Transmission control device, radiocommunication system, and calibration method

• US 10,608,717 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2017
• Issued: 03/31/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Jitsukawa, Daisuke, Dateki, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Bythrow, Peter M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pervin, Nuzhat
• Application Number:
  US15/636,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20180026690A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,006 Days
• Field of Search: 342174
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 3/267 Phased-array testing or checking devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/405 with multiple discrete channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/11 for calibration
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/21 for calibration; for correcting measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/309 Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/005 Control of transmission; Equalising
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0613 using simultaneous transmission H04B7/0686 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/12 Frequency diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/208 Frequency-division multiple access [FDMA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2126 using a reference station

Abstract

A transmission control device includes a memory and a processor connected to the memory. The processor executes a process including: selecting a reference transmission point as a starting point of generating a link from among a plurality of transmission points of which each wirelessly transmits a signal; sequentially selecting the transmission points one by one for each hierarchy corresponding to a number of hops from the selected reference transmission point and retrieving ones of the transmission points for which radio quality between the ones and the selected transmission point satisfies a predetermined criterion; and generating a link between the selected transmission point and a transmission point, among the transmission points obtained as a result at the retrieving, not connected to others of the transmission points to connect the two transmission points.

Claims

1. A transmission control device comprising:

a memory; and

a processor connected to the memory, wherein

the processor executes a process comprising;

selecting a reference transmission point as a starting point of generating a link from among a plurality of transmission points of which each wirelessly transmits a signal;

sequentially selecting the transmission points one by one for each hierarchy corresponding to a number of hops from the reference transmission point and retrieving satisfying transmission points which satisfy a predetermined criterion of radio quality with a currently selected transmission point; and

generating links between the currently selected transmission point and the satisfying transmission points not yet connected to another transmission point by another link.

2. The transmission control device according to claim 1, wherein

the process further comprises:

causing the plurality of transmission points to transmit and receive a calibration signal via the links generated between the plurality of transmission points; and

computing, based on a channel estimation result obtained by using the calibration signal, a calibration coefficient calibrating a difference between transmission characteristics of a transmitter circuit and a receiver circuit included in the plurality of transmission points.

3. The transmission control device according to claim 2, wherein the causing includes:

causing a plurality of transmission points belonging to one of an even hierarchy and an odd hierarchy to simultaneously transmit the calibration signal; and

causing a transmission point belonging to another of the even hierarchy and the odd hierarchy to receive the transmitted calibration signal.

4. The transmission control device according to claim 1, wherein

the memory stores an error table that stores a calibration error to be expected every radio quality in association with each other, and

the process further comprises:

computing, with reference to the error table, an accumulated error obtained by accumulating calibration errors corresponding to radio quality of links between the reference transmission point and the other transmission points; and

modifying the links generated between the reference transmission point and the other transmission points when the computed accumulated error is not less than a predetermined threshold.

5. A radio communication system that includes a transmission control device and a plurality of transmission points connected to the transmission control device,

the transmission control device comprising:

a memory; and

a processor connected to the memory, wherein

the processor executes a process comprising;

selecting a reference transmission point as a starting point of generating a link from among the plurality of transmission points of which each wirelessly transmits a signal;

sequentially selecting the transmission points one by one for each hierarchy corresponding to a number of hops from the reference transmission point and retrieving satisfying transmission points which satisfy a predetermined criterion of radio quality with a currently selected transmission point; and

generating links between the currently selected transmission point and the satisfying transmission points not connected to another transmission point by another link, and

each of the transmission points comprising;

a transmitter circuit that performs a radio transmission process on a calibration signal and transmits the calibration signal after the radio transmission process via the generated links; and

a receiver circuit that receives a calibration signal via the generated links and performs a radio reception process on the received calibration signal.

6. A calibration method comprising:

selecting, using a processor, a reference transmission point as a starting point of generating a link from among a plurality of transmission points of which each wirelessly transmits a signal;

sequentially selecting, using the processor, the transmission points one by one for each hierarchy corresponding to a number of hops from the reference transmission point and retrieving, using the processor, satisfying transmission points which satisfy a predetermined criterion of radio quality with a currently selected transmission point; and

generating, using the processor, links between the currently selected transmission point and the satisfying transmission points not yet connected to another transmission point by another link;

transmitting and receiving a calibration signal via the links generated between the plurality of transmission points; and

computing, using the processor, based on a channel estimation result obtained by using the calibration signal, a calibration coefficient calibrating a difference between transmission characteristics of a transmitter circuit and a receiver circuit included in the plurality of transmission points.