USER SIGNAL TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM IN OFDMA SYSTEM

• US 20100296385A1
• Filed: 09/27/2008
• Published: 11/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Xinwei Telecom Technology Company Limited (Beijing Xinwei Technology Group Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Beijing Xinwei Telecom Technology Company Limited (Beijing Xinwei Technology Group Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Li, Hang
• Granted Patent: US 8,284,653 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/210
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2626 Arrangements specific to the transmitter only
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2647 Arrangements specific to the receiver only equalisation H04L27/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0037 Inter-user or inter-terminal allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0064 Rate requirement of the data, e.g. scalable bandwidth, data priority

Abstract

This invention provides a user signal transmitting method in an OFDMA system, where all the time-frequency grids of each timeslot are divided into sub-channels, each sub-channel comprises N_f sub-carriers overlapping in time, N_f≧4, and in each sub-channel, a maximum value of a frequency interval between adjacent sub-carriers is no less than three times of a minimum value thereof; and when a user message is sent, comprising: generating a modulating signal; allocating a time-frequency grid set which is a union set of sub-channel, where the sub-channel'"'"'s quantity is determined by the user message'"'"'s size, and the sub-channel'"'"'s time-frequency position is selected according to a rule; and mapping the modulating signal to the time-frequency grid set to generate a frequency-domain signal; performing IFFT on the frequency-domain signal to generate a time-domain signal for transmission. This invention also provides a corresponding user signal receiving method, user signal transmitting and receiving apparatus and access system.

Claims

1. A user signal transmitting method in an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system, wherein the OFDMA system comprises multiple terminals and multiple Base Transceiver Stations (BTS), a user communicates with the BTS via the terminal, and in an OFDMA access manner, a radio resource is divided into multiple two-dimensional time-frequency grids, and wherein all the time-frequency grids of each timeslot are divided into multiple sub-channels, in which each sub-channel comprises N_f sub-carriers overlapping in time, where N_f≧

4, and in the N_f sub-carriers comprised in each sub-channel, a maximum value of a frequency interval between adjacent sub-carriers is three times or more than three times of a minimum value of the frequency interval between the adjacent sub-carriers; and

,

when any one of the terminal and the BTS acts as a transmitter used for transmitting a user message of the user, the method comprises;

generating a modulating signal of the user based on the user message to be sent;

mapping the modulating signal of the user to a time-frequency grid set allocated by a network side to the user, to generate a frequency-domain signal of the user, wherein the time-frequency grid set is a union set of one or more sub-channels, in which a quantity of the one or more sub-channel is determined by a size of the user message, and a time-frequency position of the sub-channel is selected according to a predetermined rule; and

,

performing Inverse Fast Fourier Transform on the frequency-domain signal of the user to generate a time-domain signal of the user, and transmitting the time-domain signal.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said generating a modulating signal of the user comprises:

performing forward error correction control encoding on the user message to obtain coded bits;

performing a bit permutation on the coded bits;

converting the permuted bits into multiple channel symbol vectors based on an assigned modulation scheme; and

,

using the channel symbol vectors as the modulating signal of the user, or multiplying each channel symbol vector by a transformation matrix and using the transformed channel symbol vectors as the modulating signal of the user.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein,

the N_f sub-carriers comprised in each sub-channel are divided into r groups, where and each group comprises N_f/r sub-carriers;

the N_f/r sub-carriers of the d th group of each sub-channel are distributed uniformly, in which the frequency interval between the i th sub-carrier and the (i+1)th sub-carrier is k_i^d−

k_(i+1)^d=p, where k_i ^d is an integer, which represents a frequency position of the i th sub-carrier of the d th group in a whole spectrum band; and

,

for each sub-channel, the frequency interval between the i th sub-carrier of the d th group and the i th sub-carrier of the (d+1) th group is equal to k_i^d−

k_(i+1)^d=q, where q<

p.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined rule used for selecting the time-frequency position of the sub-channel comprises:

in the time-frequency grid set allocated to the user, there are no such two adjacent sub-carriers that respectively belong to different sub-channels.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein when generating a frequency-domain signal of the user, the method further comprises:

inserting one or more null signals respectively one or more time-frequency grids comprised in each sub-channel,

where, the one or more null signals inserted into each sub-channel are used for a receiver to learn a spatial and time-frequency characteristic of an interference.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein when communicating with the terminal, the BTS of different sectors uses the same method for dividing all the time-frequency grids of each timeslot into multiple sub-channels;

and,

for any two adjacent sectors, the position of the one or more null signals inserted into each sub-channel are different from each other.

8. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

when the receiver of the user message has multiple antennae, using each null signal inserted into each sub-channel that is received by the multiple antennae to construct a spatial covariance matrix.

4. (canceled)

9. A user signal receiving method in an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system, wherein the OFDMA system comprises multiple terminals and multiple Base Transceiver Stations (BTS), a user communicates with the BTS via the terminal, and in an OFDMA access manner, a radio resource is divided into multiple two-dimensional time-frequency grids, and wherein all the time-frequency grids of each timeslot are divided into multiple sub-channels, in which each sub-channel comprises N_f sub-carriers overlapping in time, where N_f≧

4, and in the N_f sub-carriers comprised in each sub-channel, a maximum value of a frequency interval between adjacent sub-carriers is three times or more than three times of a minimum value of the frequency interval between the adjacent sub-carriers; and

,

when any one of the terminal and the BTS acts as a receiver used for receiving a user message of the user, the method comprises;

performing, in turn, Fast Fourier Transform and inverse mapping on a time-domain signal of the user to obtain a modulating signal of the user, wherein the inverse mapping is based on a time-frequency grid set allocated by a network side to the user, where the time-frequency grid set is a union set of one or more sub-channels, in which a quantity of the one or more sub-channels is determined by a size of the user message, and a time-frequency position of the sub-channel is selected according to a predetermined rule;

learning a spatial and time-frequency characteristic of an interference from one or more null signals respectively in one or more time-frequency grids comprised in each sub-channel using the modulating signal of the user, and performing interference suppression using the spatial and time-frequency characteristic of the interference obtained from the learning, wherein the one or more null signals are inserted into the one or more time-frequency grids comprised in each sub-channel by a transmitter of the user message in generating a frequency-domain signal; and

,

demodulating the modulating signal of the user with the interference suppression being performed to obtain the user message of the user.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

when the receiver has multiple antennae, learning the spatial and time-frequency characteristic of the interference using the modulating signals of the user that has been processed by the multiple antennae, combining the modulating signals of the user resulted from the processing of the multiple antennae, and performing the interference suppression using the spatial and time-frequency characteristic of the interference obtained from the learning.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein when communicating with the terminal, the BTS of different sectors uses the same method of dividing all the time-frequency grids of each timeslot into multiple sub-channels;

and,

for any two adjacent sectors, the position of the one or more null signals inserted into each sub-channel are different from each other.

12. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

constructing a spatial covariance matrix using each null signal in each sub-channel of the modulating signals of the user that is received by the multiple antennae.

13. A user signal transmitting apparatus in an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system, wherein in an OFDMA access manner, a radio resource is divided into multiple two-dimensional time-frequency grids, and wherein all the time-frequency grids of each timeslot are divided into multiple sub-channels, in which each sub-channel comprises N_f sub-carriers overlapping in time, where N_f≧

4, and in the N_f sub-carriers comprised in each sub-channel, a maximum value of a frequency interval between adjacent sub-carriers is three times or more than three times of a minimum value of the frequency interval between the adjacent sub-carriers; and

,

the apparatus comprises;

a message modulating unit, adapted to generate a modulating signal of a user based on a user message to be sent from the user;

a modulating signal mapping unit, adapted to map the modulating signal of the user from the message modulating unit to a time-frequency grid set allocated by a network side to the user, to generate a frequency-domain signal of the user, wherein the time-frequency grid set is a union set of one or more sub-channels, in which a quantity of the one or more sub-channels is determined by a size of the user message, and a time-frequency position of the sub-channel is selected according to a predetermined rule; and

an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) transmitting unit, adapted to perform Inverse Fast Fourier Transform on the frequency-domain signal of the user from the modulating signal mapping unit to generate a time-domain signal of the user, and to transmit the time-domain signal.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, further comprising:

a sub-channel allocating unit, adapted to divide all the time-frequency grids of each timeslot into multiple sub-channels, in which each sub-channel comprises N_f sub-carriers overlapping in time, where N_f≧

4, and in the N_f sub-carriers comprised in each sub-channel, the maximum value of the frequency interval between the adjacent sub-carriers is three times or more than three times of the minimum value of the frequency interval between the adjacent sub-carriers; and

,

a user channel allocating unit, adapted to allocate a time-frequency grid set for the user, wherein the time-frequency grid set is the union set of the one or more sub-channels divided by the sub-channel allocating unit, to determine the quantity of the one or more sub-channels according to the size of the user message, and to select the time-frequency position of the sub-channel according to the predetermined rule, wherein,

the modulating signal mapping unit is further adapted to map the modulating signal of the user to the time-frequency grid set allocated by the user channel allocating unit to the user.

17. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the sub-channel allocating unit is further adapted to arrange the sub-channel according to a manner as follows:

the N_f sub-carriers comprised in each sub-channel are divided into r groups, where r≧

1, and each group comprises N_f/r sub-carriers;

the N_f/r sub-carriers of the d th group of each sub-channel are distributed uniformly, in which the frequency interval between the i th sub-carrier and the (i+1) th sub-carrier is k_i^d−

k_(i+1)^d=p, where k_i^d is an integer, which represents a frequency position of the i th sub-carrier of the d th group in a whole spectrum band; and

for each sub-channel, the frequency interval between the ith sub-carrier of the d th group and the ith sub-carrier of the (d+1) th group is equal to k_i^d−

k_i^d+1=q, where q<

p .

15-16. -16. (canceled)

18-21. -21. (canceled)

22. A user signal receiving apparatus in an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system, wherein in an OFDMA access manner, a radio resource is divided into multiple two-dimensional time-frequency grids, and wherein all the time-frequency grids of each timeslot are divided into multiple sub-channels, in which each sub-channel comprises N_f sub-carriers overlapping in time, where N_f≧

4 and in the N_f sub-carriers comprised in each sub-channel, a maximum value of a frequency interval between adjacent sub-carriers is three times or more than three times of a minimum value of the frequency interval between the adjacent sub-carriers; and

,

the apparatus is adapted to receive a user message from a user, and comprises;

a Fast Fourier Transform FFT receiving unit, adapted to receive a time-domain signal of the user, and to perform Fast Fourier Transform on the time-domain signal of the user;

an inverse mapping unit, adapted to perform inverse mapping on the time-domain signal from the FFT receiving unit based on a time-frequency grid set allocated by a network side to the user to obtain a modulating signal, wherein the time-frequency grid set is a union set of one or more sub-channels, in which a quantity of the one or more sub-channels is determined by a size of the user message, and a time-frequency position of the sub-channel is selected according to a predetermined rule;

an interference suppressing unit, adapted to learn a spatial and time-frequency characteristic of an interference from one or more null signals in each sub-channel therein using the modulating signal from the inverse mapping unit, and to perform interference suppression on the modulating signal using the spatial and time-frequency characteristic of the interference obtained from learning; and

,

a demodulating unit, adapted to demodulate the modulating signal with the interference suppression being performed from the interference suppressing unit to obtain the user message.

23. The apparatus according to claim 22, further comprising:

a sub-channel allocating unit, adapted to divide all the time-frequency grids of each timeslot into multiple sub-channels, in which each sub-channel comprises N_f sub-carriers overlapping in time, where N_f≧

4, and in the N_f sub-carriers comprised in each sub-channel, the maximum value of the frequency interval between the adjacent sub-carriers is three times or more than three times of the minimum value of the frequency interval between the adjacent sub-carriers; and

,

a user channel allocating unit, adapted to allocate a time-frequency grid set for the user, wherein the time-frequency grid set is the union set of the one or more sub-channels divided by the sub-channel allocating unit, to determine the quantity of the one or more sub-channels according to the size of the user message, and to select the time-frequency position of the sub-channel according to the predetermined rule, wherein the inverse mapping unit is further adapted to perform the inverse mapping based on the time-frequency grid set allocated by the user channel allocating unit to the user.

24. The apparatus according to claim 23, wherein the apparatus has multiple antennae, and,

the FFT receiving unit comprises:

multiple FFT receiving sub-units one-to-one corresponding to the multiple antennae, in which each FFT receiving sub-unit is located in a reception antenna, and is adapted to perform the Fast Fourier Transform on the time-domain signal of the user that is received by the antenna where it is located;

the inverse mapping unit comprises;

multiple inverse mapping sub-units one-to-one corresponding to the multiple antennae, in which each inverse mapping unit is located in a reception antenna, and is adapted to perform the inverse mapping on the signal from the FFT receiving sub-unit located in the same antenna as itself to obtain the modulating signal; and

,

the interference suppressing unit is further adapted to learn the spatial and time-frequency characteristic of the interference using the modulating signal from the multiple inverse mapping sub-units, and to combine the modulating signal from the multiple inverse mapping sub-units to achieve the interference suppression.

25. (canceled)

26. A user signal transmitting system of Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), comprising:

at least one Base Transceiver Station (BTS) and at least one terminal, wherein a user communicates with the BTS via the terminal, and in an OFDMA access manner, a radio resource is divided into multiple two-dimensional time-frequency grids, and wherein;

the terminal is adapted to generate, when transmitting a user message of the user to the BTS, a modulating signal of the user based on the user message to be sent;

to map the modulating signal of the user to a time-frequency grid set allocated by the BTS to itself, and to insert one or more null signals respectively into one or more time-frequency grids comprised in each sub-channel to generate a frequency-domain signal of the user; and

to perform Inverse Fast Fourier Transform on the frequency-domain signal of the user to generate a time-domain signal of the user, and to transmit the time-domain signal; and

,

the BTS is adapted to allocate sub-channels, wherein all the time-frequency grids of each timeslot are divided into multiple sub-channels, in which each sub-channel comprises N_f sub-carriers overlapping in time, where N_f≧

4, and in the F_f sub-carriers comprised in each sub-channel, a maximum value of a frequency interval between adjacent sub-carriers is three times or more than three times of a minimum value of the frequency interval between the adjacent sub-carriers;

to allocate a time-frequency grid set to the user when receiving the user message from the terminal, wherein the time-frequency grid set is a union set of one or more sub-channels, in which a quantity of the one or more sub-channels is determined by a size of the user message, and a time-frequency position of the sub-channel is selected according to a predetermined rule;

to perform, in turn, Fast Fourier Transform and inverse mapping on the time-domain signal of the user from the terminal to obtain the modulating signal of the user;

to learn a spatial and time-frequency characteristic of an interference from one or more null signals respectively in one or more time-frequency grids comprised in each sub-channel using the modulating signal of the user; and

to perform interference suppression on the modulating signal of the user using the spatial and time-frequency characteristic of the interference obtained from the learning, and to demodulate the modulating signal of the user with the interference suppression being performed to obtain the user message of the user.

27. The system according to claim 26, wherein the BTS has multiple antennae;

and,

the multiple antennae of the BTS are adapted to respectively perform, in turn, the Fast Fourier Transform and the inverse mapping on various received time-domain signals of the user to obtain the modulating signal of the user;

the BTS is further adapted to learn the spatial and time-frequency characteristic of the interference from the one or more null signals in the one or more time-frequency grids comprised in each sub-channel using the modulating signals of the user received by the multiple antennae, to combine the modulating signals of the user that has been processed by the multiple antennae, and to perform the interference suppression using the spatial and time-frequency characteristic of the interference obtained from learning.

28. (canceled)

29. A user signal transmitting system of Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), comprising:

at least one Base Transceiver Station (BTS) and at least one terminal, wherein a user communicates with the BTS via the terminal, and in an OFDMA access manner, a radio resource is divided into multiple two-dimensional time-frequency grids, and wherein;

the BTS is adapted to allocate sub-channels, wherein all the time-frequency grids of each timeslot are divided into multiple sub-channels, in which each sub-channel comprises N_f sub-carriers overlapping in time, where N_f≧

4, and in the N_f sub-carriers comprised in each sub-channel, a maximum value of a frequency interval between adjacent sub-carriers is three times or more than three times of a minimum value of the frequency interval between the adjacent sub-carriers;

to generate, when transmitting a user message of the user to the terminal, a modulating signal of the user based on the user message to be sent;

to map the modulating signal of the user to a time-frequency grid set allocated by itself to the user, and to insert one or more null signals respectively into one or more time-frequency grids comprised in each sub-channel to generate a frequency-domain signal of the user; and

to perform Inverse Fast Fourier Transform on the frequency-domain signal of the user to generate a time-domain signal of the user, and to transmit the time-domain signal, wherein the time-frequency grid set is a union set of one or more sub-channels, in which a quantity of the one or more sub-channels is determined by a size of the user message, and a time-frequency position of the sub-channel is selected according to a predetermined rule; and

,

the terminal is adapted to perform, in turn, Fast Fourier Transform and inverse mapping on the time-domain signal of the user from the BTS, to obtain the modulating signal of the user;

to learn a spatial and time-frequency characteristic of an interference from the one or more null signals in the one or more time-frequency grids comprised in each sub-channel using the modulating signal of the user; and

to perform interference suppression on the modulating signal of the user using the spatial and time-frequency characteristic of the interference obtained from learning, and to demodulate the modulating signal of the user with the interference suppression being performed to obtain the user message of the user.