A lower capacity bound of secure end to end data transmission via GSM network

Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) is a widely spread, reliable and P2P channel through all over the world. These characteristics make GSM a channel suitable for a variety of applications in different domains especially security applications such as secure voice communication. Performance and usage of GSM applications extremely depends on the transmission data rate. Hence, transmitting data over GSM is still an attractive topic for research. This paper considers the problem of digital data transmission through the GSM voice channel. A lower capacity bound for data transmission through the GSM Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) voice codec is presented. The GSM channel is modeled in a simple manner to overcome it´s memory and non-linearity effects. A new statistic based on received samples is extracted and a novel method to transmit data over that channel which asymptotically tends to the achieved lower bound is offered.