Patent ID: 12245170

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In order to make the objective, technical schemes and advantages of the present disclosure clearly understood, the embodiments of the present disclosure will be further described in detail by means of several embodiments in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the embodiments described here are intended only to explain the present disclosure and are not intended to limit the present disclosure.

Example Embodiment One

The gain adjustment control method provided by this embodiment can calculate the energy of the full-bandwidth physical downlink channel PDSCH transmission signal in the IF digital domain or the baseband digital domain according to the set calculation period, then determine the gain control adjustment parameters according to the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal, and control the adjustment of the gain of the receiver according to the determined gain control adjustment parameters and gain adjustment rules. Compared with the existing technology, which realizes gain adjustment control based on medium radio frequency analog signal processing, this embodiment has better anti-interference performance and less influence from multi-path, and can better meet the application scenarios that require extremely high flatness of signals in time domain and frequency domain, such as the new 256QAM modulation and demodulation technology.

A gain adjustment control method provided by this embodiment is shown inFIG.1, which includes the following operations.

At S101, energy of a full-bandwidth physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission signal in an intermediate frequency digital domain or a baseband digital domain is calculated according to a set calculation period.

In this embodiment, a specific value of the calculation period can be flexibly set according to a specific application scenario. In this embodiment, the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal may be calculated in the IF digital domain, or in the baseband digital domain, or be a combination of the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal in the IF digital domain and the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal in the baseband digital domain (for example, the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal is calculated in the IF digital domain in some calculation periods, and the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal is calculated in the baseband digital domain in other calculation periods). The calculation can be flexibly selected according to an application scenario.

At S102, a gain control adjustment parameter is determined according to the calculated energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal.

At S103, a gain of a receiver is controlled and adjusted according to the determined gain control adjustment parameter and a gain adjustment rule.

For the convenience of understanding, in an example of this embodiment, the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal is calculated in the IF digital domain for automatic gain adjustment.

In this example, the process of calculating the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal in the IF digital domain is shown inFIG.2, which includes the following operations.

At S201, an average power Pssbof a cell reference signal SSblock of k1 symbols for each respective antenna which schedules bandwidth of N Resource Blocks (RB) is calculated, where k1 is an integer greater than or equal to 2. In an example, the value of k1 may be 4. Of course, other values can be flexibly selected according to the requirements.

At S202, according to the calculated Pssband a power offset value per RB of PDSCH, energy Ppdsch_bc_20rssiof a PDSCH signal of N RB is calculated.

At S203, the calculated Ppdsch_bc_20rssiis added with a bandwidth conversion coefficient M, a multi-antenna gain BFG value and a reserved protection value Gu to acquire the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal Ppdsch_bf_All, that is:
Ppdsch_bf_All=Ppdsch_bc_20rssi+M+BFG+Gu;
where, M=10*(log10273−log10X), the BFG value is a maximum power difference between the PDSCH signal and SSblock signal acquired on each antenna. The value of Gu may also be set flexibly according to requirements, for example, the value of Gu may be 3 db.

In this example, the process also includes: measuring a power Pcsi rssi_Allof a channel quality measurement reference signal (CSIRS) for a cell, for example, measuring a single symbol power of a CSIRS signal sent by a 5G cell at the terminal receiver and adding a prediction protection value; measuring a service symbol PDSCH signal power Psym rssi_All, for example, measuring a single symbol power of a CSIRS signal sent by a 5G cell at the terminal receiver and adding a prediction protection value.

In this example, if there is no PDSCH signal in a current calculation period, a BFG value in a previous calculation period with a PDSCH signal can be adopted, or a BFG value can be set to 0 or other preset values.

In some application scenarios, a currently adopted BFG value may also be time counted. If a duration t0 of the currently adopted BFG value is longer than a first preset duration T0, the currently adopted BFG value can be set as a preset BFG value, for example, preset to 0, or preset to other values as required.

In this example, the process of determining a gain control adjustment parameter according to the calculated energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal includes: selecting a largest one from the calculated Ppdsch_bf_All, Pcsi rssi_Alland Psym rssi_Allas the gain control adjustment parameter.

For the convenience of understanding, in an example of this embodiment, the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal is calculated in the baseband digital domain for automatic gain adjustment.

In this example, the process of calculating the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal in the baseband digital domain is shown inFIG.3, which includes the following operations.

At S301, an average strength Pssb-rssiof a received signal of SSblock of k2 symbols for each respective antenna which schedules bandwidth of N RB is calculated, where k2 is an integer greater than or equal to 2. In an example, the value of k2 may be 4. Of course, other values can be flexibly selected according to the requirements.

At S302, according to the calculated Pssb-rssiand a power offset value per RB of PDSCH, energy Ppdsch_bc_20rssiof a PDSCH signal of N RB is calculated.

At S303, the calculated Ppdsch_bc_20rssiis added with a bandwidth conversion coefficient M, a multi-antenna gain BFG value and a reserved protection value Gu to acquire the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal Ppdsch_bf_All, that is:
Ppdsch_bf_All=Ppdsch_bc_20rssi+M+BFG+Gu;
where, M=10*(log10273−log10X), the BFG value is a maximum power difference between the PDSCH signal and SSblock signal acquired on each antenna. The value of Gu may also be set flexibly according to requirements, for example, the value of Gu may be 3 db.

In this example, the BFG value in a previous calculation period with PDSCH signal may be adopted, and the BFG value may also be set to 0 or other preset values. In some application scenarios, a currently adopted BFG value may also be time counted. If a duration t0 of the currently adopted BFG value is longer than a first preset duration T0, the currently adopted BFG value can be set as a preset BFG value, for example, preset to 0, or preset to other values as required.

In this example, the process of determining a gain control adjustment parameter according to the calculated energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal includes: select a largest one from the calculated Pssb-rssi, Ppdsch_bc_20rssiand Ppdsch_bf_Allas the gain control adjustment parameter.

In this embodiment, after the gain control adjustment parameter is determined according to the above example implementations, the gain of the receiver is controlled to be adjusted according to the determined gain control adjustment parameter and gain adjustment rule, as shown inFIG.4, which may include the following operations.

At S401, a largest gain control adjustment parameter is selected from the gain control adjustment parameters acquired for the last H times, as a target gain control adjustment parameter X.

H is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and it should be understood that a specific value of H may be flexibly set according to requirements, for example, it may be set to 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc. In some examples, the acquired target gain control adjustment parameter X can be stored in a stack for a subsequent selection and calling.

And it should be understood that in some examples, the value of H may also be 1, that is, a gain control adjustment parameter acquired last time is directly used as the target gain control adjustment parameter.

At S402, a gain of the receiver is controlled and adjusted according to the acquired X and a gain adjustment rule.

For example, in some application scenarios, for anti-jitter, the receiver can be set to have L gain levels, the energy values of adjacent gain levels have an overlapping area, and L is an integer greater than or equal to 2.

In this application scenario, a preset gain adjustment rule may include, but are not limited to:determining a target gain level according to the target gain control adjustment parameter X;according to the target gain level acquired by a currently adopted gain level, switching a gain level.

In this application scenario, the process of determining the target gain level according to the target gain control adjustment parameter X may include, but is not limited to:when the target gain control adjustment parameter X is located in an overlapping area of energy values of adjacent gain levels, and the currently adopted gain level is not in the adjacent gain level, determining that a lower gain level in the adjacent gain levels is the target gain level, based on a priority to a lower gain level; determining that the currently adopted gain level is the target gain level when the currently adopted gain level is in the adjacent gain level;when the target gain control adjustment parameter X falls into a range of energy values of a certain gain level and is located outside the overlapping area of energy values, determining that a gain level where X falls into is the target gain level.

In this embodiment, the gain adjustment control method may also include, but is not limited to, at least one of the following.

In the second preset duration T1, when it is detected that the currently adopted gain level is switched to the target gain level for t1 times, and the target gain level is higher than the currently adopted gain level, the gain level after the last switch is locked in a preset locking time period. The specific locking duration may be flexibly set according to specific application scenarios.

In the third preset duration T2, when it is detected that the currently adopted gain level has not been switched, and there is a gain level lower than the currently adopted gain level, the currently adopted gain level is switched to a next gain level which is lower than the currently adopted gain level.

For the convenience of understanding, this embodiment will be explained below by taking a terminal receiver in the 5G communication network as an example. Assuming that the terminal receiver has three gain levels, reference may be made to Table one as shown below andFIG.5.

TABLE ONEGain levelsDemarcation pointGain level one−45 dbm ≥ XGain level two−29 dbm ≥ X ≥ −48 dbmGain level threeX ≥ −32 dbm

In this example, a largest one is selected from the gain control adjustment parameters acquired for the last 8 times, as the target gain control adjustment parameter. In this example, for the switching control of the gain levels, a preference is applied to an adaptive change within a current gain level, and the current level will be switched only if it is beyond a gain level range thereof. The overall control is based on a priority order from lower to higher gain levels. For example, assuming that the target gain control adjustment parameter X selected for the first time is −47 dBm, it is determined that the currently adopted level is gain level one; assuming that the target gain control adjustment parameter X selected for the second time is −44 dBm, it is determined to switch from gain level one to gain level two; assuming that the target gain control adjustment parameter X selected for the third time is −47 dBm, it is determined to be still in gain level two; assuming that the target gain control adjustment parameter X selected for the fourth time is −50 dBm, the level is switched from gain level two to gain level one; assuming that the target gain control adjustment parameter X selected for the fifth time is −46 dBm, the level is kept as gain level one.

In this example, if there is no service signal PDSCH next time, i.e., there is no BFG, then BFG maintains the last value.

A counter t1 can be set to maintain a current level (that is, a gain level after the last switch is locked in a preset locking time period) if a number of upshift switching t1>T1 within a monitoring duration, and the locking time period is n*monitoring duration t, where n=1, 2, 3, ‘n’ may be used as a maintenance coefficient.

In this example, T1 is a threshold of a maximum number of upshifts, which is an adjustable value. In order to control a jitter effect caused by a upshift, 3 db overlap between levels and BFG maintenance mechanism may be applied, so as to achieve an anti-jitter effect.

In this embodiment, a counter t0 may also be set. For the currently adopted BFG, if t0>T0, the adopted BFG value is considered invalid and set to 0.

In this embodiment, a counter t2 may also be set. If t2>T2 and a reference value is always in a certain level, and there is a level lower than the current level, the level will be downshifted.

In this example, T0 and T2 are adjustable values, T0 is a fiducial time for BFG, and T1 is a time duration to maintain a current level. Therefore, the target level can be downshifted when there is no PDSCH, and a risk caused by an estimation deviation of an overlapping area can be reduced.

Example Embodiment Two

This embodiment provides a gain adjustment control device, which can be arranged in various communication devices (such as a receiver). Reference is made toFIG.6, which includes the following modules.

An energy acquisition module601is configured to calculate energy of a full-bandwidth physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission signal in an intermediate frequency digital domain or a baseband digital domain according to a set calculation period.

In this embodiment, a specific value of the calculation period can be flexibly set according to a specific application scenario. In this embodiment, the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal may be calculated in the IF digital domain, or in the baseband digital domain, or be a combination of the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal in the IF digital domain and the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal in the baseband digital domain (for example, the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal is calculated in the IF digital domain in some calculation periods, and the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal is calculated in the baseband digital domain in other calculation periods). The calculation can be flexibly selected according to an application scenario.

A gain control module602is configured to determine a gain control adjustment parameter according to the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal, and control and adjust a gain of a receiver according to the determined gain control adjustment parameter and a gain adjustment rule.

For the convenience of understanding, in an example of this embodiment, the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal is calculated in the IF digital domain for automatic gain adjustment.

In this example, as shown inFIG.7, the energy acquisition module601includes a cell reference signal SSblock measurement and prediction module6011, which is configured for the terminal receiver to predict a maximum single symbol power of SSblock reference signal and shaping gain in the intermediate frequency digital domain. An example cell reference signal SSblock measurement and prediction module6011is configured to perform the following calculation processes.

The cell reference signal SSblock measurement and prediction module6011is configured to calculate average power Pssbof a cell reference signal SSblock of k1 symbols for each respective antenna which schedules bandwidth of N Resource Blocks (RB); according to the calculated Pssband a power offset value per RB of PDSCH, calculate energy Ppdsch_bc_20rssiof a PDSCH signal of N RB; add the calculated Ppdsch_bc_20rssiwith a bandwidth conversion coefficient M, a multi-antenna gain BFG value and a reserved protection value Gu to acquire the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal Ppdsch_bf_All, that is:
Ppdsch_bf_All=Ppdsch_bc_20rssi+M+BFG+Gu;
where k1 is an integer greater than or equal to 2. In an example, the value of k1 may be 4. where, M=10*(log10273−log10X), the BFG value is a maximum power difference between the PDSCH signal and SSblock signal acquired on each antenna. The value of Gu may also be set flexibly according to requirements, for example, the value of Gu may be 3 db.

In this example, the energy acquisition module601also includes a channel quality measurement reference signal (CSIRS) measurement and prediction module6012which is configured to measure a power Pcsi rssi_Allof a channel quality measurement reference signal (CSIRS) for a cell, for example, measuring a single symbol power of a CSIRS signal sent by a 5G cell at the terminal receiver and adding a prediction protection value.

The energy acquisition module601also includes a service symbol maximum power measurement module6013, which is configured to measure a service symbol PDSCH signal power Psym rssi_All, for example, measuring a single symbol power of a CSIRS signal sent by a 5G cell at the terminal receiver and adding a prediction protection value.

In this example, if there is no PDSCH signal in a current calculation period, a BFG value in a previous calculation period with a PDSCH signal can be adopted, or a BFG value can be set to 0 or other preset values.

In some application scenarios, a currently adopted BFG value may also be time counted. If a duration t0 of the currently adopted BFG value is longer than a first preset duration T0, the currently adopted BFG value can be set as a preset BFG value, for example, preset to 0, or preset to other values as required.

The gain control module602also includes a maximum prediction selection module6021, which is configured to select a largest one from the calculated Ppdsch_bf_All, Pcsi rssi_Alland Psym rssi_Allas the gain control adjustment parameter.

For the convenience of understanding, in an example of this embodiment, the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal is calculated in the baseband digital domain for automatic gain adjustment.

In this example, as shown inFIG.8, the energy acquisition module601includes a baseband calculation adjustment and reference module6014, which is configured to calculate an average strength Pssb-rssiof a received signal of SSblock of k2 symbols for each respective antenna which schedules bandwidth of N RB; according to the calculated Pssb-rssiand a power offset value per RB of PDSCH, calculate energy Ppdsch_bc_20rssiof a PDSCH signal of N RB; add the calculated Ppdsch_bc_20rssiwith a bandwidth conversion coefficient M, a multi-antenna gain BFG value and a reserved protection value Gu to acquire the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal Ppdsch_bf_All, that is:
Ppdsch_bf_All=Ppdsch_bc_20rssi+M+BFG+Gu;
where k2 is an integer greater than or equal to 2. In an example, the, value of k2 may be 4. M=10*(log10273−log10X), the BFG value is a maximum power difference between the PDSCH signal and SSblock signal acquired on each antenna. The value of Gu may also be set flexibly according to requirements, for example, the value of Gu may be 3 db.

In this example, the BFG value in a previous calculation period with PDSCH signal may be adopted, and the BFG value may also be set to 0 or other preset values. In some application scenarios, a currently adopted BFG value may also be time counted. If a duration t0 of the currently adopted BFG value is longer than a first preset duration T0, the currently adopted BFG value can be set as a preset BFG value, for example, preset to 0, or preset to other values as required.

In this example, the baseband calculation adjustment and reference module6014is configured to select a largest one from the calculated Pssb-rssi, Ppdsch_bc_20rssiand Ppdsch_bf_Allas the gain control adjustment parameter.

As shown inFIG.9, the gain control module602in this embodiment also includes a table look-up and anti-jitter module6022and a downshift module6023, where:

The anti-jitter module6022is configured to: select a largest one from the gain control adjustment parameters acquired for the last H times, as a target gain control adjustment parameter X; control and adjust a gain of the receiver according to the acquired X and a gain adjustment rule. H is an integer greater than or equal to 2, in some examples, the value of H may also be 1, that is, a gain control adjustment parameter acquired last time is directly used as the target gain control adjustment parameter.

For example, in some application scenarios, for anti-jitter, the receiver can be set to have L gain levels, the energy values of adjacent gain levels have an overlapping area, and L is an integer greater than or equal to 2.

In this application scenario, a preset gain adjustment rule may include, but are not limited to:determining a target gain level according to the target gain control adjustment parameter X;according to the target gain level acquired by a currently adopted gain level, switching a gain level.

In this application scenario, the process of determining the target gain level according to the target gain control adjustment parameter X may include, but is not limited to:when the target gain control adjustment parameter X is located in the overlapping area of energy values of adjacent gain levels, and the currently adopted gain level is not in the adjacent gain level, determining that a lower gain level in the adjacent gain levels is the target gain level, based on a priority to a lower gain level; determining that the currently adopted gain level is the target gain level when the currently adopted gain level is in the adjacent gain level;when the target gain control adjustment parameter X falls into a range of energy values of a certain gain level and is located outside the overlapping area of energy values, determining that a gain level where X falls into is the target gain level.

In this embodiment, the table lookup and anti-jitter module6022may also be configured to, in the second preset duration T1, when it is detected that the currently adopted gain level is switched to the target gain level for t1 times, and the target gain level is higher than the currently adopted gain level, lock the gain level after the last switch for a preset locking time period. The specific locking duration may be flexibly set according to specific application scenarios.

The downshift module6023may be configured to, in the third preset duration T2, when it is detected that the currently adopted gain level has not been switched, and there is a gain level lower than the currently adopted gain level, switch the currently adopted gain level to a next gain level which is lower than the currently adopted gain level.

The gain adjustment control device provided by this embodiment can calculate the energy of the full-bandwidth physical downlink channel PDSCH transmission signal in the IF digital domain or the baseband digital domain according to the set calculation period, then determine the gain control adjustment parameters according to the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal, and control the adjustment of the gain of the receiver according to the determined gain control adjustment parameters and gain adjustment rules. This embodiment has better anti-interference performance and less influence from multi-path, and can better meet the application scenarios that require extremely high flatness of signals in time domain and frequency domain, such as the new 256QAM modulation and demodulation technology.

Example Embodiment Three

This embodiment also provides a communication device, which can be used as various receivers, such as a terminal receiver in a 5G communication system. As shown inFIG.10, the communication device includes a processor1001, a memory1002and a communication bus1003.

The communication bus1003is configured to implement a communication between the processor1001and the memory1002.

In an example, the processor1001is configured to execute one or more computer program stored in the memory1002to implement the gain adjustment control methods of the above embodiments.

This embodiment further provides a computer-readable storage medium that includes a volatile or non-volatile, removable or non-removable medium implemented in any method or technology for storing information (such as computer-readable instructions, data structures, computer program modules, or other data). The computer-readable storage media include, but are not limited to, random access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technologies, compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), digital versatile disc (DVD) or other optical disc storage, cassettes, magnetic tapes, magnetic disc storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other media that can be configured to store desired information and can be accessed by a computer.

In an example, the computer-readable storage medium in this embodiment may be configured to store one or more computer programs executable by one or more processors to implement the gain adjustment control methods of the above embodiments.

This embodiment further provides a computer program (or computer software), which may be distributed on a computer-readable medium and may be executed by a computing device to implement at least one step of the gain adjustment control methods of the above embodiments. In some cases, at least one of the steps shown or described may be performed in a different order from that described in the above embodiments.

This embodiment further provides a computer program product including a computer-readable device on which a computer program as described above is stored. In this embodiment, the computer-readable device may include the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as described above.

The gain adjustment control method, device, apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium provided by this embodiment can calculate the energy of the full-bandwidth physical downlink channel (PDSCH) transmission signal in the IF digital domain or the baseband digital domain according to the set calculation period, then determine the gain control adjustment parameters according to the energy of the full-bandwidth PDSCH transmission signal, and control the adjustment of the gain of the receiver. Compared with the existing technology, which realizes gain adjustment control based on medium radio frequency analog signal processing, this embodiment has better anti-interference performance and less influence from multi-path, and can better meet the application scenarios that require extremely high flatness of signals in time domain and frequency domain.

As can be seen, it should be understood by those having ordinary skills in the art that all or some of the steps in the methods disclosed above, functional modules/units in the systems and devices disclosed above may be implemented as software (which may be implemented by computer program code executable by a computing device), firmware, hardware, and appropriate combinations thereof. In the hardware implementation, the division between functional modules/units mentioned in the above description does not necessarily correspond to the division of physical components; for example, a physical component may have multiple functions, or a function or step may be performed cooperatively by several physical components. Some or all of the physical components may be implemented as software executed by a processor, such as a central processing unit, a digital signal processor or a microprocessor, or as hardware, or as an integrated circuit, such as an application specific integrated circuit.

Furthermore, it is well known to those having ordinary skills in the art that communication media typically contain computer-readable instructions, data structures, computer program modules or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave or other transmission mechanism, and may include any information delivery media. Therefore, the present disclosure is not limited to any particular combination of hardware and software.

The foregoing is a detailed description of the embodiments of the present disclosure in conjunction with particular implementations, and specific implementations of the present disclosure should not be construed as being limited to the description. For those having ordinary skills in the art to which the present disclosure pertains, without departing from the concept of the present disclosure, several deductions or substitutions can be made, which should be regarded as falling within the scope of the present disclosure.