Method for reducing self-interference signal in communications system, and apparatus

• US 10,103,788 B2
• Filed: 05/27/2016
• Issued: 10/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Liu, Sheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Mattis, Jason E
• Application Number:
  US15/167,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20160277166A1
• Time in Patent Office: 872 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/525 with means for reducing leakage of transmitter signal into the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/015 Reducing echo effects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03006 Arrangements for removing intersymbol interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames

Abstract

Embodiments provide a method for reducing a self-interference signal in a communications system, and an apparatus. The method includes: sending a sounding signal; receiving an echo signal, where the echo signal includes a near-field reflected signal corresponding to the sounding signal. The method also includes separating the near-field reflected signal corresponding to the sounding signal from the echo signal, and determining a near-field reflection channel parameter according to the near-field reflected signal. The method also includes determining a reconstructed near-field reflected self-interference signal based on the near-field reflection channel parameter, and subtracting the reconstructed near-field reflected self-interference signal from a received second communication signal.

Claims

1. An apparatus, wherein the apparatus comprises:

a sending unit, configured to send a sounding signal and a first communication signal, wherein the sounding signal is superimposed on the first communication signal during the sending of the sounding signal, a power used to send the sounding signal is less than a power used to send the first communication signal, wherein the sending unit is configured to send the sounding signal in a transmit timeslot, the transmit timeslot being comprised in a sounding timeslot, and the sending unit is configured to stop sending the sounding signal in an idle timeslot, the idle timeslot being comprised in the sounding timeslot, and wherein the idle timeslot comprises a first silent timeslot and a second silent timeslot;

a receiving unit, configured to receive an input signal, wherein the input signal comprises an echo signal and a second communication signal sent by another apparatus, and the echo signal comprises a near-field reflected signal corresponding to the sounding signal;

a signal separation unit, configured to separate the near-field reflected signal from the echo signal;

a processing unit, configured to determine a near-field reflection channel parameter according to the near-field reflected signal; and

a cancellation unit, configured to determine a reconstructed near-field reflected self-interference signal based on the near-field reflection channel parameter, and subtract the reconstructed near-field reflected self-interference signal from the second communication signal.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sending unit is configured to send the sounding signal using a bandwidth that is greater than or equal to a bandwidth used to send the first communication signal.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the processing unit is configured to, when the sending unit sends the sounding signal using the bandwidth that is greater than the bandwidth used to send the first communication signal, perform matched filtering on the near-field reflected signal, to obtain a filtered near-field reflected signal, and determine the near-field reflection channel parameter according to the filtered near-field reflected signal.

4. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the processing unit is configured to, when the sending unit sends the sounding signal using the bandwidth that is greater than the bandwidth used to send the first communication signal, perform the following:

perform matched filtering on multiple near-field reflected signals, to obtain multiple filtered near-field reflected signals, determine an average value of the multiple filtered near-field reflected signals, and determine the near-field reflection channel parameter according to the average value of the multiple filtered near-field reflected signals;

or

determine an average near-field reflected signal corresponding to multiple near-field reflected signals, perform matched filtering on the average near-field reflected signal, to obtain a filtered average near-field reflected signal, and determine the near-field reflection channel parameter according to the filtered average near-field reflected signal.

5. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the processing unit is configured to, when the sending unit sends the sounding signal using a bandwidth that is equal to the bandwidth used to send the first communication signal, determine the near-field reflection channel parameter using a super-resolution delay algorithm.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the apparatus supports multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), and the sending unit is configured to separately send the sounding signal using multiple antennas of the apparatus, wherein timeslots in which the multiple antennas separately send the sounding signal are mutually staggered.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sending unit is configured to send the sounding signal using a timeslot that is staggered with a timeslot used for sending a sounding signal by an adjacent apparatus supporting wireless full duplex.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sending unit is configured to send the sounding signal using M random sounding timeslots, wherein M is an average quantity of near-field reflected signals that correspond to the sounding signal and are accumulated by the apparatus supporting wireless full duplex within a coherent accumulation time for receiving the echo signal.

9. An apparatus, wherein the apparatus comprises:

a transmit antenna, configured to send a sounding signal and a first communication signal, wherein the sounding signal is superimposed on the first communication signal during the sending of the sounding signal, and a power used to send the sounding signal is less than a power used to send the first communication signal, wherein the transmit antenna is configured to send the sounding signal in a transmit timeslot, the transmit timeslot being comprised in a sounding timeslot, and the transmit antenna is configured to stop sending the sounding signal in an idle timeslot, the idle timeslot being comprised in the sounding timeslot, wherein the idle timeslot comprises a first silent timeslot and a second silent timeslot;

a receive antenna, configured to receive an echo signal, wherein the echo signal comprises a near-field reflected signal corresponding to the sounding signal;

a signal separator, configured to separate the near-field reflected signal from the echo signal;

a processor, configured to determine a near-field reflection channel parameter according to the near-field reflected signal; and

a canceller, configured to determine a reconstructed near-field reflected self-interference signal based on the near-field reflection channel parameter, and subtract the reconstructed near-field reflected self-interference signal from a second communication signal.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the transmit antenna is configured to send the sounding signal using a bandwidth that is greater than or equal to a bandwidth used to send the first communication signal.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the processor is configured to, when the transmit antenna sends the sounding signal using the bandwidth that is greater than the bandwidth used to send the first communication signal, perform matched filtering on the near-field reflected signal, to obtain a filtered near-field reflected signal, and determine the near-field reflection channel parameter according to the filtered near-field reflected signal.

12. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the processor is configured to, when the transmit antenna sends the sounding signal using the bandwidth that is greater than the bandwidth used to send the first communication signal, perform the following:

perform matched filtering on multiple near-field reflected signals, to obtain multiple filtered near-field reflected signals, determine an average value of the multiple filtered near-field reflected signals, and determine the near-field reflection channel parameter according to the average value of the multiple filtered near-field reflected signals;

or

determine an average near-field reflected signal corresponding to multiple near-field reflected signals, perform matched filtering on the average near-field reflected signal, to obtain a filtered average near-field reflected signal, and determine the near-field reflection channel parameter according to the filtered average near-field reflected signal.

13. A method, comprising:

sending, by an apparatus, a sounding signal and a first communication signal, wherein the sounding signal is superimposed on the first communication signal during the sending of the sounding signal, and a power used to send the sounding signal is less than a power used to send the first communication signal, wherein the apparatus supports wireless full duplex, and wherein sending the sounding signal comprises;

transmitting the sounding signal in a transmit timeslot, the transmit timeslot being comprised in a sounding timeslot; and

stopping transmitting the sounding signal in an idle timeslot, the idle timeslot being comprised in the sounding timeslot, wherein the idle timeslot comprises a first silent timeslot and a second silent timeslot;

receiving, by the apparatus, an input signal, wherein the input signal comprises an echo signal and a second communication signal received from another apparatus, and the echo signal comprises a near-field reflected signal corresponding to the sounding signal;

separating, by the apparatus, the near-field reflected signal from the echo signal;

determining, by the apparatus, a near-field reflection channel parameter according to the near-field reflected signal; and

determining, by the apparatus, a reconstructed near-field reflected self-interference signal based on the near-field reflection channel parameter, and subtracting the reconstructed near-field reflected self-interference signal from the second communication signal.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein duration of the first silent timeslot is equal to a maximum multi-path delay of a near-field reflection channel, a value of the second silent timeslot enables a delay of an echo multi-path component to exceed a sum of the duration of the first silent timeslot and duration of the second silent timeslot, and a power of the echo multi-path component is less than a preset threshold.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein sending the sounding signal and the first communication signal comprises:

sending the sounding signal using a bandwidth that is greater than or equal to a bandwidth used to send the first communication signal.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein, when the bandwidth used to send the sounding signal is greater than the bandwidth used to send the first communication signal, determining the near-field reflection channel parameter according to the near-field reflected signal comprises:

performing matched filtering on the near-field reflected signal, to obtain a filtered near-field reflected signal, and determining the near-field reflection channel parameter according to the filtered near-field reflected signal.

17. The method according to claim 15, wherein, when the bandwidth used to send the sounding signal is greater than the bandwidth used to send the first communication signal, determining the near-field reflection channel parameter according to the near-field reflected signal comprises:

performing matched filtering on multiple near-field reflected signals, to obtain multiple filtered near-field reflected signals, determining an average value of the multiple filtered near-field reflected signals, and determining the near-field reflection channel parameter according to the average value of the multiple filtered near-field reflected signals;

or

determining an average near-field reflected signal corresponding to multiple near-field reflected signals, performing matched filtering on the average near-field reflected signal, to obtain a filtered average near-field reflected signal, and determining the near-field reflection channel parameter according to the filtered average near-field reflected signal.