Self-interference cancellation for MIMO radios

• US 10,243,719 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2014
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford Management Co.)
• Original Assignee: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford Management Co.)
• Inventors: Bharadia, Dinesh, Katti, Sachin
• Primary Examiner(s): Zaidi, Iqbal
• Application Number:
  US15/025,256
• Publication Number:
  US 20160226653A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,639 Days
• Field of Search: 370252-281, 70277-281
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/525 with means for reducing leakage of transmitter signal into the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/485 inhibiting unwanted transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0413 MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2027/0093 Intermittant signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/0014 Carrier regulation of chaotic carriers H04L27/001; for multicarrier receivers H04L27/2657
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0023 Time-frequency-space
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0028 Variable division signaling therefor H04L5/0092
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1461 Suppression of signals in the return path, i.e. bidirectional control circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/16 Half-duplex systems; Simplex/duplex switching; Transmission of break signals non-automatically inverting the direction of transmission

Abstract

A MIMO wireless communication device includes, in part, a first transmit path adapted to transmit a first transmit signal from a first antenna, a second transmit path adapted to transmit a second transmit signal from a second antenna, a first receive path adapted to receive a first receive signal, an interference cancellation circuit and a controller. The cancellation circuit includes a cascaded filter structure each filter including a multitude of filter taps each including a variable element. The controller dynamically varies a value applied to each of the plurality of variable elements in accordance with frequency response characteristics of the variable element to remove a portion of a self-interference and/or cross-talk interference signal present in a signal received by the device. The device measures the frequency response characteristic of a multitude of communication channels, used in determining the values, via one or more preamble symbols that are jointly transmitted from the first transmit antenna and the second transmit antenna. A second portion of the interference signal is removed by a digital cancellation circuit using a multitude of samples of a transmitted signal.

Claims

1. A wireless communication system comprising:

first transmit path adapted to transmit first transmit signal from a first antenna;

a second transmit path adapted to transmit a second transmit signal from a second antenna;

a first receive path adapted to receive a first receive signal;

a second receive path adapted to receive a second receive signal;

a first interference cancellation circuit coupled to the first and the second transmit paths and adapted to remove a first portion of an interference signal from the first receive signal corresponding to the first transmit signal and a second portion of the interference signal from the first receive signal corresponding to the second transmit signal, the first interference cancellation circuit comprising a plurality of filter taps each including a variable element;

a second interference cancellation circuit coupled to the first and the second transmit paths and adapted to remove a first portion of an interference signal corresponding to the first transmit signal from the second receive signal and a second portion of the interference signal corresponding to the second transmit signal from the second receive signal, the second interference cancellation circuit comprising a second plurality of filter taps each including a variable element; and

a controller adapted to dynamically vary a value applied to each of the plurality of variable elements in accordance with frequency response characteristics of the variable element;

wherein the controller is further adapted to dynamically vary a value applied to each of the plurality of variable elements in the second plurality of filter taps in accordance with frequency response characteristics of the variable element.

2. The wireless communication system of claim 1, wherein the first receive signal is received by the first antenna, said first portion of the interference signal corresponds to self-interference and said second portion of the interference signal corresponds to cross-talk interference from transmission from the second antenna.

3. The wireless communication system of claim 1, wherein the first interference cancellation circuit comprises a cascaded filter structure comprising a first filter having N parallel filter taps and a second filter having C parallel filter taps, N and C being integer values greater than one.

4. The wireless communication system of claim 3, wherein the controller is further adapted to jointly determine a first plurality of N values corresponding to the variable elements in the first filter and a second plurality of C values corresponding to the variable elements in the second filter.

5. The wireless communication system of claim 3, wherein the first transmit signal is coupled to the first filter, and the second transmit signal is coupled to a cascade of the first and the second filters.

6. The wireless communication system of claim 1, wherein the cancellation circuit further comprises:

a digital interference cancellation circuit coupled to the first and the second transmit paths and adapted to dynamically remove a third portion of an interference signal from the first receive signal corresponding to the first transmit signal and a fourth portion of the interference signal from the receive signal corresponding to the second transmit signal, the digital cancellation circuit utilizing a plurality of samples of the first and the second transmit signals.

7. The wireless communication system of claim 6, wherein the digital interference cancellation circuit comprises a cascaded filter structure comprising a first filter structure coupled to the first transmit path, a second filter structure coupled to the second transmit path, and a shared filter structure coupled to the first and the second filter structures.

8. The wireless communication system of claim 6, wherein said digital interference cancellation circuit is disposed in the controller.

9. The wireless communication system of claim 1, wherein said wireless communication system is further adapted to measure a frequency response characteristic of a plurality of channels through which the first transmit signal and the second transmit signals are transmitted using a plurality of preamble symbols, said plurality of preamble symbols being jointly transmitted from each of the first and the second antennas, said controller being further adapted to dynamically adjust each of the plurality of variable elements in accordance with the frequency response characteristics of the plurality of channels.

10. The wireless communication system of claim 1, wherein the first transmit signal comprises a first preamble portion comprising a first preamble symbol transmitted in two subsequent time slots, and the second transmit signal comprises a second preamble portion comprising a phase shifted copy of the second preamble symbol and the second preamble symbol being transmitted in two subsequent time slots.

11. The wireless communication system of claim 1, wherein the variable element is a variable attenuator and one or more of the filter taps further comprise a delay element.

12. The wireless communication system of claim 11, further comprising:

a memory adapted to store at least one frequency response characteristic associated with at least one attenuation value of each of the plurality of variable attenuators.

13. The wireless communication system of claim 12, wherein said controller is adapted to generate a plurality of attenuation values for each of the plurality of variable attenuators in accordance with an S parameter associated with the variable attenuator.

14. The wireless communication system of claim 1, wherein said controller is a processor or a computer.

15. The wireless communication system of claim 1, wherein said wireless communication system is a full-duplex wireless communication system.

16. A method of operating a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting a first transmit signal from a first transmit path using a first antenna;

transmitting a second transmit signal from a second transmit path using a second antenna;

receiving a first receive signal at a first receive path using the first antenna, the first receive signal comprising a self-interference component corresponding to the first transmit signal, and a cross-talk interference component corresponding to the second transmit signal;

dynamically varying a value applied to each of a plurality of variable elements disposed in the wireless communication system in accordance with frequency response characteristics of the variable elements to remove, from the first receive signal, the self-interference component and the cross-talk interference component;

wherein the variable elements are variable attenuators;

storing in a memory at least one frequency response characteristic associated with at least one attenuation value of each of the plurality of the variable attenuators; and

generating a plurality of attenuation values for the plurality of variable attenuators in accordance with an S parameter associated with the variable attenuators.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first transmit signal comprises two consequent copies of a first preamble symbol and the second transmit signal comprises a phase shifted copy of the second preamble symbol followed by the second preamble symbol.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein dynamically varying a value applied to each of a plurality of variable elements comprises:

measuring frequency response of a self-interference channel through which the self-interference component of the first receive signal is passed;

jointly estimating a first plurality of values corresponding to a first cancellation circuit and a second plurality of values corresponding to a second cancellation circuit using at least the measured frequency response of the self-interference channel, wherein the first cancellation circuit and the second cancellation circuit are coupled in a cascaded structure; and

applying the estimated first plurality of values to a first cancellation circuit and the second plurality of values to a second cancellation circuit to reduce interference on signals received by the first receive path.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein dynamically varying a value applied to each of a plurality of variable elements comprises:

measuring frequency response characteristics of a first channel through which the first transmit signal is transmitted and frequency response characteristics of a second channel through which the second transmit signal is transmitted using at least two jointly transmitted pre amble symbols;

calculating a first set of values, each corresponding to one of the plurality of variable elements in accordance with the frequency response characteristics of the first and the second channels; and

applying the calculated first set of values to the variable elements;

iteratively measuring frequency response characteristics of the first and the second channels after the first set of values are applied to the variable elements, and updating the first set of values based on the new frequency response measurements.

20. The method of claim 16 further comprising:

removing a second portion of the self-interference signal front the receive signal using a digital interference cancellation circuit.

21. The method of claim 20 further comprising wherein said digital interference cancellation circuit is disposed in a processor configured to execute instructions.

22. The method of claim 16 wherein said wireless communication system is a full-duplex wireless communication system.

23. A wireless communication system comprising:

first transmit path adapted to transmit first transmit signal from a first antenna;

a second transmit path adapted to transmit a second transmit signal from a second antenna;

a first receive path adapted to receive a first receive signal;

a first interference cancellation circuit coupled to the first and the second transmit paths and adapted to remove a first portion of an interference signal from the first receive signal corresponding to the first transmit signal and a second portion of the interference signal from the first receive signal corresponding to the second transmit signal, the first interference cancellation circuit comprising a plurality of filter taps each including a variable element;

wherein the first interference cancellation circuit comprises a cascaded filter structure comprising a first filter having N parallel filter taps and a second filter having C parallel filter taps, N and C being integer values greater than one; and

a controller adapted to dynamically vary a value applied to each of the plurality of variable elements in accordance with frequency response characteristics of the variable element;

wherein the controller is further adapted to jointly determine a first plurality of N values corresponding to the variable elements in the first filter and a second plurality of C values corresponding to the variable elements in the second filter.