A kind of method of remote maintenance NodeB
Technical field
The present invention relates to the maintenance of wireless network, relate in particular to a kind of method of remote maintenance NodeB.
Background technology
Along with development of wireless communication devices, communication network becomes increasingly complex and is huge, and the maintainability of network is had higher requirement.3G (3rd Generation Mobile Communication, 3G (Third Generation) Moblie) network is at WCDMA (Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA access system), CDMA2000 (Code Division Multiple Access2000, CDMA 2000), TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronization Code Division Multiple Access, the time division multiplexing S-CDMA) maintenance channel between regulation base station controller of the agreement in the communication system and the base station adopts IPOA (IP over ATM, IP on the ATM) form, but and the mode of setting up of the maintenance channel between undefined base station controller and the base station.
Figure 1 shows that the protocol architecture schematic diagram when NodeB is set up the IPOA maintenance channel, the prerequisite of IPOA maintenance channel operate as normal is all correctly configuration of each layer among the figure, the configuration that is to say base station side will be mated fully with the configuration of side of base station controller, and this data configuration by the attendant is difficult to guarantee, particularly when building a station, can not guarantee that the initial configuration and the side of base station controller of base station side are in full accord.
For addressing the above problem, application number is 01136795.4, and name is called in the Chinese invention patent prospectus of " a kind of method for building up of the default maintenance channel based on the IPOA passage " discloses a kind of method of setting up automatically based on the maintenance channel of IPOA between base station and base station controller.This method does not need to carry out in advance any data configuration in base station side, but disposes by the default IPOA that obtains self to side of base station controller, thereby sets up a default IPOA maintenance channel.This method needs based on following prerequisite: the one, transmit based on ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode, asynchronous transfer mode) between base station and the base station controller; The 2nd, set up physical connection between base station and the base station controller.
In the method, the physical link testing mechanism and the Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) of bottom adopted in the base station when not detecting available IPOA passage, sets up the default maintenance channel based on IPOA automatically.Because having set up physical layer between base station and the base station controller is connected, this physical layer connects can be based on UNI (User Network Interface, User Network Interface) mode or based on IMA (InverseMultiplexing on ATM, Inverse Multiplexing over ATM) mode.Which kind of mode the base station can be by what intercept that cell on the link judges employing, thereby obtain the physical link data of base station controller configuration, so just can set up default permanent virtual and connect (PVC), agreement Virtual Channel Identifier (VPI)=1/ virtual channel identifier (VCI)=33.At this above default PVC, the BOOTP request is initiated with broadcast mode in the base station, by base station controller system's centralized operation maintenance console is delivered in this request, the centralized operation maintenance console is given base station assigns IP address, insert in the BOOTP respond packet, by base station controller the base station is delivered in this BOOTP response, last base station gets access to the IP address of distributing to it, create the IPOA passage according to this IP address and default PVC, thus the foundation of complete operation maintenance channel.
After NodeB adopts said method to set up the IPOA maintenance channel, the protocol hierarchy complexity when using the IPOA maintenance channel, any one deck is because configuration or other reason occur unusually all can causing the IPOA maintenance channel to lose efficacy.The BOOTP agreement has following limitation on using in addition:
1, when the physical layer connection is based on UNI/IMA, the UNI/IMA configuration of opposite end can be intercepted out in the base station, when the physical layer connection is based on Fractional ATM (burst ATM), Fractional ATM (burst ATM) configuration of opposite end can't be intercepted out in the base station, therefore when the IUB mouth adopted Fractional ATM configuration, the BOOTP agreement was limited on using.
2, the BOOTP agreement arrange default IPOA maintenance channel must be configured in it seems the link of E1/T1 minimum from the base station end on, this has brought very big inconvenience for IUB mouth data configuration.
3, in the BOOTP flow process, it is that icp cell by detecting in FIFO (First In First Out, the first in first out) buffer is realized that the base station carries out that IMA intercepts.Under the existing IMA configuring condition of this link, its FIFO will in time be read and be emptied, and therefore carry out occurring possibly when IMA intercepts FIFO and will detect less than icp cell for empty, and cause IMA to intercept the situation of failing or not listening to smallest link.For the validity that guarantees that intercept cell the base station in the BOOTP flow process, just can not remove to read FIFO, service disconnection is unavoidable like this.
4, whether needing to start the BOOTP flow process can not be by the remote subscriber control of side of base station controller, can only be by base station side according to its state independent judgment, its judged result wish frequent and user is opposing, often started the BOOTP flow process when the user is undesirable, the BOOTP flow process perhaps delays to start when the user wishes.
Summary of the invention
The invention provides a kind of method of remote maintenance NodeB,, have circumscribed problem in the application in order to solve the protocol hierarchy complexity of the IPOA maintenance channel that exists in the prior art.
The present invention is by the following technical solutions:
A kind of method of remote maintenance NodeB by the E1/T1 transmission, comprises step between base station and the base station controller:
A, on the E1/T1 of base station side and side of base station controller port, dispose the corresponding relation of High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) passage and idle time slot or idle bit;
B, base station controller send to the base station with in maintenance information insertion and pairing idle time slot of the normal E1/T1 port of this base station connection status or the idle bit by described HDLC passage;
The HDLC receiving register of E1/T1 port is read in C, base station, receives and carries out corresponding operation after the maintenance information.
Among the described step C, the HDLC receiving register of E1/T1 port is periodically read in the base station.
Also comprise step behind the described step C:
D, base station send to base station controller with the object information of executable operations by the HDLC passage, and base station controller reads this object information by the HDLC receiving register.
Described base station controller periodically reads the HDLC receiving register of E1/T1 port.
In the described steps A, when starting, base station and base station controller on the E1/T1 port, dispose the corresponding relation of HDLC passage and idle time slot or idle bit by hdlc controller.
Described idle time slot is the 16th time slot of E1.
Described idle bit is Sa bit or the DL bit of T1 or the signaling information bit of T1 of E1.
Described maintenance information is for the order base station resets or order base station initiated BOOTP flow process or to base station informing base station controller configure order code word.
Adopt technical scheme of the present invention to have following beneficial effect:
The present invention utilizes idle bit or the idle time slot on the E1/T1 frame to set up a physical link as the maintenance channel between base station and the base station controller, utilize this maintenance channel to carry out remote maintenance to the base station, the present invention does not influence the opening and the IPOA maintenance channel of existing IUB interface, realized that the E1/T1 link is normal, the base station gets final product the target of remote maintenance, as an optional maintenance channel, cost performance is very high.
Description of drawings
Fig. 1 is a protocol architecture schematic diagram of setting up the IPOA maintenance channel;
Protocol architecture schematic diagram when Fig. 2 sets up maintenance channel for the present invention;
Fig. 3 carries out the flow chart of remote maintenance to NodeB for the present invention.
Embodiment
The present invention is described in further detail below in conjunction with Figure of description.
As shown in Figure 2, the method of the invention utilizes idle bit or the idle time slot on the E1/T1 frame to set up a physical link as the maintenance channel between base station and the base station controller in physical layer, utilize this maintenance channel to carry out remote maintenance, thereby increased a simple and reliable maintenance channel for the remote maintenance of base station the base station.
Though the defeated ATM exchanged form of using of the IUB oral instructions of NodeB, the transmission network of IUB mouth is atm network not necessarily.At the 3G networking initial stage, the IUB mouth of most of base station all will be with E1/T1 over SDH (E1/T1 over Synchronous Digital Hierarchy, E1/T1 on the SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy)) etc. TDM (time division multiplexing, time division multiplexing) mode is transmitted.According to agreement G.804, in the 3G system, the 16th time slot of E1 is idle, is not used for transmitting ATM cell; According to agreement G.704, some untapped bits itself are arranged in the frame structure of E1/T1, for example the DL bit of the Sa bit among the E1, T1 and signaling information compare top grade.
The present invention utilizes idle bit or the idle time slot on the above-mentioned E1/T1 frame to set up a physical link as the simple-to-maintain passage between base station and base station controller, and then directly transmit specific maintenance information by this physical link, this maintenance information can be that the order base station side resets, starts the BOOTP flow process, or to the maintenance information of its informing base station controller side configuration, thereby realize remote maintenance to the base station.
The present mostly built-in HDLC of E1/T1 chip (the high level data link control that uses, High-Level Data Link Control) controller, utilize this hdlc controller, transmitter side can insert the load that maintenance information constitutes the HDLC link on the idle time slot of E1/T1 or idle bit, utilize hdlc controller to send, utilize hdlc controller that maintenance information is extracted at receiver side, these all are the existing capabilitys of E1/T1 chip, and the PEB22554 chip of present widely used infineon company just provides above-mentioned functions.Utilize this HDLC passage just can between base station and base station controller, transmit specific maintenance information, realize remote maintenance the base station.
As shown in Figure 3, when base station and base station controller startup, on the E1/T1 of base station side and side of base station controller port, dispose the corresponding relation of HDLC passage and idle time slot or idle bit respectively by hdlc controller; Then, base station and side of base station controller start the task that one-period reads the HDLC receiving register of each E1/T1 port respectively, and carry out corresponding the processing when receiving specific order code word.
When the user need control the base station, maintenance information order code word is write in the HDLC transmitter register of the normal E1/T1 of any bar state that is connected with this base station at side of base station controller, send by hdlc controller, for example the command code of base station resets is " 1010101010101010 "; After base station side is received this maintenance information order code word, carry out corresponding the processing, and the corresponding code word of success or failure response write the HDLC transmitter register, the success response code word is " 1010101011111111 ", the failure response code word is " 1101110111011101 ", sends by hdlc controller; After side of base station controller is received the corresponding code word of this response, with the remote subscriber of execution result informing base station controller side.
Maintenance channel of the present invention can only single-stage be controlled, base station for cascade, subordinate base station can not be controlled by RNC, can only control by upper-level BTS, at this time upper-level BTS just is equal to RNC in the foregoing description, same foundation can above-mentioned maintenance channel between the superior and the subordinate base station, directly sends maintenance command by upper-level BTS to subordinate base station, and prerequisite is that the IP remote maintenance function of upper-level BTS self is normal.
The present invention requires the transmission network of IUB mouth to be necessary for the TDM transmission network of E1/T1.For the idle time slot that can not transmit E1/T1 and the transmission network of idle bit, for example atm network and IP network, the present invention is inapplicable.So the present invention can not substitute IPOA maintenance channel of the prior art, but replenish as one of this maintenance channel.
Below only the present invention will be described with preferred embodiment, and those skilled in the art can carry out various changes and modification to the present invention and not break away from the spirit and scope of the present invention.Like this, if of the present invention these are revised and modification belongs within the scope of claim of the present invention and equivalent technologies thereof, then the present invention also is intended to comprise these changes and modification interior.