Pilot PN offset assigning method for digital mobile telecommunications system

• US 6,272,122 B1
• Filed: 03/16/1998
• Issued: 08/07/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Wee, Pyeong-Hwan
• Primary Examiner(s): Ton, Dang
• Assistant Examiner(s): TON, ANTHONY T
• Application Number:
  US09/039,681
• Time in Patent Office: 1,240 Days
• Field of Search: 370/342, 370/345, 370/341, 370/343, 370/350, 370/332, 370/334, 370/335, 370/441, 455/186.1, 455/4.2
• US Class Current: 370/342
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2628 using code-division multiple access [CDMA] or spread spectrum multiple access [SSMA] H04B7/2618 takes precedence

Abstract

There is provided a method for assigning a pilot PN(PseudoNoise) offset to a base station in a digital mobile telecommunications system. In the pilot PN offset assigning method, a single cluster is divided into a plurality of subclusters, and a plurality of general base stations and reserved base stations, each having a plurality of sectors, are arranged in each of the subclusters. Then, a pilot PN offset is assigned to each sector, such that the PN offset difference between a sector and a next sector in the same base station is equal to a pilot increment times the number of subclusters in the cluster according to sector numbers, the PN offset difference between the same sectors in corresponding base stations under different subclusters is equal to the pilot increment, and the PN offset difference between the same sectors in a current base station and the next base station under an identical subcluster is equal to the number of subclusters in the cluster times the number of sectors in a base station×the pilot increment.

Claims

1. A method for assigning a pilot PN offset to a base station in a digital mobile telecommunications system, comprising the steps of:

dividing a single cluster into a plurality of subclusters;

arranging a plurality of general base stations and reserved base stations, each having a plurality of sectors, in each of the subclusters; and

assigning a pilot PN offset to each sector, such that a PN offset difference between a sector and a next sector in the same base station is equal to a pilot increment times the number of subclusters in the cluster according to sector numbers, wherein the PN offset difference between the same sectors in corresponding base stations under different subclusters is equal to the pilot increment, and the PN offset difference between the same sectors in a current base station and a next base station under an identical subcluster is equal to the number of subclusters in the cluster×

the number of sectors in a base station×

the pilot increment.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the single cluster comprises three subclusters, the pilot increment is 4, a PN offset re-use distance is 10.8r, and a single subcluster comprises thirteen general base stations and two reserved base stations.

3. A method for assigning a pilot PN offset to a base station in a digital mobile telecommunications system, comprising the steps of:

dividing a single cluster into a plurality of subclusters;

arranging a plurality of general base stations and reserved base stations, each having a plurality of sectors, in each of the subclusters; and

assigning a pilot PN offset to each sector, such that PN offset difference between a sector and a next sector in the same base station is equal to a pilot increment times the number of subclusters in the cluster times the number of base stations in a subcluster—

(the number of subclusters having no PN offsets in the last base stations thereof times the pilot increment) according to sector numbers, wherein the PN offset difference between the same sectors in corresponding base stations under different subclusters is equal to the pilot increment, and the PN offset difference between the same sectors in a current base station and the next base station under an identical subcluster is equal to the number of subclusters in the cluster times the pilot increment.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the cluster comprises four subclusters, the pilot increment is 4, a PN offset re-use distance is 10.5r, and a single subcluster comprises nine general base stations and two reserved base stations.

5. A method for assigning a pilot PN offset to a base station in a digital mobile telecommunications system, comprising the steps of:

dividing each of a plurality of base stations into a plurality of sectors;

arranging the base stations sequentially from an innermost tier to an outermost tier, centering on a reference base station in a single cluster; and

assigning a pilot PN offset to each sector, such that a PN offset difference between a sector and a next sector in the same base station is a pilot increment according to sector numbers, and the PN offset difference between the same sectors in a current base station and the next base station is equal to the number of sectors in a base station times the pilot increment.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein 512 PN offsets are available, said cluster comprises 37 general base stations and 6 reserved base stations, wherein each base station comprises three sectors, the pilot increment is 4, and a PN offset re-use distance is 10.5r.

7. A method for assigning a pilot PN offset to a base station in a digital mobile telecommunications system, comprising the steps of:

dividing each of a plurality of base stations into a plurality of sectors;

arranging the base stations from an innermost tier to an outermost tier, centering on a reference base station in a single cluster; and

assigning a pilot PN offset to each sector, such that a PN offset difference between a sector and a next sector in the same base station is equal to a pilot increment times the number of base stations according to sector numbers.

8. The method according to claim 7 wherein the base stations are arranged sequentially from the innermost tier in the outermost tier, and the PN offset difference between the same sectors in a current base station and a next base station is equal to the pilot increment.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein 512 PN offsets are available, said cluster comprises 37 general base stations and 6 reserved base stations, wherein each base station comprises three sectors, the pilot increment is 4, and a PN offset re-use distance is 10.5r.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein the base stations are arranged nonsequentially from the innermost tier to the outermost tier, and the PN offset difference between the same sectors in a current base station and a next base station is equal to the pilot increment.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein 512 PN offsets are available, said cluster comprises 37 general base stations and 6 reserved base stations, wherein base station comprises three sectors, the pilot increment is 4, and a PN offset re-use distance is 10.5r.

12. A method for assigning a pilot PN offset to a base station in a digital mobile telecommunications system, comprising the steps of:

dividing each of a plurality of base stations into a plurality of sectors;

arranging the base stations nonsequentially from an innermost tier to an outermost tier, centering on a reference base station in a single cluster; and

assigning a pilot PN offset to each sector, such that a PN offset difference between a sector and a next sector in the same base station is a pilot increment according to sector numbers, and the PN offset difference between the same sectors in a current base station and a next base station is equal to the number of sectors in a base station times the pilot increment.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein 512 PN offsets are available, said cluster comprises 37 general base stations and 6 reserved base stations, wherein base station comprises three sectors, the pilot increment is 4, and a PN offset re-use distance is 10.5r.