Code division multiple access mobile communication system

• US 6,292,477 B1
• Filed: 04/26/1999
• Issued: 09/18/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Doi, Nobukazu, Yano, Takashi, Ohgoshi, Yasuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Ton, Dang
• Assistant Examiner(s): VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N
• Application Number:
  US09/299,101
• Time in Patent Office: 876 Days
• Field of Search: 370/320, 370/335, 370/342, 370/491, 370/206, 370/503, 370/479, 370/350, 370/468, 375/130, 375/140, 375/362, 375/344, 375/200, 455/182.2, 455/192.2, 455/197.1
• US Class Current: 370/335
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/707 using direct sequence modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2628 using code-division multiple access [CDMA] or spread spectrum multiple access [SSMA] H04B7/2618 takes precedence

Abstract

A code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile communication system with improvements to permit stable reception with a minimum of bit error. The system comprises a voltage-controlled oscillator for supplying a carrier to a radio frequency quadrature demodulator, and a frequency controller for detecting a frequency error from a phase correction signal of the first step to generate a control signal that controls the oscillator. The frequency controller includes an extracting circuit and an integrating circuit. The extracting circuit extracts a phase change based on the frequency error derived from the phase correction signal of the first step and from a signal preceding that signal by a predetermined delay time. The integrating circuit integrates the phase change and outputs the integrated result as the control signal. The predetermined delay time is preferably set within a range not exceeding the delay time needed for averaging by an averaging circuit that receives the phase correction signal of the first step and outputs a phase correction signal. The carrier to a radio frequency quadrature modulator is preferably supplied from the voltage-controlled oscillator.

Claims

1. A code division multiple access mobile communication system for spreading, modulating and transmitting a pilot signal along with data into radio frequency band signals, demodulating and despreading the received radio frequency band signals into a received pilot signal and received data, and generating a phase correction signal from the received pilot signal so that a phase error of the received data is corrected by use of said phase correction signal during detection, wherein the pilot signal is different from said data and comprises predetermined symbols, the system comprising:

a plurality of mobile stations and a base station, said base station establishing up and down links in conjunction with said plurality of mobile stations;

each of said plurality of mobile stations having a detection circuit including;

a voltage-controlled oscillator for supplying a carrier to a radio frequency quadrature demodulator demodulating the received radio frequency band signals;

an averaging circuit for averaging a first step phase correction signal generated from the received pilot signal and outputting said phase correction signal; and

a frequency controller for detecting a frequency error from said first step phase correction signal, said frequency controller further generating from said frequency error a control signal to control the frequency of the carrier generated by said voltage-controlled oscillator.

2. A mobile station for use with a code division multiple access mobile communication system for spreading, modulating and transmitting a pilot signal along with data into radio frequency band signals, demodulating and despreading the received radio frequency band signals into a received pilot signal and received data, and generating a phase correction signal from the received pilot signal so that a phase error of the received data is corrected by use of said phase correction signal during detection, wherein the pilot signal is different from said data and comprises predetermined symbols, said mobile station having a detection circuit comprising:

a voltage-controlled oscillator for supplying a carrier to a radio frequency quadrature demodulator demodulating the received radio frequency band signals;

an averaging circuit for averaging a first step phase correction signal generated from the received pilot signal and outputting said phase correction signal; and

a frequency controller for detecting a frequency error from said first step phase correction signal, said frequency controller further generating from said frequency error a control signal to control the frequency of said voltage-controlled oscillator.

3. A code division multiple access mobile communication system for spreading, modulating and transmitting a pilot signal along with data into radio frequency band signals, demodulating and despreading the received radio frequency band signals into a received pilot signal and received data, and generating a phase correction signal from the received pilot signal so that a phase error of the received data is corrected by use of said phase correction signal during detection, wherein the pilot signal is different from said data and comprises predetermined symbols, the system comprising:

a plurality of mobile stations and a base station said base station establishing up and down links in conjunction with said plurality of mobile stations;

each of said plurality of mobile stations having a detection circuit including;

a voltage-controlled oscillator for supplying a carrier to a radio frequency quadrature demodulator demodulating the received radio frequency band signals;

an averaging circuit for averaging a first step phase correction signal generated from the received pilot signal and outputting said phase correction signal; and

means for detecting a frequency error from said first step phase correction signal, and for generating from said frequency error a control signal to control the frequency of the carrier generated by said voltage-controlled oscillator.

4. A mobile station for use with a code division multiple access mobile communication system for spreading, modulating and transmitting a pilot signal along with data into ratio frequency band signals, demodulating and despreading the received radio frequency band signals into a received pilot signal and received data, and generating a phase correction signal from the received pilot signal so that a phase error of the received data is correction by use of said phase correction signal during detection, wherein the pilot signal is different from said data and comprises predetermined symbols, said mobile station having a detection circuit comprising:

a voltage-controlled oscillator for supplying a carrier to a radio frequency quadrature demodulator demodulating the received radio frequency band signals;

an averaging circuit for averaging a first step phased correction signal generated from the received pilot signal and outputting said phase correction signal; and

means for detecting a frequency error from said first step phase correction signal, and for generating from said frequency error a control signal to control the frequency of said 355 voltage-oscillator.

5. A mobile station for use with a mobile communication system multiplexing a plurality of communication channels using spread spectrum codes comprising:

a demodulator demodulating a radio frequency band signal transmitted from a base station;

an oscillator supplying the demodulator with a carrier;

a first despreading circuit extracting a data signal by despreading the demodulated radio frequency band signal using the spread spectrum code assigned to the data signal;

a second despreading circuit extracting a pilot signal by despreading the demodulated radio frequency band signal using the spread spectrum code assigned to the pilot signal and calculating a phase shift of the pilot signal, wherein the pilot signal is different from the data signal and comprises predetermined symbols;

a controller calculating a change of the phase shift of the pilot signal and controlling a frequency of the carrier by use of the change of the phase shift; and

a phase correction circuit performing phase correction for the data signal by use of the phase shift of the pilot signal.

6. A mobile station according to claim 5, further comprising:

an accumulator converting the calculated phase shift of the pilot signal with a chip rate by the second despreading circuit into a phase shift with a symbol rate;

wherein the phase shift with the symbol rate is inputted to the controller and the phase correction circuit.

7. A mobile station according to claim 6, further comprising:

an averaging circuit averaging the phase shift with the symbol rate during a first period;

wherein the phase correction circuit performs phase correction for the data signal by use of the averaged phase shift.

8. A mobile station according to claim 6, wherein the controller controls the frequency of the carrier in a one-symbol period.

9. A mobile station according to claim 7, wherein the controller controls the frequency of the carrier over a period involving a plurality of symbols.

10. A mobile station according to claim 5, wherein the oscillator is a voltage-controlled oscillator.

11. A mobile station for use with mobile communication system multiplexing a plurality of communication channels using spread spectrum codes comprising:

a demodulator demodulating a radio frequency band signal transmitted from a base station, the radio frequency band signal including a data signal and a pilot signal each of which is spread by a spread spectrum code and modulated;

an oscillator supplying the demodulator with a carrier;

a despreading circuit extracting pilot signal by despreading the demodulated radio frequency band signal using the spread spectrum code assigned to the pilot signal and calculating a phase shift of the pilot signal, wherein the pilot signal is different from the data signal and comprises predetermined symbols; and

a controller calculating a change of the phase shift of the pilot signal and controlling a frequency of the carrier by use of the change of the phase shift.

12. A mobile station according to claim 11, further comprising:

an accumulator converting the calculated phase shift of the pilot signal with a chip rate by the despreading circuit into a phase shift with a symbol rate;

wherein the phase shift with the symbol rate is inputted to the controller.

13. A mobile station according to claim 12, wherein the controller controls the frequency of the carrier in a one-symbol period.

14. A mobile station according to claim 12, wherein the controller controls the frequency of the carrier over a period involving a plurality of symbols.

15. A mobile station according to claim 11, wherein the oscillator is a voltage-controlled oscillator.

16. A mobile station for use with mobile communication system multiplexing a plurality of communication channels using spread spectrum codes comprising:

a demodulator demodulating a radio frequency band signal transmitted from a base station, the radio frequency band signal including a data signal and a pilot signal each of which is spread by a spread spectrum code and modulated;

a modulator modulating a signal transmitted to the base station into a transmitted radio frequency band signal;

an oscillator supplying the demodulator and the modulator with a carrier;

a despreading circuit extracting the pilot signal by despreading the demodulated received radio frequency band signal using the spread spectrum code assigned to the pilot signal and calculating a phase shift of the pilot signal, wherein the pilot signal is different from the data signal and comprises predetermined symbols; and

a controller calculating a change of the phase shift of the pilot signal and controlling a frequency of the carrier by use of the change of the phase shift;

wherein the signal transmitted to the base station is modulated by the modulator using the controlled carrier.

17. A mobile station according to claim 16, wherein the phase shift is detected with a symbol rate.

18. A mobile station according to claim 17, wherein the controller controls the frequency of the carrier in a one-symbol period.

19. A mobile station according to claim 17, wherein the controller controls the frequency of the carrier over a period involving a plurality of symbols.

20. A mobile station according to claim 16, wherein the oscillator is a voltage-controlled oscillator.

21. A base station for use with mobile communication system multiplexing a plurality of communication channels using spread spectrum codes comprising:

a spreading circuit spreading a pilot signal using the spread spectrum code assigned to the pilot signal;

a modulator modulating the spreading pilot signal into a first radio frequency band signal;

a demodulator demodulating a second radio frequency band signal transmitted from a mobile station; and

a first oscillator supplying the modulator and the demodulator with a carrier;

wherein the second radio frequency band signal is a signal modulated with a second carrier generated by a second oscillator in the mobile station, and the frequency of the second carrier is controlled by use of a change of a phase shift which is calculated from the pilot signal extracted from the first radio frequency signal received by the mobile station.

22. A base station according to claim 21, said mobile station further comprising:

an accumulator converting the calculated phase shift of the pilot signal with a chip rate by the despreading circuit into a phase shift with a symbol rate;

wherein the phase shift with the symbol rate is inputted to the controller.

23. A method for detecting a data signal in a mobile station for use with mobile communication system multiplexing a plurality of communication channels using spread spectrum codes comprising the steps of:

demodulating a radio frequency band signal transmitted from a base station with a carrier supplied by an oscillator;

extracting the data signal by despreading the demodulated radio frequency band signal using the spread spectrum code assigned to the data signal;

extracting a pilot signal by despreading the demodulated radio frequency band signal using the spread spectrum code assigned to the pilot signal;

calculating a phase shift of the pilot signal, wherein the pilot signal is different from the data signal and comprises predetermined symbols;

calculating a change of the phase shift of the pilot signal and controlling a frequency of the carrier by use of the change of the phase shift; and

performing phase correction for the data signal by use of the phase shift of the pilot signal.

24. method for detecting according to claim 23, further comprising:

converting the calculated phase shift of the pilot signal with a chip rate by the second despreading circuit into a phase shift with a symbol rate;

wherein the phase shift with the symbol rate is used for calculating the change and performing phase correction for the data signal.

25. A method for detecting according to claim 24, further comprising the steps of

averaging the phase shift with the symbol rate during a first period;

wherein the phase of the data signal is corrected by use of the averaged phase shift in the step of performing phase correction.

26. A method for detecting according to claim 24, wherein the controller controls the frequency of the carrier in a one-symbol period.

27. A method for detecting according to claim 25, wherein the controller controls the frequency of the carrier over a period involving a plurality of symbols.

28. A method for detecting a data signal in a mobile station for use with mobile communication system multiplexing a plurality of communication channels using spread spectrum codes comprising the steps of:

demodulating a radio frequency band signal transmitted from a base station with a carrier supplied by an oscillator;

extracting a pilot signal by despreading the demodulated radio frequency band signal using the spread spectrum code assigned to the pilot signal;

calculating a phase shift of the pilot signal, wherein the pilot signal is different from the data signal and comprises predetermined symbols; and

calculating a change of the phase shift of the pilot signal and controlling a frequency of the carrier by use of the change of the phase shift.

29. A method for detecting according to claim 28, further comprising:

converting the calculated phase shift of the pilot signal with a chip rate by the second despreading circuit into a phase shift with a symbol rate;

wherein the phase shift with the symbol rate is used for calculating the change.

30. A method for detecting according to claim 29, wherein the controller controls the frequency of the carrier in a one-symbol period.

31. A method for detecting according to claim 29, wherein the controller controls the frequency of the carrier over a period involving a plurality of symbols.

32. A method for transmitting a data signal in a mobile station for use with mobile communication system multiplexing a plurality of communication channels using spread spectrum codes comprising the steps of:

demodulating a received radio frequency band signal transmitted from a base station with a carrier supplied by an oscillator;

extracting a pilot signal by despreading the demodulated received radio frequency band signal using the spread spectrum code assigned to the pilot signal;

calculating a phase shift of the pilot signal, wherein the pilot signal is different from the data signal and comprises predetermined symbols;

modulating a signal transmitted to the base station into a transmitted radio frequency band signal with the carrier supplied by the oscillator; and

calculating a change of the phase shift of the pilot signal and controlling a frequency of the carrier by use of the change of the phase shift;

wherein the signal transmitting to the base station is modulated by the modulator using the controlled carrier.

33. A method for transmitting according to claim 32, further comprising:

converting the calculated phase shift of the pilot signal with a chip rate by the second despreading circuit into a phase shift with a symbol rate;

wherein the phase shift with the symbol rate is used for calculating the change.

34. A method of transmitting according to claim 33, wherein the controller controls frequency of the carrier in a one-symbol period.

35. A method for transmitting according to claim 33, wherein the controller controls the frequency of the carrier over a period involving a plurality of symbols.

36. A method of receiving a data signal in a base station for use with mobile communication system multiplexing a plurality of communication channels using spread spectrum codes comprising the steps of:

spreading a pilot signal using the spread spectrum code assigned to the pilot signal;

modulating the spreading pilot signal into a first radio frequency band signal with a first carrier supplied by a first oscillator; and

demodulating a second radio frequency band signal transmitted from a mobile station with the first carrier supplied by the first oscillator;

wherein the second radio frequency band signal is a signal modulated with a second carrier generated by a second oscillator in the mobile station, and frequency of the second carrier is controlled by use of a change of a phase shift which is calculated from the pilot signal extracted from the first radio frequency signal received by the mobile station.

37. A method for receiving according to claim 36, said mobile station further comprising:

an accumulator converting the calculated phase shift of the pilot signal with a chip rate by the despreading circuit into a phase shift with a symbol rate;

wherein the phase shift with the symbol rate is inputted to the controller.