EP1284056A1 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zum auswerten eines uplink-funksignals - Google Patents
Verfahren und vorrichtung zum auswerten eines uplink-funksignalsInfo
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- the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for evaluating a radio signal in a receptions and seminars ⁇ ger for a radio communication system comprising a directional antenna input with a plurality of antenna elements.
- messages In radio communication systems, messages (voice, image information or other data) are transmitted via transmission channels with the aid of electromagnetic waves (radio interface).
- the transmission takes place both in the downlink from the base station to the subscriber station and in the uplink direction from the subscriber station to the base station.
- Signals that are transmitted with the electromagnetic waves are subject to interference from interferences when they are propagated in a propagation medium.
- Interference due to noise can arise, among other things, from noise in the input stage of the receiver. Diffraction and reflection cause signal components to travel through different paths.
- this has the consequence that a signal at the receiver is often a mixture of several contributions, which originate from the same transmission signal, but which can reach the receiver several times, each from different directions, with different delays, attenuations and phase positions .
- contributions of the received signal can interfere with themselves with changing phase relationships at the receiver and there lead to extinction effects on a short-term time scale (fast fading).
- a us DE 197 12 549 AI is known, intelligent antennas
- Smart antennas ie antenna arrays with multiple antenna elements to ⁇ to use to the transmission capacity to increase in the upward direction. These enable the antenna gain to be oriented in a direction from which the upward signal comes.
- Such antenna devices are to be used in cellular mobile communication systems, because they enable loan, transmission channels, that is, depending on the considered mobile ⁇ radio communication system carrier frequencies, time slots, spreading codes, etc. to allocate several simultaneously active subscriber stations in a cell without the there is disruptive interference between the subscriber stations.
- a method is known from DE 198 03 188 A, wherein a spatial covariance matrix is determined for a radio connection from a base station to a subscriber station. An eigenvector of the covariance matrix is calculated in the base station and used for the connection as a beam shaping vector. The transmission signals for the connection are weighted with the beam shaping vector and antenna elements are supplied for radiation. Due to the use of joint detection, for example in the end devices, intracell interferences are not included in the beam shaping and falsification of the received signals by intercell interferences is neglected.
- this method determines a propagation path with good transmission properties in an environment with multipath propagation and concentrates the transmission ice the base station spatially on this propagation path.
- the invention is based on the object of specifying a method and a device for evaluating a radio signal in a radio receiver with a plurality of antenna elements which, on the one hand, make it possible to align the reception characteristics of the receiver in the direction of a transmitter, and yet prevent signal failures due to rapid Fading is protected.
- the method according to the invention is used in particular in a radio communication system with a base station and subscriber stations.
- the subscriber stations are, for example, mobile stations, for example in a mobile radio network, or fixed stations, for example in so-called subscriber access networks for wireless subscriber connection.
- the base station has an antenna device (smart antenna) with several antenna elements. The antenna elements enable a directed reception or a directed transmission of data via the radio interface.
- the radio signal coming from the same transmitter can often be assigned a plurality of directions from which the radio signal arrives at the receiver. These directions do not change, if the transmitter and receiver are stationary, and if one moves from the two, are the changes which these BEWE ⁇ supply in the received signal causes low compared to those caused by fast fading.
- the receiving characteristic of the receiver can be directed in the corresponding direction.
- a first spatial covariance matrix of the M received signals is preferably generated in the initialization phase, eigenvectors of the first covariance matrix are determined, and these are used as first weighting vectors.
- the first covariance matrix is averaged over a period of time that corresponds to a large number of cycles of the working phase. In this way, falsifications in the determination of the eigenvectors are averaged out due to the influence of phase fluctuations.
- the first covariance matrix can be generated uniformly he ⁇ for the entirety of the received reception signals from the A ntennen shamen.
- the transmitted radio signal is a code division multiplex radio signal is ⁇ , revealing when the first Covariance matrix is generated individually for each tap of the radio signal.
- a vector of so-called own signals is generated from the received signals of the antenna elements in the working phase
- Multiplying the vector of the received signals by a matrix W is formed, the columns (or rows) of which are the determined eigenvectors.
- the received signals are weighted with all determined eigenvectors.
- Each of the natural signals thus obtained corresponds to the contribution of a transmission path to the received signals of the antenna elements. This means that the contributions provided by the individual antenna elements are converted into contributions from individual transmission paths.
- the intermediate signal to be evaluated is then obtained by weighting the vector of self-signals thus obtained with the selection vector.
- the power of the intrinsic signals generated here in an intermediate step can be measured, and the components of the selection vector are preferably determined in each cycle as a function of the power of these intrinsic signals.
- An alternative second embodiment of the method provides that a second spatial covariance matrix is in the operating phase in each cycle generated that the eigenvalues of the determined eigenvectors for the second spatial Kova ⁇ rianzmatrix calculated, and in that each component of the selection vector based on the eigenvalue of this Component corresponding eigenvector is determined.
- This method can be implemented with relatively little complexity in terms of circuitry, since it is not necessary to generate a plurality of self-signals and the generation of covariance matrices of the received signals is necessary in any case in order to determine the self-vectors.
- the components of the selection vector can be determined using a maximum ratio combining method.
- all components of the selection vector with the exception of those which have a predetermined number of the best transmission paths, i.e. correspond to the strongest natural signals in the case of the first embodiment or the largest eigenvalues in the case of the second embodiment, be set equal to 0.
- the predefined number can in particular be 1.
- the transmitter expediently transmits a training sequence periodically, which is known to the receiver, so that the receiver can determine the first weighting vectors on the basis of the training sequences received.
- this allows a second covariance matrix to be generated for each training sequence sent and thus the selection vector to be updated with each training sequence. If several transmitters can communicate with the receiver at the same time, it is advisable to use orthogonal training sequences.
- An apparatus for evaluating a radio signal for an A ntennen worn with M antenna elements having radio receiver comprises a beam-forming network with M Eingän ⁇ gene from the antenna elements supplied received signals and an output for a dimensional by weighting the Empfangssig ⁇ with a transmitter associated weighting vectors preserver ⁇ tenes intermediate signal and a Signal kausein ⁇ standardized for estimating in the intermediate signal containing ⁇ NEN symbols. It is characterized by a storage element for storing N weighting vectors each assigned to a same transmitter, and the beamforming network has a control input for a selection vector, the components of which determine the contribution of each individual weighting vector to the intermediate signal.
- the weighting vectors are preferably eigenvectors of a first covariance matrix generated on the basis of the M received signals.
- the beam shaping network comprises two stages, the first stage comprising N branches for weighting the received signals, each with one of the N weighting vectors, and the second stage weighting the intrinsic signals supplied by the N branches with the selection vector.
- Such a device is particularly easy to implement since the second stage of the beam shaping network in conventional devices for evaluating radio signals of the type described by Bernstein and Haimovich, op. Cit. described type already exist, but are provided there for evaluating individual antenna element signals, not for evaluating intrinsic signals.
- the first embodiment of the invention differs from such a conventional device essentially in the addition of the first stage of the beam shaping network and the way in which the selection vector is generated.
- the beam shaping network comprises a computing unit for forming the product of the beam shaping vector with the matrix W of the egg gene vectors, wherein the product obtained is used asRIEungsvek ⁇ tor in the beam forming network.
- the beam shaping network is particularly simple , since it only has to have one stage.
- FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a mobile radio network
- Fig. 2 is a schematic representation of the frame structure of the code division multiplex (CDMA--) radio transmission;
- FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of a base station of a radio communication system with a device for
- FIG. 5 shows a block diagram of a base station of a radio communication system with a device for evaluating a radio signal according to a second embodiment of the invention
- Fig. 6 is a flow diagram of the method performed by the device
- FIG. 7 shows a block diagram of a base station of a radio communication system with a device for evaluating a radio signal according to a third embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 8 is a flow diagram of the method performed by the device.
- Figure 1 shows the structure of a radio communication system in which the method of the invention or the erfindungsge ⁇ Permitted device are applicable. It consists of a large number of mobile switching centers MSC which are networked with one another or which provide access to a fixed network PSTN. Furthermore, these mobile switching centers MSC are connected to at least one base station controller BSC, each ⁇ wells. Each base station controller BSC in turn enables a connection to at least one base station BS. Such a base station BS can use a radio interface a ⁇ After direct connection to subscriber stations MS build. For this purpose, at least some of the base stations BS are equipped with antenna devices AE which have a plurality of antenna elements (i-A M ).
- connection VI, V2, Vk for transmitting useful information and signaling information between subscriber stations MSI, MS2, MSk, MSn and a base station BS.
- the connection between the base station BS and the subscriber station MSk considered below as representative for all subscriber stations comprises several propagation paths, each represented by arrows.
- An operations and maintenance center OMC implements control and maintenance functions for the mobile network or for parts of it.
- This structure can be transferred to other radio communication systems in which the invention can be used, in particular for subscriber access networks with a wireless subscriber line.
- the frame structure of the radio transmission can be seen from FIG. 2.
- Each time slot ts within the frequency range B forms a frequency channel FK.
- the al ⁇ lein are provided for user data transmission are infor- ation of several compounds in radio blocks transmitted.
- radio blocks for user data transmission are made from cut ⁇ d with data in which portions are embedded with the receiving end of known training sequences tseql to tseqn.
- the data d is a connection-specific c a ⁇ fine structure, a subscriber code, spread, are such that the receive side, for example, n connections through these CDMA compo nent ⁇ separable.
- the spreading of individual symbols of the data d causes T sym Q chips of the duration T cn ip to be transmitted within the symbol duration.
- the Q chips form the connection-specific subscriber code c.
- a protection time gp is provided within the time slot ts to compensate for different signal propagation times of the connections.
- the successive time slots ts are structured according to a frame structure. Eight time slots ts are combined to form a frame, for example a time slot ts4 of the frame forming a frequency channel for signaling FK or a frequency channel TCH for useful data transmission, the latter being used repeatedly by a group of connections.
- FIG. 3 shows a highly schematic block diagram of a base station of a W-CDMA radio communication system, which is equipped with a device according to the invention for evaluating the uplink radio signal received from the subscriber station MSk and optionally the uplink radio signals from other subscriber stations.
- the base station comprises an antenna device with M antenna elements A ⁇ , A 2 ..., A M , the each deliver a received signal Ui ... U M.
- a Strahlfor ⁇ mung network 1 comprises a plurality of vector multipliers 2, each of which the M reception signals Ui ... U M receives and the dot product of this vector of the received signals with a weighting vector w (k, 1), .. w ( k, N) forms. This weighting vectors are referred genvecs to as egg ⁇ .
- the number N of the eigenvectors or the multiplier 2 is the same or smaller than the number M of the antenna elements.
- the réellesig ⁇ supplied by the vector multipliers 2 dimensional E X / E ... N are referred to as self-signals of the subscriber station MSk.
- the vector multipliers 2 form a first stage of the
- Beamforming network 1 a second stage is formed by a vector multiplier 3, the internal structure of which is representative of the structure of the vector multipliers 2, is shown in the figure. It has N inputs for the N intrinsic signals E lf . , , E N , and corresponding inputs for N components of a selection vector S. Scalar multipliers 4 multiply each natural signal by the assigned component s n of the selection vector S. The products obtained are added up by an adder 5 to form a single intermediate signal I k , which is supplied to an estimation circuit 6 for estimating the symbols contained in the received signals.
- the structure of the estimation circuit 6 is known per se and is not part of the invention, for which reason it is not described further here.
- a signal processor 8 is also connected to the received signals Ui,... U M and generates covariance matrices R xx of these received signals, for example by evaluating the training sequences transmitted cyclically by the subscriber station MSk, ie in each time slot allocated to them, which are known to the signal processor 8 , The covariance matrices thus obtained are transferred from the signal processor 8 to a large one Number of cycles. The averaging can extend over a period of a few seconds to minutes.
- the averaged covariance matrix R ⁇ also referred to here as the first covariance matrix, is transferred to a first arithmetic unit 9, which determines the eigenvectors of the averaged covariance matrix ⁇ ⁇ .
- the averaged covariance matrix is a matrix with M rows and columns, it can therefore have a maximum of M eigenvectors, some of which can, however, be trivial or correspond to transmission paths that make no significant contribution to the received signal.
- the number of antenna elements M is greater than 3, it is not necessary for the implementation of the invention that all eigenvectors of the covariance matrix are determined; the number N of the eigenvectors determined by the first computing unit 9 can be smaller than M.
- the first computing unit 9 determines those N eigenvectors w (k, 1> , ..., w (k, N) of the average covariance matrix R ⁇ , which are among all of them
- a memory element 10 serves to store these eigenvectors w (, 1) , ..., w (k ' N) . It is connected to the vector multipliers 2 in order to supply each of them with the eigenvector assigned to them.
- the storage element 10 is shown in the figure as a unitary component; however, it can also consist of a plurality of registers, each of which records an eigenvector and with the corresponding vector multiplier 2 is connected to a circuit unit.
- the intrinsic signals generated by the vector multipliers 2 Ei, ..., E N respectively correspond to the contributions of individual transmission direction a one- to the total of the Antennenein ⁇ AE received uplink radio signal does.
- the Leis ⁇ processing of these individual contributions may be due to Phasenfluk ⁇ the individual transmission paths in short periods situation of the order of the time interval between successive time slots of the subscriber station MSk vary widely and may tragungsdorf to signal void on individual over ⁇ .
- the probabilities of signal cancellation on the different transmission paths are uncorrelated.
- the probability that all N intrinsic signals disappear at the same time and there is an interruption in reception is therefore lower than for the reception signals of N antenna elements, since in the latter the failure probabilities correct due to the usually close spatial proximity of the antenna elements.
- a second stage of the beam forming network combines the N intrinsic signals into an intermediate signal I k .
- This second stage comprises a second signal processor 11 which is connected to the outputs of the vector multipliers 2 in order to detect the powers of the intrinsic signals and to generate a selection vector S for controlling the vector multiplier 3.
- the second signal processor 11 generates a selection vector S with only one non-vanishing component, which is fed to the scaled multiplier 4 which receives the strongest natural signal.
- the second signal processor 11 uses a maximum ratio coining method, ie it selects the coefficients Si, ..., s N of the selection vector S as a function of the powers of the intrinsic signals Ei, ..., E N , such that by adding the with the components of the selection vector S weighted eigen signals Ei, ..., E N , the intermediate signal I k with the optimal signal-to-noise ratio is obtained.
- a maximum ratio coining method ie it selects the coefficients Si, ..., s N of the selection vector S as a function of the powers of the intrinsic signals Ei, ..., E N , such that by adding the with the components of the selection vector S weighted eigen signals Ei, ..., E N , the intermediate signal I k with the optimal signal-to-noise ratio is obtained.
- FIG. 4 illustrates the method carried out by the device of FIG. 3 on the basis of a flow diagram.
- a current covariance matrix R xx is generated using the transmitted in a time slot of the subscriber station MSk Trai ⁇ beginnings sequence.
- This current covariance matrix R xx is used in step S2 to form an averaged covariance matrix R ⁇ .
- the averaging can be carried out by adding up all the current covariance matrices R xx over a given time span or a given number of cycles or time slots and dividing the sum obtained by the number of added covariance matrices.
- a moving average is more advantageous, since it does not necessarily require the acquisition of a large number of current covariance matrices R xx before an averaged covariance matrix is available for the first time, and because the latest covariance matrices, i.e. those covariance matrices R xx , are used in the case of a moving subscriber station, the directions of the individual propagation paths are likely to be the most important, the most taken into account.
- step S3 an eigenvector analysis of the averaged covariance matrix follows? ⁇ .
- the eigen signals Ei, ..., E N are generated in step S5 using the eigenvectors w ⁇ '11 , ..., w (k, N> obtained in this way.
- the generation of these eigen signals corresponds to the matrix multiplication.
- step S6 the power of the intrinsic signals E x , ..., EN is detected, based on which in step S7 the selection vector
- step S8 ⁇ S] S N) is determined.
- the generation of the intermediate signal I k in step S8 thus ultimately corresponds to the formation of the product
- I k SWU, the rapid update of the selection vector S depending on the strengths of the intrinsic signals E, ..., E N allowing a quick adaptation to the fast fading of the individual transmission paths.
- Figure 5 shows a second embodiment of the device according to the invention. It differs from the device from FIG. 3 essentially in that the first signal processor 8 generates current covariance matrices R xx for each training sequence received from the subscriber station MSk and, on the one hand, to an averaging circuit 7 for generating the averaged covariance matrix i? ⁇ and on the other hand to a second computing unit 12.
- This second arithmetic unit 12 also receives from the memory element 10 the matrix W of the eigenvectors - ascertained by the first arithmetic unit 9 - of the averaged covariance matrix?
- this eigenvalue is a measure of the quality of the propagation path assigned to the eigenvector or eigen signal, which is used by the second computing unit 12. to generate a selection vector S with the ren already with reference to Figu ⁇ 3 and 4 described properties.
- the Vek ⁇ tor multipliers 3 combined basis of this selection vector
- step S6 shown as a flow chart; it differs from the method of FIG. 4 by steps S6, in which the eigenvalues of the eigenvectors for the current covariance matrix R xx are determined and step S7 of determining the selection vector S on the basis of the eigenvalues.
- Figure 7 shows a third embodiment of the device according to the invention.
- the vector multipliers 2 are omitted here and instead the received signals Ui,..., U M are fed directly to M scalar multipliers 4 of the vector multiplier 3.
- the first signal processor 8, the mean value circuit 7, the memory element 10 and the first computing units 9, 12 do not differ from those of the embodiment from FIG. 5.
- the set of eigenvalues determined by the second computing unit 12 is supplied as a selection vector S to a selection unit 13 which simultaneously receives the matrix W of the eigenvalues from the memory element 10 and a matrix multiplication
- the intermediate signal Ik obtained at the output of the vector multiplier 3 is the same as in the case of the embodiment from FIG. 7, but the circuit complexity is considerably simplified by the elimination of the vector multiplier 2. Instead, it takes place in the second arithmetic unit 12 a matrix multiplication takes place, however, the processing effort associated therewith is considerably less, since this matrix multiplication need only be carried out once in each cycle of the working phase, whereas the vector multipliers 2, 3 process a large number of sample values in each cycle and therefore a much higher proces ⁇ must have processing speed.
- step S7 s the product of the selection vector S is calculated with the matrix W of the eigenvectors, and in step S ⁇ ⁇ the received signals Ui, ... , U M weighted with the vector thus obtained.
- Step S9 takes place again in the same way as in the other configurations.
- the components of the selection vector need not be identical to the set of eigenvalues for the current covariance matrix R xx ; the components of the selection vector S can be calculated in any suitable manner on the basis of the eigenvalues, in particular all components with the exception of those which correspond to a given number of the largest eigenvalues in each case can be set to 0.
- a further development of the devices and methods described above is based on the knowledge that the uplink signal received by the antenna device of the base station is composed of a large number of contributions which are not only related to the individual antenna elements in their direction of origin or their relative phase position and their attenuation, but also in their propagation times from the subscriber station MSk to the base station BS.
- the propagation times of the individual contributions or their relative delays can be determined in a manner known per se with the aid of nes rake searcher can be determined, and it can be generated from the uplink radio signal for each individual antenna element several receive signals, which are referred to as taps in a CDMA radio communication system and which differ from each other in that for each tap to spread and descrambling the uplink radio signal is based on a different time offset between the uplink radio signal and the spreading and scrambling code, in each case in accordance with a measured delay.
- the current covariance matrices R xx and, accordingly, the averaged covariance matrix i? ⁇ generated individually for each tap.
- the number N of the eigenvectors assigned to the subscriber station MSk is not necessarily fixed.
- covariance matrices R xx , R ⁇ are generated individually for each tap, the total number of eigenvectors taken into account for a subscriber station can be predetermined, although the number of eigenvectors taken into account for each individual covariance matrix can vary. For this purpose, first of all the total of the eigenvectors and eigenvalues for all averaged covariance matrices of the subscriber station are calculated, and from the totality of the eigenvectors that can belong to different taps, those are determined and stored in the storage element 10 that have the greatest eigenvalue exhibit.
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