WO2007022564A1 - Method and system for communication in a wireless network - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to the field of wireless communications such as may be utilised in computer networks.
- the present invention relates to Improved multiple access communications.
- the invention relates to an improved signal processing method and apparatus for a multiple access communication system. It will be convenient to hereinafter describe the invention in relation to the use of a multi user packet based wireless OFDM (Orthogonal ' Frequency Division Multiplexing) communication system, however, it should be appreciated that the present invention may not be limited to that use, only.
- OFDM Orthogonal ' Frequency Division Multiplexing
- PCT/AU03/00502 and PCT/2004/001036 both published under WIPO publication Numbers WO 03/094037 and WO 2005/11128 (respectively), a number of background art systems have been identified relating in particular to wireless communications systems based on so-cailed multiple access techniques in which, information such as voice and data are communicated.
- PCT/AU03/00502 and PCT/2004/001036 both published under WIPO publication Numbers WO 03/094037 and WO 2005/11128 (respectively).
- the Communications System may be heavily dependent on the quality of the Physical Layer (PHY) processing.
- the PHY may provide for delivering coverage and robustness to radio links between nodes that move through hostile propagation conditions such as urban canyons, and areas of high interference. Mobility, and in particular high speed terrestrial mobility, may induce yet another set of difficulties for the PHY as the reflections off the surrounding buildings, vehicles and other bodies may combine in a time varying manner, in the case of a Private Mobile Radio (PMR) network, sensitivity to cost and lower densities of users may often be seen relative to complex and expensive 2G and 3G Cellular networks. Multi-hopping wireless networks are emerging as a network topology of choice for PMR, since they may provide inexpensive and flexible broadband communications. The flexibility may be afforded by the self forming nature of the network and the small form factor of the network nodes.
- PMR Private Mobile Radio
- 802.11 radios may be considered as designed for stationary indoor propagation environments and their use in outdoor mobile communications networks may be ill founded from a technical perspective.
- Standardization efforts within the IEEE 802.16e and 802.20 Physical Layer working groups may be considered as focused on providing a waveform for transmission that is compatible with the communications challenges faced while travelling outdoors at speed. Standards typically do not specify how to receive signals, rather focussing on what signals should be transmitted. The vendors are then responsible for the receiver technology. Getting the PHY right in wireless multi-hopping networks may be especially important since local access and a degree of backhaul are provided wirelessly.
- the inventor considers that the problems of delivering reliable high speed access to mobile users may be exemplified in Private Mobile Radio (PMR) networks, such as those employed by Public Safety end users.
- PMR Private Mobile Radio
- the technology that may be currently employed in PMR networks, such as TETRA and GPRS, is considered to be struggling to meet user demand.
- the inventor recognises a strong market pull for reliable mobile broadband access, in order to meet the requirements of applications such as remote databases and the delivery of real- time video.
- Third generation (3G) mobile systems may be considered as an alternative, as they offer increased throughput and reliability.
- 3G Third generation
- such networks were designed primarily with circuit switched voice communications in mind. In contrast, modern applications often call for high speed packet data transfer.
- the heavy infrastructure and licensing costs of 3G networks may also make them less attractive as an alternative.
- the topology of the multi-hopping solution may comprise several small wireless nodes. These nodes may form a network through which data packets are passed from a sender to a single receiver, or broadcast to multiple receivers simultaneously. Such a network may be able to reconfigure dynamically when nodes enter or exit the system, making them attractive for applications which allow mobile users. Moreover, if a single node fails then the network may remain operational, which stands in contrast to an expected catastrophic failure of a base station.
- OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
- This technique may have been historically applied to the problem of transmitting data in a stationary indoor environment.
- the outdoor urban environment may contain many obstacles for the radio signal, such as buildings and trees, which are referred to as clutter.
- Present wireless technology may be able to offer high throughput only at the expense of receiver sensitivity, hence the cluttered urban environment may lead to poor coverage.
- the relative mobility between the transmitter and receiver may cause the impact of these obstacles to change in time. When the effects of mobility and clutter combine, the resulting wireless channel may present a significant challenge to the communications system designer.
- the complex channel amplitude may be modelled as the combination of three effects, for example, 1, 2, 4, as above.
- the complex channel amplitude variation may correspondingly be modelled excluding phase and OFDM timing offsets.
- FIG 1 which shows the circuit equivalent of Eqn 1
- the signal transmitted on subcarrier m, s m (t) is impacted by three effects represented as multiplication by complex numbers.
- the first of these effects ⁇ (m) represents the slowly varying phase shift across subcarriers in an OFDM symbol induced by FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) window timing offsets.
- FFT Fast Fourier Transform
- the phase shift across subcarriers is invariant with time across OFDM symbols.
- the second effect ⁇ (t) is the slowly varying phase shift across OFDM symbols. This phase shift is assumed identical for all subcarriers and models effects such as frequency offsets between the transmitter and receiver RF stages and phase noise.
- a third effect h,,,(t) collects the higher rate phase and amplitude variations such as those induced by frequency selective fading and mobility where the Doppler frequency is a significant fraction of the OFDM symbol rate.
- This third multiplicative value may vary with time and subcarrier.
- Each of the above parameters may either change rapidly with time and/or frequency and/or are very important for accurate demodulation of the received signal.
- the inventor has identified that those conventional approaches to tracking these parameters typically: • Apply algorithms/techniques designed for stationery environments, and thus there has not been provision for updating parameters.
- Conventional systems may employ a delay and correlate method where the received signal is multiplied by a delayed version of itself and accumulated and normalised, forming a metric.
- a packet arrival time may then be determined from any peak in the normalised metric above a predetermined threshold. Normalisation of the input signaf is ordinarily required and is subject to large fluctuations in received, signals experienced in outdoor wireless communications.
- Delay and Correlate algorithms may ordinarily employ a peak search to determine the timing instant.
- these algorithms are implemented in low complexity binary signal processors there may be several timing instants with the same maximum value. This may cause uncertainty in the timing instant.
- Fine Time synchronisation may be required in receivers that implement coherent demodulation.
- a known preamble is transmitted enabling the receiver to correlate for the known sequence in the received signal.
- Correlation can be expensive when the correlation length is long since each sample accumulated requires a complex multiplying step. This problem may be exacerbated when multiple antennae are employed to receive the signal since the correlation may be implemented for each antenna. If M antenna are used the complexity is M-fold.
- the timing instant or, arrival time is found by determining the peak of the correlation powers across a set of correlations differentiated by a timing offset.
- a threshold In the case that it is desired to terminate packet processing based on fine timing metric quality a threshold must be defined. However, thresholds are subject to signal variations and it can be difficult to set an appropriate threshold.
- Signals transmitted across the wireless media may be subject to frequency selective fading. Different levels of interference may also exist on difference frequencies. Ordinarily, in OFDM wireless communication systems a redundant cyclic prefix may be employed to mitigate the effects of multipath delay spread on a signal. Consequently, pulse shaping at the transmission and receiving sides of the communication further contributes to spreading the communicated signals on top of the spreading caused by multipath propagation.
- Remote digital resources that form part of and assist in distributed computing and communication systems such as multi access networks may suffer from limited resourcing in their own right given the demands now placed on such systems. For example, there may be limited computing & memory resources available for embedded systems. Such digital resources may comprise entities either software or hardware for Debugging & Development of a complex system consisting of multiple devices such as for example, digital signal processors (DSPs) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
- DSPs digital signal processors
- FPGAs field programmable gate arrays
- VGA variable gain amplifier
- AGC automatic gain control
- Th 1 a first predetermined threshold
- Th 2 a second threshold
- Th2 may differ from Thi by ⁇ Th as shown. If there is no threshold exceeded (see Th ⁇ ), such as in the case of a weak but still fluctuating signal, then the VGA gain settings do not change.
- Th ⁇ the threshold determines receiver sensitivity. Therefore, receiver sensitivity is a very important performance criterion and should not be compromised ff possible. For exampte, if the threshold is set too low conventional systems trigger and unnecessary state changes resu ⁇ t which locks the receiver out. Further, in some RF devices a gain change may mean that the receive path is unstable for a significant time period.
- Many wireless communication systems may employ direct-conversion RF receiver devices, where the RF signal is mixed down to DC, into it's baseband equivalent in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) signals.
- the receive baseband signals may experience significant DC offset due to various processes internal to the RF receiver device.
- a wide high-pass filter WHPF
- the width of the filter may be such that it filters away a significant portion of the centre of the received signal, making its use unsuitable when a valid burst is present on the channel.
- the RF receiver be operated in this WHPF mode, and that once a signal is detected (typically by separate RF signal power measure exceeding some threshold) the WHPF is switched off, returning the device to the DC-coupled mode.
- This change of mode may induce large DC offsets in the I and Q baseband signals. Operating the modem and receiver in this way may also result in significant distortion at the start of a received burst, and if the signal power is very low (in the case of weak signals) potentially for the entire burst.
- AGC automatic gain control
- Conventional automatic gain control (AGC) algorithms may be threshold based where a change in the RF device gain, and more significantly, disabling the WHPF mode, is only made if the received signal power exceeds a predetermined threshold. If the signal power is very fow (as in the case of weak signals) the threshold may not be exceeded, leaving the WHPF mode active for the duration of the packet. This may be undesirable as the resulting distortion may further degrade the possibility of reliably detecting and demoduiating the packet successfully.
- the threshold determines receiver sensitivity rather than other aspects of the synchronisation and demodulation process. If. the threshold is set too low, conventional systems may trigger on noise and unnecessary state changes may result which also distort the receive baseband signal. Further, in some RF devices a gain change may mean that the receive path is unstable for a significant time period. Accordingly, the inventor has recognised that receiver sensitivity is a very important performance criterion and should not be compromised, if possible.
- a method of tracking time varying channels in a wireless packet based communication network comprising the steps of tracking at least one channel parameter in the time domain in accordance with an auto regression algorithm.
- a method of tracking time varying channels in a wireless packet based communication network comprising the steps of tracking at least one channel parameter in the time domain in accordance with an auto regression algorithm.
- the method also removes the effect of this parameter on the received signal and then estimates at least one second channel parameter with an auto regression algorithm.
- a method of tracking time varying channels in a wireless packet based communication network comprising the steps of providing a CEDB update function and a FEC decode function in accordance with a pipeline processing algorithm,
- a method of synchronizing packets arriving at a receiver in a wireless communication network comprises the steps of receiving a sampled packet input signal; determining a complex representation of the sampled input signal, and performing a delay and correlate calculation to form a first decision metric for a packet arrival time such that the correlation comprises a first arithmetic operation.
- a method of synchronizing packets arriving at a receiver in a wireless communication network comprising the steps of performing a first and a second calculation in accordance with a method as disclosed herein, and determining a difference between the first and second calculations to form a second decision metric for a packet arrival time.
- a method of synchronizing packets arriving at a receiver in a wireless communication network comprising the steps of accumulating a set of decision metrics in accordance with a method as disclosed herein such that each decision metric of the accumulated set exceeds a predetermined threshold value, determining the earliest and latest decision metrics that are equal to a maximum value, and determining a packet arrival time corresponding to the midpoint between the earliest and latest decision metrics.
- a method of correlating a received signal in a wireless packet based communication network comprising the steps of quantising at least a first and a second signal component such that the signal components are represented by a first and second one bit reference, respectively, and performing correlation operations on the first and second one bit references.
- a further aspect of invention provides a method of communicating in a wireless packet based communication network comprising the steps of mixing a signal for transmission on the network into at least two distinct frequency bands so as to provide at least two transmission frequencies for the one signal.
- a further aspect of invention provides a method of communication in a wireless OFDM multiple access packet based communication network comprising the step of providing a redundant cyclic data field for a transmitted data packet wherein the data field is a non-contiguous string distributed about a data packet.
- a further aspect of invention provides a method of managing digital data processing resources comprising the steps of providing an interpretive shell for communicating between an embedded system device and a remote PC wherein the interpretive shell reads user input data and interprets said user input data in the context of a programming language so as to interface digital instructions between the embedded system device and the remote PC to enable the remote PC to delegate a portion of the PC computing resources to the functions of the embedded system device.
- a further aspect of invention provides a method of receiving a signal transmitted in a wireless packet based communication network, the method comprising the steps of operating a receiver in a first mode, monitoring received signal characteristics to determine whether the signal characteristics exceed a predetermined threshold condition, and switching the receiver to a second mode if the predetermined threshold condition is exceeded.
- a further aspect of invention provides a method of receiving a signal transmitted in a multiple access packet based communication network, the method comprising the steps of operating a RF receiver device in a substantially DC coupled mode, tracking baseband DC offsets in the received signal, and initiating at least one DC offset removal strategy if the magnitude of DC offset exceeds a predetermined threshold. Still further aspects of invention relate to apparatus and/or communications networks which are herein disclosed.
- the suite of Physical Layer techniques stemming from the present invention may be utiiised for delivering the link robustness and sensitivity required for wireless multi-hopping radio networks.
- these techniques may inciude: State of the art forward error correction coding, e.g. Turbo codes;
- the last point may be particularly difficult to achieve without significantly diluting the transmitted signals, by replacing a proportion of useable data symbols with wasteful pilot symbols, e.g. in accordance with IEEE 802.16e. This may be also of interest to the likes of Public Safety end users.
- Figure 1 is a representation of a frequency domain received OFDM signal
- Figure 2 illustrates a model of an indoor wireless channel
- Figure 3 illustrates a model of an outdoor stationary wireless channel in near line-of-sight conditions
- Figure 4 illustrates a model of an outdoor mobile wireless channel in near line-of-sight conditions at 70 mph;
- Figure 5 illustrates a model of an outdoor stationary wireless channel in near line-of-sight conditions
- Figure 6 illustrates a model of an outdoor mobile wireless channel in near !ine-of-sight conditions at 135 mph
- Figure 7 illustrates actual captured channel measurements in a mobile channel at 60 mph
- Figure 8 illustrates channel measurements for a single transmit and two antenna receivers 1 m apart
- FIG. 9 illustrates OFDM symbol dimensions in accordance with the IEEE 802,11 standard
- Figure 10 illustrates a conventional OFDM Physical Layer system model
- Figure 11 illustrates a generalised OFDM Physical Layer system model using multiple antennae in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention
- Figure 12 illustrates a IEEE 812.16a OFDM downlink Pilot and Preamble structure
- Figure 13 is a chart illustration of packet error rate in accordance with conventional pilot assisted phase tracking
- Figure 14 is a further chart illustration of packet error rate in accordance with conventional pilot assisted channel tracking
- Figure 15 illustrates a resultant packet error rate in accordance with embodiments of the present invention
- Figure 16 illustrates exemplary coverage of a 10 Mbps wireless mobile communications system in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention
- Figure 17 illustrates exemplary coverage of a 6 Mbps wireless mobile communications system in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention
- Figure 18 is a flow chart iilustrating a method of the present invention in accordance with another preferred embodiment
- Figure 19 is a flow chart illustrating a method of the present invention in accordance with a preferred embodiment
- Figure 20 a flow chart illustrating a method of the present invention in accordance with a further preferred embodiment
- Figure 21 is a flow chart illustrating a method of the present invention in accordance with another preferred embodiment
- Figure 22 is a flow chart iilustrating a method of the present invention in accordance with another preferred embodiment
- Figure 23 is a schematic diagram of another preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 24 is a schematic diagram of a prior art packet and a packet in accordance with another preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 25A is an illustration of a fluctuating received signal and a prior art method of receiving a signal.
- Figure 25B is a schematic btock diagram of a receiver system selectively operating in two modes in accordance with another preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- a wireless channel model is presented for several combinations of clutter and mobility.
- a model is provided which combines heavy clutter and high mobility, and this model is supported empirically.
- An introduction to current Physical Layer technology and OFDM based standards is presented, and common approaches which are used to estimate the channel characteristics are discussed. The inventor considers that it is expected that such techniques will perform satisfactorily in the presence of either clutter or mobility but not in the presence of both. These expectations have been supported empirically through simulation. These expected drawbacks have motivated the inventor in the use of the advanced channel estimation and tracking algorithms described hereafter.
- the Mobile Broadband Radio Channel A common technique for transmitting information is to map it onto the magnitude and/or phase of a radio signal.
- One of the key difficulties in the design of outdoor mobile communications systems is the impact of the propagation environment, ie channel, on the radio signal.
- the channel may distort the transmitted signal by altering its magnitude and/or phase, potentially resulting in the loss of information.
- LOS iine-of-sight
- the signal path between the transmitter and receiver may be free of physical obstacles.
- the radio signal may be required to penetrate walls and hence suffer shadow fading as a result.
- Indoor clutter may also result in signal reflections and hence m ⁇ ltipath effects.
- the result may be multipath fading.
- An example of the indoor stationary channel which is based on the ETSI BRAN model [2], is shown in figure 2.
- the effect that the channel may have on signal phase and magnitude are illustrated in figure 2a and 2b, respectively.
- the plots show how the channel effects vary across the frequency spectrum, and in the time domain. In this example the physical environment is assumed to be fixed and hence the channel properties do not alter over time.
- the power delay profile (PDP) for the channel shown in figure 2c describes how multipath components contribute to the received signal.
- the PDP associates a level of intensity to each delayed multipath component, representing its weighted contribution to the overall sum.
- the channel may be further characterized by its delay spread, which is a single value derived from the
- the delay spread accounts for all of the delayed multipath components according to their associated weights. A higher delay spread indicates that the channel is likely to have a stronger affect on the signal.
- the coherence bandwidth of the channel may be approximated by the inverse of its delay spread. Frequencies in the spectrum which are separated by more than the coherence bandwidth are considered to be approximately independent. Conversely, frequencies separated by less than the coherence bandwidth exhibit similar fading profiles. It is therefore possible for a wideband signal to be subjected to fading in oniy an isolated section of the spectrum, fn this example, such frequency selective fading may be observed approximately 3MHz from the centre of the spectrum. A resultant deep fade in the magnitude and distortion of the phase profile are shown in figure 2b and 2a, respectively. This indoor channel has a short delay spread, and hence high coherence bandwidth. Thus only one dominant deep fade is observed, in combination with some shallow fading.
- the IEEE 802.20 Modified Pedestrian-A (Case-I) model is employed for this purpose [3].
- Such a channel may exist when directional antennas are used to connect separate buildings via a wireless link or when little clutter is present in the environment.
- the power delay profile for this wireless channel is shown in figure 3c.
- Several multipath contributions are provided from reflection, as the channel is not entirely LOS. However, each has only a small influence in comparison to the dominant LOS path. Hence the delay spread for this model is relatively short.
- the phase and magnitude characteristics of this channel are shown in figure 3a and 3b, respectively.
- a wireless channel is employed between mobile and fixed devices, under near LOS conditions.
- the fixed route taken by a train offers the potential for a LOS connection between a device on board the train and fixed wireless routers mounted at intervals along its path.
- the IEEE 802.20 Modified Pedestrian-A (Case-I) model is employed, at a velocity of 70 mph [3].
- the relative motion between the two devices causes the channel characteristic to change over time, as shown in figure 4.
- the power delay profile is dominated by the LOS component.
- the dynamic physical environment causes shadowing and multipath contributions to vary randomly with time, and hence the PDP is also dynamic.
- the PDP is shown for the start and end of the time frame, in figure 4c and 4d, respectively.
- the limited intensity of the multipath contribution results in some shallow frequency selective fading.
- the frequencies at which fading occurs vary as the PDP changes in time, as shown in figure 4b.
- Distortion of phase across the frequency domain is also time varying, as shown in figure 4a.
- the low intensity muitipath contributions again lead only to a mild effect.
- a further effect on the phase profile over time is provided by the Doppler shift, which arises from the relative motion between the transmitter and receiver.
- the Doppler induced phase shift which occurs over time, is similar for all frequencies in the spectrum.
- the Outdoor Stationary Environment in NLOS In this instance an example is provided for an outdoor channel model under the assumption of a stationary physical environment in non line of sight conditions.
- the IEEE 802.20 Typical Urban (Case-IV) model is employed for this purpose [3].
- Such a channel may exist when separate buildings or stationary vehicles are connected through a environment which is cluttered with trees and other buildings.
- the power delay profile for this wireless channel is shown in figure 5c .
- many muitipath contributions may be provided from reflection.
- the reflected signals are strong, and hence each muitipath contributor has a much greater influence. This results in the channel having a longer delay spread than those described above.
- the cyclic prefix technique employed for OFDM may collect all of the multipaths that have a delay less than the cyclic prefix duration, and is very simple. At the transmitter a small section of each OFDM symbol is prepended to the symbol prior to transmission. At the receiver, this cyclic prefix is discarded, with all of the muitipath being collected optimally in the remainder of the signal. However, since the cyclic prefix is discarded at the receiver, an energy per bit penalty may be incurred (often of the order of -1 dB). This technique does not require any form of channel estimation. For CDMA, the RAKE receiver may require channel estimation, and not ali of the multipaths can be collected, since complexity grows linearly with the number of paths collected. Moreover, in mobile applications the RAKE coefficients must be tracked with time.
- the radio channel between a pair of antennas differs depending on their relative location. Jt follows that by equipping the transmitter and/or the receiver with multiple antennas many different radio channels may result. The basic idea of spatial diversity is to exploit the fact that when one of the channels may be " bad", others may be "good”.
- the channels between a single transmit antenna and two receive antennas were measured, and are shown in figure 8.
- the antennas were 1 meter apart and the wavelength was 2.46GHz. For this short delay spread case there may be a significant fade for Antenna 2 that does not exist for Antenna 1.
- Receivers that exploit this difference between the signals may provide significant performance improvements, such as increased sensitivity, diversity against fading (especially important in a highly mobile situation) and interference rejection.
- a simple technique that is often employed in low cost commercial equipment is selection diversity.
- the antenna with the "best" signal is selected and only that signal is passed on to further digital signal processing.
- the signal on the other antenna is discarded.
- the receiver may decide that Antenna 2 is best at the start of the packet, then use that antenna to decode the entire packet. In mobile radio environments Antenna 2 may fade during the course of the packet.
- the ability of the receiver to reject interference may be compromised, relative to the case where all antennas are employed.
- the Physical Layer processing in wireless communications systems may be responsible for delivering some of the key system performance indicators.
- Link robustness, range, and support for mobility are all established by the Physical Layer system.
- the base set of technologies identified above may be included in all of the systems to be discussed hereafter, In this instance, the focus is on the ability of the Physical Layer to accommodate the hostile mobile broadband channel.
- OFDM is a popular modulation format for wireless broadband it has several aspects that require attention at both the transmitter and receiver.
- the cyclic prefix technique briefly discussed above, provides effective recovery of energy from multipath radio channels.
- Jong delay spreads is the decreased coherence frequency, and consequential deep frequency selective fading of the radio channel. This, coupled with mobility, results in a hostile radio channel, as shown in figures 6 and 7.
- the IEEE 802.11 a and g [5,6] standards describe a MAC and PHY suitable for indoor stationary propagation conditions.
- the cyclic prefix is 0.8 ⁇ us long, as shown in figure 9. This is adequate for the delay spreads seen indoors but is significantly less than the delay spreads experienced outdoors.
- the low transmit powers of the equipment typically deployed indoors also limits reflection delays.
- the delay spreads experienced are much larger than the protection offered by the 0.8 us cyclic prefix. Large amounts of inter-OFDM symbol interference results and packet loss rates increase significantly. This interference could potentially be removed using equalization techniques at the receiver.
- 802.11 may be suitable if near line of sight propagation conditions are available.
- Highly directional antennas These antennas reduce delay spread by limiting angle of arrival and departure.
- the use of highly directional antennas for mobile applications is clearly infeasible. Such structures are possible for fixed wireless backhaul but reduce the self healing capability of the system.
- Outdoor OFDM Physical Layer standards are fEEE 802.16a [7] and 802.16e-2005 [8], and IEEE 802.20 [9], and ETSI HiperlvIAN. These standards are mainly concerned with describing a compliant transmit waveform.
- the method for reception is left to the vendors.
- the canonical OFDM Physical Layer processing chain is shown in figure 10, and shall be referred to as the "conventional" receiver. The components associated with frame format recovery and detailed framing have been omitted.
- the receiver processing essentially inverts the transmitter.
- the front end Synch module implements time, frequency and amplitude synchronization.
- the signal is converted to the frequency domain in blocks processed at the OFDM symbol frequency.
- coherent demodulation is then implemented, requiring accurate frequency domain channel estimation.
- De- interleaving and decoding delivering frequency diversity
- descrambling then complete the Physical Layer processing, In some cases selection diversity is employed but in order to exploit two or more antennas effectively, modifications to the conventional receiver are required.
- the model applicable for generalized frequency domain space-time receiver processing is shown in figure 11. In this model the demodulation and decoding of the signals from each antenna are integrated. Additionally, synchronization would typically involve a joint assessment of the signals arriving at each antenna. This structure may offer the potential for significant performance improvements over the conventional receiver.
- each antenna path delivers to the receiver, at the FFT output has been described above.
- this frequency domain channel may describe the link between the input to the IFFT in the transmitter and the output of the FFT in the receiver.
- the frequency domain radio channel should be estimated. Certain assumptions are often made in receivers about the variation of the frequency domain channel. The variation of magnitude and phase in the frequency and time domains is considered.
- OFDM standards e.g. IEEE 802.11 a/g, IEEE 802.16a
- pilot symbols take the place of subcarriers that could otherwise be used for data carriage, hence resulting in a slightly degraded data rate. Pilot Symbol Assisted Phase Estimation
- Invariant power with time The magnitude of each frequency may be different but remains invariant over time.
- Simulation results are presented for several Outdoor OFDM receivers, operating under combinations of mobility and/or clutter.
- Each plot shows how the packet error rate changes in the given environment, as the signal to noise ratio is varied.
- the ievel of clutter, and hence resulting multipath effects, is defined according to the channel model.
- the 802.20 (Case-IV) model is used to represent a typical urban environment [3].
- the SUM [10] and Single models represent near LOS and full LOS respectively.
- the level of mobifity is expressed in meters per second for each plot.
- Figure 13 shows the performance of a receiver which makes an initial magnitude and phase estimate, based on a preamble, and then performs phase tracking for the remainder of the packet. Three curves are displayed, representing the LOS, near LOS, and urban cases.
- the LOS case is stationary, whereas the latter two cases mode! a mobile node moving at 20 mph. All curves are for the case of a single antenna at the transmitter and receiver. It is apparent that this technique fails when there is significant multipath or mobility. When multiple antennas are employed at the receiver this technique may be unsuitable since the variation of magnitude, that is ignored by this technique, causes the signals on the receive antennas to be incorrectly weighted. This incorrect combining of the signals results in significant degradation in receiver performance. Pilot Symbol Assisted Channel Estimation
- pilot symbol assisted channel estimation is assumed that the receiver is able to track both magnitude and phase as they vary across frequency and time, using pilot symbol assisted channel estimation.
- the preamble is employed to seed the channel estimation process and then, throughout the packet ' , pilots at fixed subcarriers are employed to update that channel estimate.
- pilot symbol assisted channel estimation is shown in figure 14. As clutter and mobility increase, the coherence frequency of the channel becomes smaller than the pilot spacing. The conventional receiver may then no longer be able to track the channel, and packet failures may dominate. Additionally, at the limits of coverage where signals are weak the quality of the channel estimated from the preamble may be poor irrespective of any mobility.
- the performance of the Physical Layer has been assessed via Packet Error Rate simulations.
- the coverage afforded by 802.11g and the inventor's present networks is compared, through field trials in urban clutter.
- the propagation environment reflects that typically encountered by network operators in metropolitan areas.
- the speed of the vehicle in this study varied between 0 and 50 mph and was 30 mph on average.
- Each network was subjected to a constant bit rate stream of LJ DP/I P packets, each containing 850 Bytes of data.
- the rate of transmission was 5 packets per second.
- Propagation Environment The radio environment may be categorized as urban. Delay spreads of several microseconds have been measured. Most of the test region consists of 1-3 storey residences and 2-4 storey office blocks. The north eastern region consists of clear field line of sight conditions. Physical Layer Parameters
- the Physical Layer settings were configured to the advantage of the 802.11 g system, as shown in Table 1, below.
- the 802.11 g system Is given a significant power per information bit advantage due to the increased RF bandwidth and Sower data rate.
- the 802.11g equipment employs a state-of-the-art chipset from a market leading supplier. Coverage Results
- Uplink coverage plots for an example Outdoor OFDM system with advanced channel estimation in accordance with the present invention and two receive antennas, and for the 802.11 system are shown in Figures 16 and 17, respectively. These results were collected simultaneously in order to avoid different interference situations.
- the 802.11g equipment is only effective when there is a very strong iine of sight component in the received signal.
- the outdoor OFDM system in accordance with the present invention with its advanced channel tracking operates very effectively in clutter, at ranges up to and beyond 1 km. This is due to the effective use of two antennas, which is made possible by the accurate estimation of the radio channels to these antennas.
- An additional experiment involved fitting a video camera to the vehicle, with a live MPEG-4 video camera stream being sent from the vehicle to the fixed station.
- the 802.11 g equipment provided a link for approximately 1 minute out of 20 minutes, whereas the Outdoor OFDM system of the embodiment of the present invention provided continuous coverage.
- the present invention provides a method of tracking time varying channels in a wireless packet based communication network comprising the steps of: tracking at least one channel parameter in the time domain in accordance with an auto regression algorithm.
- Any one or, a combination of two or more parameters may be tracked in accordance with an auto regression algorithm.
- the CEDB Channel Estimate DataBase
- the receiver tracks three parameters in the time domain using an auto regression. These may be
- a packet consists of a sequence of OFDM symbols in time.
- a CEDB state comprises estimates of complex channel amplitude, phase offset & noise power as noted above. This state is updated upon decoding of a received symbol by taking a fraction of the current raw estimate and adding that to a complementary fraction of the state.
- the current raw estimates are derived from the current received OFDM symbol and all (or a subset of) previous transmitted symbol estimates.
- the phase offset (representing any low frequency residual frequency offset due to frequency correction errors and/or phase noise) is tracked separately and is used to rotate the CEDB state. The rotated state may then be combined with the new channel estimate.
- the complex channel amplitude is modelled as the sum of 3 effects, namely parameters 1, 2 & 4.
- This may be carried out as 3 separate components, rather than in related art techniques which are based on stationery theory/algorithms and thus cannot track three parameters which are varying over time due to the mobility constraints in the appiication environment of the present invention.
- the related art systems cannot track parameters when used in a mobile environment. It has been found that improvements are found when the parameters are singularly tracked, rather than the conventional systems estimating the parameters all together.
- these transmitted symbol estimates are derived from FEC decoder generated outcomes. These fractions may change with OFDM sequence number and may be different for each parameter.
- the CEDB generates a channel estimate for any received OFDM symbol to be decoded.
- the symbol to be decoded can be any previously received OFDM symbol.
- the CEDB generates a channel estimate by predicting the channel based on the current state and the requested symbol number.
- the channel estimate is frequency smoothed using a bidirectional auto regression in the frequency domain.
- the regression factor is obtained from the CEDB and may change with OFDM symbol number and subcarrier.
- a CEDB state is retained independently for each antenna. Each channel is estimated independently with antenna diversity exploited upon demodulation.
- the present invention provides a method of tracking time varying channels in a wireless packet based communication network comprising the steps of: providing a CEDB update function and a FEC decode function in accordance with a pipeline processing algorithm.
- the pipeline processing algorithm may comprise the following steps: providing a first decoding and use of a received symbol i while predicting a channel estimate for symbol i using a second decoding of symbol i-1 ; providing a second decoding and use of symbol i while predicting a channel estimate for symbol i+1 using the first decoding of symbol i.
- the processing speed of the receiver may be increased by pipelining of the CEDB update and FEC decode functions.
- step 3 Use decoder outcomes from step 2 to update the CEDB state 4. Predict a second channel estimate for symbol index i
- the present invention is an improvement over the above technique of WO 2005/11128. As shown above, the present invention now pipelines the CEDB update and decode functions for 2 iterations as follows.
- the Channel Estimate database uses transmitted symbol estimates for symbol i that were derived by decoding symbol i.
- the Channel Estimate database is preferentially saved in the step of the first decoding but not in the step of the second decoding. In accordance with this aspect of the present invention it is possible to start predicting a channel estimate for a next symbol before the first symbol has been
- the present invention provides a method of synchronizing packets arriving at a receiver in a wireless communication network the method comprising the steps of: receive a sampled packet input signal; determine a complex representation of the sampled input signal; perform a delay and correlate calculation to form a first decision metric for a packet arrival time such that the correlation comprises a first arithmetic operation.
- a coarse synchronisation of a packet may be accomplished using a low complexity Delay and Correlate process based on projecting the received samples onto the complex unit circle, or equivalently determining the complex phase and discarding the amplitude information.
- the multiply stage of a conventional delay and correlate may then be replaced with a substantially simpler addition.
- Simple lookup tables may then be used prior to accumulating the metric. Complexity may therefore be reduced relative to conventional techniques. Normalisation is naturally provided by sending the received samples onto the complex unit circle. The resulting metric is inherently normalised.
- robustness to large signal variations may be delivered. Robustness against Jammers and DC offset effects may be provided via a second parallel, shorter delay, delay and correlate process. The second delay and correlate metric may be subtracted from the first yielding a metric insensitive to similar signals, Jammers and DC offset effects.
- the timing instant may be determined by the following steps: 1/ determining the earliest and latest times that are equal to the maximum, and
- timing accuracy is improved by around 20 samples in a 4x oversampled case using IEEE 802.11 preambles.
- a method of correlating a received signal in a wireless packet based communication network comprising the steps of: quantising at least a first and a second signal component such that the signal components are represented by a first and second one bit reference, respectively; performing correlation operations on the first and second one bit references.
- fine timing correlation may be implemented using a 1 bit quantised (test) reference and received signals.
- test quantised
- the test signal and received signal I and Q arms may be quantised to one bit (sign info only) prior to correlation for the purpose of determining fine time synchronisation.
- the complex multiply required between the signals is then three valued (-,0,+) for I and three valued (-,0,+) for Q and may be efficiently implemented using low level logic gates.
- This embodiment has the added benefit of removing signal normaiisation when threshold testing is required.
- the resulting performance may be consistent with the optimal full complexity while the complexity is reduced by at least an order of magnitude. Another benefit is that the space needed to store the reference and received signal is reduced significantly.
- a method of communicating in a wireless packet based communication network comprising the steps of: mixing a signal for transmission on the network into at least two distinct frequency bands so as to provide two transmission frequencies for the one signal.
- joint demodulation in the context of the present embodiment refers to a method whereby a vector channel model is defined with estimated statistics. Together these characterise the statistical dependence of the observations (i.e. symbols received on each antenna) on the transmitted symbol (i.e. symbol transmitted).
- the demodulation preferably employs channel estimates and noise power estimates obtained from a Channel Estimate database for each receiving antenna.
- the two frequencies are transmitted on two antennae and received on separate antenna at the receiver. According to this embodiment, added advantage of space diversity is afforded.
- the transmitted baseband signal may be identical but in another embodiment the signal may be space time encoded with a matching space time decoder in operation at the receiver.
- a method of communication in a wireless OFDM multiple access packet based communication network comprising the step of: providing a redundant cyclic data field for a transmitted data packet where the data field is a non-contiguous string distributed about a data packet.
- the redundant cyclic data field comprises a prefix portion (Pre) placed at the head or front of a symbol, eg an OFDM symbol.
- a packet (Pkt) may comprise a number of such symbols,
- a suffix (Post) portion is placed at the tail or rear of a symbol. In this way, no time offset compensation is required at the receiver because, for example, the spreading effects act on a smaller portion or string of data.
- a method of managing digital data processing resources comprising the steps of: providing an interpretive shell for communicating between an embedded system device and a remote PC wherein the interpretive shell reads user input data and interprets said user input data in the context of a programming language so as to interface digital instructions between the embedded system device and the remote PC to enable the remote PC to delegate a portion of the PC computing resources to the functions of the embedded system device.
- Debugging and development functionality may be split between development hardware and remote PC.
- the computing resources of the PC are made available for using in debugging and development, for example.
- an interpretive shell refers to a software program that reads lines of text which a user may type or enter and interprets them in the context of a given programming language. This allows, inter alia, scripting, interactive scripting and control of the embedded systems device, for example, modem prototype hardware, allowing more powerful and flexible debugging and to have a TCP/IP interface to low level hardware on target device via a register interface on the target CPU.
- embedded system device refers to any number of electronic devices which may include an embedded system per se or, a component of an embedded system where, without limitation an embedded system may comprise a special-purpose computer system, which may be partially or completely encapsulated by the device it controls. Further, an embedded system may have specific requirements and may perform pre-defined tasks, unlike a general-purpose personal computer, PC.
- the preferred interpretive shelf is implemented using the open-source language “python” (Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language freely available from http://www.python.org/). With this implementation, it is possible to perform high level control in a more flexible and rapid development environment rather than writing, compiling and downloading, for example, embedded C.
- a wide high-pass filter (WHPF) is often present that can be enabled to remove this DC offset so that baseband signal power measurement can be performed, however the width of the filter is usually such that it filters away a significant portion of the centre of the received signal, making it's use unsuitable when a burst is present on the channel. It is typically recommended that when not receiving a signal, the RF receiver be operated in this WHPF mode, and that once a signal is detected (typically by separate RF signal power measure exceeding some threshold) the WHPF is switched off, returning the device to the DC-coupled mode.
- WHPF wide high-pass filter
- This change of mode induces large DC offsets in the I and Q baseband signals.
- Operating the modem and receiver in this way can result in significant distortion at the start of a received burst, and if the signal power is very low (in the case of weak signals) potentially for the entire burst.
- a method of receiving a signal transmitted in a wireless packet based communication network comprising the steps of: operating a receiver in a first mode; monitoring received signal characteristics to determine whether the signal characteristics exceed a predetermined threshold condition; switching the receiver to a second (preferably remedial action) mode if the predetermined threshold condition is exceeded.
- the first mode is a substantially DC-coupied mode of operation and the second mode is a DC offset removal mode.
- the first mode is a narrow band mode and the second mode is a wideband mode.
- the receiver is locked in a given mode when it is determined that a packet is being received, preferably the first mode.
- the invention according to this embodiment is directed to operating an RF receiver device in the DC-coupled mode, continually tracking the baseband DC offset and signal power, and only switching to the wide high-pass mode when baseband DC offsets become too large, or when adjustment of the RF path gains are required.
- the present embodiment also provides a method of receiving a signal transmitted in a wireless packet based communication network, the method comprising the steps of: operating the RF receiver device in DC (or close-to DC) coupled mode. tracking the baseband DC offsets, and initiating DC offset removal strategies ⁇ in the RF device) if the magnitude of DC offset exceeds some threshold. tracking the baseband signal power (with the effects of DC offset removed) and initiating RF signal path gain changes if the signal power falls outside of an upper and lower power limit. concurrently estimating the DC offset and signal power in the baseband I/Q signals from the RF receiver device.
- the method further comprises the step of inhibiting the above mentioned changes in RF device state if the demodulator indicates that it is receiving a valid packet.
- the present invention in one embodiment, continually make estimates of the DC offset present on the baseband I/Q signals, and concurrently, the baseband signal power.
- DC offset can cause large errors in the baseband signal power, so the signal power measurement should be adjusted to remove the effects of DC offset. If the magnitude of the DC offset exceeds some threshold, then the RF receiver should be placed into a DC offset removal mode, and then returned to the DC-coupled mode.
- the RF signal path gain should be adjusted to return the baseband signal power to a nominated set-point within the upper and lower power thresholds.
- the RF gain adjustment process should ensure that the final setting of the RF gain is such that signals that result in a baseband power within the upper and lower power band limits will not result in compression within the RF receiver.
- An age-inhibit input to the process which when inserted, prevents the above mentioned RF gain and DC-coupling mode changes.
- This input is asserted when the demodulator has detected and is receiving a valid burst, in order to avoid distortion of the received signal.
- the signal strength increases significantly (potentially due to an interfering signal which would prevent valid reception of the burst being received) it may be useful to cancel current burst reception, and re-enable the age process.
- Concurrent estimation of the DC offset and signal power over a block of symbols can be performed by: A) Averaging the I and Q signals to obtain an estimate of the DC offset. B) Averaging the magnitude squared of the I and Q signals, to produce a raw power estimate. C) Subtracting the effect of the DC offset from the raw power estimate to produce the true signal power estimate.
- IEEE 802.11 WG "IEEE Std 802.11a-1999(R2003), Part 11 : Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) specifications High-speed Physical Layer in the 5 GHz Band.”
- MAC Medium Access Control
- PHY Physical Layer
- MAC Physical Layer
- PHY Physical Layer
- IEEE 802.16 WG "IEEE Std 802.16-2004. Part 16: AIr Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems.”
- IEEE 802.20 WG "IEEE 802.20 Mobile Broadband Wireless Access (MBWA).” [On- line]http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/20/.
- IEEE 802.16 WG "Channel Models for Fixed Wireless Applications," [On!ine]http;//grouper.ieee.org/groups/8G2/ ' 16/tg3/contrib/802163c-01 _29r4.pdf.
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