Signal processing method, apparatus, and system

• US 10,211,968 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2015
• Issued: 02/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2012
• 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: Lin, Huajiong, Han, Bo, Lv, Linjun
• Primary Examiner(s): Nawaz, Asad M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Harley, Jason A
• Application Number:
  US14/669,191
• Publication Number:
  US 20150200764A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,426 Days
• Field of Search: 370278
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/525 with means for reducing leakage of transmitter signal into the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0057 Physical resource allocation for CQI
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1461 Suppression of signals in the return path, i.e. bidirectional control circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0212 managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is master and terminal is slave
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/52 based on load
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a signal processing method, apparatus, and system, where the method includes: receiving a downlink signal that carries an uplink signal; and performing first interference cancellation on the uplink signal by using an estimated self-interference signal, so that a remaining amount of interference of the uplink signal is less than a first interference threshold, thereby minimizing out-of-band interference of the uplink signal on the downlink signal without using a plurality of radio frequency front-ends or without using a duplexer on a same radio frequency front-end. In the embodiments of the present invention, no duplexer is adopted, and therefore, difficulty and a cost of base station and system layout can be reduced, and extra energy consumption of a mobile terminal can also be reduced.

Claims

1. A signal processing method for a base station, comprising:

receiving, by the base station, a downlink signal that carries an uplink signal;

performing, by the base station, first interference cancellation on the carried uplink signal of the received downlink signal by using an estimated self-interference signal, so that a remaining amount of interference of the carried uplink signal of the received downlink signal is less than a first interference threshold in order to reduce out-of-band interference of the carried uplink signal, the first interference cancellation on the carried uplink signal of the received downlink signal being performed by a radio frequency interference canceller, which uses the estimated self-interference signal;

converting the received down link signal into a digital signal by an analog-to-digital converter, wherein the digital downlink signal carries a remaining self-interference signal of the carried uplink signal; and

performing, by using a digital interference canceller, second interference cancellation on the remaining self-interference signal of the carried uplink signal that is obtained after the first interference cancellation, so that the remaining amount of interference of the remaining self-interference signal of the carried uplink signal is less than a second interference threshold, wherein the digital interference canceller applies an estimated remaining self-interference signal to perform the second interference cancellation.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method for the base station further comprises:

obtaining positions of a subcarrier and a resource block RB that are corresponding to the downlink signal, wherein the positions of the subcarrier and the resource block RB that are corresponding to the downlink signal are dynamically allocated by a physical layer according to at least one of current uplink and downlink load, a type corresponding to uplink and downlink signals and channel quality information corresponding to uplink and downlink signals; and

obtaining, by reading on the subcarrier corresponding to the downlink signal and according to the position of the resource block RB corresponding to the downlink signal, the downlink signal from a downlink signal that is obtained after the first or the second interference cancellation.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the base station performs the first interference cancellation without a duplexer.

4. A base station, comprising:

at least one memory comprising instructions and at least one hardware processor to execute the instructions within the at least one memory to implement;

receiving a downlink signal that carries an uplink signal;

performing first interference cancellation on the carried uplink signal of the received downlink signal by using an estimated self-interference signal, so that a remaining amount of interference of the carried uplink signal of the received downlink signal is less than a first interference threshold in order to reduce out-of-band interference of the carried uplink signal, the first interference cancellation on the carried uplink signal of the received downlink signal being performed by a radio frequency interference canceller, which uses the estimated self-interference signal;

converting the received down link signal into a digital signal by an analog-to-digital converter, wherein the digital downlink signal carries a remaining self-interference signal of the carried uplink signal; and

performing, by using a digital interference canceller, second interference cancellation on the remaining self-interference signal of the carried uplink signal that is obtained after the first interference cancellation, so that the remaining amount of interference of the remaining self-interference signal of the carried uplink signal is less than a second interference threshold, wherein the digital interference canceller applies an estimated remaining self-interference signal to perform the second interference cancellation.

5. The base station according to claim 4, wherein the at least one memory further comprises executable instructions to implement:

obtaining positions of a subcarrier and a resource block RB that are corresponding to the downlink signal, wherein the positions of the subcarrier and the resource block RB that are corresponding to the downlink signal are dynamically allocated by a physical layer according to at least one of current uplink and downlink load, a type corresponding to uplink and downlink signals and channel quality information corresponding to uplink and downlink signals; and

obtaining, by reading on the subcarrier corresponding to the downlink signal and according to the position of the resource block RB corresponding to the downlink signal, the downlink signal from a downlink signal that is obtained after the first interference cancellation or the second interference cancellation.

6. The base station according to claim 4, wherein a radio frequency interference canceller performs first interference cancellation on the carried uplink signal by using the estimated self-interference signal, so that the remaining amount of interference of the carried uplink signal is less than the first interference threshold.

7. The base station according to claim 4, wherein a digital interference canceller performs second interference cancellation on the remaining amount of interference of the carried uplink signal by using the estimated remaining self-interference signal, so that the remaining amount of interference of the carried uplink signal is less than the second interference threshold.

8. The base station according to claim 4, wherein the base station performs the first interference cancellation without a duplexer.

9. A signal processing method for a mobile terminal, comprising:

receiving, by the mobile terminal, a downlink signal that carries an uplink signal;

performing, by the mobile terminal, first interference cancellation on the carried uplink signal of the received downlink signal by using an estimated self-interference signal, so that a remaining amount of interference of the carried uplink signal of the received downlink signal is less than a first interference threshold in order to reduce out-of-band interference of the carried uplink signal, the first interference cancellation on the carried uplink signal of the received downlink signal being performed by a radio frequency interference canceller, which uses the estimated self-interference signal;

converting the received down link signal into a digital signal by an analog-to-digital converter, wherein the digital downlink signal carries a remaining self-interference signal of the carried uplink signal; and

performing, by using a digital interference canceller, second interference cancellation on the remaining self-interference signal of the carried uplink signal that is obtained after the first interference cancellation, so that the remaining amount of interference of the remaining self-interference signal of the carried uplink signal is less than a second interference threshold, wherein the digital interference canceller applies an estimated remaining self-interference signal to perform the second interference cancellation.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the method for the mobile terminal further comprises:

obtaining positions of a subcarrier and a resource block RB that are corresponding to the downlink signal, wherein the positions of the subcarrier and the resource block RB that are corresponding to the downlink signal are dynamically allocated by a physical layer according to at least one of current uplink and downlink load, a type corresponding to uplink and downlink signals and channel quality information corresponding to uplink and downlink signals; and

obtaining, by reading on the subcarrier corresponding to the downlink signal and according to the position of the resource block RB corresponding to the downlink signal, the downlink signal from a downlink signal that is obtained after the first or the second interference cancellation.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the mobile terminal performs the first interference cancellation without a duplexer.

12. A mobile terminal, comprising:

at least one memory comprising instructions and at least one hardware processor to execute the instructions within the at least one memory to implement;

receiving a downlink signal that carries an uplink signal;

performing first interference cancellation on the carried uplink signal of the received downlink signal by using an estimated self-interference signal, so that a remaining amount of interference of the carried uplink signal of the received uplink signal is less than a first interference threshold in order to reduce out-of-band interference of the carried uplink signal, the first interference cancellation on the carried uplink signal of the received downlink signal being performed by a radio frequency interference canceller, which uses the estimated self-interference signal;

converting the received down link signal into a digital signal by an analog-to-digital converter, wherein the digital downlink signal carries a remaining self-interference signal of the carried uplink signal; and

performing, by using a digital interference canceller, second interference cancellation on the remaining self-interference signal of the carried uplink signal that is obtained after the first interference cancellation, so that the remaining amount of interference of the remaining self-interference signal of the carried uplink signal is less than a second interference threshold, wherein the digital interference canceller applies an estimated remaining self-interference signal to perform the second interference cancellation.

13. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, wherein the at least one memory further comprises executable instructions to implement:

obtaining positions of a subcarrier and a resource block RB that are corresponding to the downlink signal, wherein the positions of the subcarrier and the resource block RB that are corresponding to the downlink signal are dynamically allocated by a physical layer according to at least one of current uplink and downlink load, a type corresponding to uplink and downlink signals and channel quality information corresponding to uplink and downlink signals; and

obtaining, by reading on the subcarrier corresponding to the downlink signal and according to the position of the resource block RB corresponding to the downlink signal, the downlink signal from a downlink signal that is obtained after the first interference cancellation or the second interference cancellation.

14. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, wherein a radio frequency interference canceller performs first interference cancellation on the carried uplink signal by using the estimated self-interference signal, so that the remaining amount of interference of the carried uplink signal is less than the first interference threshold.

15. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, wherein a digital interference canceller performs second interference cancellation on the remaining amount of interference of the carried uplink signal by using the estimated remaining self-interference signal, so that the remaining amount of interference of the carried uplink signal is less than the second interference threshold.

16. The mobile terminal according to claim 12, wherein the mobile terminal performs the first interference cancellation without a duplexer.