JP2006165697A - Wireless communication system and receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a receiver for a wireless communication system in which the degrading of reception performance caused by collisions of hopping patterns can be prevented without greatly losing a communication overhead. <P>SOLUTION: The receiver detects received symbols of hopping patterns which collide with one another and replaces the received symbols with null symbols being signals not affecting the normally transmitted symbols to carry out error correction decoding. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a radio communication system and a receiving apparatus for communicating an error correction coded signal by a frequency or time hopping method.

  Conventionally, in a radio communication system using a frequency hopping method, in order to improve the reception performance and improve the throughput, the error rate characteristics of the radio communication environment are observed for each frequency channel, and each frequency channel is determined according to the observed error rate. There is a method for determining the packet length (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

In addition, as a method to suppress a decrease in throughput due to interference signals, scan the radio wave status in each frequency domain before starting communication, and after detecting the interference signal, determine a hopping pattern that does not include the frequency in which the interference signal exists There is a method (see Patent Document 2, for example).
JP 2003-163652 A JP 2002-252573 A

  However, in the technique of Patent Document 1, the error rate measured for each frequency channel on the receiving device side is notified to the transmitting device side, and the transmitting device changes the packet length based on the notified error rate for each frequency channel. Therefore, overhead for communication of error rate data occurs.

  In the technique of the above-mentioned patent document 2, in order to grasp the presence of the interference signal before performing communication, the influence on the interference signal that existed before performing communication can be eliminated. It is impossible to eliminate the influence on the interference signal generated in the above. In addition, every time communication is started, it is necessary to perform a process of scanning the radio wave state in each frequency region and determining a hopping pattern that does not include a frequency in which an interference signal exists, which increases overhead.

  The present invention is to solve the above-described problems, and provides a wireless communication system and a receiving apparatus capable of preventing a decrease in reception performance due to a collision of hopping patterns without greatly impairing communication overhead. For the purpose.

  In order to solve the above problems, a receiving apparatus of the present invention is a receiving apparatus of a radio communication system using a frequency or time hopping method, and hops between a transmission signal addressed to the own station and a transmission signal addressed to another station. A hopping pattern collision detection unit that detects a received symbol in which pattern collision occurs, and a null symbol that replaces the received symbol detected by the hopping pattern collision detection unit with a null symbol for an error correction encoded reception signal It comprises substitution means and error correction decoding means for performing error correction decoding on the output of the null signal substitution means.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to detect a hopping pattern collision without changing the conventional system, and it is possible to prevent performance degradation of error correction decoding caused by the hopping pattern collision. Furthermore, since the frequency of hopping pattern change requests caused by hopping pattern collisions can be reduced as a result, the frequency of hopping pattern rearrangement processing is reduced, and the overall system throughput is improved.

  In the receiving apparatus of the present invention, the hopping pattern collision detection means is error correction coded by the error correction coding means for error correction coding of the received signal that has been successfully corrected by the error correction decoding means, and the error correction coding means. Error position detection means for detecting a bit position where an error has occurred and the error occurrence rate exceeds a threshold value. And error symbol position determination means for determining a bit position as a symbol position where a hopping pattern collision occurs.

  This makes it possible to accurately detect the symbol position where the hopping pattern collision occurs.

  Further, in the receiving apparatus of the present invention, the hopping pattern collision detection means determines the difference power between the estimated ideal received signal and the received signal for each received symbol between the transmitted signal addressed to the own station and the transmitted signal addressed to the other station. Interference power estimation means for estimating as interference signal power due to hopping pattern collision, and error symbol determination means for determining a symbol in which a hopping pattern collision occurs based on the interference power estimated by the interference power estimation means. It may be provided.

  Thus, by regarding the difference power between the estimated ideal signal and the received signal as the power of the interference signal, it is possible to easily identify the symbol in which the hopping pattern collision occurs.

  Further, the receiving apparatus of the present invention is provided with error correction decoding means for performing error correction decoding on the output of the null signal replacement means as the first error correction decoding means, separately from the first error correction decoding means. Second error correction decoding means for performing error correction decoding on the received signal subjected to error correction coding, and the correct error among the respective outputs of the first error correction decoding means and the second error correction decoding means Selection means for selecting any one of the outputs that can be corrected and decoded may be further included.

  In this way, by performing error correction for both the case where the null symbol is inserted and the case where the null symbol is not inserted, compared with the case where either one is performed, the one with poor reception performance is not selected, Reception performance can be improved reliably.

  Furthermore, the receiving apparatus of the present invention changes the hopping pattern to the transmitting apparatus when the number of symbols with which the hopping pattern collides exceeds the threshold and the ratio of data blocks that cannot be error-corrected decoded exceeds the threshold. A hopping pattern change requesting unit that requests the hopping pattern may be further provided.

  According to this configuration, it is possible to improve the data transfer throughput by requesting the transmitting station to change the hopping pattern only when the error rate of the received signal is large due to the collision of the hopping pattern. Become. Also, by reducing the frequency of hopping pattern change requests, it is possible to reduce the frequency of hopping pattern transfer between the transmitting station and the receiving station and the frequency of hopping pattern determination processing, thereby reducing the system load.

  A receiving apparatus according to another aspect of the present invention is a receiving apparatus of a frequency or time hopping wireless communication system, and includes a hopping pattern of a transmitting station in communication and a hopping pattern of other n transmitting stations. In comparison, hopping pattern collision candidate detection means for detecting n collision candidate patterns, which are combinations of symbol positions where hopping pattern collisions can occur, and hopping pattern collision candidates for error-correction-encoded received signals Based on each collision candidate pattern detected by the detection means, null symbol replacement means for sequentially replacing symbols that may cause collision of hopping patterns with null symbols, and error correction decoding for each output of the null symbol replacement means Error correction decoding means for performing error correction and error correction decoding means Those having a selection means for selecting the results that could be.

  According to the present invention, a hopping pattern can be easily detected by comparing a hopping pattern of a communicating base station with a hopping pattern of another base station and detecting a combination of symbols that may cause a hopping pattern collision. Thus, it is possible to prevent the performance degradation of error correction decoding caused by the collision of the hopping pattern. Further, according to this embodiment, the frequency of hopping pattern change requests caused by hopping pattern collisions can be reduced as a result, so that the frequency of hopping pattern rearrangement processing is reduced and the throughput of the entire system is improved.

  A radio communication system according to another aspect of the present invention is a frequency or time hopping radio communication system having a transmission station and a reception station. Signal transmission stop request means for issuing a request to stop signal transmission for a specified period, and the transmitting station receives a request from the receiving station and stops signal transmission to the receiving station for a specified period And the receiving station measures the received power during the signal transmission suspension period, and determines the symbol position where the collision of the hopping pattern occurs between the transmission signal addressed to itself and the transmission signal addressed to the other station. A hopping pattern collision detection means for detecting, and a null symbol position for replacing a symbol at a position detected by the hopping pattern collision detection means with a null symbol for an error correction encoded received signal. Means, in which includes an error correction decoding means for performing error correction decoding on the output of the null signal replacement means.

  According to the present invention, the reception power is received at the receiving station during a period in which the transmitting station has stopped transmitting the signal toward the receiving station in response to a request for stopping the transmission of the signal directed to itself from the receiving station. Can be detected reliably and easily by detecting the symbol position where the collision of the hopping pattern occurs between the transmission signal addressed to the local station and the transmission signal addressed to the other station. In addition, it is possible to prevent performance degradation of error correction decoding caused by collision of hopping patterns.

  According to the wireless communication system and the receiving apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to prevent a decrease in reception performance due to a collision of hopping patterns without greatly impairing communication overhead.

  DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a wireless communication system to which the present invention is applied.

  As shown in the figure, in this wireless communication system, the cells 106 and 107 of the first base station 101 and the second base station 102 partially overlap each other. Now, the terminal 103 exists in the area where the cells 106 and 107 of the base stations 101 and 102 overlap, and performs radio communication only with the base station having the higher radio wave intensity, that is, the first base station 101. .

  Transmission of the signal 104 from the base stations 101 and 102 to the terminal 103 is performed using a frequency hopping method. Further, the base stations 101 and 102 perform error correction coding on the signal to be transmitted, and the terminal 103 obtains transmission information from the base stations 101 and 102 by performing error correction decoding on the received signal. For each base station 101, 102, the type and number of hopping patterns currently used by base stations other than itself are unknown.

  When the second base station 102 is communicating with a terminal other than the terminal 103, the terminal 103 also transmits a signal 105 transmitted from the second base station 102 simultaneously with the signal 104 transmitted from the first base station 101. Will receive. For this reason, if there is a colliding portion between the hopping pattern used in the first base station 101 and the hopping pattern used in the second base station 102, The signal 105 transmitted from the first base station 102 becomes an interference signal for the signal 104 transmitted from the first base station 101 and becomes one of the factors that degrade the reception performance of the terminal 103.

  FIG. 2 is a graph showing an example of collision of hopping patterns in the frequency hopping method. Each graph (a) (b) (c) (d) has frequency on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis. As shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B, each of the base stations 101 and 102 transmits a signal using a frequency hopping method in which a frequency to be used changes every certain time. Since the terminal 103 exists at a position where signals from the base stations 101 and 102 can be received, the transmission signals of the base stations 101 and 102 overlap in the terminal 103 as shown in FIG. Received in state. Since the terminal 103 selects the received signal to be sampled in accordance with the transmission hopping pattern used in the first base station 101, there is no hopping pattern collision as shown in FIG. The signal is not affected by the interference signal from the second base station 102, but the signal in which the hopping pattern collision occurs is affected by the interference signal, which causes the reception performance of the terminal 103 to deteriorate.

  Therefore, as shown in FIG. 3, a received symbol in which a hopping pattern collision occurs is detected, and the received symbol is replaced with a null symbol, which is a signal that does not affect a normally transmitted symbol, and error correction decoding is performed. By performing the above, it is possible to suppress deterioration in reception performance due to collision of hopping patterns.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of the receiving apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. This receiving apparatus is used in the terminal 103 of the wireless communication system in FIG.

  As shown in the figure, this receiving apparatus changes at regular intervals according to a receiving antenna 201 that receives a signal from a base station, and a signal received by the receiving antenna 201 according to a transmission hopping pattern of a base station that is a communication partner. A hopping pattern multiplication unit 202 that multiplies the frequency signal to be transmitted, a band-pass filter (hereinafter referred to as BPF) 203 that performs band limitation on the output of the hopping pattern multiplication unit 202 and converts it to a baseband frequency signal, and an output of the BPF 203 An A / D converter 204 for converting to a digital signal, a demodulator 205 for demodulating the digital received signal, and a null signal inserting unit 206 for replacing a received symbol deteriorated by a hopping pattern collision in the demodulated received signal with a null symbol And error correction decoding performed on the output of the null signal insertion unit 206 A correct decoding unit 207, an error detection unit 208 that detects the presence or absence of a signal that could not be corrected in the error correction decoded signal, an upper layer 209 that controls the receiving device, a transmission signal addressed to the own station, and another station From a hopping pattern collision detection unit 210 that detects a received symbol in which a hopping pattern collision occurs with a transmission signal addressed to the transmission signal, a hopping pattern generation unit 211 that generates a hopping pattern for reception, and a hopping pattern generation unit 211 And a frequency synthesizer 212 that outputs a frequency signal to the hopping pattern multiplication unit 202 based on the hopping pattern.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of the hopping pattern collision detection unit 210 described above.

  As shown in the figure, the hopping pattern collision detection unit 210 includes an error correction encoding unit 231 that performs error correction encoding on a signal block that has been successfully error correction decoded by the error correction decoding unit 207, and an error correction encoding unit 231. The error position detection unit 232 detects a bit position having a difference by comparing the encoded signal of the received signal and the demodulated reception signal before error correction decoding by the error correction decoding unit 207, and the error bit detected by the error position detection unit 232 An error symbol position determination unit 233 that determines the bit position as a symbol position where a hopping pattern collision occurs and notifies the null signal insertion unit 206 when the error rate of the position error exceeds a threshold value; .

Next, the operation of the receiving apparatus of this embodiment will be described.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the receiving apparatus of the first embodiment.

  A signal received by the receiving antenna 201 is a frequency signal generated by the frequency synthesizer 212 at the hopping pattern multiplication unit 202, that is, a frequency signal that changes at regular intervals according to the transmission hopping pattern of the first base station 101 that is the communication partner. The multiplication result passes through the BPF 203 and is converted into a baseband frequency signal. The hopping pattern is notified from the first base station 101 which is the communication partner when communication is established. The baseband frequency signal that has passed through the BPF 203 is converted into a digital signal by the A / D converter 204 and demodulated by the demodulator 205 (step 601).

  If a hopping pattern collision has already been detected in the previous decoding process (YES in step 602), the null signal insertion unit 206 converts the symbol at the position notified from the hopping pattern collision detection unit 210 to a null symbol. A null symbol insertion process for replacement is performed (step 603).

  Thereafter, error correction in the error correction decoding unit 207 and error detection in the error detection unit 208 are performed on the signal block in which the null symbol is inserted (step 604). The block signal is output to the upper layer 209.

  If no hopping pattern collision has been detected in the previous decoding process (NO in step 602), the null symbol insertion process is not performed, and error correction decoding and error are performed on the demodulated signal in step 604. Detection is performed.

  Further, if no error is detected as a result of error detection in step 604 (NO in step 605), the error correction encoding unit 231 of the hopping pattern collision detection unit 210 performs decoding in order to search for an error symbol position. The signal is subjected to error correction coding, and the coded signal is given to the error position detection unit 232 (step 606). The error position detection unit 232 compares the encoded signal supplied from the error correction encoding unit 231 with the reception signal before error correction decoding of the same signal block, and determines the bit position where the error has occurred in the difference bit position. The error symbol position determination unit 233 is notified of the position (step 607). The error symbol position determination unit 233 records the error bit position history from the error position detection unit 232, and sets the bit position where the error occurrence rate exceeds the threshold as the error symbol position where the hopping pattern collision occurs. Determination is made (step 608), and the symbol position is notified to the null signal insertion unit 206. In accordance with this notification, null signal insertion section 206 replaces the symbol at the corresponding position in the received signal with a null symbol in step 603.

  Further, the upper layer 209 monitors the error rate (BLER: block error rate) of the error correction code block, the block error rate exceeds the threshold (YES in step 609), and it is estimated that there is a collision. If the number of symbols exceeds the threshold (YES in step 610), it is determined that decoding on the receiving side is difficult due to collision of the hopping pattern, and hopping is performed on the first base station 101 that is the communication partner. A pattern change is requested (step 611).

  Thus, according to the receiving apparatus of the present embodiment, it is possible to detect a hopping pattern collision without changing the conventional system, and to prevent performance degradation of error correction decoding caused by the hopping pattern collision. . Furthermore, since the frequency of hopping pattern change requests caused by hopping pattern collisions can be reduced as a result, the frequency of hopping pattern rearrangement processing is reduced, and the overall system throughput is improved.

  Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a transmission / reception apparatus according to the second embodiment. This transmission / reception apparatus is used for the terminal 103 of the wireless communication system of FIG.

  As shown in the figure, this transmission / reception apparatus includes a receiving antenna 201 that receives a signal from a base station, and a transmission hopping pattern of a base station that is a communication partner for the signal received by the receiving antenna 201 as a receiving system configuration. , A hopping pattern multiplication unit 202 that multiplies a frequency signal that changes at regular time intervals, a band-pass filter (BPF) 203 that performs band limitation on the output of the hopping pattern multiplication unit 202 and converts it to a baseband frequency signal, and a BPF 203 An A / D converter 204 that converts an output into a digital signal, a demodulator 205 that demodulates a digital received signal, and a null signal insertion unit that replaces a symbol that has deteriorated due to a hopping pattern collision in the demodulated received signal with a null symbol 206 and error correction decoding is performed on the output of the null signal insertion unit 206. Error correction decoding unit 207, error detection unit 208 that detects the presence or absence of signals that could not be corrected in the error correction decoded signal, upper layer 209 that controls the transmission / reception apparatus, transmission signals addressed to the own station, and others A hopping pattern collision detection unit 240 that detects a symbol position where a hopping pattern collision occurs with a transmission signal addressed to a station, a hopping pattern generation unit 211 that generates a hopping pattern for transmission and reception, and a hopping pattern generation unit 211 A frequency synthesizer 212 that outputs a frequency signal to the hopping pattern multiplication unit 202 based on the hopping pattern given by the hopping pattern is provided.

  Further, this transmission / reception apparatus has, as a transmission system configuration, a transmission antenna 213 that transmits a signal to a base station of a communication partner, and a hopping pattern multiplication that multiplies a signal to be transmitted by a frequency signal that changes at regular intervals according to the hopping pattern Unit 214, band pass filter (BPF) 215 that limits the band of the transmission signal to be supplied to hopping pattern multiplication unit 214, D / A conversion unit 216 that converts the digital modulation signal to be transmitted into an analog signal, and transmission Modulation unit 217 that modulates a signal, error correction coding unit 218 that performs error correction coding of a signal to be transmitted, error detection coding unit 219 that performs error detection coding of a signal to be transmitted, and hopping pattern generation Based on the hopping pattern given from the unit 211, the frequency signal is output to the hopping pattern multiplication unit 214. And an frequency synthesizer 220.

  The transmission / reception apparatus of this embodiment sends a transmission stop request signal for requesting the first base station 101, which is a communication partner, to stop transmission of a signal toward the terminal 103 for a specified period, and receives this signal. The hopping pattern collision detection unit 240 detects a hopping pattern collision during a period in which the first base station 101 stops transmitting a signal to the terminal 103.

  The hopping pattern collision detection unit 240 has a configuration different from that of the receiving apparatus of FIG. 4 (hopping pattern collision detection unit 210). That is, the hopping pattern collision detection unit 240 includes a reception signal power measurement unit 241 that measures reception power during a transmission stop period of the first base station 101 that is a communication partner. The reception signal power measurement unit 241 recognizes that a hopping pattern collision occurs when the measurement value of the reception power exceeds the threshold, and the hopping pattern collision occurs for the null signal insertion unit 206. Signals the position of the symbol that is awake.

Next, the operation of the transmission / reception apparatus of this embodiment will be described.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of the transmission / reception apparatus according to the second embodiment.

  The upper layer 209 monitors the error rate (BLER: block error rate) of the error correction code block, and when the block error rate exceeds the threshold (YES in step 801), a hopping pattern collision occurs. In order to confirm whether or not the transmission is completed, a transmission stop request signal is sent to the first base station 101 which is a communication partner so as to stop transmission for one hopping pattern (step 802). This transmission stop request signal includes, for example, transmission stop time information and timing information for designating a transmission stop time for one hopping pattern.

  The transmission stop request signal output from the higher layer 209 is encoded for error detection by the error detection encoding unit 219 and then error corrected by the error correction encoding unit 218 in the same manner as the data signal. Is encoded. The encoded transmission stop request signal is modulated by the modulation unit 217 and converted to an analog signal by the D / A conversion unit 216. Thereafter, the transmission stop request signal is band-limited by the BPF 215, then multiplied by the frequency signal output from the frequency synthesizer 220 by the hopping pattern multiplication unit 214 and transmitted from the transmission antenna 213.

  The first base station 101 that has received the transmission stop request signal, for example, as shown in FIG. 9A, has a period specified by the transmission stop time information included in the transmission stop request signal, and a timing specified by the timing information. Accordingly, a stop period is provided for signal transmission to the terminal 103. On the other hand, since the second base station 102 that is not the communication partner of the terminal 103 has not received the transmission stop request signal, for example, as shown in FIG. 9B, no stop period is provided for signal transmission.

  At this time, the reception antenna 201 of the terminal 103 receives the transmission signal from the first base station 101 and the transmission signal from the second base station 102 in a mixed state as shown in FIG. Is done. A signal received by the receiving antenna 201 is multiplied by a frequency signal generated from the frequency synthesizer 212 in accordance with an instruction from the hopping pattern generation unit 211 by the hopping pattern multiplication unit 202 and then introduced into the BPF 203. FIG. 10B shows the received signal after passing through the BPF 203. In this way, only the signal from the second base station 102 is received during the transmission stop period of the first base station 101.

  This received signal is converted into a digital signal by the A / D converter 204 and then sent to the demodulator 205 and also sent to the hopping pattern collision detector 240. In the hopping pattern collision detection unit 240, the reception signal power measurement unit 241 measures the reception power during the transmission stop period of the first base station 101, and a hopping pattern collision occurs when the measured reception power exceeds a threshold value. The symbol position where the collision of the hopping pattern has occurred is notified to the null signal insertion unit 206 (step 803).

  On the other hand, demodulation section 205 performs demodulation processing on the received signal, and the result is introduced to null signal insertion section 206 (step 804). In the null signal insertion unit 206, a null signal insertion process is performed on the demodulated reception signal to replace the symbol at the hopping pattern collision position notified from the hopping pattern collision detection unit 240 with a null symbol (step 806). Thereafter, error correction in the error correction decoding unit 207 and error detection in the error detection unit 208 are performed on the signal block in which the null symbol is inserted (step 807). The block signal is output to the upper layer 209.

  Further, after this error detection processing, the number of symbols in which the block error rate of the error correction code block exceeds the threshold (YES in step 808) and the hopping pattern collision detection unit 240 has detected the hopping pattern collision is the threshold. Is exceeded (YES in step 809), it is determined that it is difficult to decode the received signal, and the first base station 101 that is the communication partner is requested to change the hopping pattern (step 810).

  If the block error rate is less than the threshold (NO in step 808), a transmission stop request signal is not generated from the terminal 103, so that the hopping pattern collision detection unit 240 does not detect the hopping pattern collision, and the demodulation unit 205 The signal demodulated in step 1 passes through the null signal insertion unit 206 and is sent to the error correction decoding unit 207.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, a period in which the first base station 101 stops transmitting a signal to the terminal 103 in response to a request for stopping the transmission of the signal directed to itself from the terminal 103 for a specified period. In addition, the received power is measured by the hopping pattern collision detection unit 240 of the terminal 103, and the symbol position where the hopping pattern collision occurs between the transmission signal addressed to the own station and the transmission signal addressed to the other station is detected. Thus, collision of hopping patterns can be detected reliably and easily, and performance degradation of error correction decoding due to collision of hopping patterns can be prevented. Further, according to this embodiment, the frequency of hopping pattern change requests caused by hopping pattern collisions can be reduced as a result, so that the frequency of hopping pattern rearrangement processing is reduced and the throughput of the entire system is improved.

  Next, another embodiment of the hopping pattern collision detection unit will be described as a third embodiment of the present invention.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a hopping pattern collision detection unit 250 according to the third embodiment. Configurations other than the hopping pattern collision detection unit 250 in the reception device are the reception of the first embodiment illustrated in FIG. It is the same as the device.

  As shown in the figure, this hopping pattern collision detection unit 250 estimates the difference power between the estimated ideal signal and the actual received signal as the power of the interference signal for each received symbol. 251 and an error symbol position determination unit 252 that determines a collision of hopping patterns based on the estimation result of the error component power estimation unit 251.

  FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the operation of the receiving apparatus of this embodiment.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the signal received by the antenna 201 is multiplied by the frequency signal generated by the frequency synthesizer 212 in the hopping pattern multiplication unit 202, and the multiplication result passes through the BPF 203 and becomes a baseband frequency signal. Converted. The signal that has passed through the BPF 203 is converted into a digital signal by the A / D converter 204, and demodulated by the demodulator 205 (step 1201).

  The demodulated signal is input to the error component power estimation unit 251 of the hopping pattern collision detection unit 250 as shown in FIG. The error component power estimation unit 251 uses the demodulated signal to estimate the difference power between the estimated ideal signal and the received signal for each received symbol as the power of the interference signal (step 1202), and the result is an error symbol. The position determination unit 252 is provided.

  The error symbol position determination unit 252 determines a symbol in which a hopping pattern collision occurs based on the power of the interference signal for each received symbol input from the error component power estimation unit 251 (step 1203). Specifically, when the average value of interference signal power for a predetermined number of hopping patterns exceeds a threshold value, or when the cumulative value of interference signal power exceeds a threshold value, the symbol collides with a hopping pattern. It is determined that it has occurred (YES in step 1204), and the position of the symbol is notified to the null signal insertion unit 206. In accordance with this notification, the null signal insertion unit 206 replaces the symbol at the corresponding position in the received signal with a null symbol (step 1205).

  Thereafter, error correction in the error correction decoding unit 207 and error detection in the error detection unit 208 are performed on the signal block in which the null symbol is inserted (step 1206). The block signal is output to the upper layer 209.

  If no hopping pattern collision is detected by hopping pattern collision detection unit 250 (NO in step 1204), null symbol insertion is not performed, and error correction decoding and error are performed on the demodulated signal in step 1206. Detection is performed.

  Further, the upper layer 209 monitors the block error rate of the error correction code block, the block error rate exceeds the threshold (YES in step 1207), and the number of symbols estimated to collide is the threshold. Exceeds the threshold (YES in step 1208), it is determined that decoding on the receiving side is difficult due to collision of the hopping pattern, and the first base station 101 as the communication partner is requested to change the hopping pattern. (Step 1209).

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, by considering the difference power between the estimated ideal signal and the received signal as the power of the interference signal, it is possible to easily identify a symbol in which a hopping pattern collision occurs.

  Next, a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described.

  FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a part of the configuration of the receiving apparatus according to the fourth embodiment.

  As shown in the figure, the receiving apparatus includes a demodulating unit 205 that demodulates a digital received signal received by a receiving antenna (not shown) and obtained through a hopping pattern multiplication process, a band limiting process, and an A / D conversion process. A demodulated received signal, a null signal inserting unit 206 that replaces a received symbol that has deteriorated due to a hopping pattern collision with a null symbol, and first error correction decoding that performs error correction decoding on the output of the null signal inserting unit 206 Unit 207A, first error detection unit 208A for detecting the presence or absence of a signal that could not be corrected in the signal error-correction-decoded by first error-correction decoding unit 207A, and error-correction decoding of the demodulated signal block Second error correction decoding unit 207B that performs error correction on the signal error-corrected and decoded by second error correction decoding unit 207B Second error detection unit 208B that detects the presence or absence of a signal that could not be received, and a hopping pattern that detects a received symbol in which a hopping pattern collision occurs between a transmission signal addressed to the own station and a transmission signal addressed to another station Based on the error detection results of the collision detection unit 214, the first error detection unit 208A, and the second error detection unit 208B, one of the first error correction decoding unit 207A and the second error correction decoding unit 207B And a selection unit 213 that selects an error correction decoding result and outputs the result to the upper layer 209. The configuration of this receiving apparatus can be applied to the receiving apparatus of the first embodiment shown in FIG. 4 or the transmitting / receiving apparatus of the second embodiment shown in FIG. Moreover, the hopping pattern collision detection unit 250 shown in FIG. 11 can be used as the hopping pattern collision detection unit 214.

  FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing the operation of the receiving apparatus of this embodiment.

  A digital reception signal received by a receiving antenna (not shown) and obtained through hopping pattern multiplication processing, band limiting processing, and A / D conversion processing is demodulated by demodulating section 205 (step 1401). The demodulated signal is subjected to hopping pattern collision detection by the hopping pattern collision detection unit 214 by the method described above (step 1402). The demodulated signal is subjected to error correction decoding by the second error correction decoding unit 207B, and error detection is performed to the error corrected signal by the second error detection unit 208B (step 1403). If no error is detected (NO in step 1404), the error correction decoding result of the second error correction decoding unit 207B is displayed by the selection unit 213 regardless of the hopping pattern collision detection result by the hopping pattern collision detection unit 214. It is output to the upper layer 209.

  If an error is detected by second error detection section 208B (YES in step 1404) and a hopping pattern collision is detected by hopping pattern collision detection section 214 (YES in step 1405), a null signal is inserted. The unit 206 performs processing for replacing the demodulated signal with a symbol determined to be affected by the collision of the hopping pattern with a null symbol (step 1406). Thereafter, the first error correction decoding unit 207A performs error correction decoding on the signal block in which the null symbol is inserted, and the first error detection unit 208A detects an error for the error correction decoding. Is performed (step 1407). As a result, when no error is detected (NO in step 1404), the selection unit 213 outputs the error correction decoding result of the second error correction decoding unit 207B to the upper layer 209.

  Further, the upper layer 209 monitors the block error rate of the error correction code block, the block error rate exceeds the threshold (YES in step 1408), and the number of symbols estimated to collide is the threshold. Exceeds the threshold (YES in step 1409), it is determined that decoding on the receiving side is difficult due to collision of the hopping pattern, and the first base station 101 which is the communication partner is requested to change the hopping pattern. (Step 1410).

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, error correction is performed for both the case where the null symbol is inserted and the case where the null symbol is not inserted, so that the one with poor reception performance is selected as compared with the case where either one is performed. The reception performance can be improved without fail.

Next, a fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described.
FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a receiving apparatus according to the fifth embodiment.
As shown in the figure, this receiving apparatus changes at regular intervals according to a receiving antenna 201 that receives a signal from a base station, and a signal received by the receiving antenna 201 according to a transmission hopping pattern of a base station that is a communication partner. A hopping pattern multiplication unit 202 that multiplies the frequency signal to be transmitted, a band pass filter (BPF) 203 that performs band limitation on the output of the hopping pattern multiplication unit 202 and converts it to a baseband frequency signal, and converts the output of the BPF 203 into a digital signal A / D converter 204 that performs demodulation, a demodulator 205 that demodulates a digital received signal, an error correction decoder 207 that performs error correction decoding of the demodulated signal block, and a signal that has been error correction decoded by the error correction decoder 207 An error detection unit 208 that detects the presence or absence of signals that could not be corrected, and the receiving device The upper layer 209 to be controlled and the hopping pattern of the base station in communication with the hopping pattern of the other base station acquired from the upper layer 209 are compared, and a combination of symbols that may cause a hopping pattern collision occurs. Hopping pattern collision candidate detection section 215 that detects as a candidate pattern, and n null signal insertion sections 206-1 to 206- that replace symbols at positions corresponding to the respective collision candidate patterns in the demodulated received signal with null symbols. n, n error correction decoding units 207-1 to 207-n that perform error correction decoding on the outputs of the null signal insertion units 206-1 to 206-n, and error correction decoding units 207-1 to 207, respectively. -N errors for detecting the presence or absence of signals that could not be corrected in the signal error-corrected and decoded by -n Output units 208-1 to 208-n, a hopping pattern generation unit 211 that generates a hopping pattern for reception, and a frequency signal output to the hopping pattern multiplication unit 202 based on the hopping pattern given from the hopping pattern generation unit 211 The error correction decoding unit 207 and the n error correction decoding units 207-1 to 207 based on the error detection results of the frequency synthesizer 212, the error detection unit 208, and the n error detection units 208-1 to 208-n. A selection unit 213 that selects any one of the error correction decoding results of −n and outputs the result to the upper layer 209.

  FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing the operation of the receiving apparatus of this embodiment.

  A signal received by the antenna 201 is a frequency signal generated by the frequency synthesizer 212, that is, a frequency signal that changes at regular intervals according to a transmission hopping pattern of the first base station 101 that is a communication partner, in a hopping pattern multiplication unit 202. Multiplication is performed, and the multiplication result passes through the BPF 203 and is converted into a baseband frequency signal. The signal that has passed through the BPF 203 is converted into a digital signal by the A / D converter 204, and demodulated by the demodulator 205 (step 1601). The error correction decoding unit 207 performs error correction decoding on the demodulated signal, and the error detection unit 208 performs error detection on the error correction decoded signal (step 1602). If no error is detected (NO in step 1603), the selection unit 213 outputs the error correction decoding result of the error correction decoding unit 207 to the upper layer 209.

  If an error is detected by error detection section 208 (YES in step 1603), hopping pattern collision candidate detection section 215 uses hopping used in n base stations other than the base station that is communicating from higher layer 209. Receive pattern information. These hopping patterns are compared with the hopping patterns used in the communicating base station to generate n collision candidate patterns that are combinations of symbols that may cause hopping pattern collisions. (Step 1605), each collision candidate pattern is notified to the corresponding null signal insertion units 206-1 to 206-n.

  The n null signal insertion units 206-1 to 206-n perform null symbol insertion processing based on the collision candidate pattern notified from the hopping pattern collision candidate detection unit 215. Here, the n null signal insertion units 206-1 to 206-n execute processing part by part. That is, after the null signal insertion unit 206-1 obtains a signal block in which a null symbol is inserted based on the first collision candidate pattern (step 1606), the error correction decoding unit 207 is applied to this signal block. The error correction decoding is performed at -1, and the error detection unit 208-1 performs error detection for the error correction decoding (step 1602). If no error is detected (NO in step 1603), the selection unit 213 outputs the error correction decoding result of the error correction decoding unit 207-1 to the upper layer 209. If an error is detected again (YES in step 1603), null symbol insertion processing based on the second collision candidate pattern is performed by the null signal insertion unit 206-2, and error correction decoding and error detection are performed in the same manner. Repeated. As long as an error is detected in this way, the null symbol insertion process, error correction decoding, and error detection based on the next collision candidate pattern are similarly repeated until the processes based on all the collision candidate patterns are completed.

  As described above, according to the receiving apparatus of this embodiment, a hopping pattern of a base station in communication is compared with a hopping pattern of another base station, and a combination of symbols that may cause a collision of hopping patterns is detected. Thus, it is possible to easily detect a hopping pattern collision and to prevent performance degradation of error correction decoding caused by the hopping pattern collision. Further, according to this embodiment, the frequency of hopping pattern change requests caused by hopping pattern collisions can be reduced as a result, so that the frequency of hopping pattern rearrangement processing is reduced and the throughput of the entire system is improved.

  The wireless communication system using frequency hopping has been described above, but the present invention can also be applied to a time hopping communication system.

  Hereinafter, as a sixth embodiment of the present invention, a time hopping communication system receiver will be described.

  FIG. 17 is a graph showing an example of collision of hopping patterns in the time hopping method. Each graph (a) (b) (c) (d) has time on the horizontal axis. As shown in FIGS. 17A and 17B, each of the base stations 101 and 102 (see FIG. 1) transmits a signal using a time hopping method in which the time to be used changes at regular intervals. Since the terminal 103 exists at a position where signals from the base stations 101 and 102 can be received, the transmission signals of the base stations 101 and 102 overlap in the terminal 103 as shown in FIG. Received in state. Since the terminal 103 selects the received signal to be sampled in accordance with the transmission hopping pattern used in the first base station 101, there is no hopping pattern collision as shown in FIG. The signal is not affected by the interference signal from the second base station 102, but the signal in which the hopping pattern collision occurs is affected by the interference signal, and the reception performance of the terminal 103 is deteriorated.

FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of a time hopping communication system receiver according to the sixth embodiment.
As shown in the figure, this receiving apparatus includes a receiving antenna 401 that receives a signal from a base station, and a multiplication that multiplies the signal received by the receiving antenna 401 by a carrier frequency signal having a fixed frequency determined by the system. Unit 402, band pass filter (BPF) 403 that performs band limitation on the multiplication result and converts it to a baseband frequency signal, A / D conversion unit 404 that converts the received signal after band limitation into a digital signal, and digital reception A sample selector 405 that selects a signal addressed to the terminal from the signal, a timing control unit 406 that controls signal selection timing of the sample selector 405, and a hopping pattern that is notified by the base station when communication with the base station is established A hopping pattern generator 407 for notifying the timing controller 406 of the signal selection timing, and a sample set A demodulator 408 that demodulates the received signal selected by the Kuta 405, a null signal inserter 409 that replaces a symbol that has deteriorated due to a hopping pattern collision in the demodulated received signal, and a null signal inserter 409. An error correction decoding unit 410 that performs error correction decoding of the signal block, an error detection unit 411 that detects the presence or absence of a signal that has not been corrected in the error correction decoded signal by the error correction decoding unit 410, and the transmission / reception apparatus are controlled And a hopping pattern collision detection unit 413 that detects a hopping pattern collision.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 5, the hopping pattern collision detection unit 413 includes an error correction encoding unit 231 that performs error correction encoding on a signal block for which error correction decoding has been successful, and an output of the error correction encoding unit 231. The error position detection unit 232 that compares the signal and the demodulated signal to search for a difference symbol position as the error symbol position, records the error symbol position history obtained by the error position detection unit 232, and A hopping pattern provided with an error symbol position determination unit 233 that determines whether each error symbol position on the history is a symbol in which a collision of the hopping pattern has occurred according to the evaluation criteria, and issues an instruction to the null signal insertion unit 206 The collision detection unit 210 or the like can be used as it is.

  Next, the operation of this receiving apparatus will be described.

  The signal received by the receiving antenna 401 is multiplied by a carrier frequency signal having a fixed frequency determined by the system in the multiplier 402, and the multiplication result passes through the BPF 403 and is converted into a baseband frequency signal. The digital signal is converted into a digital signal by the D converter 404 and introduced into the sample selector 405.

  In the sample selector 405, in accordance with an instruction from the timing control unit 406 based on the signal selection timing generated by the hopping pattern generation unit 407, a signal addressed to the terminal is selected from the received signal and input to the demodulation unit 408, and is input to the demodulation unit 205. Then, demodulation for the signal addressed to the terminal is performed.

  Here, when a hopping pattern collision is detected by the hopping pattern collision detection unit 413 in the previous decoding process, it is estimated that the null signal insertion unit 409 is affected by the hopping pattern collision. Symbol is replaced with a null symbol. Thereafter, error correction in the error correction decoding unit 410 and error detection in the error detection unit 411 are performed on the signal block in which the null symbol is inserted, and if no error is detected, the error correction decoding result Is passed to the upper layer 412.

  If it is determined that the hopping patterns have not collided in the previous decoding process, null correction is not performed and error correction decoding and error detection are performed on the demodulated signal.

  Further, if no error is detected as a result of error detection, the hopping pattern collision detection unit 413 determines the position of the symbol affected by the hopping pattern collision and searches for the error symbol position. The result is notified to the null signal insertion unit 206.

  Further, the upper layer 412 monitors the error rate of the error correction code block, and when the block error rate exceeds the threshold and the number of symbols estimated to collide exceeds the threshold, the hopping pattern Therefore, it is determined that it is difficult to perform decoding on the receiving side, and the base station as a communication partner is requested to change the hopping pattern.

  As described above, according to the receiving apparatus of the present embodiment, it is possible to detect a hopping pattern collision in the time hopping method without changing the conventional system, and the performance deterioration of error correction decoding caused by the hopping pattern collision. Can be prevented. Furthermore, since the frequency of hopping pattern change requests caused by hopping pattern collisions can be reduced as a result, the frequency of hopping pattern rearrangement processing is reduced, and the overall system throughput is improved.

  By the way, in the fourth embodiment shown in FIG. 13, the error correction is performed in parallel for both the signal with the null symbol inserted and the signal without the insertion, but there is an error with respect to the signal with the null symbol inserted. Correction and error detection and error correction and error detection for a signal without inserting a null symbol may be performed in order, and one of the error correction decoding results may be output to an upper layer.

  A part of the configuration of the receiving apparatus in this case is shown in FIG. 19 as a seventh embodiment. As shown in the figure, this receiving apparatus includes a demodulator 1901 that demodulates a digital received signal received by a receiving antenna (not shown) and obtained through hopping pattern multiplication processing, band limiting processing, and A / D conversion processing. A demodulated signal buffer 1902 that temporarily stores the demodulated signal, a null signal insertion unit 1903 that replaces a received symbol degraded by a hopping pattern collision in the demodulated received signal with a null symbol, and a result of error correction decoding Depending on the presence or absence of an error in the error detection means, a selection unit 1909 that selects a received signal in which a null signal is not inserted or a signal in which a null signal is inserted, and an error that performs error correction decoding of the demodulated signal block The correction decoding unit 1904 and the signal corrected by the error correction decoding unit 1904 are corrected. An error detection unit 1905 that detects the presence or absence of a signal that could not be completed, and an output determination that outputs at least one of the error correction decoding result and the error detection result to the upper layer 1908 based on the error detection result of the error detection unit 1905 And a hopping pattern collision detection unit 1907 that detects a received symbol in which a hopping pattern collision occurs between a transmission signal addressed to the local station and a transmission signal addressed to another station.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the radio | wireless communications system to which this invention is applied. It is a graph which shows the example of the collision of the hopping pattern in a frequency hopping system. It is a figure for demonstrating the principle of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the receiver of the frequency hopping system which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the hopping pattern collision detection part of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the receiver of 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the structure of the transmission / reception apparatus of the frequency hopping system which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the transmission / reception apparatus of 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the popping pattern and transmission stop of the transmission signal of the base station of a communicating party, and the transmission signal of another base station. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a terminal reception signal and a signal after passing through a BPF with respect to the popping pattern of FIG. 9. It is a figure which shows the structure of the hopping pattern collision detection part of the receiver of the frequency hopping system which concerns on 3rd Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the receiver which concerns on 3rd Embodiment. It is a figure which shows a part of structure of the receiver of the frequency hopping system which concerns on 4th Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the receiver which concerns on 4th Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the structure of the receiver of the frequency hopping system which concerns on 5th Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the receiver which concerns on 5th Embodiment. It is a graph which shows the example of the collision of the hopping pattern in a time hopping system. It is a figure which shows the structure of the receiver of the time hopping communication system which concerns on 6th Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the structure of the receiver of the time hopping communication system which concerns on 7th Embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

  101, 102 ... base station, 103 ... terminal, 201 ... receiving antenna, 202 ... hopping pattern multiplier, 204 ... A / D converter, 205 ... demodulator, 206 ..Null signal insertion unit, 207... Error correction decoding unit, 208 .. error detection unit, 209... Upper layer, 210... Hopping pattern collision detection unit, 211. 212 ... frequency synthesizer, 213 ... selection unit, 231 ... error correction coding unit, 232 ... error position detection unit, 233 ... error symbol position determination unit, 240 ... hopping pattern collision Detection unit, 241 ... Received signal power measurement unit, 250 ... Hopping pattern collision detection unit, 251 ... Error component power estimation unit, 252 ... Error symbol position determination .

Claims (8)

A hopping pattern collision detection device for detecting a received symbol in which a hopping pattern collision occurs between a transmission signal addressed to its own station and a transmission signal addressed to another station, in a reception device of a frequency or time hopping wireless communication system Means,
Null symbol replacement means for replacing the received symbol detected by the hopping pattern collision detection means with a null symbol for the error-corrected encoded reception signal;
An error correction decoding means for performing error correction decoding on the output of the null signal replacement means. The hopping pattern collision detection means is
Error correction encoding means for performing error correction encoding on a received signal that has been successfully corrected by the error correction decoding means;
An error for detecting a bit position where an error has occurred by comparing the signal error-encoded by the error-correcting encoder and the received signal of the same block before error correction decoding by the error-correcting decoder Position detecting means;
The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: an error symbol position determination unit that determines a bit position having an error occurrence rate exceeding a threshold as a symbol position where a hopping pattern collision occurs. The hopping pattern collision detection means is
Interference power estimation that estimates the difference power between the estimated ideal received signal and the received signal for each received symbol as the power of the interference signal due to the hopping pattern collision between the transmission signal addressed to the local station and the transmission signal addressed to the other station Means,
The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: an error symbol determination unit that determines a symbol in which a collision of a hopping pattern occurs based on the interference power estimated by the interference power estimation unit. An error correction decoding means for performing error correction decoding on the output of the null signal replacement means is provided as a first error correction decoding means, which is provided separately from the first error correction decoding means and is subjected to error correction coding. Second error correction decoding means for performing error correction decoding on the received signal;
And a selection means for selecting one of the outputs of the first error correction decoding means and the second error correction decoding means that has been correctly error correction decoded. Item 4. The receiving device according to Item 1. Hopping pattern change request means for requesting the transmitter to change the hopping pattern when the number of symbols with which the hopping pattern collides exceeds the threshold value and the ratio of data blocks that cannot be subjected to error correction decoding exceeds the threshold value The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: A receiving device of a frequency or time hopping radio communication system, wherein a hopping pattern collision occurs by comparing a hopping pattern of a transmitting station in communication with a hopping pattern of another n transmitting stations. Hopping pattern collision candidate detection means for detecting n collision candidate patterns that are combinations of
A null symbol that sequentially replaces a symbol that may cause a collision of the hopping pattern with a null symbol based on each collision candidate pattern detected by the hopping pattern collision candidate detection means for the received signal that has been subjected to error correction coding A replacement means;
Error correction decoding means for performing error correction decoding on each output of the null symbol replacement means;
A receiving device comprising: selecting means for selecting a result of correct error correction decoding by the error correction decoding means. A frequency or time hopping wireless communication system,
A transmitting station and a receiving station,
The receiving station is
Signal transmission stop request means for issuing a request to stop signal transmission for a specified period to the transmitting station of the communication partner,
The transmitting station is
In response to the request from the receiving station, signal transmission stopping means for stopping transmission of a signal to the receiving station for a specified period;
And the receiving station is
Hopping pattern collision detection means for measuring received power during the signal transmission stop period and detecting a symbol position where a hopping pattern collision occurs between a transmission signal addressed to the own station and a transmission signal addressed to another station;
Null symbol replacement means for replacing a symbol at a position detected by the hopping pattern collision detection means with a null symbol for an error correction encoded received signal;
An error correction decoding means for performing error correction decoding on the output of the null signal replacement means. An error correction decoding means for performing error correction decoding on the output of the null signal replacement means is provided as a first error correction decoding means, which is provided separately from the first error correction decoding means, and is subjected to error correction coding. Second error correction decoding means for performing error correction decoding on the received signal;
And a selection means for selecting one of the outputs of the first error correction decoding means and the second error correction decoding means that has been correctly error correction decoded. Item 8. The wireless communication system according to Item 7.

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