or 3429 Hz. Thus, corrupted sample data may be used several times so as to compound the associated error. 
     Recently, a computer modem data rate of 33.6 kbps has been achieved, however, it has been observed that often the modem rate shift up to 33.6 kbps results in an increased block error rate (Bler) such that the effective data through put is lower than if the modem had stayed at a lower rate, e.g., 31.2 kbps. Moreover, it is also possible for modem communication to be terminated due to dropped calls related to disturbances associated with the errors introduced by the robbed bits in the communication channel. 
     It would be desirable to detect the periodic disturbance associated with in-band signaling in a digital telephone network to identify the use of robbed bit signaling, and further provide for robbed bit signal compensation to minimize the error introduced by the robbed bit signaling, which would provide the functional advantage of higher connect rates and lower bit error rates in data communications applications. The detecting and compensating for a periodic disturbance and sample data could provide a commercial advantage for customers who do not have access to ISDN services or those who would prefer to pay a lower rate for T-1 service as opposed to primary rate ISDN service. Such error compensation would also be advantageous to customers using basic rate ISDN or primary rate ISDN because it would improve the connections to others using T-1 services or situations where the telephone call is routed through an intermediate T-1 trunk in the public switched telephone network. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     It is an object of the present invention to address the problems associated with disturbances introduced in sampled data to overcome the disadvantages of the prior art. 
     It is another object of the present invention to detect periodic disturbances in sampled data. 
     It is a further object of the present invention to compensate for periodic disturbances in sampled data. 
     It is yet another object of the present invention to provide methods and apparatus for detecting and compensating for periodic disturbances in sampled data. 
     It is yet another object of the present invention to provide methods and apparatus for in-band robbed bit signal detection and compensation in sampled data. 
     In a described embodiment, detection and compensation for periodic disturbances in sampled data such as the error introduced by in-band robbed bit signaling (RBS) in a digital carrier system is addressed. A period of N samples, e.g., six or twelve frames, at which the periodic disturbance repeats is identified for collecting a subset of the sampled date, i.e., samples taken from a common frame. In a digital telephone network (DTN), the RBS disturbance repeats at an integer multiple of 6 frames; signaling bits A, B in a superframe (SF), or at a period of 12 frames. In an extended superframe (ESF), the RBS may repeat every 24 frames, using signaling bits A, B, C, D in one of every sixth frame. The presence of the periodic robbed bit signaling disturbances is detected in the sampled data by integrating the least significant bits (lsbs) of the subset samples from a frame to determine whether in-band signaling is being performed in the frame. The robbed bit signaling detector may be embodied as several integrators and flags for statistically analyzing the least significant bit data to identify a statistically significant occurrence indicative of robbed bit signaling. The octets of identified frames may be adjusted, e.g., by a half least significant bit to compensate for the error introduced by the digital carrier system signaling. 
     Briefly summarized, the present invention relates to methods and apparatus for detecting and compensating for a periodic disturbance in sampled data. A period of N samples at which the periodic disturbance repeats is identified, or may be determined from the nature of the disturbance and the type of communication channel employed. A subset of sample data is collected as being represented of a series of each N sample taken from sample data. The presence of the periodic disturbance may then be detected in the subset. Where the presence of the periodic disturbance is detected, an output signal may be generated indicative of a desirable adjustment to the sampled data. Software, firmware or hardware may be used for maintaining a subset count identifying the subset when storing representative data used by a detector for identifying the presence of the periodic disturbance in the sampled data. Thus, sampled data may be adjusted accordingly to minimize or compensate for the effect of error introduced in the sampled data by the periodic disturbance. 
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
     The foregoing and other objects, features or advantages of the present invention may be more readily appreciated by reference to the disclosure when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and the detailed description of the preferred embodiments described below, in which: 
     FIG. 1 illustrates a firmware and/or hardware for implementation of a robbed bit signal detection and compensation apparatus embodiment in accordance with the invention; 
     FIG. 2 depicts a twelve-frame superframe structure employing in-band robbed bit signaling which introduces the periodic disturbance in the least significant bits (lsbs) of octets transmitted over a T-Carrier system addressed in the embodiment of the FIG. 1; 
     FIG. 3 is a program flow chart for the collection of sample subsets in a software embodiment; 
     FIG. 4 is a flow chart for the robbed bit signaling detection thereof; and 
     FIG. 5 is a flow chart for the robbed bit signal compensation thereof. 
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
     An apparatus  10  for detecting and compensating for a periodic disturbance in sampled data is illustrated as a firmware and/or hardware implementation for robbed bit signal detection and compensation in FIG.  1 . The apparatus  10  is shown as a hardware block diagram, but it should be appreciated that an equivalent embodiment is provided for software and firmware implementations. Moreover, it should be appreciated that some of the functions provided in the block diagram in FIG. 1 may be performed in part by the digital telephone network (DTN) providing analog pulse code modulated (PCM) encoded data as the analog data communication terminated in digital equipment. A channel selector  11  presents signals from a selected time slot from the carrier system of the DTN to a sample and hold (S/H)  12  providing samples for an analog-to-digital conversion by a codec, herein ADC  14 . The S/H  12  and ADC  14  are driven by a sampling clock  16 , herein operating at the 8 kHz clock rate of the DTN. 
     Digital data samples  18  from the ADC  14 , as discussed above, may include least significant bits (lsbs) which are corrupted by a periodic disturbance such as robbed bit signaling. Accordingly, the embodiment described herein adjusts the least significant bit position of the data  18  such that compensated data  20  has its least significant bit adjusted to minimize the effect of error introduced in the data by the periodic RBS disturbance. It should be appreciated that FIG. 1 illustrates a hardware or firmware apparatus for detecting and compensating for the periodic disturbance in sampled data, however, as discussed further below, an embodiment equivalent to the hardware representation of FIG. 1 may be programmed using a microprocessor or digital signal processor (DSP), such as the Texas Instruments&#39; TMS 320 C 51 including associated memory for storing program and data, for which assembly code programming is described below. With reference to the embodiment of FIG. 1, a modulo N counter  22  is operated using the sample clock  16 , wherein N equals twelve such that the 8 kHz sampling rate allows the modulo N counter  22  to count and identify the frames of a superframe, see e.g., FIG. 2 showing a 12 frame superframe structure of DS 1  signal with robbed bit signaling. 
     With reference to FIG. 2, the twelve frame superframe structure of the DS 1  signal divides the framing bits into two separate sequences, A signaling and B signaling in frame numbers  6  and  12  respectively. As discussed above, the channel banks, 24 per frame, provide 8 bits of voice or data for all time slots except every 6 frame, wherein the use of the least significant PCM bit is provided for signaling. The signaling channels thus derived are divided into the A and the B subchannels wherein the subchannels send their bits every 12 frames. Thus, the modulo 12 embodiment for counting frames in FIG. 1 using the modulo N counter  22  is provided to identify the signaling bits associated with the two signaling subchannels. The modulo N counter  22  provides a count to a decoder  24 , herein 4:12, wherein each of the twelve outputs of the decoder  24  enable one of twelve integrators. Integrators  26 ,  28 ,  30 , and  32  are shown to selectively, i.e., when enabled, integrate the least significant bits of the data  18  over K frames such that the output of the integrators are presented to comparators  34 . The integer K is selected to be large enough to identify statistically significant indicia from the integration. The comparators  34  provide a statistically relevant threshold to determine the presence or absence of robbed bit signaling in any of the twelve frames in the embodiment to adjust a half significant bit addition at  36 , half significant bit subtraction at  38 , or no adjustment at  40  as signals provided to an extended resolution PCM expander  42 , which converts the compensated data output  20  and which adds the adjustment to the least significant bit of the data  18  to provide for compensated data  20 . The extended resolution PCM expander  42  may add additional bits, or provide an extra bit to the expanded mantissa. Thus, this embodiment reduces the error by first determining which of the six or twelve positions is being used for signaling, then compensating for it in the μ-law or A-law algorithm by adding or subtracting a half of the least significant bit, when the RBS periodic disturbance is detected. 
     The described RBS detector has N integrators and N flags in the comparators for identifying RBS signaling in the frame. Herein, the embodiment uses twelve instead of six to detect the alternating case, where the substituted least significant bit alternates between binary zero and one. Every sample, a counter is incremented modulo 12 to the address the next integrator and if the least significant bit of that sample is a ‘1’, that integrator is incremented. In the embodiment, every 2400 samples (200 for each integrator), the contents of the integrators are examined. If an integrator is 190 or greater, then the corresponding flag is set to indicate that a robbed bit of value ‘1’ has been detected in that position. If an integrator is less than 10, then the corresponding flag is set to indicate that a robbed bit of ‘0’ has been detected in that position. If an integrator is between 10 and 190, then the corresponding flag is cleared to indicate that no robbed bits were detected in that position. 
     The values of 10 and 190 represent 5% and 95% of the 200 sample in the described embodiment, but these thresholds may be modified as necessary to identify statistically relevant indicia in the collected data. Statistically, in the absence of RBS signaling, an analog signal as used in data communications would have 50% of the least significant bits as 0&#39;s and 50% as 1&#39;s. With RBS signaling in those positions, there should be either 0% 1&#39;s or 100% 1&#39;s, however, other factors such as line codings and periodic signaling using these bits, may cause deviation. 
     The 2400 value was chosen to be large enough to get a statistically good sample size, yet small enough to adapt quickly, but may be somewhat larger or smaller than 2400 if statistically relevant information may be observed with the smaller sample. Some of the modulations used in data communications have silence periods during training. This may cause the RBS detector to falsely detect 1&#39;s or 0&#39;s in every position. The detector needs to recover quickly after the silence periods for the next part of the training. This is also why the detector runs continuously. It will also resynchronize if there is a network slip in timing which causes the robbed bits to move to new positions. 
     The compensation done in the μ-law or A-law conversion is well known in the art. The μ-law PCM code uses 8 bits in the form S E2 E1 E0 Q3 Q2 Q1 Q0, where S is the sign bit, E2-E0 are the exponent, and Q3-Q0 are the mantissa. The μ-law decompander linearizes this by using the formula 
     
       
         [(Q3 Q2 Q1 Q0)*2+33]*2 exp (E2 E1 E0). 
       
     
     Then it subtracts 33, e.g., to remove bias, and applies the sign bit. If a robbed bit causing a ‘0’ in the least significant bit is detected, ½ of the least significant bit is added. It should be appreciated that all the bits of the μ-law code are inverted, so a robbed bit of ‘1’ causes the least significant bit to be a ‘0’. If a robbed bit causing a ‘1’ in the least significant bit is detected, ½ of the least significant bit is subtracted. These are done by changing the formula to 
     
       
         [(Q3 Q2 Q1 1)*2+32]*2 exp (E2 E1 E0). 
       
     
     Then subtract 33 and apply the sign bit as discussed above. An equivalent change was made for the A-law function to effectively add or subtract a half of the least significant bit to provide the error compensation. 
     Turning now to FIGS. 3 through 5, and particularly FIG. 3, a program flowchart for the collection of data sample subsets in the software embodiment is shown. An initialization of registers, variables, and memory location values is performed at Step  50 , and the channel is selected at Step  52 , e.g., one of the 24 channels of the DS 1  superframe (see, e.g., FIG.  2 ). A sample “j” is acquired at Step  54 . Thereafter, the program index identifies the integrator for the “i th ” frame, e.g., one of either six or twelve frames. Also, at Step  56 , the digital signal processor identifies a period of N as six or twelve samples at which the periodic disturbance repeats. 
     Then at Step  58 , the least significant bit of the data sample is acquired and the least significant bits for a particular frame are integrated at Step  60 . The sample counter is incremented at Step  62 , and decision block  64  determines whether complete subsets have been collected for each of the frames. If the subsets have not been collected for all frames, program flow continues to block  66 , wherein the frame count “i” is identified as the modulo N function of the “j” sample count, e.g., N equals 6 or 12, as discussed above. Program flow then proceeds at Step  54  to acquire the sample “j” as discussed above, and the acquisition integrate in increment steps of FIG. 3 are repeated until each of the subsets are collected at decision block  64 . 
     When each of the subsets have been collected, Step  64  continues program flow at the robbed bit detection flow chart as depicted in FIG.  4 . In FIG. 4, the frame counter “i” is again initialized for use in robbed bit detection at Step  68 . Next, at Step  70  the program points to the integrator for the “i th ” frame, and the value of a least significant bit integration is obtained at Step  72  and compared to a upper threshold or compared at Step  74  to a lower threshold, as discussed above. If the least significant bit integration of Step  72  is determined to be above the upper statistical threshold, then at Step  76 , the robbed bit signaling least significant bit is identified as inverting all least significant bits to a binary one for octets in the frame identified. If, however, the integration of the least significant bits at Step  74  determines that the least significant bits are below a statistically low threshold, then Step  78  identifies that the least significant bit robbed bit signaling indicates the substitution of least significant bits as being a binary zero for octets in frame “i.” If, however, program flow proceeds through Steps  72  and  74  indicating no statistical significance showing a relevant periodic disturbance in the least significant bits, then Step  80  indicates that no robbed bit signaling disturbance is detected for octets in frame “i.” 
     Program flow subsequently continues at Decision Block  82  wherein the program determines whether the robbed bit signaling detection is complete. If robbed bit signaling detection is not complete at Step  82 , i.e., the remaining frames still need to be checked, then the frame counter “i” in incremented at Block  84 , and program flow continues with pointing to the integrator for the next frame at Step  70 . Accordingly, program flow will continue in the program loop of FIG. 4 until each of the frames have been compared for statistical relevance to ascertain the presence or absence of robbed bit signaling. 
     When the robbed bit signaling detection is complete at Decision Block  82 , then program flow continues to the robbed bit signaling compensation at FIG. 5, wherein program flow proceeds at Step  86  by acquiring sample “j” to determine whether the least significant bit of sample “j” should be adjusted for minimizing the effect of the error introduced by the robbed bit signaling disturbance. Step  88  identifies the frame number using modulo N, e.g., 12, of the sample count “j,” and then Step  90  is used to identify whether robbed bit signaling was detected for the identified frame. If robbed bit signaling was detected for the identified frame at Decision Block  90 , then the adjustment to the least significant bits of octets of the identified frame is provided in the expanding, as discussed, wherein Step  92  initially extracts the mantissa according to μ-law or A-law expansion. Step  94  then corrects for truncation of the mantissa. The plus or minus a half least significant bit adjustment is applied to the data sample at Step  96 . To finish the expanding the exponent and sign bit are applied and the bias is removed from the sample value at Step  98 . This expanded and compensated sample “j” is stored at Step  100 . The program flow continues by incrementing the sample “j” count at Step  102  to identify the next incoming sample to be compensated, if necessary, for an associated RBS in the frame to determine whether the identified frame requires the compensation of the octets therein as discussed above. The robbed bit signaling compensation of the program flowchart of FIG. 5 continues in a loop selecting samples “j” commencing at Block  88  to identify the associated frame number. In the software loop, the identified sample is either adjusted in the expansion or not adjusted for robbed bit signaling as determined at Decision Block  90  and completing the software loop of FIG.  5 . 
     There has been described software, firmware, and hardware embodiments wherein the octet data of identified frames may be adjusted by plus or minus a half the least significant bit magnitude to compensate for the error introduced by, e.g., a T-Carrier signaling system or the like such as a T1 digital carrier system. Herein, the robbed bit signal detection of compensation apparatus includes means for acquiring sample data from a communications channel carrying multiple frames of data over a digital telephone network. Each sample identified corresponds to a datum sent over the frame of the digital telephone network. Means are provided for collecting a first subset of sample data representative of a first series of a multiple of each sixth or twelfth sample from the sampled data Generating means then provide output signal indicative of an adjustment to the sampled data for compensating for the error introduced by the robbed bit signaling, as discussed above. Additionally, as discussed, multiple subsets of the sampled data representative of a series of multiple frames may be collected for comparison and/or identification of the described periodic disturbances in the sampled data. 
     Below is the software code of the described embodiment to detect and compensate for T1 RBS. As discussed above, the program may be carried out on a digital signal processor, herein a Texas Instruments 320 C 51 for which assembly code is shown below. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 EQU.ASM (C51 code) 
               
               
                 * Variables used for T1 Robbed bit detection and adjustment 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 rbs_cnt 
                 .equ 
                 OffeOh ; Master count for integrate time 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 rbs_pos 
                 .equ Offe1h ; Pointer to rbs_integrators 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 rbs_int 
                 .equ 
                 Offe2h ; length 24: 12 pairs of integrate, 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 adjustment 
               
               
                 IOH8.ASM (C51 code) 
               
               
                 ... 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 clear 
                 .macro addr,len 
               
               
                 lar 
                 arl,#:addr: 
               
               
                 rpt 
                 #:len:−1 
               
               
                 sach 
                 *+ 
               
               
                 .endm 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 clear 
                 rbs_pos,26 
                 ; clear robbed bit count, integrators, adjust 
               
               
                 ... 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 * 
                 Check for Robbed bits. If found, set the corresponding RBS 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 adjustment. 
               
               
                 check_rbs 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 splk 
                 #2400,*+ 
                 ; integrate over 200 intervals (*12 samples) 
               
               
                 mar 
                 *+ 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 * 
                 Both u-law and A-law invert the lsb. This adjustment is 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 applied after 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 * 
                 adding the correction for truncation in the PCM expand 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 routines. 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 * 
                 Both are shifted by 11 at this point in the routines. 
               
               
                 * 
                 RBS = 1 --&gt; code = Q3 Q2 Q1 0 1 
               
               
                 * 
                 xor with adjust = Q3 Q2 Q1 1 0 
               
               
                 * 
                 RBS = 0 --&gt; code = Q3 Q2 Q1 1 1 
               
               
                 * 
                 xor with adjust = Q3 Q2 Q1 1 0 
               
               
                 lar 
                 ar2,#12-1 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 rbs_loop 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 lacl 
                 * 
                 ; get next integrator 
               
               
                 sach 
                 *+ 
                 ; and zero it 
               
               
                 sach 
                 * 
                 ; assume no RBS adjustment 
               
               
                 sub 
                 #10 
               
               
                 nop 
               
               
                 xc 
                 2,lt 
                 ; if less than 5%, then RBS of 0 detected 
               
               
                 splk 
                 #1&lt;&lt;11,* 
                 ; subtract 1/2 lsb (from inverted 1sb) 
               
               
                 sub 
                 #180 
               
               
                 nop 
               
               
                 xc 
                 2,gt 
                 ; if more than 95%, then RBS of 1 detected 
               
               
                 splk 
                 #3 &lt;&lt;11,* 
                 ; add 1/2 lsb (from inverted lsb) 
               
               
                 mar 
                 *+,ar2 
               
               
                 banz 
                 rbs_loop,*−,arl 
               
               
                 ret 
               
               
                 ... 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 * 
                 Robbed bit detector. Cycle through 12 positions 
               
               
                 * 
                 incrementing a counter every time the lsb is 1. 
               
               
                 * 
                 The data structure is 12 pairs of (integrator, adjustment). 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 bit 
                 *,b0,arl 
                 ; Check if lsb is 1 
               
               
                 lar 
                 arl,#rbs_pos 
                 ; update RBS position index 
               
               
                 lacl 
                 * 
               
               
                 samm 
                 indx 
                 ; 22,20,18, ...4,2,0,... 
               
               
                 sub 
                 #2 
               
               
                 nop 
               
               
                 xc 
                 1,lt 
               
               
                 lacl 
                 #22 
               
               
                 sacl 
                 #+ 
                 ; point to current RBS integrator 
               
               
                 mar 
                 *0+ 
               
               
                 lacl 
                 * 
               
               
                 xc 
                 1,tc 
                 ; If lsb = 1 update RBS integrator 
               
               
                 add 
                 #1 
               
               
                 sacl 
                 *+,ar7 
                 ; on exit, arl -&gt; corresponding RBS adjust 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 bit 
                 sysflg2,f_alaw 
                 ; check for u_law or a_law 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 bcnd 
                 expand_a_law,tc 
               
               
                 * 
                 u-255 or A-law PCM expansion 
               
               
                 * 
                 compressed code word = complement(SGN S2 S1 S0 Q3 Q2 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 Q1 Q0) 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 * 
                 Where: SGN = 0/1 for positive/negative 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 * 
                 S2 S1 S0 = 3-bit exponent 
               
               
                 * 
                 0 1 Q3 Q2 Q1 Q0 x x = 5-bit mantissa 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 expand_u_law 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 bit 
                 *,b7 
                 ; tc = sign bit 
               
               
                 lacc 
                 *,12,arl 
                 ; remove PCM sample from I/O queue 
               
               
                 cmpl 
                   
                 ; invert all bits 
               
               
                 and 
                 #7f00h,4 
                 ; zero sign bit and other MSB&#39;s 
               
               
                 sach 
                 tempx 
                 ; save exponent 
               
               
                 sub 
                 tempx,16 
                 ; zero acch 
               
               
                 add 
                 #33,11 
                 ; add high bit and correct for truncation 
               
               
                 xor 
                 * 
                 ; apply RBS adjustment 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 sach 
                 tempy,5 
                 ; tempy = 0 1 Q3 Q2 Q1 Q0 1 
               
               
                 lt 
                 tempx 
               
               
                 bd 
                 segz 
               
               
                 lact 
                 tempy 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 sub 
                 #33 
                 ; remove bias, mag = tempy {circumflex over ( )}(S2 S1 S0) - 33 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 expand_a_law 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 bit 
                 *,b7 
                 ; tc = sign bit 
               
               
                 lacc 
                 *,12,arl 
                 ; remove PCM sample from I/O queue 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 xor 
                 #55h,12 
                 ; invert even-order bits 
               
               
                 and 
                 #7fh,12 
                 ; zero sign bit and other MSB&#39;s 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 sach 
                 tempx 
                 ; save exponent 
               
               
                 sub 
                 tempx,16 
                 ; zero acch 
               
               
                 add 
                 one,11 
                 ; correct for truncation 
               
               
                 xor 
                 * 
                 ; apply RBS adjustment 
               
               
                 lar 
                 arl,tempx 
                 ; segment number zero? 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 banz 
                 segnz,* 
                 ; no, perform normal expansion 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 bsar 
                 10 
                 ; acc = 0 0 Q3 Q2 Q1 Q0 1 0 
               
               
                 b 
                 segz 
                 ; yes, don&#39;t add high bit 
               
               
                 segnz 
               
               
                 add 
                 #32,11 
                 ; add high bit 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 sach 
                 tempy,5 
                 ; tempy = 0 1 Q3 Q2 Q1 Q0 1 
               
               
                 lt 
                 tempx 
               
               
                 lact 
                 tempy 
               
               
                 segz 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 xc 
                 1,ntc 
                 ; negate negative values 
               
               
                 neg 
               
               
                 sacl 
                 tempx 
                 ; max amplitude = ñ16062 
               
               
                 lar 
                 arl,#rbs_cnt 
                 advance RBS master integrator count 
               
               
                 lacl 
                 * 
               
               
                 sub 
                 #1 
               
               
                 sacl 
                 * 
               
               
                 cc 
                 check_rbs,leq 
                 ; check RBS every 1000 intervals 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 * 
                 Block any dc in the A/D sample 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     The above described half bit offset to the least significant bit of the preferred embodiments was determined based upon several examples for the preferred compensation as described herein. Additionally, the least significant bit may be adjusted any number of ways, e.g., including matching the least significant bit with the sign bit of the octet data to introduce a random changing of the least significant bit. Alternatively, the least significant bit may be scrambled, or always adjusted a predetermined amount. Several such additional examples are illustrated below for the resulting effects upon the block error rate encountered on a transmission line (Blers per minute), and the resulting signal to noise ratio (SNR). 
     EXAMPLE 1 
     Test results for T1 back to back: 1 robbed bit out of every 6 frames 
     Original code: No robbed bit compensation 
     Initial connect 31.2 k, then shift up to 33.6 k 
     75 Blers per minute 
     3780 cps throughput 
     43.0 SNR 
     EXAMPLE 2 
     Subtract ½ LSB (as described above) from RBS positions: 
     Initial connect 33.6 k 
     Less than 1 Bler per minute 
     3941 cps throughput 
     44.0 SNR 
     EXAMPLE 3 
     Robbed bit matches Sign bit: 
     Initial connect 33.6 k or 31.2 k and shift up to 33.6 k 
     40 Blers per minute 
     3880 cps throughput 
     43.2 SNR 
     EXAMPLE 4 
     Run scrambler on LSB of RBS positions: 
     Initial connect 31.2 k, then shift up to 33.6 k 
     120 Blers per minute 
     3730 cps throughput 
     SNR 42.9 
     The preferred embodiments for detecting and compensating for periodic disturbances in sample data having been described, and, more particularly, the detection of robbed bit signaling in a digital carrier system compensating for the introduced error will make numerous changes and modifications apparent to those skilled in the art that may be made to the described embodiments without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention. Thus, it is intended that the present invention be defined by the appended claims.