Method for generating propagation characteristics of a multipath environment

• US 8,385,911 B1
• Filed: 08/08/2011
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Vallette, Laurent
• Primary Examiner(s): Rampuria, Sharad
• Application Number:
  US13/205,363
• Publication Number:
  US 20130039390A1
• Time in Patent Office: 568 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561-457, 455/442, 4554221-425, 455 661- 6716
• US Class Current: 455/425
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7115 Constructive combining of multi-path signals, i.e. RAKE receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A method, using a positioning module and a wireless telecommunication network comprises first and second base stations and first and second mobile terminals, said first terminal comprising a rake receiver, the method comprising:

• • storing received signal data (MT_data) generated by the first mobile terminal rake receiver from signals transmitted over the air in a multipath environment and received by first mobile terminal;
  • storing positioning data (MT_pos) obtained from the positioning module, said positioning data (MT_pos) comprising a plurality of positions of first mobile terminal with time associated with such position information;
  • storing base station data obtained from first base station, said base station data comprising first base station identification code (BS_id) and first base station position information (BS_pos);
  • determining field test data from said received signal data (MT_data), positioning data (MT_data) and base station data (BS_id, BS_pos), such determined field test data comprising:
    • an estimate of the angle (MT_BS_ang) between the first mobile terminal antenna orientation and the first base station antenna orientation,
    • an estimate of the pathloss and the shadowing attenuation of the received signals (path_shad),
    • at least one tap of the received signals (sig_taps), a tap being an information representing an estimate of phase and amplitude of a path of the multipath environment, and
    • an estimate of the first mobile terminal speed (MT_speed)
  • generating radio propagation characteristics of the multipath environment for simulation of radio propagation between the second base station and the second mobile terminal, using the determined field test data.

Claims

1. A method, using a positioning module (PS) and a wireless telecommunication network comprising first and second base stations (BS) and first and second mobile terminals (MT), said first terminal comprising a rake receiver, the method comprising:

storing received signal data (MT_data) generated by the first mobile terminal rake receiver from signals transmitted over the air in a multipath environment and received by first mobile terminal (MT);

storing positioning data (MT_pos) obtained from the positioning module (PS), said positioning data (MT_pos) comprising a plurality of positions of first mobile terminal (MT) with time associated with such position information;

storing base station data obtained from first base station (BS), said base station data comprising first base station identification code (BS_id) and first base station position information (BS_pos);

determining field test data from said received signal data (MT_data), positioning data (MT_data) and base station data (BS_id, BS_pos), such determined field test data comprising;

an estimate of the angle (MT_BS_ang) between the first mobile terminal (MT) antenna orientation and the first base station (BS) antenna orientation,

an estimate of the pathloss and the shadowing attenuation of the received signals (path_shad),

at least one tap of the received signals (sig_taps), a tap being an information representing an estimate of phase and amplitude of a path of the multipath environment, and

an estimate of the first mobile terminal speed (MT_speed); and

generating radio propagation characteristics of the multipath environment for simulation of radio propagation between the second base station and the second mobile terminal, using the determined field test data.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first mobile terminal is a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access mobile.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the estimate of the first mobile terminal speed (MT_speed) is determined using linear interpolation of data representing positioning data (MT_pos).

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the wireless telecommunication network is a WCDMA network.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the generating of radio propagation characteristics uses a Rayleigh model.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determined field test data further includes a line of sight tap (LOS).

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the determined field test data further includes a K-factor ricean parameter (K_fact).

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the determined field data includes an estimate of the respective angles between the first mobile terminal (MT) route direction and the orientation of signals received at the first mobile terminal (MT).

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein the generating of radio propagation characteristics uses a Rician model.

11. A computer program product (PG) for a computer, comprising a set of instructions, which when loaded into said computer, causes the computer to carry out the method according to claim 1.

10. An apparatus (APP), using a positioning module (PS) and a wireless telecommunication network comprising first and second base stations (BS) and first and second mobile terminals (MT), said first terminal (MT) comprising a rake receiver, said apparatus (APP) comprising:

a converter (CONV) adapted to determine field test data from;

received signal data (MT_data) generated by the first mobile terminal rake receiver from signals transmitted over the air in a multipath environment and received by first mobile terminal;

positioning data (MT_pos) obtained from the positioning module, said positioning data (MT_pos) comprising a plurality of positions of first mobile terminal with time associated with such position information;

base station data obtained from first base station, said base station data comprising first base station identification code (BS_id) and first base station position information (BS_pos),

such determined field test data comprising;

an estimate of the angle (MT_BS_ang) between the first mobile terminal (MT) antenna orientation and the first base station (BS) antenna orientation,

an estimate of the pathloss and the shadowing attenuation of the received signals (path_shad),

at least one of the received signals (sig_taps), a tap being an information representing an estimate of phase and amplitude of a path of the multipath environment, and

an estimate of the first mobile terminal speed (MT_speed); and

a multipath simulator (SIMU) adapted to generate radio propagation characteristics of the multipath environment for simulation of radio propagation between the second base station and the second mobile terminal, using the determined field test data.