EP1249146A1 - Recepteur de communications sans fil utilisant des symboles de canaux de messagerie rapide - Google Patents

Recepteur de communications sans fil utilisant des symboles de canaux de messagerie rapide

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EP1249146A1
EP1249146A1 EP01902103A EP01902103A EP1249146A1 EP 1249146 A1 EP1249146 A1 EP 1249146A1 EP 01902103 A EP01902103 A EP 01902103A EP 01902103 A EP01902103 A EP 01902103A EP 1249146 A1 EP1249146 A1 EP 1249146A1
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Farrokh Abrishmkar
Shimman Patel
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B7/00—Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field
    • H04B7/24—Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field for communication between two or more posts
    • H04B7/26—Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field for communication between two or more posts at least one of which is mobile
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W52/00—Power management, e.g. TPC [Transmission Power Control], power saving or power classes
    • H04W52/02—Power saving arrangements
    • H04W52/0209—Power saving arrangements in terminal devices
    • H04W52/0212—Power saving arrangements in terminal devices managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is master and terminal is slave
    • H04W52/0216—Power saving arrangements in terminal devices managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is master and terminal is slave using a pre-established activity schedule, e.g. traffic indication frame
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W52/00—Power management, e.g. TPC [Transmission Power Control], power saving or power classes
    • H04W52/02—Power saving arrangements
    • H04W52/0209—Power saving arrangements in terminal devices
    • H04W52/0212—Power saving arrangements in terminal devices managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is master and terminal is slave
    • H04W52/0219—Power saving arrangements in terminal devices managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is master and terminal is slave where the power saving management affects multiple terminals
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W68/00—User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W52/00—Power management, e.g. TPC [Transmission Power Control], power saving or power classes
    • H04W52/02—Power saving arrangements
    • H04W52/0209—Power saving arrangements in terminal devices
    • H04W52/0225—Power saving arrangements in terminal devices using monitoring of external events, e.g. the presence of a signal
    • H04W52/0245—Power saving arrangements in terminal devices using monitoring of external events, e.g. the presence of a signal according to signal strength
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02D—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES [ICT], I.E. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AIMING AT THE REDUCTION OF THEIR OWN ENERGY USE
    • Y02D30/00—Reducing energy consumption in communication networks
    • Y02D30/70—Reducing energy consumption in communication networks in wireless communication networks

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  • This invention relates to wireless communications systems. Specifically, the present invention relates to receivers for demodulating quick paging channels in communications systems employing more than one paging channel to facilitate offline processing.
  • Wireless communications systems are employed in a variety of demanding applications ranging from search and rescue to Internet applications. Such applications require reliable, cost-effective, and space-efficient communications systems with accompanying wireless phones having maximum battery life and associated standby time.
  • Cellular telecommunications systems such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) communications systems
  • CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
  • BTS's Base Station Transceiver Subsystems
  • Signals transmitted by the mobile stations are received by a BTS and often relayed to a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) having a Base Station Controller (BSC).
  • MSC Mobile Switching Center
  • BSC Base Station Controller
  • the MSC routes the signal to a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) or to another wireless phone.
  • PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
  • a signal may be transmitted from the PSTN to a wireless phone via a base station or BTS and an MSC.
  • PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
  • Wireless communications networks often employ various channels, such as paging channels and traffic channels, as disclosed in the IS-95 cellular telephone standard, to facilitate communications between a wireless phone and a BTS.
  • Paging messages are transmitted over a paging channel by a BTS to an associated wireless phone to indicate an incoming call.
  • a sequence of service negotiation messages is transmitted between the wireless phone and an associated BTS to establish a traffic channel.
  • a traffic channel typically supports voice and data traffic.
  • a wireless telephone continuously monitors the paging channel for pages indicative of incoming calls. The receiver of the wireless phone remains on while signal processing circuitry within the wireless phone demodulates the paging channel to determine if a page was sent. Unfortunately, the receiver draws excess power, which significantly limits phone battery life.
  • Systems for minimizing wireless phone power consumption are often employed in the wireless phone and/or accompanying network to extend phone battery life, i.e., standby time.
  • some newer wireless phones operate in slotted mode.
  • slotted mode the receiver of the wireless phone is periodically activated in accordance with predetermined paging slots established in accordance with the IS-95 telecommunications standard.
  • An associated BTS transmits pages during the paging slots.
  • Wireless phone standby time is extended by periodically powering-up the receiver and demodulating the paging channel rather than continuously demodulating the full paging channel as done previously.
  • paging channel messages are often long and require extensive processing, which increases phone, power consumption and reduces battery life and associated standby time.
  • a pair of quick paging channel (QPCH) symbols is periodically transmitted to the wireless phone.
  • the quick paging channel symbols i.e., quick pages, indicate the presence or absence of an incoming call to be established on a forthcoming traffic channel (F-CCCH).
  • F-CCCH forthcoming traffic channel
  • the QPCH symbols arrive in pairs at 9600 bits per second (bps) or 4800 bps.
  • the time slots at which the QPCH symbols are transmitted from an associated BTS are known by the wireless phone, which periodically powers-up the receiver at corresponding time slots.
  • the wireless phone receiver powers-up, samples the QPCH, then immediately powers-down the receiver and processes the QPCH sample offline (when the receiver is off). Subsequent analysis of the QPCH sample or samples indicates whether the wireless phone should power-up the receiver and demodulate the paging channel to receive an incoming page associated with an incoming call.
  • Use of the QCPH helps minimize receiver activation time and the instances of complete paging channel demodulation, enabling a reduction in wireless phone power consumption and an associated extension in phone battery life.
  • existing systems and methods for demodulating the QPCH and deciding whether or not to process the subsequent full paging channel based on the QPCH are undesirably large, expensive, consume excess power, and are generally inefficient.
  • the inventive system is adapted for use with a wireless communications system employing a quick paging channel and a primary paging channel.
  • the system includes a first mechanism for selectively processing a first quick paging channel symbol and/or a second quick paging channel symbol of a received signal based on a first decision parameter and/or a second decision parameter and providing a first indication in response thereto.
  • a second mechanism processes the first quick paging channel symbol in response to the first indication and provides a second indication in response thereto indicating whether a forthcoming primary paging channel signal should be received and processed.
  • a third mechanism processes the second quick paging channel symbol in response to the first indication and the second indication and provides a third indication in response thereto specifying whether the primary paging channel should be received and processed.
  • the system is adapted for use with a mobile station and further includes a fourth mechanism for selectively employing the third mechanism when the second indication does not indicate that the forthcoming primary paging channel should be received and processed.
  • the first decision parameter (CSI ⁇ ) is representative of a quality of a signal environment through which the received signal propagates and is described by the following equation:
  • a first comparison mechanism compares the first decision parameter to an erasure threshold and indicates (via the first indication), based on the comparison, that the first quick paging channel symbol should be processed when the first decision parameter is greater than a predetermined erasure threshold.
  • the first comparison mechanism indicates, via the first indication, that the second quick paging symbol should be processed (and not the first quick paging symbol) when the first decision parameter is less than the erasure threshold.
  • the second mechanism includes a second comparison mechanism for comparing the second decision parameter (D ⁇ ) to a first on-off threshold and indicating, via the second, indication, that the forthcoming paging channel should not be received and processed for a forthcoming page. Another mechanism included in the second mechanism selectively places the mobile station into a sleep state in response to the second indication.
  • the second comparison mechanism indicates, via the second indication, that the second quick paging channel symbol should be processed when the first indication does not indicate that the second quick paging channel should be immediately processed and when the second decision parameter is greater than the on- off threshold.
  • the third mechanism includes a mechanism for selectively computing the following decision parameter (D) in response to the mechanism for indicating:
  • ⁇ ! 2 represents estimated summed noise power over all multipath components associated with a portion of the received signal containing the first quick paging channel symbol
  • ⁇ 2 2 represents summed noise power associated with a portion of the received signal containing the second quick paging channel symbol
  • QP 2 is the dot product, cross product, or combination thereof between signal components of the second quick paging channel symbol and the pilot signal associated with the second quick paging channel symbol
  • E p ii 0t2 represents pilot signal energy associated with the second pilot channel symbol.
  • the third mechanism further includes a mechanism for comparing D to a second on-off threshold and indicating, via the third indication, that the forthcoming primary paging channel should be processed when D is greater than the second on-off threshold, and indicating, via the third indication that the forthcoming primary paging channel should not be processed when D is approximately less than the second on-of threshold.
  • the novel design of the present invention is facilitated by the first mechanism and the second mechanism, which strategically process the first quick paging channel symbol and/or the second paging channel signal as needed, which avoids sometimes unnecessary processing of the second quick paging channel symbol, yet provides for a maximum probability of successful detection of a forthcoming primary paging channel. Further reliability is obtained by selectively employing noise power estimates associated with the first and second quick paging channel symbols to compute an optimal decision metric for determining when to process a forthcoming primary page.
  • Fig. 1 is a diagram of an exemplary wireless communications system constructed in accordance with the teachings of the present invention.
  • Fig. 2 is a more detailed diagram of the mobile station of Fig. 1 showing a unique quick paging channel (QPCH) combiner and QPCH detector constructed in accordance with the teachings of the present invention.
  • QPCH quick paging channel
  • Fig. 3 is a flow diagram of a method implemented by the mobile station of Fig. 2 via the QPCH combiner and QPCH detector of Fig. 2.
  • Fig. 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary wireless communications system 10 for which the present invention is adapted.
  • the system 10 includes a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) 12 having a Base Station Controller (BSC) 14.
  • a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) 16 routes calls from telephone lines and other networks and communications devices (not shown) to and from the MSC 12.
  • the MSC 12 routes calls from the PSTN 16 to and from a first BTS 18 and a second BTS 20 associated with a first cell 22 and a second cell 24, respectively.
  • the BTS's 18 and 20 are often called cell controllers.
  • the MSC 12 routes calls between the BTS's 18 and 20.
  • the first BTS 18 directs calls to the first mobile station 26 within the first cell 22 via a first communications link 28.
  • the communications link 28 is a two-way link having a forward link 30 and a reverse link 32.
  • the link 28 is characterized as a traffic channel. While only two BTS's 18 and 20 are shown in Fig. 1, more BTS's or fewer BTS's may be employed without departing from the scope of the present invention.
  • Fig. 2 is a more detailed diagram of the wireless phone, i.e., mobile station 26 of
  • Fig. 1 showing a unique Quick Paging Channel (QPCH) combiner (demodulation symbol (D) computer) 40 and QPCH detector 42 constructed in accordance with the teachings of the present invention.
  • QPCH Quick Paging Channel
  • D demodulation symbol
  • Fig. 2 various components are omitted from Fig. 2, such as Intermediate Frequency (IF) to baseband converters, mixers, downconverters, oscillators, timers, power supplies, and amplifiers, however those skilled in the art will know where and how to implement the additional requisite components.
  • IF Intermediate Frequency
  • the mobile station 26 includes a transceiver 44 having an antenna 46 that is connected to a duplexer 48.
  • the duplexer 48 is connected to an input of a CDMA receiver section 50 and to an output of a CDMA transmitter 52.
  • a baseband processor 54 is connected to the CDMA transceiver 44 and includes a noise estimator 38, a controller 56, a sample Random Access Memory (RAM) 58, an interpolator 60, a searcher 62, a received energy estimator 64, a despreader/decover circuit 66, a Pilot Estimator (pilot filter) 68, a pilot energy computation circuit 70, a demodulator 72, the
  • QPCH combiner 40 the QPCH page detector 42, a Niterbi decoder 74, QPCH memory
  • the controller 56 is connected to a bus 78 that provides control input to the CDMA transmitter 52 and the CDMA receiver 50.
  • An output of the CDMA receiver 50 is a digital receive signal that is provided as input to the sample RAM 58 of the baseband processor 54.
  • An output of the sample RAM 58 is input to the interpolator 60.
  • An output of the interpolator 60 is connected to inputs of the searcher 62, and the despreader/decover circuit 66.
  • An output of the searcher 62 represents peaks corresponding to candidate pilot signals, which are input to the controller software/circuitry 56.
  • a pilot output of the despreader/decover circuit 66 represents a pilot signal estimate(s) that has k in-phase (I pUot ) and quadrature (Q pilot ) signal components, one I pilo and Q pUotk component for each k th multipath signal component.
  • the pilot output of the despreader/decover circuit 66 provides input to the pilot estimator (pilot filter) 68 and the noise estimator 38.
  • the output of the pilot estimator 68 represents a filtered pilot estimate(s) and is input to the demodulator 72 and the pilot energy computation circuit 70.
  • An output of the pilot energy computation circuit 70 is connected to an input of the QPCH combiner 40.
  • Traffic/data channel, primary (full) paging channel, and QPCH channel outputs of the despreader/decover circuit 66 are input to the demodulator 72.
  • a dot product, cross product, and/or a dot product + cross product output, and a QPCH page output of the demodulator 72 are provided as input to the QPCH combiner 40.
  • the dot product + cross product output may be omitted and the sum computed in the QPCH combiner 40 rather than in the demodulator 72 without departing from the scope of the present invention.
  • Traffic and primary paging channel outputs of the demodulator 72 are provided as input to the Niterbi decoder 74 after further processing via subsystems (not shown) such as scaling and de-interleaving circuits (see IS-95 specifications).
  • An output of the decoder 74 is connected to an input of the controller 56.
  • the QPCH combiner 40 communicates with the page detector 42, an output of which is connected to an input of the controller 56.
  • a QPCH memory 80 receives inputs from the QPCH combiner 40 and the controller software/circuitry 56 and provides output to the page detector 42.
  • CDMA signals received via the antenna 46 are directed to the CDMA receiver 50 via the duplexer 48.
  • the CDMA receiver 50 includes radio frequency to intermediate frequency conversion circuitry (not shown) for mixing the received radio frequency signals (Rx) to intermediate frequency signals.
  • Automatic Gain Control (AGC) circuitry adjusts the total power of the received signal to a predetermined value.
  • Additional frequency conversion circuitry mixes the intermediate frequency signals to analog baseband signals, which are then converted to digital base band signals via an analog-to-digital converter (not shown).
  • the digital baseband signals include In-phase (I), Quadrature (Q), and noise signal components.
  • the CDMA transmitter 52 includes frequency conversion circuitry
  • the sample RAM 58 in the baseband processor 54 samples the digital baseband signals received from the CDMA receiver 50 at predetermined time slots.
  • the sample RAM 58 maintains the samples in a buffer (not shown) for use by offline processing circuitry as discussed more fully below.
  • the predetermined time slots at which the sample RAM 58 performs sampling of the received signal are determined in accordance with IS-95 telecommunications standards.
  • the sample RAM 58 may be selectively bypassed when the mobile station 26 is not operating in slotted mode via an enable signal received from the controller 56. Other systems and methods for selectively bypassing the sample RAM 58 may be employed without departing from the scope of the present invention.
  • the length of the signal sample taken by the sample RAM 58 is directly related to the size of the sample RAM 58.
  • the sample RAM 58 samples the signal environment, i.e., the received signal, to gather sufficient information pertaining to a QPCH of the received signal to facilitate offline processing.
  • An output of the sample RAM 58 is connected to the interpolator 60.
  • the interpolator 60 upconverts a digital signal output from the sample RAM 58 to a higher digital frequency.
  • the rate of the digital signal output from the sample RAM 58 is equivalent to the rate of the received digital signal, which is twice the chip rate.
  • the interpolator 60 converts the rate of the digital signal to eight times the chip rate (CHIPx8).
  • CHIPx8 chip rate
  • the interpolator 60 When the sample RAM 58 has sampled the received signal, the interpolator 60 provides an up-converted digital signal having in-phase and quadrature signal components to the searcher 62 and the despreader/decover circuit 66.
  • the searcher 62 analyzes the received digital signal and outputs candidate pilot peaks (one peak for each multipath component) to the controller software/circuitry 56.
  • the searcher 62 is implemented in accordance with the teachings of U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 09/696,160, filed, October 23, 2000, by the inventor of the present invention, entitled "EFFICIENT
  • searcher 62 may be implemented as a pilot despreader that may be constructed by one skilled in the art with access to the present teachings, without departing from the scope of the present invention.
  • the noise estimator 38 estimates the noise associated with the first QPCH symbol and second QPCH symbol of a slot and outputs noise variance estimates ⁇ 2 ⁇ and ⁇ 2 2 , respectively, for each k th multipath signal component in response thereto.
  • the noise variance estimates ⁇ 2 ⁇ and ⁇ 2 k may be computed via methods known in the art.
  • the pilot estimator 68 is implemented as a Finite Impulse Response Filter (FIR) or an Infinite Impulse Response Filter (IIR).
  • the pilot estimator 68 filters noise from the noisy pilot signal provided by the searcher 62 and provides a pilot signal estimate (P ) in response thereto.
  • the pilot signal estimate P includes in-phase (I pUot ) nd. quadrature (Q pUo ) signal components associated with the / th pilot multipath signal component and is represented by the following vector (P ):
  • An additional subscript, such as 1 or 2 is added to specify whether a given signal component corresponds to a first symbol or a second symbol, respectively, of a slot of a received QPCH signal.
  • k ⁇ l ' p u otl ,Q pi ⁇ 0 , ⁇ t ) refers to the / th multipath pilot estimate associated with the first QPCH symbol.
  • a pilot signal is associated with or corresponds to a QPCH symbol when the pilot signal is received approximately simultaneously with the QPCH symbol and is provided in the same signal sample of the sample RAM 58.
  • the pilot signal estimate P k is provided to the demodulator 72 and the pilot energy computation circuit 70.
  • the pilot energy computation circuit 70 squares the pilot signal estimate P k and provides an estimate of the energy (E pilotk ) of the k pilot multipath signal component to the QPCH combiner 40.
  • the pilot energy E ilot includes a first component E p ⁇ lotl associated with the first QPCH symbol of a QPCH slot and a second component E pilot2 associated with the second QPCH symbol of the QPCH slot.
  • the QPCH combiner 40 includes an integrator (not shown) for summing the pilot energies E p ⁇ lo! and E pUot2 over the k pilot multipaths to yield E P ii 0 . ⁇ and E p ii 0t2 , respectively, in accordance with the following equations:
  • E p ⁇ lol is the pilot energy associated with the k th multipath signal component of the first QPCH symbol of a QPCH slot
  • E p ⁇ loi2 is the pilot energy associated with the k multipath signal component of the second QPCH symbol of the QPCH slot.
  • noise variance estimates ⁇ 2 i k and ⁇ 2 2k output from the noise estimator 38 are employed by the QPCH combiner 40 to compute total noise power estimates ⁇ 2 ! and ⁇ for use in computing the demodulation symbol decision metric D as discussed more fully below.
  • the noise power estimates ⁇ 2 i and ⁇ 2 are described by the following equations:
  • the despreader/decover circuit 66 includes a pseudo-noise despreader (not shown) and an -ary Walsh decover circuit (not shown) for decovering a pilot channel, a data channel, a primary paging channel, and a QPCH from the received signal output from the interpolator 60, if they exist in the received signal.
  • M is 64 in the present embodiment.
  • the decovered channels are provided to the demodulator 72.
  • the demodulator 72 computes the dot product, cross product, or both (depending on the communications mode of the system 26 as discussed more fully below) between a QPCH signal received from the despreader/decover circuit 66 and the pilot estimate P output from the pilot estimator 68.
  • the QPCH signal includes a slot having a first symbol and a second symbol defined in accordance with the IS-95 telecommunications standard.
  • the dot product (dotx of the first QPCH symbol (QPCH1) with the corresponding pilot estimate is defined in accordance with the following equation:
  • k is the number of available multipath components of the received signal
  • I p ⁇ o ⁇ is the in-phase component of the pilot estimate associated with k l multipath component of the first QPCH symbol of the slot
  • I QPCm is the in-phase component of the k multipath component of the first QPCH symbol
  • Q p ⁇ ⁇ 0 ti is the quadrature component of the k th multipath component of the pilot estimate associated with the first QPCH symbol
  • Q QPCm is the quadrature component of the k th multipath component of the first QPCH symbol of the QPCH signal.
  • the dot product (dot-f) of the second QPCH symbol (QPCH2) with the corresponding pilot estimate P 2 is defined in accordance with the following equation:
  • the demodulator 72 computes the first dot product (dot ⁇ ) associated with the first QPCH symbol, the second dot product ( ot 2 ) associated with the second QPCH symbol, and/or the cross products cross ⁇ and cros 2 associated with the first and second QPCH symbols, respectively, and provides the results to the QPCH combiner 40.
  • the cross products eras-?] and cross 2 are defined in accordance with the following equations: cross ⁇ - 2_, V piiotx k Qgpcm k )i [8]
  • the demodulator 72 computes dot products and/or cross products is application-specific and depends on the mode of the system 26. For example, in 1 Multi-Carrier (lxMC) systems without Orthogonal Transmit Diversity (OTD) (lxMC non OTD), the demodulator 72 computes dot and cross products in accordance with equations (4) through (9) and outputs dot ⁇ + cross ⁇ and dot 2 + cross ⁇ to the QPCH combiner 40. In 3 Multi-Carrier (3xMC) systems and in lxMC systems with OTD, the demodulator 72 outputs dot products, cross products, or sums of dot and cross products depending on the needs of a given application.
  • 3 Multi-Carrier 3 Multi-Carrier
  • the appropriate demodulator output may be determined by one ordinarily skilled in the art to meet the needs of a given application.
  • the additions of the dot and cross products (dot ⁇ + cross] and doti + cross ⁇ ) may be performed in the QPCH combiner 40 without departing from the scope of the present invention.
  • the output of the demodulator 72 that is input to the QPCH combiner 40 is denoted QP ⁇ for outputs associated with the first QPCH symbol of a slot and QP 2 for outputs associated with the second QPCH symbol of a slot.
  • QP ⁇ The output of the demodulator 72 that is input to the QPCH combiner 40
  • QP 2 The output of the demodulator 72 for various system modes are summarized in the following table: *.
  • pilot estimate and the first and second QPCH symbols may be provided to the QPCH combiner 40 in addition to or instead of the dot and/or cross products, without departing from the scope of the present invention.
  • the demodulator 72 may also provide a data/traffic signal, if available, to the
  • Niterbi decoder 74 when the mobile station 26 is handling a call or other type of traffic channel.
  • the decoder 74 may then decode the data/traffic signal, which may represent voice or another type of data, and forward the decoded signal to the controller 56.
  • the controller 56 employs various hardware and/or software modules (not shown) to route the decoded signals to a microphone or to another software or hardware function (not shown).
  • the QPCH combiner 40 computes a first decision parameter (CSI ⁇ ), which is a earner signal to interference ratio, also called the normalized pilot energy, and is described by the following equation:
  • CSI ⁇ is the normalized pilot energy associated with the first QPCH symbol of a slot
  • E p ii ot i is the energy of the portion of the pilot signal summed over all multipath components and received simultaneously with the first QPCH symbol
  • ⁇ ol is the total energy of the portion of the received signal, including noise and interference, received , simultaneously with the first QPCH symbol.
  • the QPCH combiner 40 computes, as needed, a second decision parameter CS/ 2 for the second QPCH symbol of a slot in accordance with the following equation:
  • ⁇ ol and ⁇ o2 are predetermined via AGC circuitry and Gain Control Amplifiers (GCA's) (not shown) in the CDMA receive chain 50, however, ⁇ ⁇ and ⁇ o2 may be estimated via energy estimators or determined via other mechanisms without departing from the scope of the present invention.
  • GCA Gain Control Amplifier
  • the QPCH combiner 40 sums the parameters CSI ⁇ and D ⁇ over all available multipath components and provides the results to the page detector 42 when requested by the page detector 42, which behaves in accordance with a unique method of the resent invention as discussed more fully below.
  • the QPCH combiner 40 employs the Quick Paging (QP) values QP ⁇ and QP % , the pilot energy estimates E p ii 0 ti and E p ii 0 t2,. and received signal energy estimates ⁇ ⁇ and ⁇ o2 associated with the first and second QPCH symbols, respectively, to compute the demodulation symbol, i.e., decision metric D, when requested by the page detector 42, in accordance with the following equation:
  • D incorporates both the first symbol and the second symbol of the received QPCH slot and is representative of the value, either on or off, of the QPCH page corresponding to the slot;
  • ⁇ j 2 is the noise power associated with the portion of the received signal containing the first QPCH symbol;
  • ⁇ 2 2 is the noise power associated with the portion of the received signal containing the second QPCH symbol; and the remaining parameters are as described above.
  • the page detector 42 selectively compares parameters CSI ⁇ , CSh, D ⁇ , and D to predetermined thresholds to determine whether the mobile station 26 should subsequently power-up the CDMA receiver 50 to receive and process a forthcoming full page sent via the primary paging channel, as discussed more fully below.
  • predetermined thresholds to determine whether the mobile station 26 should subsequently power-up the CDMA receiver 50 to receive and process a forthcoming full page sent via the primary paging channel, as discussed more fully below.
  • an appropriate indication is sent to the controller 56 indicating that the CDMA receiver 50 should be activated in accordance with IS-95 standards to receive and demodulate an immediately forthcoming primary paging channel.
  • the controller 56 then activates the CDMA receiver 50 and places the sample RAM 58 in bypass mode via control signals delivered via the bus 78 at a time corresponding to a slot during which the primary paging channel is to be received.
  • the decoder 74 is automatically enabled via signaling information contained in the received signal.
  • the page is despread via the despreader/decover circuit 66, combined over multipath components via the demodulator 72 and provided to the decoder 74, where the page is decoded. Constituent page information is forwarded from the decoder 74 to the controller 56.
  • Software and/or hardware circuitry known in the art (not shown) within the controller 56 interprets the page. If the page indicates an incoming call associated with a forthcoming traffic channel, the controller 56 issues appropriate control commands to various modules within the mobile station 26 to prepare the mobile station 26 to handle the forthcoming traffic channel.
  • the controller 56 If the primary paging channel should not be processed based as determined from one or more of the parameters CSI ⁇ , CSh, D ⁇ , and D, then an indication specifying that a full page on the primary paging channel is not forthcoming is sent to the controller 56..
  • the controller 56 then powers-down the transceiver section 44 and enters the mobile station 26 into a sleep state as defined in the IS-95 telecommunications standards.
  • the QPCH is On-Off Keying (OOK) modulated, and the values of D ⁇ and D help indicate the presence or absence (on or off, respectively) of a forthcoming paging channel.
  • OOK On-Off Keying
  • Fig. 3 is a flow diagram of a method 100 implemented by the mobile station 26 of Fig. 2 via the QPCH combiner 40, the QPCH detector 42, and the QPCH memory 80 of Fig. 2.
  • a digital received signal is output from the interpolator 60.
  • the received signal includes a pilot signal component and a QPCH signal component that includes a first symbol of a QPCH slot.
  • the pilot estimator 68 outputs pilot signal components, corresponding to the first QPCH symbol, from the digital received signal and provides the pilot signal' components to the pilot energy computation circuit 70, which computes and sums the pilot energies over all available multipath in accordance with equation (2) to yield Epii o ti-
  • the resulting pilot energy E p ii 0 ti is an estimate of the energy of the pilot signal associated with the first QPCH symbol. Subsequently, control is passed to a signal quality step 1.04.
  • a normalized pilot energy (CSI ⁇ ) associated with the first QPCH symbol is computed, which is a value representative of a quality of a portion of the digital received signal containing the first QPCH symbol.
  • the CSI ⁇ is also known as the pilot energy to received energy ratio or the carrier signal to interference ratio and is computed by dividing the pilot energy E p ** 0 ti associated with the first symbol by the total energy of the received signal I ol associated with the portion of the digital received signal containing the first QPCH symbol.
  • control is passed to a first erasure-checking step 106.
  • CSI ⁇ E p n ot ⁇ /l ol is compared to a predetermined erasure threshold r era sure that is stored in the QPCH memory 80. If CSI is less than E erasure. then erasure is declared. When erasure is declared for the first symbol, the signal environment through which the received signal is propagating is determined to be of insufficient quality to rely on the value of the first metric (A) to determine whether to receive and process a forthcoming primary paging channel.
  • A the first metric
  • the predetermined erasure threshold erasure is stored in the QPCH memory 80 associated with the page detector 42.
  • the erasure threshold E erasure m y be provided by the controller 56 via a bus (not shown) and dynamically computed in response to a changing signal environment as indicated via the pilot energy output from the pilot energy computation circuit 70.
  • control is passed to a second symbol step 108. Otherwise, control is passed to a first demodulation step 110.
  • the demodulator 72 computes the quick page symbol OR ! in accordance with table (1) and provides QP ⁇ to the QPCH combiner 40.
  • the pilot energy computation circuit 70 provides the energy of the pilot signal (E P ii 0t ⁇ ) associated with the first QPCH symbol to the QPCH combiner 40.
  • the QPCH combiner 40 then computes the first metric D ⁇ in accordance with equation (12). Subsequently, control is passed to a noise power step 112,
  • the QPCH combiner 40 In the noise power step 112, the QPCH combiner 40 In the noise power step 112, the QPCH combiner 40 computes and stores (in the QPCH memory 80) noise , estimates ⁇ 2 for available multipath signal components for possible later use in computing corresponding noise- power estimates Ox 2 associated with the first QPCH symbol. Subsequently, control is passed to a first on-off-checking step 114.
  • the first decision metric D ⁇ is compared to a first on-off threshold T - lfD ⁇ is less than T / , then control is passed to a sleep step 116, where the transceiver 44 is powered-down and the mobile station 26 is placed in a sleep state. Since the QPCH is OOK modulated, if D ⁇ is less than T ⁇ /0 , then the portion of the QPCH slot corresponding to the first symbol has insufficient energy to be considered on and hence is considered off, which implies that the first QPCH symbol indicates that a forthcoming full page does not require demodulation and processing.
  • the first QPCH symbol is considered on, which implies, in accordance with the teachings of the present invention, that the second QPCH symbol of the slot should be analyzed to verify that an immediately forthcoming full page on the primary paging channel should be received and processed. If D ⁇ is greater than T ⁇ / o, then control is passed to the second symbol step 108 to verify the on indication indicated via the first QPCH symbol and D ⁇ . In the second symbol step 108, steps 102, 104, and 112 are performed for the second QPCH symbol of the QPCH slot corresponding to the QPCH page of the received signal to yield values for QP (see table (1)) and E p ii 0 . 2 (see equation (3)).
  • QPCH combiner 40 then computes CS by dividing QP% by E p ⁇ 0t2 - Subsequently, control is passed to a second erasure-checking step 118.
  • CSh is compared to the erasure threshold r erasure5 which may be different from the corresponding erasure threshold employed in the first erasure-checking step 106 without departing from the scope of the present invention. If CSh is less than Ee r a sure , then the QPCH is considered on, and control is passed to a primary paging step 120, where the forthcoming primary paging channel is received and processed in accordance with IS-95 telecommunications standards. Otherwise, control is passed to a second demodulation step 122.
  • the second QPCH symbol of the QPCH slot is processed via the QPCH combiner 40 in response to control commands received from the QPCH detector 42 to yield the demodulation symbol D in accordance, with equations (13).
  • the QPCH combiner 40 employs noise variance estimates output via steps 112 and 108 and equations (4) and (5) to compute the corresponding noise power estimates employed to compute D in accordance with equation (13).
  • control commands may be provided by the controller 56 and the QPCH combiner 40 or the controller 56 alone instead of by the QPCH combiner 40 without departing from the scope of the present invention.
  • control is passed to a second on-off-checking step 124, where D is compared to a combined on-off threshold Eo/i c o mbined- I D is larger than the combined on-off threshold T n comb ined, then the QPCH is considered on, and control is passed to the primary paging step 120, where a forthcoming full page on the primary paging channel is received and processed. Otherwise, control is passed to the sleep step 116, where the mobile station 26 is placed in a sleep state. Note that the second QPCH symbol is processed like the first QPCH symbol and that the pilot filter 68 of Fig. 2 does not filter the QPCH symbols.
  • the present invention allows better diversity combining gain, which results in better overall primary page detection performance relative to previous systems and methods for detecting forthcoming primary pages.

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L'invention concerne un système permettant d'utiliser efficacement un signal de canal de messagerie rapide afin de déterminer la présence d'un canal de messagerie primaire à venir dans un système de communications sans fil utilisant un canal de messagerie rapide et un canal de messagerie primaire. Le système comprend un premier mécanisme permettant de traiter sélectivement un premier symbole de canal de messagerie rapide et/ou un second symbole de canal de messagerie rapide d'un signal reçu basé sur un paramètre de décision et/ou un second paramètre de décision, et de fournir une première indication en réponse au signal. Un deuxième mécanisme traite le premier symbole de canal de messagerie rapide en réponse à la première indication et fournit une deuxième indication en réponse à cette dernière, indiquant si un canal de messagerie primaire à venir doit être reçu et traité. Un troisième mécanisme traite le second symbole de canal de messagerie rapide en réponse à la première et à la deuxième indication et fournit une troisième indication en réponse à cette dernière, indiquant si un canal de messagerie primaire à venir doit être reçu et traité. Dans un mode de réalisation spécifique, le système est conçu pour être utilisé avec une station mobile et comprend en outre un quatrième mécanisme destiné à utiliser sélectivement le troisième mécanisme lorsque la deuxième indication n'indique pas que le canal de messagerie primaire à venir doit être reçu et traité. Le premier paramètre de décision (CSI1) représente la qualité d'un environnement de signaux à travers lequel le signal reçu se propage et est décrit par l'équation (I) dans laquelle Epilot1 représente l'énergie pilote normalisée d'une partie du signal pilote associé au premier symbole de canal de messagerie rapide, et Îo1 représente une énergie totale d'une partie du signal reçu associé au premier symbole de canal de messagerie rapide.
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