Wireless transceiver with reduced transmit emissions

• US 8,290,447 B2
• Filed: 01/19/2007
• Issued: 10/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.
• Original Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.
• Inventors: Sutton, Todd, Gummadi, Srikanth, Hosseini, Walid, Wang, Lei
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Lana N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sorowar, Golam
• Application Number:
  US11/625,254
• Publication Number:
  US 20080176523A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,097 Days
• Field of Search: 455/76, 455/403, 455/452.2, 455/450, 455/452.1, 455/436, 455/522, 455/423, 455/424, 455/67.11, 375/260, 370/208, 370/468, 370/352, 370/328, 370/493
• US Class Current: 455/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0475 with means for limiting noise, interference or distortion H04B1/0483 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/525 with means for reducing leakage of transmitter signal into the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/003 Arrangements for allocating sub-channels of the transmission path
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0066 Requirements on out-of-channel emissions

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for reducing transmit emissions are described herein. The transmit out of band emissions in an adjacent band can be reduced while complying with existing wireless communication standards through utilization of one or more of reduced transmit bandwidth, transmit operating band offset, and channel index remapping. The transceiver can support a receive operating band that is substantially adjacent to a band edge. The transmit operating band can be offset from an adjacent frequency band, and can use a narrower operating band than is supported by the receiver. The transmit baseband signal can have a reduced bandwidth to reduce the amount of noise. The frequency offset can introduce a larger transition band between the transmit operating band edges and the adjacent frequency band of interest. The transceiver can remap channel assignments to compensate for the frequency offset such that the frequency offset introduced in the transmitter is transparent to channel allocation.

Claims

1. A method of reducing out-of-band emissions, the method comprising:

a subscriber station receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal including an indication of an allocated RF band that is a subset of an RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions, wherein the allocated RF band is selected to be biased away from at least one band of interest to reduce out-of-band emissions therein;

the subscriber station generating a transmit signal;

the subscriber station filtering the transmit signal to a signal band that is based on the allocated RF band; and

the subscriber station offsetting a frequency of a Local Oscillator (LO) of the subscriber station from a first LO frequency to a second LO frequency;

wherein a magnitude of a difference between the first LO frequency and the second LO frequency is based at least in part on a difference between a width of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions and a width of the signal band.

2. A method of reducing out-of-band emissions, the method comprising:

a subscriber station receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal including an indication of an allocated RF band that is a subset of an RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions, wherein the allocated RF band is selected to be biased away from at least one band of interest to reduce out-of-band emissions therein;

the subscriber station generating a transmit signal;

the subscriber station filtering the transmit signal to a signal band that is based on the allocated RF band; and

the subscriber station offsetting a frequency of a Local Oscillator (LO) of the subscriber station from a first LO frequency to a second LO frequency;

wherein the first LO frequency is substantially equal to a center frequency of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions and the second LO frequency is substantially equal to a center frequency of the signal band.

3. A method of reducing out-of-band emissions, the method comprising:

a subscriber station receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal including an indication of an allocated RF band that is a subset of an RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions, wherein the allocated RF band is selected to be biased away from at least one band of interest to reduce out-of-band emissions therein;

the subscriber station generating a transmit signal;

the subscriber station filtering the transmit signal to a signal band that is based on the allocated RF band; and

the subscriber station offsetting a frequency of a Local Oscillator (LO) of the subscriber station from a first LO frequency to a second LO frequency;

wherein the first LO frequency is substantially equal to a center frequency of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions and the second LO frequency is within the signal band and is offset from a center frequency of the signal band.

4. A method of reducing out-of-band emissions, the method comprising:

a subscriber station receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal including an indication of an allocated RF band that is a subset of an RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions, wherein the allocated RF band is selected to be biased away from at least one band of interest to reduce out-of-band emissions therein;

the subscriber station generating a transmit signal;

the subscriber station filtering the transmit signal to a signal band that is based on the allocated RF band;

the subscriber station offsetting a frequency of a Local Oscillator (LO) of the subscriber station from a first LO frequency to a second LO frequency; and

the subscriber station remapping at least a portion of the allocated RF band to compensate for offsetting the frequency of the LO;

wherein the remapping comprises offsetting a baseband frequency of the transmit signal by a frequency magnitude that is based on a difference between a subcarrier index at a band edge of the signal band and a subcarrier index at a band edge of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions.

5. A method of reducing out-of-band emissions, the method comprising:

a subscriber station receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal including an indication of an allocated RF band that is a subset of an RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions, wherein the allocated RF band is selected to be biased away from at least one band of interest to reduce out-of-band emissions therein;

the subscriber station generating a transmit signal; and

the subscriber station filtering the transmit signal to a signal band that is based on the allocated RF band;

wherein the received indication of the allocated RF band indicates allocated bandwidth that is restricted to a portion of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions, said portion being disposed furthest from a band of interest of the at least one band of interest.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein a width of the portion of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions is less than or equal to one half of a width of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions.

7. A method of reducing out-of-band emissions, the method comprising:

a subscriber station receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal including an indication of an allocated RF band that is a subset of an RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions, wherein the allocated RF band is selected to be biased away from at least one band of interest to reduce out-of-band emissions therein;

the subscriber station generating a transmit signal; and

the subscriber station filtering the transmit signal to a signal band that is based on the allocated RF band;

wherein filtering the transmit signal comprises filtering an analog baseband transmit signal to a band with a width that is less than approximately one half of a width of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions.

8. A method of reducing out-of-band emissions, the method comprising:

obtaining an uplink resource allocation restricted to a portion of a transmit band;

responsive to obtaining the uplink resource allocation restricted to the portion of the transmit band, offsetting a Local Oscillator from a first LO frequency to a second LO frequency, wherein a difference between the first LO frequency and the second LO frequency is an integer multiple of a frequency difference between adjacent subcarriers;

remapping at least a portion of the uplink resource allocation to compensate for the difference between the first LO frequency and the second LO frequency to generate a remapped resource allocation;

generating a transmit signal based at least in part on the remapped resource allocation;

frequency converting the transmit signal to the portion of the transmit band using the second LO frequency; and

filtering the transmit signal to a signal bandwidth that is based on the portion of the transmit band.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein:

the uplink resource allocation includes an allotment of subcarrier indices corresponding to subcarriers for use in transmitting the transmit signal, and

remapping the at least the portion of the uplink resource allocation comprises one of adding and subtracting an index offset to the subcarrier indices to generate remapped subcarrier indices.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising transmitting the transmit signal using subcarriers corresponding to the remapped subcarrier indices.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the method is implemented in a subscriber station and the uplink resource allocation is based on an anticipated transmit power of the subscriber station.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the second LO frequency is not coincident with a subcarrier that is scheduled to carry transmit data.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

nulling a subcarrier that is coincident with the second LO frequency.

14. An apparatus having reduced out-of-band emissions, the apparatus comprising:

means for receiving a radio frequency signal (RF) including an indication of an allocated RF band that is a subset of an RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions, wherein the allocated RF band is selected to be biased away from at least one band of interest to reduce out-of-band emissions therein;

means for generating a transmit signal;

means for filtering the transmit signal to a signal band that is based on the allocated RF band; and

means for offsetting a frequency of a Local Oscillator (LO) from a first LO frequency to a second LO frequency;

wherein a magnitude of a difference between the first LO frequency and the second LO frequency is based at least in part on a difference between a width of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions and a width of the signal band.

15. An apparatus having reduced out-of-band emissions, the apparatus comprising:

means for receiving a radio frequency signal (RF) including an indication of an allocated RF band that is a subset of an RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions, wherein the allocated RF band is selected to be biased away from at least one band of interest to reduce out-of-band emissions therein;

means for generating a transmit signal;

means for filtering the transmit signal to a signal band that is based on the allocated RF band; and

means for offsetting a frequency of a Local Oscillator (LO) from a first LO frequency to a second LO frequency;

wherein the first LO frequency is substantially equal to a center frequency of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions and the second LO frequency is substantially equal to a center frequency of the signal band.

16. An apparatus having reduced out-of-band emissions, the apparatus comprising:

means for receiving a radio frequency signal (RF) including an indication of an allocated RF band that is a subset of an RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions, wherein the allocated RF band is selected to be biased away from at least one band of interest to reduce out-of-band emissions therein;

means for generating a transmit signal;

means for filtering the transmit signal to a signal band that is based on the allocated RF band; and

means for offsetting a frequency of a Local Oscillator (LO) from a first LO frequency to a second LO frequency;

wherein the first LO frequency is substantially equal to a center frequency of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions and the second LO frequency is within the signal band and is offset from a center frequency of the signal band.

17. An apparatus having reduced out-of-band emissions, the apparatus comprising:

means for receiving a radio frequency signal (RF) including an indication of an allocated RF band that is a subset of an RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions, wherein the allocated RF band is selected to be biased away from at least one band of interest to reduce out-of-band emissions therein;

means for generating a transmit signal;

means for filtering the transmit signal to a signal band that is based on the allocated RF band;

means for offsetting a frequency of a Local Oscillator (LO) from a first LO frequency to a second LO frequency; and

means for remapping at least a portion of the allocated RF band to compensate for offsetting the frequency of the LO;

wherein the means for remapping offsets a baseband frequency of the transmit signal by a frequency magnitude that is based on a difference between a subcarrier index at a band edge of the signal band and a subcarrier index at a band edge of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions.

18. An apparatus having reduced out-of-band emissions, the apparatus comprising:

means for receiving a radio frequency signal (RF) including an indication of an allocated RF band that is a subset of an RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions, wherein the allocated RF band is selected to be biased away from at least one band of interest to reduce out-of-band emissions therein;

means for generating a transmit signal; and

means for filtering the transmit signal to a signal band that is based on the allocated RF band;

wherein the received indication of the allocated RF band indicates allocated bandwidth that is restricted to a portion of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions, said portion being disposed furthest from a band of interest of the at least one band of interest.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein a width of the portion of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions is less than or equal to one half of a width of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions.

20. An apparatus having reduced out-of-band emissions, the apparatus comprising:

means for receiving a radio frequency signal (RF) including an indication of an allocated RF band that is a subset of an RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions, wherein the allocated RF band is selected to be biased away from at least one band of interest to reduce out-of-band emissions therein;

means for generating a transmit signal; and

means for filtering the transmit signal to a signal band that is based on the allocated RF band;

wherein the means for filtering the transmit signal filters an analog baseband transmit signal to a width less than approximately one half of a width of the RF band otherwise fully available to the subscriber station for uplink transmissions.