Method for Dynamic Resource Allocation in Centrailized Base Stations

• US 20080134194A1
• Filed: 08/13/2004
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: UTStarcom Telecom Company Limited (UTStarcom Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: UTStarcom Telecom Company Limited (UTStarcom Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Liu, Sheng
• Application Number:
  US11/573,664
• Publication Number:
  US 20080134194A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/105
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/04 Traffic adaptive resource partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0835 Access entity, e.g. eNB
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/085 Access point devices with remote components

Abstract

A method for realizing dynamic allocation of channel processing resources and load balancing in a centralized base station is disclosed, said centralized base station comprising a plurality of channel processing units independent of each other and remote radio frequency units connected to said channel processing units. The method comprises: dividing a plurality of cells under control of said centralized base station into a plurality of cell groups that are geographically adjacent and are centralized in the same regions different channel processing units performing channel processing of corresponding cell groups, respectively, wherein the channel processing units which are responsible for processing geographically adjacent cell groups are an adjacent channel processing unit for each other; determining a processing load amount of the respective channel processing units and traffic of the respective cells; and adaptively adjusting the cell groups for which the respective channel processing units are responsible for performing channel processing based on the determined processing load amount of the respective channel processing units and the determined traffic of the relevant cells, thereby balancing processing loads of the respective channel processing units. The method can effectively utilize the channel processing resources.

Claims

1. A method for realizing dynamic allocation of channel processing resources and toad balancing in a centralized base station, said centralized base station comprising a plurality of channel processing units independent of each other and remote radio frequency units connected to said channel processing units, said method comprising the following steps:

dividing a plurality of cells under control of said centralized base station into a plurality of cell groups that are geographically adjacent and are centralized in the same region, different channel processing units performing channel processing of corresponding cell groups, respectively, wherein the channel processing units which are responsible for processing geographically adjacent cell groups are an adjacent channel processing unit for each other;

determining a processing load amount of the respective channel processing units and traffic of the respective cells; and

adaptively adjusting the cell groups for which the respective channel processing units are responsible for performing channel processing based on the determined processing load amount of the respective channel processing units and the determined traffic of the relevant cells, thereby balancing processing loads of the respective channel processing units.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said step of adaptively adjusting the cell groups for which the respective channel processing units are responsible for performing channel processing further comprises the sub-steps of:

classifying the processing loads of the respective channel processing units based on a determination result in said determining step, thereby obtaining load states of the respective channel processing units; and

adjusting, when said channel processing unit is in an overload state, a processing load of said overloaded channel processing unit according to the corresponding overload state, thereby realizing load balancing of the respective channel processing units.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein said overload state comprises a first overload state and a second overload state, the second load state being an overload state more serious than the first overload state, and wherein said method further comprises the steps of:

adjusting, when said channel processing unit has a processing load in the first overload state, the processing load of said overloaded channel processing unit by a channel processing unit adjacent to said overloaded channel processing unit sharing a processing load of an edge cell of a cell group which the overloaded channel processing unit corresponds to; and

adjusting, when said channel processing unit has a processing load in the second overload state, the processing load of said overloaded channel processing unit by any other channel processing unit sharing a processing load of an edge cell of a cell group which the overloaded channel processing unit corresponds to.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein said method further comprises the steps of:

presetting a first threshold value and a second threshold value greater than said first threshold value, wherein said first threshold value represents the first overload state of the respective channel processing units, and said second threshold value represents the second overload state of the respective channel processing units;

said channel processing unit, when its processing load is greater than or equal to the first threshold value for a first predetermined time period, being shifted to the first overload state, and performing, on said channel processing unit, the processing load adjustment corresponding to the first overload state at the same time, if its processing load is reduced below the first threshold value, said channel processing unit returning to a normal load state or remaining otherwise in the first overload state, and said processing load adjustment being performed in a first time cycle; and

said channel processing unit, when it is in the first overload state and its load is greater than or equal to the second threshold value for a second predetermined time period, being shifted to the second overload state, and performing, on said channel processing unit, the processing load adjustment corresponding to the second overload state at the same time, if its processing load is reduced below the first threshold value, said channel processing unit returning to a normal load state, if its processing load is reduced to within the first threshold value and the second threshold value, said channel processing unit returning to the first overload state or remaining otherwise in the second overload state, and said processing load adjustment being performed in a second time cycle.

5. A method according to claim 4, wherein the process of the processing load adjustment corresponding to the first overload state comprises the steps of:

performing, on said overloaded channel processing unit in the first overload state, a first cell decreasing processing of decreasing one edge cell, thereby adjusting the load state of the overloaded channel processing unit;

performing, on said overloaded channel processing unit, a second cell decreasing processing of decreasing one edge cell instead of the first cell decreasing processing, if said first cell decreasing processing fails to adjust the processing load of the overloaded channel processing unit and a processing load of an adjacent channel processing unit which shares the processing load of the decreased edge cell below the first threshold value, and continuing to perform, on said overloaded channel processing unit, the first cell decreasing processing, if the processing load of the overloaded channel processing unit, subsequent to the second cell decreasing processing, is reduced but still greater than or equal to the first threshold value and the processing load of the adjacent channel processing unit which accepts the decreased edge cell is lower than the first threshold value;

performing the following processing instead of the second cell decreasing processing, if the processing load of the overloaded channel processing unit and the processing load of the adjacent channel processing unit, subsequent to a combination of the first cell decreasing processing and the second cell decreasing processing, still fail to be adjusted lower than the first threshold value, or if the second cell decreasing processing fails to make the processing load of the overloaded channel processing unit reduced while the processing load of the adjacent channel processing unit lower than the first threshold value; and

performing a cell exchanging processing, so that the overloaded channel processing unit and its adjacent channel processing unit exchange a processing load of one edge cell, and if said cell exchanging processing fails to make the load of the overloaded channel processing unit and the load of the adjacent channel processing unit lower than the first threshold value, causing said overloaded channel processing unit still in the first overload state.

6. A method according to claim 5, wherein said first cell decreasing processing includes the steps of:

when a corresponding edge cell of a cell group which said overloaded channel processing unit corresponds to is transported from said cell group to a cell group which the adjacent channel processing unit sharing the processing load of the edge cell corresponds to, if the processing load of said overloaded channel processing unit and the processing load of said adjacent channel processing unit are lower than said first threshold value, and a wireless signal channel resource status of an RRU of said adjacent channel processing unit allows exchanging or routing said edge cell to said adjacent channel processing unit, said adjacent channel processing unit sharing the processing load of said corresponding edge cell.

7. A method according to claim 5, wherein said second cell decreasing processing includes the steps of:

when a corresponding edge cell of a cell group which said overloaded channel processing unit corresponds to is transported from said cell group to a cell group which the adjacent channel processing unit sharing the processing load of the edge cell corresponds to, if the load of said overloaded channel processing unit is still higher than the first threshold value and the processing load of said adjacent channel processing unit is still lower than said first threshold value, and a wireless signal channel resource status of an RRU of said adjacent channel processing unit allows exchanging or routing said corresponding edge cell to said adjacent channel processing unit, said adjacent channel processing unit sharing the processing load of said corresponding edge cell.

8. A method according to claim 5, wherein said cell exchanging processing includes the steps of:

if edge cells can be found from the cell group which said overloaded channel processing unit corresponds to and from the cell group which said adjacent channel processing unit sharing the processing load of the edge cell corresponds to, that is, these two cells are adjacent and when each of them is transported to a cell group where the other party is located, the load of said overloaded channel processing unit and the load of said adjacent channel processing unit are made lower than the first threshold value, said overloaded channel processing unit and said adjacent channel processing unit exchanging a processing load of said edge cell, thereby making the load of said overloaded channel processing unit and the load of said adjacent channel processing unit lower than the first threshold value.

9. A method according to claim 4, wherein the process of the processing load adjustment corresponding to the second overload state comprises the sub-steps of:

searching all the channel processing units in said centralized base station other than said overloaded channel processing unit for a candidate channel processing unit, wherein a wireless signal channel resource status of a corresponding RRU of which candidate channel processing unit allows adding one path of RRU wireless signals,

performing the following processing on one edge cell having the maximum traffic among edge cells of the cell group which said overloaded channel processing unit corresponds to, in an order of traffic from high to low;

looking for a candidate channel processing unit satisfying the following conditions from the above set of the candidate channel processing units in an order of load amount from low to high;

after said edge cell is transported from the cell group of said channel processing unit to a cell group of the candidate channel processing unit, the load of said candidate channel processing unit being still lower than said first threshold value, and

sharing the processing load of said edge cell by said found candidate channel processing unit.

10. A method according to claim 9, further comprising the step of:

monitoring load statuses of all the channel processing units corresponding to cell groups geographically adjacent to said edge cell, and once a processing load of one certain channel processing unit among these channel processing units is reduced lower than the first threshold value even if said edge cell is absorbed, transporting said edge cell from a cell group of its original channel processing unit to the channel processing unit, and the channel processing unit being responsible for processing tasks of said edge cell.

11. A method according to any one of claims 1-10, wherein the processing load amount of said channel processing unit and the traffic of the corresponding cells are represented by the number of equivalence service channels processed by the channel processing unit, or represented by a percentage of the number of said equivalence service channels to the total number of equivalence service channels which the channel processing unit is capable of processing.

12. A method according to any one of claims 1-10, wherein in said determining step, the processing load amount of the channel processing unit and the traffic of the respective cells are determined based on results of a smooth filtering or results of a pre-filtering during a period of time.

13. A method according to claim 12, wherein said smooth filtering comprises infinite impulse response IIR smooth filtering, arithmetic average or weighted average, and said pre-filtering comprises an IIR prediction/tracking filter.