Apparatus and method for generating synchronization channel for relay station in wireless communication system

• US 7,920,508 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2007
• Issued: 04/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Cho, Soon-Mi, Joo, Pah-Yuh, Lim, Eun-Taek, Park, Dong-Seek, Cho, Jae-Weon, Lee, Mi-Hyun, Chang, Young-Bin, Park, Sung-Eun, Lim, Chi-Woo, Lee, Sung-Jin, Oh, Chang-Yoon, Kang, Hyun-Jeong, Son, Jung-Je, Lim, Hyoung-Kyu
• Primary Examiner(s): LY, ANH VU H
• Application Number:
  US11/891,648
• Publication Number:
  US 20080039013A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,334 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/155 Ground-based stations H04B7/204 takes precedence

Abstract

An apparatus and method for generating an RS SCH in a wireless communication system are provided, in which a base station checks a BS SCH sequence and a mask sequence, and generates an RS SCH sequence by XOR-operating the BS SCH sequence and the mask sequence.

Claims

1. A method for generating a Synchronization CHannel (SCH) in an upper node in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

checking, by the upper node, a sequence of a first SCH being an SCH for a mobile station (MS) and a mask sequence; and

generating a sequence of a second SCH being an SCH for a relay station (RS) by XOR-operating the first SCH sequence and the mask sequence.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the mask sequence is a sequence that minimizes the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of the second SCH.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the mask sequence is one of a common Pseudo Noise (PN) sequence, a common sync symbol sequence, and a sequence of all 0s.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the common PN sequence is one of a sequence having a length equal to a length of the first SCH sequence, generated at a Pseudo Random Binary Sequence (PRBS) generator and cyclically shifted according to a start symbol position of the second SCH.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the common sync symbol sequence has a length equal to a length of the first SCH sequence.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting information about the mask sequence to a lower relay station by a broadcast message.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether to improve the Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) performance of the second SCH;

selecting replacement positions in the second SCH sequence if it is determined to improve the PAPR performance of the second SCH;

calculating replacement elements to substitute at the replacement positions;

substituting the replacement elements at the replacement positions of the second SCH sequence; and

transmitting the second SCH with the replacement elements to the relay station.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the number of the replacement elements is determined according to the PAPR performance and correlation characteristics of the second SCH.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the substitution comprises:

substituting the calculated replacement elements for elements of the second SCH sequence at the replacement positions;

comparing the PAPR of the second SCH with the replacement elements with a threshold;

re-generating replacement elements, if the PAPR is higher than the threshold; and

transmitting the second SCH with the replacement elements to the relay station if the PAPR is lower than the threshold.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the substitution comprises:

changing the value of an i^th element at one of the replacement positions in the second SCH sequence and measuring the PAPR of the second SCH with the i_ti, element having the changed value;

changing the value of an (i+l)^th element at one of the replacement positions in the second SCH sequence and measuring the PAPR of the second SCH with the (i+l)^th element having the changed value, if the PAPR is lower than before the value change of the i_th element; and

recovering an original value of the i^th element, if the PAPR is higher than before the value change of the i^th element.

wherein i is an integer.

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising transmitting information about the replacement positions to the relay station by a broadcast message.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the upper node is one of a base station and an upper relay station.

13. An apparatus for generating a Synchronization CHannel (SCH) for a relay station (RS) in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising:

a storage configured to store a sequence of a first SCH being an SCH for a mobile station (MS) and a mask sequence; and

an SCH generator configured to generate a sequence of a second SCH being an SCH for a relay station by XOR-operating the first SCH sequence and the mask sequence.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the mask sequence is a sequence that minimizes the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of the second SCH.

15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the mask sequence is one of a common Pseudo Noise (PN) sequence, a common sync symbol sequence, and a sequence of all 0s.

16. The apparatus of claim 13, further comprising a Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) controller configured to substitute replacement elements for elements of the second SCH sequence to improve the PAPR performance of the second SCH.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the PAPR controller comprises:

a replacement sequence calculator configured to determine replacement positions in the second SCH sequence and calculate a sequence of the replacement elements; and

an element exchanger configured to substitute the replacements elements at the replacement positions of the second SCH sequence.

18. A method for acquiring a Synchronization CHannel (SCH) in a relay station (RS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

checking, by the relay station. a sequence of a first SCH being an SCH for a mobile station (MS) received from an upper node and a mask sequence;

generating a sequence of a second SCH being an SCH for a relay station by XOR-operating the first SCH sequence and the mask sequence; and

acquiring, upon receipt of a second SCH from the upper node, synchronization to the upper node by correlating the generated second SCH with the received second SCH.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the upper node is one of a base station (BS) and an upper relay station.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the first SCH sequence is received from the upper node during initial access.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the mask sequence is one of a common Pseudo Noise (PN) sequence, a common sync symbol sequence, and a sequence of all 0s.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the common PN sequence is one of a sequence having a length equal to a length of the first SCH sequence, generated at a Pseudo Random Binary Sequence (PRBS) generator and cyclically shifted according to a start symbol position of the second SCH.

23. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

determining whether the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) performance of the received second SCH was improved;

determining positions of replacement elements used to improve the PAPR performance by the upper node, if the PAPR performance of the received second SCH was improved; and

removing the replacement elements from the received second SCH sequence and the generated second SCH sequence,

whereby acquiring synchronization to the upper node by correlating the received second SCH sequence without the replacement elements and the generated second SCH sequence without the replacement elements.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the determination as to the PAPR performance improvement comprises determining whether the PAPR performance of the received second SCH was improved by control information received from the upper node.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein if the PAPR performance of the received second SCH was not improved, the received second SCH sequence is correlated with the generated second SCH sequence.

26. An apparatus for acquiring a Synchronization CHannel (SCH) in a relay station (RS) in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising:

a storage configured to store a sequence of a first SCH being an SCH for a mobile station (MS) received from an upper node and a mask sequence;

an SCH generator configured to generate a sequence of a second SCH being an SCH for a relay station by XOR-operating the stored first SCH sequence and the stored mask sequence;

a receiver configured to receive a second SCH from the upper node; and

a correlator configured to correlate the generated second SCH with the received second SCH.

27. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the upper node is one of a base station (BS) and an upper relay station.

28. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the mask sequence is one of a common Pseudo Noise (PN) sequence, a common sync symbol sequence, and a sequence of all 0s.

29. The apparatus of claim 26, further comprising a sequence remover for removing elements from both the received second SCH sequence and the generated second SCH sequence, if the Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) performance of the received second SCH was improved,

wherein the correlator correlates the element-removed received second SCH sequence and the element-removed generated second SCH sequence.

30. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the positions of the eliminated elements have the same values and the same positions as elements that the upper node substituted in the second SCH sequence to improve the PAPR performance.