WO2011069275A1 - Procédé et dispositif permettant de compenser en temps réel une réponse en fréquence d'une unité de filtre dans une unité radio distante - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif permettant de compenser en temps réel une réponse en fréquence d'une unité de filtre dans une unité radio distante Download PDF

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WO2011069275A1
WO2011069275A1 PCT/CN2009/001408 CN2009001408W WO2011069275A1 WO 2011069275 A1 WO2011069275 A1 WO 2011069275A1 CN 2009001408 W CN2009001408 W CN 2009001408W WO 2011069275 A1 WO2011069275 A1 WO 2011069275A1
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Jack Xu
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    • H03F1/00—Details of amplifiers with only discharge tubes, only semiconductor devices or only unspecified devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F1/32—Modifications of amplifiers to reduce non-linear distortion
    • H03F1/3241—Modifications of amplifiers to reduce non-linear distortion using predistortion circuits
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    • H04B17/10—Monitoring; Testing of transmitters
    • H04B17/11—Monitoring; Testing of transmitters for calibration
    • H04B17/12—Monitoring; Testing of transmitters for calibration of transmit antennas, e.g. of the amplitude or phase
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    • H04B1/00—Details of transmission systems, not covered by a single one of groups H04B3/00 - H04B13/00; Details of transmission systems not characterised by the medium used for transmission
    • H04B1/02—Transmitters
    • H04B1/04—Circuits
    • H04B2001/0408—Circuits with power amplifiers
    • H04B2001/0425—Circuits with power amplifiers with linearisation using predistortion

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  • the present application generally relates to remote radio unit, and more particularly, to a method and device for compensating frequency response of a filter unit in real time in such a remote radio unit.
  • RRU Remote Radio Unit
  • QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
  • FU filter unit
  • EVM link budge become too tighten.
  • EVM characterizes modulation precision, and is a key index of judging digital modulation quality in modern wireless communication system.
  • EVM is vector difference between ideal measurement component I (In Phase) and Q (Quadrature Phase) (referred to as reference signal "R") of transmitted signal and I, Q component amplitude of the actually received measurement signal "M”.
  • Each FU needs external test equipment/time
  • the RRU has a dedicated antenna calibration (AC) port to support smart antenna that featured in TD-SCDMA.
  • AC Antenna Calibration
  • TOR Transmitter Observation Receiver
  • a method for compensating frequency response of FU in RRU in real time comprises filter unit equalizer, transmitter observation receiver and antenna calibration receiver, said method comprising the steps of:
  • step a) said method also comprises:
  • said step of calculating coefficients of filter unit equalizer comprises the steps of:
  • said adaptive equalizer algorithm can be implemented by adaptive filtering, such as Least Mean Square, Inverse Fast Fourier Transform and so on.
  • said default value coefficient of FU equalizer can be stored into memory when RRU is tested by test signal.
  • said default value coefficient of FU equalizer can be a coefficient of FU equalizer used at a time point when FU equalizer error occurs.
  • said filter unit is wide band passive filter.
  • said filter unit equalizer is implemented as digital filter with programmable coefficients.
  • a device for compensating frequency response of a Filter Unit (FU) in Remote Radio Unit (RRU) in real time comprises:
  • Antenna Calibration Receiver for receiving output signal of said FU;
  • calculating unit for calculating coefficients of FU equalizer in real time based on said input signal and said output signal
  • updating unit for updating said FU equalizer based on said calculated coefficients in order to compensate frequency response of said filter unit.
  • said device also comprises:
  • loading unit for loading a default value coefficient of FU equalizer while initialing RRU.
  • said calculating unit comprises:
  • comparing means for comparing said input signal of FU with said output signal of FU
  • extracting means for extracting frequency response of FU
  • calculating means for calculating coefficients of FU equalizer by an adaptive equalizer algorithm.
  • said adaptive equalizer algorithm can be implemented by adaptive filtering, such as Least Mean Square, Inverse Fast Fourier Transform and so on.
  • said default value coefficient of FU equalizer can be stored into memory when RRU is tested by test signal.
  • said default value coefficient of FU equalizer can be a coefficient of FU equalizer used at a time point when FU equalizer error occurs.
  • said filter unit is wide band passive filter.
  • said filter unit equalizer is implemented as digital filter with programmable coefficients.
  • a RRU comprising the device according to the invention.
  • a telecommunication system comprising the RRU according to the invention is provided.
  • Advantages of the present invention comprise: the FU characteristic is calculated on application environment; since no hardware changes between normal operation and calibration phase, best performance can be obtained in real time; the equalization can be done on demand; it can track any change of FU on application environment; the FU replacement cost can be reduced and FU can be replaced without recalibration.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic block diagram of RRU in which the present invention can be implemented
  • Fig. 2 is a schematic flow diagram of an embodiment of a method for compensating frequency response of a filter unit in remote radio unit in real time according to the present invention
  • Fig. 3 is a schematic flow diagram of a preferred embodiment of the inventive method
  • Fig. 4 is a schematic flow diagram of a preferred embodiment of step s203 illustrated in Fig.2;
  • Fig. 5 is a schematic block diagram of an embodiment of a device for compensating frequency response of a filter unit in remote radio unit in real time according to the present invention
  • Fig. 6 is a schematic block diagram of a preferred embodiment of a device for compensating frequency response of a filter unit in remote radio unit in real time according to the present invention
  • Fig.7 is a schematic block diagram of an embodiment of calculating unit comprised in said device shown in Fig. 5 according to the present invention.
  • RRU comprises Power Amplifier (PA) 1 , Filter Unit (FU) 2, Transmitter Observation Receiver (TOR) 3, Antenna Calibration (AC) receiver 4, FU equalizer 5 and real time equalizer 6.
  • PA 1 is a prefer component for amplifying the input signal. Therefore, without PA 1 , the present invention can be achieved.
  • FU 2 is wide band passive filter in TDD RRU system, the transmitter and receiver share the same FU by different time slot, that is, in TDD system, the AC will share the hardware of receiver, and in transmitter time, the receiver is free for AC.
  • AC port can receive the transmitter signal from the AC (without FU).
  • FU equalizer 5 can be implemented by digital filter with programmable coefficients and different FU use a different set of coefficients.
  • test signal is sent to power amplifier 1 and then is received by TOR 3 and FU 2. Said signal is filtered by FU 2 and then is transmitted to AC receiver 4 by air interface.
  • Real time equalizer 6 will compare the TOR signal with AC receiver signal.
  • the FU characteristics can be extracted by real time equalizer 6.
  • the FU equalizer characteristics are obtained by inversing the FU characteristics. It is easy to calculate the coefficients of FU equalizer by adaptive filtering, such as LMS (Least Mean Square), IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) and so on. In doing so, a default value coefficient of filter unit equalizer can be obtained.
  • test signal is generated by test signal generator in RRU. Then, said default value coefficient of filter unit equalizer can be stored in memory, such as flash memory.
  • said default value coefficient of FU equalizer can be a coefficient of FU equalizer used at a time point when FU equalizer error occurs.
  • the FU equalizer 5 will load said default value coefficient from real time equalizer 6. These coefficients will be defined as the start value coefficients of filter unit equalizer.
  • frequency response of FU 2 will be tracked in real time.
  • the adaptive equalizer algorithm will modify the coefficients by checking input signal of FU (that is TOR data) and output data of FU (that is AC data). Then the FU distortion can be compensated.
  • transmitter observation receiver receives input signal of said filter unit 2.
  • antenna calibration receiver receives output signal of said filter unit at step s202.
  • coefficients of filter unit equalizer are calculated by real time equalizer based on said input signal and said output signal.
  • said filter unit equalizer 5 is updated based on said calculated coefficients in order to compensate frequency response of said filter unit 2.
  • said s o method first performs the step of:
  • steps s302-s305 which are the same as steps s201 -s204 in Fig. 2, so these steps are not described in detailed.
  • FU equalizer will load a default value coefficient of FU equalizer. How to obtain said default value coefficient has the following two options:
  • test signal is generated.
  • the test signal can be a Multi Tone signal that occupies the whole bandwidth of normal operation.
  • the test signal was received by TOR 3, then the input signal of FU 2 is known by real time equalizer.
  • the test signal is filter by 5 FU 2, it makes some distortion on amplitude and phase.
  • the calibratiorj antenna will pick up this filtered signal and then this filtered signal is sent to AC receiver 4.
  • the real time equalizer 6 will compare the TOR signal with AC receiver signal.
  • the FU characteristics can be extracted by the real time equalizer 6 and the frequency response of FU equalizer can be 0 obtained by inversing the FU frequency response. It is easy to calculate the coefficients of FU equalizer by adaptive filtering, such as LMS, IFFT and so on. From this, we can obtain default value coefficient of FU equalizer.
  • the test signal can be generated by test signal generator in RRU, then test signal performs the above actions, finally default value coefficient of FU equalizer can be obtained.
  • Another option is that default value coefficient of FU equalizer comes from the normal operation when the error of Equalizer reaches a certain threshold.
  • obtaining a default value coefficient of FU equalizer is a preferred embodiment.
  • the technical effect in doing so is to speed up the process and shorten convergence time.
  • said step s203 of calculating coefficients of FU equalizer comprises the steps of: comparing said input signal of FU with said output signal of FU, s401 ;
  • said adaptive equalizer algorithm can be implemented by adaptive filtering, such as Least Mean Square, Inverse Fast Fourier Transform and so on.
  • Fig. 5 is a schematic block diagram of an embodiment of a device for compensating frequency response of a filter unit in remote radio unit in real time according to the present invention.
  • Said device is used to implement the above described method according to the invention.
  • Said device comprises TOR 3 for receiving input signal of said filter unit, AC receiver 4 for receiving output signal of said filter unit, calculating unit 501 for calculating coefficients of filter unit equalizer in real time based on said input signal and said output signal, updating unit 502 for updating said filter unit equalizer based on said calculated coefficients in order to compensate frequency response of said filter unit.
  • Said calculating unit 50 1 and said updating unit 502 can be implemented in real time equalizer 6.
  • said device also comprises loading unit for loading a default value coefficient of FU equalizer while initialing RRU.
  • Said default value coefficient of FU equalizer can be stored into memory when RRU is tested by test signal, or said default value coefficient of FU equalizer comes from the normal operation when the error of equalizer reaches a threshold.
  • Loading unit is introduced in order to speed up the process and shorten convergence time.
  • Fig. 6 is a schematic block diagram of a preferred embodiment of a device for compensating frequency response of a filter unit in remote radio unit in real time according to the present invention.
  • said device also comprises loading unit 601 for loading a default value coefficient of FU equalizer while initialing RRU.
  • loading unit 601 when normal traffic is transmitted, loading unit 601 first loads a default value coefficient of FU equalizer, then calculating unit 501 calculates coefficients of filter unit equalizer, finally updating unit 502 updates said FU equalizer.
  • Said loading unit 601 can also be implemented in real time equalizer 6.
  • calculating unit 501 comprises:
  • comparing means 701 for comparing said input signal of FU with said output signal of FU;
  • calculating means 704 for calculating coefficients of FU equalizer by an adaptive equalizer algorithm.
  • said adaptive equalizer algorithm can be implemented by adaptive filtering, such as Least Mean Square, Inverse Fast Fourier Transform and so on.
  • Calculating unit 501 , configuring unit 502 and loading unit 601 may be implemented in hardware, firmware, software or any combination thereof.
  • Advantages of the present invention comprise: the FU characteristic is calculated on application environment; since no hardware changes between normal operation and calibration phase, best performance can be obtained real time; the equalization can be done on demand; it can track any change of FU on application environment; the FU replacement cost can be reduced and FU can be replaced without recalibration.

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La présente invention se rapporte à un procédé permettant de compenser en temps réel une réponse en fréquence d'une unité de filtre dans une unité radio distante, ladite unité radio distante comprenant un égaliseur d'unité de filtre, un récepteur d'observation d'émetteur et un récepteur de calibrage d'antenne. Ledit procédé consiste à : recevoir un signal d'entrée de ladite unité de filtre au moyen d'un récepteur d'observation d'émetteur ; recevoir un signal de sortie de ladite unité de filtre au moyen d'un récepteur de calibrage d'antenne ; calculer en temps réel des coefficients de l'égaliseur d'unité de filtre sur la base dudit signal d'entrée et dudit signal de sortie ; mettre à jour l'égaliseur d'unité de filtre sur la base desdits coefficients calculés afin de compenser la réponse en fréquence de ladite unité de filtre. La présente invention se rapporte également à un dispositif permettre de mettre en œuvre le procédé susmentionné, à une unité radio distante comprenant ledit dispositif et à un système de communication comprenant ladite unité radio distante.
PCT/CN2009/001408 2009-12-09 2009-12-09 Procédé et dispositif permettant de compenser en temps réel une réponse en fréquence d'une unité de filtre dans une unité radio distante WO2011069275A1 (fr)

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