WO2002052742A1 - Systeme et procede permettant d'effectuer le transfert a etalement de spectre et d'eviter la congestion de source - Google Patents

Systeme et procede permettant d'effectuer le transfert a etalement de spectre et d'eviter la congestion de source Download PDF

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WO2002052742A1
WO2002052742A1 PCT/US2001/005468 US0105468W WO02052742A1 WO 2002052742 A1 WO2002052742 A1 WO 2002052742A1 US 0105468 W US0105468 W US 0105468W WO 02052742 A1 WO02052742 A1 WO 02052742A1
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  • the simultaneous transmission results in an increase in received signal power, by as much as 3 dB, since two base stations are transmitting to the remote station.
  • the remote station and/or base station determine that a handoff is required, and then as to which of several base stations the remote station finally will communicate.
  • an initial remote station transmitter power is determined, then the necessary overhead operations take place to effect the handoff.
  • the hard handoff results in data loss, which is unacceptable for data communications, and the soft handoff results in a decrease in capacity, since two base stations are simultaneously transmitting and/or receiving the same data.
  • the handoff procedures currently in use were for circuit- switched systems.
  • a general object of the invention is a handoff, for a direct-sequence, spread-spectrum, CDMA packet-switched system, between base stations, without loss of capacity or loss of data.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide ⁇ continuous operation of a remote station between base stations, without the large overhead operation currently required of a handoff.
  • an improvement for a method and system is provided to a spread-spectrum, code-division- multiple-access (CDMA) , system.
  • a remote station RS
  • BS base station
  • the spread- spectrum, CDMA network may be a star network with the same overhead information which is typically used in current cellular systems, or a distributed network.
  • the first base -3 - station transmits, using radio waves, a first BS-packet signal to the remote station.
  • the first BS-packet signal is spread by a first BS-chip-sequence signal at a first frequency f 1 .
  • the remote station receives the first BS-packet signal.
  • a replica of the first BS-chip-sequence signal is used by the remote station for despreading first BS-packet signals arriving from the first base station.
  • the remote station transmits, using radio waves, a first RS-packet signal to the first base station.
  • the first RS-packet signal is spread by a first RS-chip-sequence signal at a second frequency f 2 .
  • a replica of the first RS- chip-sequence signal, or equivalently a chip-sequence generator matched to the first RS-chip-sequence signal, is used by the remote station for spreading the first RS-packet signal .
  • the first RS-packet signal includes a source address from the remote station.
  • the first base station receives the first RS-packet signal at the second frequency f 2 .
  • the first base station normally would despread the first RS-packet signal, and then send the despread first RS-packet signal to a central office.
  • the despread first RS-packet signal includes a source address from the remote station, and the source address from the first base station.
  • the remote station While the remote station communicates with the first base station, the remote station also monitors spread- spectrum signals from other base stations, which are in geographic proximity to the remote station.
  • the remote station may continuously monitor, periodically monitor, or monitbr when the received power level at the remote station falls below a threshold or when the capacity availability in -4- the first base station falls below a given threshold.
  • the remote station may monitor the control and packet transmission channels, or other channels, of the other base stations .
  • the control and packet transmission channels refer to channels that are continuously operating, or nearly continuously operating, from the other base stations.
  • Each of the base stations transmits, using radio waves, a BS-packet signal spread by a second BS-chip-sequence signal at the first frequency f ⁇
  • the remote station monitors a signal metric of the control and packet transmission channels from the first base station, and monitors the same signal metric of the control and packet transmission channels from the other base stations.
  • the remote station determines when the signal metric of the first BS-packet signal falls below a threshold, and that the signal metric of a BS-packet signal from one base station, or several BS-packet signals from several base stations, is above the threshold.
  • the remote station also determines available capacity of the one or more base stations.
  • the remote station Upon determining the foregoing threshold crossings, and capacity levels, the remote station determines to handoff to a second base station.
  • the second base station is defined herein to be the particular base station, out of the one or more base stations monitored by the remote station, to which the remote station decides to handoff.
  • the second base station as set by engineering design criteria, has sufficiently high signal level and sufficient capacity, for communicating with the remote station. Upon meeting these criteria, the remote station changes communications from the first base station to the second base station.
  • a packet switched system makes use of the fact that a packet contains a finite number of bits and that the remote station transmits nothing between packets. Even in voice communications, the dead time, i.e., the time between spoken words, including pauses, is about sixty percent. When a remote station transmits a packet there is a dead time, the -5- time between the remote station transmission of the next packet. This dead time is unknown a priori at the base station and often unknown by the remote station.
  • the base station After transmission of a packet i, the base station will use the chip-sequence signal and the available capacity in the base station, given to a first remote station, for the next remote station requiring its use. Such operation is required to ensure, maximum throughput through the system.
  • the original remote station desiring to send packet i+l may find that the base station has no capacity available.
  • This metric denoted herein a BS metric, is a second reason (the first being low power) for the remote station to handover to a second base station.
  • the remote station transmits, using radio waves, a second RS-packet signal, which is called the second RS-packet signal, to the second base station, using a newly selected spreading RS-chip-sequence signal.
  • the newly selected spreading RS-chip-sequence signal defined herein as the second RS-chip-sequence signal, is provided by the second base station.
  • the term second RS-packet signal refers to the initial RS-packet signal transmitted from the remote station to the second base station, during handoff, using the second RS-chip-sequence signal. Accordingly, the second base station despreads the second RS-packet signal using the appropriate RS-chip- sequence signal or matched filter technology.
  • the second base station After the second base station receives and despreads the second RS-packet signal at the second frequency, the second base station sends the despread second RS-packet signal to the central office (CO) .
  • the despread second RS- packet signal includes a source address from the second base station and the source address from the remote station.
  • the central office For return communications from the central office to the remote station, the central office reads the source addresses from the remote station and the forwarding base -6- station. For this example, the central office reads the source address from the second base station. From the source addresses, the central office knows to route return packet signals, denoted herein as the CO-packet signal, through the second base station to the remote station.
  • the CO-packet signal return packet signals
  • the central office sends to the spread-spectrum, CDMA network, a CO-packet signal, which includes destination addresses for the second base station and the remote station.
  • the second base station receives the CO-packet signal.
  • the second base station transmits, using radio waves, the CO-packet signal, at the first frequency, as a third BS-packet signal spread by the second BS-chip-sequence signal.
  • the term third BS-packet signal refers to the BS-packet signal transmitted from the second base station, containing the information from the CO-packet signal.
  • the remote station receives and despread the third BS-packet signal, i.e., the CO-packet signal.
  • This invention has the central office route the CO- packet signal to the second base station, since the second base station is the base station to which the remote station last transmitted, as determined from the second base station source address and the remote station source address in the second packet signal previously received at the central office.
  • the present invention refers to a first frequency f x and a second frequency f 2 , which, for frequency division duplex (FDD), would be different frequencies, preferably outside the correlation bandwidth of each other.
  • the present invention also may be used with time division duplex (TDD) , with the first frequency f __ the same as the second frequency f 2 . Both FDD technology and TDD technology are well know in the art.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a current cellular spread- spectrum system, showing all base stations communicating with a central office;
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a distributed network, spread-spectrum system
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a remote station communicating between two base stations
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a remote station communicating with a base station, with channel sounding.
  • the instant invention disclosed herein provides a novel improvement and method to a direct-sequence, spread- spectrum, packetized, code-division-multiple-access (CDMA) system, and more particularly to a cellular structure or environment with each cell containing a base station communicating with a plurality of remote stations, using spread-spectrum modulation.
  • the present invention is for packet data, with data being sent between a remote station and a base station as packet signals.
  • a remote station might be a hand-held unit or telephone, a connection to a computer or other modem, or other device which may be stationery or in motion.
  • the base station is assumed to transmit to the plurality of remote stations at a first frequency f 1; also known as a carrier frequency of the base station transmitter.
  • the plurality of remote stations is assumed to transmit to the base station at a second frequency f 2 , also know as the carrier frequency of the remote station transmitters.
  • the second frequency f 2 is different from the first frequency f x , and typically outside the correlation bandwidth of the first frequency f 1 .
  • the second frequency f 2 is the same as the first frequency f 1 .
  • the present invention works with either a FDD CDMA system or a TDD CDMA system.
  • a particular channel from the base station to a remote station is defined or determined by a particular chip- sequence signal, as is well known in the art for direct- sequence (DS) code-division-multiple access (CDMA) systems.
  • a particular channel from a particular remote station to the base station is defined or determined by a particular chip- sequence signal, as is well known in CDMA systems.
  • the improvement to a method and system of the instant invention provides handoff for a spread-spectrum CDMA network.
  • the spread-spectrum, CDMA network may be a star network or a distributed network.
  • a star network as presently is used for cellular networks, is used to communicate data between a central office 50 and a plurality of remote stations (RS) .
  • a plurality of base stations 20, 30, 40 communicate directly with the central office 50.
  • a first base station 20 communicates data between a first plurality of remote stations 11, 22, 23, 24.
  • a second base station 30 communicates data between a second plurality of 052742
  • a third base station 40 communicates data between a third plurality of remote stations 41, 42, 43, 44, 45.
  • the distributed network provides an alternative architecture, for routing packet signals between a central office, through a plurality of nodes, to a remote station.
  • Each of the nodes in a distributed system includes a base station, plus additional system components for the distributed system.
  • a representative distributive is incorporated herein by reference, and is disclosed in U.S. patent application number 09/729,911, with filing date of December 6, 2000, entitled, DISTRIBUTED NETWORK, SPREAD-SPECTRUM SYSTEM, by inventors Donald L. Schilling and Joseph Gardnick, now U.S. patent number , with issue date
  • a distributed network, direct-sequence, spread-spec um, packetized, code- division-multiple-access (CDMA) system comprises a plurality of remote stations and a plurality of nodes 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170 180, 190.
  • the plurality of nodes 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170 180, 190 forms the distributed network.
  • the distributed network plus the plurality of remote stations form the distributed system.
  • FIG. 2 depicts, as an illustration, a first node 110, a second node, 120, a third node 130, a fourth node 140, a fifth node 150, a sixth node 160, a seventh node 170, an eighth node 180 and a ninth node 190.
  • one node, which happens to be labeled the second node 120 is a hub node, which communicates to a central telephone office 50.
  • a set of the plurality of nodes (hubs) communicates to the central office 50.
  • the set of the plurality of nodes (hubs) may include the entire plurality of nodes.
  • Each node in the plurality of nodes 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170 180, 190 forms a micro-cell.
  • a micro-cell typically has a radius much less than one mile.
  • the first node 110 communicates with the second node 120, the fourth node 140 and the fifth node 150.
  • the second node 120 communicates with the first node 110, the third node 130, the fourth node 140, the fifth node 150 and the sixth node 160.
  • the third node communicates with the second node 120, the fifth node 150 and the sixth node 160.
  • the fourth node communicates with the first node 110, the second node 120, the fifth node 150, the seventh node 170 and the eighth node 180.
  • the fifth node communicates with the first node 110, the second node 120, the third node 130, the fourth node 140, the sixth node 160, the seventh node 170, the eighth node 180 and the ninth node 190.
  • the sixth node 160 communicates with the second node 120, the third node 130, the fifth node 150, the eighth node 180 and the ninth node 190.
  • the seventh node 170 communicates with the fourth node 140, the fifth node 150 and the eighth node 180.
  • the eighth node 180 communicates with the fourth node 140, the fifth node 150, the sixth node 160, the seventh node 170 and the ninth node 190.
  • the ninth node communicates with the fifth node 150, the sixth node 160 and the eighth node 180.
  • FIG. 2 shows the first node 110 communicating with a first plurality of remote stations 11, 112, 113, 114.
  • the second node 120 communicates with a second plurality of remote stations, with FIG. 2 showing a first remote station 121 of the second plurality of remote stations.
  • the third node 130 communicates with a third plurality of remote stations 131, 132 and the fourth node 140, the fifth node 150 and the sixth node 160 communicate with a fourth plurality of remote stations, a fifth plurality of remote stations, and a sixth plurality of remote stations, -11- respectively.
  • FIG. 1 shows the first node 110 communicating with a first plurality of remote stations 11, 112, 113, 114.
  • the second node 120 communicates with a second plurality of remote stations, with FIG. 2 showing a first remote station 121 of the second plurality of remote stations.
  • the third node 130 communicates with a third plurality of remote stations 131, 132 and the fourth node 140, the fifth node 150 and the sixth node
  • FIG. 2 shows the fourth node 140 communicating with a first remote station 141 of the fourth plurality of remote stations, the fifth node 150 communicating with a first remote station 151 of the fifth plurality of remote stations, and the sixth node 160 communicating with a first remote station 161 of the sixth plurality of remote stations.
  • the seventh node 170 and the eighth node 180 are shown communicating with a seventh plurality of remote stations 171, 172, 173 and an eighth plurality of remote stations 181, 182, respectively.
  • the ninth node 190 communicates with a ninth plurality of remote stations, and FIG. 2 shows the ninth node 190 communicating with a first remote station 191 of the ninth plurality of remote stations .
  • the improvement to the method and system of the instant invention provides handoff for a packetized, direct- sequence, spread-spectrum CDMA system, for the star network and distributed network, as represented in FIG. 1 or FIG. 2, respectively.
  • a remote station (RS) 11 is communicating with a first base station (BS) 12 within a spread-spectrum, CDMA network.
  • BS base station
  • the first base 12 station transmits, using radio waves, a first BS-packet signal to the remote station 11.
  • the first BS-packet signal is a spread-spectrum signal, since the first BS-packet signal is spread by a first BS-chip-sequence signal at a first frequency f ⁇ .
  • Spread-spectrum technology for spreading a packet signal in general, is well known in the art. Examples include a spread-spectrum transmitter using a chip-sequence generator for generating a chip-sequence signal.
  • the data in the packet signal is spread by a multiplying device or AND gate, by the chip-sequence signal. Equivalently, a replica of the chip-sequence signal can be stored in memory and outputted in response a proper symbol -12- input, such as a bit.
  • the remote station 11 using a spread-spectrum receiver, receives the first BS-packet signal.
  • a replica of the first BS-chip-sequence signal or equivalently a matched filter matched to the first BS-chip-sequence signal, is used by the spread-spectrum receiver of the remote station for despreading BS-packet signals arriving from the first base station 20.
  • the replica of the first BS-chip-sequence signal also could be used with a product detector and output filter for despreading the packet signal.
  • the product detector and matched filter for despreading a spread- spectrum signal are well known in the art.
  • the remote station 11 transmits, using radio waves, a first RS-packet signal to the first base station 20.
  • the first RS-packet signal is spread by a first RS-chip-sequence signal at a second frequency f 2 .
  • Spread-spectrum transmitters and spread-spectrum technology for spreading the packet signals are well known in the art, as previously discussed for the first base station 20.
  • a replica of the first RS-chip-sequence signal, or equivalently a matched filter matched to the first RS-chip- sequence signal, is used by the first base station 20 for despreading the first RS-packet signal.
  • the first RS-packet signal includes a source address from the remote station 11, and a destination address for the central office 50.
  • the destination address routes packet signals to the recipient of the packet signal.
  • the source address from the remote station 11 later is used for routing packet signals to the remote station 11.
  • Source address and destination address are well known in the art.
  • the destination address and the source address are put on the first RS-packet signal prior to spreading the first RS-packet signal.
  • the first base station 20 receives the first RS-packet signal at the second frequency f 2 .
  • the first base station 20 normally would despread the first RS-packet signal, add or append its -13 - address to the packet signal, and then send the despread first RS-packet signal, by way of example, to a central office 50 of FIG. 1.
  • the eighth base station located at node 180, forwards a packet signal to a fifth base station, located at node 150, and a second base station, located at node 120, en route to the central office 50.
  • the RS-packet signals from the remote station could be forwarded through base stations to the central office by wired channel or wireless channel .
  • Technology for despreading the RS-packet signal is well known in the art, as discussed for the remote station 11.
  • the first RS-packet signal includes a source address from the remote station, and the source address forwarded from the first base station.
  • the despread first RS-packet signal includes the source address from the remote station, and the source address from the first base station.
  • a base station despreads a packet signal, in general, and for this example, an RS- packet signal, and stores the RS-packet signal for transmission the central office.
  • the flow control mechanism used by the nodes in FIG. 2, permits packet signals to be forwarded in an efficient manner to one of several base stations en route to the central office 50.
  • the use of flow control in a distributed network is well known to the ordinary skilled artisan in the art.
  • the remote station 11 While the remote station 11 communicates with the first base station 20, the remote station 11 monitors, at the first frequency i t , other base stations in geographic proximity to the remote station 11. Assume, as an illustrative example, that the remote station 11 is required to handoff to another base station because the power level is falling below a threshold or the capacity of the remote station is falling below a threshold.
  • the remote station 11 may monitor the signal or power level and capacity availability of control and packet transmission -14- channels, or other channels, of the other base stations from nearby micro-cells. Assume that from a plurality of base stations monitored by the remote station, that the actual base station for handoff is defined herein as the second base station 134.
  • the second base station 134 transmits, using radio waves, a second BS-packet signal, spread by a second BS-chip-sequence signal at the first frequency f x .
  • the remote station 11 monitors signal metrics of the first BS-packet signal from the first base station 20, and the same signal metrics of the other BS-packet signals from the other base stations in the plurality of base stations .
  • a signal metric typically would be received power or energy level, and capacity level.
  • the remote station 11 determines when the signal power metric of the first BS-packet signal falls below a threshold and- that the signal metrics of one or more BS-packet signals are above the threshold.
  • the remote station 11 also determines from the other base stations, which of the other base stations has available capacity. Available capacity is ability to store despread RS-packet signals and other packets signals passing through the other base stations. The remote station 11 then selects a base station, which is defined herein as second base station 134, which meets the requirements of the signal metric and available capacity.
  • the remote station 11 also determines which BS-chip-sequence signals are available for use with the second base station 134. A set of BS-chip-sequence signal and RS-chip-sequence signal are assigned and used by the remote station 11, when communicating with the second base station 134.
  • the remote station 11 Upon determining the foregoing threshold crossings, the remote station 11 changes communications from the first base station 20 to the second base station 134, using a new set of second RS-chip-sequence signal and second BS-chip- sequence signal. In response to determining to change communications between base stations, the remote station 11 -15 - transmits, using radio waves, a second RS-packet signal to the second base station 134.
  • the second RS-packet signal is defined herein to be an RS-packet signal sent from the remote station to the second base station 134.
  • the second base station 134 After the second base station 134 receives and despreads the second RS-packet signal at the second frequency f 2 , the second base station 134 sends the despread second RS-packet signal to the central office either as used in FIG. 1 or FIG. 2.
  • the despread second RS-packet signal includes a source address from the second base station 134, which was added to the second RS-packet signal by the second base station 134.
  • the central office For return communications from the central office to the remote station 11, the central office reads the source addresses from the RS-packet signal, of the remote station 11 and the forwarding base station. For this example, the central office reads the source address for the second base station 134. From the source addresses, the central office knows to route return packet signals, denoted herein as CO- packet signal to the remote station 11 through the second base station 134.
  • the central office sends to the spread-spectrum, CDMA network, a CO-packet signal, including a destination address for the second base station 134 and the remote station 11.
  • the second base station 134 receives the CO-packet signal of FIG. 1 or FIG 2.
  • the second base station 134 transmits, using radio waves, the CO-packet signal, at the first frequency f l; as a third BS-packet signal, respectively, each spread by the second BS-chip-sequence signal.
  • the third BS-packet signal is defined herein to be the CO-packet signal when the CO-packet signal is sent from the second base station 134 to the remote station 11.
  • the remote station 11 receives the CO-packet signal.
  • the invention has the central office route the CO-packet signal to the second base station 134, since the second base station 134 is the location from which the remote station 11 last transmitted, -16- as determined from the second base station 134 source address and the remote station 11 source address in the second packet signal previously received at the central office.
  • the present invention may be extended to include a sounding channel .
  • the sounding channel presents an additional signal metric from which to make a determination when to handoff.
  • the sounding channel provides an accurate measure of the appropriate signal level for the remote station, when transmitting to the base station.
  • the sounding channel is incorporated herein by reference, and is disclosed in U.S. patent application number 09/231,015, with filing date of January 14, 1999, entitled, SPREAD-SPECTRUM CHANNEL SOUNDING, by inventor Donald L. Schilling, now U.S. patent number , with issue date.
  • the addition of a sounding channel overcomes a major problem with a plurality of remote stations transmitting to a common base station.
  • the plurality of remote stations may be located at different distances, and each remote station may have a different propagation path, to the base station.
  • a strong power level from one remote station may cause sufficient interference to block or inhibit reception of the spread-spectrum signal from a more distant remote station.
  • This power problem is commonly known as the "near-far" problem, or power control problem: How does the spread-spectrum system control the power transmitted from each remote station, so that the power received at the base station from each remote station is approximately the same?
  • the capacity is limited by the number of remote stations -17 - transmitting to the base station. If, however, a particular remote station were sufficiently close to the base station, and its transmitter power could block reception of other remote stations, then capacity may be limited severely to only the remote station closest to the base station.
  • the sounding channel overcomes the power control problem by permitting a remote station to have knowledge, a priori to transmitting, of a proper power level to initiate transmission. After the initial power level is used, closed-loop power control, which is well-known in the art, can be employed.
  • the carrier frequency transmitted from a remote station may be shifted at the base station due to Doppler shift in carrier frequency caused by motion.
  • the sounding channel initially corrects or compensates for Doppler shift in carrier frequency caused by the effective motion of the remote station.
  • the remote station could be at a fixed location, and the Doppler shift in carrier frequency could be caused by time changes in the propagation path, such as trees blowing in the wind.
  • a Costas loop or other frequency controlling circuit may be employed to control or compensate for frequency changes . Such devices or circuits are well-known in the art.
  • the sounding channel broadly provides an improvement to a spread-spectrum system which has a base station and a plurality of remote stations operating in FDD mode.
  • the base station has a BS-spread- spectrum transmitter and a BS-spread-spectrum receiver.
  • the BS-spread-spectrum transmitter transmits, using radio waves, a plurality of BS-spread-spectrum signals at a first frequency f 1 .
  • the BS-spread-spectrum receiver receives, at a second frequency f 2 , a plurality of RS-spread-spectrum signals from the plurality of remote stations.
  • the plurality of BS-spread-spectrum signals at the first -18 - frequency f-_ are outside the correlation bandwidth of the plurality of RS-spread-spectrum signals at the second frequency f 2 .
  • Each of the plurality of remote stations has an RS-spread-spectrum transmitter for transmitting an RS- spread-spectrum signal at the second frequency f 2 .
  • the improvement includes a BS transmitter and an interference-reduction subsystem, located at the base station receiver.
  • the BS transmitter transmits, using radio waves, a BS-channel-sounding signal at the second frequency.
  • the BS-channel-sounding signal has a bandwidth no more than twenty per cent of the spread-spectrum bandwidth of the plurality of RS-spread-spectrum signals, and in a preferred embodiment, the BS-channel-sounding signal has a bandwidth no more than one percent of the spread-spectrum bandwidth of the plurality of RS-spread-spectrum signals.
  • the improvement includes an RS-power-level circuit and an RS receiver which has an RS demodulator.
  • the improvement at the remote station also may include a frequency-adjust circuit.
  • the RS receiver receives the BS-channel-sounding signal at the second frequency.
  • the RS demodulator tracks the BS-channel- sounding signal, and outputs an RS-receiver signal.
  • the RS- power-level circuit adjusts an RS-power level of the RS- spread-spectrum transmitter located at the remote station.
  • the frequency-adjust circuit using the received RS-receiver signal as a reference, compensates to the first frequency the RS-spread-spectrum signal of the RS-spread-spectrum transmitter located at the remote station.
  • the interference-reduction subsystem is located at the base station and at a front end to the BS-spread-spectrum receiver.
  • the interference-reduction subsystem reduces, at the second frequency, the BS-channel-sounding signal from the plurality of RS-spread-spectrum signals arriving at the base station. -19 -
  • the first base station 20 is shown communicating, using radio waves, with a remote station with frequency compensation. Since the BS-channel-sounding signal is transmitted, as a radio wave, from the base station 20 at the second frequency f _ to the remote station 11, and the remote station 11 knows at what frequency the BS-channel-sounding signal is suppose to be received, then remote station 11 can determine the Doppler frequency shift f D and compensate its transmitter frequency by a similar amount so that the RS-spread-spectrum signal arrives at the base station 20 with a carrier frequency at the correct second frequency f 2 .
  • the RS- spread-spectrum signal is detected at the base station at the second frequency f 2 , without a Doppler shift in carrier frequency f D . If motion of the remote station caused a positive shift in the Doppler frequency f D , then the correct compensation would be to subtract the Doppler shift in carrier frequency f D and transmit at frequency f 2 -f D .
  • the remote station 11 also can measure the power level of the BS-channel-sounding signal, and from this measurement, set its initial power level for transmitting the RS-spread- spectrum signal at frequency f 2 .
  • the remote station can monitor the signal metric of the sounding channel. Handoff can be based on a signal metric of either the first BS-packet signal, or the sounding channel, or a combination of the first BS- packet signal and the sounding channel, as well as available capacity. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications can be made to the spread-spectrum handoff and source congestion avoidance system and method of the instant invention without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention, and it is intended that the present invention cover modifications and variations of the spread- spectrum handoff and source congestion avoidance system and -20- method provided they come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents.
  • An improvement method to a spread-spectrum system comprising the steps of: transmitting, using radio waves, from a first base station (BS) a first BS-packet signal spread by a first BS-chip-sequence signal at a first frequency; receiving at a remote station (RS) the first BS- packet signal; transmitting, using radio waves, from said first base station a first BS-channel-sounding signal at a second frequency; receiving at said remote station the first BS- channel-sounding signal at the second frequency; tracking at said remote station the first BS- channel-sounding signal, thereby outputting a first RS- receiver signal; adjusting, in response to the first RS-receiver signal, a first initial RS-power level of said remote station; transmitting, using radio waves, from said remote station (RS) , a first RS-packet signal spread by a first RS- chip-sequence signal at a second frequency, at the initial RS-power level; receiving at said first base station the first

Abstract

La présente invention concerne un système à accès multiple par code de répartition (AMCR) à étalement de spectre comprenant une station à distance (SD) (11) communiquant avec une première station de base (BS) (20). La station à distance (11) reçoit un signal de paquet de SB et transmet un premier signal de paquet de SD à la première station de base (20). Le premier signal de paquet de SD est étalé par l'intermédiaire d'un premier signal de séquence de puce de SD à une seconde fréquence. La première station de base (20) enregistre et transmet le premier signal de paquet de SD (10) à un central (OC) (50). La station à distance (11) surveille des canaux de commande et de transmission de paquets d'autres stations de base (30, 40) à proximité géographique de la station à distance (11). Chacune des stations de base (20, 30, 40) émet des signaux de paquets de SB. La station à distance (11) détermine, en se basant sur des mesures de signal et une capacité disponible, lorsque le transfert doit être fait de la première station de base (20) à la seconde station de base (134). La seconde station de base (134) enregistre puis transmet le second signal de paquet de SD désétalé au central (50). Le central (50) lit l'adresse de source de la seconde station de base (134), et achemine des signaux de paquet de retour (25) mentionnés en tant que paquet OC, à la station à distance (11) via la seconde station de base (134).
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