WO1999049689A2 - Method and device for estimating the carrier-to-interference ratio in a radio communication system - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method of establishing the carrier-to-interference ratio in a radio communication system.
- the invention also relates to a communication device 0 carrying out such a method.
- Channel access is achieved by, 0 for example, frequency division multiple access (FDMA) , time division multiple access (TDMA) , code division multiple access (CDMA) or combinations thereof.
- FDMA frequency division multiple access
- TDMA time division multiple access
- CDMA code division multiple access
- the received signal strength indication RSSI or RXLEV
- RXQUAL bit error rate
- CONFIRMATION compression carried out before information is transmitted over a transmission link the bit error rate is quantified to a small amount of levels, e.g. eight levels in the standard of GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) . Consequently, this method only gives a rough indication of the quality of the transmission link. Furthermore, the channel coding scheme used may not allow all bit errors to be detected, and the bit error rate will then only be an estimate of the quality of the transmission link. This is true, for example, for the channel coding scheme used in GSM. Moreover, the quality of the estimate is normally better for small bit error rates than for large bit error rates .
- GSM Global System for Mobile communication
- the ratio between the received signal strength of the carrier and the received signal strength of the interference, C/l is a better measure of the quality of the transmission link.
- This parameter is used for designing cellular radio communication systems, for example during development of channel coding schemes and speech coder algorithms.
- the parameter is also important during cell- planning, i.e. determining the sites of the base stations and measuring power levels at different locations in the system.
- the communication system will gain valuable information if C/l can be measured by the base station or the mobile communication device when the communication system is in use. For example, the measured C/I information can make it possible for the communication system to perform hand-off to a transmission link of good quality at an advantageous opportunity.
- Stand-alone C/I measurement equipment is known in the art. However, since they employ high quality receivers and advanced filtering techniques they are expensive and, hence, cannot be used in ordinary mobile communication devices. Several methods are available for estimating the C/I parameter .
- the method which involves at least two base stations, can only be used in uplink, i.e. the transmission link from a mobile communication device to a base station.
- the signal strength of the carrier is measured by the base station with which the mobile communication device has established a communication link.
- the second base station measures the signal strength from the same mobile communication device. This signal strength is then used as an estimate of the interference and an estimate of the C/I parameter is calculated.
- a major disadvantage of this method is that it is necessary for the two base stations to cooperate and that only an estimate of the C/I in up-link can be established.
- JP-A-08/182042 Another method is disclosed in JP-A-08/182042.
- the signal strength of the carrier is measured on the established communication link and the interference is estimated by measuring the signal strength of a currently empty channel .
- the accuracy of the estimate of C/I provided by this method is poor since the interference experienced on the established communication link may be quite different from the interference measured on the empty channel, i.e. at a different radio frequency.
- US-A-5, 583, 886 concerns CDMA systems .
- Each of a plurality of transmitters transmits one of a plurality of signals which are known to the receiver.
- a plurality of channel responses are estimated by measuring the known signals at the receiver.
- the channel responses are then used to determine the C/I parameter.
- a drawback with this method is that it is required that the receiver knows the plurality of signals and the timing thereof.
- the transmission of known signals occupies resources of the system.
- WO-A-92/17953 refers to the measurement of the carrier-to- interference of a selected target channel before hand-off.
- the mobile communication device measures the received signal strength indication of the selected target channel when the channel is transmitting and not transmitting.
- the measurements are transferred to the source base station which determines the C/l parameter from the measurements and decides whether hand-off should be carried out to the selected target channel.
- the disadvantages of this method are that the C/I is only measured on target channels and not on the source channel and that the measurements are only performed occasionally. The method does not provide for continuous measurements.
- the invention is also directed to a communication device incorporating the method of measuring the C/I parameter.
- a method of estimating the carrier-to-interference ratio in a radio communication system comprising the steps of selecting a radio communication channel allowing discontinuous transmission, measuring the received signal strength in the communication channel within periods of time when transmission is discontinued, measuring the received signal strength in the communication channel within periods of time with transmission and calculating an estimate of the carrier-to-interference ratio of the channel by means of the signal strengths measured in the previous steps.
- a radio communication device comprising a radio receiver adapted for receiving a signal picked up by an antenna at a selected channel, means for measuring the received signal strength at the selected channel, controller means for establishing periods of time corresponding to transmission and discontinued transmission, respectively, within the selected channel and calculation means for estimating the carrier-to-interference ratio, C/I, from the measured signal strength within periods of discontinued transmission and the measured signal strength within periods of transmission.
- the method and device achieve the advantages that the carrier-to-interference ratio can be estimated continuously and that it can be estimated without affecting the communication on a channel .
- the ratio can be measured and estimated using a relatively simple hardware and software solution thereby allowing the method to be implemented in a small physical application, such as a portable communication device.
- This advantage is achieved by the possibility of using a conventional RSSI detector.
- a method of controlling channel selection within a radio communication system having at least two communication devices comprising the steps of establishing a communication channel between a first and a second communication device, providing a list of frequencies which may be used for a communication channel and for each frequency establishing whether discontinued transmission is activated and if so measuring the received signal strength at the frequency within periods of time when transmission is discontinued, measuring the received signal strength at the frequency within periods of time with transmission, and calculating an estimate of the carrier-to-interference ratio at the frequency by means of the signal strengths measured in the two previous steps, ranking the frequencies of the list according to the corresponding estimated levels of C/I, communicating information representing at least the frequency having the greatest C/I to at least the first and the second communication devices, and setting up a communication channel between the first and the second communication devices using at least the frequency having the greatest C/I.
- This method achieves the advantage that a communication channel having the greatest C/I ratio can be set up without having to disturb communication on the channel when the C/I ratio is measured and estimated.
- This advantage is achieved by measuring the signal strengths at a channel within periods of transmission and discontinued transmission. This can be done without affecting the communication on the channel .
- information representing at least two of the frequencies having the greatest C/I is communicated to the at least first and second communication devices and the communication channel set up between the at least first and second communication devices uses at least the two frequencies having the greatest C/I in a frequency hopping scheme .
- This advantage is achieved by measuring the signal strengths at the frequencies within periods of transmission and discontinued transmission. This can be done without affecting the communication at the frequencies.
- This advantage is achieved by estimating C/I by a simple subtraction.
- the method comprises the steps of reading out from a memory a pre- stored correction value which corresponds to the estimated C/I value and correcting the estimated C/I value by using the read out correction value according to a correction function.
- the device comprises a memory for holding at least one pre-stored correction value, each pre-stored correction value being associated with a corresponding C/I value, read out means for reading out a correction value from the memory and providing the read out correction value to the calculation means.
- the calculation means is adapted to correct the estimated C/I by means of the read out correction value according to a correction function.
- correction value or values can be pre-calculated and pre- stored and, hence, quickly retrieved when needed.
- This advantage is achieved by pre-calculating and pre- storing the correction value or values in the memory.
- a method of operating a communication device having a radio receiver and a radio transmitter comprising the steps of selecting a radio communication channel allowing discontinuous transmission, measuring the received signal strength in the communication channel within periods of time when transmission is discontinued, measuring the received signal strength in the communication channel within periods of time with transmission, and transmitting information representing the signal strengths measured in the previous steps by means of the transmitter.
- a radio communication device comprising a radio receiver adapted for receiving a signal picked up by an antenna at a selected channel, means for measuring the received signal strength at the selected channel, controller means for establishing periods of time corresponding to transmission and discontinued transmission, respectively, within the selected channel, and a transmitter for transmitting information representing the measured signal strength within periods of discontinued transmission and for transmitting information representing the measured signal strength within periods of transmission from the communication device.
- This method and device achieve the advantage that though the measurements needed for establishing the C/I ratio are performed by the communication device, the latter does not need to be equipped with the calculation means needed for calculating the estimate of the C/I ratio.
- This advantage is achieved by transmitting the measured signal strengths from the communication device.
- FIG 1 illustrates a communication system according to an aspect of the present invention
- FIG 2 illustrates a typical speech pattern in a communication system according to an aspect of the present invention
- FIG 3 illustrates an example of a TDMA frame subset that always should be transmitted during discontinuous transmission
- FIG 4 is a flow diagram illustrating an aspect of the present invention
- FIG 5 is a flow diagram illustrating an aspect of the present invention.
- FIG 6 illustrates a communication device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG 1 illustrates a communication system 100 comprising a number of radio base stations, BS, 110, 111, 112 which are connected to a base station controller, BSC, 120 and a mobile communication device 130.
- the radio coverage by each base station 110, 111, 112 defines a cell 140, 141, 142. These cells are illustrated by hexagons in FIG 1.
- Communication between a mobile communication device and a base station is established by a radio channel.
- Channel access is achieved by, for example, frequency division multiple access (FDMA) , time division multiple access (TDMA) , code division multiple access (CDMA) or combinations thereof .
- FDMA frequency division multiple access
- TDMA time division multiple access
- CDMA code division multiple access
- C/I is set to be equal to the ratio between the strength of a carrier signal (referred to as C) in a radio channel and the strength of an interference signal (referred to as I) where the interference signal originates from other base stations or mobile communication devices which use the same frequency and, for a TDMA system, use the same time- slot.
- other signals may also disturb a carrier signal, for example, signal power originating from adjacent frequencies but leaking into the frequencies of the radio channel (referred to as A) and an average radio noise level (referred to as N) .
- a and N are much smaller than I in an urban cellular network. In the countryside, however, N is normally larger than I.
- C/I * is defined to be equal to the ratio between the strength of the carrier signal and the strength of disturbing signals, i.e. I * is equal to the sum of A, N and I.
- C/I normally fluctuates rapidly due to fast fading.
- the contribution owing to the fast fading has a zero mean value. Therefore, the value of C/I is often averaged over a pre-determined period of time which, if the period of time is chosen to be sufficiently long, eliminates these fluctuations .
- Discontinuous transmission may be used, for example, to transmit voice signals only during periods of time when speech is present.
- FIG 2 a typical speech pattern 200 in a communication system is illustrated.
- the speech pattern consists of periods of speech activity 201 intermingled with periods of silence 202 or no speech activity.
- Several advantages are achieved by discontinuing transmission during periods of silence or no speech activity. For example, the capacity of the radio communication system is used more efficiently, power consumption, which is especially important in a mobile communication device, is reduced, and the amount of radio interference in the radio communication system is reduced.
- GSM which is a TDMA system
- the structure of time frames, time slots and bursts are discussed in the ETSI standard GSM 05.01 version 5.3.0 (see especially figure 1) and discontinuous transmission is discussed in the ETSI standard GSM 05.08 version 5.5.0 (see especially chapter 8.3).
- the ETSI standards GSM 05.01 version 5.3.0 and GSM 05.08 version 5.5.0 are expressly incorporated herein by reference.
- the TDMA frame subset of the traffic channel, TCH which always should be transmitted, is defined. For example, at full-rate the TDMA frame subset that always should be transmitted consists of the frame numbers (modulo 104) 52 to 59.
- TDMA frames are occupied by the silence descriptor (SID) speech frame.
- SID silence descriptor
- a fill frame labeled L2 shall be transmitted as a fast associated control channel (FACCH) in the TDMA frame subset always to be transmitted.
- discontinuous transmission is possible.
- An example of discontinuous transmission in a CDMA system is discussed in US-A-5 , 295 , 153 which is expressly incorporated herein by reference.
- the present invention takes advantage of the operation of discontinuous transmission.
- the signal strength of the carrier signal and the disturbances, (C + I * ) is measured during transmission and the signal strength of the disturbances, (I * ) , is measured during the periods of time transmission is discontinued.
- An estimate of (C/I) ⁇ is calculated by subtracting the signal strength of the disturbances, (I * ) , in dBm from the signal strength of the carrier signal and the disturbances, (C + I * ) , in dBm:
- (I * ) are determined in dBm.
- an estimate of ((C+D/I) ⁇ is calculated by subtracting (I * ) from (C + I * ) .
- the so calculated value of ((C+D/I) ⁇ is thereafter compared with different ((C+D/D ⁇ values stored in the table, and the correction term corresponding to the stored ((C+D/D ⁇ value being closest to the calculated value of ((C+I)/I) ⁇ is read out from the table.
- C/I is estimated by adding the calculated value of ((C+D/I) ⁇ to the read out correction term, ct . This method is further illustrated by the flow diagram of FIG 5.
- correction by means of a correction term may optionally be performed only within pre- determined intervals, e . g. for ((C+D/I) ⁇ values smaller than lOdB. It should be understood that the read out correction term of the described method may, optionally, be modified by the use of an interpolation algorithm before it is added to the calculated value of ((C+D/I) ⁇ .
- a correction factor, cf is determined instead of a correction term.
- the estimate of ((C+D/D ⁇ , i.e. (C + I * ) - (I * ) is corrected by multiplying by the correction factor, cf :
- the TDMA frame subset that always should be transmitted consists of the frame numbers (modulo 104) 52 to 59 (illustrated in FIG 3) .
- the signal strength of the disturbances, (I * ) is measured, i.e. during frame numbers 0 to 51 and 60 to 103 (96 frames in total) .
- the frame numbers 52 to 59 either SID frames or, in the case where data is transmitted, L2 fill frames are transmitted.
- the signal strength of the carrier signal plus the disturbances, (C + I * ) is measured during these frames .
- the signal strength measurements may be carried out either within one frame or during several frames . In the latter case the measured values may be averaged. For example, assuming that the time of a frame in GSM is 480ms the measurement periods can be n times 480ms, where n is an integer greater than zero. In this case, fast fading can be followed down to 480ms or be eliminated by averaging over a large number of frames to thereby establish a long time averaged level . It should be noted that these measurements do not affect the communication on the transmission link. Furthermore, the measurements can be carried out continuously and are not limited, for example, to moments when the transmission link is established. Moreover, the same hardware and/or software can be used as is used for measuring the received signal strength indication, RSSI or RXLEV .
- the method of establishing C/I according to the present invention may be used not only by a mobile communication device, such as a cellular phone, but also by other communication devices, such as base stations.
- a mobile communication device such as a cellular phone
- other communication devices such as base stations.
- discontinuous transmission is activated and, especially if data is transmitted, that transmission is discontinued during at least one frame.
- a mobile communication device to determine C/I on a down-link radio channel, i.e. from a base station to the mobile communication device, discontinuous transmission must be activated in the base station.
- discontinuous transmission must be activated in the mobile communication device.
- discontinuous transmission is enabled and disabled in a mobile communication device by a command from a base station
- the same command may be used in the mobile communication device to enable and disable, respectively, the measurements needed for estimating C/I according to the present invention.
- a base station may request a mobile communication device to measure and report C/I at frequencies used or not used momentarily by the communication device. This information can later be used by the base station to determine a preferred frequency hopping scheme .
- One way of doing this is by ranking the frequencies according to the level of the corresponding C/I.
- FIG 6 shows a block diagram of a communication device 600 illustrating an example of an implementation of the method of establishing C/I according to the present invention.
- the block diagram of FIG 6 is prepared with the aim to illustrate aspects of the present invention. Some elements of the communication device, which are well known in the art, are not shown in detail.
- a receiver 601 is connected to an antenna 602 for receiving radio signals.
- a first output of the receiver 601 is connected to an input of a DTX Detector 603 and to an input of a C/I Measurement Controller 604 and to other circuits of the communication device, illustrated by the box labeled Controller 605.
- a second output of the Receiver 601 is connected to a C/I Estimator 606.
- An output of the DTX Detector 603 and an output of the C/I Measurement Controller 604 are connected to separate inputs of the C/I Estimator 606.
- the C/I Measurement Controller 604 and the DTX Detector 603 are also interconnected.
- An output of the C/I Estimator 606 is also connected to the Controller 605.
- the latter is further connected to an input of a transmitter 607.
- the output of the transmitter 607 is connected to the antenna 602.
- the antenna 602 picks up radio signals and forwards these signals to the Receiver 601.
- the Receiver 601 provides the received signals to the DTX Detector 603, to the C/I Measurement Controller 604 and to the Controller 605 where it is further processed.
- the Receiver 601 also establishes the received signal strength, RSSI.
- the RSSI is forwarded to the C/I Estimator 606.
- the C/I Estimator 606 and the C/I Measurement Controller 604 are enabled.
- the C/I Measurement Controller 604 establishes the periods of time the RSSI signal refers to the signal strength of a carrier signal plus disturbances, (C + I * ) and the periods of time the RSSI signal refers to the signal strength of disturbances, I * , and this information is forwarded to the C/I Estimator 606.
- the C/I Estimator 606 estimates C/I from the information received from the Receiver 601, the DTX detector 603 and the C/I Measurement Controller 604 according to any one of the methods discussed above and forwards the result to the Controller 605 thereby allowing the value of C/I to be used by the communication device 600 in an optional way.
- the table comprising the ((C+D/D a , values and the associated correction terms/factors is stored in a memory (not shown) .
- the C/I Estimator 606 has access to the table by means of a read out circuit (not shown) .
- a communication device may measure the signal strength of a carrier signal plus disturbances, (C + I * ), and the signal strength of disturbances, I * , and, instead of estimating C/I itself, transmitting the results of the measurements by means of the transmitter 607 to a base station which performs the necessary calculations for estimating C/I.
- C + I * carrier signal plus disturbances
- I * signal strength of disturbances
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