Method for controlling outer loop power in a WCDMA system

• US 7,035,231 B2
• Filed: 04/23/2001
• Issued: 04/25/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yarnton Technologies LLC
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Zhang, Junfeng, Yu, Yao
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Chau
• Assistant Examiner(s): Moore, Ian N.
• Application Number:
  US09/840,433
• Publication Number:
  US 20020018453A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,828 Days
• Field of Search: 370/313, 370/320, 370332-334, 370/323, 370/335, 370/342, 370/311, 370/318, 455522-525, 455/70, 455/245.1, 455/69, 714/704, 375/130, 375/295, 706/1
• US Class Current: 370/318
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/12 Outer and inner loops
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/20 using error rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/24 using SIR [Signal to Interference Ratio] or other wireless path parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/36 with a discrete range or set of values, e.g. step size, ramping or offsets

Abstract

A method for controlling outer loop power in WCDMA system, which includes the following steps of: a) measuring a BER, and calculating an error between measured BER and a target BER and a change of the error; b) determining a degree of the error and a degree of the change of the error; c) calculating a degree of a SNR threshold adjusting step in accordance with the degree of the error and the degree of the change of the error; d) determining an actual SNR threshold adjusting step based on 40 the calculated degree of the SNR threshold adjusting step; and e) adjusting a SNR threshold in accordance with the actual SNR threshold adjusting step. The invention bypasses the determination and implementation of the corresponding function relations between the SNR threshold and the measured BER value by using a fuzzy control method, which is capable of implementing adaptive real-time trace, thereby improves control quality.

Claims

1. A method for controlling outer loop power, comprising the following steps of:

a) measuring a BER, and calculating an error between measured BER and a target BER and a change value of the error;

b) determining a fuzzy value of the error and a fuzzy value of the change of the error;

c) calculating a fuzzy value of a SNR threshold adjusting step value in accordance with the fuzzy value of the error and the fuzzy value of the change of the error;

d) determining an actual SNR threshold adjusting step value based on the calculated fuzzy value of the SNR threshold adjusting step value; and

e) adjusting a SNR threshold in accordance with the actual SNR threshold adjusting step value.

2. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 1, wherein said step a) is performed as follows:

the error is −

10, when measured BER=0;

the error is log10 (measured BER/target BER), when measured BER≠

0; and

the change of the error is a current calculated error minus a previous calculated error.

3. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fuzzy value of the error and the fuzzy value of the change of the error in said step b) are determined by a table below:

Fuzzyvalue−

32−

10123Error<

−

0.7[−

0.7,[−

0.3,[−

0.05,[0.05,[0.3, 0.7]>

0.7−

0.3]−

0.05]0.05]0.3]change<

−

0.7[−

0.7,[−

0.3,[−

0.1,[0.1,[0.3, 0.7]>

0.7of error−

0.3]−

0.1]0.1]0.3].

4. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 2, wherein the fuzzy value of the error and the fuzzy value of the variance value of the error in said step b) are determined by a table below:

fuzzyvalue−

3−

2−

10123error<

−

0.7[−

0.7,[−

0.3,[−

0.05,[0.05,[0.3, 0.7]>

0.7−

0.3]−

0.05]0.05]0.3]change<

−

0.7[−

0.7,[−

0.3,[−

0.1,[0.1,[0.3, 0.7]>

0.7of error−

0.3]−

0.1]0.1]0.3].

5. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 1, wherein said step c) is performed in accordance with the following equations;

if |error fuzzy value|<

2, SNR threshold adjusting step fuzzy value=int(a₁,* error fuzzy value+(1−

a₁)*error change fuzzy value grade); and

if |error fuzzy value |≧

2, SNR threshold adjusting step fuzzy value=int(a₂* error fuzzy value+(1−

a₂)*error change fuzzy value),

wherein, int(x) denotes rounding, and both a₁ and a₂ are adjustable coefficients and meet the following requirement;

0≦

a₁≦

a₂≦

<

1.

6. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 3, wherein said step c) is performed in accordance with the following equations:

if |error fuzzy value |≦

2, SNR threshold adjusting step fuzzy value=int(a₁* error fuzzy value+(1−

a₁) *error change fuzzy value); and

if |error fuzzy value |≧

2, SNR threshold adjusting step fuzzy value=int(a₂* error fuzzy value+(1−

a₂) *error change fuzzy value),

wherein, int(x) denotes rounding, and both a₁ and a₂ are adjustable coefficients and meet the following requirement;

0≦

a₁≦

a₂≦

1.

7. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 4, wherein said step c) is performed in accordance with the following equations:

if |error fuzzy value |<

2, SNR threshold adjusting step fuzzy value=int(a₁*error fuzzy value+(1−

a₁) *error change fuzzy value); and

if |error fuzzy value≧

2, SNR threshold adjusting step fuzzy value=int(a₂* error fuzzy value+(1−

α

₂) *error change fuzzy value),

wherein, int(x) denotes rounding, and both a₁ and a₂ are adjustable coefficients and meet the following requirement;

0≦

a₁≦

a₂<

1.

8. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 5, wherein a₁ is 0.5 and a₂ is 0.7.

9. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 6, wherein a₁ is 0.5 and a₂ is 0.7.

10. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 7, wherein a₁ is 0.5 and a₂ is 0.7.

11. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 1, wherein in step d), the actual SNR adjusting step value threshold is determined according to the fuzzy value of SNR threshold adjusting step value as shown in the following table:

fuzzy value of−

3−

2−

10123SNR thresholdadjusting step valueactual SNR threshold−

0.6−

0.3−

0.100.10.30.6adjusting step value.

12. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 5, wherein in step d), the actual SNR adjusting step threshold is determined according to the fuzzy value of SNR threshold adjusting step value as shown in the following table:

fuzzy value of−

3−

2−

10123SNR thresholdadjusting step valueActual SNR threshold−

0.6−

0.3−

0.100.10.30.6adjusting step value.

13. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 6, wherein in step d), the actual SNR adjusting step value threshold is determined according to the fuzzy value of SNR threshold adjusting value step as shown in the following table:

fuzzy value of−

3−

2−

10123SNR thresholdadjusting step valueactual SNR threshold−

0.6−

0.3−

0.100.10.30.6adjusting step value.

14. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 7, wherein in step d), the actual SNR adjusting step value threshold is determined according to the fuzzy value of SNR threshold adjusting step value as shown in the following table:

fuzzy value of−

3−

2−

10123SNR thresholdadjusting step valueactual SNR threshold−

0.6−

0.3−

0.100.10.30.6adjusting step value.

15. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 1, wherein in step e), the SNR threshold is adjusted by the following steps of:

i) calculating a temporary SNR threshold in accordance with the following equation;

temporary SNR threshold=SNR threshold adjusting step value +previous SNR threshold; and

ii) determining a SNR threshold according to the temporary SNR threshold calculated in step i);

SNR threshold=predetermined upper limit when temporary SNR threshold>

predetermined upper limit;

SNR threshold=predetermined lower limit when temporary SNR threshold<

predetermined lower limit; and

else SNR threshold=temporary SNR threshold.

16. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 11, wherein in step e), the SNR threshold is adjusted by the following steps of:

i) calculating a temporary SNR threshold in accordance with the following equation;

temporary SNR threshold=SNR threshold adjusting step value+previous SNR threshold; and

ii) determining a SNR threshold according to the temporary SNR threshold calculated in step i);

SNR threshold predetermined upper limit when temporary SNR threshold>

predetermined upper limit;

SNR threshold=predetermined lower limit when temporary SNR threshold<

predetermined lower limit; and

else SNR threshold=temporary SNR threshold.

17. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 12, wherein in step e), the SNR threshold is adjusted by the following steps of:

i) calculating a temporary SNR threshold in accordance with the following equation;

temporary SNR threshold=SNR threshold adjusting step value+previous SNR threshold; and

ii) determining a SNR threshold according to the temporary SNR threshold calculated in step i);

SNR threshold=predetermined upper limit when temporary SNR threshold>

predetermined upper limit;

SNR threshold=predetermined lower limit when temporary SNR threshold<

predetermined lower limit; and

else SNR threshold=temporary SNR threshold.

18. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 13, wherein in step e), the SNR threshold is adjusted by the following steps of:

i) calculating a temporary SNR threshold in accordance with the following equation;

temporary SNR threshold=SNR threshold adjusting step value+previous SNR threshold; and

ii) determining a SNR threshold according to the temporary SNR threshold calculated in step i);

SNR threshold=predetermined upper limit when temporary SNR threshold>

predetermined upper limit;

SNR threshold=predetermined lower limit when temporary SNR threshold<

predetermined lower limit; and

else SNR threshold=temporary SNR threshold.

19. The method for controlling outer loop power as claimed in claim 14, wherein in step e), the SNR threshold is adjusted by the following steps of:

i) calculating a temporary SNR threshold in accordance with the following equation;

temporary SNR threshold=SNR threshold adjusting step value+previous SNR threshold; and

ii) determining a SNR threshold according to the temporary SNR threshold calculated in step i);

SNR threshold=predetermined upper limit when temporary SNR threshold >

predetermined upper limit;

SNR threshold=predetermined lower limit when temporary SNR threshold <

predetermined lower limit; and

else SNR threshold=temporary SNR threshold.