ASYMMETRICAL LINK CONFIGURATION FOR INCREASED TOTAL NETWORK CAPACITY

• US 20120076026A1
• Filed: 09/27/2011
• Published: 03/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ceragon Networks Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Ceragon Networks Incorporated
• Inventors: Ballas, Gur
• Granted Patent: US 8,942,116 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0002 by adapting the transmission rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0823 characterised by the purposes of a change of settings, e.g. optimising configuration for enhancing reliability for optimising operational conditions of wireless networks H04W24/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0037 Inter-user or inter-terminal allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0046 Determination of how many bits are transmitted on different sub-channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0064 Rate requirement of the data, e.g. scalable bandwidth, data priority
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/52 based on load
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/541 using the level of interference

Abstract

A method for managing transmission settings in a wireless point-to-point link, including making a first estimate of a current required traffic capacity for transmitting in a first direction, from a first point in the wireless point-to-point link to a second point, and selecting a first technique for transmitting in the first direction, based, at least in part, on the first estimate of the current required traffic capacity, in which the first technique selected provides a traffic capacity which is less than a maximum capacity possible in the first direction. Related apparatus and methods are also described.

Claims

1. A method for managing transmission settings in a wireless point-to-point link, comprising:

making a first estimate of a current required traffic capacity for transmitting in a first direction, from a first point in the wireless point-to-point link to a second point; and

selecting a first technique for transmitting in the first direction, based, at least in part, on the first estimate of the current required traffic capacity,

in which the first technique selected provides a traffic capacity which is less than a maximum capacity possible in the first direction.

2. The method of claim 1 and further comprising making a first estimate of a current maximal capacity for transmitting in the first direction, and selecting the first technique for transmitting in the first direction to provide a traffic capacity which is more than the first estimate of the current required traffic capacity and less than the first estimate of the current maximal capacity for transmitting in the first direction.

3. The method of claim 1 in which selecting a first technique for transmitting in the first direction comprises selecting a modulation for transmitting.

4. The method of claim 1 in which selecting a first technique for transmitting in the first direction comprises selecting an error coding for transmitting.

5. The method of claim 1 in which selecting a first technique for transmitting in the first direction comprises selecting a power level for transmitting.

6. The method of claim 5 in which said selecting comprises selecting a first technique for transmitting in the first direction such that said first technique uses minimal acceptable transmission power while providing a traffic capacity which is more than said first estimate of the current required traffic capacity.

7. The method of claim 1 in which selecting a first technique for transmitting in the first direction comprises selecting a frequency for transmitting which provides an acceptable level of interference with the same frequency being used on another wireless link based, at least in part, on having selected the first technique which provides a traffic capacity which is less than a maximum capacity possible in the first direction.

8. The method of claim 1, and further comprising:

making an additional estimate of the current required traffic capacity for transmitting in the first direction; and

making an additional selection of a technique for transmitting in the first direction, such that the technique for transmitting in the first direction provide more traffic capacity than the additional estimate of the current required traffic capacity.

9. The method of claim 8, and further comprising:

making an additional estimate of the current maximal capacity for transmitting in the first direction; and

making an additional selection of a technique for transmitting in the first direction to provide a traffic capacity which is more than the additional estimate of the current required traffic capacity and less than the additional estimate of the current maximal capacity for transmitting in the first direction.

10. The method of claim 8 in which additional estimates and additional selections are repeated every period of time.

11. The method of claim 10 in which the period of time is based, at least in part, on a time of day.

12. The method of claim 10 in which the period of time is based, at least in part, on a day of week.

13. The method of claim 10 in which the period of time is based, at least in part, on a season of year.

14. The method of claim 1 in which the technique for transmitting in the first direction comprises an Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) technique.

15. The method of claim 1 in which the wireless point-to-point link comprises a single-carrier/continuous transmission wireless point-to-point link.

16. A communication node for communicating via a wireless link comprising:

a capacity control unit configured to estimate required capacity for transmission, and providing an output indicating the required capacity estimate;

a transmission selection unit configured to select a transmission technique for carrying the required capacity based, at least in part, on receiving the output of the required capacity estimate, and provide instructions for indicating what transmission technique is to be used for transmission;

a transmitter configured for receiving data for transmission and the instructions for indicating what transmission technique is to be used for transmission, and for transmitting the data using the transmission technique.

17. The communication node of claim 16, in which the transmission selection unit is configured to select a transmission technique for carrying the required capacity which is less than a maximum capacity possible.

18. The communication node of claim 16, in which the transmission selection unit is further configured for:

receiving an indication about signal quality received from a second communication node which received the transmission of the communication node; and

selecting a transmission technique based, at least in part, on providing a traffic capacity which is more than the required capacity estimate and less than the maximum capacity possible.