KR100758333B1 - Effective transmitter architecture and method and apparatus for transmission power control for wireless communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a modem for a wireless communication system, a transmission apparatus using the same, and a method for controlling its transmission power.

In order to transmit various types of preambles at the transmitting end in a wireless communication system having multiple antennas, the transmitting apparatus is implemented with a structure in which the preamble data output through the preamble generator is input to the mapper and the multiplexer of each path. By using such a transmission device, waste of hardware resources can be reduced. In addition, by using the mode information of the input signal received from the medium access control unit to maintain a higher signal-to-noise ratio and ensure a long signal reach, it is possible to improve the signal transmission speed.

Transmit power control, wifi, analog-to-digital converter, multiple antenna, preamble generator

Description

Modem for wireless communication system, transmission apparatus using same and method for controlling its transmission power {Effective transmitter architecture and method and apparatus for transmission power control for wireless communication system}

1 is a structural diagram of a transmitting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a structural diagram of a modem unit of a wireless communication system transmitting apparatus including a preamble generator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a structural diagram of a transmission power control unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a structural diagram of a transmission power control unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a lookup table used in a transmission power calculator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a flowchart of a transmission power control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a graph of reach versus throughput performance in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a diagram illustrating a bit error rate according to a clipping level change according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

9 is a diagram illustrating a signal-to-noise ratio according to a clipping level change according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a modem structure for a wireless communication system, a transmission apparatus using a modem, and a transmission power control method. More particularly, the modem structure of an effective transmitter in a wireless communication system supporting multiple modes through multiple antennas or a single antenna and A transmission apparatus and a transmission power control method using a modem.

In code division multiple access (CDMA), the distance between a base station and each mobile body and a radio wave transmission path are different. In addition, path loss of the reverse channel occurs due to mismatch of the transceiver, different fading characteristics appearing due to the difference in frequency band, and channel difference between the forward and reverse directions. Due to this problem, the terminal regulates the output by the low speed power control command transmitted from the base station to the forward channel. At this time, the signal of the base station received from the remote moving object has a weak electric field, and a problem of perspective caused by a large interference by a signal from a near-field moving object having a strong electric field occurs.

In order to avoid this, the base station side wants to make the received electric field from each moving object at the same level, and the capacity of the maximum channel is required at the same level. In order for the base station to obtain the maximum channel capacity, it is necessary to change the transmission power as the mobile moves.

As described above, the transmission power control method used in the CDMA system requires the exchange of control packets between the transmitting end and the receiving end, which causes a problem of complicated control of the transmitting power control end. In addition, power control may be incorrectly performed due to loss or error of a control packet.

Accordingly, the present invention is to solve the above problems of the prior art, and proposes a more efficient transmission apparatus and its transmission power control method in a wireless communication system having multiple antennas or a single antenna and supporting multiple modes.

In addition, the present invention proposes a modem of a transmitting device that can reduce hardware resource waste from a hardware implementation point of view.

In another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a transmission apparatus of a wireless communication system having multiple antennas or a single antenna and supporting multiple modes.

A modem unit for demodulating a signal input through the multiple or single antenna into a plurality of digital signals and outputting the same through a transmission path; A transmission control unit memory which receives the information of the input signal inputted to the modem unit, stores mode information of the input signal, and stores a lookup table in which information for power control is stored for each mode; And a transmission power controller configured to receive information corresponding to a mode of the input signal from the lookup table and to control transmission power of an input signal to be transmitted based on the received information.

Modem which is another feature of the present invention for achieving the technical problem of the present invention is a modem included in a transmission apparatus of a wireless communication system having multiple antennas or a single antenna and supports multiple modes,

A medium connection control unit which receives a signal from the antenna and determines and outputs a signal mode to the input signal; A transmission signal processor for performing signal processing including scrambling, encoding, and bit erasing the signal received from the medium access controller; A divider which receives the processed signal from the transmission signal processor and distributes the signal by the power of the I and Q signals; A preamble generator configured to generate and output a preamble data string to be inserted into the I and Q signals; A mapper which receives a signal distributed from the distributor and a preamble data string output from the preamble generator, maps the signal, and outputs the mapped signal as a mapping signal; An inverse fast Fourier transformer converting the mapping signal output from the mapper into an inverse fast Fourier transform and converting the mapping signal into a signal having orthogonality in a frequency domain; And a multiplexer for receiving a signal output from the inverse fast Fourier transformer and a preamble data string output from the preamble generator and transmitting the received signal to a transmitting antenna.

In another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for controlling transmission power in a transmission apparatus of a wireless communication system supporting multiple modes with multiple antennas or a single antenna.

(a) collecting mode information of an input signal input to the transmitting apparatus through the antenna; (b) determine whether the mode of the collected input signal and the current mode, where the current mode is the mode used for power control of the input signal prior to the input signal, are different, Reading a power adjustment value corresponding to a mode of the input signal from a lookup table; And (c) multiplying a power adjustment value of the read input signal by the input signal to perform power adjustment on the input signal.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention. Like parts are designated by like reference numerals throughout the specification.

In addition, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, which means that it may further include other components, except to exclude other components unless otherwise stated.

With the development of multimedia service technology, the demand for high performance multifunctional handheld devices such as mobile phones, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), smart phones, and wireless LANs is steadily increasing. As a result, system design that takes into account the performance of handheld devices (such as long signal reach, high data rates, low system complexity, and low power) is becoming an important part.

To this end, the structure of the transmission device is designed to reduce unnecessary hardware resource waste, and a simple and effective transmission device is proposed. First, the structure of the transmission device will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1.

1 is a structural diagram of a transmitting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, a transmission apparatus in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention that supports multiple modes having multiple or single antennas includes a modem unit 100, an I / Q imbalance compensation unit 200, A low pass filter (hereinafter referred to as LPF) 300, a transmission control unit memory 400, a transmission power control unit 500, a digital analog converter (hereinafter referred to as a DAC) 600 and an amplifier ( 700).

The modem unit 100 modulates a digital signal of a computer or a terminal device into an analog signal to be transmitted on an analog transmission line, and receives a modulated analog signal and demodulates the digital signal back into a digital signal. In this case, the preamble data output through the preamble generator (reference numeral 107 of FIG. 2) is used to map the path of each path in order to reduce the memory size of the transmitter and simultaneously satisfy the processing time constraint of the given wireless communication system. 2 and a multiplexer (refer to reference numeral 112 of FIG. 2), which will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

The I / Q imbalance compensator 200 compensates for an imbalance of an I / Q (In phase / Quadrature phase) signal of the digital signal. Here, the I / Q imbalance is that the amplitude or gain is different between the in-phase component and the quadrature component, or the phase is exactly 90 degrees (°) between the in-phase component and the quadrature component. It is a case where there is some degree of phase distortion. The LPF 300 performs low pass filtering on the signal output through the I / Q imbalance compensation unit 200.

The transmission control unit memory 400 receives mode information of a signal input to the medium connection control unit (reference numeral 101 of FIG. 2) of the modem unit 100, and reads and stores mode information already stored. In addition, a lookup table including power control values experimentally obtained according to the modulation method, coding rate, transmission rate, and mode information of the input signal is stored. In this case, the stored mode information and the information of the lookup table are used by the transmission power controller 500 to calculate power.

The transmission power control unit 500 controls the transmission power of the input signal to be transmitted so that the bit energy received by the base station is constant. That is, by adjusting the strength of the power received by the base station in consideration of the transmission rate or transmission period of the input signal to be transmitted by the terminal station so that the received energy is made constant.

In the embodiment of the present invention, in the low transmission rate mode, the transmission power controller 500 performs a function of increasing the transmission power so as to make the best use of the operating range of the DAC 600. In addition, in the high speed mode, an operating range smaller than the maximum operating range of the DAC 600 is allocated to control the transmission power so as to satisfy a minimum signal-to-noise ratio required for each mode while ensuring a long reach.

The DAC 600 converts the digital signal passing through the transmission power control unit 500 into an analog signal for transmission through the transmission antenna. The amplifier 700 amplifies the I / Q signal passing through the DAC 700, and the amplified signal is transmitted to the receiver through a transmission antenna. That is, the power is amplified so that a signal with sufficient power can be output at the final stage.

In this case, the modem unit illustrated in FIG. 1 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 2.

2 is a structural diagram of a modem unit of a wireless communication system transmitting apparatus including a preamble generator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the modem unit 100 of the transmitting apparatus includes a media access control (MAC) 101, a scrambler 102, a convolution encoder 103, and a puncture. 104, Splitter 105, Interleaver 106, Preamble Generators 107, 111, Mapper 108, Pilot Generator 109, Inverse Fast Fourier An Inverse Fast Fourier Transform 110 and a multiplexer 112.

The MAC 101 follows a medium access method defined in the IEEE 802.11 MAC standard. In this case, the MAC 101 receives an input signal through a receiving end (not shown), and determines and determines a signal mode such as a modulation scheme, a coding rate, and a transmission rate that are most suitable for the input signal, to the transmission control memory 100. Perform the function of passing.

The scrambler 102 scrambles the input signal transmitted from the MAC 101 according to a predetermined rule and outputs it. The convolutional encoder 103 recovers an error generated during transmission of a signal input for error correction at the receiving end using a convolutional code or convolutional code, which is an error correction code.

The puncture 104 adjusts the data rate of the signal output from the convolutional encoder 103 and then outputs it. That is, some of the signal bits are deleted by the given rule for each input signal.

Signals for which data rate matching is performed through the puncture 104 are input to the plurality of interleavers 106 through the divider 105. In this case, assuming that there are two transmit antennas, an even bit is distributed to the upper interleaver 106 and an odd bit is distributed to the lower interleaver 106. Since signal distribution is defined in a wireless communication system related standard, a detailed description thereof will be omitted in embodiments of the present invention.

The interleaver 106 adjusts the data rate by the puncture 104 and inputs the signal output from the divider 105 to perform interleaving for preventing burst errors and then outputs the signal to the mapper 108.

The preamble generators 107 and 111 generate a preamble data string to be inserted into the input signal. A preamble means that someone is about to transmit a signal soon, and can be defined as a series of transmit pulses that communication systems can understand. This ensures that the systems receiving the information correctly understand when signal transmission begins. The actual pulses used as the preamble will depend on the network communication technology used.

The mapper 108 performs a function of mapping and outputting the preamble data string generated by the preamble generator 107 and the interleaved signal output from the interleaver 106. The pilot generator 109 generates a series of complex pilot symbols corresponding to the series of pilot bits in the input signal.

The inverse fast Fourier transformer (or IFFT) 110 converts the modulated signal into a signal on a time axis and outputs the signal. That is, inverse fast Fourier transform of each signal to which the subcarrier is assigned is put on different subcarriers having orthogonality in the frequency domain, and converted into a signal in a time domain that can be actually transmitted. At this time, the signal output from the inverse fast Fourier transformer 110 is called an OFDM symbol.

The multiplexer 112 multiplexes OFDM signals sequentially transmitted so that different signals are transmitted from each transmit antenna, and assigns them to the plurality of transmit antennas, respectively. That is, the signal output from the preamble generator 111 and the signal output from the inverse fast Fourier transformer 110 are input to perform multiplexing of the two signals, and sequentially generate OFDM signals at each transmission antenna in parallel. send.

Referring to the transmission process in the transmission device having such an element, the transmission signal is transmitted from the MAC 101, passes through a scrambler 102 that shuffles the signals, and then performs channel encoding for error correction at the receiving end. ). And through the puncture 104 to adjust the data rate of the signal.

The signal output from the puncture 104 is distributed through a divider 105 according to a standard already defined, and the signal is distributed by a plurality of transmission paths and passes through an interleaver 106 to rearrange the order of the signals. Binary signals through the interleaver 106 are mapped with the output signal of the preamble generator 107 at the mapper 108.

The mapped signal is input to the inverse fast Fourier transformer 110 for OFDM modulation together with the pilot generator 109 to convert the frequency domain signal into a time domain signal. The output signal of the preamble generator 111 and the inverse fast Fourier change output signal are input to the multiplexer 112 to form an entire frame. These signals are signals that are finally outputted to the modem unit 100 of the transmitting apparatus, and then a series of procedures are performed to be transmitted through an antenna via a transmitting RF unit (not shown).

Next, the transmission power control unit 500 illustrated in FIG. 1 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 3.

3 is a structural diagram of a transmission power control unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the transmission power control unit 500 that receives the output signals of the transmission control unit memory 400 and the low pass filter 300 includes a transmission power calculating unit 510 and a transmission power adjusting unit 520. It is composed.

The transmission power calculator 510 receives the mode information of the signal stored from the transmission controller memory 400 and selects a transmission power adjustment value for the corresponding mode based on the information of the lookup table described in FIG. 5. The mode information here includes a modulation scheme, a coding rate, and a transmission rate of the input signal. The transmission power calculator 510 calculates the transmission power and outputs the transmission power to the transmission power controller 520 based on the selected transmission power adjustment value.

The transmission power controller 520 receives the transmission power calculated by the transmission power calculator 510 and multiplies an input signal by an adjustment value to amplify or attenuate the signal. The transmission power control unit included in the transmission apparatus of the system supporting the multi-mode can be used as a modulation method such as a phase shift keying modulation method or a quadrature amplitude modulation method. It is not limited.

The structure of the transmission power control unit according to the embodiment of the present invention performing this function is shown in more detail in FIG. 4. As shown in FIG. 4, the transmission power control unit 520 receives an input signal input to the modem unit 100 and a transmission power adjustment value calculated and output from the transmission power calculation unit 510, and are mutually received by the multiplier. Multiply. When this process is performed, the input signal is amplified or attenuated.

Next, a lookup table used to select a transmission power in the transmission power calculator 510 of FIG. 3 will be described with reference to FIG. 5.

5 is a lookup table used in a transmission power calculator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

An embodiment of a lookup table for adjustment values for transmission power control for each mode in a WLAN system having multiple antennas and supporting multiple modes is shown in FIG. 5. The adjustment value of the lookup table of FIG. 5 may be differently determined through simulation according to the channel environment of a given system, and may be easily applied to other application wireless communication systems in this manner.

In this case, the signal-to-noise ratio, which is information for experimentally obtaining the power adjustment value of the lookup table, is obtained through Equation 1 below.

As shown in Equation 1, the signal-to-noise ratio is the result of dividing the signal power by the sum of quantization noise, clipping noise, and channel noise. Based on this equation and the operating range of the digital-to-analog converter used in the system configuration, the most appropriate signal power can be extracted for each signal speed of the multi-mode wireless communication system.

Next, a method of controlling transmission power according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 6 based on the components described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5.

6 is a flowchart of a transmission power control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, the media access control unit 101 of the modem unit 100 collects mode information of an input signal and transmits the information to the transmission control unit memory 400 to store the mode information. The transmission power calculator 510 receives the mode information of the signal input from the transmission control unit memory 400 (S100), and compares the current mode with the mode information of the input signal (S110). Here, the current mode refers to a mode for adjusting power that is being performed on an already input signal before a new signal is input.

If the two modes are the same, the current adjustment value is maintained (S140). However, if the modes are different, the power adjustment value is selected from the lookup table shown in FIG. 5 to calculate the adjustment value corresponding to the input mode (S120). . The transmission power controller 520 adjusts the power of the transmission signal by multiplying the power adjustment value selected from the lookup table by the input signal (S130), and through this process, the input signal is amplified or attenuated. The input signal adjusted by the transmission power controller 520 is output to the DAC 600 and the rest of the process for transmission is performed.

Next, in the case of controlling the transmission power according to the embodiment of the present invention with reference to FIG. 7, the performance of the range vs. throughput is compared with the performance of the range vs. throughput obtained through the prior art. .

7 is a graph of reach versus throughput performance in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

The X axis of the graph is the reach, and the Y axis is the throughput performance. As shown in FIG. 7, when controlling the transmission power according to the embodiment of the present invention, it can be seen that the reach distance is extended and the throughput performance is improved as compared with the conventional transmission power control method.

For example, suppose that a signal of modulation scheme BSPK, coding rate 1/2, transmission rate 6.5Mbps is input. The input signal has a power regulation value of 1.5, as shown in the lookup table of FIG. At this time, the power adjustment value is an experimental value, and is not necessarily limited to this.

When the conventional transmission power control method is used, the power adjustment value 1 is applied to all signals. However, the input signal is 1.5 amplified because the input signal has a power adjustment value of 1.5. Therefore, even in the same signal, the reach can be extended.

Referring to FIGS. 8 and 9, which are represented by the following bit error rate and signal-to-noise ratio, the power adjustment value, which is the lookup table information of FIG. Shall be.

8 is a diagram illustrating a bit error rate according to a clipping level change according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a signal-to-noise ratio according to a clipping level change according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in Fig. 8, the larger the clipping level, the greater the signal power, and hence the smaller the bit error rate since the quantization noise is smaller. However, after some point, the performance decreases slightly due to clipping noise. This characteristic is apparent in the signal-to-noise ratio according to the clipping level change shown in FIG.

We can see that the signal-to-noise ratio starts to get worse afterwards with the clipping level of 2.5. In consideration of such characteristics, it can be used as a criterion for calculating signal power with the minimum signal-to-noise ratio of each mode as a limiting factor in a wireless communication system supporting multiple modes.

Here, a program for realizing a function corresponding to the configuration of the above-described embodiment of the present invention or a recording medium on which the program is recorded is also included in the scope of the present invention.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and improvements of those skilled in the art using the basic concepts of the present invention defined in the following claims are also provided. It belongs to the scope of rights.

According to the above-described embodiment, in a wireless communication system having multiple antennas, a preamble generator may be implemented in a structure in which a preamble generator is divided into a mapper and a multiplexer in each path to transmit various types of preambles from a transmitter, thereby reducing waste of hardware resources.

In addition, power control, in which the optimal average power level is determined for each input signal mode, can extend the signal reach and improve the throughput performance.

In addition, by using a modem including a preamble generator, a mapper, and a multiplexer, it is possible to reduce the memory size by inputting to the mapper within a processing time limit that can be accepted by the transmitting apparatus.

In addition, in consideration of the operating range, quantization noise, clipping noise, and channel noise of the digital-to-analog converter, a transmission power having a minimum signal-to-noise ratio that can be recovered at the receiver can be extracted.

In addition, by using the mode information of the input signal received from the medium access control unit to maintain a higher signal-to-noise ratio and ensure a long signal reach, it is possible to improve the signal transmission speed.

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In the transmitting apparatus of a wireless communication system having multiple antennas or a single antenna and supporting multiple modes, A modem unit for demodulating the signals input through the multiple or single antennas into a plurality of digital signals and outputting them through respective transmission paths; A transmission control unit memory which receives the information of the input signal inputted to the modem unit, stores mode information of the input signal, and stores a lookup table in which information for power control is stored for each mode; And A transmission power control unit receiving information corresponding to a mode of the input signal from the lookup table and controlling transmission power of an input signal to be transmitted based on the received information Including; A quadrature phase / in-phase imbalance compensation unit for receiving a plurality of digital signals outputted from the modem unit and compensating for and outputting an imbalance of quadrature and in-phase signals of the received digital signal; A low pass filter for receiving a digital signal outputted by compensating for an imbalance of a signal in the quadrature / in-phase imbalance compensation unit and performing a low pass filtering; A digital analog converter which receives a digital signal whose transmission power is output from the transmission power control unit and converts the digital signal into an analog signal and outputs the analog signal; And an amplifier receiving the analog signal output from the digital analog converter, amplifying the signal by a predetermined power and outputting the same to a transmitting antenna. The method of claim 1, The transmission power control unit, A transmission power calculation unit which receives mode information of an input signal stored in the transmission control unit memory, and selects and outputs a transmission power adjustment value corresponding to a mode of the input signal from a lookup table stored in the transmission control unit memory; And A transmission power controller which multiplies a transmission power adjustment value output from the transmission power calculator by an input signal input to the modem unit, and then adjusts and outputs the power of the input signal; Transmission device comprising a. The method of claim 2, The transmission power adjustment value is, Transmitter that obtains a signal-to-noise ratio based on the signal power divided by the sum of quantization noise, clipping noise, and channel noise. The method of claim 2, The lookup table, And a transmission power adjustment value corresponding to a mode of the input signal, and further comprising at least one of a modulation scheme, a coding rate, and a transmission rate. delete The method of claim 1, The transmitter uses a modulation scheme such as a phase shift modulation scheme or a quadrature amplitude modulation scheme in a system supporting multiple modes. A modem included in a transmission apparatus of a wireless communication system having multiple antennas or a single antenna and supporting multiple modes, A medium connection control unit which receives a signal from the antenna and determines and outputs a signal mode to the input signal; A transmission signal processor for performing signal processing including scrambling, encoding, and bit erasing the signal received from the medium access controller; A divider which receives the processed signal from the transmission signal processor and distributes the signal by the power of the I and Q signals; A preamble generator configured to generate and output a preamble data string to be inserted into the I and Q signals; A mapper which receives a signal distributed from the distributor and a preamble data string output from the preamble generator, maps the signal, and outputs the mapped signal as a mapping signal; An inverse fast Fourier transformer converting the mapping signal output from the mapper into an inverse fast Fourier transform and converting the mapping signal into a signal having orthogonality in a frequency domain; And A multiplexer that receives a signal output from the inverse fast Fourier transformer and a preamble data string output from the preamble generator and transmits the signal to a transmitting antenna Modem comprising a. The method of claim 7, wherein The transmission signal processing unit, A scrambler configured to scramble and output a signal transmitted from the medium access controller according to a predetermined rule; A convolution encoder for recovering and outputting an error generated during transmission of the scrambled signal output from the scrambler using a convolution code; And In order to adjust the data rate of the signal output from the convolutional encoder, a puncturer that deletes and outputs a part of the signal bits according to a rule already given Modem comprising a. The method of claim 7, wherein An interleaver performing interleaving for preventing a burst error on the signal output from the distributor and outputting the interleaved to the mapper; And A pilot generator for generating a series of complex pilot symbols corresponding to a series of pilot bits from the input signal and outputting the serial pilot symbols to the inverse fast Fourier transformer Modem that includes more. A method of controlling transmit power in a transmitting apparatus of a wireless communication system having multiple antennas or a single antenna and supporting multiple modes, (a) collecting mode information of an input signal input to the transmitting apparatus through the antenna; (b) judging whether the mode of the collected input signal and the current mode, where the current mode is a mode used for power control of a signal input before the input signal, are different; Reading a power adjustment value corresponding to a mode of the input signal from a lookup table including a plurality of power adjustment values calculated according to a mode of the input signal; And (c) multiplying a power adjustment value of the read input signal by the input signal to perform power adjustment on the input signal; Transmission power control method comprising a. The method of claim 10, If the mode information and the current mode of the input signal is the same in the step (b), the transmission power control method for controlling the power of the input signal by maintaining the power adjustment value for the current signal.

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