APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING WIDE-BAND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION GAIN IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD OF THE SAME

• US 20160241278A1
• Filed: 02/11/2016
• Published: 08/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: LEE, Yong Su
• Granted Patent: US 9,634,699 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0475 with means for limiting noise, interference or distortion H04B1/0483 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/0425 with linearisation using predistortion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/08 Modifications for reducing interference; Modifications for reducing effects due to line faults ; Receiver end arrangements for detecting or overcoming line faults

Abstract

Disclosed are an apparatus for controlling a wide-band signal transmission gain, which differently applies a transmission gain by the unit of an intermediate frequency (IF) at a transmitting side of a wide-band multi-IF wireless communication system which can convert multiple baseband digital signals into IF signals and thereafter, multiplex and simultaneously transmit the converted IF signals and a signal processing method of the same.

Claims

1. An apparatus for controlling a wide-band signal transmission gain, the apparatus comprising:

a baseband processor generating a plurality of baseband digital signals and outputting the generated baseband digital signals by controlling gains of the generated baseband digital signals;

a multi-IF converter converting the plurality of baseband digital signals output from the baseband processor into digital IF signals and multiplexing the converted digital IF signals and outputting the multiplexed digital IF signals; and

a digital-to-analog converter converting the multiplexed digital IF signals output from the multi-IF converter into analog IF signals.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the baseband processor individually controls gains of the baseband digital signals for each IF.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the baseband processor controls the gains of the baseband digital signals according to a characteristic of the digital-to-analog converter.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the baseband processor controls the gains of the baseband digital signals according to an amplitude characteristic of a frequency response depending on a sampling scheme of the digital-to-analog converter.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the baseband processor amplifies the baseband digital signals by attenuation amounts of the digital IF signals attenuated while passing through the digital-to-analog converter.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the baseband processor includes:

a plurality of modems individually generating the plurality of baseband digital signals;

a plurality of amplifiers corresponding to the plurality of baseband digital signals one to one and amplifying the corresponding baseband digital signals according to gain control signals; and

a transmission gain controller generating the gain control signals according to the predetermined characteristic of the digital-to-analog converter and outputting the generated gain control signal to the amplifier.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the transmission gain controller generates the gain control signals according to the amplitude characteristic of the frequency response depending on the sampling scheme of the digital-to-analog converter.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the multi-IF converter allocates different IFs to the plurality of baseband digital signals and converts the corresponding baseband digital signals into digital IF signals.

9. A signal processing method of an apparatus for controlling a wide-band signal transmission gain, the method comprising:

generating a plurality of baseband digital signals;

controlling gains of the plurality of generated baseband digital signals;

converting the baseband digital signals having the controlled gains into digital IF signals;

multiplexing the converted digital IF signals; and

converting the multiplexed digital IF signals into analog IF signals.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein in the controlling of the gains, the gains of the baseband digital signals are individually controlled for each IF.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein in the controlling of the gains, the gains of the baseband digital signals are controlled according to an amplitude characteristic of a frequency response depending on a sampling scheme at the time of converting the multiplexed digital IF signals into analog IF signals.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein in the controlling of the gains, the baseband digital signals are amplified by attenuation amounts attenuated at the time of converting the multiplexed digital IF signals into the analog IF signals.