Method and apparatus for estimating parameters of a communication system using antenna arrays and spatial processing
First Claim
1. In a communication system comprising at least one remote terminal and a base station, the base station having an antenna array of m antenna elements, the communication system having a set of one or more parameters, said set consisting of a first set of parameters already estimated and a second set of parameters to be estimated, a method for determining an estimate of one or more parameters of the second set, the method comprising:
- a) transmitting a first signal of known characteristics;
b) receiving said first signal at the base station as a first plurality of m received signals at m corresponding antenna elements;
c) determining a cost function that is related to the at least one or more parameters of the second set, said determining including;
i) forming a copy signal from samples of the signals of the first plurality of received signals using a weight vector,ii) if the first set is not empty, obtaining estimates of one or more parameters of the first set, andiii) using the known characteristics of the first signal; and
d) selecting as the estimate of the one or more parameters of the second set, the values of the one or more parameters of the second set that minimize the cost function.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for estimating the parameters of a wireless communication system which includes at least one base station and at least one remote terminal, each of the base stations having m antenna elements, the parameters being one or more of: the time alignment; the frequency offset; and the weight vector for spatial processing. At any stage, some of the parameters may already be estimated. A signal of known characteristics is transmitted and received as m received signals at the antenna elements. A cost function that is related to the at least one or more parameters of the second set is determined using a copy signal determined from samples of the received signals, estimates of one or more parameters, if available, known characteristics of transmitted first signal. The estimate of the parameters to be determined is obtained by minimizing the cost function.
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52 Claims
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1. In a communication system comprising at least one remote terminal and a base station, the base station having an antenna array of m antenna elements, the communication system having a set of one or more parameters, said set consisting of a first set of parameters already estimated and a second set of parameters to be estimated, a method for determining an estimate of one or more parameters of the second set, the method comprising:
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a) transmitting a first signal of known characteristics; b) receiving said first signal at the base station as a first plurality of m received signals at m corresponding antenna elements; c) determining a cost function that is related to the at least one or more parameters of the second set, said determining including; i) forming a copy signal from samples of the signals of the first plurality of received signals using a weight vector, ii) if the first set is not empty, obtaining estimates of one or more parameters of the first set, and iii) using the known characteristics of the first signal; and d) selecting as the estimate of the one or more parameters of the second set, the values of the one or more parameters of the second set that minimize the cost function. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49)
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9. In a communication system comprising at least one remote terminal and a base station, the base station having an antenna array of m antenna elements, the communication system having a set of one or more parameters, a method for determining an estimate of one or more parameters of the set, the method comprising:
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a) transmitting a first signal of known characteristics; b) receiving said first signal at the base station as a first plurality of m received signals at m corresponding antenna elements; c) determining a cost function that is related to the at least one or more parameters of the set, said cost function being a function of (i) a copy signal related to samples of the signals of the first plurality of received signals, and (ii) a reference signal determined from the known characteristics of the first signal; and
d) selecting as the estimate of the one or more parameters of the set, the values of the one or more parameters of the set that minimize the cost function. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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14. In a communications system comprising at least one remote terminal and at least one base station, each of said at least one base stations having m antenna elements, a method for estimating the time alignment of the communications system, the method comprising:
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a) transmitting a first signal of known characteristics; b) receiving said first signal as a first plurality of m received signals at m corresponding antenna elements; c) calculating a minimum cost function for each time alignment of a set of time alignments, said minimum cost function calculating comprising determining the weight vector that minimizes a cost function of the error between a reference signal and a copy signal, the reference signal determined from the known characteristics of said first signal and the copy signal being of samples of the signals of said first plurality of received signals, the copy signal calculated using said weight vector, the copy signal and the reference signal shifted in time relative to each other by said each time alignment, the minimum cost function being the cost function using said calculated weight vector; and d) selecting the time alignment estimate as the time alignment of said set of time alignments which has the lowest minimum cost function. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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50. In a communications system comprising at least one remote terminal and a base station, the base stations having a plurality of antenna elements, in which successful communication between the base station and a remote terminal requires that common channel timing and frequency be established, a method for establishing common channel timing and frequency by estimating a second set of parameters from a first set of estimated parameters, the method comprising:
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a) transmitting a modulated signal with known finite alphabet properties, said modulated signal modulated by a DPSK modulation scheme; b) receiving the transmitted signal at the plurality of antenna elements and producing a down-converted complex representation of each received signal as a received signal vector; c) estimating the transmitted signal using a signal copy operation with an initial spatial weight vector; d) creating a time sampled representation, b0 (n), of s0 (t); e) forming a differential stream,
space="preserve" listing-type="equation">d.sub.0 (n)=b.sub.0 (n)/b.sub.0 (n-L)
space="preserve" listing-type="equation">∠
d.sub.0,(n)=∠
b.sub.0 (n)-∠
b.sub.0 (n-L)where L is the baud interval and ∠
(.) represents a phase angle of an associated argument;f) computing a time alignment squared error eA2 (n)=|d0 (n)-d0ideal (n)|2 as eA2 (n)=(|xRe (n)|-1/√
2)2 +(|jxIm (n)|-1/√
2)2 where d0idea (n) is the closest ideal complex value (±
∠
π
/4 or ±
∠
3π
/4) to d0 (n), and b0 (n)b0 *(n-L)!=xRe (n)+jxIm (n); andg) minimizing a cost function Jx with respect to offset index x where ##EQU2## and N is the total number of samples in d0 (n), selecting the estimated time offset parameter to be the value of x that minimizes Jx. - View Dependent Claims (51)
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52. An apparatus for determining an estimate of one or more parameters of a communication system, the system comprising at least one remote terminal and a base station, the base station having an antenna array of m antenna elements and m corresponding receivers, the communication system having a set of one or more parameters, said set consisting of a first set of parameters already estimated and a second set of parameters to be estimated, the apparatus comprising:
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a) means for transmitting a first signal of known characteristics, said first signal received at the base station as a first plurality of m received signals at m corresponding antenna elements and receivers; b) means for determining a cost function that is related to said at least one or more parameters of the second set, said determining means including i) signal copy means coupled to said receivers for determining a copy signal from samples of the signals of the first plurality of received signals using a weight vector, ii) means for storing parameters of the first set, and iii) means for storing the known characteristics of the first signal; and c) calculating means coupled to cost function determining means for selecting as the estimate of the one or more parameters of the second set, the values of the one or more parameters of the second set that minimize the cost function.
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