Radio unit, baseband processing unit and base station system

• US 9,220,003 B2
• Filed: 05/22/2013
• Issued: 12/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Cheng, Xinhao, Li, Mingqiang, Lin, Yonghua, Wang, Qing, Xue, Chao, Yan, Rong, Zhan, Hai, Zhu, Chao
• Primary Examiner(s): Urban, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rachedine, Mohammed
• Application Number:
  US13/899,939
• Publication Number:
  US 20130324176A1
• Time in Patent Office: 944 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/04 Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/00 Network data management

Abstract

A radio unit configured to connect to a baseband processing unit includes a transformation unit configured to obtain uplink time domain signal data and transform the uplink time domain signal data into uplink frequency domain signal data; and a compression unit configured to compress the uplink frequency domain signal data by using a compression algorithm.

Claims

1. A radio unit configured to connect to a baseband processing unit, the radio unit comprising:

a transformation unit configured to obtain uplink time domain signal data and transform the uplink time domain signal data into uplink frequency domain signal data;

a domain determination unit configured to determine compression mode of uplink signal data and generate a mode notification signal indicating the compression mode the uplink data, the compression mode comprising time domain compression mode and frequency domain compression mode; and

a compression unit disposed downstream from the transformation unit such that the transformation unit is interposed between the domain determination unit and the compression unit, the compression unit configured to compress the uplink frequency domain signal data by using a compression algorithm in response to the mode notification signal,

wherein the compression unit generates a feedback signal indicating an actual compression ratio to the domain determination unit, and wherein the domain determination unit dynamically controls the compression mode based on the actual compression mode indicated by the feedback signal.

2. The radio unit of claim 1, wherein the domain determination unit is configured to determine compression mode based on at least one of:

an estimation of compression ratio of the uplink time domain signal data; and

actual compression ratio feedback from the compression unit.

3. The radio unit of claim 1, wherein the domain determination unit is configured to notify compression mode via at least one of the following manners:

sending a mode notification signal; and

adding a domain mode tag in the uplink time domain signal data.

4. The radio unit of claim 1, wherein the domain determination unit is further configured to transmit uplink time domain signal data directly to the compression unit without passing through the transformation unit in response to time domain compression mode, and the compression unit is further configured to compression the obtained uplink time domain signal data by using a compression algorithm.

5. The radio unit of claim 1, wherein the transformation unit is further configured to transform the uplink time domain signal data into uplink frequency domain signal data in response to frequency domain compression mode, and to transmit the uplink time domain signal data directly to the compression unit in response to time domain compression mode, and the compression unit is further configured to compression the obtained uplink time domain signal data by using a compression algorithm.

6. The radio unit of claim 1, further comprising:

a decompression unit configured to obtain compressed downlink signal data from the baseband processing unit and decompress the compressed downlink signal data; and

an inverse transformation unit configured to obtain downlink time domain signal data by inversely transforming the decompressed downlink signal data.

7. The radio unit of claim 6, wherein the decompression unit is configured to obtain compression mode of downlink signal data, and configured to:

transmit decompressed downlink signal data to the inverse transformation unit in response to frequency domain compression mode of the downlink signal data, and

make decompressed downlink signal data bypass the inverse transformation unit in response to time domain compression mode of the downlink signal data.

8. The radio unit of claim 6, wherein the inverse transformation unit is configured to obtain compression mode of downlink signal data, and configured to:

inversely transform decompressed downlink signal data into downlink time domain signal data in response to frequency domain compression mode of the downlink signal data; and

directly output decompressed downlink signal data without performing inverse transformation in response to time domain compression mode of the downlink signal data.

16. A base station system, comprising:

the radio unit of claim 1; and

a baseband processing unit configured to connect to the radio unit, the baseband processing unit comprising;

a decompression module configured to obtain compressed uplink signal data from the radio unit and decompress the compressed uplink signal data;

a compression module configured to obtain baseband processed downlink frequency domain signal data, compress the downlink frequency domain signal data by using a compression algorithm, and transmit it to the radio unit; and

a domain determination module configured to determine compression mode of downlink signal data, the compression mode comprising time domain compression mode and frequency domain compression mode,

wherein the compression module generates a feedback signal to the compression module indicating the actual compression ratio, and wherein the domain determination module dynamically determines the compression mode based on actual compression ratio.

9. A baseband processing unit configured to connect to a radio unit, comprising:

a decompression module configured to obtain compressed uplink signal data from the radio unit and decompress the compressed uplink signal data;

a compression module configured to obtain baseband processed downlink frequency domain signal data, compress the downlink frequency domain signal data by using a compression algorithm, and transmit it to the radio unit; and

a domain determination module configured to determine compression mode of downlink signal data, the compression mode comprising time domain compression mode and frequency domain compression mode,

wherein the compression module generates a feedback signal to the compression module indicating the actual compression ratio, and wherein the domain determination module dynamically determines the compression mode based on actual compression ratio.

10. The baseband processing unit of claim 9, wherein the domain determination module is configured to determine compression mode based on at least one of:

an estimation of compression ratio of the downlink frequency domain signal data; and

actual compression ratio feedback from the compression module.

11. The baseband processing unit of claim 9, wherein the domain determination module is configured to notify compression mode via at least one of the following manners:

sending a mode notification signal; and

adding a domain mode tag in the downlink frequency domain signal data.

12. The baseband processing unit of claim 9, further comprising an inverse transformation module configured to inversely transform downlink frequency domain signal data into downlink time domain signal data, and the domain determination module is further configured to transmit downlink frequency domain signal data to the inverse transformation module in response to time domain compression mode, and the compression module is further configured to compress the obtained downlink time domain signal data by using a compression algorithm.

13. The baseband processing unit of claim 9, further comprising an inverse transformation module configured to inversely transform the downlink frequency domain signal data into downlink time domain signal data in response to time domain compression mode, and transmit the downlink frequency domain signal data directly to the compression module in response to frequency domain compression mode, and the compression module is further configured to compression the obtained downlink time domain signal data by using a compression algorithm.

14. The baseband processing unit of claim 9, further comprising a transformation module configured to transform uplink signal data into uplink frequency domain signal data, wherein the decompression module is further configured to obtain compression mode of uplink signal data, and transmit decompressed uplink signal data to the transformation module in response to time domain compression mode of the uplink signal data, and make decompressed uplink signal data bypass the transformation module in response to frequency domain compression mode of the uplink signal data.

15. The baseband processing unit of claim 9, further comprising a transformation module configured to obtain compression mode of uplink signal data, and transform decompressed uplink signal data into uplink frequency domain signal data in response to time domain compression mode of the uplink signal data, and directly output decompressed uplink signal data without performing transformation in response to frequency domain compression mode of the uplink signal data.