Patent Application
20130184019
This application relates generally to interference cancellation, and more particularly to performing interference cancellation in the frequency domain for downlink cellular systems.
Interference of downlink cellular systems coming from multipath and co-channel interference from adjacent base stations is a common problem. To address these problems, some conventional systems separate interference components from the received signals, estimate channel impulse responses, equalize the channel impulse response, and then attempt to reconstruct the signals. Each of these operations is typically performed in the time domain, and such operations are multiplier-intensive, resulting in high implementation complexity and power consumption.
The following presents a simplified summary of one or more aspects in order to provide a basic understanding of such aspects. This summary is not an extensive overview of all contemplated aspects, and is intended to neither identify key or critical elements of all aspects nor delineate the scope of any or all aspects. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts of one or more aspects in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.
In accordance with some aspects, a method for interference cancellation of interference components of a time domain signal in the frequency domain is described herein. The method may include receiving a time domain sequence that includes a waveform transmitted by a transmitting device, and generating a plurality of overlapping time domain segments from the time domain sequence. The method may also include converting the overlapping plurality of time domain segments into the frequency domain to generate frequency domain segments comprising frequency domain representations of the overlapping time domain segments. In addition, the method may also include storing the frequency domain segments in a residual memory, and directly removing the interference components from the frequency domain segments stored in the residual memory in the frequency domain.
In accordance with some aspects, a non-transitory computer-readable medium is described herein. The non-transitory computer-readable medium may include at least one instruction for causing a computer to receive a time domain sequence that includes a waveform transmitted by a transmitting device, and at least one instruction for causing the computer to generate a plurality of overlapping time domain segments from the time domain sequence. The method may also include at least one instruction for causing the computer to convert the overlapping time domain segments into the frequency domain to generate frequency domain segments comprising frequency domain representations of the overlapping time domain segments. In addition, the method may also include at least one instruction for causing the computer to store the frequency domain segments in a residual memory, and at least one instruction for causing the computer to directly remove the interference components from the frequency domain segments stored in the residual memory in the frequency domain.
In accordance with some aspects, an apparatus is described herein. The apparatus may includes means for receiving a time domain sequence that includes a waveform transmitted by a transmitting device, and means for generating a plurality of overlapping time domain segments from the time domain sequence. The method may also include means for converting the overlapping time domain segments into the frequency domain to generate frequency domain segments comprising frequency domain representations of the overlapping time domain segments. In addition, the method may also include means for storing the frequency domain segments in a residual memory, and means for directly removing the interference components from the frequency domain segments stored in the residual memory in the frequency domain.
In accordance with some aspects, an apparatus for interference cancellation of interference components of a time domain signal in the frequency domain is described herein. The apparatus may include at least one processor configured to receive a time domain sequence that includes a waveform transmitted by a transmitting device, generate a plurality of overlapping time domain segments from the time domain sequence, convert the time domain segments to the frequency domain to generate frequency domain segments frequency domain representations of the overlapping time domain segments, store the frequency domain segments in a residual memory, and directly remove the interference components from the frequency domain segments stored in the residual memory in the frequency domain. The apparatus may also include a memory coupled to the at least one processor.
To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, 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 features of the one or more aspects. These features are indicative, however, of but a few of the various ways in which the principles of various aspects may be employed, and this description is intended to include all such aspects and their equivalents.
The disclosed aspects will hereinafter be described in conjunction with the appended drawings, provided to illustrate and not to limit the disclosed aspects, wherein like designations denote like elements, and in which:
Various aspects are now described with reference to the drawings. In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of one or more aspects. It may be evident, however, that such aspect(s) may be practiced without these specific details.
The apparatus and methods described herein are configured to reduce the complexity and power consumption associated with interference cancellation by using an interference cancellation structure that performs signal equalization, reconstruction, and interference cancellation in the frequency domain. A signal is converted from the time-domain to the frequency domain once, and is subsequently kept in the frequency domain between successive processing iterations. Interference estimates are converted to the frequency domain and interference cancellation is performed in the frequency domain.
As shown at 120, the signal transmitted by base station 110, shown as S(t), may experience delays associated with the communications channel, including, for example, multipath delays. Interference signal i1(t), shown at 122 and transmitted by base station 112, and interference signal i2(t), shown at 124 and transmitted by base station 114, are combined with the actual data signal/waveform transmitted by base station 110. As such, communications device 130 receives a signal/sequence r(t), shown at 126, than includes, in addition to the data signal/waveform transmitted by base station 110, one or more interference components.
Communications device 130 further includes a memory 204, such as for storing data used herein and/or local versions of applications being executed by processor 202. Memory 204 can include any type of memory usable by a computer, such as random access memory (RAM), read only memory (ROM), tapes, magnetic discs, optical discs, volatile memory, non-volatile memory, and any combination thereof. Applications may include, for example, one or more object matching applications.
Further, communications device 130 may include a communications component 206 that provides means for establishing and maintaining communications with one or more parties utilizing hardware, software, and services as described herein. Communications component 206 may carry communications between components on communications device 130, as well as between communications device 130 and external devices, such as devices located across a communications network and/or devices serially or locally connected to communications device 130. For example, communications component 206 may include one or more buses, and may further include transmit chain components and receive chain components associated with a transmitter and receiver, respectively, operable for interfacing with external devices such as base stations 110, 112, and 114.
Additionally, communications device 130 may further include a data store 208, which can be any suitable combination of hardware and/or software, that provides for mass storage of information, databases, and programs employed in connection with aspects described herein. For example, data store 208 may be a data repository for applications not currently being executed by processor 202. In some aspects, data store 208 may be located within memory 204.
Communications device 130 may additionally include a user interface component 210 operable to receive inputs, or serving as an application programming interface (API), and may be further operable to generate outputs for presentation to the user. User interface component 210 may include one or more input devices, including but not limited to a keyboard, a number pad, a mouse, a touch-sensitive display, a navigation key, a function key, a microphone, a voice recognition component, a still camera, a video camera, an audio recorder, and/or any other mechanism capable of receiving an input, or any combination thereof. Further, user interface component 210 may include one or more output devices, including but not limited to a display, a speaker, a haptic feedback mechanism, a printer, any other mechanism capable of presenting an output, or any combination thereof Communications device 130 may also include a frequency domain interference cancellation component 220. Frequency domain interference cancellation component 220 may be configured to equalize, reconstruct, and remove interference components from a received signal in the frequency domain.
Referring now to
Time domain sample memory 302 may be configured to receive a sampled time domain sequence that includes a waveform representing the data transmitted by a serving base station as well as one or more interference component. The sampled time domain sequence may be viewed as a plurality of overlapping time domain segments. Each time domain segment may comprise overlapping samples. That is, each segment may include a number of samples overlapping with adjacent segments. For example, each segment may contain 128 samples with 32 samples overlapping with an adjacent segment. In accordance with some aspects, the overlapping time domain segments may be generated using an overlap-and-save, overlap-and-add, or any other technique for generating overlapping segments. A frequency domain segment generation component 304 may be configured to convert the overlapping time domain segments into the frequency domain, resulting in frequency domain representations of the overlapping time domain segments. For example, as shown in
For a given segment, all samples contributing to a portion of interest of that segment may be output to equalizer 322. The samples may be multiplied with an equalizer frequency response to compensate for interference due to the multipath channel, and then converted back to the time domain. The equalized time domain samples may then be output to symbol processing component 324.
Symbol processing component 324 may be configured to generate an estimate of the waveform transmitted from a base station, such as base station 110 shown in
Turning now to
As shown at 406, the overlapping time domain segments may be converted into the frequency domain to generate frequency domain segments comprising frequency domain representations of the overlapping time domain segments. The overlapping time domain segments may be converted into the frequency domain by applying one or more FFTs, for example. As shown at 408, the frequency domain segments may be stored in a frequency domain residual memory. As shown at 410, interference components may be directly removed from the frequency domain segments stored in the residual memory in the frequency domain.
Referring now to
Additionally, apparatus 500 can include a memory 514 that retains instructions for executing functions associated with blocks 504-512. While shown as being external to memory 514, it is to be understood that one or more of blocks 504-512 can exist within memory 514. In an aspect, for example, memory 514 may be the same as or similar to memory 204 or data store 208 (
As used in this application, the terms “component,” “module,” “system” and the like are intended to include a computer-related entity, such as but not limited to hardware, firmware, a combination of hardware and software, software, or software in execution. For example, a component may be, but is not limited to being, a process running on a processor, a processor, an object, an executable, a thread of execution, a program, and/or a computer. By way of illustration, both an application running on a computing device and the computing device can be a component. One or more components can reside within a process and/or thread of execution and a component may be localized on one computer and/or distributed between two or more computers. In addition, these components can execute from various computer readable media having various data structures stored thereon. The components may communicate by way of local and/or remote processes such as in accordance with a signal having one or more data packets, such as data from one component interacting with another component in a local system, distributed system, and/or across a network such as the Internet with other systems by way of the signal.
Furthermore, various aspects are described herein in connection with a terminal, which can be a wired terminal or a wireless terminal. A terminal can also be called a system, device, subscriber unit, subscriber station, mobile station, mobile, mobile device, remote station, remote terminal, access terminal, user terminal, terminal, communication device, user agent, user device, or user equipment (UE). A wireless terminal may be a cellular telephone, a satellite phone, 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, a computing device, or other processing devices connected to a wireless modem. Moreover, various aspects are described herein in connection with a base station. A base station may be utilized for communicating with wireless terminal(s) and may also be referred to as an access point, a Node B, or some other terminology.
Moreover, the term “or” is intended to mean an inclusive “or” rather than an exclusive “or.” That is, unless specified otherwise, or clear from the context, the phrase “X employs A or B” is intended to mean any of the natural inclusive permutations. That is, the phrase “X employs A or B” is satisfied by any of the following instances: X employs A; X employs B; or X employs both A and B. In addition, the articles “a” and “an” as used in this application and the appended claims should generally be construed to mean “one or more” unless specified otherwise or clear from the context to be directed to a singular form.
The techniques described herein may be used for various wireless communication systems such as CDMA, TDMA, FDMA, OFDMA, SC-FDMA and other systems. The terms “system” and “network” are often used interchangeably. A CDMA system 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. Further, cdma2000 covers IS-2000, IS-95 and IS-856 standards. A TDMA system may implement a radio technology such as Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). An OFDMA system may implement a radio technology such as Evolved UTRA (E-UTRA), Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, Flash-OFDM, etc. UTRA and E-UTRA are part of Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS). 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) is a release of UMTS that uses E-UTRA, which employs OFDMA on the downlink and SC-FDMA on the uplink. UTRA, E-UTRA, UMTS, LTE and GSM are described in documents from an organization named “3rd Generation Partnership Project” (3GPP). Additionally, cdma2000 and UMB are described in documents from an organization named “3rd Generation Partnership Project 2” (3GPP2). Further, such wireless communication systems may additionally include peer-to-peer (e.g., mobile-to-mobile) ad hoc network systems often using unpaired unlicensed spectrums, 802.xx wireless LAN, BLUETOOTH and any other short- or long- range, wireless communication techniques.
Various aspects or features will be presented in terms of systems that may include a number of devices, components, modules, and the like. It is to be understood and appreciated that the various systems may include additional devices, components, modules, etc. and/or may not include all of the devices, components, modules etc. discussed in connection with the figures. A combination of these approaches may also be used.
The various illustrative logics, logical blocks, modules, and circuits described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented or performed with a general purpose processor, a digital signal processor (DSP), an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, or any combination thereof designed to perform the functions described herein. 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. Additionally, at least one processor may comprise one or more modules operable to perform one or more of the steps and/or actions described above.
Further, the steps and/or actions of a method or algorithm described in connection with the aspects disclosed herein may be embodied directly in hardware, in a software module executed by a processor, or in a combination of the two. A software module may reside in RAM memory, flash memory, ROM memory, EPROM memory, EEPROM memory, registers, a hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art. An exemplary storage medium may be coupled to the processor, such that the processor can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium. In the alternative, the storage medium may be integral to the processor. Further, in some aspects, the processor and the storage medium may reside in an ASIC. Additionally, the ASIC may reside in a user terminal In the alternative, the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a user terminal. Additionally, in some aspects, the steps and/or actions of a method or algorithm may reside as one or any combination or set of codes and/or instructions on a machine readable medium and/or computer readable medium, which may be incorporated into a computer program product.
In one or more aspects, the functions described may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. If implemented in software, the functions may be stored or transmitted as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium. Computer-readable media includes both computer storage media and communication media including any medium that facilitates transfer of a computer program from one place to another. A storage medium may be any available media that can be accessed by a computer. By way of example, and not limitation, such computer-readable media can comprise RAM, ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer. Also, any connection may be termed a computer-readable medium. For example, if software is transmitted from a website, server, or other remote source using a coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair, or digital subscriber line (DSL), then the coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair, or DSL are included in the definition of medium. Disk and disc, as used herein, includes compact disc (CD), laser disc, optical disc, digital versatile disc (DVD), floppy disk and blu-ray disc where disks usually reproduce data magnetically, while discs usually reproduce data optically with lasers. Combinations of the above should also be included within the scope of computer-readable media.
While the foregoing disclosure discusses illustrative aspects and/or embodiments, it should be noted that various changes and modifications could be made herein without departing from the scope of the described aspects and/or embodiments as defined by the appended claims. Furthermore, although elements of the described aspects and/or embodiments may be described or claimed in the singular, the plural is contemplated unless limitation to the singular is explicitly stated. Additionally, all or a portion of any aspect and/or embodiment may be utilized with all or a portion of any other aspect and/or embodiment, unless stated otherwise.
The present Application for Patent claims priority to Provisional Application No. 61/586,917 entitled “Frequency Domain Interference Cancellation and Equalization for Downlink Cellular Systems” filed Jan. 16, 2012, and assigned to the assignee hereof and hereby expressly incorporated by reference herein. The present Application for Patent is related to the following co-pending U.S. Patent Application: “Intercell Frequency Offset Compensation for Frequency Domain Interference Cancellation for Downlink Cellular Systems,” having Attorney Docket No. 111764, filed concurrently herewith, assigned to the assignee hereof, and expressly incorporated by reference herein.
| Number | Date | Country | |
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| 61586917 | Jan 2012 | US |
