WO2002058410A2 - Apparatus and associated method for operating upon data signals received at a receiving station of a fixed wireless access communication system - Google Patents
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- the present invention is directed, in general, to communication network access systems and, more specifically, to an apparatus for processing data signals received from wireless subscriber stations.
- Telecommunications access systems provide for voice, data, and multimedia transport and control between the central office (CO) of the telecommunications service provider and the subscriber (customer) premises. Prior to the mid-1970s, the subscriber was provided phone lines
- VF voice frequency
- DLC digital loop carrier
- the DLC equipment provided an analog phone interface, voice CODEC, digital data multiplexing, transmission interface, and control and alarm remotely from the central office to cabinets located within business and residential locations for approximately 100 to 2000 phone line interfaces.
- This distributed access architecture greatly reduced line lengths to the subscriber and resulted in significant savings in both wire installation and maintenance. The reduced line lengths also improved communication performance on the line provided to the subscriber.
- VF voice frequency
- ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
- the subscriber interface is based on 64 kbps digitization of the VF pair for digital multiplexing into high speed digital transmission streams (e.g., T1/T3 lines in North America, E1/E3 lines in Europe) .
- ISDN was a logical extension of the digital network that had evolved throughout the 1980s.
- the rollout of ISDN in Europe was highly successful. ' However, the rollout in the United States was not successful, due in part to artificially high tariff costs which greatly inhibited the acceptance of ISDN.
- DLC digital subscriber line
- cable modems and cable modems have been developed and introduced.
- the DLC architecture was extended to provide remote distributed deployment at the neighborhood cabinet level using DSL access multiplexer
- DLC/DSLAM digital subscriber equipment
- Tl/El interfaces
- DS3 and OC3 interfaces high speed DS3 and OC3 interfaces.
- the entire telecommunications network backbone has undergone and is undergoing continuous upgrade to wideband optical transmission and switching equipment.
- wireless access systems have been developed and deployed to provide broadband access to both commercial and residential subscriber premises.
- the market for wireless access systems was driven by rural radiotelephony deployed solely to meet the universal service requirements imposed by government (i.e., the local telephone company is required to serve all subscribers regardless of the cost to install service) .
- the cost of providing a wired connection to a small percentage of rural subscribers was high enough to justify the development and expense of small-capacity wireless local loop (WLL) systems .
- WLL wireless local loop
- Wireless access systems must address a number of unique operational and technical issues including:
- wireless access systems Unlike physical optical or wire systems that operate at bit error rates (BER) of 10 "11 , wireless access systems have time varying channels that typically provide bit error rates of 10 -3 to 10 "6 .
- the wireless physical (PHY) layer interface and the media access control (MAC) layer interface must provide modulation, error correction and ARQ protocol that can detect and, where required, correct or retransmit corrupted data so that the interfaces at the network and at the subscriber site operate at wire line bit error rates .
- the base stations of a fixed wireless broadband system transmit forward channel (i.e., downstream) signals in directed beams to fixed location antennas attached to the residences or offices of subscribers.
- the base stations also receive reverse channel (i.e., upstream) signals transmitted by the broadband access equipment of the subscriber.
- broadband access technology has resulted in a lack of standardization in the broadband access equipment.
- Cable modems and DSL routers are incompatible with each other and with fiber optic equipment.
- Different service providers locate broadband access equipment in different locations on the subscriber premises. Often this equipment is located inside the office or residence of the subscriber, which makes it inaccessible to maintenance workers unless the subscriber is present to admit the workers to the premises.
- the lack of standardization of broadband access equipment and the frequent inaccessibility of such equipment adds to the cost and complexity of broadband access.
- the broadband access equipment includes base stations which have RF (radio frequency) modems capable of modulating and - demodulating data signals communicated between the base stations and subscriber stations.
- RF radio frequency
- the RF modems must be capable of communicating with the subscriber stations in manners which permit quick, and accurate, receive operations to be performed upon signals transmitted thereto by the subscriber stations.
- the present invention accordingly, advantageously provides apparatus, and an associated method, by which to operate upon data signals received at a receiving station, such as a base station of a fixed wireless access communication system.
- data signals are processed at a receiving station, such as a- base station of fixed wireless access communication system.
- the data signals are transmitted to the receiving stations by any of a plurality of subscriber stations.
- Improved uplink capacity of data signals sent by the subscriber stations to the base station is possible as a result of operation of an embodiment of the present invention. Additionally, better compensation is made to counteract the effects of distortion of the data signals communicated during operation of a communication system in which an embodiment of the present invention is implemented.
- At least two demodulators are provided at the receive portion of a base station of a fixed wireless access communication system, or other receiving station.
- the data signals communicated to the base station by subscriber stations, or other sending stations, are applied to the separate demodulators according to a selected pattern.
- successive bursts of data are applied, for instance to alternating ones of the demodulators.
- the demodulators form, for instance, the demodulator portions of modems.
- separate profiles are created and stored at the base station, are accessible thereto.
- the profiles profile the channels upon which bursts of data are transmitted by separate subscriber stations and also characteristics of the data transmitted by the separate subscriber stations.
- the profiles are updated, as appropriate, and include the information required of the demodulators to permit their operation to demodulate bursts of data applied thereto.
- cyclo- stationary filtering is performed upon the bursts of data provided to the demodulator portions of the modems.
- Each of the bursts of data transmitted to the base station by a subscriber station is considered to be a separate and distinct station channel environment.
- Each of the channels is processed by configuring the receive portion of the base station with a matched filter.
- the matched filter forms an equalizer, operable to equalize any of the separate and distinct stationary channels upon which the bursts of data are transmitted.
- the filter weights of the equalizer formed of the matched filter associated with each of the channels forms portions of the profiles which are stored and accessed during system operation.
- the profiles further selectably include other parameters, such as the modulation index of the data signals communicated by the subscriber stations to the base station, the modulation orthogonalizations of the bursts of data signals of the bursts of data signals, parameters associated with FEC (forward error correction) of the data bursts sent to the base station by the subscriber stations, antenna combining parameters when antenna diversity is utilized, timing adjustment parameters, time and frequency changes of the signals, as well as other values.
- FEC forward error correction
- a profile associated with the channel upon which the burst is communicated to the base station is retrieved and utilized in the demodulation of the burst of data.
- the values of the profile associated with the channel upon which the data burst is communicated are updated as appropriate.
- the updated profile is stored to be retrieved thereafter, when subsequent data bursts are received at the base station and demodulated at a demodulator thereof.
- Elements of the profile created and stored during operation of an embodiment of the present invention are selected to be values pertinent to the implementation of the communication system. Upgrades, or other changes in the operation of the communication system, are readily implemented, as necessary, thereby to adapt operation of an embodiment of the present invention corresponding to the changes in operation of the communication system.
- an embodiment of the present invention is implemented at the base station of a fixed wireless access communication system.
- Data bursts of data signals are communicated to the base station.
- the data bursts are generated by a plurality of subscriber stations positioned within the coverage area defined by the base station. Alternating ones of the bursts are provided to a pair ⁇ ,f modems forming part of the receive portion of the base station.
- the modems are controlled by a controller, such as a base station central processing unit, to control demodulation operations thereat.
- the controller maintains profiles associated with the channels separate ones of the data bursts are communicated. The profiles are retrieved and values of the elements of such profiles are utilized in the demodulation of the respective data bursts.
- apparatus and an associated method for a communication station operable in a wireless communication system, at least to receive first data signals transmitted thereto by a first subscriber station and at least second data signals transmitted thereto by at least a second subscriber station.
- a first demodulator is selectably coupled to receive at least one of the first and second data signals transmitted to the communication station by the first and second subscriber stations.
- a controller is coupled to the first demodulator and to the at least second demodulator in a feedback arrangement. The controller selects which of the first and second data signals, respectively, • are applied to the first demodulator. And, the controller selects which of the first and second data signals, respectively, are applied to the second demodulator.
- FIGURE 1 illustrates an exemplary fixed wireless access network according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIGURE 2 illustrates an exemplary . data frame, as defined by the fixed wireless access network in FIGURE 1, according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIGURE 3 illustrates a functional block diagram of a portion of the present invention comprising two modems and a controller in an embodiment of the present invention
- FIGURE 4 illustrates a high-level block diagram of the controller and one modem in the base station of FIGURE 2 in an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGURES 1 through 4 discussed below, and the various embodiments used to describe the principles of the present invention in this patent document are by way of illustration only and should not be construed in any way to limit the scope of the invention. Those skilled in the art will understand that the principles of the present invention may be implemented in any suitably arranged subscriber integrated access device.
- FIGURE 1 illustrates exemplary fixed wireless access network 100 according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- Fixed wireless network 100 comprises a plurality of transceiver base stations, including exemplary transceiver base station 110, that transmit forward channel (i.e., downlink or downstream) broadband signals to a plurality of subscriber premises, including exemplary subscriber premises 121, 122 and 123, and receive reverse channel (i.e., uplink or upstream) broadband signals from the plurality of subscriber premises.
- Subscriber premises 121-123 transmit and receive via fixed, externally-mounted antennas 131-133, respectively.
- Subscriber premises 121-123 may comprise many different types of residential and commercial buildings, including single family homes, multi-tenant offices, small business enterprises (SBE) , medium business enterprises (MBE) , and so-called ⁇ SOHO" (small office/home office) premises.
- SBE small business enterprises
- MBE medium business enterprises
- ⁇ SOHO small office/home office
- the transceiver base stations receive the forward channel (i.e., downlink) signals from external network 150 and transmit the reverse channel (i.e., uplink) signals to external network 150.
- External network 150 may be, for example, the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or one or more data networks, including the Internet or proprietary Internet protocol (IP) wide area networks (WANs) and local area networks (LANs) .
- Exemplary transceiver base station 110 is coupled to RF modem shelf 140, which, among other things, up-converts baseband data traffic received from external network 150 to RF signals transmitted in the forward channel to subscriber premises 121-123.
- RF modem shelf 140 also down-converts RF signals received in the reverse channel from subscriber premises 121-123 to baseband data traffic that is transmitted to external network 150 .
- RF modem shelf 140 comprises a plurality of RF modems capable of modulating (i.e., up-converting) the baseband data traffic and demodulating (i.e., down-converting) the reverse channel RF signals.
- each of the transceiver base stations covers a cell site area that is divided into a plurality of sectors.
- each of the RF modems in RF modem shelf 140 may be assigned to modulate and demodulate signals in a particular sector of each cell site.
- the cell site associated with transceiver base station 110 may be partitioned into six sectors and RF modem shelf 140 may comprise six primary RF modems (and, optionally, a seventh spare RF modem) , each of which is assigned to one of the six sectors in the cell site of transceiver base station 110.
- each RF modem in RF modem shelf 140 comprises two or more RF modem transceivers which may be assigned to at least one of the sectors in the cell site.
- the cell site associated with transceiver base station 110 may be partitioned into six sectors and RF modem shelf 140 may comprise, twelve RF transceivers that are assigned in pairs to each one of the six sectors.
- the RF modems in each RF modem pair may alternate modulating and demodulating the downlink and uplink signals in each sector.
- RF modem shelf 140 is located proximate transceiver base station 110 in order to minimize RF losses in communication line 169.
- RF modem shelf 140 may receive the baseband data traffic from external network 150 and transmit the baseband data traffic to external network 150 via a number of different paths.
- RF modem shelf 140 may transmit baseband data traffic to, and receive baseband data traffic from, external network 150 through central office facility 160 via communication lines 166 and 167.
- communication line 167 may be a link in a publicly owned or privately owned backhaul network.
- RF modem shelf 140 may transmit baseband data traffic to, and receive baseband data traffic from, external network 150 directly via communication line 168 thereby bypassing central office facility 160.
- Central office facility 160 comprises access processor shelf 165.
- Access processor shelf 165 provides a termination of data traffic for one or more RF modem shelves, such as RF modem shelf 140.
- Access processor shelf 165 also provides termination to the network switched circuit interfaces and/or data packet interfaces of external network 150.
- One of the principal functions of access processor shelf 165 is to concentrate data traffic as the data traffic is received from external network 150 and is transferred to RF modem shelf 140.
- Access processor shelf 165 provides data and traffic processing of the physical layer interfaces, protocol conversion, protocol management, and programmable voice and data compression.
- network 100 was chosen as a fixed wireless network only for the purposes of simplicity and clarity in explaining a subscriber integrated access device according to the principles of the present invention.
- the choice of a fixed wireless network should not be construed in any manner that limits the scope of the present invention in any way.
- a subscriber integrated access device according to the principles of the present invention may be implemented in other types of broadband access 'systems, including wireline systems (i.e, digital subscriber line (DSL) , cable modem, fiber optic, and the like) in which a wireline connected to the subscriber integrated access device carries forward and reverse channel signals.
- DSL digital subscriber line
- FIGURE 2 illustrates an exemplary data frame as defined by fixed wireless access network 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the time division duplex (TDD) data frame 200 is comprised of downlink portion 202 and uplink portion 204 and is propagated along an independent propagation channel, as illustrated in FIGURE 1.
- Downlink portion 202 is comprised of at least frame header 206, modulation segment 208 which signals low complexity modulation, modulation segment 210 which dictates the next highest modulation and contention segment 214. These parameters are managed between both the up link and the down link under control of the basestation RF modem.
- Boundary 212 is a variable boundary between the uplink and downlink and system monitors and optimize these parameters adaptively and continuously by monitoring the received signal quality optimizing the operating parameters to increase the data throughput. Though only two levels of modulation are indicated in FIGURE 2 for ease of explanation, the number of modulations of increasing complexity is arbitrary and may be dictated by the conditions imposed by the system and/or operator.
- the base station receives a burst of data on a demand basis from the subscribers on the uplink and the base station has to process each channel.
- the system includes multiple modems connected to access processor 165 for covering the subscribers associated with each base station.
- Uplink portion 204 of data frame 200 is received by a base station modem and comprises multiple segments: contention period 214 at which access is given to the subscriber stations to communicate the data bursts of uplink data, modulation level, forward Error Correction (FEC) and power level designation from antenna (1) 216, modulation level, forward Error Correction (FEC) and power level designation from antenna (2) 218, and modulation level, forward Error Correction (FEC) and power level designation from antenna (n) 220, where n is the number of antennas transmitting from a subscriber premises.
- FIGURE 3 illustrates a functional block diagram of a portion of the present invention comprising two modems and a controller in an embodiment of the present invention.
- Modem 302 and modem 304 are selectively coupled to receive uplink signals sent by different ones of subscriber stations to the base station (not shown) .
- IF/RF (intermediate frequency/radio frequency) receive circuitry 306 of the base station is shown to pass the uplink signals to the modems.
- Circuitry 306 is operable to down-convert in frequency uplink signals received from receive circuitry 304. Thereafter, the down-converted signals, bursts sub3... subl and bursts subN...sub2 are operated upon by modems 304 and 302 respectively.
- the modems are shown to be functionally coupled to controller 308 via lines 310, for receiving contention results, and 312 for passing parameters, frame times and weight values for the modems to apply to the received signals.
- Controller 314 includes control CPU 316 and memory device 318.
- Control CPU 316 is operable, amongst other things, to perform queue management, scheduling operations, as well as to exert control over operation of modems 302 and 304.
- Profiles (not shown) are created and maintained by controller 314 in a memory such as memory device 318.
- the profiles include values which represent channel characteristics upon which uplink signals are transmitted as well as characteristics of the uplink signals.
- the profiles are stored at memory device 318 and are updated as conditions warrant.
- Modem 302 includes equalizer 303 which performs equalization functions
- modem 304 includes equalizer 305, also operable to perform equalization functions.
- the profiles associated with the various communication channels stored at memory device 318 include weighting values 320 by which to weight equalizers 303 and 305. Values 320 are utilizes to weight equalizers 303 or 305, as appropriate, when data signals sent to the base station on the corresponding channel are to be operated upon by the selected modem. As channel conditions change, changes to values 318 are calculated and stored. Other values of the profiles, while not separately shown, are analogously stored at memory device 318.
- the update rates at which the values of the profiles need to be applied to the modems are a mere fraction of the data transmission rates. For instance, fading rates are typically of a level of approximately 1 to 2 Hz while frame updates of the frames are on the order of approximately 500 Hz. Updates are typically needed at approximately five to ten times the channel rate, i.e. of about 5 to 20 Hz.
- the updates are common in one implementation are made in conjunction with a status polling mechanism. Additionally, a demand access mechanism permits scheduling of traffic bursts, i.e., bursts of uplink signals that may be anticipated to arrive from a particular subscriber station.
- a demand access burst within contention period portion 214 of uplink portion 204 of a frame is of a relatively brief duration and utilizes relatively robust FEC and modulation short orthogonalization codes when utilizing a spread spectrum arrangement.
- the modem at which the burst of the uplink data signal is to be operated cyclically adapts equalization functions performed by the equalizer.
- FIGURE 4 illustrates a high-level block diagram of the controller and one modem in the base station of FIGURE 2 in an embodiment of the present invention. Uplink data signal bursts transmitted to the base station by various subscriber stations are represented by the blocks 204-1 through 204-N-l.
- a corresponding profile is retrieved from the memory device of the controller and applied to modem 302 or 304.
- the profiles are represented in the figure by the blocks 402-1 through 402-N-l.
- the demodulator portion of modem 302 or 304 operates upon the burst of data received and a resultant packet of data, here represented by the block 404, is generated in which, amongst other things, the values of the data packet have been compensated for the effects of distortion generate thereon.
- Updates are made to the profile as appropriate (indicated by block 406) and the updated profile is stored at the memory device of the controller.
- the updated profile is retrieved and utilized when the subsequent burst of data is to be operated upon by the modem. Compensation for distortion introduced on the uplink data signal is improved because the profile was updated as the data signal's channel conditions changed.
- Cyclo-stationary adaptive filtering is performed upon the uplink data burst signal.
- CSAF is a signal processing technique to allow adaptive filters to operate in environments that exhibit cyclic/deterministic channel environments.
- Each burst of the data signal transmitted by a subscriber station forms a separate and distinct stationary channel environment.
- Each of the channels is processed by configuring the receive portion of the base station with a matched filter forming the equalizer, such as equalizers 303 and 305 (shown in FIGURE 3) for the specific channel.
- the values forming the profiles stored at the .memory device of the controller are used to weight the equalizer, as appropriate.
- two separate modems are utilized to demodulate separate bursts of uplink data signals.
- alternating ones of the modems are utilized to demodulate successive bursts of data.
- values associated with another channel upon which a subsequent data burst is expected to be transmitted is applied to the unused modem. Thereby, when the subsequent burst of data is received at the base station the modem is primed to operate upon the burst of the uplink data signal.
- different types of modems operable upon different types of signals form the separate modems.
- the signal burst is applied to the modem which is capable of operating upon the particular signal.
- Modem-types are upgradeable while maintaining the backward compatibility of the base station. Additional modems are added, as needed, thereby to permit continued operation of the base station as new types of technology are made available.
- Profile values include: weighting values for the equalizers in the time domain or transformed weights in the frequency domain; the modulation index of the uplink data signal, the modulation orthogonalization; parameters associated with forward error correction of the uplink data signal, antenna combining parameters when antenna diversity and/or beam-forming is utilized, and residual carrier or baud timing adjustments.
- a manner is provided by which to operate upon data signals received at a receiving station, such as a base station of a fixed wireless access communication system.
- a receiving station such as a base station of a fixed wireless access communication system.
- the distortion introduced upon the data signals during their communication upon non-ideal communication channels is better compensated for, thereby permitting improved quality of communications as well as increased throughput rates to increase the capacity of the communication system.
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