WO2000030382A1 - Accessory interface within a multiple channel radio apparatus - Google Patents
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- Accessory interface ithin a multiple channel radio apparatus
- the invention concerns generally the transmission of information between a te ⁇ ninal of a cellular radio system and an accessory device. Especially the invention concerns an accessory interface that sets relatively few structural requirements to the te ⁇ ninal.
- a terminal of a cellular radio system has conventionally been a mobile telephone, but together with the evolution of the cellular radio systems a number of other te ⁇ ninal types have emerged. According to expectations, the te ⁇ ninal of a future cellular radio system will combine at least some of the features of a video telephone, portable telefax, palmtop computer, positioning device and many other portable electronic devices previously known as separate units.
- An accessory device is typically an auxiliary computer, a camera, a printer, a mass memory device or some other device that has some features that are missing from the mobile terminal and that is meant to be used locally, i.e. in the immediate vicinity of the terminal, in the same room or at least within a short walking distance.
- the conventional way of providing an interface for transmitting information between an accessory device and a te ⁇ ninal is a cable. Recently also an infrared interface has gained popularity.
- a cable necessitates a cable connector to be built in the te ⁇ ninal, and an infrared interface requires an infrared transceiver. These must be located in the terminal in suitable positions for easy operation, whereby they reserve a part of the outer cover of the terminal.
- a cable connector is prone to dirt and co ⁇ osion and its appearance is not always in accordance with the esthetical aims of a designer.
- the lens of an infrared transmitted may become dirty or scratched, causing unreliable transmissions. Additionally one must take into account the driver circuits that are indispensible for operating a cable connection or an infrared transceiver but require space from within the terminal and consume power.
- the objects of the invention are achieved by using at least partly the same structural elements for the accessory interface that are used for the radio interface between the terminal and the other parts of the cellular radio system.
- the terminal comprises means for identifying a radio channel on which there is no perceivable radio traffic in the cellular radio system and means for establishing a local communication connection between the terminal and an accessory device on the identified radio channel.
- the invention applies also to an accessory device with the characteristic feature that it comprises an adjustable radio transceiver for establishing communication connections with a terminal of a cellular radio system on a selectable radio channel.
- any terminal of a cellular radio system already includes an interface: the radio interface between the teirninal and a base station that belongs to the fixed parts of the cellular radio system.
- the accessory interface it is possible to achieve major savings in the component count, physical size and power consumption of a terminal.
- a suitable multi-use or multiple access scheme must be applied.
- Conventional multiple access schemes comprise TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access), CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and FDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access) arrangements as well as combinations of these.
- the aspects of the cellular radio system's multiple access scheme are applied to divide the capacity of the terminal between the actual radio interface and the accessory interface.
- the accessory interface of the terminal takes advantage of the fact that in any given cell there is always only a very limited number of spreading codes in use compared to the total available code space, i.e. the number of spreading codes that may be generated according to the existing code generation rules.
- One of the unused spreading codes is simply selected for use in the communication between the te ⁇ ninal and the accessory device. Alternatively a separate code space may be used for the purposes of the accessory interface.
- a TDMA embodiment of the present invention there may be unused time slots, during which the terminal may communicate with the accessory device.
- some otherwise unused frequency is reserved for communication between the terminal and the accessory device.
- these embodiments of the invention are not regarded as being as advantageous as the CDMA embodiment, because the number of available time slots and the number of available frequencies is usually much more limited than the number of available spreading codes. Also the structure of the radio frequency part of the terminal would have to be slightly more complicated.
- Fig. 1 is a system overview of the present invention
- Fig. 2 illustrates som structural aspects of a terminal according to an advantageous embodiment of the invention
- Fig. 3 illustrates a method according to an advantageous embodiment of the invention
- Fig. 4 illustrates another structure for implementing the invention
- Fig. 5 illustrates further steps of a method according to an advantageous embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 1 illustrates a simple wireless telecommunication system comprising a base station 101, a terminal 102 and an accessory device 103.
- the base station 101 belongs to the fixed parts of a cellular radio system, in which case it is coupled to a Base Station Controller (BSC), a Radio Network Controller (RNC), a Mobile Switching Centre (MSC) or some other higher- level structure of the cellular radio system; for the sake of clarity these are not shown in Fig. 1.
- BSC Base Station Controller
- RNC Radio Network Controller
- MSC Mobile Switching Centre
- the cell or coverage area of the base station 101 may be of any size from a picocell of a low-power single-room base station to a megacell of a high-power satellite-mounted base station.
- the single base station of a wireless telephone that is wire-connected to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) may be regarded as a single-cell cellular radio system, so it is also within the scope of the present invention.
- PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
- the terminal 102 may be a cellular radio system terminal of any kind, including but not being limited to a mobile telephone, a wireless telephone handset, a video telephone, a computer, a telefax, a pager and a positioning device.
- the invention does not require it to be portable; there are also fixed and semi-fixed terminals in cellular radio systems.
- the terminal comprises a radio transceiver (not separately shown) for communicating with the base station 101 over a radio interface.
- the type of the accessory device 103 is not limited by the invention. It may be an auxiliary computer, a camera, a printer, a mass memory device or some other fixed, semi-fixed or portable device in the operation of which it is advantageous to exchange information locally with the te ⁇ ninal 102.
- the transmission of information between the accessory device 103 and the terminal 102 may take place one-way in either direction or two-way.
- another terminal may be regarded as an accessory device, if there exists a need for exchanging information locally between two terminals without involving the cellular radio system.
- the information to be exchanged locally between the two terminals is usually of some other kind than the information to the transmission of which the terminals use the cellular radio system.
- a mobile telephone type Nokia 6110
- the users of two such mobile telephones may play against each other by letting the telephones exchange game-related information locally over an infrared link.
- both the base station 101 and the terminal 102 comprise known means for generating, transmitting, receiving and interpreting a spread- spectrum radio transmission, in which a certain transmission sequence is spread over an available frequency range around a known center frequency by using a pseudorandom spreading code.
- a pseudorandom spreading code A large number of known ways exist for producing such a code, and the invention does not limit the actual method used in the system of Fig. 1.
- CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
- the terminal 102 will use a spread-spectrum radio transmission with some otherwise unused spreading code to communicate with the accessory device 103.
- "Otherwise unused" means that the same spreading code is not used in any such simultaneous transmission that either the terminal or the accessory device or both can receive.
- the selection of such code will advantageously take place according to one of the following mutually alternative selection rales:
- the device that is making the selection will randomly pick, among the available codes in the cell, a candidate code that it is not itself currently using and try receiving with that code.
- a natural alternative to random picking is to use some predetermined order. If the power received with the candidate code is higher than a certain threshold value, which is the general noise level added by some previously determined selection marginal that is larger than (or in some special cases equal to) zero, the device deducts that somebody else is currently using the candidate code for transmission. A new candidate code will be picked until with some candidate code the received power is less than said threshold value, whereafter that candidate code is used for transmission between the terminal and the accessory device.
- the value of the previously determined selection marginal may be a system constant or a parameter indicated in a cell broadcast transmission.
- Said special set of codes may be a particularly defined subset of the spreading codes that may be generated according to the existing code generation rales in the cellular radio system. This is especially applicable if in each cell of the cellular radio system there is only a limited subset of all possible codes available for communication between the terminals and the base station. Said particularly defined subset may then be the set of codes that are not otherwise available in that particular cell, or the set of codes that are not otherwise available in that particular cell or any of its neighboring cells. The particularly defined subset of codes may also comprise codes of completely different length or type than what are used for communication between the terminals and the base station.
- the device that is making the selection will send to the base station an inquiry for the availability of codes in the cell. As a response, the base station will either tell which codes are cu ⁇ ently in use, or indicate a group of codes which are not currently in use, or allocate a code for the use of the inquiring device.
- the device that is making the selection is the terminal or the accessory device.
- the invention is not limiting in this respect.
- the physical distance between the terminal and the accessory device is likely to be very much smaller than the distance between the terminal and the base station, it is advisable to use a very low transmission power in the auxiliary interface compared to the radio interface between the terminal and the base station. It may be advantageous not to equip at all the accessory device with such a powerful transceiver that it could communicate with the base station. Therefore at least in those cases where the selection of the code for the accessory interface requires negotiation with the base station it is most advantageously the te ⁇ ninal that selects the code.
- the selection takes place according to alternative 1), i.e. without the base station actually even knowing that somebody is selecting a certain code for use within an accessory interface, it may be advantageous to obligate the terminal (or the accessory device) to send a signalling message to the base station and identify in the message the selected code so that the base station will not allocate the same code for some connection between it and another terminal.
- a similar message could be sent at the end of communication over the accessory interface, so that the base station knows that it is free to use the code again.
- the terminal comprises only one code channel transmitter and one code channel receiver, which means that it can not communicate simultaneously with the base station and the accessory device.
- CDMA networks often require multicode reception and transmission at the radio interface between a mobile terminal and a base station. This in turn dictates that a terminal must comprise a number of parallel arrangements for coded transmission and reception.
- Fig. 2 illustrates schematically an advantageous structural solution for a terminal.
- Block 203 illustrates schematically all parts of the terminal that are used to process a "baseband" signal, including any channel en/decoding, speech or video en/decoding, or other processing known as such.
- block 204 illustrates all radio known frequency parts that may be used to handle a received or transmitted radio frequency signal ⁇ respective of which code channel it belongs to.
- a control block 205 is responsible for all controlling functions, including the setting of the codes with which each code channel transmitter and receiver tranmits or receives. It is possible to set a different code or at least a differently timed copy of the same code for each code channel transmitter and receiver. According to a widely accepted definition a copy of a code is regarded as a different code if it is timed so that the cross-co ⁇ elation between the original code and the differently timed copy is below some predefined limit.
- the multichannel radio apparatus of Fig. 2 comprises, in addition to its known features, the capability of using a code selected according to at least one of the rales l)-4) above in one code channel transmitter and/or the same code or some other similarly selected code in one code channel receiver for communicating with an accessory device.
- the control block 205 is programmed to execute a code selection procedure, which is slightly different depending on which of the rules l)-4) above is used. For the sake of example we may assume that it is rule 1), in which case the control block is programmed to perform the steps illustrated in Fig. 3.
- the control block picks randomly one code which the terminal itself is not cu ⁇ ently using, and sets it as the reception code for one of the parallel code channel receivers 202a, 202b,...202M.
- the control block obtains from that particular code channel receiver an average value of the received power, which it compares to a threshold value which is the simultaneously or previously obtained average value of received noise added by a previously determined selection marginal.
- the noise value may be obtained from the same code channel receiver or from some other part of the receiving circuitry.
- stage 302 If the comparison of stage 302 indicates that the power received with the randomly selected code is likely to consist only of noise, the control block selects the code for use within the accessory interface at stage 303. If, however, the received power is higher than the treshold value, the control block draws the conlusion that somebody else is cu ⁇ ently using the same code, which makes the code unusable for other communications. In that case the control block returns to stage 301 to select another code. The loop consisting of stages 301 and 302 is repeated until an acceptable code is found. In the specifications of a CDMA cellular radio system it is usually defined, how do the receiving code and transmitting code relate to each other that together define a code channel.
- the control block sets the correponding transmitting code as the code for one of the parallel code channel transmitters 201a, 201b,...201N. It is also possible to provide a timer that allows only a limited number of rounds around the loop through stages 301 and 302 before the action is terminated and the user is informed that due to traffic congestion, it is impossible to establish a connection to the accessory device for the moment.
- the base station of the cellular radio system (or some other device in the cellular radio system that is responsible for the allocation of codes) is not aware of the reservation of a certain code to the use of a certain accessory interface, it may happen that it allocates the same code to some other connection within the cell. In such a case a new code must be selected to the accessory interface, because it is reasonable to assume that the cellular radio system has a priority right to the allocation of codes.
- Fig. 3 To prepare for a change of code during a communication it is possible to have a process according to Fig. 3 constantly running either in the te ⁇ ninal or in the accessory device or in both so that at any given moment there exists an identified code that is not cu ⁇ ently in use in any receivable communication connection. Fig.
- the terminal comprises an antenna 401, a multiplexing switch 402, a multichannel transceiver 403 for communicating with the base station, a baseband block 404, a control block 405 and a separate one- or multichannel radio transceiver 406 for communicating with accessory devices.
- the difference between the terminals of Figs. 2 and 4 is that in Fig. 2, the code channel transmitter(s) and receiver(s) that will be allocated for use within the accessory interface are parts of the same multichannel transceiver that is used to communicate with the base station, whereas in the embodiment of Fig.
- the multiplexing switch 402 is responsible for arranging the couplings between the different transceivers and the antenna so that the interface-related traffic is kept from interfering with the traffic related to the cellular radio system and vice versa. In a very simple embodiment a multiplexing switch is not needed at all if filtering a ⁇ angements or other kind of components known as such guide the radio frequency signals within the terminal with reasonable accuracy.
- a transceiver designer will most probably implement the code channel transmitters and receivers on an Application Specific Integrated Circuit or ASIC, whereby adding one or a few code channels for the purposes of an accessory interface will not significantly increase the manufacturing costs, demand of space or consumption of power in the terminal.
- the accessory device For the transmission and reception of radio signals the accessory device must have an antenna and an RF block as well as at least one code channel trasmitter and code channel receiver that operate under the control of a control block. Additionally the accessory device must have a baseband block for handling the baseband output signal of the code channel receiver(s) and - if the accessory device is to transmit other data than what is provided directly from the control block to the code channel transmitter - formatting the data to be transmitted into a baseband input signal for the code channel transmitter(s). It is within the capability of a person skilled in the art to present the detailed structure of such blocks.
- the operation of the accessory interface blocks within the accessory device depends on whether it will be required that the accessory device is able to select a suitable code for the accessory interface, or whether the accessory device is a "slave" device in the sense that it always waits for the terminal to select the code and inform the accessory device about which code has been selected.
- the accessory device In the first-mentioned case the accessory device must be able to perform the same steps for code selection that we have described previously in connection with the operation of the terminal. In the latter case it suffices for the accessory device to have the capabilities that are described in the following discussion of the establishing, mamtaining and closing a data transfer connection between the te ⁇ ninal and the accessory device.
- Fig. 5 illustrates the stages of establishing, maintaining and closing a data transfer connection between the terminal and the accessory device in a typical situation.
- Stage 501 co ⁇ esponds to the establishment of synchronisation, which as a generic term is understood as establishing a common time base for the communication at both ends and sharing the knowledge about the spreading code which is to be used.
- Stage 501 will also comprise all eventual steps for establishing means for authenticated and or encrypted communication between the terminal and the accessory device. In these respects it co ⁇ esponds generally to the known initial phase of establishing a communication connection between the terminal and a base station.
- Stage 501 may be initiated either by the terminal or by the accessory device.
- stage 501 takes place on the initiation of the terminal, operation starts by the terminal performing the steps 301 - 303 of Fig. 3 until it has found a suitable code. Thereafter it may inform the accessory device about the commencing transmission on a separate command channel, or it may begin transmitting a synchronisation signal whereby the beginning of this transmission acts as an information about the commencing trans- mission to the accessory device.
- the synchronisation signal is most advantageously a so-called pilot signal which means a regular oscillating signal or a piece of data in a previously known form.
- the accessory device When the accessory device has detected the synchronisation signal, it transmits an acknowledgement indicating that it is ready for reception.
- the terminal indicates the selected code by using some indication method known as such, and the accessory device again acknowledges the co ⁇ ect reception of the code indication.
- the terminal and the accessory device may exchange any number of messages that relate for example to the establishment of an authenticated and/or encrypted communication connection.
- stage 501 takes place on the initiation of the accessory device, the operation follows initially a slightly different pattern. Because of our assumption that only the terminal is capable of selecting a code, the accessory device must first transmit a pilot signal or a co ⁇ esponding indication from which the terminal knows that the accessory device wants to set up a communication connection. If the accessory device transmits as the indication a pilot signal, the terminal may easily synchronise its transceiver to it. The terminal may acknowledge the reception of the indication before starting the code selection according to Fig. 3, or it may start the code selection right away whereby only a subsequent indication about a selected code serves as an acknowledgement. Thereafter the operation may continue as described above.
- stage 502 After successful syncronisation in stage 501 the exchange of data packets between the terminal and the accessory device may begin as illustrated by stage 502 in Fig. 5. It is not mandatory that during a communication connection between a terminal and an accessory device there is all the time some data to be transmitted.
- the connection may contain idle periods, during which neither of the devices has any data to be transmitted.
- at least one of the devices may transmit some kind of a null signal, e.g. repetitive pilot symbols with just enough transmission power for the other device to receive.
- the operation will circulate in the loop constituted by stages 502 and 503 until for some reason the communication connection is deactivated by one of the devices sending a deactivation command and the other acknowledging it according to stage 504. It is also possible that the connection is abruptly ended due to lost syncronisation, which may be caused for example by an increasing level of interference or by one of the devices being switched off.
- the invention does not limit the timing of the communication connection over the accessory interface.
- the connection may be active all the time when a terminal and an accessory device are near enough to each other so that it is possible to establish a connection.
- Automatic activation of the connection may result when either one of the devices realises that it has data to be transmitted to the other device.
- at least one of the devices must follow some previously programmed schedule for listening and trying to receive a pilot signal or a co ⁇ esponding indication.
- the connection is typically deactivated when neither of the devices has any more data packets to be transmitted.
- a short grace period of predetermined length may be applied before deactivating the connection for not to deactivate an established and working connection just because of a short break in the flow of data to be transmitted.
- the invention does not limit any other simultaneous activity performed by either one of the devices; for example the teraiinal may have simultaneously an active communication connection with a base station on a different code channel.
- the invention does not limit the number of simultaneous connections from one terminal to several accessory devices, or the number of simultaneous connections from several terminals to one accessory device.
- the above-described functional blocks and operational steps are separately needed.
- Transmission power control is a significant part of all radio connections.
- a large number of simultaneous, continuous transmissions may share the same frequency band.
- the transmitted radio signal of one connection represents interference to all other connections, and communication will only be possible if the general interference level experienced in any single connection stays within some predetermined limits.
- transmission power control takes place independently in all connections, a so-called "coctail party" phenomenon easily follows in which one transmitter raises its transmission power level causing increasing interference to all other simultaneous connections, which in turn causes all other transmitters to raise their power so that the effect continues until everybody is shouting at full power without still being able to get a message through.
- a constant transmission power for the accessory interface there is defined a constant transmission power for the accessory interface, the value of which is so low that it only facilitates a communication within a very small distance, like a few meters.
- the drawback of such a simple embodiment is that the predetermined constant transmission power is in only few practical situations the optimal value for obtaining a good transmission quality and simultaneously not unnecessarily depleting the battery of a portable terminal.
- each base station of the cellular radio system regularly transmits, as a part of a known cell broadcast message, the cu ⁇ ently valid values for the minimum and maximum transmission power levels for any accessory interfaces that are operational within the cell of that particular base station.
- the base station separately allocates a spreading code for each accessory interface it is even possible for the base station to monitor the interference level associated with each allocated code and give commands for changing the accessory interface transmission power level at the terminal to the accessory interface of which the monitored spreading code has been allocated. In all cases it may be advantageous to reserve to the base station the right to prohibit the operation of all radio-operated accessory interfaces (and indeed all other radio traffic within a certain frequency band as well) within the cell for a certain time, if for example an emergency call has difficulties in coming through.
- each cell a transmission frame structure consisting of a predefined number of successive time slots. Many times the transmission frames (at least on a certain frequency, if there are several frequency bands allocated to the cell) are not full, whereby during certain time slots there is no radio traffic on the air in that cell. It is possible to allocate the free time slots to the use of accessory interfaces much in the same way as the unused codes in the CDMA embodiment.
- an advantageous way of selecting a free time slot is to have either the terminal or the accessory device or both measuring the level of the radio signal received in each time slot, and identifying as free time slots those of them during which the received signal level is not higher than a predetermined threshold value.
- An alternative is to have the base station regularly declaring, which time slots are free to be used for traffic related to accessory interfaces.
- This alternative is especially applicable to a proposal for the frame stracture of a future cellular radio system, in which the base station (or some other device responsible for the allocation of time slots) takes into the account the carrier to interference ratio or other interference- related characteristic required by each connection when allocating the time slots.
- the base station or other device may find that even if there is a certain allocated time slot, the connection to which that time slot has been allocated is so strong that it can tolerate some minor interference caused by a (number of) simultaneous low-power accessory interface connection(s). Therefore the same time slot may be declared as freely usable for accessory interfaces.
- the selection rules l)-4) given above for codes are easily generalised for time slots and/or frequencies.
- a te ⁇ ninal or an accessory device may always monitor the received power level in a certain time slot and/or frequency, and select a free time slot and/or frequency in accordance with selection rale 1). The monitoring may also concern only those time slots and/or frequencies that have been exclusively allocated for the purposes of accessory interfacing, in accordance with selection rale 2).
- Each accessory interface may have a constant predetermined frequency or time slot (the time slot being defined relative to some general time base) as in selection rule 3), or the base station may indicate the allowable time slots and/or frequencies according to selection rale 4). Setting up, maintaining and closing a communication connection between the terminal and the accessory device take place with only minor changes in the details.
- the structure required of the radio apparatuses by the TDMA embodiment or the FDMA embodiment of the invention is somewhat different than what we have described above in connection with the CDMA embodiment.
- To use some otherwise unused time slots it is not necessary to make any structural changes to a known TDMA radio transceiver. It suffices to program the control block of the transceiver so that during the time slots allocated for accessory interfacing it harnesses the radio frequency parts to the transmission of accessory-related information exactly in the same way as they are used for transmission of information related to the cellular radio system during the appropriate time slots.
- a terminal of a FDMA cellular radio system is to be used simultaneously for communicating with a base station and an accessory device, it must comprise a separate radio transceiver for both in order for the different frequencies not to interfere with each other.
- the advantages of the invention are most prominently seen in the structure of the terminal, because all physical means for a completely different type of interface like a cable connection or an infrared link are avoided.
- An accessory device must include a radio transceiver instead of a cable connector or an infrared link, which may slightly increase the complexity and manufacturing costs.
- the structure and functions on the accessory device side are kept as simple as possible (for example by requiring only the terminal to be able to select a channel), said additional complexity and manufacturing costs remain near the border of insignificance.
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