WO2012016205A1 - Method and apparatus for improved mbms capacity and link management through robust and performance optimal soft combining - Google Patents
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- the following description relates generally to communication systems, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for soft symbol determination.
- Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Services is a broadcasting service offered via existing cellular network technologies, including Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), a third generation (3G) mobile phone technology supported by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and successor to GSM.
- GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
- UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
- 3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
- the infrastructure offers an option to use an uplink channel for interaction between the service and the user, which is not a straightforward issue in usual broadcast networks, as for example conventional digital television is only a one-way (unidirectional) system.
- MBMS uses multicast distribution in the core network, instead of point-to-point links for each end device.
- MBMS there may be more than one base station providing the same service, and their signals are often combined to more reliably recover the broadcasted information.
- this approach also requires accurate knowledge of the delays between various Base Stations. Incorrect delay information may severely degrade the performance to the extent that soft combining will provide more negative results over no combining.
- a second approach of signal combination happens at the Radio Link Control (RLC) layer level.
- RLC Radio Link Control
- This combining approach does not require delay information about the base stations. Hence, it is immune to in-accurate delay information. However, the gains achieved from this type of combining are not as significant as compared to soft combining.
- soft combining provides better results than selection combining, effective soft combining poses several challenges, including: ensuring robustness to network synchronization issues; optimal data path combining in the absence of dedicated pilot bits; and optimal data transport format detection over multiple links each possibly using a different transport format.
- the subject innovation relates to apparatus and methods that provide wireless communications, where a method for wireless communications includes receiving a plurality of sets of transport blocks, each set of transport blocks associated with a radio link from a plurality of radio links in soft combining; performing a filtering operation of block errors in the plurality of radio links; and removing one or more radio links from the plurality of radio links in soft combining based on the filtering operation.
- an apparatus for wireless communications includes means for receiving a plurality of sets of transport blocks, each set of transport blocks associated with a radio link from a plurality of radio links in soft combining; means for performing a filtering operation of block errors in the plurality of radio links; and means for removing one or more radio links from the plurality of radio links in soft combining based on the filtering operation.
- an apparatus for wireless communications includes a memory comprising a plurality of instructions; a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute the plurality of instructions to receive a plurality of sets of transport blocks, each set of transport blocks associated with a radio link from a plurality of radio links in soft combining; perform a filtering operation of block errors in the plurality of radio links; and remove one or more radio links from the plurality of radio links in soft combining based on the filtering operation.
- a computer-program product for wireless communications includes a computer-readable medium including code for receiving a plurality of sets of transport blocks, each set of transport blocks associated with a radio link from a plurality of radio links in soft combining; performing a filtering operation of block errors in the plurality of radio links; and removing one or more radio links from the plurality of radio links in soft combining based on the filtering operation.
- an access terminal includes a receiver; and a processing system coupled to the receiver to receive transport blocks and configured to receive a plurality of sets of transport blocks, each set of transport blocks associated with a radio link from a plurality of radio links in soft combining; perform a filtering operation of block errors in the plurality of radio links; and remove one or more radio links from the plurality of radio links in soft combining based on the filtering operation.
- the one or more aspects comprise the features hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.
- the following description and the annexed drawings set forth in detail certain illustrative aspects of the one or more aspects. These aspects are indicative, however, of but a few of the various ways in which the principles of various aspects may be employed and the described aspects are intended to include all such aspects and their equivalents.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an example wireless communication system, in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
- FIG. 2 illustrates various components that may be utilized in a wireless device in accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the signal processing at the base station for a downlink data transmission, in accordance with W-CDMA.
- FIG. 4 is a timing diagram illustrating transmissions of a plurality of links from a plurality of base stations that may be soft combined.
- FIG. 5 is a second timing diagram illustrating transmissions of a plurality of links from a plurality of base stations where soft combining is not desirable.
- FIG. 6 is a flow diagram of an approach for dynamically choosing between soft combining and selection combining.
- FIG. 7 is a block diagram of a function to determine a long term average of block errors.
- FIG. 8 is a block diagram of a function to determine a short term average of block errors.
- FIG. 9 is a flow diagram of an approach for estimating energy of each link to be soft combined.
- FIG. 10 is a block diagram of a function to determine a weighted average of power for traffic.
- FIG. 11 is a flow diagram of a transport format determination approach used to improve soft combining in accordance with one aspect of the disclosure.
- FIG. 12 is a flow diagram of the operation of the communication system.
- FIG. 13 is a block diagram illustrating the functionality of an apparatus for soft symbol determination in accordance with one aspect of the disclosure.
- CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
- TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
- FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
- OFDMA Orthogonal FDMA
- SC-FDMA Single-Carrier FDMA
- a CDMA network may implement a radio technology such as Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA), cdma2000, etc.
- UTRA includes Wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) and other variants of CDMA such as TD-SCDMA.
- cdma2000 covers IS-2000, IS-95 and IS-856 standards.
- a TDMA network may implement a radio technology such as Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM).
- GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
- An OFDMA network may implement a radio technology such as Evolved UTRA (E-UTRA), IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.20, Flash-OFDM, etc.
- E-UTRA, and GSM are part of Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS).
- UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication System
- 3 GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) in both FDD and TDD modes are new releases of UMTS that uses E-UTRA.
- UTRA, E-UTRA, GSM, UMTS and LTE are described in documents from an organization named "3rd Generation Partnership Project" (3GPP).
- cdma2000 is described in documents from an organization named "3rd Generation Partnership Project 2" (3GPP2), which includes High Speed Packet Access (HSPA). These various radio technologies and standards are known in the art. For clarity, certain aspects of the techniques are described below for 3GPP, and 3GPP terminology is used in much of the description below.
- 3GPP2 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2
- HSPA High Speed Packet Access
- a node implemented in accordance with the teachings herein may comprise a base station or a mobile equipment.
- a base station may comprise, be implemented as, or known as an Access Point
- AP a NodeB, Radio Network Controller (RNC), eNodeB, Base Station Controller (BSC), Base Transceiver Station (BTS), Base Station (BS), Transceiver Function (TF), Radio Router, Radio Transceiver, Basic Service Set (BSS), Extended Service Set (ESS), Radio Base Station (RBS), or some other terminology.
- RNC Radio Network Controller
- BSC Base Station Controller
- BTS Base Transceiver Station
- BS Base Station
- Transceiver Function TF
- Radio Router Radio Transceiver
- BSS Basic Service Set
- ESS Extended Service Set
- RBS Radio Base Station
- a User Equipment may comprise, be implemented as, or known as an UE
- a UE may comprise a cellular telephone, a cordless telephone, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phone, a wireless local loop (WLL) station, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a handheld device having wireless connection capability, or some other suitable processing device connected to a wireless modem.
- SIP Session Initiation Protocol
- WLL wireless local loop
- PDA personal digital assistant
- a phone e.g., a cellular phone or smart phone
- a computer e.g., a laptop
- a portable communication device e.g., a portable computing device (e.g., a personal data assistant), an entertainment device (e.g., a music or video device, or a satellite radio), a global positioning system device, or any other suitable device that is configured to communicate via a wireless or wired medium.
- the node is a wireless node.
- Such wireless node may provide, for example, connectivity for or to a network (e.g., a wide area network such as the Internet or a cellular network) via a wired or wireless communication link.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a wireless communication system 100 in which aspects of the present disclosure may be employed.
- the wireless communication system 100 may be a broadband wireless communication system.
- the wireless communication system 100 may provide communication for a number of cells 102, each of which is serviced by a base station 104.
- a particular cell 102 may be divided into multiple sectors 112.
- a particular sector 112 is a physical coverage area within a particular cell 102.
- Each base stations 104 may be a fixed station that communicates with one or more UEs 106.
- the various UEs 106 are dispersed throughout the system 100. Although referred to as "mobile", a particular UE 106 may be fixed (i.e., stationary) or mobile.
- each UE 106 may be able to receive data transmissions from one or more base stations.
- a variety of algorithms and methods may be used for transmissions in the wireless communication system 100 between the base stations 104 and the UEs 106.
- signals may be sent and received between the base stations 104 and the UEs 106 in accordance with OFDM/OFDMA techniques. If this is the case, the wireless communication system 100 may be referred to as an OFDM/OFDMA system.
- signals may be sent and received between the base stations 104 and the UEs 106 in accordance with CDMA technique. If this is the case, the wireless communication system 100 may be referred to as a CDMA system.
- a downlink may be referred to as a forward link or a forward channel
- an uplink may be referred to as a reverse link or a reverse channel.
- FIG. 2 is a simplified block diagram of an embodiment of a base station 104 and a UE 106.
- a transmit (TX) data processor 214 receives different types of traffic such as user-specific data and data for MBMS services from a data source 212, messages from a controller 230, and so on. TX data processor 214 then formats and codes the data and messages based on one or more coding schemes to provide coded data.
- the coded data is then provided to a modulator (MOD) 216 and further processed to generate modulated data.
- the processing by modulator 216 includes (1) "spreading" the coded data with orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF) codes to channelize the user-specific data, MBMS data, and messages onto physical channels and (2) "scrambling" the channelized data with scrambling codes.
- the modulated data is then provided to a transmitter (TMTR) 218 and conditioned (e.g., converted to one or more analog signals, amplified, filtered, and quadrature modulated) to generate a downlink modulated signal suitable for transmission via an antenna 220 over a wireless communication channel to the terminals.
- TMTR transmitter
- the downlink modulated signal is received by an antenna 250 and provided to a receiver (RCVR) 252.
- Receiver 252 conditions (e.g., filters, amplifies, and downconverts) the received signal and digitizes the conditioned signal to provide data samples.
- a demodulator (DEMOD) 254 then receives and processes the data samples to provide recovered symbols.
- the processing by demodulator 254 includes (1) descrambling the data samples with the same scrambling code used by the terminal, (2) despreading the descrambled samples to channelize the received data and messages onto the proper physical channels, and (3) (possibly) coherently demodulating the channelized data with a pilot recovered from the received signal.
- a receive (RX) data processor 256 then receives and decodes the symbols to recover the user-specific data, MBMS data, and messages transmitted by the base station on the downlink.
- Controllers 230 and 260 control the processing at the base station and the terminal, respectively. Each controller may also be designed to implement all or a portion of the process to select transport format combinations for use described herein. Program codes and data required by controllers 230 and 260 may be stored in memories 232 and 262, respectively.
- one or more UEs 106 may receive data transmissions from multiple base station 104 and combine the received transmissions through soft combining.
- the various soft combining approaches will now be described, with a first approach being a network robust dynamic soft/selection combining approach. This approach allows the UE to dynamically select soft combining based on a detection of the transmissions between various base stations as being out of synchronization with each other. This approach will also attempt to provide that false alarms arising from sudden changes in propagation conditions are kept at a minimum.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram of the signal processing at a base station for a downlink data transmission, in accordance with W-CDMA.
- the upper signaling layers of a W-CDMA system support data transmission on one or more transport channels to a specific terminal (or for a specific MBMS service).
- Each transport channel is capable of carrying data for one or more services. These services may include voice, video, packet data, and so on, which are collectively referred to herein as "data”.
- the data to be transmitted is initially processed as one or more transport channels at a higher signaling layer.
- the transport channels are then mapped to one or more physical channels assigned to the terminal (or MBMS service).
- the data for each transport channel is processed based on a transport format
- Each transport format defines various processing parameters such as a transmission time interval (TTI) over which the transport format applies, the size of each transport block of data, the number of transport blocks within each TTI, the coding scheme to be used for the TTI, and so on.
- the TTI may be specified as 10 msec, 20 msec, 40 msec, or 80 msec.
- Each TTI may be used to transmit a transport block set having N.sub.B equal- sized transport blocks, as specified by the transport format for the TTI.
- the transport format can dynamically change from TTI to TTI, and the set of transport formats that may be used for the transport channel is referred to as the transport format set (TFS).
- the data for each transport channel is provided, in one or more transport blocks for each TTI, to a respective transport channel processing section 310.
- each transport block is used to calculate a set of cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits (block 312).
- CRC cyclic redundancy check
- the CRC bits are attached to the transport block and are used at the terminal for block error detection.
- the one or more CRC coded blocks for each TTI are then serially concatenated together (block 314). If the total number of bits after concatenation is greater than the maximum size of a code block, then the bits are segmented into a number of (equal-sized) code blocks.
- the maximum code block size is determined by the particular coding scheme (e.g., convolutional, Turbo, or no coding) selected for use for the current TTI, which is specified by the transport channel's transport format for the TTI. Each code block is then coded with the selected coding scheme or not coded at all (block 316) to generate coded bits.
- coding scheme e.g., convolutional, Turbo, or no coding
- Rate matching is then performed on the coded bits in accordance with a rate- matching attribute assigned by higher signaling layers and specified by the transport format (block 318).
- unused bit positions are filled with discontinuous transmission (DTX) bits (block 320).
- DTX bits indicate when a transmission should be turned off and are not actually transmitted.
- the rate-matched bits for each TTI are then interleaved in accordance with a particular interleaving scheme to provide time diversity (block 322).
- the interleaving is performed over the TTI, which can be selected as 10 msec, 20 msec, 40 msec, or 80 msec.
- the bits within the TTI are segmented and mapped onto consecutive transport channel frames (block 324).
- Each transport channel frame corresponds to the portion of the TTI that is to be transmitted over a (10 msec) physical channel radio frame period (or simply, a "frame").
- MBMS service is processed as one or more transport channels at a higher signaling layer.
- the transport channels are then mapped to one or more physical channels assigned to the terminal (or the MBMS service).
- the transport channel frames from all active transport channel processing sections 310 are serially multiplexed into a coded composite transport channel (CCTrCH) (block 332).
- DTX bits may then be inserted into the multiplexed radio frames such that the number of bits to be transmitted matches the number of available bit positions on one or more "physical channels" to be used for the data transmission (block 334).
- the bits are segmented among the physical channels (block 336).
- the bits in each frame for each physical channel are then further interleaved to provide additional time diversity (block 338).
- the interleaved bits are then mapped to the data portions of their respective physical channels (block 340).
- the subsequent signal processing to generate a modulated signal suitable for transmission from the base station to the terminal is known in the art and not described herein.
- FIG. 4 illustrates a timing diagram 400 of how MBMS information from three base stations 1, 2 and 3 are soft combined.
- the data transmissions which are composed of sequential frames, are shown over three timelines 410, 420 and 430, where Timing_Delay(l,2) is the delay of data transmission between base stations 1 and 2, while Timing_Delay(l,3) is the delay of data transmission between base stations 1 and 3.
- cross-hatched frames illustrate how the same information is transmitted across multiple base stations. For example, frames 0-3 from base station 1; frames 16- 19 from base station 2; and frames 240-243 from base station 3 contain the same information.
- frames 4-7 from base station 1 ; frames 20-23 from base station 2; and frames 244-247 from base station 3 contain the same information.
- Timing_Delay(l,2) is the delay of data transmission between base stations 1 and 2
- Timing_Delay(l,3) is the delay of data transmission between base stations 1 and 3.
- cross-hatched frames illustrate how the same information is transmitted across multiple base stations.
- frames 0-3 from base station 1; frames 20-23 from base station 2; and frames 240-243 from base station 3 contain the same information.
- frames 4-7 from base station 1; and frames 244-247 from base station 3 contain the same information.
- base station 2 does not receive the data to be transmitted on time for the next Transmission Time Interval (TTI) and hence engages in a Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) mode during the TTI.
- TTI Transmission Time Interval
- DTX Discontinuous Transmission
- the receiving UE has no way of detecting that the timing between the base stations has changed and that the links are out of synchronization, until the serving base station signals this changed timing back to the UE.
- soft combining would result in very high decode errors because the UE will try to soft combine the data from all three base stations, even though there will be no data transmitted from base station 2 until a later TTI, when it attempts a retransmission.
- the approach attempts to detect out of synchronization as quickly as possible and disable soft combining. Further, the approach attempts to ensure that false alarms arising due to sudden change in propagation conditions are kept at a minimum.
- FIG. 6 illustrates a flow diagram for a selective soft combining approach 600 that includes a synchronization detection approach where, in step 602, a UE operates to soft combine received radio links. Then, in step 604, a new transport block is received. In step 606, a long term average of block errors, designated as A L ; and a short term average of block errors, designated as As, are updated. When an out of synchronization event occurs, the value of As is expected to rise to close to 100% as it is the short term average of block errors. AL will not be affected significantly for some time as it tracks the long term average of block errors. However, the ratio of short-term to long-term averages may be used as a metric to trigger out of synchronization detection.
- a L is updated through the use of a filter function
- a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) process is used to detect accidental changes to each block.
- CRC cyclic redundancy check
- a short, fixed-length binary sequence is calculated. This sequence is known as the CRC code or simply CRC.
- the device repeats the calculation; if the new CRC does not match the one calculated earlier, then the block contains a data error and the device may take corrective action such as rereading or requesting the block be sent again. Interference cancellation may be then used to remove interference when the CRC passes.
- the filter function 700 implements an Infinite
- IIR Impulse Response
- step 608 after the values of A L and A s have been updated, it will be determined if the number of received transport blocks has exceeded an initial delay value, represented by WL. This initial delay is used to provide a minimum wait time before the values of AL and As are considered usable for determining whether there exists an out of synchronization condition.
- step 610 the value of A L is compared to a threshold value ⁇ . If the value of A L is less than or equal to the value of ⁇ , then operation continues with step 612, where the values of A L and As are compared to determine if an out of synchronization condition possibly exists, as further described herein. Otherwise, if the value of A L is greater than the value of ⁇ , then operation continues with step 514, where it is confirmed if an out of synchronization condition exists based on the examination of certain power metrics, as further described herein.
- step 612 if the value of A L as determined previously in step 610 is not above the value of ⁇ , then the ratio of A L to As is compared to a threshold value of the ratio for switching from soft combining to selective combining, referred to as ⁇ . Also, the value of the difference between A L and As is also compared to a threshold value of a delta for switching from soft combining to selective combining, the threshold delta value being referred to as ⁇ . In one aspect, both of these conditions have to be met before a final check is made in step 614 to see if the UE should stop using soft combining. These two conditions represent the fact that the short term block error rate has exceeded certain parameters, meaning that there is most likely an out of synchronization situation. If both conditions are not met, then operation returns to step 602, where the links will continue to be soft combined.
- step 614 a sudden jump in short term block error rates may also happen due to a sudden change in propagation condition. This would be reflected in the power measured on the MBMS information carrying channels.
- the decision to switch away from soft combining in step 612 may be qualified based on a MBMS channel power measurement, as compared to a power threshold, referenced as ⁇ .
- the power information may be obtained from a channel known as the Secondary Common Control Physical Channel (S-CCPCH) as they carry MBMS information.
- S-CCPCH Secondary Common Control Physical Channel
- a ratio of an average energy per Pseudorandom Noise (PN) chip, referred to as EQ, versus a total received power density, including signal and interference, as measured at the UE antenna connector, referred to as Io, is determined.
- Io is defined for each carrier individually.
- step 616 after an out of synchronization condition is detected, soft combining is disabled and the various variables are reset, including the CRC, A L and As, and other values used to determine the out of synchronization condition. Further, a timer value, referred to as T resU me, is set so that selection combining process may be used only for a limited period of time before it is determined if soft combining may be used again. This is because soft combining is preferred.
- step 618 selection combining is performed.
- Those skilled in the art would know there are multiple ways of approaching selection combining. Thus, a discussion of which will not be detailed herein.
- step 620 a new transport block is received, and the value of T resU me is decremented.
- the timer is meant to limit the amount of time spent in soft combining mode.
- a mechanism based strictly on time may be used instead of decrementing the counter based on an event such as receipt of a transport block.
- step 622 it is determined if T resU me has been expired or the network has sent new timing information. If the former condition has occurred, the timer for selective combining mode has expired, and soft combining may be considered. For the latter, once the network has sent timing information, the UE should have updated synchronization information, and soft combining may also be considered. In either case, operation continues with step 624.
- step 624 a CRC of a soft combining of the links is performed to determine if the various links are now synchronized. If the CRC passes, then operation returns to step 602 where, as previously disclosed, soft combining is used by the UE again. Otherwise, operation continues with step 626.
- T resume the timer for continuing to perform selective combining is set to resume soft combining after a predetermined count.
- the aim of this timer is to provide an escape mechanism and resume soft combining in case detection turns out to be false and soft combining was stopped un-necessarily.
- different timers for returning to the mode of soft combining may be used. For example, a separate timer may be used to determine a period of time to try soft combining based on when the network had last sent new timing information may be used regardless of the status of T resU me. In this case, the UE may be configured to wait a certain period of time and operate in selective combining mode even though the links are synchronized.
- the power of the received link may be used as an indicator of link quality.
- the S-CCPCH power is determined to prevent false triggering of the selection combining process.
- weighing each link with a corresponding S-CCPCH power may improve combining of S-CCPCH across multiple cells.
- the network signals to the UE the S- CCPCH power offset with regard to the Common Pilot CHannel (CPICH) for each cell carrying MBMS information.
- CPICH Common Pilot CHannel
- the UE may estimate S-CCPCH power using a plurality of dedicated pilot bits.
- the signals that are required in the respective approaches are not mandatory to the specification. For example, neither the pilot signals for S-CCPCH nor the signaling of the S-CCPCH power offset are necessitated by the UMTS standard. Thus, compatibility and reliability based on the use of either of these approaches will create issues.
- the physical layer multiplexes one or several transport channels onto a coded composite transport channel.
- Each of the constituent transport channels has associated defined transport formats. However, at any given point of time, not all combinations of transport channels and their associated formats are permitted, hence a subset is defined.
- a Transport Format Combination (TFC) is one of the subsets that identify the transport channels with their chosen format, and that will make up the coded composite transport channel.
- the TFC Indicator (TFCI) is a representation of the current TFC being used. The TFCI is transferred across the air interface and allows the receiving layers to identify the current valid TFC and hence, how to decode, demultiplex and deliver the received data on the appropriate transport channels.
- the TFCI bits may be used for S-CCPCH power estimation.
- FIG. 9 illustrates a process for estimating S-CCPCH power.
- step 902 received TFCI symbols are read from the memory of the UE. In one aspect of the disclosed approach, these are the encoded symbols as transmitted per slot.
- the TFCI symbols are accumulated over the slot.
- the accumulation is non-coherent as the UE does not have knowledge of the TFCI that is sent on the frame.
- accumulation of the TFCI may be done coherently. This accumulation may be used to estimate the power.
- step 906 a power measurement for the CPICH is obtained.
- the power measurement for the CPICH is provided by the network.
- step 908 the accumulated TFCI symbols from step 904 is used to provide an estimate of the S-CCPCH power.
- a filter function 1000 implements a first-order IIR function, with an input of the filter function 1000 being based on the TFCI symbols.
- the input may be multiplied 1020 with a coefficient (that may be used to adjust the weight of each input after the last iteration of A has been subtracted 1010, referenced as Ax F ci(k-l) in the figure.
- a delay 1040 is used to store the A TF ci(k-l) value.
- the output of A TF ci(k) is the sum of the value of A TF ci(k-l) and the output of the multiplication 1020.
- step 910 a ratio of a weighted traffic average of TFCI versus the common pilot channel power will be determined to provide an estimate of the SCCPCH offset with regard to CPICH. It is assumed that the data portion of SCCPCH versus the TFCI portion of the SCCPCH has the same dB offset across all links.
- the TFCI field cannot be combined across multiple radio links because the TFCI values, each sent over one of the multiple links, may be different even though they point to the same TFC.
- TFCI decoding is significantly impacted by other cell interference and ironically more so in strong multi-cell environments, where S-CCPCH data gets the advantage of soft combining.
- TFCI Correlation output (FHT) is used as a measure of the reliability of the TFCI decision.
- the FHT output magnitudes are combined across radio links that yield the same TFC decision.
- a decision on the final TFC is then made based on the TFCI(s) signaled by the radio links that yield the highest value.
- TFCI decisions need to be made sequentially on each radio link as soon as a radio frame is received, with a ping-pong storage of one radio-frame.
- FIG. 11 illustrates a control flow 11 for determining a common TFCI in one aspect.
- the TFCI output is used as a tie-breaker in case of conflicting valid TFCI outputs from different radio links.
- a reverse TFC lookup is proposed as a work-around to encountering TFCI decode failures for lagging links. Specifically, in one aspect of the disclosure, if TFCI decode for a lagging link fails, or there is a false decode, then:
- the TF combination information and the fact that TF combination has to be the same across all the links to improve overall soft combining performance are not a lagging link, but if the radio frame is not the first frame within a multi-frame TTI, information from previous frames could be used to determine the TFC.
- step 1102 during initialization, if the earliest TFCI value, earliestTFCI, is valid, as indicated by a flag earliestTFCIValid, then the currently identified value of best TFCI, as stored in a variable bestTFCI, is set to be earliestTFCI. Further, a variable set up to store the best energy value, referred to as bestTFCIEnergy, is set to the energy of the earliest TFCI value. In one aspect of the disclosure, the energy is determined based on a Fast Hadamard Transform (FHT), which is a correlation output of TFCI, and a measure of the realiability of the TFCI. Otherwise, the bestTFCI is set to be a null value, and the bestTFCIEnergy is set to zero.
- FHT Fast Hadamard Transform
- step 1104 it is determined if a TFCI candidate retrieved from the current frame is valid, as represented by newTFCIValid. If TFCI decode for a lagging link fails, or there is a false decode, then newTFCIValid will be false, and operation will continue with step 1118. Otherwise, operation continues with step 1106.
- step 1106 it is determined if the new TFCI, represented by the variable newTFCI, is equal to the value in bestTFCI. If so, then the operation continues with step 1008, where the energy of the new TFCI value is added to the best TFCI value.
- step 1108 a value of the energy of the new TFCI, which is referred to as the newTFCIFHT, is added to the value stored in the bestTFCIEnergy variable.
- step 1110 a combine flag is set to be true, which indicates that the FHT output magnitude is combined as the TFC decision is similar with the other radio link.
- step 1112 it is determined if the new FHT of the TFCI, as indicated by newTFCIFHT, is greater than the FHT of the TFCI, bestTFCIFHT Thus, if the correlation value is of the new TFCI is greater than the correlation value of the current best TFCI, then operation continues with step 1114.
- step 1114 the best TFCI, bestTFCI, is set to the new TFCI, newTFCI.
- the variable setCombineFlag is set to "FALSE", which means that the setCombineFlag is reset.
- the variable of bestTFCIEnergy is set to be the value of the newTFCIFHT.
- a reverse TFC Lookup is performed.
- the reverse TFC lookup is proposed as a work-around to encountering TFCI decode failures for lagging links. Specifically, a reverse lookup on the lagging link that has a TFCI failure is performed to find the corresponding TFCI that matches with the TF combinations (determined by the leading radio link that passed TFCI).
- the blocks in steps 1104 through 1118 are repeated over the N-l radio links, as appropriate.
- FIG. 12 illustrates a process 1200 configured in accordance with one aspect of the disclosure for determining a symbol.
- the process 1200 includes a step 1202 for receiving a plurality of sets of transport blocks, each set of transport blocks associated with a radio link from a plurality of radio links in soft combining. Then, in step 1204, perform a filtering operation of block errors in the plurality of radio links. After the filtering operation has been performed, then in step 1206, removing one or more radio links from the plurality of radio links in soft combining based on the filtering operation.
- FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating the functionality of an apparatus 1300 in accordance with one aspect of the disclosure.
- the apparatus 1300 includes a module 1302 receiving a plurality of sets of transport blocks, each set of transport blocks associated with a radio link from a plurality of radio links in soft combining; a module 1304 for performing a filtering operation of block errors in the plurality of radio links; and a module 1306 for removing one or more radio links from the plurality of radio links in soft combining based on the filtering operation.
- DSP digital signal processor
- ASIC application specific integrated circuit
- FPGA field programmable gate array
- a general purpose processor may be a microprocessor, but in the alternative, the processor may be any conventional processor, controller, microcontroller, or state machine.
- a processor may also be implemented as a combination of computing devices, e.g., a combination of a DSP and a microprocessor, a plurality of microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in conjunction with a DSP core, or any other such configuration.
- a software module may reside in RAM memory, flash memory, ROM memory, EPROM memory, EEPROM memory, registers, hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art.
- An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor such the processor can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium.
- the storage medium may be integral to the processor.
- the processor and the storage medium may reside in an ASIC.
- the ASIC may reside in a user terminal.
- the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a user terminal.
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