Cooperative Components in a Wireless Feeder Network
First Claim
1. A method of operating a wireless feeder network used to couple access base stations of an access network with a communications network, the wireless feeder network comprising a plurality of wireless feeder network components, the plurality of wireless feeder network components comprising a plurality of feeder base stations coupled to the communications network and a plurality of feeder terminals coupled to associated access base stations, each feeder terminal having a feeder link with a feeder base station, and the feeder links being established over a wireless resource comprising a plurality of resource blocks, the method comprising the steps of:
- grouping a plurality of said wireless network components together as elements of a feeder cluster, said elements comprising a primary element and a secondary element;
providing connections between said elements of said feeder cluster, wherein said connections are mediated by an additional wired communications resource configured to be operated in parallel with said wireless resource;
in said primary element of said feeder cluster, receiving data transmitted via said wireless resource and performing a primary decoding process to seek to decode at least one resource block allocated for reception of data by said primary element and thereby generate primary decoded data;
in said secondary element of said feeder cluster, receiving said data transmitted via said wireless resource and performing a secondary decoding process to seek to decode said at least one resource block allocated for reception of data by said primary element and thereby generate secondary decoded data;
transmitting information derived from said secondary decoded data from said secondary element to said primary element via said additional wired communications resource; and
in said primary element of said feeder cluster, performing a revised primary decoding process additionally using said information derived from said secondary decoded data received from said secondary element to decode more reliably said at least one resource block allocated for reception of data by said primary element,wherein said secondary decoding process comprises a linked sequence of decoding stages, wherein said secondary element stores said decoded data from each stage of said linked sequence of decoding stages, and said information derived from said secondary decoded data transmitted from said secondary element to said primary element via said additional wired communications resource comprises decoded data from a selected decoding stage.
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Abstract
A wireless feeder network comprises feeder base stations coupled to the communications network and feeder terminals coupled to associated access base stations of the access network. A group of wireless network components form elements of a feeder cluster and the elements of the feeder cluster are connected by an additional communications resource configured to be operated in parallel with the wireless resource of the wireless feeder network. Both a primary and secondary element of the feeder cluster seek to decode at least one resource block allocated to the primary element for reception of data. Information derived from the secondary decoded data is transmitted from the secondary element to the primary element via the additional communications resource. The primary element then performs a revised decoding process additionally using the information received from said secondary element to improve its own decode probability.
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29 Claims
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1. A method of operating a wireless feeder network used to couple access base stations of an access network with a communications network, the wireless feeder network comprising a plurality of wireless feeder network components, the plurality of wireless feeder network components comprising a plurality of feeder base stations coupled to the communications network and a plurality of feeder terminals coupled to associated access base stations, each feeder terminal having a feeder link with a feeder base station, and the feeder links being established over a wireless resource comprising a plurality of resource blocks, the method comprising the steps of:
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grouping a plurality of said wireless network components together as elements of a feeder cluster, said elements comprising a primary element and a secondary element; providing connections between said elements of said feeder cluster, wherein said connections are mediated by an additional wired communications resource configured to be operated in parallel with said wireless resource; in said primary element of said feeder cluster, receiving data transmitted via said wireless resource and performing a primary decoding process to seek to decode at least one resource block allocated for reception of data by said primary element and thereby generate primary decoded data; in said secondary element of said feeder cluster, receiving said data transmitted via said wireless resource and performing a secondary decoding process to seek to decode said at least one resource block allocated for reception of data by said primary element and thereby generate secondary decoded data; transmitting information derived from said secondary decoded data from said secondary element to said primary element via said additional wired communications resource; and in said primary element of said feeder cluster, performing a revised primary decoding process additionally using said information derived from said secondary decoded data received from said secondary element to decode more reliably said at least one resource block allocated for reception of data by said primary element, wherein said secondary decoding process comprises a linked sequence of decoding stages, wherein said secondary element stores said decoded data from each stage of said linked sequence of decoding stages, and said information derived from said secondary decoded data transmitted from said secondary element to said primary element via said additional wired communications resource comprises decoded data from a selected decoding stage. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A wireless feeder network controller configured to control a wireless feeder network used to couple access base stations of an access network with a communications network, the wireless feeder network comprising a plurality of wireless feeder network components, the plurality of wireless feeder network components comprising a plurality of feeder base stations coupled to the communications network and a plurality of feeder terminals coupled to associated access base stations, each feeder terminal having a feeder link with a feeder base station, and the feeder links being established over a wireless resource comprising a plurality of resource blocks, the wireless feeder network controller configured to:
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group a plurality of said wireless network components together as elements of a feeder cluster, said elements comprising a primary element and a secondary element, wherein connections between said elements of said feeder cluster are mediated by an additional wired communications resource configured to be operated in parallel with said wireless resource; cause said primary element of said feeder cluster to receive data transmitted via said wireless resource and to perform a primary decoding process to seek to decode at least one resource block allocated for reception of data by said primary element and thereby generate primary decoded data; cause said secondary element of said feeder cluster to receive said data transmitted via said wireless resource and to perform a secondary decoding process to seek to decode said at least one resource block allocated for reception of data by said primary element and thereby generate secondary decoded data; cause said secondary element to transmit information derived from said secondary decoded data from said secondary element to said primary element via said additional wired communications resource; and cause said primary element of said feeder cluster to perform a revised primary decoding process additionally using said information derived from said secondary decoded data received from said secondary element to decode more reliably said at least one resource block allocated for reception of data by said primary element, wherein said secondary decoding process comprises a linked sequence of decoding stages, wherein said secondary element stores said decoded data from each stage of said linked sequence of decoding stages, and said information derived from said secondary decoded data transmitted from said secondary element to said primary element via said additional wired communications resource comprises decoded data from a selected decoding stage.
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29. A wireless feeder network configured to couple access base stations of an access network with a communications network, the wireless feeder network comprising a plurality of wireless feeder network components, the plurality of wireless feeder network components comprising a plurality of feeder base stations coupled to the communications network and a plurality of feeder terminals coupled to associated access base stations, each feeder terminal having a feeder link with a feeder base station, and the feeder links being established over a wireless resource comprising a plurality of resource blocks, wherein:
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a plurality of said wireless network components are configured to be grouped together as elements of a feeder cluster, said elements comprising a primary element and a secondary element; said elements of said feeder cluster are configured to be interconnected by connections, wherein said connections are mediated by an additional wired communications resource configured to be operated in parallel with said wireless resource; said primary element of said feeder cluster is configured to receive data transmitted via said wireless resource and to perform a primary decoding process to seek to decode at least one resource block allocated for reception of data by said primary element and thereby generate primary decoded data; said secondary element of said feeder cluster is configured to receive said data transmitted via said wireless resource and to perform a secondary decoding process to seek to decode said at least one resource block allocated for reception of data by said primary element and thereby generate secondary decoded data; said secondary element is configured to transmit information derived from said secondary decoded data from said secondary element to said primary element via said additional wired communications resource; and said primary element of said feeder cluster is configured to perform a revised primary decoding process additionally using said information derived from said secondary decoded data received from said secondary element to decode more reliably said at least one resource block allocated for reception of data by said primary element, wherein said secondary decoding process comprises a linked sequence of decoding stages, wherein said secondary element is configured to store said decoded data from each stage of said linked sequence of decoding stages, and said information derived from said secondary decoded data transmitted from said secondary element to said primary element via said additional wired communications resource comprises decoded data from a selected decoding stage.
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