CN1155963A - Method and apparatus for optimizing and testing a communition system - Google Patents
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The present invention provides an apparatus (110) and method (300) for optimizing and testing a communication system (100). An optimization and testing processor is coupled to a base station system element (31) for generating optimization and testing messages containing system performance information. These messages are communicated to a standard mobile communication unit (80) having messaging capability and a field engineer using this mobile can view the messages for evaluating system performance. Additionally, the mobile communication unit transmits performance data back to the base station system element which is received and recorded by the optimization and testing processor in a suitable storage medium (124/126). The mobile communication unit generated data may also be incorporated into an optimization and testing message and communicated back to the mobile communication unit for evaluation by the field engineer.
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The present invention relates to communication system, be specifically related to a kind of method and apparatus in order to optimization and testing communication system.
Communication system is well-known, comprises number of different types, comprising land mobile radio system, cellular radiotelephone system, PCS Personal Communications System (PCS) and other communication system types.For example, in cellular radiotelephone communication systems, many communication mesh of being served by base transceiver station (BTS) typically are connected to base station controller (BSC), form base station system (BSS).These base station controllers (BSC) are connected to mobile switching centre (MSC) again, and mobile switching centre provides being connected and the interconnection of various cellular radiotelephone communication systems between cellular radiotelephone communication systems and the public switched telephone network (PSTN).The mobile comm unit of working in the communication mesh utilizes radio communication to send and receives the signal of the base transceiver station (BTS) with service.These signals are handled by BTS, BSC and MSC, with finish the land telephone user that links to each other with PSTN or with the communications transaction processing of other mobile comm unit.
With install and activate communication system for example the cellular radio Communication system related task be called " system optimization ".System optimization also relates to the power output of setting mesh except other item, to obtain desirable mesh footprint (footprint).Shifting (handover) parameter also must adjust to guarantee obtaining gratifying jump condition on the mesh border.
The current techniques of executive system optimization needs particular device, comprises device (as specialized mobile comm unit) and other optional equipment such as " test mobile radio station ", to determine power level and to shift the border., these test mobile radio stations cost an arm and a leg and usually can not be with cipher mode and user friendly the information that produces.For example, a mesh name may be the byte of hexadecimal information, is to use the field engineer of this test mobile radio station to decode.In addition, these test mobile radio stations can only report how this mobile radio station watches base station system BSS.For this reason, except the people of operational testing mobile radio station at the scene, other people also need or come recording system information in system operation and maintenance centre on the base station system website.All these data must put in order and estimate subsequently.Because system has expanded geographically and utilizes the more microcellulor mesh system on relevant mesh border to be mounted, and more makes us hanging back so optimization and test assignment just become.
In view of the above, need a kind of equipment and method of being convenient to estimate the mesh operating parameter now, so that reduce in order to optimize and to test required individual number and eliminate demand for fc-specific test FC equipment.
Fig. 1 illustrates the block diagram that adopts a kind of cellular radiotelephone communication systems of the present invention;
Fig. 2 illustrate according to a preferred embodiment of the invention optimization and the block diagram of testing station;
Fig. 3 illustrates according to a preferred embodiment of the invention a kind of and is used to optimize flow chart with the method for testing communication system.
The invention provides a kind of apparatus and method that are used to optimize with testing communication system.Optimization and test processor are coupled to a base station system unit, optimize and test post in order to produce, and it contains system performance information.These message send to the mobile comm unit of a standard, and it has the message transfer capability.Use the field engineer of this mobile comm unit can see this message, in order to the estimating system performance.In addition, this mobile comm unit sends back to the base station system unit to performance data, and this is recorded in the suitable storage medium by optimization and test processor.Mobile comm unit produces data, BSS also produces data, no matter these data are about the performance of BSS or about the performance of the mobile unit of test, can incorporate in optimization and the test post and be transferred back to mobile comm unit, so that estimate by the field engineer.In this manner, testing mobile radio station and base station system website use specific " test mobile radio station " and can exempt in the effort of being done aspect the coordination.
The present invention be with special mobile group (Groupe Speical Mobile) (GSM) the relevant exemplary embodiment of mobile phone communication system describe.Be appreciated that from description of preferred embodiments hereinafter the present invention can be used for having any communication system that transmits message capability.Referring to Fig. 1, mobile phone communication system 100 comprises that as shown in the figure, they have constituted a BSS50 by a plurality of BTS21-23 of BSC31-33 service.BSC31-31 is coupled to MSC60, and MSC60 is coupled to PSTN70.Mobile comm unit (one is expressed as mobile comm unit 80) is operated in the communication mesh of being served by BTS21-23, communicates by letter with BTS21-23 by Radio Link in known manner.The calling that mobile comm unit 80 starts or terminates processed after by MSC60 to the wire telephone of link PSTN70 or by other mobile phone communication system of MSC60 or other MSC (not shown) service.
Mobile comm unit 80 can be any mobile comm unit with short message transfer capability, for example, observe the mobile comm unit that GSM the 4.11st advises and the GSM the 4.12nd of mesh broadcast SMS transport service advises (by the ETSI of ETSI publication) of " point-to-point " Short Message Transfer Service.In view of the above, mobile comm unit 80 can be operated from the services sites of BSS50 and receive short text message and show these short-text messages to this mobile radio station user.
Fig. 1 also illustrates optimization and the test processor (OPT) 110 that is coupled mutually with BSC32.Be appreciated that OPT110 can be coupled on any unit of communication system 100, but preferably be coupled on the unit of BSS50.Show a discrete processor though be further appreciated that this figure, OPT can be the processor that is associated with system unit, and it can be coupled and be programmed, to carry out one group of optimization and test instruction.
After the message generator 120 (Fig. 2) of OPT100 start, produce optimization and test post (Fig. 3 302) according to No. 4.12 GSM suggestion with the form of the short text message of mesh broadcasting, so that broadcast by the BTS of BSS.In this manner, OPT110 operates in the mode corresponding with the Short Message Service Center equivalence in the gsm wireless phone communication system.This optimization and test post can comprise the information such as mesh name, mesh number, frequency, power level, channel status and adjacent station table, and (Fig. 2) recovers from BSS by data sink 124.Message this paper preferably adopts a kind of form that is easy to read.This optimization and test post are sent to mobile comm unit 80 by BTS22, and these information are shown to a field engineer on mobile comm unit 80, and this project teacher can see the information that it includes, for example so that draw the border of mesh.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, be used to optimize and the mobile identifier of testing specific mobile comm unit identifies to OPT 110.And these mobile comm units all are the mobile comm units of standard, have the message transfer capability.A call follow function is started in the registration of these mobile comm units in the OPT100 monitoring communication system 100 and when detecting the registration of one of this mobile comm unit.Between this call follow functional period, data sink 124 receptivity data 308, these performance datas normally send to BSS50, for example radio frequency (RF) parameter etc. by mobile comm unit.This information and in the similar information that the BSS website is measured can be retained in call follow record in the memory 126 of OPT110.In addition, in the preferred embodiment, information is sent to message generator 122, to incorporate in optimization and the test post, reports to mobile comm unit whereby.Because this message is to be used for a specific mobile comm unit, promptly it comprises the information specific performance to a mobile comm unit, and therefore the form of this message is used for " point-to-point " short text message preferably according to No. 4.11 GSM suggestion.Except the performance data that measured of report, this optimization and test post can contain the additional performance data in addition, are for example reported to the data etc. of BSS website by mobile comm unit.In this manner, the field engineer can estimate the state of mobile comm unit with respect to serving BS broadcasts S website, need not the place, a unit that other staff is positioned at BSS50.For example, this optimization and test post can comprise the data from branching algorithm computing among the BSS50.When the field engineer moved this mobile comm unit in communication system 100, she can observe mobile comm unit mesh of getting over and the transfer parameters that is produced in real time.These data also are recorded among the OPT110, are used for later estimation, and since message generator 122 directly from memory 126 recovering information, so need not manual operation person at BSS50 with standard short message format input information.
For lot of advantages of the present invention, characteristics and scope widely, the equipment cost of Jiang Diing and finish the minimizing that mesh is optimized required human resources for example, those skilled in the art are easy to be understood fully from above-mentioned preferred embodiment and appending claims.
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1. a system is used for optimizing and the test mobile phone communication system, this mobile phone communication system comprises a base station system, this base station system has at least one base station controller and a plurality of base transceiver station, these base stations are connected to base station controller and provide wireless telephony communication services in relevant service coverage areas, it is characterized in that this system comprises:
A mobile comm unit, with at least one base station communication of a plurality of transceivers letter base station in have message handling ability; With
Optimize and test processor for one, be connected to base station controller, this optimization and test processor comprise a message generator and a data receiver, this is optimized and test processor is carried out the call follow function, between the call follow functional period, data sink receptivity data also are stored in it in memory, this performance data be by with at least one base station communications of a plurality of base transceiver stations in a mobile comm unit send.
2. system according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described optimization and test processor also comprise a storage medium that contains this memory.
3. a mesh website is optimized and tester, it is characterized in that, comprising:
Be used to produce optimization and test post and will optimize and send a device to a mesh serving base station system unit of communication system with detecting information;
A mobile comm unit, with this base station system unit communication, this mobile comm unit comprises receive to be optimized and the device of test post and will optimize the device that sends to the user with detecting information,
This optimization and test data comprise transfer parameters.
4. optimization according to claim 3 and tester is characterized in that this mobile comm unit also comprises the device that performance data is sent to the base station system unit;
This mesh website optimization and tester also comprise the device that receives data from the base station system unit; With
Be used to produce the device of optimization and test post, can operate producing optimization and test post.
5. a mesh website is optimized and method of testing, it is characterized in that, may further comprise the steps:
Produce one and optimize and the short text message of test, this message comprises the performance data of the measurement of real-time update.
Should optimize and test short text message and send to mobile comm unit; With
The performance data of the measurement in mobile comm unit display optimization and detecting information.
6. method according to claim 5 is characterized in that the performance data of measurement comprises transferring data.
7. method according to claim 6 is characterized in that, the step that produces optimization and test post comprises that generation contains the optimization and the test post of adjacent station table.
8. method according to claim 6 is characterized in that, also comprises from mobile comm unit receptivity data and the step of this performance data being returned mobile comm unit this optimization and test post.
9. method according to claim 6 is characterized in that, also is included in the step that the base station system unit is measured mobile comm unit and report performance data to this mobile comm unit in optimization and test post.
10. method according to claim 9, it is characterized in that, the performance data of measuring is time dependent, and this mobile comm unit is to shift between the mesh of wireless communication system, the transfer of the mobile comm unit between the mesh of the performance data wireless communication system of measurement and changing.
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1. system, be used for optimizing and the test mobile phone communication system, this mobile phone communication system comprises a base station system, this base station system has at least one base station controller and a plurality of base transceiver station, these base stations are connected to base station controller and provide wireless telephony communication services in relevant service coverage areas, it is characterized in that this system comprises:
A mobile comm unit, with at least one base station communications of a plurality of base transceiver stations in have the message transfer capability; With
Optimize and test processor for one, be connected to base station controller, this optimization and test processor comprise a message generator and a data receiver.
2. according to the system of claim 1, it is characterized in that this optimization and test processor also comprise a storage medium.
3. a mesh website is optimized and tester, it is characterized in that, comprising:
Be used to produce optimization and test post and will optimize the device that sends a base station system unit of serving into a mesh of communication system with test post to; With
A mobile comm unit, with this base station system unit communication, this mobile comm unit comprises the device that receives optimization and test post and will optimize the device that sends to the user with test post.
4. optimize and tester according to the described mesh website of claim 3, it is characterized in that, this optimizations and test post comprise at least following data set one of them: mesh name, mesh number, frequency, power level, channel status and adjacent the station are shown.
5. mesh website according to claim 3 is optimized and tester, it is characterized in that this mobile comm unit also comprises the device that performance data is sent to the base station system unit;
This mesh website optimization and tester also comprise the device that receives data from the base station system unit; With
Be used to produce and optimize and the device of test post can produce optimization and the test post that comprises performance data.
6. the method that the mesh website is optimized and tested is characterized in that, may further comprise the steps:
Produce and optimize and test post;
This will change excellent and test post sends a mobile comm unit to; And
Show this optimization and test post at mobile comm unit.
7. method according to claim 6 is characterized in that, the step that produces optimization and test post comprises short text message of generation.
8. according to the method for claim 6, it is characterized in that, produce to optimize and the step of test post comprises and produces an optimization and a test post that contains in the following data set at least one group: mesh name, mesh number, frequency, power level, channel status and adjacent station are shown.
9. method according to claim 6 is characterized in that, also comprises from the step of mobile comm unit receptivity data and with performance data sending back to mobile comm unit optimization and test post.
10. method according to claim 6 is characterized in that, also is included in the step that the base station system unit is measured the mobile comm unit performance data and performance data reported to mobile comm unit in optimization and test post.
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