EP1317827A2 - Evaluation de canaux assistee par pilote - Google Patents

Evaluation de canaux assistee par pilote

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EP1317827A2
EP1317827A2 EP01969721A EP01969721A EP1317827A2 EP 1317827 A2 EP1317827 A2 EP 1317827A2 EP 01969721 A EP01969721 A EP 01969721A EP 01969721 A EP01969721 A EP 01969721A EP 1317827 A2 EP1317827 A2 EP 1317827A2
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interpolation
symbols
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Ralf Weber
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L25/00—Baseband systems
    • H04L25/02—Details ; arrangements for supplying electrical power along data transmission lines
    • H04L25/0202—Channel estimation
    • H04L25/0224—Channel estimation using sounding signals
    • H04L25/0228—Channel estimation using sounding signals with direct estimation from sounding signals
    • H04L25/023—Channel estimation using sounding signals with direct estimation from sounding signals with extension to other symbols
    • H04L25/0232—Channel estimation using sounding signals with direct estimation from sounding signals with extension to other symbols by interpolation between sounding signals
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L25/00—Baseband systems
    • H04L25/02—Details ; arrangements for supplying electrical power along data transmission lines
    • H04L25/0202—Channel estimation
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L25/00—Baseband systems
    • H04L25/02—Details ; arrangements for supplying electrical power along data transmission lines
    • H04L25/0202—Channel estimation
    • H04L25/0224—Channel estimation using sounding signals
    • H04L25/0228—Channel estimation using sounding signals with direct estimation from sounding signals
    • H04L25/023—Channel estimation using sounding signals with direct estimation from sounding signals with extension to other symbols
    • H04L25/0232—Channel estimation using sounding signals with direct estimation from sounding signals with extension to other symbols by interpolation between sounding signals
    • H04L25/0234—Channel estimation using sounding signals with direct estimation from sounding signals with extension to other symbols by interpolation between sounding signals by non-linear interpolation
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • 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
    • H04B1/69—Spread spectrum techniques
    • H04B1/707—Spread spectrum techniques using direct sequence modulation
    • H04B1/7097—Interference-related aspects
    • H04B1/711—Interference-related aspects the interference being multi-path interference
    • H04B1/7115—Constructive combining of multi-path signals, i.e. RAKE receivers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04B—TRANSMISSION
    • H04B2201/00—Indexing scheme relating to details of transmission systems not covered by a single group of H04B3/00 - H04B13/00
    • H04B2201/69—Orthogonal indexing scheme relating to spread spectrum techniques in general
    • H04B2201/707—Orthogonal indexing scheme relating to spread spectrum techniques in general relating to direct sequence modulation
    • H04B2201/70701—Orthogonal indexing scheme relating to spread spectrum techniques in general relating to direct sequence modulation featuring pilot assisted reception

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  • the present invention relates to a method for pilot-assisted channel estimation.
  • the invention also relates to an adaptive interpolation method for pilot-assisted channel estimation.
  • the invention relates also to receivers devices, e.g. for mobile communication.
  • channel estimation can be the common base for Doppler frequency estimation, generally performed over longer lime intervals, e.g. over multiple frame periods.
  • the channel estimates needed for each finger of a RAKE receiver are characterized through fading, resulting from fluctuation due to Doppler shifts originating from the relative movement between transmitter and receiver, and are disturbed by the effective signal-to-noise ratio (S R) or signal-to-interference . ratio (SIR).
  • S R signal-to-noise ratio
  • SIR signal-to-interference . ratio
  • Conventional very low-complexity channel estimation methods employ a slot- based approach, which applies any post-processing of the initial (re-modulated) pilot-symbols on the average over all pilot-symbols available in a slot. In order to further reduce noise effects an additional sliding averaging over two or more slots is often used.
  • the disadvantage of conventional slot-based channel estimation schemes is that they do not account for a wide range of different channel fading situations, i.e. very low and very high mobile speeds (or equivalently Doppler), so that their performance is not optimal with respect to the estimation error.
  • very high Doppler frequencies e.g. > 200km/h
  • the slot-based approaches incorporate a sampling rate of the channel estimates that is too low to be able to follow the fading of the propagation path.
  • This object is achieved by replacing samples relating not to pilot symbols by substitute symbols that have been interpolated from the samples of the pilot symbols. .
  • the resulting data stream is post-processed and/or a rate adaptation is applied.
  • averaging may be performed.
  • the proposed improved channel estimation method allows choosing the sampling rate of the post-processing device for the channel estimates in a flexible way, depending on changing channel conditions, i.e. with respect to the current Doppler. Thus the sampling rate may be chosen such that the samples relate to symbols.
  • initial channel estimates originating from pilot-symbols that are usually modulated with a known symbol sequence are used.
  • the principal procedure, further denoted as symbol-based channel estimation approach, can be described as follows: First, after re-modulation with the known pilot symbols, unknown symbols are replaced by either using an appropriate interpolation method or by iterative replacement through a feedback of tentative decisions from RAKE or decoder output. Afterwards, further post-processing aims at a reduction of noise and interference effects. For this, symbol estimates can optionally be averaged in order to be able to reduce the sampling rate of the subsequent signal processing operations. Then, the post-processed output is interpolated to adapt to the symbol rates required for Maximum Ratio Combining in the RAKE. E.g. this are the symbol-rates of the PDCH (I branch) and PCCH (Q branch) signals.
  • a non-causal forward-backward filter either implemented as multiplication method or addition method is preferably used in order to combat non-linear phase distortions normally inherent in other filter types.
  • the benefit of the invention is that it provides low complexity and improved overall reception performance through better channel estimates. Further benefits are no non-linear phase distortions by the filters.
  • the ability to cope with a wide range of Doppler frequencies or mobile velocities includes very high speeds (e.g. up-to 500km/h).
  • the invention allows flexible sampling rate reduction in post-processing units according to desired needs. A trade-off between power consumption and performance is possible. Doppler estimation as well as power and interference measurements can inherently be improved and can thus improve power control mechanisms.
  • Filter design can be done in time- or frequency domain. For the replacement of unknown symbols optional iterative feedback structure possible that exploits tentative decisions from RAKE or decoder output.
  • the invention is applicable to all physical layer transmission formats that contain pilot symbols, whether or not interlaced with data and/or control symbols.
  • the preferred channel estimation method employs interpolation of the polar coordinates (amplitude and phase) between known pilot symbols combined with a fallback mode to linear interpolation of real and imaginary parts (rectangular interpolation).
  • the latter should account for very small changes in amplitudes, or phase shifts of multiples of around 360 degree and is established by a respective threshold setting adapted to the actual channel situation.
  • Performance figures show potential improvements compared to other known interpolation methods with similar low complexity.
  • interpolation for fading channels is improved as well channel estimation performance. This method stands out for low complexity.
  • Fig. 1 Slot structure of pilot channel with known pilot symbols and unknown data symbols
  • Fig. 2 Typical example of a receiver structure for UTRA PRACH
  • 3G WCDMA third-generation wideband CDMA
  • 3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project
  • the physical random access channel is used for initial access as well as for low- volume user data transmission.
  • Low access delay and high throughput are required when transmitting short messages on the contention-based PRACH from the user equipment (UE) to the base station via the so-called uplink.
  • a PRACH consists of repeated and power ramped preambles followed by a message part. Transmission on the message part is triggered by reception of an acquisition indicator on the acquisition indicator channel (AICH). Since neither AICH detection nor power ramping of the preamble influence the principal behavior of the channel estimation of the message part, AICH detection is not considered here.
  • a orthogonal modulation where in-phase and quadrature component may carry different data is used in the uplink.
  • two physical channels are formed, on by the symbols transmitted on the In-phase component and the other by the symbols transmitted on the quadrature component.
  • the message part has the same structure as a uplink dedicated physical channels (UL-DPCH) and is transmitted in the in-phase component.
  • UL-DPCH uplink dedicated physical channels
  • PDCH physical data channel
  • PCCH physical control channel
  • FIG. 1 depicts the frame structure of the physical control channel PCCH. as stream of data symbols 1.
  • a certain number of data symbols build up a frame, whereby a frame is transmitted in a time slots 4.
  • Figure 2 depicts a typical receiver structure employing channel estimation for a set of N R RAKE fingers for the application example of the UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) Physical Random Access Channel(PRACH).
  • UTRA UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access
  • PRACH Physical Random Access Channel
  • the receive signal is sampled into a in-phase samples I and quadrature samples Q.
  • the transmitted signal is filtered with a root raised cosine filter in order to reduce neighbor band emissions the samples I,Q are fed to a pulse matched filter 5 for undoing this type of "pre-distortion”.
  • the filtered samples are then processed by a preamble detector 7 which determines the individual delays of the different identified paths.
  • a tap weight estimator 13 estimates the channel properties of each identified RAKE finger.
  • MRC maximum ratio combiner
  • Further delay means 9 maybe inserted between the descrambling and despreading unit 8 and the MRC unit 10 to compensate processing delay of the tap weight estimator 13.
  • the output signals PDCH, PCCH of the MRC unit 10 is then fed to a decoder for further processing (not shown).
  • FIG. 3 shows the conventional prior art slot-based approach and the required post-processing steps for the UTRA PRACH frame format.
  • Fig. 3 a shows the physical data channel PDCH which is transmitted by the in-phase component of the transmit signal.
  • Fig. 3b shows correspondingly the physical control channel PCCH which is transmitted by the quadrature component of the transmit signal.
  • the symbols of the PCCH are always longer or at least equal to the symbols of the PDCH.
  • the first part of a slot k consists of pilot symbols p and the last part of each slot consists of control symbols d.
  • a mean channel response h is calculated as an average for each slot (Fig. 3d). That helps to keep the sampling rate of succeeding operations low.
  • the common approach for noise supression quite often used due to complexity reasons, applies sliding window averaging over two succeeding slots, so-called 2-slot averaging.
  • Fig 3d shows the hereby obtained noise filtered channel responses h .
  • the post processing of the re-modulated symbols is performed in two steps. First, as shown in Fig. 3e initial estimates h are obtained for each slot. Then, shown in Fig. 3f the initial estimates h are further averaged or post-filtered to averaged estimates h . For rate adaptation to different symbol rates of PDCH and PCCH, the post-processed output has to be interpolated afterwards.
  • the depicted preamble detector should be used for path delay estimation in all cases in which a preamble is transmitted, e.g. for discontinuous physical channels like PRACH and Physical Common Packet Channel (PCPCH).
  • the preamble detector has to be replaced by a searcher and tracker unit in case of continuously transmitted dedicated physical channels like e.g. UL-DPCH, or during the message part transmission of PCPCH as well.
  • Fig. 4 the embodiment of the invention is shown where the initial estimates are based on symbol basis.
  • the PDCH and PCCH depicted in Fig. 4a and 4b respectively correspond to Fig. 3a and 3b.
  • As the data symbols d are a priory not known appropriate substitute estimates have to be taken.
  • a linear interpolation for the data symbols from the last pilot symbol of a slot k and the first pilot symbol of the succeeding slot k+1 will give sufficient performance.
  • a first interpolation step after re-modulation with the known pilot symbols all unknown data symbols are replaced by interpolated values.
  • a linear interpolation of the last known pilot symbol of a slot K and the first known pilot symbol of the succeeding slot ⁇ +1 will already show better performance than the conventional slot-based solution described in Fig.3.
  • the symbols may be averaged prior to filtering them in a postprocessing step in order to reduce noise and interference effects.
  • a rate adaptation is applied.
  • a non-causal forward-backward filter is used in order to combat non-linear phase distortions usually inherent to other filter types.
  • the non-causal forward-backward filter maybe implemented either as multiplication method or addition method.
  • Fig. 5 depicts possible realizations of the two filter types using an underlying causal base filter described by its impulse response
  • Fig. 5 a depicts an implementation of that post-processing filter as an FBMM filter using a first discrete filter 14, followed by a first sequence reverser 15.
  • a second discrete filter 16 having the same filter properties as the first discrete filter 14 filters the reversed sequence.
  • the filtered reversed sequence is reversed again by a second sequence reverser 17.
  • the postprocessing filter is implemented as a FBAM filtered.
  • This filter as shown in Fig. 5b has a parallel structure.
  • the channel responses h are filtered in a first filter branch by a first discrete filter 18.
  • the channel responses h are first fed to a first sequence reverser 19, filter afterwards by a second discrete filter 20 and reversed again by a second sequence reverser 21.
  • the results of the first filter branch 18 and the second filter branch 19, 20, 21 are then summed by an adder 22 and then multiplied by a factor of Vz.
  • Figure 6 shows a possible time-domain realisation example of a causal base filter given by the discrete Fourier transform of a lst- order exponential filter
  • n is the sampling instant.
  • the cut-off frequencies of the filters should be chosen such that they adapt to an estimated Doppler frequency measured in the receiver and the respective sampling rate of the post-processing entities of the pilot-symbols.
  • interpolation is done by an appropriate insertion of Nj P symbols between two known pilot symbols.
  • v[l ⁇ and v[l 2 ] represent two known symbols between which an interpolation should take place.
  • the indexes 1] and 1 2 depend on whether a replacement of the unknown symbols d[l](lst interpolation step) or a rate adaptation of all symbol instances (2nd interpolation step) is considered. They shall refer to sampling instances of the respective interpolated signal, which is represented by w[l] further.
  • interpolation is done by an appropriate insertion of symbols between two known symbols.
  • v[l ⁇ ] and v[l 2 ] represent either channel estimates corresponding to known pilot symbols of the received signal in case of symbol replacement, or values of the post-filter output signal in case of rate adaptation.
  • the indexes l ls 1 2 depend on whether unknown symbol replacement or rate adaptation is required. They refer to sampling instants of the respective interpolated signals, which shall be represented by w[l] further on.
  • Linear phase interpolation uses the differential phase estimate in order to calculate the interpolated signal. It is assumed that the differential phase estimate ⁇ does not exceed a phase rotation of ⁇ .
  • Linear polar interpolation employs the differential phase estimate ⁇ as well as the differential amplitude estimate
  • the preferred interpolation method uses linear phase or polar interpolation and provides a fallback mode to linear interpolation in case the following conditions are true:
  • ⁇ ⁇ and ⁇ v are appropriate thresholds for phase and amplitude values, respectively.
  • the threshold setting preferably is adapted to the actual channel condition, e.g. depending on measured and estimated maximum Doppler frequency.
  • Performance figures shown in Fig 8 shows remarkable improvements compared to other known channel estimation methods with similar low complexity.
  • Performance criterion is the frame error rate (FER) vs. Average signal-to-noise ratio Eb/No per user data bit of the RA message part (PDCH).
  • the performance figures are valid also for UL-DPCH without power control.
  • Comparison of conventional slot-based and symbol-based performance show that symbol-based channel estimation can lead to significant performance improvements being 1 dB for low to medium speed scenarios and up to 10 dB for high speed scenarios (> 200 km/h).
  • the performance differs only marginal for each kind of linear interpolation. Modified polar interpolation could be optimized to slightly outperform the other linear interpolation methods.
  • S&H interpolation if a post-filter is already established.

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L'invention porte sur une méthode d'évaluation de canaux assistée par pilote utilisant des codes de canaux comprenant des symboles de pilotes mêlés à d'autres symboles de données. Pour améliorer l'adaptation à différentes situations de canaux, l'invention propose d'échantillonner un code de canal reçu pour former des échantillons de symboles, de remplacer ceux n'étant pas des échantillons de symboles de pilotes par des symboles de substitution, puis d'effectuer un post-traitement du flux de données comprenant les symboles de substitution, et enfin d'adapter le débit du flux de données post-traité. L'invention porte également sur une méthode par interpolation adaptative d'évaluation des canaux assistée par pilote. Pour améliorer l'interpolation l'invention propose en outre d'évaluer la situation du canal et de choisir entre au moins deux méthodes différentes d'interpolation en fonction des résultats de l'évaluation du canal.
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