EP3970289A1 - Noeud de réseau radio avec amélioration de commande de gain automatique - Google Patents

Noeud de réseau radio avec amélioration de commande de gain automatique

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EP3970289A1
EP3970289A1 EP19929163.4A EP19929163A EP3970289A1 EP 3970289 A1 EP3970289 A1 EP 3970289A1 EP 19929163 A EP19929163 A EP 19929163A EP 3970289 A1 EP3970289 A1 EP 3970289A1
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coupled
port
coupler
network node
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Ang FENG
Yanhui Zhao
Yahui ZHAO
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Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson AB
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B17/00—Monitoring; Testing
    • H04B17/20—Monitoring; Testing of receivers
    • H04B17/21—Monitoring; Testing of receivers for calibration; for correcting measurements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B17/00—Monitoring; Testing
    • H04B17/10—Monitoring; Testing of transmitters
    • H04B17/11—Monitoring; Testing of transmitters for calibration
    • H04B17/12—Monitoring; Testing of transmitters for calibration of transmit antennas, e.g. of the amplitude or phase
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B17/00—Monitoring; Testing
    • H04B17/10—Monitoring; Testing of transmitters
    • H04B17/11—Monitoring; Testing of transmitters for calibration
    • H04B17/13—Monitoring; Testing of transmitters for calibration of power amplifiers, e.g. gain or non-linearity

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  • the present disclosure generally relates to radio communications, and more specifically, to a radio network node with automatic gain control (AGC) enhancement and related method in the radio network node.
  • AGC automatic gain control
  • AAS Active Antenna System
  • a radio network node such as a base station, an eNB in LTE network, a gNB in 5G network, etc.
  • AAS may comprise multiple antenna branches, which enable excellent network performance to be achieved by adapting advanced technologies, such as multi-user multi-input-multi-output (MU-MIMO) , beam-forming, etc.
  • MU-MIMO multi-user multi-input-multi-output
  • Antenna array is a key part for AAS.
  • Antenna Calibration (AC) is needed for AAS.
  • AC Antenna Calibration
  • a standalone AC transceiver is deployed in the AAS, which can provide easy and flexible configuration with small hardware expense.
  • AAC Automatic Gain Control
  • Embodiments of the present disclosure propose solutions for AGC enhancement in a radio network node, which can improve robustness of AGC and avoid AGC toggling.
  • a radio network node which comprises a plurality of branches, a first combiner/splitter, a second combiner/splitter, an antenna calibration transceiver, and a digital processor.
  • Each of the branches comprises an antenna, a coupler and a radio transceiver.
  • the coupler is configured to couple a signal from the radio transceiver to the first combiner/splitter and couple a signal from the antenna to the second combiner/splitter.
  • the first combiner/splitter has a plurality of first ports and a second port, the first port of the first combiner/splitter being coupled to the coupler, and the second port being coupled to the antenna calibration transceiver.
  • the second combiner/splitter has a plurality of input ports and an output port, the input port of the second combiner/splitter being coupled to the coupler, and the output port being coupled to the antenna calibration transceiver.
  • the radio transceivers and the antenna calibration transceiver are connected to the digital processor.
  • the coupler may comprise a first directional coupler and a second directional coupler.
  • the first directional coupler may have an input port, an output port and a coupling port.
  • the input port of the first directional coupler may be coupled to the radio transceiver, the output port of the first directional coupler may be coupled to the antenna, and the coupling port of the first directional coupler may be coupled to the first combiner/splitter.
  • the second directional coupler may have an input port, an output port and a coupling port.
  • the input port of the second directional coupler may be coupled to the antenna, the output port of the second directional coupler may be coupled to the radio transceiver, and the coupling port of the second directional coupler may be coupled to the second combiner/splitter.
  • the second directional coupler may be configured to receive an incoming signal within a guard period from the antenna via the input port of the second directional coupler, and generate a coupled incoming signal at the coupling port of the second directional coupler.
  • the second combiner/splitter may be configured to combine the coupled incoming signals from the coupling ports of the second directional couplers into a combined signal, and output the combined signal to the antenna calibration transceiver.
  • the first directional coupler may be configured to receive a transmitting signal from the radio transceiver via the input port of the first directional coupler, and generate a coupled transmitting signal at the coupling port of the first directional coupler.
  • the first combiner/splitter may be configured to combine the coupled transmitting signals from the coupling ports of the first directional couplers into a combined signal and output the combined signal to the antenna calibration transceiver, and split a calibration signal from the antenna calibration transceiver into component calibration signals to be provided to the coupling ports of the first directional couplers.
  • the antenna calibration transceiver may be configured to retrieve a baseband signal based on the combined signal, convert the baseband signal into a digital baseband signal, and provide the digital baseband signal to the digital processor.
  • the digital processor may be configured to detect a power level of the digital baseband signal, and set a state of an automatic gain control function for the respective branches based on the power level.
  • the digital processor may be further configured to sweep a first frequency band in which the antenna calibration transceiver operates to determine an amplitude and a frequency location of the digital baseband signal.
  • the antenna calibration transceiver may be configured to retrieve a baseband signal based on the combined signal, convert the baseband signal into a digital baseband signal, detect a power level of the digital baseband signal, and provide the power level to the digital processor.
  • the digital processor may be configured to set a state of an automatic gain control function for the respective branches based on the power level.
  • the first frequency band may be swept with a sensing bandwidth.
  • the method may further comprise sweeping a calibration frequency band of the radio network node to determine an amplitude and a frequency location of the combined signal.
  • the calibration frequency band may be a radio frequency (RF) band.
  • RF radio frequency
  • the calibration frequency band may be swept with a sensing bandwidth.
  • Fig. 2 is a diagram illustrating a radio network node according to some embodiments of the present disclosure
  • Fig. 4 is a diagram illustrating another exemplary structure of the coupler in the radio network node as shown in Fig. 2;
  • Fig. 5 is a diagram illustrating spectrum sensing in GP in the radio network node according to some embodiments of the present disclosure
  • Fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating exemplary frequency bands for the radio network node according to some embodiments of the present disclosure
  • Fig. 7 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary receiving filter chain in the radio network node according to some embodiments of the present disclosure
  • Fig. 8 is a diagram illustrating spectrum sensing in both GP and UL slot in the radio network node according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the term “communication network” refers to a network following any suitable communication standards, such as new radio (NR) , long term evolution (LTE) , LTE-Advanced, wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) , high-speed packet access (HSPA) , and so on.
  • NR new radio
  • LTE long term evolution
  • WCDMA wideband code division multiple access
  • HSPA high-speed packet access
  • the communications between a terminal device and a network node in the communication network may be performed according to any suitable generation communication protocols, including, but not limited to, the first generation (1G) , the second generation (2G) , 2.5G, 2.75G, the third generation (3G) , 4G, 4.5G, 5G communication protocols, and/or any other protocols either currently known or to be developed in the future.
  • network node refers to a network device in a communication network via which a terminal device accesses to the network and receives services therefrom.
  • the network node or network device may refer to a base station (BS) , an access point (AP) , a multi-cell/multicast coordination entity (MCE) , a controller or any other suitable device in a wireless communication network.
  • BS base station
  • AP access point
  • MCE multi-cell/multicast coordination entity
  • the BS may be, for example, a node B (NodeB or NB) , an evolved NodeB (eNodeB or eNB) , a next generation NodeB (gNodeB or gNB) , an IAB node, a remote radio unit (RRU) , a radio header (RH) , a remote radio head (RRH) , a relay, a low power node such as a femto, a pico, and so forth.
  • NodeB or NB node B
  • eNodeB or eNB evolved NodeB
  • gNodeB or gNB next generation NodeB
  • IAB node IAB node
  • RRU remote radio unit
  • RH radio header
  • RRH remote radio head
  • relay a low power node such as a femto, a pico, and so forth.
  • the network node comprise multi-standard radio (MSR) radio equipment such as MSR BSs, network controllers such as radio network controllers (RNCs) or base station controllers (BSCs) , base transceiver stations (BTSs) , transmission points, transmission nodes, positioning nodes and/or the like. More generally, however, the network node may represent any suitable device (or group of devices) capable, configured, arranged, and/or operable to enable and/or provide a terminal device access to a wireless communication network or to provide some service to a terminal device that has accessed to the wireless communication network.
  • MSR multi-standard radio
  • RNCs radio network controllers
  • BSCs base station controllers
  • BTSs base transceiver stations
  • transmission points transmission nodes
  • positioning nodes positioning nodes and/or the like.
  • the network node may represent any suitable device (or group of devices) capable, configured, arranged, and/or operable to enable and/or provide a terminal device access to a wireless communication network or to provide
  • Fig. 1 shows an exemplary radio network node 100 with antenna calibration (AC) .
  • the radio network node 100 may comprise multiple antenna branches 110.
  • Each antenna branch 110 may comprise an antenna 120, a directional coupler 130 and a radio transceiver 140.
  • the directional coupler 130 is coupled between the antenna 120 and the radio transceiver 140.
  • the radio transceiver 140 comprises a radio transmitter 1401 for transmitting a radio signal via the antenna 120 and a radio receiver 1402 for receiving a radio signal via the antenna 120.
  • a standalone AC transceiver 150 is deployed in the exemplary radio network node 100.
  • the AC transceiver 150 may comprise an AC transmitter 1501 for transmitting a calibration signal and an AC receiver 1502 for receiving a calibration signal.
  • a calibration signal is transmitted from the radio transmitter 1401 to the directional coupler 130.
  • the directional coupler 130 couples the calibration signal and provides the coupled signal to the AC receiver 1502 via a combiner/splitter 160.
  • a calibration signal is transmitted from the AC transmitter 1501 to the directional coupler 130 via the combiner/splitter 160, and the directional coupler 130 couples the calibration signal to the radio receiver 1402.
  • a switch 170 is used to selectively connect one of the AC transmitter 1501 and the AC receiver 1502 to the combiner/splitter 160.
  • In-band blocking can result in AGC toggling because an AGC detector in a digital chip of the radio network node cannot properly estimate a correct interference level.
  • FVR Fast Over-Range
  • PLM Peak Hold Meter
  • the AGC detector is located after an analog/digital converter (ADC) , and thus the AGC detector might have limited bandwidth due to filters in the receiving path.
  • ADC analog/digital converter
  • Fig. 2 is a diagram illustrating a radio network node 200 according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.
  • the radio network node may be a base station such as an NB, an eNB or a gNB.
  • the radio network node 200 may comprise a plurality of branches 210. Each of the branches 210 may comprise an antenna 202, a coupler 204 and a radio transceiver 206.
  • the radio network node 200 may further comprise a first combiner/splitter 220, a second combiner/splitter 230, an antenna calibration transceiver 240 and a digital processor 250.
  • the radio transceiver 206 may comprise a radio transmitter for transmitting a radio signal via the antenna 202 and a radio receiver for receiving a radio signal via the antenna 202.
  • the first combiner/splitter 220 may have a plurality of first ports 2202 and a second port 2204.
  • the first ports 2202 may be coupled to the respective couplers 204 of the branches 210.
  • the second port 2204 may be coupled to the antenna calibration transceiver 240.
  • the first combiner/splitter 220 may be configured to combine signals from the respective couplers 204 via the first ports 2202 into a combined signal and provide the combined signal to the antenna calibration transceiver 240 via the second port 2204.
  • the first combiner/splitter 220 may be configured to split a calibration signal from the antenna calibration transceiver 240 via the second port 2204 into component calibration signals and provide the component calibration signals to the respective couplers 204.
  • the second combiner/splitter 230 may have a plurality of input ports 2302 and an output port 2304.
  • the input ports 2302 may be coupled to the respective couplers 204 of the branches 210.
  • the output port 2304 may be coupled to the antenna calibration transceiver 240.
  • the second combiner/splitter 230 may be configured to combine signals from the respective couplers 204 via the input ports 2302 into a combined signal and provide the combined signal to the antenna calibration transceiver 240 via the output port 2304.
  • the antenna calibration transceiver 240 may comprise an antenna calibration transmitter for transmitting a calibration signal and an antenna calibration receiver for receiving a calibration signal.
  • the radio network node 200 may comprise a first switch 260 and a second switch 270.
  • the first switch 260 is configured to selectively connect the first combiner/splitter 220 to one of the antenna calibration transmitter and the antenna calibration receiver.
  • the second switch 270 is configured to selectively connect the antenna calibration receiver to one of the first combiner/splitter 220 and the second combiner/splitter 230.
  • the digital processor 250 may be connected to the respective radio transceivers 206 of the branches 210 and the antenna calibration transceiver 240, and configured to perform AGC on the respective branches 210 based on radio signal information via the radio transceivers 206 and interference information via the antenna calibration transceiver 240.
  • the first combiner/splitter 220 may combine the coupled transmitting signals from the respective coupling ports 3026 of the first directional couplers 302 into a combined signal and output the combined signal to the antenna calibration transceiver 240.
  • the first combiner/splitter 220 may also split a calibration signal from the antenna calibration transceiver 240 into component calibration signals and provide the component calibration signals to the respective coupling ports 3026 of the first directional couplers 302.
  • the second combiner/splitter 230 may combine the coupled incoming signals from the respective coupling ports 3046 of the second directional couplers 304 into a combined signal, and output the combined signal to the antenna calibration transceiver 240.
  • the first combiner/splitter 220 may combine the coupled transmitting signals from the respective first coupling ports 406 into a combined signal, and output the combined signal to the antenna calibration transceiver 240.
  • the first combiner/splitter 220 may also split a calibration signal from the antenna calibration transceiver 240 into component calibration signals, and provide the component calibration signals to the respective first coupling ports 406.
  • the second combiner/splitter 230 may combine the coupled incoming signals from the respective second coupling ports 408 into a combined signal, and output the combined signal to the antenna calibration transceiver 240.
  • the second directional coupler 304 as shown in Fig. 3 or the bi-directional coupler as shown in Fig. 4 may couple the incoming signal within a guard period (GP) to the second combiner/splitter 230.
  • GP is composed of one or more empty Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols to facilitate switching between downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) .
  • OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • GP is placed in the front of a UL slot.
  • the incoming signal in GP from the antenna 202 shall be interference.
  • the AGC detector can detect the power level of the signal in an operating frequency band (corresponding to “a second frequency band” in claims) in which the radio transceiver 206 operates. If the interference exists outside of the operating frequency band, the AGC detector cannot detect the power level of the interference and will give a wrong indication for state transition of the AGC function, thereby resulting in the AGC toggling.
  • the antenna calibration transceiver 240 may operate in a different frequency band from the operating frequency band.
  • the frequency band hereinafter referred to as “a first frequency band” or “a calibration frequency band” in which the antenna calibration transceiver 240 operates covers the operating frequency band.
  • the antenna calibration transceiver 240 or the digital processor 250 may further sweep the calibration frequency band to determine amplitude and frequency location of the digital baseband signal.
  • the calibration frequency band may be swept with a sensing bandwidth.
  • Fig. 6 illustrates exemplary calibration frequency band and operating frequency band for the radio network node according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. As shown in Fig. 6, RF BW denotes the calibration frequency band, RX BW denotes the operating frequency band, SS BW1 and SS BW2 denote two examples of the sensing bandwidth.
  • a receiving (RX) filter chain may be implemented in the digital processor 250 or the antenna calibration transceiver 240 to determine the amplitude and frequency location of the interference, as shown in Fig. 7.
  • a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) is used to translate wanted signals (i.e. the signals in the operating frequency band) to zero frequency.
  • a channel filter is used to identify the unwanted signals (i.e. the signals outside of the operating frequency band) .
  • the RX filter chain may comprise a decimation filter to decrease a sample rate. The NCO and the channel filter can realize frequency sweeping, thereby extracting the frequency information in addition to energy or cyclosationarity detection.
  • the energy detection may be performed by an energy detector. Assuming the received signal as x (n) , the energy E can be expressed as
  • N GP denotes the length of GP
  • n denotes a sample index within GP.
  • the various exemplary embodiments may be implemented in hardware or special purpose chips, circuits, software, logic or any combination thereof.
  • some aspects may be implemented in hardware, while other aspects may be implemented in firmware or software which may be executed by a controller, microprocessor or other computing device, although the disclosure is not limited thereto.
  • firmware or software which may be executed by a controller, microprocessor or other computing device, although the disclosure is not limited thereto.
  • While various aspects of the exemplary embodiments of this disclosure may be illustrated and described as block diagrams, flow charts, or using some other pictorial representation, it is well understood that these blocks, apparatus, systems, techniques or methods described herein may be implemented in, as non-limiting examples, hardware, software, firmware, special purpose circuits or logic, general purpose hardware or controller or other computing devices, or some combination thereof.
  • exemplary embodiments of the disclosure may be embodied in computer-executable instructions, such as in one or more program modules, executed by one or more computers or other devices.
  • program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types when executed by a processor in a computer or other device.
  • the computer executable instructions may be stored on a computer readable medium such as a hard disk, optical disk, removable storage media, solid state memory, random access memory (RAM) , etc.
  • RAM random access memory
  • the function of the program modules may be combined or distributed as desired in various embodiments.
  • the function may be embodied in whole or partly in firmware or hardware equivalents such as integrated circuits, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) , and the like.

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Selon des modes de réalisation, la présente invention concerne un nœud de réseau radio. Le nœud de réseau radio comprend une pluralité de ramifications, un premier combineur/diviseur, un second combineur/diviseur, un émetteur-récepteur d'étalonnage d'antenne et un processeur numérique. Chacune des ramifications comprend une antenne, un coupleur et un émetteur-récepteur radio. Le coupleur est conçu pour coupler un signal provenant de l'émetteur-récepteur radio au premier combineur/diviseur, et coupler un signal de l'antenne au second combineur/diviseur. Le premier combineur/diviseur comporte une pluralité de premiers ports couplés au coupleur et un second port couplé à l'émetteur-récepteur d'étalonnage d'antenne. Le second combineur/diviseur comprend une pluralité de ports d'entrée couplés au coupleur et un port de sortie couplé à l'émetteur-récepteur d'étalonnage d'antenne. Les émetteurs-récepteurs radio et l'émetteur-récepteur d'étalonnage d'antenne sont connectés au processeur numérique.
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