EP0767996A1 - Procede d'estimation d'une erreur de phase residuelle sur les echantillons d'un signal numerique demodule, et procede de correction correspondant - Google Patents
Procede d'estimation d'une erreur de phase residuelle sur les echantillons d'un signal numerique demodule, et procede de correction correspondantInfo
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- EP0767996A1 EP0767996A1 EP95924350A EP95924350A EP0767996A1 EP 0767996 A1 EP0767996 A1 EP 0767996A1 EP 95924350 A EP95924350 A EP 95924350A EP 95924350 A EP95924350 A EP 95924350A EP 0767996 A1 EP0767996 A1 EP 0767996A1
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- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
- H04L27/00—Modulated-carrier systems
- H04L27/18—Phase-modulated carrier systems, i.e. using phase-shift keying
- H04L27/22—Demodulator circuits; Receiver circuits
- H04L27/233—Demodulator circuits; Receiver circuits using non-coherent demodulation
- H04L27/2332—Demodulator circuits; Receiver circuits using non-coherent demodulation using a non-coherent carrier
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- H04L27/2601—Multicarrier modulation systems
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- H04L27/2657—Carrier synchronisation
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- H04L27/2601—Multicarrier modulation systems
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- H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
- H04L27/00—Modulated-carrier systems
- H04L27/0014—Carrier regulation
- H04L2027/0024—Carrier regulation at the receiver end
- H04L2027/0026—Correction of carrier offset
- H04L2027/0032—Correction of carrier offset at baseband and passband
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- H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
- H04L27/00—Modulated-carrier systems
- H04L27/0014—Carrier regulation
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- H04L2027/0044—Control loops for carrier regulation
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- H04L2027/0065—Frequency error detectors
Definitions
- the field of the invention is that of the reception of digital signals, and in particular, but not exclusively, of signals transmitted using a plurality of carrier frequencies transmitted simultaneously.
- the invention applies in particular to receivers of signals transmitted according to the technique of frequency division multiplexing (in English: Frequency Division Multiplex (FDM)), and for example to receivers of the COFDM system (Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division
- FDM Frequency Division Multiplex
- COFDM system Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division
- receiving a digital signal essentially consists in demodulating a transmitted signal, using a local frequency transposition oscillator, then in recovering after filtering and sampling the digital values in phase and in quadrature.
- Channel decoding of these digital values is then carried out, according to the coding method used on transmission. If the transmission uses several carriers, an intermediate operation to recover the symbol assigned to each carrier is carried out, by selective filtering or by the application of an adequate mathematical transformation.
- CAF automatic frequency control
- channel decoding generally implements soft decision decoding techniques, such as the Viterbi method. These techniques generally make it possible to reconstruct the source data sequence, even if some demodulated values are false.
- Yet another objective of the invention is to provide such a method, making it possible to limit the source decoding processing, in particular as regards the correction of errors.
- a method for estimating a residual phase error on the data samples of a demodulated digital signal comprising the following steps: - hard decision of the value of each of said samples, by association with each of said samples of the data element most likely, among a constellation of data elements forming a modulation alphabet; determining a phase shift between each of said samples and its associated data item; - estimation of information representative of said residual phase error, from the phase shift corresponding to at least two samples (typically: 50 samples).
- the invention makes it possible to determine the phase shift undergone by each demodulated sample, due to the slight shifts of the local oscillator (phase noise), by a "raw” analysis of these samples, before the decoding proper. This allows on the one hand to compensate for this phase noise (which the estimation of the response of the transmission channel does not allow), and on the other hand to act on the local oscillator.
- said estimation step comprises a first step of weighting said phase shifts, as a function of a confidence coefficient associated with each of said samples, delivered by a channel estimator module (channel response and / or power of the noise).
- the confidence coefficient is, for example, the squared module of the channel estimate used for the demodulation of the sample.
- said estimation step also includes a second step of weighting said phase shifts, as a function of information representative of the overall noise power, delivered by a noise spectrum evaluation module.
- said step estimation includes a step of calculating the equation
- ⁇ 11 TM is said information representative of the residual phase error
- ⁇ 2 is the overall noise power
- C k is the offset determined for carrier k
- p k is the confidence coefficient associated with the carrier k (corresponding substantially to the signal / noise ratio).
- said phase shift is assimilated to its imaginary part, its real part being systematically fixed equal to 1.
- said estimation step comprises a correction step, consisting in substantially accentuating said residual phase error, the accentuation increasing with said phase error.
- the aim of this correction step is to compensate for the underestimates of the phase shift which appear when this shift is large.
- said estimate preferably takes into account at least two samples corresponding to different carriers.
- said estimation step comprises a third weighting step, consisting in granting a confidence substantially inversely proportional to the distance of the data element considered from the center of the constellation.
- the further the data element is from the center the smaller the phase difference which separates it from its neighbor, which can lead, in the most unfavorable situations, to harsh false decisions, and therefore to false estimates of the phase shift.
- a simplified weighting method can consist in taking into account only symbols close to the center of the constellation.
- the estimation of the residual error according to the invention can be used in numerous ways, within the reception chain, and in particular for at least one of the operations belonging to the group comprising: - correction of the effect of said residual phase error on said samples; - - control of a local oscillator for demodulation of the received signal; correction of the demodulated signals in phase and in quadrature corresponding to the received signal; - control of soft decision processing on the value of said samples.
- the invention applies to a method for correcting the effect of a residual phase error on the data samples of a demodulated digital signal, comprising the following steps: - obtaining information ⁇ 11111 representative of said residual phase error, by the method of estimating a residual phase error according to the method described above; and rotation of said samples of e * J cesl ⁇ m , delivering corrected samples.
- said obtaining and rotation steps are repeated at least once on said corrected samples, so as to optimize the correction.
- FIG. 1 is a simplified block diagram of a receiver implementing the method of the invention
- FIG. 2 illustrates the states that the symbols of a 16-state modulation can take, and the effect of the phase shift
- - Figure 3 shows, in the form of a simplified flowchart, the estimation method of the invention, as implemented in Figure 1
- FIG. 4 presents an example of a function f of weighting as a function of the power of the noise, implemented in the method of FIG. 3
- FIG. 5 illustrates an example of a function g for correcting the effect of strong phase shifts
- FIG. 6 illustrates a method for correcting a residual phase error, implementing the method of FIG. 3, and implemented in the receiver of FIG. 1.
- the invention applies to the detection, in particular in view of its correction, of a residual phase error appearing during the demodulation of a digital signal, whether this signal is transmitted according to a single or multi-carrier technique , whatever the types of modulation (for example MDP4, MDP8, 16QAM, 64QAM, ...) and of demodulation (differential or coherent) implemented.
- modulation for example MDP4, MDP8, 16QAM, 64QAM, Certainly and of demodulation (differential or coherent) implemented.
- the first principle is the distribution of the information to be transmitted over a large number of carriers (for example 512 or 1024, over a band of 8
- the second principle of the COFDM system consists in correlating by a coding process consecutive information elements and in transmitting them to points distant from the time-frequency domain (technique of interleaving in time and in frequency). The remoteness of these points is chosen so as to ensure the statistical independence of the disturbances that they are likely to undergo during transmission.
- the coding used is for example of the convolutional type. It is advantageously associated with a decoding implementing an algorithm of
- the convolutional coder delivers complex values C k belonging to a modulation alphabet.
- the choice of the alphabet specifies the type of modulation used.
- the alphabet used is ⁇ 1 + i, 1 - i, -1 + i, -1 - i ⁇ .
- MDP4 modulation with 4 phase states
- Many other types of modulation can be used, such as MDP8, 16QAM, 64QAM modulations or trellis coding modulations according to the Ungerboeck method.
- Each carrier of each symbol is modulated by one of these complex values C k , k representing the index of the carrier.
- the channel decoder is supplied by metrics determined from the following corrected samples Z k :
- Z k Y k H k is with associated confidence corresponding substantially to:
- FIG. 1 is a simplified block diagram of a receiver implementing the method of the invention.
- the received signal 11 is firstly transposed into baseband, by the multiplier 12 controlled by the local oscillator 13, which delivers the transposition frequency f 0 . Then the transposed signal is filtered by a low-pass filter 14, and converted into a digital signal by a sampler 15. Then, a module 16 for generating the components in phase and in quadrature delivers the channels
- the channels I and Q are subjected to an FFT transformation 18, which delivers the samples 19 corresponding to each carrier Y k .
- This figure 2 illustrates the 16 states 21 j to 21 16 that the symbols of a 16-state modulation (16QAM for example) can take in the space of complexes defined by the two axes 22 j and 22 Q.
- the symbols received do not always correspond exactly to these original symbols 21 d to 21 16 .
- phase noise can cause a rotation of a phase shift angle ⁇ for all the carriers, which is not corrected by the estimation of the channel H k is .
- the noisy samples received Z k 23 j to 23 16 undergo a rotation of ⁇ , or, in other words, are multiplied by e JC .
- the element 24, belonging to the cloud 23 2 corresponds to the symbol 21 x .
- the original symbol 21 l5 which it will be assimilated in the case of conventional methods. Sensitivity to the phenomenon increases with the size of the alphabet.
- the receiver (figure 1) includes an additional module
- this module 114 for estimating the residual error 115 ⁇ , fed by the hard decisions Z k .
- the method implemented by this module is described below, in relation to FIG. 3.
- this module 114 takes into account a confidence coefficient 119 p k 2 , delivered by the module 110 for estimating the channel, and information ⁇ k 2 of overall noise power delivered by a conventional module
- the residual error ⁇ 115 can be used in several ways, simultaneously or not.
- the decoding of channel 125 is carried out on samples 126 not subject, or only slightly, to the residual phase error. As will be seen later, the treatment can be repeated, to further limit the effect of this residual phase error.
- the channel 125 decoding takes account of the ratio 126
- FIG. 3 presents, in the form of a simplified flowchart, the estimation method of the invention, as implemented in module 114.
- This method comprises first a step 31 of hard decision, consisting in associating to the sample Z k the value P k of the most probable modulation alphabet used, that is to say, with reference to Figure 2, the nearest value 21 j . Then, we determine (32) the phase shift ⁇ k between the sample
- phase shift can be limited to its imaginary part, which amounts to determining:
- an average is produced (34) over several phase shifts corresponding to distinct carriers of the same symbol (case of a multicarrier signal) and / or to several successive symbols over time, in order to obtain the information representative of the residual error.
- the correction step 33 can comprise four sub-steps, which can be implemented or not independently depending on the needs, the type of signal, the level of disturbance of the channel, the application (reception in mobiles for example ), etc.
- the processing can therefore include a first sub-step 36 of weighting as a function of a confidence coefficient ⁇ k delivered by the channel estimator. Indeed, it is desirable to attach greater importance to the values for which the channel is not too disturbed.
- This step 39 may for example consist in associating with the offset ⁇ the value g ( ⁇ ), the function g increasing the high offsets (in absolute value).
- FIG. 5 illustrates such a function g, in the case of a 64QAM modulation. It can be seen that a calculated phase shift of 5 ° is associated with the value 7.5 °.
- the invention makes it possible to correct the phase shift calculated according to this method.
- Such a correction method is illustrated in FIG. 6.
- the residual phase error ⁇ is firstly calculated (61), according to the method of FIG. 3, then a correction rotation 62 is carried out corresponding to the hard decisions. This amounts to multiplying the values Z k by e " J f .
- this processing can be repeated (63) at least once, ⁇ being smaller the second time, there appear fewer errors on the decisions hard. As a result, the estimate will be better.
- the correction steps can be adapted to each iteration.
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FR9407984A FR2721778B1 (fr) | 1994-06-23 | 1994-06-23 | Procédé d'estimation d'une erreur de phase résiduelle sur les échantillons d'un signal numérique démodulé, et procédé de correction correspondant. |
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PCT/FR1995/000825 WO1996000472A1 (fr) | 1994-06-23 | 1995-06-21 | Procede d'estimation d'une erreur de phase residuelle sur les echantillons d'un signal numerique demodule, et procede de correction correspondant |
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