Spread spectrum communication system

• US 6,141,337 A
• Filed: 08/27/1997
• Issued: 10/31/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: FIPA Frohwitter Intellectual Property AG
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Doi, Nobukazu, Yano, Takashi, Uta, Takaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Ton, Dang
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sam, Phirin
• Application Number:
  US08/917,733
• Time in Patent Office: 1,161 Days
• Field of Search: 370/320, 370/335, 370/342, 370/432, 370/441, 370/479, 370/350, 370/491, 370/500, 370/509, 370/516, 370/517, 370/508, 370/503, 370/510, 370/512, 370/513, 370/515, 370/519 , 370/332, 375/200, 375/205, 375/206, 375/356, 375/371, 375/207
• US Class Current: 370/350
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/707 using direct sequence modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2668 Arrangements for Wireless Code-Division Multiple Access [CDMA] System Synchronisation, for code acquisition H04B1/7075, for code tracking H04B1/7085
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/16 Code allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/009 Closed loop measurements

Abstract

Before transmitting an upward traffic packet of a long code, a mobile terminal sends a short packet including a short code to a reservation channel. A base station measures delay of each packet by an initial acquisition circuit to establish chip synchronization timing and a packet de-multiplexer to separate from each other packets overlapped in time with each other. When spreading the long-code packet transmitted via a traffic channel from the mobile terminal, information of the measured delay time is synchronously despread by setting a coefficient at an appropriate point of timing to a matched filter.

Claims

1. A spread spectrum communication system, in which spread spectrum communication is conducted between a master station and a subordinate station, wherein:

the subordinate station establishes a frame synchronization according to a downward reference signal transmitted from the master station and sends an upward control signal according to the frame synchronization,

the master station derives a propagation delay time on a radio channel from a relationship between a downward control signal and the upward control signal,

the subordinate station transmits an upward data signal in synchronism with a frame synchronizing signal, and

the master station receives the upward data signal at timing in accordance with the propagation delay time;

said spread spectrum communication system comprising;

a downward pilot channel for transmitting a reference signal in a downward direction from the master station to the subordinate station;

an upward control channel which is spread by a spreading code having a repetition period substantially equal to one-symbol time for transmitting data in an upward direction from the subordinate station to the master station; and

an upward traffic channel which is spread by a spreading code having a repetition period longer than the one-symbol time;

wherein the master station comprises;

a first matched filter for receiving the upward control channel,

a second matched filter for receiving the upward traffic channel having a configuration for changing a coefficient thereof for each symbol,

a mechanism which measures a propagation delay by comparing timing of a signal demodulated by the first matched filter with reference timing used in the master station, and

a mechanism which controls timing of changing a coefficient of the second matched filter according to a result of measurement of the propagation delay; and

the subordinate station comprises;

a mechanism which extracts the reference timing of the master station by receiving the reference signal via the downward pilot channel, and

a mechanism which transmits an upward data signal to the upward traffic channel in synchronism with the reference timing extracted from the downward control signal.

2. A spread spectrum communication system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a data structure in the data transmitted from the subordinate station to the upward channel, the data structure including a fixed data pattern in a first field of the data; and

a cyclic adder in the master station for cyclically adding to each other the output from the second matched filter,

wherein the synchronization is established, according to an output from the cyclic adder, in the first field of the data sent from the subordinate station to a second channel.

3. A spread spectrum communication system according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for separating in the master station a plurality of peaks from the output from the second matched filter,

wherein signals which are sent from the subordinate station to the second channel and which are received via mutually different traffic paths with a time difference therebetween are separated from each other and are demodulated to be then mixed with each other.

4. A spread spectrum communication system in which a spread spectrum communication is conducted between a master station and a subordinate station, wherein:

the subordinate station establishes a frame synchronization according to an upward reference signal transmitted from the master station, sends an upward control signal according to the frame synchronization, and derives a propagation delay time on a radio channel from a relationship between a downward control signal and the upward control signal,

the master station notifies information of the propagation delay time via a downward channel to the subordinate station,

the subordinate station transmits an upward data signal at timing in accordance with the propagation delay time,and

the master station receives the upward data signal;

said spread spectrum communication system comprising;

a downward pilot channel for transmitting a reference signal in a direction from the master station to the subordinate station;

a downward control channel for transmitting a signal in a direction from the master station to the subordinate station;

an upward control channel which is spread by a spreading code having a repetition period substantially equal to one-symbol time for transmitting data in a direction from the subordinate station to the master station; and

an upward traffic channel which is spread by a spreading code having a repetition period longer than the one-symbol time;

wherein the master station comprises;

a first matched filter for receiving the upward control channel,

a second matched filter for receiving the upward traffic channel having a configuration for changing a coefficient thereof for each symbol,

a mechanism which measures a propagation delay by comparing timing of a signal demodulated by the first matched filter with reference timing used in the master station, and

a mechanism which transmits information of the propagation delay to the downward control channel; and

the subordinate station comprises;

a mechanism which extracts the reference timing of the master station by receiving the downward pilot channel,

a mechanism which receives the downward control signal and extracting the propagation delay measured by the master station, and

a mechanism which transmits upward data to the upward traffic channel at timing in correspondence with the propagation delay extracted from the downward control signal.

5. A spread spectrum communication system according to claim 4, further comprising:

a data structure in the data transmitted from the subordinate station to the upward channel, the data structure including a fixed data pattern in a first field of the data; and

a cyclic adder in the master station for cyclically adding to each other the output from the second matched filter,

wherein the synchronization is established, according to an output from the cyclic adder, in the first field of the data transmitted from the subordinate station to a second channel.

6. A spread spectrum communication system according to claim 4, further comprising:

means for separating in the master station a plurality of peaks from the output from the second matched filter,

wherein signals which are sent from the subordinate station to the second channel and which are received via mutually different traffic paths with a time difference therebetween are separated from each other and are demodulated to be then mixed with each other.