A direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) system is inherently capable of supporting multi-cell and multi-user access applications through the use of orthogonal spreading codes. The initial access of the physical channel and frequency planning are relatively easier because of interference averaging in a DSSS system. It has been widely used in some existing wireless networks. However, a DSSS system using orthogonal spreading codes, may suffer severely from the loss of orthogonally in a broadband environment due to multi-path propagation effects, which results in low spectral efficiency.
In broadband wireless communications, Multi-Carrier (MC) technology is drawing more and more attention because of its capability. An MC system such as an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system is capable of supporting broadband applications with higher spectral efficiency. An MC system mitigates the adverse effects of multi-path propagation in wireless environments by using cyclic prefixes to extend the signal period as the data is multiplexed on orthogonal sub-carriers. In effect, it converts a frequency selective channel into a number of parallel flat fading channels which can be easily equalized with simple one-tap equalizers. The modulator and the demodulator can be executed efficiently via the fast Fourier transform (FFT) with much lower cost. However, MC systems are vulnerable while operating in multi-user and multi-cell environments.
A broadband wireless communication system where both the Multi-Carrier (MC) and direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) signals are intentionally overlaid together in both time and frequency domains is described. The system takes advantage of both MC and DSSS techniques to mitigate their weaknesses. The MC signal is used to carry broadband data signal for its high spectral efficiency, while the DSSS signal is used for special purpose processing, such as initial random access, channel probing, and short messaging, in which signal properties such as simplicity, self synchronization, and performance under severe interference are of concern. In the embodiments of this invention both the MC and the DSSS signals are distinguishable in normal operations and the interference between the overlaid signals is insufficient to degrade the expected performance of either signal.
Unlike a typical CDMA system where the signals are designed to be orthogonal in the code domain or an OFDM system where the signals are designed to be orthogonal in frequency domain, the embodiments of this invention overlay the MC signal, which is transmitted without or with very low spreading, and the DSSS signal, which is transmitted at a power level lower than that of the MC signal.
In accordance with aspects of certain embodiments of this invention, the MC signal is modulated on subcarriers in the frequency domain while the DSSS signal is modulated by the information bits or symbols in the time domain. In some cases the information bits modulating the DSSS sequence are always one.
This invention further provides apparatus and means to implement the mentioned processes and methods in a broadband wireless multi-access and/or multi-cell network, using advanced techniques such as transmit power control, spreading signal design, and iterative cancellation.
The mentioned MC system can be of any special format such as OFDM or Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA). The presented methods and apparatus can be applied to downlink, uplink, or both, where the duplexing technique can be either Time Division Duplexing (TDD) or Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD).
Various embodiments of the invention are described to provide specific details for thorough understanding and enablement; however, the aspects of the invention may be practiced without such details. In some instances, well-known structures and functions have not been shown or described in detail to avoid unnecessarily obscuring the essential matters.
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, throughout the description and the claims, the words “comprise,” “comprising,” and the like are to be construed in an inclusive sense as opposed to an exclusive or exhaustive sense; that is to say, in the sense of “including, but not limited to.” Words using the singular or plural number also include the plural or singular number respectively. Additionally, the words “herein,” “above,” “below” and words of similar import, when used in this application, shall refer to this application as a whole and not to any particular portions of this application. When the claims use the word “or” in reference to a list of two or more items, that word covers all of the following interpretations of the word: any of the items in the list, all of the items in the list and any combination of the items in the list.
The physical media resource (e.g., radio or cable) in a multi-carrier communication system can be divided in both the frequency and time domains. This canonical division provides a high flexibility and fine granularity for resource sharing.
The basic structure of a multi-carrier signal in the frequency domain is made up of subcarriers. Within a particular spectral band or channel, there are a fixed number of subcarriers. There are three types of subcarriers:
1. Data subcarriers, which contain information data;
2. Pilot subcarriers, whose phases and amplitudes are predetermined and made known to all receivers and which are employed for assisting system functions such as estimation of system parameters; and
3. Silent subcarriers, which have no energy and are used for guard bands and DC carrier.
An OFDM system is used in the system as a special case of an MC system. The system parameters for the uplink under consideration are listed in Table 1.
In another embodiment, the MC signal is modulated on subcarriers in the frequency domain while the DSSS signal is modulated in either the time domain or the frequency domain. In one embodiment the modulation symbol on the DSSS sequence is one and the sequence is unmodulated.
A digital attenuator (G1) is used for the DSSS signal to adjust its transmitted signal level relative to the MC signal. The two signals are overlaid in the digital domain before converting to a composite analog signal. A second analog variable gain (G2) is used subsequent to the D/A converter 830 to further control the power level of the transmitted signal. When the MC signal is not present, both G1 and G2 will be applied to the DSSS signal to provide sufficient transmission dynamic range. G2 can be realized in multiple circuit stages.
In one embodiment a rake receiver is used in the DSSS receiver 920 to improve its performance in a multi-path environment. In another embodiment, the MC signal is processed as if no DSSS signal is present. In yet another embodiment, advanced interference cancellation techniques can be applied to the composite signal to cancel the DSSS signal from the composite signal thus maintaining almost the same MC performance.
The transmitted composite signal for user i can be represented by:
si(t)=Gi,2*[Gi,1*si,SS(t)+bi*si,MC(t)] (1)
where bi is 0 when there is no MC signal and is 1 when an MC signal is present. Similarly, Gi,1 is 0 when there is no DSSS signal and varies depending on the power setting of the DSSS signal relative to the MC signal when a DSSS signal is present. Gi,2 is used to control the total transmission power for user i. The received signal can be represented by:
where M is the total number of mobile station actively communicating with the current base station, N is the Gaussian noise, and I is the total interference from all the mobile stations in current and other base stations.
Denoting the received power of the MC signal as PMC and the received power of the DSSS signal as PSS, the signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) for the MC signal is:
SINRMC=PMC/(N+I) (3)
when the DSSS signal is not present; and is
SINR′MC=PMC/(N+I+PSS) (4)
when the DSSS signal is present. The system is designed such that the SINR′MC meets the SINR requirement for the MC signal and its performance is not compromised in spite of interference from the overlaid DSSS signal.
In one embodiment, the DSSS signal is power controlled such that PSS is well below the noise level, N.
On the other hand, the SINR for the DSSS signal is
SINRSS=PSS/(N+I+PMC) (5)
Denoting the spreading factor for the DSSS signal as KSF, the effective SINR for one symbol after despreading is:
SINR′SS=PSS*KSF/(N+I+PMC) (6)
SINR′SS must be high enough to meet the performance requirement when detecting or decoding the information conveyed in the DSSS signal. In one embodiment, KSF is chosen to be 1000, so that the DSSS signal is boosted with 30 dB spreading gain after despreading.
As discussed above, one design issue is to minimize the power of the DSSS signal to reduce its interference with the MC data signal. In one embodiment, the initial power setting of a mobile station, TMS_tx (in dBm), is set based on path loss, Lpath (in dB), and the desired received power level at the base station, PBS_rx_des (in dBm),
TMS_tx=PBS_rx_des+Lpath−C1−C2 (7)
C1 (in dB) is set to a proper value so that the SINR of the MC as specified in equation (4) meets its requirement. C2 (in dB) is an adjustment to compensate for the power control inaccuracy. Open loop power control inaccuracy is mainly caused by a discrepancy between an estimated path loss by the mobile station and the actual path loss.
In one embodiment, C1 is set to 9 dB for MC using QPSK modulation with ½ error control coding or 15 dB for MC using 16QAM modulation with ½ error control coding. C2 is set to 10 dB or 2 dB depending on whether the mobile station is under open loop power control or closed loop power control. Power control for the DSSS signal also eases the spectrum mask requirement for the DSSS signal because the DSSS signal level is much lower than that of the MC signal.
With total power offset of C1+C2 subtracted from an initial transmission power of the DSSS signal, the spreading factor of the DSSS signal needs to be set high enough (e.g., 512 (27 dB) or higher) so that the DSSS signal can be detected in normal conditions. This requires a sufficient number of bits of the A/D converter at the base station, for example, 12 bits.
In one embodiment, the D/A converter at the mobile station uses 12 bits, among which 8 bits are targeted for the MC signal (assuming 3 bits are reserved for MC peak to average consideration). Thus, there are enough bits left for the DSSS signal even with significant attenuation relative to the MC signal.
In one embodiment, the base station employs interference cancellation techniques to cancel the DSSS interference to the MC signal.
DSSS sequences are chosen to have good autocorrelation and cross-correlation properties (i.e., with high peak to sidelobe ratio). In one embodiment, pulse-shaping is applied to restrict the spectrum mask of DSSS signals and to reduce impacts on the MC signals in the frequency domain. For example, the transmitter pulse-shaping filter applied to the DSSS signal can be a root-raised cosine (RRC) with roll-off factor α in the frequency domain. The impulse response of the chip impulse filter RC0(t) is
where Tc is the chip duration.
In another embodiment, Golay complementary sequences, Reed-Muller codes, or the codes designed with similar construction methods may be used to control the PAR of DSSS sequences in the frequency domain, thereby limiting the interference of DSSS signals to MC signals, which are demodulated in the frequency domain. In one embodiment, guard periods are added to the DSSS signal which overlaps with one MC symbol, as shown by DSSS signal #p 1308 in
Within MC subcarriers, the control subcarriers are more important than the data subcarriers and may need to have a better protection in the overlay system.
In the initial random access of a multi-carrier multiple access system, a mobile station cannot transmit directly onto the control subchannel because its transmission time and power have not been aligned with other mobile stations. When this mobile station powers up or wakes up from a sleep mode, it first listens to a base station broadcasting channel and finds an available random access DSSS channel. It then sends an initial random access signal over the DSSS channel with a certain signature code or sequence that is designated to the corresponding base station and is broadcasted to all the mobile stations by each base station.
The initial access DSSS signal arrives at the base station together with MC signals from other mobile stations, each carrying data and control information. The initial power level of the DSSS signal is based on the open power loop control settings. A sufficient guard period is reserved in the DSSS signal to account for initial time alignment uncertainty, as shown in
If the base station successfully detects the DSSS signal, it sends the acknowledgement (ACK) carrying information such as a signature or other unique mobile station identifier and power and time adjustments of the mobile on the downlink control channel in the next available timeslot. The mobile station whose transmission signature matches that of the acknowledgement then moves to the designated uplink MC control channel using the assigned time and power values and further completes the message transmission.
If no feedback is received at the mobile station after a pre-defined number of slots, it assumes that the access slot was not detected by the base station, and will ramp up the transmission power of the DSSS signal by one step and re-transmit it, until it reaches the maximum allowable transmit signal power or the maximum retry times. In one embodiment, the power ramping step of the mobile station is set to be 1 dB or 2 dB which is configured by the base station on the downlink broadcasting channel. The maximum allowable transmit signal power and the retry times are also controlled by the base station depending on the uplink modulation/coding scheme and available access channels. During the initial random access, the DSSS signal can also be used for channel probing and short messaging.
In one embodiment of the invention, the DSSS signal is used to assist estimation of channel characteristics. In this case, the mobile station is already synchronized in time and frequency with the base station, and its transmission of the MC signal is under closed-loop power control with the base station.
When closed loop power control is used, the initial power settings will be much more accurate than by using open loop power control alone. Thus, the margin reserved for power control inaccuracy can be reduced to a much smaller value. Furthermore, a bigger spreading factor can be used since no data information needs to be conveyed in the DSSS signal. This leaves a dynamic range large enough for detecting multi-path peaks from the output of the match filter or correlator, thereby generating a better channel profile. When and how often a mobile station should send the DSSS signal for channel probing is configurable by the network or the mobile station.
In one embodiment, the base station dictates the mobile station to transmit the channel probing DSSS when it needs an update of the mobile station's channel characteristics. In another embodiment, the base station polls the mobile station during its silent period and gets an update of the mobile station's information such as transmission timing and power from the probing DSSS signal. In yet another embodiment, the channel profile information is used by the base station to determine the proper modulation/coding and pilot pattern. In yet another embodiment, the channel profile information is used for advanced antenna techniques such as beamforming. In one embodiment, channel probing with the DSSS signaling is performed without close loop power control or time synchronization.
In one embodiment of the invention, the DSSS signal is used to carry short messages. In this case, the mobile station is already synchronized in time and frequency with the base station, and its transmission of a MC signal is also under closed-loop power control with the base station. As shown in
The above detailed description of the embodiments of the invention is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise form disclosed above or to the particular field of usage mentioned in this disclosure. While specific embodiments of, and examples for, the invention are described above for illustrative purposes, various equivalent modifications are possible within the scope of the invention, as those skilled in the relevant art will recognize. Also, the teachings of the invention provided herein can be applied to other systems, not necessarily the system described above. The elements and acts of the various embodiments described above can be combined to provide further embodiments.
All of the above patents and applications and other references, including any that may be listed in accompanying filing papers, are incorporated herein by reference. Aspects of the invention can be modified, if necessary, to employ the systems, functions, and concepts of the various references described above to provide yet further embodiments of the invention.
Changes can be made to the invention in light of the above “Detailed Description.” While the above description details certain embodiments of the invention and describes the best mode contemplated, no matter how detailed the above appears in text, the invention can be practiced in many ways. Therefore, implementation details may vary considerably while still being encompassed by the invention disclosed herein. As noted above, particular terminology used when describing certain features or aspects of the invention should not be taken to imply that the terminology is being redefined herein to be restricted to any specific characteristics, features, or aspects of the invention with which that terminology is associated.
In general, the terms used in the following claims should not be construed to limit the invention to the specific embodiments disclosed in the specification, unless the above Detailed Description section explicitly defines such terms. Accordingly, the actual scope of the invention encompasses not only the disclosed embodiments, but also all equivalent ways of practicing or implementing the invention under the claims.
While certain aspects of the invention are presented below in certain claim forms, the inventors contemplate the various aspects of the invention in any number of claim forms. Accordingly, the inventors reserve the right to add additional claims after filing the application to pursue such additional claim forms for other aspects of the invention.
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