Mobile communication base station system

• US 10,516,766 B2
• Filed: 09/17/2014
• Issued: 12/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SOLiD, Inc.
• Original Assignee: SOLiD, Inc.
• Inventors: Kim, Hyunchae
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhao, Wei
• Application Number:
  US15/511,462
• Publication Number:
  US 20170257465A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,924 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

A base station system includes a main conversion unit configured to receive a first downlink frame conforming to a first protocol and a second downlink frame conforming to a second protocol, and configured to reconstruct the first and second downlink frames to conform to a third protocol and generate a downlink transmit frame; and a radio unit including a remote conversion unit that receives the downlink transmission frame and disassembles the received downlink transmission frame to output at least one of the first and second downlink frames.

Claims

1. A base station system comprising:

a first unit implemented by at least one processor and configured to receive a first downlink frame conforming to a first protocol and a second downlink frame conforming to a second protocol, and generate a downlink transmission frame by reconstructing the first and second downlink frames to conform to a third protocol; and

a second unit implemented by at least one processor and configured to receive the downlink transmission frame from the first unit and disassemble the received downlink transmission frame to output at least one of the first and second downlink frames,

wherein the first protocol, the second protocol and the third protocol are different from each other,

wherein the first downlink frame includes first control information and first data, and the second downlink frame includes second control information and second data, and

wherein the first unit is configured to remove one of the first control information and the second control information from the first and second downlink frames to generate the downlink transmission frame.

2. The base station system of claim 1, wherein

the first and second protocols are different closed protocols, and

the third protocol is an open protocol.

3. The base station system of claim 1, wherein the first unit comprises:

a first protocol adaptive transceiver configured to receive the first downlink frame;

a second protocol adaptive transceiver configured to receive the second downlink frame;

a first processor configured to receive the first downlink frame from the first protocol adaptive transceiver, and configured to remove and output the first control information from the first downlink frame or output the first downlink frame intactly;

a second processor configured to receive the second downlink frame from the second protocol adaptive transceiver, and configured to remove and output the second control information from the second downlink frame or output the second downlink frame intactly; and

a main transceiver connected to the first and second processors and configured to reconstruct any one of the first and second control information and the first and second data to conform to the third protocol and generate the downlink transmission frame.

4. The base station system of claim 1, wherein the second unit comprises:

a remote transceiver configured to receive the downlink transmission frame; and

a remote processor configured to disassemble the received downlink transmission frame to output at least one of the first and second downlink frames.

5. The base station system of claim 4, wherein the second unit further comprises:

at least one remote radio head configured to receive a downlink frame including control information of the first and second downlink frames from the second unit.

6. The base station system of claim 5, wherein

the remote radio head is configured to convert data of the received downlink frame into an analog radio frequency signal according to the control information included in the received downlink frame and output the converted analog radio frequency signal.

7. The base station system of claim 4, wherein the second unit further comprises:

at least one transceiver configured to receive a downlink frame, from which control information has been removed, of the first and second downlink frames.

8. The base station system of claim 7, wherein

the transceiver is configured to convert data of the received downlink frame into an analog radio frequency signal and output the converted analog radio frequency signal.

9. The base station system of claim 1, wherein

the second unit is configured to output the received downlink transmit frame intactly, and

the second unit further comprises:

at least one PHY interface configured to receive the downlink transmission frame from the first unit and configured to transmit the received downlink transmission frame to another second unit.

10. The base station system of claim 1, further comprising:

a main management server configured to generate radio unit control information for controlling the second unit, wherein

the first unit further receives the radio unit control information from the main management server, and reconstructs the radio unit control information and the first and second downlink frames to conform to the third protocol and generates the downlink transmission frame, and

the second unit disassembles the downlink transmission frame to further output the radio unit control information.

11. The base station system of claim 10, wherein the second unit further comprises:

a controller configured to receive the radio unit control information from the first unit and control the second unit in response to the radio unit control information.

12. A base station system comprising:

a second unit implemented by at least one processor and configured to digitize analog radio frequency signals received from a plurality of terminals and generate an uplink transmission frame conforming to a third protocol; and

a first unit implemented by at least one processor and configured to receive the uplink transmission frame from the second unit and disassemble the received uplink transmission frame to generate a first uplink frame conforming to a first protocol and a second uplink frame conforming to a second protocol, and

wherein the first protocol, the second protocol and the third protocol are different from each other, and

wherein the first unit comprises first and second processors respectively configured to;

if data and corresponding control information are obtained from the received uplink transmission frame, output the data and the control information intactly, and

if data is obtained without corresponding control information from the received uplink transmission frame, add the corresponding control information to the data, and output the data and the added control information.

13. The base station system of claim 12, wherein

the first and second protocols are different closed protocols, and

the third protocol is an open protocol.

14. The base station system of claim 12, wherein the second unit further comprises:

at least one remote radio head configured to digitize and output data included in some of the analog radio frequency signals together with corresponding control information; and

at least one transceiver configured to digitize and output data included in some other of the analog radio frequency signals.

15. The base station system of claim 14, wherein the second unit further comprises:

a remote processor configured to generate the uplink transmission frame by combining the digitized data and control information transmitted from the remote radio head and the digitized data transmitted from the transceiver; and

a remote transceiver configured to transmit the uplink transmission frame to the first unit.

16. The base station system of claim 15, wherein the second unit further comprises:

a controller configured to output state information of the second unit to the remote processor, wherein

the remote processor is configured to generate the uplink transmission frame by combining the digitized data and control information transmitted from the remote radio head, the digitized data transmitted from the transceiver, and the state information transmitted from the controller.

17. The base station system of claim 12, wherein the second unit further comprises:

at least one PHY interface configured to receive an uplink transmission frame from another second unit, wherein

the second unit is configured to transmit the uplink transmission frame received from the other second unit to the first unit intactly.

18. The base station system of claim 12, wherein the first unit further comprises:

a main transceiver configured to receive the uplink transmission frame and disassemble the received uplink transmission frame;

a first protocol adaptive transceiver connected to the first processor and configured to generate the first uplink frame conforming to the first protocol using control information and data output from the first processor; and

a second protocol adaptive transceiver connected to the second processor and configured to generate the second uplink frame conforming to the second protocol using control information and data output from the second processor.

19. The base station system of claim 18, further comprising:

a main management server configured to generate first processor control information for controlling whether to add control information in the first processor, second processor control information for controlling whether to add control information in the second processor, and the first and second protocol information, wherein

each of the first and second processors is configured to output control information and data corresponding to each other intactly in response to corresponding processor control information of the first and second processor control information, or configured to add corresponding control information to data having no control information and output the data, and

the first protocol adaptive transceiver is configured to generate the first uplink frame based on the first protocol information, and

the second protocol adaptive transceiver is configured to generate the second uplink frame based on the second protocol information.