FILTERING METHOD, SYSTEM AND EQUIPMENT

• US 20120151305A1
• Filed: 02/17/2012
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2009
• 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: Zhang, Pengrui, Li, Cheng, Jia, Yuchen, Long, Guozhu, Dong, Huishen
• Granted Patent: US 8,468,437 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/799
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/32 Reducing cross-talk, e.g. by compensating
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0654 at the receiver, e.g. antenna verification at mobile station
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0658 Feedback reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0204 of multiple channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0242 using matrix methods
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03343 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2601 Multicarrier modulation systems

Abstract

A filtering method, system, and equipment applied in digital communication technologies are disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention. The filtering method of the present embodiments includes: acquiring filtering coefficients of a part of all subcarriers according to data transmission errors; acquiring filtering coefficients of remaining subcarriers through an interpolation algorithm according to the filtering coefficients of the part of subcarriers; and finally, filtering the data corresponding to the multiple subcarriers according to the filtering coefficients of the part of subcarriers and the filtering coefficients of the remaining subcarriers. The part of subcarriers may be selected at a regular interval, or may be subcarriers which are located at a motion value away from the part of subcarriers selected in the previous update of the filtering coefficients. The method of the present embodiments reduces the amount of operation and hardware expenditure, and saves the cost.

Claims

1. A filtering method, comprising:

acquiring data transmission errors of data over apart of multiple subcarriers between a first communication equipment and a second communication equipment;

acquiring filtering coefficients of the part of subcarriers according to the data transmission errors of the data over the part of subcarriers;

wherein the filtering coefficient of each subcarrier is acquired according to the data transmission error of the data over this subcarrier;

acquiring filtering coefficients of remaining subcarriers according to the filtering coefficients of the part of subcarriers; and

filtering data corresponding to the multiple subcarriers according to the filtering coefficients of the part of subcarriers and the filtering coefficients of the remaining subcarriers.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein acquiring filtering coefficients of remaining subcarriers according to the filtering coefficients of the part of subcarriers comprises:

acting the acquired filtering coefficients of the part of subcarriers as known quantity, and applying a linear interpolation method or nonlinear interpolation method to acquire filtering coefficients of remaining subcarriers;

the part of subcarriers comprise first subcarriers and second subcarriers;

the remaining subcarriers are a result of subtracting the first subcarriers and the second subcarriers from the multiple subcarriers;

at least one different subcarrier exists between the first subcarriers and the second subcarriers.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein acquiring the data transmission errors of the data over the part of multiple subcarriers between the first communication equipment and the second communication equipment comprises:

sending, by the first communication equipment, a notification message to the second communication equipment, wherein the notification message carries information about the part of subcarriers; and

receiving, by the first communication equipment, the data transmission errors of the data over the part of subcarriers from the second communication equipment.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the filtering coefficients are precoding coefficients, and the step of filtering the data corresponding to the multiple subcarriers according to the filtering coefficients of the part of subcarriers and the filtering coefficients of the remaining subcarriers comprises;

before the first communication equipment sends the data to the second communication equipment, filtering the data waiting to be sent and corresponding to the multiple subcarriers according to the precoding coefficients of the part of subcarriers and the precoding coefficients of the remaining subcarriers; and

/or

the filtering coefficients are cancellation coefficients, and the step of filtering the data corresponding to the multiple subcarriers according to the filtering coefficients of the part of subcarriers and the filtering coefficients of the remaining subcarriers comprises;

after the first communication equipment receives the data from the second communication equipment, filtering the received data corresponding to the multiple subcarriers according to the cancellation coefficients of the part of subcarriers and the cancellation coefficients of the remaining subcarriers.

5. The method according to claim 1, after filtering the data corresponding to the multiple subcarriers, the method further comprises:

judging, by the first communication equipment, whether the filtering coefficients corresponding to the multiple subcarriers meet a preset condition;

if not, selecting first subcarriers which are located a motion value away from the part of subcarriers;

acquiring, by the first communication equipment, the filtering coefficients of the first subcarriers according to the data transmission error of the data over the first subcarriers;

acquiring, by the first communication equipment, according to the filtering coefficients of the part of subcarriers and the filtering coefficients of the first subcarriers, filtering coefficients of remaining subcarriers which are a result of subtracting the first subcarriers and the part of subcarriers from all the multiple subcarriers; and

filtering, by the first communication equipment, the data corresponding to the multiple subcarriers according to the filtering coefficients of the first subcarriers and the filtering coefficients of the remaining subcarriers which are the result of subtracting the first subcarriers and the part of subcarriers from all the multiple subcarriers.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the motion value is (½

ⁿ)*N, wherein N and n are integers greater than 0.

7. A communication equipment, comprising:

a first acquiring unit, configured to acquire data transmission errors of data over a part of multiple subcarriers between the communication equipment and a second communication equipment, and acquire filtering coefficients of the part of subcarriers according to the data transmission errors of the data over the part of subcarriers;

a second acquiring unit, configured to acquire filtering coefficients of remaining subcarriers according to the filtering coefficients of the part of subcarriers acquired by the first acquiring unit; and

a filtering unit, configured to filter data corresponding to the multiple subcarriers according to the filtering coefficients of the part of subcarriers acquired by the first acquiring unit and the filtering coefficients of the remaining subcarriers acquired by the second acquiring unit.

8. The communication equipment according to claim 7, further comprising:

a subcarrier selecting unit, configured to select the part of subcarriers by selecting subcarriers at an interval of N subcarriers, or by selecting subcarriers which are located at a motion value away from subcarriers selected in a previous update of the filtering coefficients according to a preset condition, wherein the motion value is (½

ⁿ)*N and the N and n are integers greater than 0.

9. The communication equipment according to claim 7, further comprising:

a judging unit, configured to judge whether the filtering coefficients of the subcarriers meet a second preset condition, wherein the preset second condition is;

the data over each subcarrier reaches a preset value;

or, a product of the filtering coefficient and a channel H is a diagonal matrix or almost a diagonal matrix.

10. The communication equipment according to claim 7, further comprising:

a data transceiving unit, configured to;

send a notification message to the second communication equipment, wherein the notification message carries information about the subcarriers selected by the subcarrier selecting unit; and

receive the data transmission errors returned by the second communication equipment.

11. A communication system, comprising:

a first communication equipment, configured to;

acquire filtering coefficients of a part of multiple subcarriers according to data transmission errors of the part of subcarriers,

acquire filtering coefficients of remaining subcarriers according to the filtering coefficients of the part of subcarriers, and

filter data corresponding to the multiple subcarriers according to the filtering coefficients of the part of subcarriers and the filtering coefficients of the remaining subcarriers.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein:

the system further comprises a second communication equipment;

the first communication equipment is further configured to select the part of subcarriers, and send a notification message to the second communication equipment, wherein the notification message carries information about the selected subcarriers; and

the second communication equipment is configured to send the data transmission errors of the corresponding subcarriers to the first communication equipment according to the information about the selected subcarriers in the notification message.