Method and apparatus for interference suppression in radio-over-fiber communication systems

• US 8,934,777 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2013
• Issued: 01/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Chang, Hsien-Wen, Tseng, Ming-Chien, Cheng, Ming-Hung
• Primary Examiner(s): Leung, Danny
• Application Number:
  US13/762,767
• Publication Number:
  US 20140140705A1
• Time in Patent Office: 704 Days
• Field of Search: 398/115, 398/116, 398/159, 455/522, 375/222
• US Class Current: 398/115
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/25753 Distribution optical network, e.g. between a base station and a plurality of remote units

Abstract

According to one embodiment of a method for interference suppression in radio-over-fiber communication systems, the method uses a mode selection module to continuously update real time information of at least two mobile stations and determine to enter a cross mode or a single mode. In the single mode, when a mobile station approaches a switching point, a single mode command is issued to control at least one first specific remote antenna unit (RAU). In the cross mode, when an immediate cross condition is a new cross condition, a new cross mode table is generated, and when the position of any one mobile station of the at least two mobile stations cross a threshold, a cross mode command is issued to control at least one second specific RAU according to a corresponding cross mode table.

Claims

1. A method for interference suppression in radio-over-fiber communication systems, comprising:

updating a real time information of at least one mobile station and determining to enter a cross mode or a single mode by using a mode selection module;

in the single mode, when a mobile station of the at least one mobile station approaching a switching point, issuing a single mode command to control at least one first specific remote antenna unit (RAU); and

in the cross mode, when an immediate cross condition being a new cross condition, generating a new cross mode table, and when a position of any one mobile station of the at least one mobile station crossing a threshold, issuing a cross mode command to control at least one second specific RAU according to a corresponding cross mode table.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the single mode command is performed according to a corresponding entry of a plurality of entries generated by a lookup table, and each entry of the lookup table comprises at least one mileage field, a RAU field, and a specific RAU transmit power control scheme for a RAU in the RAU field.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mode selection module determines whether said first mobile station and said second mobile station occur crossing according to a position information of each mobile station of a first mobile station and a second mobile station, an estimated speed, and two nearest RAUs, to determine to enter the cross mode or the single mode.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein for a mobile station located between a first RAU having a first optical fiber length and a second RAU having a second optical fiber length, when multipath causes at least one interference, entering into the single mode is determined.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein said method generates in advance a lookup table, and when the first optical fiber length is less than the second optical fiber length, the lookup table includes in advance:

when the mobile station passes through the first RAU, a first mileage of the mobile station, the second RAU, and an information of attenuating a second transmission power of the second RAU; and

when the mobile station is at a first switching point, a second mileage of the mobile station, the second RAU, and an information of recovering the second transmission power.

6. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein said method generates in advance a lookup table, and when the first optical fiber length is greater than or equals to the second optical fiber length, the lookup table includes in advance:

when the mobile station passes through the first RAU, a first mileage of the mobile station, the first RAU, and an information of recovering the first transmission power of the first RAU; and

when the mobile station moves to a second switching point, a second mileage of the mobile station, the first RAU, and an information of attenuating the first transmission power of the first RAU.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the method, in said single mode, uses a RAU transmission power switching scheme to adjust a first transmission power of a first RAU having a first optical fiber and a second transmission power of a second RAU having a second optical fiber length of a mobile station located between the first RAU and the second RAU.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein when the first optical fiber length is less than the second optical fiber length, the RAU transmission power switching method includes:

determining a first switching point, and when the mobile station passing through said first RAU, attenuating a second transmission power of the second RAU; and

when the mobile station being at the first switching point, recovering the second transmission power of the second RAU.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein when the first optical fiber length is greater than or equal to the second optical fiber length, the RAU transmission power switching scheme includes:

when the mobile station passing through the first RAU, the first RAU having a first transmission power and the second RAU having a second transmission power; and

when the mobile station moves to a second switching point, attenuating the first transmission power.

10. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein when the two RAUs of the first mobile station and the two RAUs of the second mobile station have one or two RAUs overlapped, the mode selection module determines the first mobile station and the second mobile station occurring crossing, and enters the cross mode.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein for each cross condition of a plurality of cross conditions, the method generates a corresponding cross mode table to describe at least one control scheme of the first mobile station and the second mobile station, respectively at different intervals for the at least one second specific RAU.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the plurality of cross conditions at least includes three cross conditions of R_1,2 equals to R_2,1, R_1,1 equals to R_2,1 and R_1,1 equals to R_2,2, wherein R_1,1 and R_1,2 represent nearest two RAUs of the first mobile station, and R_2,1 and R_2,2 represent nearest two RAUs of the second mobile station.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein when a cross condition is R_1,2 equals to R_2,1, a main servicing RAU located between the first mobile station and the second mobile station transmits with a full power.

14. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the first switching point is determined according to a signal strength threshold of the first RAU received by the mobile station, a negative threshold of a relative transmission power of the first RAU and the second RAU, and a negative threshold of a relative signal transmission delay of the first RAU and the second RAU.

15. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the second switching point is determined according to a signal strength threshold of the second RAU received by the mobile station, a positive threshold of a relative transmission power of the first RAU and the second RAU, and a positive threshold of a relative signal transmission delay of the first RAU and the second RAU.

16. An apparatus for interference suppression in radio-over-fiber (RoF) communication systems, configured in a RoF switch controller and comprising:

a mode selection module configured to update a real time information of at least one mobile station and select a cross mode or a single mode;

a single mode module, when the single mode is selected, the single mode module issues a single mode command to the RoF switch controller when a mobile station approaches a switching point, to control at least one first specific remote antenna unit (RAU); and

a cross mode module, when the cross mode is selected, the cross mode module determines an immediate cross condition is a new cross condition, then generates a new cross mode table, and when a position of any one mobile station of the at least one mobile station crosses a threshold, issues a cross mode command to the RoF switch controller to control at least one second specific RAU according to a corresponding cross mode table.

17. The apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein when the single mode is selected, the mode selection module, by using a first switch, transmits said single mode to said single mode module and a second switch respectively, while when the cross mode is selected, the mode selection module, by using said first switch, transmits the cross mode to the cross mode module and the second switch respectively.

18. The apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein the single mode module reads at least one first specific RAU control scheme in at least one single mode command from a lookup table, and inputs the at least one first specific RAU control scheme to the second switch for transmitting to the RoF switch controller.

19. The apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein the cross mode module reads at least one second specific RAU control scheme in at least one cross mode command from the corresponding cross mode table, and inputs the at least one second specific RAU control scheme to the second switch for transmitting to the RoF switch controller.

20. The apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the RoF switch controller transmits at least one RAU control scheme to a RoF system according to an output of a second switch, to control one or more specific RAUs in the RoF system.

21. The apparatus as claimed in claim 18, wherein each entry of a plurality of entries in the lookup table includes at least a mileage field, a RAU field, and a control scheme of a specific RAU transmission power for a RAU in the RAU field.

22. The apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the mode selection module determines whether a first mobile station and a second mobile station occurring crossing according to a position information, an estimated speed, and nearest two RAUs of each mobile station of the first and the second mobile stations, to select the cross mode or the single mode.