CONTENTS

         I.1     Introduction
        I.2     Historical background
        I.3     Summary of design issues
        I.4     Reconstitution of speech signals
        I.5     Delay equalization
                  I.5.1     Blind delay
                  I.5.2     Absolute time stamp
                  I.5.3     Relative time stamp
        I.6     Robustness to errors
                  I.6.1     Sensitivity of speech to bit errors
                  I.6.2     CRC calculation over part of the frame
                  I.6.3     CRC calculation over whole frames
        I.7     Congestion control
                  I.7.1     Global control
                  I.7.2     Local control
        I.8     Packet loss
                  I.8.1     Case of speech
                  I.8.2     Case or voiceband data
                  I.8.3     Fill-in strategies (speech)
        I.9     Choice or packet size
                  I.9.1     Speech considerations
                  I.9.2     Bit error considerations
                  I.9.3     Integrated traffic
                  I.9.4     Recommendation G.764
       I.10     Compression issues
                 I.10.1     Speech coding algorithms
                 I.10.2     Digital speech interpolation
       I.11     Channel-oriented signalling
       I.12     Extensions
                 I.12.1     Facsimile
                 I.12.2     Speech/video synchronization
                 I.12.3     Interface between the PSTN and LANs
                 I.12.4     Extension to new algorithms
       I.13     Summary
References