Background technology
Along with the development of the communication technology, for the place that cannot arrive at conventional wireless signals such as building, basement, subways, solve signal covering problem, at present, adopt indoor distributed system in these places, to realize the covering of wireless signal.
In existing indoor distributed system, generally adopt distributed base station to realize signal and cover.Consult shown in Fig. 1, distributed base station mainly comprises base station main equipment and radio frequency remote equipment (RRU), base station main equipment is usually located in operation machine room, RRU is distributed in the position that is difficult to arrival that can not lay base station main equipment, as certain corner of antenna tower top, building, in basement etc.A base station main equipment can connect multiple RRU; Between base station main equipment and RRU, by optical fiber, connect, adopt Ir standard interface protocol to complete the transmission of data.
Along with the expansion of network size and the extensive use of RRU, no longer simple as a board on base station maintenance to the maintenance of RRU.Use at present operating maintenance terminal to carry out Operation and Maintenance to RRU and mainly contain two kinds of approach:
One, the part using RRU as the management object of base station main equipment, leaves its abstract management object out in the management information bank of base station side in.Operating maintenance terminal sends webmaster order by the OAMAgent software (OM) to base station main equipment, RRU management object is operated, after OM resolve command, content of operation is converted to standard I r interface message, to RRU transmit operation order, thereby realize the Operation and Maintenance to RRU.
But RRU has in a large number independently management object and Operation and Maintenance demand, and RRU type difference, its organize content also has difference.In the Ir standard having realized at present, define several bookkeeping orders limited to RRU, still can not realize the comprehensive management to each money RRU.Therefore,, if the organize content of each money RRU is all brought in the management information bank of base station main equipment side, can cause following defect:
1, the management information amount that operating maintenance terminal need to be safeguarded is very huge.This scheme can cause serious system loading to operating maintenance terminal, because the Operation and Maintenance content of multiple style RRU complexity all cannot be brought in the management information bank of base station main equipment, thereby can not realize management comprehensively and effectively to RRU, can only realize some basic management maintenance operations.If whole RRU management information is put in the management information bank of base station main equipment, early development amount is large, and later maintenance cost is high.
2, organize content exceeds the range of definition of Ir standard.Between base station main equipment and RRU, set up complicated self-defining operation maintenance interface, allow the webmaster instruction of operating maintenance terminal to base station main equipment transmit operation RRU, by the OAMAgent function of base station main equipment, realize RRU is managed to attended operation.It is large that this implementation is not only realized difficulty, early development amount is large, and when the management object of RRU changes, the management information bank of base station main equipment side will be related to, the modification of the each side network parameters such as the Operation and Maintenance interface of Operation and Maintenance interface, operating maintenance terminal contents processing, operating maintenance terminal and the base station of base station main equipment contents processing, RRU contents processing, base station main equipment and RRU, influence surface is wider, and follow-up maintenance cost is high, technical difficulty is large.
Two, be different from above-mentioned solution, another solution providing under prior art is, by the management information bank privatization of RRU, the management information bank that is about to each RRU leaves corresponding RRU this locality in, makes operating maintenance terminal directly be connected with RRU and carry out Operation and Maintenance.Be specially: leave the management information of RRU in RRU this locality, operating maintenance terminal, by the direct-connected RRU of local network interface of RRU, carries out Operation and Maintenance to RRU.Adopt this solution can realize the comprehensive Operation and Maintenance function to RRU, when the Operation and Maintenance content of RRU changes, only need to revise the management information bank of RRU this locality, and the Operation and Maintenance interface between operating maintenance terminal and RRU.Although this solution early development cost and follow-up maintenance cost are all lower, but, because RRU is common and base station main equipment divides two places to arrange, multiple RRU of same base station main equipment administration are likely dispersed in multiple positions that are not easy to arrival, therefore, use operating maintenance terminal directly to connect RRU and carry out Operation and Maintenance, operating maintenance terminal can only connect with it by the local network interface of RRU, requiring operating personnel must arrive the residing position of RRU operates, and the present position of RRU is difficult to arrive conventionally, and substantially can not realize at one time multiple RRU are managed to operation.Therefore, for operating personnel, manage one by one maintenance to each RRU of base station main equipment, need to go to the position at each RRU place to operate, operation cost is high, and execution efficiency is low, and feasibility is also very low.
Summary of the invention
Local network interface connect with it, requires operating personnel must arrive the residing position of RRU and operate, and the present position of RRU is difficult to arrive conventionally, and substantially can not realize at one time multiple RRU are managed to operation.Therefore, for operating personnel, manage one by one maintenance to each RRU of base station main equipment, need to go to the position at each RRU place to operate, operation cost is high, and execution efficiency is low, and feasibility is also very low.
The embodiment of the present invention provides a kind of method, Apparatus and system of remote maintenance radio frequency remote equipment, in order to realize long-range, the comprehensive management of radio frequency remote equipment, and reduces later maintenance cost.
The concrete technical scheme that the embodiment of the present invention provides is as follows:
A kind of method of remote maintenance radio frequency remote equipment, in the main equipment of base station, increase an application level proxy service, and set up its privately owned management information bank in radio frequency remote equipment this locality, make the management object that operating maintenance terminal can remote operation radio frequency remote equipment, wherein
Base station main equipment receives the radio frequency remote equipment administration order that operating maintenance terminal sends;
Base station main equipment, based on Ir interface standard, is transparent channel message by the radio frequency remote equipment administration order of reception according to the message format Reseal for transparent transmission;
Base station main equipment mails to corresponding radio frequency remote equipment by transparent channel message, indicates this radio frequency remote equipment, according to its local management information bank of preserving, associative operation is resolved and carried out to the transparent channel message receiving.
A kind of method of remote maintenance radio frequency remote equipment, in the main equipment of base station, increase an application level proxy service, and set up its privately owned management information bank in radio frequency remote equipment this locality, make the long-range management object that can remote operation radio frequency remote equipment of operating maintenance terminal, wherein
Radio frequency remote equipment receives the transparent channel message that base station main equipment sends, described transparent channel message is by described base station main equipment based on Ir interface standard, and Reseal acquisition is carried out in radio frequency remote equipment administration order operating maintenance terminal being sent according to the message format for transparent transmission;
The management information bank that radio frequency remote equipment is preserved based on this locality is resolved the transparent channel message receiving and carries out corresponding operating.
A kind of base station main equipment for remote maintenance radio frequency remote equipment, in the main equipment of described base station, increase an application level proxy service, described application level proxy service and its privately owned management information bank joint operation of setting up in radio frequency remote equipment this locality, make the management object that operating maintenance terminal can remote operation radio frequency remote equipment, and described base station main equipment comprises:
Receiving element, the radio frequency remote equipment administration order sending for receiving operating maintenance terminal;
Encapsulation unit, for based on Ir interface standard, is transparent channel message by the radio frequency remote equipment administration order of reception according to the message format Reseal for transparent transmission;
Transmitting element, for the transparent channel message after encapsulation is mail to corresponding radio frequency remote equipment, indicates this radio frequency remote equipment, according to its local management information bank of preserving, associative operation is resolved and carried out to the transparent channel message receiving.
A kind of radio frequency remote equipment for remote maintenance radio frequency remote equipment, its privately owned management information bank is set up in described radio frequency remote equipment this locality, described management information bank and the application level proxy service joint operation increasing in the main equipment of base station, make the management object that operating maintenance terminal can remote operation radio frequency remote equipment, and described radio frequency remote equipment comprises:
Communication unit, the transparent channel message sending for receiving base station main equipment, described transparent channel message is by described base station main equipment based on Ir interface standard, and Reseal acquisition is carried out in radio frequency remote equipment administration order operating maintenance terminal being sent according to the message format for transparent transmission;
Processing unit, resolves the transparent channel message receiving and carries out corresponding operating for the management information bank of preserving based on this locality.
A kind of system for remote maintenance radio frequency remote equipment, in the main equipment of base station, increase an application level proxy service, and set up its privately owned management information bank in radio frequency remote equipment this locality, make the management object that operating maintenance terminal can remote operation radio frequency remote equipment, wherein
Base station main equipment, the radio frequency remote equipment administration order sending for receiving operating maintenance terminal, and based on Ir interface standard, by the radio frequency remote equipment administration order of reception, according to the message format Reseal for transparent transmission, be transparent channel message, and described transparent channel message is mail to corresponding radio frequency remote equipment, indicate this radio frequency remote equipment, according to its local management information bank of preserving, associative operation is resolved and carried out to the transparent channel message receiving;
Radio frequency remote equipment, the transparent channel message sending for receiving base station main equipment, and the management information bank of preserving based on this locality is resolved the transparent channel message receiving and carries out corresponding operating.
In the embodiment of the present invention, in the main equipment of base station, increase an application level proxy service, and in RRU this locality, set up its privately owned management information bank, can make the management object of the long-range direct control radio frequency remote equipment of operating maintenance terminal, thereby realize the comprehensive remote operation maintaining function of radio frequency remote equipment.On the other hand, due to the management information of each money radio frequency remote equipment is placed on to radio frequency remote equipment this locality, base station main equipment only provides the function forwarding from the administration order of operating maintenance terminal, being about to administration order Reseal is after the message of transparent transmission, to forward again, administration order is not done to any parsing, therefore when the organize content of RRU changes, only need to revise the management information bank of radio frequency remote equipment this locality, contents processing and the RRU contents processing of operating maintenance terminal, there is later maintenance cost low, the advantage that feasibility is strong.
Embodiment
In order to realize long-range, the comprehensive management of radio frequency remote equipment (RRU), in the embodiment of the present invention, in base station main equipment side, set up an application level proxy service, the administration order of mailing to RRU for forward operating maintenance terminal between operating maintenance terminal and RRU, and forward the various message that RRU reports to operating maintenance terminal.And in RRU this locality, set up its privately owned management information bank, can use the management object of the long-range direct control RRU of operating maintenance terminal (as OMC management station), thereby realize the comprehensive Operation and Maintenance function of RRU; Between operating maintenance terminal and base station main equipment, adopt existing Operation and Maintenance interface, between base station main equipment and RRU, can adopt existing standard I r interface.Wherein, owing to leaving the management information of each money RRU in RRU this locality, base station main equipment only provides the function that forwards administration order, therefore, when the organize content of RRU changes, only need to revise management information bank, operating maintenance terminal contents processing and the RRU contents processing of RRU this locality, reduced later maintenance cost low, improved execution efficiency, feasibility is stronger.
The full name of Ir is " Interface between the RRU and the BBU ", is also " interface of RRU and BBU ".Radio frequency unit (RRU) is connected with the Base Band Unit (BBU) on the main equipment of base station by Ir interface.Ir interface protocol is supported the transmission of all valid data between BBU and RRU.
Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, the preferential execution mode of the present invention is elaborated.
Consult shown in Fig. 1, in the embodiment of the present invention, in communication system, comprise some base stations main equipment, some radio frequency remote equipments (RRU) and operating maintenance terminal, wherein,
Operating maintenance terminal, for sending various command according to administrative staff's indication to base station main equipment, as, RRU administration order;
Base station main equipment, the RRU administration order sending for receiving operating maintenance terminal, and based on Ir interface standard, by the RRU administration order of reception, according to the message format Reseal for transparent transmission, be transparent channel message, and described transparent channel message is mail to corresponding radio frequency remote equipment, indicate this radio frequency remote equipment, according to its local management information bank of preserving, associative operation is resolved and carried out to the transparent channel message receiving;
Radio frequency remote equipment, the transparent channel message sending for receiving base station main equipment, and the management information bank of preserving based on this locality is resolved the transparent channel message receiving and carries out corresponding operating.
Consult shown in Fig. 2, in the embodiment of the present invention, base station main equipment comprises receiving element 20, encapsulation unit 21 and transmitting element 22, wherein,
Receiving element 20, the RRU administration order sending for receiving operating maintenance terminal;
Encapsulation unit 21, for based on Ir interface standard, is transparent channel message by the RRU administration order of reception according to the message format Reseal for transparent transmission;
Transmitting element 22, for the transparent channel message after encapsulation is mail to corresponding radio frequency remote equipment, indicates this radio frequency remote equipment, according to its local management information bank of preserving, associative operation is resolved and carried out to the transparent channel message receiving.
In following examples, for ease of describing, each base station main equipment is called to main equipment _ 1, base station, main equipment _ 2, base station ... base station main equipment _ N.
Consult shown in Fig. 3, in the embodiment of the present invention, radio frequency remote equipment comprises communication unit 30 and processing unit 31, wherein,
Communication unit 30, the transparent channel message sending for receiving base station main equipment, described transparent channel message is by described base station main equipment based on Ir interface standard, and Reseal acquisition is carried out in radio frequency remote equipment administration order operating maintenance terminal being sent according to the message format for transparent transmission;
Processing unit 31, resolves the transparent channel message receiving and carries out corresponding operating for the management information bank of preserving based on this locality.
In following examples, for ease of describing, each radio frequency remote equipment is called to RRU_1, RRU_2 ... RRU_N.
Based on said system framework, in the embodiment of the present invention, administrative staff can utilize the OM passage of Iub interface to realize the IP local area network (LAN) of wireless access network internal, thereby support operating maintenance terminal remote access base station main equipment.As shown in Figure 1, administrative staff can use operating maintenance terminal in this locality, directly to connect base station main equipment n to carry out Operation and Maintenance, also can use operating maintenance terminal to connect main equipment _ 1, base station or RNC, indirectly base station main equipment _ n be carried out to remote maintenance operation, not repeat them here.
Based on above-mentioned technical foundation, administrative staff can be by remote access base station main equipment, thereby realize each RRU that this base station main equipment of remote access connects, for example, can be in main equipment _ 1, base station ..., base station main equipment _ n or base station controller (RNC) locate, use operating maintenance terminal (as, OMC management station) telemanagement RRU_1, RRU_2, RRU_3, RRU_4, and do not need operating personnel to operate to the residing position of these RRU on the spot.
Consult shown in Fig. 4, in the embodiment of the present invention, take main equipment _ 1, base station, RRU_1 is as example, introduces by the detailed process of main equipment _ 1, base station remote maintenance RRU_1 as follows:
Step 400: main equipment _ 1, base station receives the RRU administration order that operating maintenance terminal sends.In the present embodiment, in this RRU administration order, need at least to carry RRU identifier, operational order sign (ID), operational order type identification (as, inquire about, arrange etc.), the management object of needs operation identifies and management object settings.
In the embodiment of the present invention, above-mentioned RRU administration order is to set up in the Operation and Maintenance interface of operating maintenance terminal and base station main equipment 1.
On the other hand, receive after the RRU administration order of operating maintenance terminal transmission main equipment _ 1, base station, searches the IP address mapping of corresponding RRU, to determine the IP address of target RRU according to the RRU identifier carrying in this RRU administration order; In the present embodiment, finally determine that target RRU is RRU_1.
Step 410: main equipment _ 1, base station, based on Ir interface standard, is carried out Reseal by the RRU administration order of reception according to the message format for transparent transmission, obtains transparent channel message.
For example, by the operational order ID comprising in RRU administration order, action type, management object sign and management object settings, the form of the message transmitting according to the transparent channel in Ir standard carries out Reseal, in encapsulation process, main equipment _ 1, base station do not need to resolve each parameter of comprising in RRU administration order (as, management object sign) implication, just carry out Reseal and forward.
Step 420: main equipment _ 1, base station is sent to RRU_1 by transparent channel message, associative operation is resolved and carried out to the management information bank of indicating this RRU_1 to preserve according to its local privatization to the transparent channel message receiving.
Based on above-described embodiment, to consult shown in Fig. 5, in the embodiment of the present invention, it is as follows that RRU_1 receives the handling process (carrying out remote maintenance operation) of carrying out after the transparent channel message of the Reseal that base station main equipment 1 forwards:
Step 500:RRU_1 receives from operating maintenance terminal, and the transparent channel message forwarding after the Reseal of main equipment _ 1, base station.In the present embodiment, in this transparent channel message, need at least to carry RRU identifier after Reseal, operational order ID, operational order type identification (as, inquire about, arrange etc.), management object sign and the management object settings of needs operation.
The management information bank that step 510:RRU_1 preserves based on this locality is resolved and is received transparent channel message and carry out corresponding operating.
Performing step at 510 o'clock, RRU_1 receives after transparent channel message, the management object sign that can carry according to it clearly needs the management object of operation, and the operational order ID carrying according to it, operational order type (as, inquire about, arrange etc.) carry out operation accordingly.For example:
Suppose that the operational order type of carrying in transparent channel message is for arranging, and specify the 1.3.2.1.1 that is designated of management object, and the value that appointment need to arrange is 30, RRU_1 receives and reports after transparent channel message, can first reading order type be " setting ", determine that again management object is designated 1.3.2.1.1, and determine that needing the value arranging is 30, then, RRU_1 is aerial voltage standing-wave ratio thresholding by find the management object that 1.3.2.1.1 is corresponding from management information bank, so, its value of RRU_1 is set to designated value 30.
RRU_1 returns to transparent channel response message to main equipment _ 1, base station after carrying out corresponding operating according to transparent channel message, i.e. whether Response message, for notifying operation successful.Still take above-mentioned " specifying the value of RRU aerial voltage standing-wave ratio thresholding to be set to 30 " as example, RRU_1 in transparent channel response message except by command type (setting), management object sign (1.3.2.1.1), the value (30), the order ID former state that need to arrange write, also need write operation execution result (success/failure), and failure cause during operation failure.
The transparent channel message receiving by Ir due to RRU_1 is message format encapsulation based on transparent transmission, therefore, the transparent channel response message that RRU_1 returns is that the message format based on transparent transmission encapsulates too, be that RRU_1 and main equipment _ 1, base station are to communicate by the message of transparent transmission on Ir interface, main equipment _ 1, base station receives after transparent transmission response message, to be the message of the channel type that adopts while communicating by letter between this locality and operating maintenance terminal by its Reseal, can forward it to operating maintenance terminal.
Based on above-mentioned two embodiment, after main equipment _ 1, base station receives the Response message that RRU_1 returns, based on Ir interface standard, the Response message of reception is identified according to the message format for transparent transmission, Reseal is RRU administration order response message, and RRU administration order response message is mail to operating maintenance terminal, in RRU administration order response message, need to carry the RRU identifier after Reseal, operational order ID, operational order type identification (as, inquiry, arrange etc.), and the management object of RRU side sign and management object settings, operating result (success/failure), and when failure also needs to carry failure cause (being called improper value), wherein, main equipment _ 1, base station does not need to resolve the concrete meaning of the Response message that RRU_1 returns, just Reseal be forwarded to operating maintenance terminal.After operating maintenance terminal receives the RRU administration order response message returning main equipment _ 1, base station, resolve and carry out respective handling.For example, the operational order ID that operating maintenance terminal carries according to RRU administration order response message determines that the response that main equipment _ 1, above-mentioned base station is returned is for this operation of aerial voltage standing-wave ratio thresholding that RRU_1 is set, and according to improper value, determine operation failure, need in man-machine interface, carry out corresponding prompting etc.
Wherein, main equipment _ 1, base station receives after Response message, the IP address of RRU_1 need to be mapped as to the identifier of RRU_1, this is because operating maintenance terminal is only known the identifier of RRU_1, only have main equipment _ 1, base station to know the identifier of RRU_1 and the mapping relations of its IP address, operating maintenance terminal provides the identifier of RRU_1 when sending RRU administration order, base station main equipment need to be mapped to IP address when sending transparent channel message; Otherwise, after base station main equipment receives transparent channel response message, IP address need to be mapped as to the identifier of RRU_1, be encapsulated in RRU administration order response message and mail to operating maintenance terminal.
Further, in the Operation and Maintenance interface between operating maintenance terminal and base station main equipment side, also need to increase a class RRU active reporting message.For example, when RRU_1 produces fault or critical event occurs need to give notice to operating maintenance terminal time, by Ir interface, to main equipment _ 1, base station, send the transparent channel active reporting message for alarm or event notice, after the transparent channel active reporting message of RRU_1 transmission is received in main equipment _ 1, base station, based on Ir interface standard, according to the message format for transparent transmission, the transparent channel active reporting message receiving is identified, by its Reseal, be RRU active reporting message, and this RRU active reporting message is mail to operating maintenance terminal, in this RRU active reporting message, need to carry the RRU identifier of Reseal, management object sign and the management object settings of in the transparent channel active reporting message that RRU_1 reports, carrying, wherein, the concrete meaning that main equipment _ 1, base station does not need to resolve the transparent channel active reporting message that RRU_1 reports, just carries out Reseal and forwards.After operating maintenance terminal receives the RRU active reporting message that main equipment _ 1, base station reports, carry out corresponding processing.For example, receive alarm notification, operating maintenance terminal need to show in real time in man-machine interface, comprises text prompt, lights stand by lamp etc.
In embodiments of the present invention, as long as operating maintenance terminal can be accessed any one base station main equipment, all RRU that just can connect this base station main equipment realize comprehensive long-distance management maintenance operation.In fact base station main equipment is not resolved or performs an action the operational order and the message that relate in RRU management, is only responsible for Reseal and the forwarding of message.The technical scheme that the embodiment of the present invention provides, can be directly as the design of the telemanagement of RRU under various wireless access standards, also can be used as supplementing of Ir standard.For the defined function of Ir standard, still use existing mode to realize, for the function that exceeds Ir standard definition scope, in RRU this locality, set up management information bank, the transparent channel message operational order of operating maintenance terminal being encapsulated as based on Ir standard by base station main equipment side mails to RRU.Under such conceptual design, need to not preserve in base station main equipment side the management information bank of RRU, thereby when the organize content of RRU changes, can wait neatly the organize content of increase/deletion/modification RRU, do not need to revise the processing mode of base station main equipment side yet, and the interface between base station main equipment and operating maintenance terminal, interface between base station main equipment and each RRU, and only need to revise the management information bank of RRU this locality, the contents processing of operating maintenance terminal, and the contents processing of RRU, effectively reduce follow-up maintenance cost, improved the execution efficiency of remote maintenance flow process, there is higher feasibility.
Obviously, those skilled in the art can carry out various changes and modification and not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention the present invention.Like this, if within of the present invention these are revised and modification belongs to the scope of the claims in the present invention and equivalent technologies thereof, the present invention is also intended to comprise these changes and modification interior.