Configurable filter for multi-radio interference mitigation

• US 8,830,934 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2011
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Banister, Brian Clarke, Wang, Jibing, Sadek, Ahmed K., Kadous, Tamer Adel, Dayal, Pranav, Mantravadi, Ashok
• Primary Examiner(s): Rinehart, Mark
• Assistant Examiner(s): ONAMUTI, GBEMILEKE J
• Application Number:
  US13/314,686
• Publication Number:
  US 20120307749A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,006 Days
• Field of Search: 370/311, 370/395.5, 370/339, 370/329, 375/341, 455/63.1, 455/63.3
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0475 with means for limiting noise, interference or distortion H04B1/0483 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

In a multi-radio device, a configurable filter may be placed on the transmit side of an aggressor radio to reduce interference to receive side performance of a victim radio. The filter may be adaptively configured based on performance of the victim radio. The configurable filter may be in the form of a notch filter. The depth and width of the notch filter may be configured. The filter may be used to create a virtual guard band between an Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) band and a cellular band by puncturing a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission nearest to the ISM band or reducing power on the nearest PUCCH transmission.

Claims

1. A method of wireless communication, comprising:

actively receiving on a first radio access technology (RAT); and

actively transmitting on a second radio access technology (RAT) while selectively filtering the transmissions from the second RAT to attenuate in-band power on a selected frequency range to reduce interference to receptions of the first RAT,

wherein;

the receiving, the filtering and the transmitting are performed in a same wireless communication device, the filtering reducing interference to the receptions of the first RAT at the device,

the filtering occurs at baseband,

the selected frequency range of the second RAT is proximate to a frequency range of the first RAT and is attenuated by varying amounts, and

the amount of attenuation applied to the selected frequency range of the second RAT is greater at frequencies closer to the frequency range of the first RAT.

2. The method of claim 1 in which the first RAT is Bluetooth or wireless local area network (WLAN) and the second RAT is Long Term Evolution (LTE).

3. The method of claim 1 in which the selectively filtering is based at least in part on a quality of service of the first RAT.

4. The method of claim 3 in which the first RAT is Bluetooth and the quality of service is determined by a packet error rate.

5. The method of claim 3 in which the first RAT is Bluetooth and the quality of service is determined by a packet delay.

6. The method of claim 3 in which the selectively filtering is based at least in part on a comparison of the quality of service of the first RAT during operation of the second RAT and the quality of service of the first RAT when the second RAT is not operating.

7. The method of claim 1 in which the selectively filtering comprises adjusting a frequency range of the second RAT to be attenuated.

8. The method of claim 1 in which the selectively filtering comprises adjusting a shape of a configurable filter based at least in part on an ability of a receive filter of the first RAT to reject interference from transmissions by the second RAT in the selected frequency range.

9. The method of claim 8 in which adjusting the shape of the configurable filter is further based on reducing attenuation of frequencies of the second RAT outside of the selected frequency range.

10. The method of claim 1 in which the selectively filtering comprises adaptively adjusting a width and a depth of a notch filter to adjust performance of the first RAT toward a target performance.

11. The method of claim 1 in which the selectively filtering is based at least in part on a performance of a physical uplink control channel.

12. The method of claim 1 in which the selectively filtering comprises altering a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission in a slot of a subframe having a frequency assignment closest to a frequency band of the first RAT.

13. The method of claim 12, in which the altering comprises puncturing the first PUCCH transmission.

14. The method of claim 12, in which the altering comprises adjusting a power level of the first PUCCH transmission.

15. The method of claim 13, in which the puncturing comprises performing discontinuous transmission during a time period corresponding to the first PUCCH transmission.

16. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

means for actively receiving on a first radio access technology (RAT); and

means for selectively filtering transmissions of the apparatus from a second radio access technology (RAT) to attenuate in-band power on a selected frequency range by varying amounts to reduce interference to receptions of the first RAT at the apparatus, the amount of attenuation being greater at frequencies closer to the frequency range of the first RAT, the filtering occurring at baseband, and the selected frequency range of the second RAT being proximate to a frequency range of the first RAT.

17. A computer program product for wireless communication comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable medium having non-transitory program code recorded thereon, the program code comprising;

program code to actively receive on a first radio access technology (RAT); and

program code to actively transmit on a second radio access technology (RAT), from a same wireless communication device that actively receives on the first RAT, while selectively filtering the transmissions from the second RAT to attenuate in-band power on a selected frequency range to reduce interference to receptions of the first RAT at the device, the filtering occurring at baseband, the selected frequency range of the second RAT being proximate to a frequency range of the first RAT and being attenuated by varying amounts, the amount of attenuation being greater at frequencies closer to the frequency range of the first RAT.

18. An apparatus for wireless communication comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory, the at least one processor being configured;

to actively receive on a first radio access technology (RAT); and

to actively transmit on a second radio access technology (RAT) while selectively filtering the transmissions from the second RAT to attenuate in-band power on a selected frequency range to reduce interference to receptions of the first RAT at the apparatus, the filtering occurring at baseband, the selected frequency range of the second RAT being proximate to a frequency range of the first RAT and being attenuated by varying amounts, the amount of attenuation being greater at frequencies closer to the frequency range of the first RAT.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 in which the first RAT is Bluetooth or wireless local area network (WLAN) and the second RAT is Long Term Evolution (LTE).

20. The apparatus of claim 18 in which the at least one processor is configured to selectively filter based at least in part on a quality of service of the first RAT.

21. The apparatus of claim 20 in which the first RAT is Bluetooth and the quality of service is determined by a packet error rate.

22. The apparatus of claim 20 in which the first RAT is Bluetooth and the quality of service is determined by a packet delay.

23. The apparatus of claim 20 in which the at least one processor is configured to selectively filter based at least in part on a comparison of the quality of service of the first RAT during operation of the second RAT and the quality of service of the first RAT when the second RAT is not operating.

24. The apparatus of claim 18 in which the at least one processor is configured to selectively filter by adjusting a frequency range of the second RAT to be attenuated.

25. The apparatus of claim 18 in which the at least one processor is configured to selectively filter by adjusting a shape of a configurable filter based at least in part on an ability of a receive filter of the first RAT to reject interference from the second RAT in the selected frequency range.

26. The apparatus of claim 25 in which adjusting the shape of the configurable filter is further based on reducing attenuation of frequencies of the second RAT outside of the selected frequency range.

27. The apparatus of claim 18 in which the at least one processor is configured to selectively filter by adaptively adjusting a width and a depth of a notch filter to adjust performance of the first RAT toward a target performance.

28. The apparatus of claim 18 in which the at least one processor is configured to selectively filter based at least in part on a performance of a physical uplink control channel.

29. The apparatus of claim 18 in which the at least one processor is configured to selectively filter by altering a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission in a slot of a subframe having a frequency assignment closest to a frequency band of the first RAT.

30. The apparatus of claim 29, in which the altering comprises puncturing the first PUCCH transmission.

31. The apparatus of claim 29, in which the altering comprises adjusting a power level of the first PUCCH transmission.

32. The apparatus of claim 30, in which the puncturing comprises performing discontinuous transmission during a time period corresponding to the first PUCCH transmission.