Radio unit, baseband processing unit and base station system

• US 9,794,828 B2
• Filed: 09/16/2015
• Issued: 10/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• 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): Elpenord, Candal
• Application Number:
  US14/855,463
• Publication Number:
  US 20160007231A1
• Time in Patent Office: 762 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 method for processing uplink signal data in a base station system, the base station system comprising a radio unit and a baseband processing unit, the method comprising:

obtaining, in the baseband processing unit, compressed uplink signal data from the radio unit, determining by the baseband processing unit a compression mode of the compressed uplink signal data, and selectively decompressing, in the baseband processing unit, the compressed uplink signal data into baseband processed downlink frequency domain signal data based on the compression mode of the compressed uplink signal data; and

obtaining the baseband processed downlink frequency domain signal data, compressing the downlink frequency domain signal data according to a compression mode by using a first compression algorithm;

generating a feedback signal indicating an actual compression ratio resulting from compressing the downlink frequency domain signal data;

dynamically controlling the compression mode based on a comparison between the actual compression ratio indicated by the feedback signal and the estimated compression ratio, and

transmitting the compressed downlink frequency domain signal to the radio unit when the actual compression ratio is greater than or equal to the estimated compression ratio, and transforming the downlink frequency domain signal data back into downlink time domain signal data and compressing the downlink time domain signal data by using a second compression algorithm when the actual compression ratio is less than the estimated compression ratio;

decompressing, in the radio unit, the compressed downlink frequency domain signal data or the compressed downlink time domain signal data.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining the compression mode of the downlink signal data, the compression mode comprising a time domain compression mode and a frequency domain compression mode.

3. The method of claim 2, determining the compression mode based on at least one of:

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

an actual compression ratio feedback from a compression module.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising indicating the 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.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising transmitting the downlink frequency domain signal data to an inverse transformation module in response to the time domain compression mode, and inversely transforming the downlink frequency domain signal data into the downlink time domain signal data according to the second compression algorithm.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein when invoking the time domain compression mode, inversely transforming the downlink frequency domain signal data into the downlink time domain signal data according to the second compression algorithm, and wherein invoking the frequency domain compression mode, transmitting the downlink frequency domain signal data directly to a compression module.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising transforming the uplink signal data into uplink frequency domain signal data, obtaining a mode notification signal indicating the compression mode of uplink signal data, transmitting decompressed uplink signal data to a transformation module in response to determining the compression mode of the uplink signal data is a time domain compression mode, and generating the decompressed uplink signal data that bypasses the transformation module in response to determining the compression mode of the uplink signal data is a frequency domain compression mode.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining a mode notification signal indicating the compression mode of the uplink signal data, transforming decompressed uplink signal data into uplink frequency domain signal data in response to determining the compression mode of the uplink signal data is a time domain compression mode, and directly outputting the decompressed uplink signal data without performing transformation in response to determining the compression mode of the uplink signal data is a frequency domain compression mode.