Analog compensation circuit and method

• US 9,136,883 B1
• Filed: 08/20/2014
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Futurewei Technologies Incorporated (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Moher, Michael, Griffiths, James Gary
• Primary Examiner(s): HA, DAC V
• Application Number:
  US14/464,137
• Time in Patent Office: 391 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0042 Digital filtering H04B1/0035 takes precedence; digital filters per se H03H17/00
• 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: H04B 2001/0416 having gain or transmission power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/0491 with frequency synthesizers, frequency converters or modulators
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2601 Multicarrier modulation systems

Abstract

Disclosed herein are an analog compensation circuit and a method for tuning an analog compensator in full-duplex transmission systems. An embodiment analog compensation circuit includes a secondary receiver configured to receive and convert a sampled self-interference signal to a baseband self-interference signal. A tuner is coupled to the secondary receiver and configured to receive a baseband transmit signal and the baseband self-interference signal, and to compute complex gains according to the baseband transmit signal and the baseband self-interference signal. An analog compensator is coupled to the tuner and has multiple branches. The analog compensator is configured to receive the complex gains and use them to adjust respective attenuators and phase shifters of the branches. The analog compensator is further configured to process a sample of a transmit signal using the branches, the transmit signal being up-converted from a new baseband transmit signal.

Claims

1. An analog compensation circuit for a full-duplex transceiver, comprising:

a secondary receiver configured to receive and convert a sampled self-interference signal to a baseband self-interference signal;

a tuner coupled to the secondary receiver and configured to;

receive the baseband self-interference signal,

receive a baseband transmit signal, and

compute a plurality of complex gains according to the baseband transmit signal and the baseband self-interference signal; and

an analog compensator coupled to the tuner, having a plurality of branches, and configured to;

receive the plurality of complex gains,

adjust respective attenuators and phase shifters in the plurality of branches using the plurality of complex gains, and

process a sample of a transmit signal using the plurality of branches, wherein the transmit signal is up-converted from a new baseband transmit signal.

2. The analog compensation circuit of claim 1 wherein the analog compensator includes the plurality of branches coupled in parallel between a power splitter and a power combiner, wherein each of the plurality of branches includes a voltage-controlled attenuator, a voltage-controlled phase shifter, and a fixed time delay, and wherein the analog compensator is configured to apply the plurality of complex gains to control respective voltage-controlled attenuators and voltage-controlled phase-shifters of the plurality of branches.

3. The analog compensation circuit of claim 1 wherein each branch of the analog compensator is modeled by a respective transfer function, U(f), to which a respective complex gain, β

, of the plurality of complex gains, is applied.

4. The analog compensation circuit of claim 3 wherein the respective transfer function, U(f), is determined empirically.

5. The analog compensation circuit of claim 3 wherein the tuner is configured to employ a least square technique to solve a system, formed by the plurality of branches of the analog compensator, for the plurality of complex gains in a frequency domain, wherein the system is of a form uβ

=h, wherein u is a discrete representation in the frequency domain of respective transfer functions for the plurality of branches, β

is the plurality of complex gains, and h is a discrete representation in the frequency domain of a quotient of the baseband self-interference signal divided by the baseband transmit signal.

6. The analog compensation circuit of claim 5 wherein:

the plurality of complex gains includes N complex gains;

the plurality of branches includes N branches; and

the tuner is configured to use a set of K frequencies to form u and h.

7. The analog compensation circuit of claim 6 wherein the transmit signal is an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal and the set of K frequencies includes subcarrier frequencies of the transmit signal.

8. The analog compensation circuit of claim 1 wherein the tuner is configured to convert the baseband transmit signal and the baseband self-interference signal from a time domain to a frequency domain.

9. The analog compensation circuit of claim 1 wherein the tuner comprises a processor.

10. A method of tuning an analog compensation circuit for a full-duplex transceiver, comprising:

transmitting a transmit signal up-converted from a baseband transmit signal;

receiving a self-interference signal resulting from the transmitting;

sampling the self-interference signal in a time domain, thereby generating a sampled self-interference signal;

converting the sampled self-interference signal into a digital baseband self-interference signal;

computing a plurality of complex gains in a frequency domain according to the digital baseband self-interference signal and the baseband transmit signal; and

applying the plurality of complex gains to an analog compensator.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising processing another transmit signal using the analog compensator to generate a compensation signal.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein the computing the plurality of complex gains includes converting the digital baseband self-interference signal and the baseband transmit signal from the time domain to the frequency domain using a fast Fourier transform (FFT).

13. The method of claim 10 wherein the computing the plurality of complex gains includes representing the analog compensator as a system of frequency dependent transfer functions to which the plurality of complex gains are applied.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the computing the plurality of complex gains includes:

equating the system of frequency dependent transfer functions to a quotient of the digital baseband self-interference signal divided by the baseband transmit signal; and

solving the system for the plurality of complex gains using a least square technique.

15. The method of claim 10 wherein the applying includes translating each of the plurality of complex gains into at least one respective voltage for adjusting respective voltage-controlled attenuators and voltage controlled phase shifters.

16. The method of claim 10 further comprising iteratively varying one of the plurality of complex gains by a small amplitude do determine if the self-interference signal can be further reduced in power.

17. A full-duplex transceiver, comprising:

an isolation block coupled to a common antenna at a transmit port, and having an input port and an output port;

a transmit chain coupled to the input port of the isolation block and configured to generate a baseband transmit signal that is up-converted to a transmit signal for transmission through the isolation block and the common antenna; and

a receive chain, through which a self-interference signal is receivable, having;

a primary receive path coupled to the output port of the isolation block,

a secondary receiver coupled to the primary receive path and configured to receive and convert a sampled self-interference signal to a baseband self-interference signal,

a tuner coupled to the secondary receiver and the transmit chain, and configured to;

receive the baseband transmit signal from the transmit chain, and

compute a plurality of complex gains according to the baseband transmit signal and the baseband self-interference signal, and

an analog compensator coupled to the transmit chain, the tuner, and the primary receive path, having a plurality of branches, and configured to;

receive the plurality of complex gains from the tuner,

adjust respective attenuators and phase shifters of the plurality of branches using the plurality of complex gains, and

process a sample of another transmit signal from the transmit chain using the plurality of branches to yield a compensation signal for coupling into the primary receive path.

18. The full-duplex transceiver of claim 17 wherein the analog compensator includes the plurality of branches coupled in parallel between a power splitter and a power combiner, wherein each of the plurality of branches includes a voltage-controlled attenuator, a voltage-controlled phase shifter, and a fixed time delay, and wherein the analog compensator is configured to apply the plurality of complex gains to control respective voltage-controlled attenuators and voltage-controlled phase-shifters of the plurality of branches.

19. The full-duplex transceiver of claim 17 wherein each branch of the analog compensator is modeled by a respective transfer function, U(f), to which a respective complex gain, β

, of the plurality of complex gains, is applied.

20. The full-duplex transceiver of claim 19 wherein the respective transfer function, U(f), is determined empirically.

21. The full-duplex transceiver of claim 19 wherein the tuner is configured to employ a least square technique to solve a system, formed by the plurality of branches of the analog compensator, for the plurality of complex gains in a frequency domain, wherein the system is of a form uβ

=h, wherein u is a discrete representation in the frequency domain of respective transfer functions for the plurality of branches, β

is the plurality of complex gains, and h is a discrete representation in the frequency domain of a quotient of the baseband self-interference signal divided by the baseband transmit signal.

22. The full-duplex transceiver of claim 21 wherein:

the plurality of complex gains includes N complex gains;

the plurality of branches includes N branches; and

the tuner is configured to use a set of K frequencies to form u and h.

23. The full-duplex transceiver of claim 22 wherein the transmit signal is an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal and the set of K frequencies includes subcarrier frequencies of the transmit signal.

24. The full-duplex transceiver of claim 17 wherein the tuner is configured to convert the baseband transmit signal and the baseband self-interference signal from a time domain to a frequency domain.

25. An analog compensation circuit for a multi-transmitter full-duplex transceiver having N transmitters and N transmit chains, comprising:

a secondary receiver configured to receive and convert N samples of an aggregate self-interference signal to N baseband self-interference signal samples;

a tuner coupled to the secondary receiver and configured to;

receive N baseband transmit signal samples from each of the N transmit chains, wherein a total of N×

N baseband transmit signal samples are received, and

compute a plurality of complex gains according to the N×

N baseband transmit signal samples and the N baseband self-interference signal samples; and

an analog compensator coupled to the tuner, having a plurality of branches, and configured to;

receive the plurality of complex gains,

adjust respective attenuators and phase shifters of the plurality of branches using the plurality of complex gains, and

process respective samples of N transmit signals from the N transmit chains using the plurality of branches, wherein the N transmit signals are respectively up-converted from N baseband transmit signals.

26. The analog compensation circuit of claim 25,

wherein N is two;

wherein the secondary receiver is further configured to respectively receive and convert first and second samples of the aggregate self-interference signal to first and second baseband self-interference signal samples;

wherein the tuner is further configured to;

receive respective first baseband transmit signal samples from first and second transmit chains and respective second baseband transmit signal samples from the first and second transmit chains, and

compute the plurality of complex gains according to the respective first baseband transmit signal samples, the respective second baseband transmit signal samples, and the first and second baseband self-interference signal samples; and

wherein the analog compensator is further configured to process respective samples of first and second transmit signals from the first and second transmit chains using the plurality of branches.