Method and system for synchronizing a base station of a wireless communication system and a subscriber communication equipment

• US 7,706,823 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2006
• Issued: 04/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sequans Communications SA
• Original Assignee: Sequans Communications SA
• Inventors: Debray, Bertrand, Buda, Fabien, Lemois, Emmanuel
• Primary Examiner(s): FERGUSON, KEITH
• Application Number:
  US11/477,916
• Publication Number:
  US 20070019767A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,397 Days
• Field of Search: 455/502, 455/501, 455/500, 455/517, 455/69, 455/522, 455/422.1, 455/550.1, 455/561, 455/445, 370/310, 370/350, 370/503, 370/509, 370/510, 370/512, 370/342, 370/347, 375/354, 375/356, 375/358, 375/355, 375/359
• US Class Current: 455/502
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/0029 interpolation of received data signal

Abstract

A method of synchronizing a base station of a wireless communication system and a subscriber communication equipment located in the coverage area of the base station by compensating a sampling frequency offset in the subscriber equipment by interpolating input and/or output signals of a radio frequency part of the communication equipment to generate samples corresponding to the original symbol timing of the base station, and compensating the carrier frequency offset from the estimate of the sampling clock error.

Claims

1. A method for synchronising a base station of a wireless communication system and a subscriber communication equipment located in the coverage area of the base station, comprising:

compensating a sampling frequency offset in the subscriber equipment by interpolating at least one of input and output signals of a radio frequency part (30) of the communication equipment to generate samples corresponding to an original symbol timing of the base station, and

compensating a carrier frequency offset from the estimate of a sampling clock error.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the steps of compensating the carrier frequency offset are carried out by generating control signal and providing the radio frequency part (30) of the subscriber communication equipment with said control signals.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein that wherein the sampling frequency in the subscriber equipment is adjusted to the original symbol timing using a feedback loop (50), and in that frequency error (X) between master clock frequency on the subscriber equipment side and the master clock frequency on the base station side is estimated from the increment value of a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) of the feed back loop.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein that wherein the sampling frequency in the subscriber equipment is adjusted to the original symbol timing using a feedback loop (50), and in a frequency error (X) between master clock frequency on the subscriber equipment side and the master clock frequency on the base station side is estimated from the increment value of a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) of the feed back loop.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein that wherein the frequency error is estimated from the relation:

NCOIncr/NCOIncr_theory=1+(circumflex over (X))

with;

(1+X)=((F_BS+Δ

F_SS/_BS)/F_BS)

and in which;

F_BS is the base station master clock frequency;

Δ

_FSS/BS is a subscriber equipment master clock offset with respect to the base station;

X is subscriber master clock error with respect to base station (expressed in parts per million) and (circumflex over (X)) is its estimate;

NCOIncr_Theory is the theoretical increment of the numerically controlled oscillator; and

NCOIncr is the measured increment of the numerically controlled oscillator.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein that wherein it further comprises the step of calculating the downlink carrier frequency by the subscriber equipment from its master clock frequency error.

7. The method according to claim 4, the method further comprises the step of calculating the downlink carrier frequency by the subscriber equipment from its master clock frequency error.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the downlink carrier frequency is calculated from the relation:

DLFrequency_SS=(1/(1+(circumflex over (X))))DLFrequency

in which DLFrequency denotes the downlink carrier frequency of the subscriber equipment.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the computed carrier frequency is divided into a coarse carrier frequency applied to the radio frequency part (30) of the subscriber communication and a fine carrier frequency applied to a digital rotator (46) used to compensate the carrier offset in addition to said radio frequency part.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein the uplink carrier frequency is calculated from the relation:

ULFrequencys_SS=(1/(1+(circumflex over (X))))ULFrequency

in which ULFrequency denotes the uplink carrier frequency of the subscriber equipment.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein that wherein the computed carrier frequency is divided into a coarse carrier frequency applied to the radio frequency part (30) of the subscriber communication and a fine carrier frequency applied to a digital rotator (46) used to compensate the carrier offset in addition to said radio frequency part.

12. A device for synchronising a base station of a wireless communication system and a subscriber communication equipment located in the coverage area of the base station, comprising:

an interpolator (48) interpolating input and/or output signals of a radio frequency part of the communication equipment to generate samples corresponding to an original symbol timing of the base station, and

calculating means (51) for compensating a carrier frequency offset from the estimate of a sampling clock error.

13. The device according to claim 12, further comprising:

a feedback loop (50) controlling timing of the interpolator to compensate sampling frequency offset, said feedback loop having a numerically controlled oscillator, and in that calculating means (51) comprise means for estimating a frequency error (X) between a master clock frequency on the subscriber equipment side and a master clock frequency on the base station side from the value of the numerically controlled oscillator.

14. The device according to claim 13, further comprising:

telecommunication equipment synchronising a base station of a wireless communication system and the wireless telecommunication equipment when located in the coverage area of the base station.

15. The device according to claim 12, further comprising:

telecommunication equipment, synchronising a base station of a wireless communication system and the wireless telecommunication equipment when located in the coverage area of the base station.