Detailed Description
An embodiment of the present invention provides a CFS-OFDM technology, which is a new Spread Spectrum technology (Spread Spectrum), can provide extremely stable Wired (Wired) and Wireless (Wireless) transmission, and is widely applied to all communication systems. When there are multiple stations in the wireless network, we can divide the whole bandwidth into several sub-bands, each sub-band is used for different stations. The AP can simultaneously transmit with a plurality of stations by CFS-OFDM. This multiple access scheme is called CFS-OFDMA. In addition to the stable transmission effect of the original CFS-OFDM, the CFS-OFDMA can simultaneously communicate with a plurality of stations at one time, thereby improving the overall transmission efficiency of the network and greatly reducing the signal collision probability caused by mass transmission among the stations. During uplink transmission (uplink), each station only needs to transmit the CFS-OFDM signal of its own sub-band, so that the power Peak to average power ratio (Peak to average power ratio) is very low, the linear requirement for the front-end amplifier is greatly reduced, and the cost can be reduced. By combining the advantages, the CFS-OFDMA method is very suitable for a large-scale network system with thousands of stations, such as the wireless Internet of things.
In one embodiment, the sequentially arranged cyclic frequency ordering may be regarded as a first combination pattern, and the frequencies are shifted to the left or right in a cyclic manner as other combination patterns, each combination pattern corresponding to a cyclic frequency shift value. As described in more detail below. FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating one bit value for different combinations of cyclic frequencies. As shown in FIG. 1, in the present embodiment, the sequentially arranged frequencies are sorted by S11S12S13S14As a first combination aspect, the cyclic frequency shift value m is specified to be 0 and to be the first subband. After shifting the frequencies to the left by one unit in a cyclic manner, a frequency sequence S is formed12S13S14S11As a second combination, the cyclic frequency shift value m is 1 and is the first subband, and so on. In this embodiment, different cyclic frequency combinations correspond to different cyclic frequency shift values, and different cyclic frequency shift values correspond to different bit values, and the bit values may be binary codes or gray codes.
TABLE 1
Cyclic frequency shift value m
|
b2b1 |
g2g1 |
Subcarrier content
|
0
|
00
|
00
|
S11S12S13S14 |
1
|
01
|
01
|
S12S13S14S11 |
2
|
11
|
10
|
S13S14S11S12 |
3
|
10
|
11
|
S14S11S12S13 |
For example, when N is 4, information of k 2 bits may be transferred by a cyclic frequency shift value. As shown in Table 1 above (taking the first sub-band as an example), m is a cyclic frequency shift value to transmit two bits of information, and the binary value is b2b1Gray coded as g2g1The original subcarrier content is S11S12S13S14When the cyclic frequency shift is 1, the subcarrier sequence is changed to S12S13S14S11When the cyclic frequency shift is 2, the subcarrier sequence is changed to S13S14S11S12And so on. The example of Table 1 is a left-going cyclic shift, but the cyclic shift of the present invention is not limited to a left-going or right-going cyclic shift.
Referring to table 1 and equation S (mod (k + m, N)), in one embodiment, the CFS-OFDM transmission signal can satisfy the following equation (1):
wherein, N is the number of all frequency domain subcarriers, s (k) is a frequency domain symbol, k represents the kth subcarrier, s (N) is a time domain symbol, N is the nth time point, m represents the cyclic frequency shift value, the subcarrier is taken as a unit, mod (., N) is module N, i.e. the remainder is taken for N, and N can be realized by the power of two.
Since the possible value of the cyclic frequency shift m is 0-N-1, at most K-log can be transmitted by symbol (symbol) of a CFS-OFDM2(N) bits of information.
Theoretically, s (k) can be any aperiodic signal as the CFS-OFDM signal, but s (k) can be selected appropriately to obtain better transmission quality. The appropriate selection includes selecting a Peak to average power ratio (PAPR) having an optimal auto-correlation (auto-correlation) characteristic and a lowest power in a time domain. For example, when s (k) is selected as shown in the following formula (4), the two advantages are obtained:
in the present embodiment, the PAPR of the real part or the imaginary part in the time domain is about 3dB, and auto-correlation (auto-correlation) is much greater than 0 only when k is 0, and is 0 in the case of k is 0, so that it is a very good choice as CFS-OFDM. The embodiment can reduce the linearity requirement of the RF gain amplifier at the transmitting end, and can greatly reduce the cost of the amplifier.
The CFS-OFDMA spread spectrum device according to an embodiment of the present invention is a CFS-OFDM-based communication technology, which divides a frequency band into a plurality of sub-bands, and increases the transmission rate of the CFS-OFDM by several times by simultaneously operating a plurality of stations using a plurality of CFS-OFDM channels.
Fig. 2 is a block diagram of a CFS-OFDMA spreading apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 2, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the spread spectrum device 100 of CFS-OFDMA includes at least one communication device 110, and the communication device 110 performs signal transmission according to a frequency band; please note that the frequency band has Q sub-bands, each sub-band has M sub-carriers, the Q sub-bands have independent cyclic frequency shift values, the Q sub-bands correspond to the Q frequency domain symbols, and the communication device 110 uses the cyclic frequency shift values to perform the conversion between the string of bits and the Q frequency domain symbols; wherein, Q frequency domain symbols are generated according to Q data of Q station, the Q station has corresponding Q sub-bands; q station has the corresponding string of bits and distributes to the Q sub-bands; and the cyclic frequency shift values are cycles of a frequency sequence, and different cyclic frequency shift values correspond to different bit values.
Assuming that the whole frequency band has M sub-carriers, the whole frequency band can be divided into Q sub-bands according to Q station stations, each sub-band is allocated to one station for use, and then the AP transmits with CFS-OFDM and Q station stations simultaneously, so that the overall network transmission rate is increased by several times. For example, assuming that M is 1024, CFS-OFDM can transmit log per symbol2(1024) 10 bits. If cut into 8 sub-bands, each with 128 sub-carriers, the CFS-OFDM of each sub-band may transmit log2(128) With 7 bits, in CFS-OFDMA, eight stations transmit simultaneously, and each symbol can transmit 8 × 7-56 bits, i.e. the transmission rate can reach 5.6 times of the original transmission rate. Since the AP communicates with multiple stations simultaneously using CFS-OFDM, this method is called CFS-OFDMA.
In one embodiment, the at least one communication device 110 includes a transmitting device 200, and in one embodiment, may further include a receiving device 300. The transmitter 200 is used to convert a string of bits into a plurality of frequency domain symbols and convert the frequency domain symbols into a transmission signal St. The receiving apparatus 300 is configured to receive a transmission signal St, convert the transmission signal St into a plurality of frequency domain symbols, and convert the frequency domain symbols into a string of bits.
Fig. 3 is a block diagram of a transmitting device of a CFS-OFDMA spreading apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 3, a transmitter 200 of a CFS-OFDMA spreader 100 at a downlink (downlink) transmitter of the CFS-OFDMA spreader includes: the Q modulation units 220_1 to 220_ Q simultaneously convert M sub-carriers in the Q sub-bands into the Q frequency domain symbols, and the Q frequency domain symbols are functions of a plurality of cyclic frequency shift values.
Referring to fig. 3 again, the transmitter 200 of the CFS-OFDMA spreading apparatus 100 may further include: q Gray code encoding units 210_1 to 210_ Q, an OFDM transmission unit 230 and a transmission circuit Tx 240. In this embodiment, the Data to be provided to the Q stations are Data _1 to Data _ Q, and after being gray-coded by Q gray code coding units 210_1 to 210_ Q, the gray code coding units 210_1 to 210_ Q simultaneously convert the bit format of the string from Q binary codes to Q gray codes according to the Q sub-Data, so as to minimize a bit error rate when the symbol demodulation error occurs. The OFDM transmitting unit 230 converts the Q frequency domain symbols into a time domain symbol, and forms a time domain packet with the time domain symbol. The transmission circuit Tx 240 converts the time domain packet into a transmission signal St, and transmits the signal through a network line or a wireless signal.
In one embodiment, the OFDM transmission unit 230 includes an N-point inverse fourier transform (ifft) unit 234, a Cyclic Preamble (CP) unit 233, a window unit 232, and a packet composition unit 231. An N-point Inverse Fourier Transform (N-IFFT) unit 234 is coupled to the Q modulation units 220_ 1-220 _ Q, respectively, and the N-point Inverse Fourier Transform unit 234 transforms the N frequency domain symbols into N time domain symbols according to the N frequency domain symbols, in other words, the N-point Inverse Fourier Transform unit 234 is used to Transform the Q frequency domain symbol combinations into time domain symbols. The cyclic preamble unit 233 copies a part of the symbols at the end of the N-point time domain symbol packet to the front end of the N-point time domain symbols. The window unit 232 is coupled to the cyclic preamble unit 233 for reducing interference of the time-domain packet in the adjacent frequency band. The packet composition unit 231 combines the preamble, header, payload and generates the time-domain packet using the N-point time-domain symbols. In one embodiment, the transmitting device 200 can minimize the bit error rate by using gray code, the decimal digital value after gray code conversion is the value of cyclic frequency shift, and the signal is converted into the time domain by inverse fourier transform according to the formula (1) according to the cyclic frequency shift value. Next, a Cyclic Prefix (CP) is added to boost immunity to the multipath. Finally, a window range is added to reduce interference to adjacent frequency bands.
Please note that, the subband splitting method of the spreading apparatus 100 of CFS-OFDMA is not limited as long as the subbands are subsets of the whole spectrum band. However, it is generally easier to cut the sub-bands into sub-bands of the same size, i.e. each sub-band has the same number of sub-carriers N-M/Q.
There are two practical ways of slicing, the first is called a region-type sub-band, as shown in fig. 4, there are three sub-bands, each sub-band has four sub-carriers, which are represented by different patterns, and as can be seen from fig. 4, the sub-carriers of each sub-band are continuous; wherein the sub-carrier S11S12S13S14For a given cyclic frequency shift value m of 0 and for the first subband, the subcarrier S21S22S23S24For a given cyclic frequency shift value m of 0 and for the second sub-band, the sub-carrier S31S32S33S34In order to specify the third subband with the cyclic frequency shift value m equal to 0, only three subbands are shown in fig. 4, but the present invention should not be limited thereto.
The second type is referred to as distributed sub-bands, where the sub-carriers of each sub-band are evenly staggered, as shown in fig. 5. The distributed sub-bands have the advantage of better channel dispersion, and the disadvantage of easier interference between sub-bands.
In other words, the Q frequency domain symbols can be arranged according to the order of the M subcarriers; alternatively, the Q frequency domain symbols may be staggered according to the order of the M subcarriers.
The transmitting end of the spread spectrum device of CFS-OFDMA distributes the Data _1 to Data _ Q to Q gray code encoding units 210_1 to 210_ Q, then Q modulation units 220_1 to 220_ Q perform cyclic frequency shift (cyclic frequency shift) on their respective sub-bands according to the information, and finally the entire frequency domain signal is integrated and converted into time domain symbols by the N-point inverse fourier transform unit 234, added with cyclic preamble, and transmitted out through the transmitting circuit Tx 240 after passing through the window.
Fig. 6 is a block diagram of a receiving device of a CFS-OFDMA spreading device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 6, in a CFS-OFDMA spreader uplink (downlink) receiving end, a receiving apparatus 300 of a CFS-OFDMA spreader 100 may include: a receiving circuit Rx 340, an OFDM receiving unit 330, Q demodulation modules 320_1 to 320_ Q and Q Gray decoding units 310_1 to 310_ Q. The receiving circuit Rx 340 receives a transmission signal St through a network cable or a wireless signal, and then converts the transmission signal St into a time-domain packet. The Rx circuit Rx 340 may comprise an Analog Front End (AFE), which may comprise, for example, an Analog filter (Analog filter), a signal gain device, and an Analog-to-digital converter (adc) for processing the transmission signal St.
The OFDM receiving unit 330 receives the time domain packet and converts the time domain packet into the frequency domain symbols. In one embodiment, the OFDM receiving unit 330 includes: a Packet detection (Packet detection) unit 331, a cyclic preamble removal unit 332, and an N-point Fast Fourier Transform (N-FFT) unit 333. The Packet detection (Packet detection) unit 331 is used to monitor the time domain signal, estimate whether there is a time domain Packet according to the frame preamble, and adjust the gain. The cyclic-preamble removal unit 332 removes the cyclic preamble in the time-domain packet to restore the plurality of N-point time-domain symbols. The N-point fourier transform unit 333 transforms a plurality of N-point time domain symbols into a plurality of frequency domain symbols, in other words, the N-point fourier transform unit 333 allocates the Q frequency domain symbols to the M sub-carriers in the Q sub-bands and restores the time domain symbols to the Q frequency domain symbols.
After the signal is detected by the packet detection unit 331, the cyclic preamble is removed, and the cyclic preamble is converted to the frequency domain by the N-point fourier transform unit 333, and each sub-band is demodulated by CFS-OFDM, so as to solve the original data transmitted by the Q station.
Q demodulation modules 320_ 1-320 _ Q for simultaneously demodulating the Q frequency domain symbols corresponding to the M sub-carriers and converting the Q frequency domain symbols into corresponding different bit values according to the corresponding cyclic frequency shift value.
The Q demodulation modules 320_ 1-320 _ Q are used to demodulate the Q frequency domain symbols into a corresponding string of bits simultaneously. Please note that, the Q Gray code decoding units 310_ 1-310 _ Q are used to convert the format of the string of bits from Q Gray codes to Q binary codes when the format of the string of bits is Gray codes.
In the present embodiment, the demodulation modules 320_1 to 320_ Q respectively include cyclic convolution units 322_1 to 322_ Q and peak determination units 321_1 to 321_ Q. The cyclic convolution units 322_ 1-322 _ Q are used for respectively carrying out cyclic convolution on the Q frequency domain symbols; the peak determining units 321_1 to 321_ Q are respectively coupled to the cyclic convolution units 322_1 to 322_ Q, determine a plurality of peaks of the cyclic convolution result as the cyclic frequency shift values of the Q frequency domain symbols, and convert the cyclic frequency shift values into the string of bits.
The OFDM receiving unit 330 of the CFS-OFDMA spread spectrum device performs cyclic preamble removal after the signal is detected by the packet detecting unit 331, converts the signal to the frequency domain through the N-point fourier transform unit 333, and performs CFS-OFDM demodulation, including cyclic convolution, peak determination, and gray decoding, on each sub-band, to decode the original data.
Please refer to fig. 7, please note that, in the uplink transmission of the spreading apparatus of CFS-OFDMA, since multiple stations must transmit CFS-OFDM signals in their respective sub-bands at the same time, synchronization is needed to ensure that the time error of each station starting transmission is within the tolerable range. The synchronization usually is performed by the AP transmitting a synchronization packet (synchronization packet) in a broadcast (broadcast or multicast) manner, and each station receives the synchronization packet and then uses the synchronization packet as a reference point of a transmission time axis; after a fixed time, the Q stations transmit the corresponding time domain packets of the Q data in the corresponding Q sub-bands through a CFS-OFDM signal; in other words, for the AP, the AP only detects the time-domain packets transmitted by the Q stations and combined in the air.
In one embodiment, the synchronization packet includes which frequency band should be used by each station to ensure that each station uses a different frequency band to transmit the corresponding time domain packet; the method of sending the synchronization packet is not limited to the method, and the sending device of the CFS-OFDMA spreading device may send the synchronization packet to the Q station, which should not be construed as a limitation to the invention.
The device and the method of the invention have the following characteristics: the CFS-OFDMA spread spectrum device is a multiplex communication technology based on CFS-OFDM, the frequency band is divided into a plurality of sub-frequency bands, the AP and a plurality of stations simultaneously utilize the CFS-OFDM for transmission, and the transmission rate of the CFS-OFDM is increased by multiple times; the cost of a front-end amplifier can be reduced due to the extremely low peak-to-average power ratio of the signal during uplink transmission; when the CFS-OFDMA frequency spreading device carries out uplink transmission, each station only transmits the CFS-OFDM signal of the station, the power peak-to-average ratio is very low, and the cost of a front-end amplifier can be reduced; the spread spectrum device of CFS-OFDMA allows multiple stations to transmit simultaneously, thus greatly reducing the probability of signal collision caused by multiple station transmission.
The present invention has been described in terms of the above embodiments, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and changes can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the gist of the present invention within the scope of the claims of the present invention.