JOINT SIGNAL DEMODULATION IN A LOW AND HIGH DATA RATE CHANNEL ENVIRONMENT
A receiver is capable of demodulating both high data rate and low data rate transmissions. An antenna receives the high and low data rate transmissions, as a received signal. An interference canceling device cancels a contribution of at least one shared/common channel from the received signal, producing a first interference canceled signal. A first data detector for detecting data of one of the high or low data rate transmissions by processing the first interference canceled signal. An interference canceling device for canceling the detected data of the one transmissions from the first interference canceled signal, producing a second interference canceled signal. A second data detector for detecting data of an other of the high or low data rate transmissions from the second interference canceled signal.
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This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/149,508 filed Jun. 10, 2005, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/578,715 filed Jun. 10, 2004, which is incorporated by reference as if fully set forth.
FIELD OF INVENTIONThis invention generally relates to wireless communication systems. In particular, the invention relates to demodulating signals in a low and high data rate environment.
BACKGROUNDAs the demand for both voice and data services increases, systems are being developed to better support both media. One such system is the Universal Mobile Terrestrial System (UMTS) Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) communication system. In the frequency division duplex (FDD) mode, such as in release 99 (R4), voice communications are typically transmitted using dedicated channels (DCH). In another such system, CDMA2000, voice communications are typically transmitted using dedicated channels. Although data can be transmitted through various channels, high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) is one W-CDMA approach and high speed packet channels is one CDMA2000 approach to support high data rate downlink transmissions.
Accordingly, it is desirable for a receiver in such a system to be capable of demodulating both channel types.
SUMMARYA receiver is capable of demodulating both high data rate and low data rate transmissions. An antenna receives the high and low data rate transmissions, as a received signal. An interference canceling device cancels a contribution of at least one shared/common channel from the received signal, producing a first interference canceled signal. A first data detector for detecting data of one of the high or low data rate transmissions by processing the first interference canceled signal. An interference canceling device for canceling the detected data of the one transmissions from the first interference canceled signal, producing a second interference canceled signal. A second data detector for detecting data of an other of the high or low data rate transmissions from the second interference canceled signal.
Although the features and elements of the present invention are described in the preferred embodiments in particular combinations, each feature or element can be used alone (without the other features and elements of the preferred embodiments) or in various combinations with or without other features and elements of the present invention.
Hereafter, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes but is not limited to a user equipment, mobile station, fixed or mobile subscriber unit, pager, or any other type of device capable of operating in a wireless environment. When referred to hereafter, a base station includes but is not limited to a Node-B, site controller, access point or any other type of interfacing device in a wireless environment. Although the following embodiments are described in connection with W-CDMA and CDMA2000, they can be applied to other wireless systems having multiple transmission data rates.
In such an environment, considerable interference and noise creates problems and degrades the performance of the low data rate and high data rate Rx. To illustrate, due to the nature of high data rate transmissions, these transmissions tend to be sent at high power levels. These high power level transmissions can create significant interference with respect to low data rate transmissions.
Additionally, both FDD and CDMA2000 dedicated channels use soft handover between base stations or softer handover between base station sectors. High data rate packet transmissions do not use soft/softer handover. As a result, a WTRU that borders cells will likely be in soft handover low data rate transmissions but it may only intentionally receive high data rate transmissions from one base station. With respect to reception of high data rate transmissions, not only does intra-cell interference from the other low data rate communications exist, but significant inter-cell interference exists from the other cells low data rate transmissions, including the soft handover transmissions. As a result, the high data rate channel capacity may degrade as well as the number of high data rate channels that can be maintained in the system.
The interference canceller 38 as illustrated in
An interference canceller may also be used to cancel interference and noise prior to low data rate Rx operations. The interference canceller 52 as illustrated in
Due to the potential high power level of high data rate transmissions, the estimated data from the high data rate transmissions may be used in the high data rate interference construction with respect to the low data rate Rx. Conversely, the estimated data from the low data rate transmission may be used in the low data rate interference constructions with respect to the high data rate Rx.
Although the common/shared channel interference canceller is illustrated as a subtractive interference canceller, other interference cancellation techniques may be used. The FDD-W-CDMA common/shared channel interference canceller is illustrated with a particular set of channels being canceled, less channels may be used or additional channels may be canceled. For receivers in soft/softer handover or at the periphery of a cell, these channels may include channels from other cells/sectors.
The embodiment of
The received vector,
Since the HSDPA transmissions are at a higher data rate, they typically have higher transmission power levels. As a result, the HSDPA transmissions may create significant interference with respect to DPCH reception. However, due to the added complexity of detecting and canceling another cell's HSDPA transmission, the cancellation of HSDPA transmissions from the other cell (cell 2) may not be performed in certain implementations.
A DPCH cell 1 data detector 114 detects data from the cell 1 HSDPA canceled signal to produce soft cell 1 DPCH symbols. A DPCH cell 2 data detector 122 detects data from the cell 2 HSDPA canceled signal to produce soft cell 2 DPCH symbols. A time alignment and combiner 124 time aligns the cell 1 and cell 2 soft symbols and combines them producing the combined DPCH symbols/data.
An IC 132 produces a contribution of the cell 1 DPCH symbols to the cell 1 vector. The cell 1 DPCH contribution is subtracted by a subtractor 134 from the cell 1 received vector, producing a cell 1 DPCH canceled vector. An HSDPA data detector 136 detects the cell 1 HSDPA symbols/data from the interference cancelled vector. In an alternate configuration, the symbols produced by time alignment and combiner 138 (DPCH Data) may be used in the interference cancellation instead of only the cell 1 DPCH data. Although such an approach provides for added accuracy in the soft symbols used in the interference cancellation, it adds to its overall complexity since more timing coordination is required to overcome the timing differences between cell 1 and cell 2 DPCH/HSDPA reception. Although the above interference cancellers are described as subtractive interference cancellers, other types of interference cancellers may be used.
Although
One technique that can be used to separate signals and effectively perform the interference cancellation of the preceding embodiments uses independent component analysis (ICA), such as in U.S. Provisional Application entitled “Creation of Matrices for Signal Separation”, filed Jun. 8, 2005, incorporated by reference, although other techniques may be used. In that technique, principal component analysis is initially performed, then through ICA, a separation matrix is constructed using statistical processing to separate the signals and signal analysis is performed to determine signals of interest. Such an approach may be desirable to use with multiple antenna elements, such as multiple input multiple output (MIMO), single input multiple output (SIMO) and multiple input single output (MISO).
Claims
1. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprising:
- at least one antenna configured to receive a wireless data transmission; and
- a receiver, the receiver comprising: a high data rate data detection device configured to detect high data rate symbols in the received wireless data transmission; an interference construction device configured to determine the contribution of the high data rate symbols to the received wireless data transmission; a subtractor configured to subtract the contribution of the high data rate symbols from the received wireless data transmission to produce a high data rate cancelled vector; and a low data rate data detection device configured to detect low data rate symbols from the high data rate cancelled vector.
2. The WTRU of claim 1, the receiver further comprising at least one common/shared channel interference construction device, configured to determine the contribution of at least one common/shared channel to the received wireless data transmission; and
- the subtractor further configured to subtract the contribution of the at least one common/shared channel to the received wireless data transmission to produce an interference cancelled vector, wherein the high speed data detection device detects the high data rate symbols in the interference cancelled vector.
3. The WTRU of claim 2, wherein the at least one common/shared channel comprises at least one of a paging indicator channel, a common pilot channel, a primary common control physical channel, a secondary common control physical channel, and a high-speed shared control channel.
4. The WTRU of claim 1, wherein the high data rate symbols are high speed downlink packet access symbols.
5. The WTRU of claim 1, wherein the low data rate symbols are code division multiple access 2000 (CDMA2000) dedicated channel symbols.
6. The WTRU of claim 1, wherein the channel interference construction device is a subtractive interference canceller.
7. The WTRU of claim 1, wherein the received wireless data transmission comprises signals from a plurality of cells.
8. A method of receiving a wireless data transmission containing a low data rate communication and a high data rate communication, the method comprising:
- receiving a combined communication signal comprising at least one low data rate communication and at least one high data rate communication;
- detecting the at least one high data rate communication;
- determining the contribution of the high data rate communication to the received wireless data transmission;
- subtracting the contribution of the high data rate communication from the received wireless data transmission to produce a high data rate cancelled vector; and
- detecting the low data rate communication based on the high data rate cancelled vector.
9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:
- detecting the contribution of at least one common/shared channel to the received wireless data communication;
- subtracting the contribution of the at least one common/shared channel from the received wireless data communication to produce an interference cancelled vector, wherein detecting the high speed data rate communication is performed based on the interference cancelled vector.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the at least one common/shared channel comprises at least one of a paging indicator channel, a common pilot channel, a primary common control physical channel, a secondary common control physical channel, and a high-speed shared control channel.
11. The method of claim 8, wherein the high data rate symbols are high speed downlink packet access symbols.
12. The method of claim 8, wherein the low data rate symbols are code division multiple access 2000 (CDMA2000) dedicated channel symbols.
13. The method of claim 8, wherein the channel interference construction device is a subtractive interference canceller.
14. The method of claim 8, wherein the received wireless data transmission comprises signals from a plurality of cells.
Type: Application
Filed: Oct 19, 2009
Publication Date: Feb 18, 2010
Applicant: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (Wilmington, DE)
Inventor: Yogendra Shah (Exton, PA)
Application Number: 12/581,528
International Classification: H04B 15/00 (20060101); H04B 7/216 (20060101);