WO2001011811A1 - Synchronisierungsverfahren und -system für taktquellen bei insbesondere paketvermittelnden kommunikationssystemen - Google Patents
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- Synchronization method and system for clock sources in packet-switching communication systems in particular
- the invention relates to a method for synchronizing clock sources according to the preamble features of claim 1 and a communication system that implements this method.
- Radio communication systems transmit information (for example voice, image information or other data) with the aid of electromagnetic waves via a radio interface between the sending and receiving station (base station or subscriber station).
- the electromagnetic waves are emitted at carrier frequencies that lie in the frequency band provided for the respective system.
- future mobile radio systems with e.g. CDMA or TD / CDMA transmission methods (TD / CDMA: Time / Code Division Multiple Access) via the radio interface, for example the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) or other 3rd generation systems, frequencies in the frequency band of approx. 2000 MHz are provided ,
- PCM switching system PCM: pulse code modulation
- IP packet-switching networks
- IP ATM / asynchronous transfer mode
- EWSD digital electronic dialing systems
- the invention has for its object to provide a simpler synchronization method and system for clock sources in communication systems.
- the combination of the transmission of time information, such as a continuous index as useful content, and the run time measurement or response time is particularly advantageous.
- a single, accurate reference clock source is sufficient to synchronize other clock sources.
- several, but generally only relatively few clock sources are useful, which are then synchronized with a correspondingly high level of expenditure, as is known per se (PCM, GPS, atomic standard).
- PCM per se
- the cost of providing synchronizable facilities such as However, mobile stations, base stations and other units, particularly in the base station subsystem, can be reduced by using less precise clock sources that can be adjusted or readjusted.
- IP Internet protocol
- ATM ATM lines
- An exemplary embodiment is explained in more detail below with reference to the drawing. It shows:
- FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a mobile radio system with time synchronization
- FIG. 2 shows a time diagram for spatial illustration of the times.
- the mobile radio system shown in FIG. 1 as an example of a known radio communication system consists of a large number of base station control devices or mobile switching centers MSC, which are networked with one another or provide access to a fixed network PSTN. Furthermore, these mobile switching centers MSC are each connected to at least one device RNM for allocating radio resources. Each of these devices RNM in turn enables a connection to at least one base station BS, BSi. Such a base station BS can connect via a radio interface to subscriber stations, e.g. Build mobile stations MS, MSi or other mobile and stationary devices. At least one radio cell Z is formed by each base station BS. In the case of sectorization or hierarchical cell structures, several radio cells Z are also supplied per base station BS.
- FIG. 1 shows, by way of example, existing connections V0, VI, V2 for the transmission of useful information and signaling information between mobile stations MSi or MS and a base station BS.
- a request for resource allocation or a short confirmation message in an access channel R ⁇ CH by another mobile station MSi is shown.
- an organization channel (BCCH: Broadcast Control CHannel) is shown, which is provided for the transmission of user and signaling information with a defined transmission power by each of the base stations BSi for all mobile stations MS, MSi.
- An operations and maintenance center OMC implements control and maintenance functions for the mobile radio system or for parts thereof. The functionality of this structure can be transferred to other radio communication systems, in particular for subscriber access networks with a wireless subscriber line.
- time information that is provided centrally in the network is exchanged between the various devices of the communication system.
- a base station BS, a mobile station MS and the device RNM for allocating radio resources are shown here as exemplary devices to be synchronized. These each have an adjustable and / or synchronizable clock source C and also each have a synchronization control device CC.
- time packets can, for example, consist only of special signaling bits in an otherwise known transmission frame. But time packets consisting of a complex, independent information frame are also possible, which are not just a start signal Synchronization but also transmit the time and date.
- the aging or another inaccuracy is determined in a clock source C to be synchronized or tuned.
- a clock source C to be synchronized or tuned.
- an example base station BS compares the received time with its own current time, which is based on its internal clock source C. After suitable processing of the time differences, the aging of the clock source C in the base station BS, in particular a quartz oscillator therein, is determined and can then be compensated for electronically accordingly by the clock source C or the quartz oscillator being readjusted.
- FIG. 2 shows the sequence of the following method with a first time line for a reference clock source Cs with real, exact time in the mobile switching center MSC, a second time line that shows the time value of signals arriving at a base station BS, and a third time line that represents the timing of the internal clock C of the base station BS in comparison.
- the base station BS can receive the response it receives at the response time or duration tA (i) with a time or a time value E (i ) measure up.
- the received time E (i) corresponds to the time when the response was sent from the reference clock source Cs.
- the simple runtime of the time packet from the clock source to the base station BS is then estimated with half the response time tA (i) / 2.
- the difference times determined via the estimate or their reliability are weighted, for example, with a weighting factor g (i) inversely proportional to the response time A (i).
- the base station BS sends, for example, every 10 seconds a time request BQ (i) numbered i + n (n as a continuous natural number) to the synchronized or synchronous clock source Cs.
- the base station BS receives a time value tE (i) as an answer after a response time tA (i) of 2 seconds, which is currently conventional.
- Half the response time tA (i) / 2 is added to the received time tE (i) and results in a reference time tR (i):
- tR (i) tE (i) + tA (i) / 2.
- This difference Dt (i) indicates the failure of the internal clock source C of the base station BS.
- the difference Dt (i) is not a reliable value, since the transit times from the base station BS to the reference clock source Cs there and back and the processing times at the reference clock source Cs can vary.
- the determined values tA (i) and Dt (i) thus come from estimates.
- a weighting factor g (i) for these difference times Dt (i) is advantageously introduced, for example the inversely proportional response time, ie
- Quartz oscillator in the clock source C in the base station BS can, in its circuit with the determined relative frequency error Df / fO with fO as a nominal frequency of the clock source or the quartz oscillator, for example by means of a proportional-integral controller, readjust the frequency of the quartz oscillator and thus syn- be chronized.
- the achievable accuracy can be calculated in this example as follows.
- the answer E (i) is a time value in which the computing, processing and / or waiting time is taken into account. So can Waiting times until the start of processing the request BQ (i) are taken into account.
- requests are preferably processed with priority in order to generate as little time variance as possible.
- a time value in the answer E (i) e.g. a running number or text are transmitted.
- a running number e.g. a frame number of the numbered data transmission blocks can also be used in the case of a mobile radio or an IP network.
- separate response signals can also be sent in response to a request BQ (i) in order to enable the most exact possible determination of the transit time.
- a first response signal could only form an unspecified response, while actual time information is transmitted in a second response.
- requests BQ (i) and response signals E (i) can be sent together with requests, with which packet-switching networks, such as the Internet or an intranet, are checked to determine whether a connected station that has not sent any requests for a long time is still active.
- packet-switching networks such as the Internet or an intranet
- conventional devices with independent clock sources can still be used in the communication system, which are so precise that a constant synchronization need not take place and a synchronization device CC is missing.
- these transmit requests BQ (i) and response signals E (i) between, for example, a mobile station MS and the mobile switching center RNM.
- Carrier units that process one or more carriers and / or carrier frequencies are possible if the communication system e.g. Has base stations (distributed base stations) with remote units, or possible between base station and base and mobile switching centers.
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