The detection method of down link spreading code and device in the time division mobile communication system
Technical field
The invention discloses and be used for method and apparatus joint-detection, that improved in a kind of time division mobile communication system.Exactly, the invention discloses a kind of method and apparatus that in the joint detection process of time division mobile communication system, detects the spreading code that the present means of employing can not directly obtain in the down link.
Background technology
The present invention can be used for adopting those CDMA mobile communication system of training sequence and associated detection technique, includes but not limited to the TD-SCDMA mobile communication system.The present invention is that example describes with the TD-SCDMA system mainly when disclosing relevant technical scheme.But should be noted that the present invention also comprises those CDMA mobile communication system that other has used training sequence and associated detection technique.
For example, such mobile communication system also includes, but are not limited to Chinese T SM system (the visible Chinese aerogram standard group of technical standard, i.e. disclosed relevant technologies file among the CWTS); And the low spreading rate mobile communication system of UMTS wireless access system time division multiplexing (is TDD-LCR, 1.28Mcps), it is open that its technological document is disclosed in the technology that 3G (Third Generation) Moblie member plan (3GPP) done, and can download in the www.3gpp.org of the website of 3GPP.
For example, in the TD-SCDMA mobile communication system, relevant time-domain is divided into each time slot; TDD and tdma system also are not always the case.In up link and down link, except that two special time slots (descending pilot frequency time slot and uplink pilot time slot), also have some to be used for the business time-slot of transfer of data.And involved in the present invention, only be the time slot of down link.
Because TD-SCDMA has adopted CDMA technology, its spreading factor S may be up to 16, therefore can carry 16 data bursts (burst) in each business time-slot at most.Relevant burst structure as shown in fig. 1.The data symbol that transmits in a burst (data symbol) comes by channel code (or claiming spreading code) expansion.But, except relevant transmission data, each burst also contains a training sequence.In each sub-district, system has determined for example 16 training sequences, and distinguishes different subscriber equipmenies with these training sequences.Adopting the purpose of training sequence mainly is for making recipient's (being subscriber equipment) corresponding signal impulse response of estimating down-ward link (CIR).Can divide equally input signal on demand with these channel estimation values.In addition, these channel estimation values also are to carry out the necessary input value of joint-detection (i.e. multiple access interference cancellation in the district), and this also is one of characteristic of TD-SCDMA system.
For making joint-detection more accurate and more efficient, need know following content:
Is (1) which spreading code used for the place time slot? in other words, although which sign indicating number is received all spreading codes by subscriber equipment and all is used to carry out the transmission of downstream signal for several users equipment in the time slot in down link, but owing in the TD-SCDMA system, adopted the technology of beam shaping, some specific subscriber equipmenies possibly can't receive power level sufficiently high, with certain or some relevant received signals of spreading code.
(2) corresponding to each use/channel impulse response of the spreading code that receives.
A method that makes subscriber equipment obtain above-mentioned information is to set up man-to-man corresponding relation between a training sequence and the spreading code.Subscriber equipment will determine whether to detect a training sequence.Detection method for example can be the threshold determination method, adopts the channel estimation value (although this value has comprised the composition of noise) corresponding to each training sequence.In this way, when detecting a training sequence, corresponding spreading code has just obtained, because the two has relation one to one.
In the TSM standard, definite relation is arranged between training sequence and the spreading code.But, the two is not always man-to-man relation.Therefore, can't amplify out the conclusion of having used certain spreading code naturally according to detecting this fact of certain training sequence.
Come further this to be illustrated with two examples below:
According to the notion (common midambleconcept) of sharing training sequence in the TSM 05.02V3.1.0 standard, a training sequence can be corresponding to all spreading codes (for example reaching 16) in a time slot.But, these spreading codes are also nonessential all uses at the same time.
Another widely used notion is so-called in the TSM 05.02 V3.1.0 standard " the training sequence notion of acquiescence ".According to this notion, a kind of scheme is that a training sequence is associated with two spreading codes, and that is to say has 8 training sequences in a time slot, thereby each training sequence is relevant with 2 spreading codes.This corresponding relation of the two has been shown among Fig. 2.According to the normal process of TSM, subscriber equipment can determine that spreading code c (1) uses in the process that detects training sequence m (1).Whether but, do not provide set step to detect the spreading code c (2) relevant with same training sequence m (1) in the present TSM standard is used.Therefore, subscriber equipment is not known and is carried out all required information of joint-detection effectively.
Illustrated among Fig. 2 when K=8, the relation of 8 training sequences and spreading code, wherein each training sequence is relevant with two spreading codes.
In above-mentioned two examples, relevant spreading code is used in the transmission course really, but because they are not to concern one to one with relevant training sequence, so the state of this use can not show intuitively.Cause the another one reason of this situation to be, the user mode that detects spreading code can take more system resources.Owing to can't learn the user mode of spreading code, so the efficient of joint-detection is lower.The problem that the present invention faced is not limited only to the TD-SCDMA system, and it also can appear at any mobile communication system, as long as these systems have adopted associated detection technique, and estimates corresponding physical channel impulse response with training sequence.If there are not clear and definite, ready-made means to know which spreading code is being used at present, and these spreading codes with which detected training sequence are associated, and relevant joint-detection can not carried out very efficiently.
Up to now, whether the method that neither one is ready-made is used for detecting the existing above-mentioned spreading code of relevant mobile communication system and is being used.
Summary of the invention
Whether be head it off, the present invention proposes the notion of " blind coding detection ", describe spreading code and be used.Adopt blind coding detection method of the present invention, can " see " that existing training sequence detection method can't detected spreading code.The present invention's blind coding described here refer to all spreading codes that may relate to, both comprised the spreading code that those are being used, also comprise the spreading code that those are not used.
Therefore, an object of the present invention is to detect the spreading code in all uses, to carry out joint-detection better.
One aspect of the present invention has provided a kind of method, adopts training sequence and joint-detection means, detects the operating position of downstream spread spectrum code in the mobile communication system, comprises the following steps:
(1) when the subscriber equipment connecting system, subscriber equipment is implemented down-going synchronous, realize with received signal in all downstream spread spectrum code synchronously;
(2) in the channel allocation process, obtain employed spreading factor in the current time slots;
(3) detect the maximum number of training sequence used in used training sequence method and the broadcast channel;
(4) the channel impulse responses of employed each training sequence code in the detection channel evaluation process;
(5) judge whether there is one-to-one relationship between described training sequence and the spreading code;
(6), then be received power corresponding to the spreading code of this training sequence with the corresponding received power of relevant training sequence if the result in step (5) is a "Yes";
(7) if the result in step (5) is a "No", then go to step (8);
(8) carry out spreading code and detect, method is: the spreading code that received signal and each is to be measured carries out relevant, obtains coefficient correlation; With described coefficient correlation in the value that the data symbol is averaged the back gained as the input value of making comparisons with threshold value; If this value has met or exceeded a given threshold value, judge then that relevant spreading code is used by this downstream signal;
(9) spreading code that repeats step (8) detects, up to all spreading codes all there being a result of determination;
(10), edit the correspondence table of all spreading codes that using corresponding to relevant training sequence according to the result of step (9);
(11) will be mapped to corresponding spreading code to the channel estimation value of each detected training sequence, to estimate the received power of each spreading code.
According to another aspect of the present invention, in the step (8) of said method, the detection that spreading code is done is carried out according to time sequencing, perhaps adopted multichannel technology to carry out simultaneously.
According to a further aspect of the present invention, in above-mentioned method, if have relation of interdependence between described training sequence and the spreading code, then subscriber equipment can be according to the relation of interdependence between detected spreading code and training sequence and the spreading code, judge the existence of a series of spreading codes, comprise the existence that those do not have direct detected spreading code.
According to a further aspect of the present invention, in above method, will be judged to be the received power of this training sequence and the merchant of employed spreading code number about the received power of each spreading code of a training sequence.
Another aspect of the present invention has provided that subscriber equipment comprises the device that the down link spreading code detects in a kind of time division mobile communication system:
(1) at least one correlator is used to accept a received signal and at least one spreading code, and described received signal and described spreading code is carried out relevant, and the correlated results of gained is outputed at least one averager;
(2) at least one averager is used to accept the dateout of described correlator, and should receive data the data symbol is averaged, and described output result with respect to a spreading code is delivered to a comparator;
(3) at least one comparator, be used for and compare corresponding to mean receiving power and predetermined threshold value of a spreading code, if described average received equals or is higher than described predetermined threshold value, then subscriber equipment judges that described spreading code is used.
According to another aspect of the present invention, can comprise a correlator in the said equipment, this correlator sequentially carries out relevant with the spreading code of a predetermined series described received signal respectively.
Also can comprise correlator, averager and comparator that number equates in the said equipment, described number is the sum of described spreading code; Sign indicating number power detection to all spreading codes is carried out simultaneously through multichannel.
According to another aspect of the present invention, in said apparatus, subscriber equipment is according to the relation of interdependence between detected spreading code and described training sequence and the employed spreading code, judge that at least one undetected spreading code existence is used, the received power of the described spreading code that is not detected equals the received power corresponding to spreading code same training sequence, that be detected.
Description of drawings
The data burst structure of Traffic Channel in the mobile communication system of the present invention has been shown among Fig. 1.Described data burst can be arranged in one 5 milliseconds any one of 7 time slots of subframe, promptly is positioned at time slot 0 to time slot 6.
Among the figure, GP represents to protect time slot, is 16 chips (CP).
Fig. 2 shows when K=8 relevant situation between 8 training sequences and spreading code.Wherein m represents training sequence, and c represents spreading code; Each training sequence is relevant with two spreading codes respectively.
Fig. 3 shows the present invention and adopts correlation method to carry out the structural representation of the detector of spreading code detection.Among the figure, CDl to CDK represents to detect spreading code just in use.
The device schematic diagram that carries out interdependency check (mutual dependency check) among the present invention has been shown among Fig. 4 when having interdependency between training sequence and the corresponding spreading code.
Embodiment
Detect for implementing blind coding, need use the data field (data field) of the data burst shown in Fig. 1.Method of the present invention comprises carries out associative operation to the signal that is received and all spreading codes (" blind coding " comprises those spreading codes that existing training sequence detection technique can't strictly detect).Whether if associative operation has obtained a significative results, promptly resulting coefficient correlation has exceeded a certain threshold value, can judge in view of the above then whether these spreading codes are being used, should be its output to be used for joint-detection.
This testing process comprises the following steps:
1, at initial synchronizing step, carry out the down-going synchronous of signal.That is to say, all downstream spread spectrum codes of subscriber equipment and received signal are carried out synchronously.This step has guaranteed the sync correlation between subscriber equipment and all possible spreading code.
2, by channel assignment step, the user learns which spreading factor (SF) is used in current time slots.
3, according to the information of broadcast channel (BCCH), detect the possible maximum number of used exercise sequence distributing method and training sequence.
4, in channel estimation steps, estimate the channel impulse response of each used training sequence.
5, if the mapping of training sequence and spreading code is not unique in above-mentioned steps 3, if and subscriber equipment can not know that clearly any spreading code corresponding to present used training sequence, then starts blind coding and detects step according to detected training sequence.
6, can carry out abreast simultaneously the detection of each spreading code, also can sequentially carry out.Figure 3 illustrates the structural representation of the code detectors that is adopted.At first received signal and spreading code that each is to be checked are carried out associative operation.(352+352)/SF data symbol (data symbol) arranged in each data burst (burst), comprise L1 signaling bit (signalling bits), referring to Fig. 1.So, in each data burst, have 44 data symbols at least.Correlated results (being coefficient correlation) will be used as the input signal that threshold value is differentiated after the data symbol is averaged.If relevant output valve is higher than a given threshold value, can think that then corresponding spreading code just is used in downstream signal.
7, if there is interdependency in the operating position of each spreading code, for example each spreading code is a kind of enforceable situation with continuous use of a clear and definite order, exist too after step finishes even then this interdependency detects at described spreading code, also should correspondingly use in the detection step of back in the knowledge of this interdependency of this acquisition.Fig. 4 shows the knowledge of this respect.For example, if in testing process, detect spreading code 1,3 and 4 are being used, also know simultaneously setting according to network, each spreading code should forcibly use continuously, even, can infer that also spreading code 2 also is used because a variety of causes fails to detect this spreading code 2 in this testing process described in step 6.
8, repeat above-mentioned process, to obtain the operating position information of all spreading codes.
9, by this spreading code detector and training sequence detection information are combined, can obtain employed all spread spectrum code table in current time slots.
10, will be mapped to corresponding spreading code with the channel estimation value of each detected training sequence, just can estimate received power corresponding to each spreading code.Because all power corresponding to a spreading code training sequence, in using should be identical, then can be estimated as the merchant of the received power of training sequence divided by the estimated number gained of the sign indicating number of current use to the received power of each yard.
By said method, can obtain the required useful information of further joint-detection.
The major advantage of above-mentioned blind coding detection method of the present invention is that it can improve user side carries out joint-detection under following situation ability effectively, described situation refers to that used spreading code is not corresponding one by one with used training sequence, and whether current these spreading codes that can not provide clearly are being used (prior art will expect that this information is to expend time in very much and expend system resource).And described this situation always exists in present TD-SCDMA standard (as TSM and UTRATDD-LCR).
Fig. 3 shows the structural representation that the present invention adopts a spreading code detector of correlation technique.In Fig. 3, this device adopts is the method for the signal relevant simultaneously with all possible a plurality of spreading codes (promptly being correlated with abreast) that will be received.According to the method, each spread-spectrum code signals is walked in independent " passage ", is differentiated up to this spreading code to be " use " or " not using ".
According to another aspect of the present invention, this device also can include only a correlator, an averager and a comparator, above-mentioned in this case to each spreading code relevant, average and compare operation carry out one by one.
Another kind of situation is, device of the present invention also can comprise " mixing " scheme of above-mentioned two class devices, being that above-mentioned relevant, average and compare operation is that order is carried out in some device part, then is that (abreast promptly) carries out simultaneously in other device part.
Correspondingly, method of the present invention also can adopt the method that is formed by above-mentioned two class schemes " mixing ", and is promptly relevant, on average and relatively wait that some step is in sequence in the step, and other part is then parallel carries out.
Illustrated among Fig. 4 between training sequence and spreading code and had under the complementary situation situation of the interdependency check that the present invention carried out.By this check, find that some spreading code that is not detected still exists.Therefore, this checking procedure helps to improve the accuracy rate of joint-detection.Fine rule among the figure is represented detected spreading code, and thick line is represented not by direct detected spreading code.
Above content has exemplarily provided method and apparatus of the present invention.Yet what the disclosing of this technology instruction provided is complete scheme of the present invention and some examples, not limit the present invention the form of ownership that can take.Those skilled in the art need not spend performing creative labour and just can envision other execution mode that should belong in the scope of the invention according to instruction of the present invention.
Involved some terms among the present invention program:
BCCH: broadcast channel
CIR: channel impulse response
CDMA: code division multiple access
TD-SCDMA: time division multiplexing S-CDMA
TSM: the TDS-CDMA system (TD-SCDMA) under the global system for mobile communications (GSM)
CWTS: Chinese wireless communication standard group
TDD: time division multiplexing
UL: upward signal
DL: downstream signal
TDMA: time division multiple access
JD: joint-detection