Base station transmitter-receiver

• US 6,125,138 A
• Filed: 01/16/1998
• Issued: 09/26/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kumagai, Yoshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Chi H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WEBSTER, BRYAN E
• Application Number:
  US09/008,126
• Time in Patent Office: 984 Days
• Field of Search: 375/219, 375/220, 375/354, 375/356, 370/276, 370/277, 370/278, 370/282, 370/288, 455/73, 455/249.1
• US Class Current: 375/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/16 Half-duplex systems; Simplex/duplex switching; Transmission of break signals non-automatically inverting the direction of transmission

Abstract

In a case where transmission and reception timing of a base station has not been synchronized to that of another base station in the vicinity, or in a case where it is necessary to establish such synchronization, a synchronous controller outputs a reception-mode changeover signal to change the prevailing mode from an ordinary reception mode to a synchronous control reception mode. As a result, attenuating means attenuates a strong input signal from the other base station and enters the attenuated signal into a demodulator via a front end. The demodulator proceeds to demodulate the received data. The synchronous controller detects synchronization information (a synchronizing word) from the received data to synchronize the transmission and reception timings of the two base stations and then returns the reception mode to the ordinary reception mode.

Claims

1. A transmitter-receiver of a base station for repeating transmission and reception modes, transmitting a signal in the transmission mode, and receiving a signal in the reception mode, and establishing synchronization of transmission and reception timing between base stations using air synchronization, said transmitter-receiver comprising:

a transmission power amplifier turned on in the transmission mode for inputting a transmission signal to an antenna and turned off in the reception mode;

a front end for amplifying an antenna reception signal and frequency-converting the signal;

a demodulator provided on an output side of said front end for demodulating data from the reception signal; and

attenuating means provided between said front end and the antenna for attenuating the reception signal in a synchronous reception mode, in which mode transmission and reception timing of this base station is synchronized to transmission and reception timing of another base station, and not attenuating the reception signal in an ordinary reception mode.

2. The transmitter-receiver according to claim 1, wherein said attenuating means is a switch, said switch being turned off in the synchronous reception mode.

3. The transmitter-receiver according to claim 1, further comprising:

a signal generator for generating a signal which indicates whether a prevailing mode is the transmission mode or reception mode; and

a synchronous controller for controlling changeover between the synchronous reception mode and the ordinary reception mode.

4. The transmitter-receiver according to claim 3, wherein said synchronous controller has:

a reception signal strength detector for detecting reception signal strength;

first mode changeover means which, in the ordinary reception mode, is for comparing reception signal strength and a set value and changing over mode from the ordinary reception mode to the synchronous reception mode when the reception signal strength has exceeded the set value; and

second mode changeover means which, in the synchronous reception mode, is for identifying the transmission and reception timing of the other base station from demodulated data and, when the transmission and reception timings of its own base station and of the other base station have been synchronized, for changing over mode from the synchronous reception mode to the ordinary reception mode.

5. The transmitter-receiver according to claim 4, wherein said second mode changeover means identifies the transmission and reception timing of the other base station by detecting a synchronizing word from a signal transmitted by a transmitter-receiver of the other base station in the transmission mode.

6. A transmitter-receiver of a base station for repeating transmission and reception modes, transmitting a signal in the transmission mode and receiving a signal in the reception mode, and establishing synchronization of transmission and reception timings between base stations using air synchronization, said transmitter-receiver comprising:

a transmission power amplifier turned on in the transmission mode and turned off in the reception mode;

a front end for amplifying a reception signal and frequency-converting the signal;

an antenna switch for connecting an antenna to a transmission side in a synchronous reception mode, in which mode transmission and reception timing of this base station is synchronized to transmission and reception timing of another base station, and in the transmission mode, and connecting the antenna to a reception side in an ordinary reception mode;

a demodulator provided on an output side of said front end for demodulating data from the reception signal; and

means provided between said front end and said antenna switch for attenuating an input signal in the transmission mode and passing the reception signal in the synchronous reception mode and in the ordinary reception mode.

7. The transmitter-receiver according to claim 6, wherein said attenuating means is a switch, said switch being turned off in the transmission mode and on in the reception mode.

8. The transmitter-receiver according to claim 6, further comprising:

a signal generator for generating a signal which indicates whether a prevailing mode is the transmission mode or reception mode; and

a synchronous controller for controlling changeover between the synchronous reception mode and the ordinary reception mode.

9. The transmitter-receiver according to claim 8, wherein said synchronous controller has:

a reception signal strength detector for detecting reception signal strength;

first mode changeover means which, in the ordinary reception mode, is for comparing reception signal strength and a set value and changing over mode from the ordinary reception mode to the synchronous reception mode when the reception signal strength has exceeded the set value; and

second mode changeover means which, in the synchronous reception mode, is for identifying the transmission and reception timing of the other base station from demodulated data and, when the transmission and reception timings of its own base station and of the other base station have been synchronized, for changing over mode from the synchronous reception mode to the ordinary reception mode.

10. The transmitter-receiver according to claim 9, wherein said second mode changeover means identifies the transmission and reception timing of the other base station by detecting a synchronizing word from a signal transmitted by a transmitter-receiver of the other base station in the transmission mode.