WO2011141931A4

WO2011141931A4 - Method and system to attain multiband, multicarrier, multiuser through access point base station femtocell

Info

Publication number: WO2011141931A4
Application number: PCT/IN2011/000326
Authority: WO
Inventors: Prashant A. Nadgouda
Original assignee: Global Rural Netco Ltd.
Priority date: 2010-05-10
Filing date: 2011-05-10
Publication date: 2012-07-05
Also published as: WO2011141931A2; WO2011141931A3

Abstract

A rnultiband, multicarrier, multiuser system and method capable of sharing active Infrastructure including spectrum through an Access Point Base Station Femtocell and performing multi channel establishment and management in an multi input, multi output multiband link mode.

Claims

AMENDED CLAIMS received by the International Bureau on 23 January 2012 (23.01.2012)

1. A multi-band, multi carrier, multi-user system capable of sharing active infrastructure including spectrum through Access Point Base STATION - A Femtocell, the system comprising: a Multi input multi output multi band antenna; a radio capable of active parameter alteration based on observations of factors from external and internal radio environment, such as radio frequency, spectrum, user behavior, and network state; a SDR transceiver; a Base band Processor array module; a network controller module comprising of logically separated Radio network controller module and Base station controller Module; a Traffic management module comprising; configuration parameter LUT; baseband processor link channel array matrix; arbitration and mapping module; radio configuration module ; a self organizing network module; a application module; and

35 a network interface module.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the Multi input Multi output multi band antenna establish interface with the multiple operator links

3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the radio executes the band synchronization

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the SDR transceiver performs switching between the single / multi band single /multi carrier single /multi user single /multi mode by changing modes through configuration instructions set by TMM and in synchronous to the parameter specifications such as channel bandwidth, rate, and modulation where in the flexibly is determined through control signal logic sequence ordering.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1, comprise of Base band Processor array consisting of logically separated Base band Processors.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the baseband processor module comprise of Base band Processor array consisting of logically separated Base band

Processors, the Base band Processors performs functions including multi-channel digital signal DDC, acquisition, code tracking, carrier tracking, demodulation, etc., through the programmable architecture.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1, the system comprise of logically separated Radio network controller module and Base station controller Module, wherein the

Radio network controller module and a Base station controller Module performs controlled signal processing, in synchronous to the active sharing environment Including shared spectrum environment.

8. The system as claimed in claim 1, comprise of logically separated Radio network controller module arid Base station controller Module, wherein the BSC/RNC coordinates setup/teardown of packet data sessions say setup voice and non voice calls through the RAN over active sharing environment Including shared spectrum environment.

9. . The system as claimed in claim 1 , comprise of logically separated Radio network controller module and Base station controller Module having scalable architecture, wherein the scalability of the architecture is controlled through the configuration patterns generated at TMM as requirement of the channel link management.

10. The system as claimed in claim 1, comprise of logically separated Radio network controller module and Base station controller Module, wherein the Radio network controller module and a Base station controller Module performs controlled signal processing ,band sharing and multiplexing in multi carrier active single and /or sharing mode.

11. The system as claimed in claim 1, comprise of a Traffic management module, the Traffic management module further comprised in that the configuration parameter LUT and the arbitration and mapping logic, wherein the Traffic management module receives the channel and signal parametric data (provide the input from network interface or application or other respective input

module)performs the arbitration respective to the received parametric data and respective extraction of the configuration controls from the configuration parameter LUT.

12. The system as claimed in claim 1, comprise of a Traffic management module, the Traffic management module comprising of the configuration parameter LUT respective to the communication channel types and the logically separated baseband processor forming baseband processor array which is linked by

establishing the communication channels as resultant of the performed arbitration based on the received and extracted parametric data and the arbitration and mapping logic.

13. The system as claimed in claim 1, comprise of a Traffic management module, the Traffic management module comprising of The configuration parameter LUT, wherein the configuration parameter LUT update and upgrade logic Updates the configuration parameter LUT.

14. . The configuration parameter LUT update and upgrade logic as claimed in claim 13 is implemented through combination of configuration control instruction set logic and configuration register.

15. . The configuration parameter LUT update and upgrade logic as claimed in claim 13 is also realized as software instruction upgrade embedded in H/W or further can be realized purely as software layer.

16. . The configuration parameter LUT update and upgrade logic implementation as claimed in, claim 13, updates the configuration parameter LUT naccordance to the operating mode of multi band , multi standard , and multi carrier femtocell , and have standard open interfaces so that it can be integrated with standard femto gateways available presently

17. . The configuration parameter LUT update and upgrade logic as claimed in claim 13 updates and upgrades the configuration parameter LUT through the

38 parameters based on the Femto gateway to be used in conjunction with any multiband, multi carrier and multi standard having intelligence to carry out routing of voice and non-voice traffic, to the different core networks of different operators, based on business rules of active and passive infrastructure sharing among various operators or between operators and an independent infrastructure service provider offering hosted infrastructure to operators.

18. . The Radio configuration module embedded in the Traffic management module as claimed in claim 11 monitors the MIMO configuration parameters and the function control parameters.

19. . The Radio configuration module embedded in the Traffic management module as claimed in claim 1 1 contrails and monitors SDR transceiver module characteristics through configuration inputs.

20. . The Radio configuration module embedded in the Traffic management module as claimed in claim 1 1 contrails and monitors dynamic tuning of radio of the SDR transceiver module for the optimized spectrum usage is controlled and monitored controls the SDR transceiver module.

21. . The Traffic management module as claimed in claim 11, wherein the arbitration and mapping logic performs arbitration and mapping through the extraction of parameters from the configuration parameter LUT and constructing the channel by configuring the channel parameters to the baseband processor link channel array marries. The baseband processor link channel array marries establishs channel to the specific baseband processor selected from the logically separated processor's array.

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22. . The Traffic management module as claimed in claim 11, the Traffic management module also sets input and configuration parameters to the selected baseband processor to perform the functions including multi-channel digital signal DDC, acquisition, code tracking, earner tracking, demodulation, etc.

23. . The Traffic management module as claimed in claim 11, the Traffic management module updates the configuration parameter LUT by receiving inputs from the SON module and generates configuration management and control parametric inputs to be used for SDR module function configuration.

24. The system as claimed in claim 1, comprise of a self organizing network module, the self organizing network module performs Self-configuration, Self- configuration strives towards the 'plug-and-play' paradigm in the way that new base stations shall automatically be configured and integrated into the network.

25. The system as claimed in claim 1 , comprise of a self organizing network module, the self organizing network module performs Self-optimization, where in the base station parameters can be regularly adjusted, based on both base station and mobile station observations. SON establishes neighbor relations automatically (ANR), optimize random access parameters or mobility robustness in terms of handover oscillations.

26. The system as claimed in claim 1, comprise of a self organizing network module, the self organizing network module performs Self-healing, wherein when some nodes in the network becomes in operations, self-healing mechanisms aims at reducing the impacts from the failure.

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27. The system as claimed in claim 1, comprise of a application module, the application module manages featured application in communication and coordination with the gateway and user requests..

28. The system as claimed in claim 1, comprise of a network interface module, the network interface module manages the communication channel over various network interfaces.

29. . (Amended)The network interface module as claimed in claim 28 manages network interface with the user defined network interface wherein the module manages the communication with the networking devices using user defined network communication/ connection link.

30. The network interface module as claimed in claim lestablishe synchronize link to the femto gate way having functionality to operate in multiple band , multi carrier multi standrad femtocell and managing coneectivity to multiple operators core networks.

31. A method for sharing multi-band, multi carrier, multi-user active

infrastructure including spectrum through Access Point Base STATION - A Femtocell , the method comprising steps of:

Configuring a Multi input multi output multi band antenna,

Configuring a radio capable of active parameter alteration based on observations of factors from external and internal radio environment, such as radio frequency, spectrum, user behavior, and network state;

Configuring a SDR transceiver;

41 Configuring and executing a Base band Processor array module to execute baseband functions;

Generating configuration inputs and establishing the communication channels by arbitration and mapping through Traffic management module;

Upgrading the network configuration and element introperatability through the self organizing network module;

Providing the access and configuration parameters to avail with application services through application module;

Managing the communication over the external network v/orld thiough network interface module.

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