Method, Device and System for Detecting Random Access Signal in Interference Environment

• US 20170019929A1
• Filed: 08/22/2014
• Published: 01/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2014
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: WANG, Wenfang, WANG, Shaopeng, QIN, Hongfeng
• Application Number:
  US15/123,682
• Publication Number:
  US 20170019929A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/1027 assessing signal quality or detecting noise/interference for the received signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 11/005 of intercell interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2663 Coarse synchronisation, e.g. by correlation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2672 Frequency domain
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2675 Pilot or known symbols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2688 Resistance to perturbation, e.g. noise, interference or fading
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2691 involving interference determination or cancellation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/004 in the uplink, i.e. towards network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access

Abstract

A method, device and system for detecting a random access signal in an interference environment. The method includes: receiving a time-domain random access signal to obtain a frequency-domain random access signal; obtaining interference cancelling weights according to the frequency-domain random access signal and a frequency-domain local cyclic shift sequence, and performing interference cancelling on the frequency-domain random access signal with obtained interference cancelling weight; and performing peak detection on the frequency-domain random access signal after interference cancelling. The device includes an obtaining module configured to receive a time-domain random access signal to obtain a frequency-domain random access signal; an interference cancellation module configured to calculate interference cancelling weights according to the frequency-domain random access signal and a frequency-domain local cyclic shift sequence, and perform interference cancelling on the frequency-domain random access signal; and a detection module configured to perform peak detection on the frequency-domain random access signal after interference cancelling.

Claims

1. A method for detecting a random access signal in an interference environment, comprising:

receiving a time-domain random access signal to obtain a frequency-domain random access signal;

obtaining interference cancelling weights respectively according to the frequency-domain random access signal and a frequency-domain local cyclic shift sequence, and performing interference cancelling on the frequency-domain random access signal with the obtained interference cancelling weights; and

performing peak detection on the frequency-domain random access signal on which interference cancelling has been performed.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, said receiving a time-domain random access signal to obtain a frequency-domain random access signal comprises performing down-sampling on the received time-domain random access signal firstly, and then performing Fast Fourier Transform to obtain the frequency-domain random access signal.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein, said obtaining interference cancelling weights respectively according to the frequency-domain random access signal and a frequency-domain local cyclic shift sequence is calculated according to W=R_SYR_YY⁻

1, wherein, W represents an interference cancelling weight, R_SY=E{SY^H}, R_YY=E{YY^H}, S represents a frequency-domain local cyclic sequence, Y represents a frequency-domain random access signal before interference cancelling is performed, a number of dimensions of S is 1×

N, a number of dimensions of Y is M×

N, M represents a number of receiving antennas; and

N represents a number of sub-carrier waves.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein, said performing interference cancelling on the frequency-domain random access signal is calculated according to Ŷ

=WY, wherein, W represents an interference cancelling weight, Ŷ

represents a frequency-domain random access signal on which interference cancelling has been performed, and a number of dimensions of Ŷ

is 1×

N.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein, the step of performing peak detection on the frequency-domain random access signal on which interference cancelling has been performed comprises:

conjugation dot multiplying the frequency-domain random access signal on which interference cancelling has been performed by a frequency-domain local root sequence or the frequency-domain cyclic shift sequence;

converting the signal obtained by conjugation dot multiplying from the frequency-domain to the time-domain;

calculating a modular squaring of the time-domain signal to obtain a peak detection sequence; and

detecting the peak detection sequence.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein, said detecting the peak detection sequence comprises performing noise average estimation on the peak detection sequence, and obtaining a signal detection threshold according to an estimated value, then detecting a signal in a search window corresponding to a current frequency-domain cyclic shift sequence, and selecting a signal exceeding the threshold.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein, said detecting the peak detection sequence comprises performing firstly power combination on the peak detection sequence of a random access signal with a repetition format, then performing noise average estimation on the peak detection sequence on which the power combination has been performed, and obtaining a signal detection threshold according to an estimated value, then detecting a signal in a search window corresponding to a current frequency-domain cyclic shift sequence, and selecting a signal exceeding the detection threshold.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein, the power combination is equal-gain combination or maximal-ratio combination.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein, before said obtaining interference cancelling weights according to the frequency-domain random access signal and a frequency-domain local cyclic shift sequence, the method further comprises determining sequence validities of all frequency-domain cyclic shift sequences.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein, while determining sequence validities of all frequency-domain cyclic shift sequences before obtaining interference cancelling weights, when performing peak detection on the frequency-domain random access signal on which interference cancelling has been performed, only a search window corresponding to the frequency-domain cyclic shift sequence which is determined to be valid is detected.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein, said obtaining interference cancelling weights respectively according to the frequency-domain random access signal and a frequency-domain local cyclic shift sequence, and performing interference cancelling on the frequency-domain random access signal further comprises performing group selection on all the frequency-domain cyclic shift sequences before obtaining the interference cancelling weights, and performing group combination on interference cancelling weights which belong to a same group after obtaining interference cancelling weights.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein, the group selection is grouped at a regular interval or at an irregular interval.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein, when group selection is performed on all the frequency-domain local cyclic shift sequences before obtaining the interference cancelling weights, said performing interference cancelling on the frequency-domain random access signal is that all or part of the cyclic shift sequences in each group are selected to obtain the interference cancelling weights, while said performing the peak detection on the frequency-domain random access signal on which interference cancelling has been performed is that peak detection is performed on a signal in a search window corresponding to frequency-domain cyclic shift sequences which belong to a same group.

14. A device for detecting a random access signal in an interference environment, comprising:

an obtaining module configured to receive a time-domain random access signal to obtain a frequency-domain random access signal;

an interference cancellation module configured to obtain interference cancelling weights according to the frequency-domain random access signal and a frequency-domain local circular shift sequence, and perform interference cancelling on the frequency-domain random access signal; and

a detection module configured to perform peak detection on the frequency-domain random access signal on which interference cancelling has been performed.

15. The device according to claim 14, wherein, the obtaining module comprises a down-sampling submodule, and the down-sampling submodule is configured to perform down-sampling on the received time-domain random access signal.

16. The device according to claim 14, wherein, the interference cancellation module comprises:

an auto-correlation obtaining submodule configured to obtain a result of an auto-correlation covariance matrix of the frequency-domain random access signal;

a cross-correlation obtaining submodule configured to obtain a result of a cross-correlation covariance matrix of the frequency-domain random access signal and the frequency-domain local cyclic shift sequence;

a weight obtaining submodule configured to obtain the interference cancelling weights according to an output result of the auto-correlation obtaining submodule and an output result of the cross-correlation obtaining submodule; and

a weighted combination submodule configured to perform weighted combination on the frequency-domain random access signal according to an output result of the weight obtaining submodule, to obtain the frequency-domain random access signal on which interference cancelling has been performed.

17. The device according to claim 14, wherein, the detection module comprises:

a peak detection sequence obtaining submodule configured to conjugation dot multiply the frequency-domain random access signal on which interference cancelling has been performed by the frequency-domain local root sequence or the frequency-domain cyclic shift sequence, and then convert the random access signal from the frequency-domain to time-domain by Inverse Fast Fourier Transform, and then calculate a modular squaring, and obtain a peak detection sequence; and

a noise estimation and peak detection submodule configured to perform noise average estimation on the peak detection sequence, and obtain a signal detection threshold according to an estimated noise, and then detect a signal in a search window corresponding to a current frequency-domain cyclic shift sequence, and select a signal exceeding the detection threshold, and

wherein, the detection module further includes a combination submodule, and the combination submodule is configured to, when the random access signal is a random access signal with a repetition format, perform power combination on the peak detection sequence corresponding to two repetition parts, and transmit the peak detection sequence on which the power combination has been performed to the noise estimation and peak detection submodule.

19. The device according to claim 16, wherein, the interference cancellation module further comprises a validity determination module, and the validity determination module is configured to determine sequence validities of all frequency-domain local cyclic shift sequences before obtaining the interference cancelling weights,

and,

wherein, the noise estimation and peak detection submodule is configured to, when the interference cancellation module determines the sequence validities of all the frequency-domain cyclic shift sequences before obtaining the interference cancelling weights, detect only a signal in the search window corresponding to the frequency-domain cyclic shift sequence which is determined to be valid.

21. The device according to claim 16, wherein, the interference cancellation module further comprises a group selection and combination submodule, and the group selection and combination submodule is configured to perform group selection on all the frequency-domain cyclic shift sequences, and to perform group combination on the interference cancelling weights which belong to a same group,

and,

wherein, the noise estimation and peak detection submodule is configured to, when the interference cancellation module groups all the frequency-domain cyclic shift sequences before obtaining the interference cancelling weights, perform peak detection only on a signal in a search window corresponding to frequency-domain cyclic shift sequences which belong to a same group.

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23. A system for detecting a random access signal in an interference environment, comprises a terminal and a device for detection, wherein,

the terminal is configured to transmit a random access signal to a base station;

and

the device for detection is configured to receive a time-domain random access signal to obtain a frequency-domain random access signal; and

then according to the frequency-domain random access signal and a frequency-domain local cyclic shift sequence, perform interference cancelling on the frequency-domain random access signal; and

perform peak detection on the frequency-domain random access signal on which interference cancelling has been performed.