Signal transmission processing method and apparatus and distributed base station

• US 8,406,178 B2
• Filed: 11/02/2011
• Issued: 03/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Xiao, Xin, Huang, Zhiyong, Tan, Jingxin, Li, Chaoyang, Zhang, Binghua, Du, Wei, Li, Hanguo
• Primary Examiner(s): Sam, Phirin
• Application Number:
  US13/287,830
• Publication Number:
  US 20120045211A1
• Time in Patent Office: 510 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/25759 Details of the reception of RF signal or the optical conversion before the optical fibre
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/27 Arrangements for networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/50 Transmitters
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/00 Optical multiplex systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/028 WDM bus architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/0282 WDM tree architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/0286 WDM hierarchical architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/1652 Optical Transport Network [OTN]
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/1664 carrying hybrid payloads, e.g. different types of packets or carrying frames and packets in the paylaod

Abstract

A signal transmission processing method and apparatus and a distributed base station are provided according to the embodiments of the present invention. The distributed base station includes a Base Band Unit (BBU) and a Remote Radio Unit (RRU). A transmitting end connected to one of the BBU and the RRU receives at least one of interface signals from the one connected thereto, performs optical transport network (OTN) electrical layer multiplexing to obtain OTN signal frames and transmit optical signals including the OTN frames to a receiving end connected to the other of the BBU and the RRU. The receiving end performs frame processing for the OTN frames received from the transmitting end to obtain the interface signals, and transmit the interface signals to the other connected thereto.

Claims

1. A distributed base station, comprising a Base Band Unit (BBU), a Remote Radio Unit (RRU), and a first Optical Transport Network (OTN) processing unit and a second OTN processing unit,

wherein the first OTN processing unit and the second OTN processing unit are located between the BBU and the RRU and connected through an OTN;

wherein the first OTN processing unit is connected to one of the BBU and the RRU through a first interface between the BBU and the RRU;

the second OTN processing unit is connected to the other of the BBU and the RRU through a second interface between the BBU and the RRU;

the first OTN processing unit and the second OTN processing unit are configured to accomplish a communication connection between the BBU and the RRU;

the first OTN processing unit is configured to receive at least one channel of interface signals of the distributed base station that are sent by the one of the BBU and RRU through the first interface, and encapsulate the interface signals of the distributed base station into OTN signal frames in a Generic Mapping Procedure (GMP) mapping scheme according to a rate of the interface signals of the distributed base station and transmit optical signals including the OTN signal frames by using the GMP mapping scheme through the OTN;

the second OTN processing unit is configured to receive the optical signals sent through the OTN by the first OTN processing unit and perform optic-electro conversion, perform frame processing for the OTN signal frames in the GMP mapping scheme to obtain the interface signals of the distributed base station in the OTN signal frames, and send the interface signals of the distributed base station to the other of the BBU and RRU through the second interface.

2. The distributed base station according to claim 1, wherein the interface signals of the distributed base station are Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) signals.

3. The distributed base station according to claim 2, wherein the at least one channel of interface signals of the distribution base station are directly multiplexed to a payload of an optical transport unit (OTU).

4. The distributed base station according to claim 1, wherein the interface signals of the distributed base station are Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) signals.

5. The distributed base station according to claim 1, wherein the interface signals of the distributed base station are infrared (IR) signals.