Base station system

• US 7,962,176 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2005
• Issued: 06/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Company Limited (China Information Communication Technology Group Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: China Academy of Telecom Technology (China Information Communication Technology Group Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Xu, Tiezhu, Liu, Xian, Wu, Jianfeng, Chen, Xiaozhou, Li, Shihe, Wang, Liwei, Zhao, Guoxin, Wang, Hongbo
• Primary Examiner(s): Le; Lana N
• Application Number:
  US11/885,948
• Publication Number:
  US 20080317464A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,993 Days
• Field of Search: 455/561, 455/562.1, 455/3.01, 455/334, 455/336, 455/337
• US Class Current: 455/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/085 Access point devices with remote components

Abstract

The present invention discloses a base station system, including an indoor part and a remote RF subsystem (RRS). The indoor part includes a RIU, a CCU, a BBU, a GPSU and a local interface unit. The RRS includes a remote interface unit, a RF transceiver unit (TRU) and an antenna. The local interface unit and the remote interface unit are for signal intercommunicating between the indoor part of the base station and the RSS. The TRU is a RF transceiver module of the conventional RFU, for amplifying an analog RF signal from the remote interface unit and transmitting the signal to the antenna. By flexibly selecting between an optical cable and an If cable, the interface unit of the present invention provides a digital baseband remote manner and an IF remote manner. According to the structure of the base station of the present invention, the number of the base station sites and the network operating cost decreases; on the other side, since one base station may cover a cell by smart antenna with only one optical cable or IF cable, the difficulty in mounting is reduced.

Claims

1. A base station system comprising an indoor part and an outdoor part, wherein the indoor part includes a RNC interface unit RIU for performing an interface function between Node B and the RNC, and a GPSU and a GPS antenna for providing a clock signal to other units in Node B, wherein,

the indoor part further comprises:

a central control unit CCU, for performing a main control function of Node B and a function of switching signaling and service data between units of Node B;

a digital baseband unit BBU, for performing a processing function of the digital signal at the symbol level and the chip level at the physical layer and for intercommunicating digital baseband signals with a local interface unit; and

the local interface unit, for converting the digital baseband signal from the BBU to an interface signal and transmitting the interface signal to a remote interface unit, or for converting an interface signal from the remote interface unit to a digital baseband signal and transmitting the digital baseband signal to the BBU;

the outdoor part is a remote RF subsystem RRS, including an antenna for receiving and transmitting an analog RF signal, and further comprises;

a remote interface unit, for converting the interface signal from the local interface unit to an analog IF signal and transmitting the analog IF signal to a RF transceiver unit TRU, or for converting an analog IF signal from the TRU to an interface signal and transmitting to the local interface unit; and

the RF transceiver unit TRU, for converting the analog IF signal from the remote interface unit to an analog RF signal and transmitting the analog RF signal to the antenna, or for converting an analog RF signal from the antenna to an analog IF signal and transmitting the analog IF signal to the remote interface unit.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the local interface unit is a local baseband interface unit BIU-L, and

the remote interface unit includes a remote baseband interface unit BIU-R and a digital IF unit IFU, wherein

the BIU-R receives the interface signal from the BIU-L and outputs a digital baseband signal to the IFU, and then the IFU converts the received digital baseband signal to an analog IF signal and outputs the analog IF signal to the TRU;

or the IFU receives the analog IF signal from the TRU and outputs a digital baseband signal to the BIU-R, and then the BIU-R converts the received digital baseband signal to an interface signal and transmits the interface signal to the BIU-L.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the interface signal is a digital baseband optical signal.

4. The system according to claim 2, wherein

the local interface unit includes an IFU and an IIU-L, and the remote interface unit includes an IIU-R, wherein

the IFU receives the digital baseband signal from the BBU, outputs an analog IF signal to the IIU-L and the IIU-L converts the received analog IF signal to an interface signal and transmits the interface signal to the IIU-R;

or the IIU-L receives the interface signal from the IIU-R and outputs an analog IF signal to the IFU, and then the IFU converts the received analog IF signal to a digital baseband signal and outputs the digital baseband signal to the BBU.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein

the interface signals transmitted between the BIU-L and the BIU-R are digital baseband optical signals, and

the interface signals transmitted between the IIU-L and the IIU-R are analog IF signals or analog IF optical signals.

6. The system according to claim 4, wherein the BBU comprises a first digital baseband unit BBU1 and a second digital baseband unit BBU2 for processing digital signals at the symbol level and the code chip level at the physical layer, wherein the BBU1 interchanges the digital baseband signals with the BIU-L of the local interface unit and the BBU2 interchanges the digital baseband signals with the IFU of the local interface unit.

7. The system according to claim 2, wherein the BIU-L is an optical transceiver module;

the BIU-R is an optical transceiver module.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the remote interface unit is a remote IF processing unit IIU-R;

the local interface unit includes an IFU and a local IF interface unit IIU-L;

wherein

the IFU receives the digital baseband signal from the BBU, outputs an analog IF signal to the IIU-L and the IIU-L converts the received analog IF signal to an interface signal and transmits the interface signal to the IIU-R;

or the IIU-L receives the interface signal from the IIU-R and outputs an analog IF signal to the IFU, and then the IFU converts the received analog IF signal to a digital baseband signal and outputs the digital baseband signal to the BBU.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the interface signal is an analog IF signal or an analog IF optical signal.

10. The system according to claim 8, wherein

the IIU-L comprises:

first up-conversion modules, for converting analog IF signals from the IFU and outputting the converted analog IF signals at different central frequencies to a first multiplexing module;

a FSK modulating module, for modulating an operating and maintaining control signal from the CCU to a certain fixed frequency and outputting the modulated operating and maintaining control signal to the first multiplexing module;

the first multiplexing module, for multiplexing in frequency the received signals and a clock signal fclk from the IFU and outputting the multiplexed analog IF signal to a second demultiplexing module;

a first demultiplexing module, for demultiplexing an analog IF signal from a second multiplexing module of the IIU-R and outputting demultiplexed analog IF signals at different central frequencies to first down-conversion modules;

the first down-conversion modules, for converting the analog IF signals at different central frequencies from the first demultiplexing module and outputting the converted analog IF signals to the IFU of the local interface unit;

the IIU-R comprises;

the second demultiplexing module, for demultiplexing the analog IF signal from the first multiplexing module of the IIU-R and outputting the demultiplexed analog IF signals to second down-conversion modules, the demultiplexed fclk signal to the TRU, second up-conversion modules and a second down-conversion module, the demultiplexed OM control signal being FSK modulated to a FSK demodulating module;

the second down-conversion modules, for converting the analog IF signals at different central frequencies from the second demultiplexing module and outputting the converted analog IF signals to the TRU;

the second up-conversion modules, for converting the analog IF signals from the TRU and outputting the converted analog IF signals at different central frequencies to the second multiplexing module;

the second multiplexing module, for multiplexing in frequency the analog IF signals from the second up-conversion modules and outputting the multiplexed analog IF signal to the first demultiplexing module of the IIU-L;

the FSK demodulating module, for demodulating the modulated OM control signal from the second demultiplexing module and outputting the demodulated signal to the TRU.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein

the number of the first up-conversion modules and the first down-conversion modules respectively is one or more than one and the number of the first up-conversion modules and the first down-conversion modules respectively equals to the number of the antennas used;

the number of the second up-conversion modules and the second down-conversion modules respectively is one or more than one and the number of the second up-conversion modules and the second down-conversion modules respectively equals to the number of the antennas used.

12. The system according to claim 10, wherein the IIU-L and IIU-R further comprise an optical transceiver module respectively,

for receiving the analog IF signals from the first multiplexing module of the IIU-L and the second multiplexing module of the IIU-R respectively and outputting the analog IF optical signals to the optical cable;

or for receiving the analog IF optical signals from the optical cable respectively and outputting the analog IF signals to the first multiplexing module of the IIU-L and the second multiplexing module of the IIU-R respectively.

13. The system according to claim 1, wherein the antenna is a single antenna or a double antenna or a four-antenna or an eight-antenna.

14. The system according to claim 1, wherein the interface signal is a digital baseband optical signal and/or an analog IF signal;

or a digital baseband optical signal and/or an analog IF optical signal.

15. The system according to claim 1, wherein the local interface unit connects with the remote interface unit through an optical cable or an IF cable.

16. The system according to claim 1, wherein the indoor part connects with one or more than one RRS through one or more than one interface unit to form a serial, star or mixed connection.