Patent Grant
11901992
This application may be related to the following co-pending U.S. patent applications/U.S. patents:
U.S. application Ser. No. 13/633,702, entitled “Systems and Methods for wireless backhaul in distributed-input distributed-output wireless systems”
U.S. application Ser. No. 13/475,598, entitled “Systems and Methods to enhance spatial diversity in distributed-input distributed-output wireless systems”
U.S. application Ser. No. 13/233,006, entitled “System and Methods for planned evolution and obsolescence of multiuser spectrum”
U.S. application Ser. No. 13/232,996, entitled “Systems and Methods to Exploit Areas of Coherence in Wireless Systems”
U.S. application Ser. No. 13/464,648, entitled “System and Methods to Compensate for Doppler Effects in Distributed-Input Distributed Output Systems”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/917,257, entitled “Systems And Methods To Coordinate Transmissions In Distributed Wireless Systems Via User Clustering”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/802,988, entitled “Interference Management, Handoff, Power Control And Link Adaptation In Distributed-Input Distributed-Output (DIDO) Communication Systems”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/802,974, entitled “System And Method For Managing Inter-Cluster Handoff Of Clients Which Traverse Multiple DIDO Clusters”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/802,989, entitled “System And Method For Managing Handoff Of A Client Between Different Distributed-Input-Distributed-Output (DIDO) Networks Based On Detected Velocity Of The Client”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/802,958, entitled “System And Method For Power Control And Antenna Grouping In A Distributed-Input-Distributed-Output (DIDO) Network”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/802,975, entitled “System And Method For Link adaptation In DIDO Multicarrier Systems”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/802,938, entitled “System And Method For DIDO Precoding Interpolation In Multicarrier Systems”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/630,627, entitled “System and Method For Distributed Antenna Wireless Communications”
U.S. Pat. No. 8,170,081, issued May 1, 2012, entitled “System And Method For Adjusting DIDO Interference Cancellation Based On Signal Strength Measurements”
U.S. Pat. No. 8,160,121, issued Apr. 17, 2012, entitled, “System and Method For Distributed Input-Distributed Output Wireless Communications”;
U.S. Pat. No. 7,885,354, issued Feb. 8, 2011, entitled “System and Method For Enhancing Near Vertical Incidence Skywave (“NVIS”) Communication Using Space-Time Coding.”
U.S. Pat. No. 7,711,030, issued May 4, 2010, entitled “System and Method For Spatial-Multiplexed Tropospheric Scatter Communications”;
U.S. Pat. No. 7,636,381, issued Dec. 22, 2009, entitled “System and Method for Distributed Input Distributed Output Wireless Communication”;
U.S. Pat. No. 7,633,994, issued Dec. 15, 2009, entitled “System and Method for Distributed Input Distributed Output Wireless Communication”;
U.S. Pat. No. 7,599,420, issued Oct. 6, 2009, entitled “System and Method for Distributed Input Distributed Output Wireless Communication”;
U.S. Pat. No. 7,418,053, issued Aug. 26, 2008, entitled “System and Method for Distributed Input Distributed Output Wireless Communication”;
In the last three decades, the wireless cellular market has experienced increasing number of subscribers worldwide as well as demand for better services shifting from voice to web-browsing and real-time HD video streaming. This increasing demand for services that requires higher data rate, lower latency and improved reliability has driven a radical evolution of wireless technologies through different standards. Beginning from the first generation analog AMPS and TACS (for voice service) in the early 1980s, to 2G and 2.5G digital GSM, IS-95 and GPRS (for voice and data services) in the 1990s, to 3G with UMTS and CDMA2000 (for web-browsing) in the early 2000s, and finally LTE (for high-speed internet connectivity) currently under deployment in different countries worldwide.
Long-term evolution (LTE) is the standard developed by the 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) for fourth generation (4G) wireless cellular systems. LTE can achieve theoretically up to 4× improvement in downlink spectral efficiency over previous 3G and HSPA+ standards by exploiting the spatial components of wireless channels via multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology. LTE-Advanced is the evolution of LTE, currently under standardization, that will enable theoretically up to 8× increase in spectral efficiency over 3G standard systems.
Despite this technology evolution, it is very likely that in the next three years wireless carriers will not be able to satisfy the growing demand for data rate due to raising market penetration of smartphones and tables, offering more data-hungry applications like real-time HD video streaming, video conferencing and gaming. It has been estimated that capacity of wireless networks will grow 5x in Europe from 2011 to 2015 due to improved technologies such as LTE as well as more spectrum made available by the government [25]. For example, the FCC is planning to free 500 MHz of spectrum by 2020 (of which 300 MHz will be available by 2015) to promote wireless Internet connectivity throughout the US as part of the National Broadband Plan [24]. Unfortunately, the forecast for capacity usage by 2015 is 23× over 2011 in Europe [25] and similar spectrum deficit is expected to happen in the US by 2014 [26-27]. As a result of this data crunch, revenues for wireless carriers may drop below their CAPEX and OPEX with potentially devastating impact on the wireless market [28].
As capacity gains offered by LTE deployment and increased spectrum availability are insufficient, the only foreseeable solution to prevent this upcoming spectrum crisis is to promote new wireless technologies [29]. LTE-Advanced (the evolution of LTE standard) promises additional gains over LTE through more sophisticated MIMO techniques and by increasing the density of “small cells” [30]. However, there are limits to the number of cells that can fit a certain area without incurring interference issues or increasing the complexity of the backhaul to allow coordination across cells.
One promising technology that will provide orders of magnitude increase in spectral efficiency over wireless links without the limitations of conventional cellular systems is distributed-input distributed-output (DIDO) technology (see Related patents and applications as described above. The present invention describes DIDO technology employed in the context of cellular systems (such as LTE or LTE-Advanced), both within and without the constraints of cellular standards, to provide significant performance benefits over conventional wireless systems. We begin with an overview on MIMO and review different spatial processing techniques employed by LTE and LTE-Advanced. Then we show how the present invention provides significant capacity gains for next generation wireless communications systems compared to prior art approaches.
MIMO employs multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver sides of the wireless link and uses spatial processing to improve link reliability via diversity techniques (i.e., diversity gain) or provide higher data rate via multiplexing schemes (i.e., multiplexing gain) [1-2]. Diversity gain is a measure of enhanced robustness to signal fading, resulting in higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for fixed data rate. Multiplexing gain is obtained by exploiting additional spatial degrees of freedom of the wireless channel to increase data rate for fixed probability of error. Fundamental tradeoffs between diversity and multiplexing in MIMO systems were described in [3-4].
In practical MIMO systems, link adaptation techniques can be used to switch dynamically between diversity and multiplexing schemes based on propagation conditions [20-23]. For example, link adaptation schemes described in [22-23] showed that beamforming or Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes (OSTBC) are preferred schemes in low SNR regime or channels characterized by low spatial selectivity. By contrast, spatial multiplexing can provide significant gain in data rate for channels with high SNR and high spatial selectivity. For example,
The LTE (Release 8) and LTE-Advanced (Release 10) standards define a set of ten transmission modes (TM) including either diversity or multiplexing schemes [35,85-86]:
Hereafter we describe diversity and multiplexing schemes commonly used in cellular systems as well as specific methods employed in LTE as outlined above, and compare them against techniques that are unique for DIDO communications. We first identify two types of transmission methods: i) intra-cell methods (exploiting micro-diversity in cellular systems), using multiple antennas to improve link reliability or data rate within one cell; ii) inter-cell methods (exploiting macro-diversity), allowing cooperation between cells to provide additional diversity or multiplexing gains. Then we describe how the present invention provides significant advantages (including spectral capacity gain) over prior art.
1. Intra-Cell Diversity Methods
Intra-cell diversity methods operate within one cell and are designed to increase SNR in scenarios with poor link quality (e.g., users at the cell-edge subject to high pathloss from the central tower or base station). Typical diversity schemes employed in MIMO communications are beamforming [5-11] and orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBC) [12-15].
Diversity techniques supported by the LTE standard are transmit diversity, closed-loop rank-1 precoding and dedicated beamforming [31-35]. Transmit diversity scheme supports two or four transmit antennas over the downlink (DL) and only two antennas for the uplink (UL). In the DL channel, it is implemented via space-frequency block codes (SFBC) combined with frequency-switched transmit diversity (FSTD) to exploit space as well as frequency selectivity [31]. Rank-1 precoding creates a dedicated beam to one user based on quantized weights selected from a codebook (pre-designed using limited feedback techniques [36-42]) to reduce the feedback overhead from the user equipment (UE) to the base transceiver station (BTS 105 in
2. Intra-Cell Multiplexing Methods
MIMO multiplexing schemes [1,19] provide gain in data rate in high SNR regime and in scenarios with enough spatial degrees of freedom in the channel (e.g., rich multipath environments with high spatial selectivity [16-18]) to support multiple parallel data streams over wireless links.
The LTE standard supports different multiplexing techniques for single-user MIMO (SU-MIMO) and multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) [31]. SU-MIMO schemes have two modes of operation: i) closed-loop, exploiting feedback information from the UE to select the DL precoding weights; ii) open-loop, used when feedback from the UE is unavailable or the UE is moving too fast to support closed-loop schemes. Closed-loop schemes use a set of pre-computed weights selected from a codebook. These weights can support two or four transmit antennas as well as one to four parallel data streams (identified by number of layers of the precoding matrix), depending on the UE request and decision of the scheduler at the BTS. LTE-Advanced will include new transmission modes up to MIMO 8×8 to provide up to 8× increase in spectral efficiency via spatial processing [62].
MU-MIMO schemes are defined for both UL and DL channels [31,50]. In the UL, every UE sends a reference signal to the BTS (consisting of cyclically shifted version of the Zadoff-Chu sequence [33]). Those reference signals are orthogonal, such that the BTS can estimate the channel from all UEs and demodulate data streams from multiple UEs simultaneously via spatial processing. In the DL, precoding weights for different UEs are selected from codebooks based on the feedback from the UEs and the scheduler (similarly to closed-loop SU-MIMO schemes) and only rank-1 precoding is allowed for every UE (e.g., each UE receives only one data stream).
Intra-cell multiplexing techniques employing spatial processing provide satisfactory performance only in propagation scenarios characterized by high SNR (or SINR) and high spatial selectivity (multipath-rich environments). For conventional macrocells, these conditions may be harder to achieve as BTSs are typically far from the UEs and the distribution of the SINR is typically centered at low values [43]. In these scenarios, MU-MIMO schemes or diversity techniques may be better choices than SU-MIMO with spatial multiplexing.
Other techniques and network solutions contemplated by LTE-Advanced to achieve additional multiplexing gain (without requiring spatial processing through MIMO) are: carrier aggregation (CA) and small cells. CA [30,44-47] combines different portions of the RF spectrum to increase signal bandwidth up to 100 MHz [85], thereby yielding higher data rates. Intra-band CA combines different bands within the same portion of the spectrum. As such it can use the same RF chain for multiple channels, and multiple data streams are recombined in software. Inter-band CA requires different RF chains to operate at different portions of the spectrum as well as signal processing to recombine multiple data streams from different bands.
The key idea of small cells [30,47] is to reduce the size of conventional macro-cells, thereby allowing higher cell density and larger throughput per area of coverage. Small-cells are typically deployed through inexpensive access points 106 with low power transmission (as depicted in
It can be trivially shown there is no practical general solution that enables small cells to co-exist with macrocells and achieve optimal, or necessarily even improved, throughput. Among the myriad of such unsolvable situations is when a small cell is located such that its UEs unavoidably overlap with a macrocell transmission and the small cell and the macrocell use the same frequencies to reach their respective UEs. Clearly in this situation, the macrocell transmission will interfere with the small cell transmission. While there may be some approach that mitigates such interference for particular circumstances of a particular macrocell, a particular small cell, the particular macrocell and small cell UEs involved, the throughput requirements of those UEs, and environmental circumstances, etc., any such approach would be highly specific, not only to the static plan of the macrocell and small cell, but to the dynamic circumstances of a particular time interval. Typically, the full throughput of the channel to each UE cannot be achieved.
3. Inter-Cell Diversity Methods
In a heterogeneous network (HetNet) [90] where macro-cells coexist with small-cells (e.g., metro-cells, pico-cells and femto-cells) it is necessary to employ different techniques to eliminate inter-cell interference. While HetNets provide better coverage through small-cells, the gains in data rate are only marginal since they require sharing the spectrum through different forms of frequency reuse patterns or using spatial processing to remove interference rather than achieve multiplexing gain. The LTE standards employ inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) schemes to remove interference particularly at the cell-edge. There are two types of ICIC methods: cell-autonomous and coordinated between BTSs.
Cell-autonomous ICIC schemes avoid inter-cell interference via different frequency reuse patterns depicted in
Coordinated ICIC methods enable cooperation across BTSs to improve performance of wireless networks. These techniques are a special case of methods taught in Related patents and applications as described above to enable cooperation across wireless transceivers in the general case of distributed antenna networks for multiple UEs all using the same frequency simultaneously. Cooperation across BTSs to remove inter-cell interference for the particular case of cellular systems for a single UE at a given time at a given frequency was described in [53]. The system in [53] divides every macrocell into multiple subcells and enables soft-handoff across subcells by employing dedicated beamforming from coordinated BTSs to improve link robustness at a single UE at a single frequency, as it moves along the subcell boundaries.
More recently, this class of cooperative wireless cellular networks has been defined in the MIMO literature as “network MIMO” or “coordinated multi-point” (CoMP) systems. Theoretical analysis and simulated results on the benefits obtained in network MIMO by eliminating inter-cell interference are presented in [54-61]. The key advantage of network MIMO and CoMP is to remove inter-cell interference in the overlapping regions of the cells denoted as “interference region” 301 in
CoMP networks are actively becoming part of LTE-Advanced standard as a solution to mitigate inter-cell interference in next generation cellular networks [62-64]. Three CoMP solutions have been proposed so far in the standard to remove inter-cell interference: i) coordinated scheduling/beamforming (CS/CB), where the UE receives its data stream from only one BTS via beamforming and coordination across BTSs is enabled to remove interference via beamforming or scheduling techniques; ii) dynamic cell selection (DCS) that chooses dynamically the cell for every UE on a per-subframe basis, transparently to the UE; iii) joint transmission (JT), where data for given UE is jointly transmitted from multiple BTSs to improve received signal quality and eliminate inter-cell interference. CoMP-JT yields larger gains than CoMP-CS/CB at the expenses of higher overhead in the backhaul to enable coordination across BTSs.
4. Inter-Cell Multiplexing Methods
Prior art multi-user wireless systems add complexity and introduce limitations to wireless networks which result in a situation where a given user's experience (e.g. available throughput, latency, predictability, reliability) is impacted by the utilization of the spectrum by other users in the area. Given the increasing demands for aggregate throughput within wireless spectrum shared by multiple users, and the increasing growth of applications that can rely upon multi-user wireless network reliability, predictability and low latency for a given user, it is apparent that prior art multi-user wireless technology suffers from many limitations. Indeed, with the limited availability of spectrum suitable for particular types of wireless communications (e.g. at wavelengths that are efficient in penetrating building walls), prior art wireless techniques will be insufficient to meet the increasing demands for bandwidth that is reliable, predictable and low-latency.
Prior art intra-cell diversity and multiplexing methods can only provide up to a theoretical 4× increase in throughput over current cellular networks for LTE (through MIMO 4×4) or at most a theoretical 8× for LTE-Advanced (through MIMO 8×8), although higher orders of MIMO achieve diminishing improvements in increasing throughput in a given multipath environment, particularly as UEs (such as smartphones) get smaller and more constrained in terms of antenna placement. Other marginal throughput gains in next generation cellular systems may be obtained from additional spectrum allocation (e.g., FCC national broadband plan), exploited via carrier aggregation techniques, and more dense distribution of BTSs via small cell networks and SON [30,46]. All the above techniques, however, still rely heavily on spectrum or time sharing techniques to enable multi-user transmissions, since the spectral efficiency gains obtained by spatial processing is limited.
While prior art inter-cell methods (e.g., network MIMO and CoMP systems [53-64]) can improve reliability of cellular networks by eliminating inter-cell interference, their capacity gains are only marginal. In fact, those systems constrain power transmitted from every BTS to be contained within the cell boundaries and are only effective to eliminate inter-cell interference due to power leakage across cells.
The scenario depicted in
It would thus be desirable to provide a system that achieves orders of magnitudes increase in spectral efficiency exploiting inter-cell multiplexing gain via spatial processing by removing any constraint on the power transmitted from distributed BTSs 501 as well as on their placement.
We observe that prior art inter-cell methods [53-64] avoid incoherent interference by intentionally limiting the transmit power from every BTS as in
A better understanding of the present invention can be obtained from the following detailed description in conjunction with the drawings, in which:
One solution to overcome many of the above prior art limitations is an embodiment of Distributed-Input Distributed-Output (DIDO) technology. DIDO technology is described in the following patents and patent applications, all of which are assigned the assignee of the present patent and are incorporated by reference. These patents and applications are sometimes referred to collectively herein as the “Related patents and applications.”
U.S. application Ser. No. 13/633,702, entitled “Systems and Methods for wireless backhaul in distributed-input distributed-output wireless systems”
U.S. application Ser. No. 13/475,598, entitled “Systems and Methods to enhance spatial diversity in distributed-input distributed-output wireless systems”
U.S. application Ser. No. 13/233,006, entitled “System and Methods for planned evolution and obsolescence of multiuser spectrum”
U.S. application Ser. No. 13/232,996, entitled “Systems and Methods to Exploit Areas of Coherence in Wireless Systems”
U.S. application Ser. No. 13/464,648, entitled “System and Methods to Compensate for Doppler Effects in Distributed-Input Distributed Output Systems”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/917,257, entitled “Systems And Methods To Coordinate Transmissions In Distributed Wireless Systems Via User Clustering”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/802,988, entitled “Interference Management, Handoff, Power Control And Link Adaptation In Distributed-Input Distributed-Output (DIDO) Communication Systems”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/802,974, entitled “System And Method For Managing Inter-Cluster Handoff Of Clients Which Traverse Multiple DIDO Clusters”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/802,989, entitled “System And Method For Managing Handoff Of A Client Between Different Distributed-Input-Distributed-Output (DIDO) Networks Based On Detected Velocity Of The Client”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/802,958, entitled “System And Method For Power Control And Antenna Grouping In A Distributed-Input-Distributed-Output (DIDO) Network”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/802,975, entitled “System And Method For Link adaptation In DIDO Multicarrier Systems”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/802,938, entitled “System And Method For DIDO Precoding Interpolation In Multicarrier Systems”
U.S. application Ser. No. 12/630,627, entitled “System and Method For Distributed Antenna Wireless Communications”
U.S. Pat. No. 8,170,081, issued May 1, 2012, entitled “System And Method For Adjusting DIDO Interference Cancellation Based On Signal Strength Measurements”
U.S. Pat. No. 8,160,121, issued Apr. 17, 2012, entitled, “System and Method For Distributed Input-Distributed Output Wireless Communications”;
U.S. Pat. No. 7,885,354, issued Feb. 8, 2011, entitled “System and Method For Enhancing Near Vertical Incidence Skywave (“NVIS”) Communication Using Space-Time Coding.”
U.S. Pat. No. 7,711,030, issued May 4, 2010, entitled “System and Method For Spatial-Multiplexed Tropospheric Scatter Communications”;
U.S. Pat. No. 7,636,381, issued Dec. 22, 2009, entitled “System and Method for Distributed Input Distributed Output Wireless Communication”;
U.S. Pat. No. 7,633,994, issued Dec. 15, 2009, entitled “System and Method for Distributed Input Distributed Output Wireless Communication”;
U.S. Pat. No. 7,599,420, issued Oct. 6, 2009, entitled “System and Method for Distributed Input Distributed Output Wireless Communication”;
U.S. Pat. No. 7,418,053, issued Aug. 26, 2008, entitled “System and Method for Distributed Input Distributed Output Wireless Communication”;
To reduce the size and complexity of the present patent application, the disclosure of some of the Related patents and applications is not explicitly set forth below. Please see the Related patents and applications for a full description of the disclosure.
The present invention describes system and methods to exploit inter-cell multiplexing gain in wireless communications networks via spatial processing, employing a multiple antenna system (MAS) with multi-user (MU) transmissions (a Multi-User Multiple Antenna System, or “MU-MAS”), where the multiple antennas are placed serendipitously. In one embodiment of the invention, the power transmitted from the multiple antennas is constrained to minimize interference at cell boundaries (as in conventional cellular systems) and spatial processing methods are employed only to eliminate inter-cell interference. In another embodiment of the invention, the power transmitted from the multiple antennas is not constrained to any particular power level (as long as their power emission level falls within the regulatory, safety or practical (e.g. available power, transmitter and/or antenna specifications) limits), thereby creating intentionally higher levels of inter-cell interference throughout the cell that is exploited to achieve inter-cell multiplexing gain and increase the capacity of the wireless communications network.
In one embodiment, the wireless communications network is a cellular network as in
The MU-MAS consists of a centralized processor, a network and M transceiver stations (or distributed antennas) communicating wirelessly to N client devices or UEs. The centralized processor unit receives N streams of information with different network content (e.g., videos, web-pages, video games, text, voice, etc., streamed from Web servers or other network sources) intended for different client devices. Hereafter, we use the term “stream of information” to refer to any stream of data sent over the network containing information that can be demodulated or decoded as a standalone stream, according to certain modulation/coding scheme or protocol, to produce any data, including but not limited to audio, Web and video content. In one embodiment, the stream of information is a sequence of bits carrying network content that can be demodulated or decoded as a standalone stream.
The centralized processor utilizes precoding transformation to combine (according to algorithms, such as those described in the Related patents and applications) the N streams of information from the network content into M streams of bits. By way of example, but not limitation, the precoding transformation can be linear (e.g., zero-forcing [65], block-diagonalization [66-67], matrix inversion, etc.) or non-linear (e.g., dirty-paper coding [68-70] or Tomlinson-Harashima precoding [71-72], lattice techniques or trellis precoding [73-74], vector perturbation techniques [75-76]). Hereafter, we use the term “stream of bits” to refer to any sequence of bits that does not necessarily contain any useful bit of information and as such cannot be demodulated or decoded as a standalone stream to retrieve the network content. In one embodiment of the invention, the stream of bits is the complex baseband signal produced by the centralized processor and quantized over given number of bits to be sent to one of the M transceiver stations.
Precoding is computed at the centralized processor by employing the Channel State Information (CSI) and applied over the DL or UL channels to multiplex data streams to or from multiple users. In one embodiment of the invention, the centralized processor is aware of the CSI between the distributed antennas and the client devices, and utilizes the CSI to precode data sent over the DL or UL channels. In the same embodiment, the CSI is estimated at the client devices and fed back to the distributed antennas. In another embodiment, the DL-CSI is derived at the distributed antennas from the UL-CSI using radio frequency (RF) calibration and exploiting UL/DL channel reciprocity.
In one embodiment, the MU-MAS is a distributed-input distributed-output (DIDO) system as described in Related patents and patent applications. In another embodiment, the MU-MAS depicted in
Hereafter we describe how the above MU-MAS framework is incorporated into the LTE standard for cellular systems (and also non-cellular system utilizing LTE protocols) to achieve additional gains in spectral efficiency. We begin with a general overview of LTE framework and modulation techniques employed in the DL and UL channels. Then we provide a brief description of the physical layer frame structure and resource allocation in the LTE standard. Finally, we define MU-MAS precoding methods for downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) channels in multi-user scenarios using the LTE framework. For the DL schemes, we propose two solutions: open-loop and closed-loop DIDO schemes.
LTE is designed with a flat network architecture (as opposed a hierarchical architecture from previous cellular standards) to provide: reduced latency, reduced packet losses via ARQ, reduced call setup time, improved coverage and throughput via macro-diversity. The network elements in LTE networks depicted in
In one embodiment of the invention, the MU-MAS network is an LTE network wherein the UE is the LTE UE, the BTS is the LTE eNodeB, the CTR is the LTE eNodeB or MME, the CP is the LTE GW, the BSN is the S1 or X1 interface. Hereafter we use the terms distributed antennas, BTS and eNodeB interchangeably to refer to any base station in MU-MAS, DIDO or LTE systems.
The LTE frame has duration of 10 msec and consists of ten subframes as depicted in
LTE employs orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) modulation for the DL and single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) for the UL. The “resource element” (RE) is the smallest modulation structure in LTE and consists of one OFDM subcarrier in frequency and one OFDM symbol duration in time, as shown in
To setup the link between the BTS and the UEs, the LTE standard defines the synchronization procedure. The BTS sends two consecutive signals to the UE: the primary synchronization signal (P-SS) sent over the primary synchronization channel (PSCH) and the secondary synchronization signal (S-SS) sent over the secondary synchronization channel (SSCH). Both signals are used by the UE for time/frequency synchronization as well as to retrieve the cell ID. The P-SS consists of length-63 Zadoff-Chu sequence from which the UE derives the physical layer ID (0 to 2). The S-SS is an interleaved concatenation of two length-31 binary sequences and is used to derive the cell ID group number (0 to 167). From the two identity numbers above, the UE derives the physical cell ID (PCI, defined from 0 to 503).
In the MU-MAS system described in the present invention, there are no cell boundaries as the power transmitted from the BTSs is increased intentionally to produce interference that is exploited to create areas of coherence around the UEs. In the present invention, different BTSs are grouped into “antenna-clusters” or “DIDO-clusters” as defined in related U.S. Pat. No. 8,170,081, issued May 1, 2012, entitled “System And Method For Adjusting DIDO Interference Cancellation Based On Signal Strength Measurements”. For example,
The cell ID can be used in MU-MAS and DIDO systems to differentiate the antenna-clusters. In one embodiment of the invention, the same cell ID is transmitted from all BTSs of the same antenna-cluster via the P-SS and S-SS. In the same embodiment, different antenna-clusters employ different cell IDs. In another embodiment of the invention, all BTSs within the same antenna-cluster 1001 are grouped into “antenna-subclusters” 1003 depicted in
When all BTSs within the same antenna-cluster or antenna-subcluster transmit the LTE broadcast channels (e.g., P-SS and S-SS) to the UEs, destructive interference may degrade the performance of time or frequency synchronization enabled by the broadcast channel. Destructive interference may be caused by multipaths generated from spatially distributed BTSs that recombine incoherently at some UE locations. To avoid or mitigate this effect, in one embodiment of the invention, only one BTS out of all BTSs within the same antenna-cluster or antenna-subcluster transmits the LTE broadcast channels (e.g., P-SS and S-SS) to all UEs. In the same embodiment, the BTS that transmits the LTE broadcast channels is selected to maximize the power received at the UEs over the broadcast channels. In another embodiment, only a limited set of BTSs is selected to transmit simultaneously the LTE broadcast channels to all UEs, such that destructive interference is avoided at the UE. In a different embodiment of the invention, the LTE broadcast channels are sent at higher power than the payload to reach all the UEs within the same antenna-cluster or antenna-subcluster.
As described above, LTE-Advanced supports carrier aggregation (CA) schemes to increase data rate over the DL channel. In MU-MASs, CA can be used in combination with precoding to increase per-user data rate. In one embodiment of this invention, transmit precoding is applied to different portions of the RF spectrum (inter-band CA) or different bands within the same portion of the spectrum (intra-band CA) to increase per-user data rate. When employing inter-band CA, pathloss at different bands may change significantly as those bands are centered at different carrier frequencies. In conventional LTE cellular systems, frequency bands at lower carrier frequencies may experience lower pathloss than higher carrier frequencies. Hence, applying inter-band CA in cellular systems may cause undesired inter-cell interference at lower carrier frequencies. By contrast, the MU-MAS in the present invention is not limited by interference at the cell boundary as the BTSs are distributed and there is no concept of cell. This more flexible system layout allows different methods for inter-band CA in MU-MAS. In one embodiment of the present invention, the MU-MAS enables inter-band CA by employing one set of BTSs to operate at lower carrier frequencies and another set of BTSs to operate at higher carrier frequencies, such that the two sets intersect or one set is the subset of the other. In another embodiment, the MU-MAS with precoding employs CA methods in conjunction with frequency hopping patterns to improve robustness against frequency-selective fading or interference.
1. Downlink Closed-Loop MU-MAS Precoding Methods in LTE
MU-MAS closed-loop schemes can be used either in time-division duplex (TDD) or frequency division duplex (FDD) systems. In FDD systems, DL and UL channels operate at different frequencies and therefore the DL channel state information (CSI) must be estimated at the UE side and reported back to the CP through the BTSs or the CTRs via the UL channel. In TDD systems, DL and UL channels are set at the same frequency and the system may employ either closed-loop techniques or open-loop schemes exploiting channel reciprocity (as described in the following section). The main disadvantage of closed-loop schemes is they require feedback, resulting in larger overhead for control information over the UL.
The general mechanism for closed-loop schemes in MU-MASs is described as follows: i) the BTSs send signaling information to the UEs over the DL; ii) the UEs exploit that signaling information to estimate the DL CSI from all the “active BTSs”; iii) the UEs quantize the DL CSI or use codebooks to select the precoding weights to be used for the next transmission; iv) the UEs send the quantized CSI or the codebook index to the BTSs or CTRs via the UL channel; v) the BTSs or CTRs report the CSI information or codebook index to the CP that calculates the precoding weights for data transmission over the DL. The “active BTSs” are defined as the set of BTSs that are reached by given UE. For example, in related co-pending U.S. application Ser. No. 12/802,974, entitled “System And Method For Managing Inter-Cluster Handoff Of Clients Which Traverse Multiple DIDO Clusters” and related co-pending U.S. application Ser. No. 12/917,257, entitled “Systems And Methods To Coordinate Transmissions In Distributed Wireless Systems Via User Clustering” we defined the “user-cluster” 905 as the set of BTSs that are reached by given UE, as depicted in
As described at paragraph [0083], MU-MAS precoding employs either linear or non-linear methods. In the case of non-linear methods (e.g., dirty-paper coding [68-70] or Tomlinson-Harashima precoding [71-72], lattice techniques or trellis precoding [73-74], vector perturbation techniques [75-76]), successive interference cancellation is applied at the transmitter to avoid inter-user interference. In this case the precoding matrix is computed accounting for the CSI to all the UEs within the antenna-cluster. Alternatively, linear precoding methods (e.g., zero-forcing [65], block-diagonalization [66-67], matrix inversion, etc.) can be used on a user-cluster basis, since the precoding weights for every UE are computed independent on the other UEs. Depending on the number of UEs and eNodeBs inside the antenna-cluster and user-clusters, linear versus non-linear precoding methods offer different computational performance. For example, if the MU-MAS consists of K UEs per antenna-cluster, M eNodeBs per antenna-cluster and C eNodeBs per user-cluster, the complexity of linear precoding is O(K*C3) whereas for non-linear precoding it is O(M*K2). It is thus desirable to develop a method that dynamically switches between the two types of precoding techniques based on the number if UEs and eNodeBs in MU-MASs to reduce the computational complexity at the CP. In one embodiment of the invention, the MU-MAS employs linear precoding methods. In another embodiment, the MU-MAS employs non-linear precoding methods. In the same embodiment of the invention, the MU-MAS dynamically switches between linear and non-linear precoding methods based on the number of UEs and eNodeBs in the antenna-clusters and user-clusters to reduce computational complexity at the CP. In a different embodiment, the MU-MAS switches between precoding multiplexing methods for UEs experiencing good channel quality (e.g., in the proximity of eNodeBs) and beamforming or diversity methods for UEs with poor link quality (e.g., far away from the eNodeBs).
1.1 Downlink MU-MAS Signaling Methods within the LTE Standard
The LTE standard defines two types of reference signals (RS) that can be used for DL signaling in closed-loop schemes [33,50,82-83]: i) cell-specific reference signal (CRS); ii) UE specific RS such as channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) and demodulation RS (DM-RS). The cell-specific RS is not precoded, whereas the UE-specific RS is precoded [50]. CRS is used in LTE Release 8 that employs SU/MU-MIMO codebook-based techniques with up to four antennas in every cell. LTE-Advanced Release 10 supports non-codebook based SU/MU-MIMO schemes with up to eight transmit antennas as well as CoMP schemes with antennas distributed over different cells. As such, Release 10 allows for more flexible signaling schemes via CSI-RS. In the present invention, we describe how either types of signaling schemes can be used in MU-MAS systems to enable precoding.
1.1.1 MU-MAS Signaling Using CRS
The CRS is employed in LTE (Release 8) systems to estimate the CSI from all transmit antennas at the BTS to the UE [80,84]. The CRS is obtained as the product of a two-dimensional orthogonal sequence and a two-dimensional pseudo-random numerical (PRN) sequence. There are 3 orthogonal sequences (i.e., placed on orthogonal sets of OFDM subcarriers) and 168 possible PRN sequences, for a total of 504 different CRS sequences. Every sequence uniquely identifies one cell. Each of the three orthogonal CRSs is associated to one of the three physical layer IDs (0 to 2) that generate a different cell ID, as explained in the previous subsection. The CRS is transmitted within the first and third-last OFDM symbol of every slot, and every sixth subcarrier. Orthogonal patterns in time and frequency are designed for every transmit antenna of the BTS, for the UE to uniquely estimate the CSI from each of transmit antennas. Release 8 defines up to four orthogonal patters per CRS, one for each of the four transmit antennas employed in MIMO 4×4. This high density of CRS in time and frequency (i.e., sent every slot of 0.5 msec, and every sixth subcarrier), producing 5% overhead, was designed intentionally to support scenarios with fast channel variations over time and frequency [83].
In Release 8, since there are up to 3 orthogonal CRSs with 4 orthogonal patterns each for multi-antenna modes (or 6 orthogonal CRSs for single antenna mode), it is possible to discriminate up to 12 transmit antennas within the same coverage area, without causing interference to the CRS. In one embodiment of the invention, the antenna-cluster 1001 is divided into three antenna-subclusters 1005 as in
In scenarios where more than twelve BTSs are placed within the same cluster, it is desirable to increase the number of available orthogonal CRSs to support larger number of active BTSs (i.e., BTSs that simultaneously transmit precoded signals to the UEs). One way to achieve that is to define more than three antenna-subclusters 1003 per antenna-cluster 1101 and assign the same three physical layer IDs (or cell ID 1104 from 0 to 2) to the antenna-subclusters 1103 with a repetition pattern as shown in
In practical MU-MAS systems, it may be the case that every UE sees more than only four BTSs within its user-cluster. For example,
The high redundancy of the CRS can be exploited in MU-MASs to enable CSI estimation from any number of transmit antennas greater than four. For example, if the channel is fixed-wireless or characterized by low Doppler effects, there is no need to compute the CSI from all four transmit antennas every 0.5 msec (slot duration). Likewise, if the channel is frequency-flat, estimating the CSI every sixth subcarrier is redundant. In that case, the resource elements (RE) occupied by the redundant CRS can be re-allocated for other transmit antennas or BTSs in the MU-MAS. In one embodiment of the invention, the system allocates resource elements of redundant CRS to extra antennas or BTSs in the MU-MAS system. In another embodiment, the system estimates time and frequency selectivity of the channel and dynamically allocates the CRS for different BTSs or only the BTSs within the user-cluster to different resource elements.
The number of BTSs included in every user-cluster depends on the signal power level measured at the UE from all BTSs in the user-cluster relative to the noise power level, or signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In one embodiment, the UE estimates the SNR from all BTSs in its neighborhood and selects the BTSs that belong to its user-cluster based on the SNR information. In another embodiment, the CP is aware of the SNR from the BTSs to every UE (based on feedback information from the UEs or information obtained from the UL channel, assuming UL/DL channel reciprocity) and selects the set of BTSs to be included in every user-cluster.
The number of BTSs included in every user-cluster determines the performance of the MU-MAS methods described in the present invention. For example, if the number of BTSs per user-cluster is low, the UE experiences higher level of out-of-cluster interference, resulting in high signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and low data rate. Similarly, if large number of BTSs is selected for every user-cluster, the SNR measured at the UE from the BTSs at the edge of the user-cluster is low and may be dominated by the out-of-cluster interference from adjacent BTSs outside the user-cluster. There is an optimal number of BTSs per user-cluster that produces the highest SINR and data rate. In one embodiment of the invention, the CP selects the optimal number of BTSs per user-cluster to maximize SINR and data rate to the UE. In another embodiment of the invention, the BTSs per user-cluster are dynamically selected to adapt to the changing conditions of the propagation environment or UE mobility.
Another drawback of using large number of BTSs per user-cluster is high computational load. In fact, the more BTSs in the user-cluster the larger the computation complexity of the MU-MAS precoder. In one embodiment of the inventions, the BTSs per user-cluster are selected to achieve optimal tradeoff between SINR or data rate performance and computational complexity of the MU-MAS precoder. In another embodiment, the BTSs per user-cluster are dynamically selected based on tradeoffs between propagation conditions and computational resources available in the MU-MAS.
1.1.2 MU-MAS Signaling Using CSI-RS and DM-RS
In the LTE-Advanced (Release 10) standard the CSI-RS is used by every UE to estimate the CSI from the BTSs [33,83]. The standard defines orthogonal CSI-RS for different transmitters at the BTS, so that the UE can differentiate the CSI from different BTSs. Up to eight transmit antennas at the BTS are supported by the CSI-RS as in Tables 6.10.5.2-1,2 in [33]. The CSI-RS is sent with a periodicity that ranges between 5 and 80 subframes (i.e., CSI-RS send every 5 to 80 msec) as in Tables 6.10.5.3-1 in [33]. The periodicity of the CSI-RS in LTE-Advanced was designed intentionally larger than the CRS in LTE to avoid excessive overhead of control information, particularly for legacy LTE terminals unable to make use of these extra resources. Another reference signal used for CSI estimation is to demodulation RS (DM-RS). The DM-RS is a demodulation reference signal intended to a specific UE and transmitted only in the resource block assigned for transmission to that UE.
When more than eight antennas (maximum number of transmitters supported by the LTE-Advanced standard) are within the user-cluster, alternative techniques must be employed to enable DIDO precoding while maintaining system compliance to the LTE-Advanced standard. In one embodiment of the invention, every UE uses the CSI-RS or the DM-RS or combination of both to estimate the CSI from all active BTSs in its own user-cluster. In the same embodiment, the DIDO system detects the number of BTSs within the user-cluster and whether or not the user-cluster is compliant to the LTE-Advanced standard (supporting at most eight antennas). If it not compliant, the DIDO system employs alternative techniques to enable DL signaling from the BTSs to the current UE. In one embodiment, the transmit power from the BTSs is reduced until at most eight BTSs are reachable by the UE within its user-cluster. This solution, however, may result in reduction of data rate as coverage would be reduced.
Another solution is to divide the BTSs in the user-cluster in subsets and send one set of CSI-RS for every subset at a time. For example, if the CSI-RS periodicity is 5 subframes (i.e., 5 msec) as in Table 6.10.5.3-1 in [33], every 5 msec the CSI-RS is sent from a new subset of BTSs. Note that this solution works as long as the CSI-RS periodicity is short enough to cover all BTS subsets within the channel coherence time of the UE (which is a function of the Doppler velocity of the UE). For example, if the selected CSI-RS periodicity is 5 msec and the channel coherence time is 100 msec, it is possible to define up to 20 BTS subsets of 8 BTS each, adding up to a total of 160 BTSs within the user-cluster. In another embodiment of the invention, the DIDO system estimates the channel coherence time of the UE and decides how many BTSs can be supported within the user-cluster for given CSI-RS periodicity, to avoid degradation due to channel variations and Doppler effect.
The solutions for CSI-RS proposed so far are all compliant with the LTE standard and can be deployed within the framework of conventional LTE systems. For example, the proposed method that allows more than eight antennas per user-cluster would not require modifications of the UE LTE hardware and software implementation, and only slight modification of the protocols used at the BTSs and CP to enable selection of BTSs subset at any given time. These modifications can be easily implemented in a cloud-based software defined radio (SDR) platform, which is one promising deployment paradigm for DIDO and MU-MAS systems. Alternatively, if it is possible to relax the constraints of the LTE standard and develop slightly modified hardware and software for LTE UEs to support similar, but non-LTE-compliant DIDO or MU-MAS modes of operation, so as enable UEs to be able to operate in full LTE-compliant mode, or in a modified mode that supports non-LTE-compliant DIDO or MU-MAS operation. For example, this would enable another solution is to increase the amount of CSI-RS to enable higher number of BTSs in the system. In another embodiment of the invention, different CSI-RS patterns and periodicities are allowed as a means to increase the number of supported BTSs per user-cluster. Such slight modifications to the LTE standard may be small enough that existing LTE UE chipsets can be used with simply software modification. Or, if hardware modification would be needed to the chipsets, the changes would be small.
1.2 Uplink MU-MAS CSI Feedback Methods within the LTE Standard
In the LTE and LTE-Advanced standards, the UE feedbacks information to the BTS to communicate its current channel conditions as well as the precoding weights for closed-loop transmission over the DL channel. Three different channel indicators are included in those standards [35]:
Only one RI is reported for the whole bandwidth, whereas the PMI and CQI reporting can be wideband or per sub-band, depending on the frequency-selectivity of the channel. These indicators are transmitted in the UL over two different types of physical channels: i) the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), used only for control information; ii) the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), used for both data and control information, allocated over one resource block (RB) and on a sub-frame basis. On the PUCCH, the procedure to report the RI, PMI and CQI is periodic and the indicators can be either wideband (for frequency-flat channels) or UE-selected on a sub-band basis (for frequency-selective channels). On the PUSCH, the feedback procedure is aperiodic and can be UE-selected on a sub-band basis (for frequency-selective channels) or higher-layer configured sub-band (e.g., for transmission mode 9 in LTE-Advance with eight transmitters).
In one embodiment of the invention, the DIDO or MU-MAS system employs RI, PMI and CQI to report to BTSs and CP its current channel conditions as well as precoding information. In one embodiment, the UE uses the PUCCH channel to report those indicators to the CP. In another embodiment, in case a larger number of indicators is necessary for DIDO precoding, the UE employs the PUSCH to report additional indicators to the CP. In case the channel is frequency-flat, the UE can exploit extra UL resources to report the PMI for a larger number of antennas in the DIDO systems. In one embodiment of the invention, the UE or BTSs or CP estimate the channel frequency selectivity and, in case the channel is frequency-flat, the UE exploits the extra UL resources to report the PMI for larger number of BTSs.
2. Downlink Open-Loop MU-MAS Precoding Methods in LTE
Open-loop MU-MAS precoding schemes can only be used in time-division duplex (TDD) systems employing RF calibration and exploiting channel reciprocity. The general mechanism of open-loop schemes in MU-MASs consists of: i) the UEs send signaling information to the BTSs or CTRs over the UL; ii) the BTSs or CTRs exploit that signaling information to estimate the UL CSI from all UEs; iii) the BTSs or CTRs employ RF calibration to convert the UL CSI into DL CSI; iv) the BTSs or CTRs send the DL CSI or codebook index to the CP via the BSN; v) based on that DL CSI, the CP calculates the precoding weights for data transmission over the DL. Similarly to closed-loop MU-MAS precoding schemes, user-clusters can be employed to reduce the amount of CSI to be estimated at the BTSs from the UEs, thereby reducing the computational burden at the BTSs as well as the amount of signaling required over the UL. In one embodiment of the invention, open-loop precoding techniques are employed to send simultaneous non-interfering data streams from the BTSs to the UEs over the DL channel.
In LTE there are two types of reference signal for the uplink channel [31,33,87]: i) sounding reference signal (SRS), used for scheduling and link adaptation; ii) demodulation reference signal (DMRS), used for data reception. In one embodiment of the invention, the DMRS is employed in open-loop precoding systems to estimate the UL channels form all UEs to all BTSs. In the time domain, the DMRS is sent at the fourth OFDM symbol (when a normal cyclic prefix is used) of every LTE slot (of duration 0.5 msec). In the frequency domain, the DMRS sent over the PUSCH is mapped for every UE to the same resource block (RB) used by that UE for UL data transmission. The length of the DMRS is MRS=mNRB, where m is the number of RBs and NRB=12 is the number of subcarriers per RB. To support multiple UEs, up to twelve DMRSs are generated from one base Zadoff-Chu [88] or computer-generated constant amplitude zero autocorrelation (CG-CAZAC) sequence, via twelve possible cyclic shifts of the base sequence. Base sequences are divided into 30 groups and neighbor LTE cells select DMRS from different groups to reduce inter-cell interference. For example, if the maximum number of resource blocks within one OFDM symbol is 110 (i.e., assuming 20 MHz overall signal bandwidth), it is possible to generate up to 110×30=3300 different sequences. We observe that the 30 base sequences are not guaranteed to be orthogonal and are designed to reduce interference across cells, without eliminating it completely. By contrast, the 12 cyclic shifts of the same base sequence are orthogonal, thereby allowing up to 12 UEs to transmit in the UL over the same RB without interference. The value of cyclic shift to be used by every UE is provided by the BTS through the downlink control information (DCI) message sent over the PDCCH. The DCI in Release 8 consists of 3 bits, that enables the UE to use only up to 8 values of cyclic shift in the pool of twelve possible options.
The cyclic shifts of the base DMRS sequence are exploited in the present invention to enable MU-MIMO schemes over the UL channel as well as to estimate the CSI from multiple UEs for DL precoding when channel reciprocity is exploited in TDD mode. In one embodiment of the invention, open-loop precoding methods are employed to send simultaneous non-interfering data streams from the distributed BTSs to the UEs over the DL channel. In a different embodiment of the invention, open-loop MU-MIMO methods are employed to receive simultaneous non-interfering data streams from the UEs to the BTSs over the UL channel. The same CSI estimated over the UL from all active UEs can be used to compute the receiver spatial filter for MU-MIMO operation in the UL as well as the weights for DL precoding. Since Release 8 defines only up to 8 orthogonal DMRSs (due to limited DCI bits, as explained above), MU-MIMO schemes for the UL channel and MU-MAS precoding schemes for the DL channel can support at most eight UEs, assuming all UEs utilize the full UL bandwidth.
One way to increase the number of simultaneous UEs being served through MU-MIMO in UL or MU-MAS precoding in DL is to multiplex the DMRS of the UEs over the frequency domain. For example, if 10 MHz bandwidth is used in TDD mode, there are 50 RBs that can be allocated to the UEs. In this case, 25 interleaved RBs can be assigned to one set of eight UEs and the remaining 25 interleaved RBs to another set of UEs, totaling to 16 UEs that can be served simultaneously. Then, the CSI is computed by interpolating the estimates from the DMRS sent over interleaved RBs. Larger number of simultaneous UEs can be supported by increasing the number of interleaving patterns of the UL RBs. These patterns can be assigned to different UEs statically or dynamically according to certain frequency hopping sequence. In one embodiment of the invention, DMRSs are assigned to the UEs over orthogonal interleaved RBs to increase the number of UEs to be supported via MU-MIMO or MU-MAS precoding. In the same embodiment, the interleaved RBs are assigned statically. In another embodiment, the interleaved RBs are assigned dynamically according to certain frequency hopping pattern.
An alternative solution is to multiplex the DMRS of different UEs in the time domain. For example, the UEs are divided into different groups and the DMRSs for those groups are sent over consecutive time slots (of duration 0.5 msec each). In this case, however, it is necessary to guarantee that the periodicity of the DMRS assignment for different groups is lower than the channel coherence time of the fastest moving UE. In fact, this is necessary condition to guarantee that the channel does not vary for all UEs from the time the CSI is estimated via DMRS to the time system transmits DL data streams to the UEs via DIDO precoding. In one embodiment of the invention, the system divides the active UEs into groups and assigns the same set of DMRS to each group over consecutive time slots. In the same embodiment, the system estimates the shortest channel coherence time for all active UEs and calculates the maximum number of UE groups as well as the periodicity of the DMRS time multiplexing based on that information.
Another solution is to spatially separate different groups of UEs employing the same sets of DMRSs. For example, the same set of orthogonal DMRSs can be used for all the UEs from different antenna-subclusters in
3. Uplink MU-MAS Methods in LTE
The present invention employs open-loop MU-MIMO schemes over the UL channel to receive simultaneous UL data streams from all UEs to the BTSs. The UL open-loop MU-MIMO scheme consists of the following steps: i) UEs send signaling information and data payload to all BTSs; ii) the BTSs compute the channel estimations from all UEs using the signaling information; iii) the BTSs send the channel estimates and data payloads to the CP; iv) the CP uses the channel estimates to remove inter-channel interference from all UEs' data payloads via spatial filtering and demodulates the data streams form all UEs. In one embodiment, the open-loop MU-MIMO system employs single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) to increase the number of UL channels from the UEs to the BTSs and multiplex them in the frequency domain.
In one embodiment, synchronization among UEs is achieved via signaling from the DL and all BTSs are assumed locked to the same time/frequency reference clock, either via direct wiring to the same clock or sharing a common time/frequency reference, in one embodiment through GPSDO. Variations in channel delay spread at different UEs may generate jitter among the time references of different UEs that may affect the performance of MU-MIMO methods over the UL. In one embodiment, only the UEs within the same antenna-cluster (e.g., UEs in close proximity with one another) are processed with MU-MIMO methods to reduce the relative propagation delay spread across different UEs. In another embodiment, the relative propagation delays between UEs are compensated at the UEs or at the BTSs to guarantee simultaneous reception of data payloads from different UEs at the BTSs.
The methods for enabling signaling information for data demodulation over the UL are the same methods used for signaling in the downlink open-loop DIDO scheme described at the previous section. The CP employs different spatial processing techniques to remove inter-channel interference from the UEs data payload. In one embodiment of the invention, the CP employs non-linear spatial processing methods such as maximum likelihood (ML), decision feedback equalization (DFE) or successive interference cancellation (SIC) receivers. In another embodiment the CP employs linear filters such as zeros-forcing (ZF) or minimum mean squared error (MMSE) receivers to cancel co-channel interference and demodulate the uplink data streams individually.
4. Integration with Existing LTE Networks
In the United States and other regions of the world, LTE networks are already in operation or are in the process of being deployed and/or committed to be deployed. It would be of significant benefit to LTE operators if they could gradually deploy DIDO or MU-MAS capability into their existing or already-committed deployments. In this way, they could deploy DIDO or MU-MAS in areas where it would provide the most immediate benefit, and gradually expand the DIDO or MU-MAS capability to cover more their network. In time, once they have sufficient DIDO or MU-MAS coverage in an area, they can choose to cease using cells entirely, and instead switch entirely to DIDO or MU-MAS and achieve much higher spectral density at much lower cost. Throughout this entire transition from cellular to DIDO or MU-MAS, the LTE operator's wireless customers will never see a loss in service. Rather, they'll simply see their data throughput and reliability improve, while the operator will see its costs decline.
There are several embodiments that would enable a gradual integration of DIDO or MU-MAS into existing LTE networks. In all cases, the BTSs for DIDO or MU-MAS will be referred as DIDO-LTE BTSs and will utilize one of the LTE-compatible DIDO or MU-MAS embodiments described above, or other LTE-compatible embodiments as they may be developed in the future. Or, the DIDO-LTE BTSs will utilize a slight variant of the LTE standard, such as those described above and the UEs will either be updated (e.g. if a software update is sufficient to modify the UE to be DIDO or MU-MAS compatible), or a new generation of UEs that are DIDO- or MU-MAS-compatible will be deployed. In either case, the new BTSs that support DIDO or MU-MAS either within the constraints of the LTE standard, or as a variant of the LTE standard will be referred to below as DIDO-LTE BTSs.
The LTE standard supports various channel bandwidths (e.g., 1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15 and 20 MHz). In one embodiment, an operator with an existing LTE network would either allocate new bandwidth for the LTE-DIDO BTSs, or would subdivide the existing LTE spectrum (e.g. 20 MHz could be subdivided into two 10 MHz blocks) to support conventional LTE BTSs in a cellular configuration in one block of spectrum and DIDO LTE BTSs in another block of spectrum. Effectively, this would establish two separate LTE networks, and UE devices would be configured to use one or the other network, or select between the two. In the case of subdivided spectrum, the spectrum could be divided evenly between the conventional LTE network and the DIDO-LTE BTS network, or unevenly, allocated more spectrum to whichever network could best utilize it given the level of cellular LTE BTS and DIDO-LTE BTS deployment and/or UE usage patterns. This subdivision could change as needed over time, and at some point, when there are sufficient DIDO-LTE BTSs deployed to provide the same or better coverage as the cellular BTSs, all of the spectrum can be allocated to DIDO-LTE BTSs, and the cellular BTSs can be decommissioned.
In another embodiment, the conventional cellular LTE BTSs can be configured to be coordinated with the DIDO-LTE BTSs such that they share the same spectrum, but take turns using the spectrum. For example, if they were sharing the spectrum use equally, then each BTS network would utilize one 10 ms frame time in alternation, e.g. one 10 ms frame for the cellular LTE BTS, followed by one 10 ms frame for the DIDO-LTE BTS. The frame times could be subdivided in unequal intervals as well. This interval splitting could change as needed over time, and at some point, when there are sufficient DIDO-LTE BTSs deployed to provide the same or better coverage as the cellular BTSs, all of the time can be allocated to DIDO-LTE BTSs, and the cellular BTSs can be decommissioned.
In another embodiment of the invention, DIDO or MU-MAS is employed as LOS or NLOS wireless backhaul to small cells in LTE and LTE-Advanced networks. As small-cells are deployed in LTE networks, DIDO or MU-MAS provides high-speed wireless backhaul to those small cells. As the demand for higher data rate increases, more small-cells are added to the network until the wireless network reaches a limit where no more small-cells can be added in a given area without causing inter-cell interference. In the same embodiment of the invention, DIDO-LTE BTSs are used to replace gradually small-cells, thereby exploiting inter-cell interference to provide increased network capacity.
5. MU-MAS LTE Scheduler
In MU-MAS, distributed antennas or BTSs transmit simultaneous precoded data streams to multiple UEs. As described in Related patents and applications, the number of BTSs must be equal or larger than the number of UEs to enable simultaneous data transmissions. In practical deployments, the number of UEs may exceed the number of BTSs. In this case, the extra UEs can be selected for transmission at different time slots or frequency bands according to certain scheduling policy. The scheduler exploits the channel quality information of the UEs to decide the best set of UEs to be serviced at a give time and frequency. Different scheduling methods are used in the present invention, including proportional fair scheduler, round-robin or greedy algorithms.
As described in the previous sections, the LTE standard defines two parameters to inform the scheduler about the link quality of every UE: CQI and SRS. The CQI measures the quality of the DL channel and is fed back from the UE to the BTS. The SRS is signaling information sent from the UE to the BTS to measure the UL channel quality. Both indicators provide information of the UL/DL channel quality over time and frequency domains. In FDD systems, the DL scheduler must use the CQI as performance measure, since the DL and UL channel quality may vary due to different carrier frequencies. In TDD mode, the DL schedule employs either the CSI or the SRS or combination of both to perform its scheduling decision. The same performance metrics can be used for UL scheduling. In one embodiment of the invention, the MU-MAS scheduler employs the CQI and SRS as performance metrics used by the scheduling algorithm.
The MU-MAS described in the present invention enables one additional channel quality indicator not disclosed in prior art: the spatial selectivity indicator (SSI), described in related U.S. application Ser. No. 13/475,598, entitled “Systems and Methods to enhance spatial diversity in distributed-input distributed-output wireless systems”. The SSI can be computed based on the CSI obtained from all UEs via feedback mechanisms or from the UL channel (applying UL/DL channel reciprocity). In one embodiment of the invention, the scheduler employs the SSI as performance metric. The SSI is a measure of the spatial diversity available in the wireless link. The SSI depends on the spatial characteristics of the BTSs as well as the UEs. In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, the scheduler obtains the SSI from all the UEs and schedules the UEs with the “optimal” SSI according to certain scheduling criterion. If more BTSs are available than the active BTSs, the users selection criterion described above is combined with the antenna selection method described in related U.S. application Ser. No. 13/475,598, entitled “Systems and Methods to enhance spatial diversity in distributed-input distributed-output wireless systems”. In one embodiment of the invention, the scheduler selects the optimal subset of BTSs and UEs based on certain scheduling criterion.
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The antenna selection algorithm described in related U.S. application Ser. No. 13/475,598, entitled “Systems and Methods to enhance spatial diversity in distributed-input distributed-output wireless systems” is employed in the present invention to select the optimal set of active BTSs based on the SSI. This antenna selection algorithm, however, may require high computational complexity as MU-MAS precoding processing must be applied over all possible permutations of antenna subsets before making a decision on the best subset based on the SSI performance metric. In MU-MAS with large number of cooperative BTSs, this computational burden may become expensive or untenable to achieve in practical deployments. It is thus desirable to develop alternative techniques to reduce the number of antenna subsets while maintaining good performance of the antenna selection method. In one embodiment of the invention, the MU-MAS employs methods based on queuing of the antenna subset ID numbers, hereafter referred to as “antenna shuffling method”. In one embodiment of the invention, the antenna shuffling method subdivides the queue containing all possible antenna subset IDs (i.e., all possible permutations of active BTSs for given set of available BTSs) into different groups and assigns different priorities to those groups. These groups are defined to assign fair chances to all subset IDs to be selected, but the SSI metric is computed only for limited number of subsets (e.g., those ones with highest priority) thereby reducing computational complexity. In one exemplary embodiment, the queue of subset ID is divided into three groups where each group is assigned a different rule: i) group #1 contains the IDs with highest priority which are pulled out of the group only in case a new subset with higher priority is identified; ii) group #2 where new antenna subsets (selected from group #3) are included at every iteration of the method; iii) group #3 where the antenna subset IDs are shuffled according to round-robin policy. All subset IDs within group #1 and #2 are sorted at each iteration of the method based on their priority to give opportunity to subsets IDs from group #2 to be upgraded to group #1. The SSI is computed only for the subsets within groups #1 and #2 and the antenna selection algorithm is applied only to those subsets.
6. MU-MAS LTE User Equipment
The present invention comprises of different designs of the LTE UE. In one embodiment, the UE is an LTE UE that is compatible with the MU-MAS employing precoding as described above and depicted in
In a different embodiment, the UE 1401 connects to different devices 1402 and 1403 through a first network interface 1404 (e.g., Wi-Fi, USB, Ethernet, Bluetooth, optical fiber, etc.) and to the MU-MAS through a second network interface 1405 as shown in
In one embodiment of the invention, the UE 1501 is in a case that physically attaches to the user device 1502 as depicted in
In one embodiment, the UE electronics are embedded within a case. In the same embodiment, the UE electronics include a battery 1503. The battery includes a power charger coupling through a physical electrical contact or a wireless contact. Exemplary power couplings are conductive, inductive, RF, light, or thermal, but power couplings are not limited these approaches. In the same embodiment, the UE electronics are coupled to receive power from the user device. This power coupling is through a physical contact or through an inductive or wireless contact. In the same embodiment, the user device is coupled to receive power from the MU-MAS UE. This coupling is through a physical contact or through an inductive or wireless contact. In a different embodiment, the same power charger powers both the user device and the MU_MAS UE.
In one embodiment of the invention, the UE is configured to communicate to the user device. In the same embodiment, the UE can be reset (e.g., via switch, or by removing power) so the user device can initially connect to it, and once the connection is established, the UE can be configured by the user device. Such configuration includes configuring a private password and/or other security protocols. In a different embodiment, the UE includes a means to be configured to communicate with the user device. Such configuration is done via a communications port to another device, wherein the communications port is USB, or via controls and/or buttons on the UE, or via display, wherein buttons or touch input are used.
In another embodiment, the same RF chain is used for MU-MAS communications as well as for the alternative network. In another embodiment, a different RF chain is used for MU-MAS communications and the alternative network.
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 17/100,875 filed Nov. 21, 2020, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/188,841, filed on Nov. 13, 2018, now US Issued U.S. Pat. No. 10,848,225, Issued Nov. 24, 2020, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/797,950, filed Mar. 12, 2013, now U.S. Issued U.S. Pat. No. 10,164,698, Issued on Dec. 25, 2018, all of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
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