Patent Application: US-28059502-A

Abstract:
a test signal generator at a transmitter station and a facsimile generator at a receiver station go through an acquisition and tracking process which aligns the two signals so that a logical processor can compute the frequency transfer function of the entire propagation path for use in an adaptive , concurrently sent communication signal . the frequency transfer function is conveyed back to the transmit end via a control channel permitting an adaptivity function at the transmit end to influence subsequent selection of communication parameters , among which are typically transmitted data rate , selection of modulation , selection of forward error correcting coding , and selection of frequency band for transmission . the same measurement is conveyed to an adaptivity function at the receive end for use in the communications receiver to select demodulator variables such as gain control , and equalization of amplitude and phase , versus frequency . the adaptivity function also permits interspersing of reverse - direction communications over the same frequency bands in a time - share mode between forward - direction and reverse - direction communication with the measurement signals having to be transmitted in only one direction . an alternate embodiment invention of this type is described which is additionally useful for mobile communications channels . another variation embodiment is described for pure propagation measurements only , absent conveyance of end - user information .

Description:
in this description , the preferred embodiment uses test signals that are segments of linear fm sweep signals . many combinations of such signals are possible . the nature and benefits of the invention are not dependent on the precise format and placement of linear fm sweep signals , so there may be many variations in how the sweep signals are interlaced with communications . additional embodiments such as the use of cdma test signals are also possible and will be described in section 5 . the underlying purpose and benefit of the invention is its ability to compute , distribute and make use of , a frequency transfer function for each individual link in a wireless network subject to fading channel conditions . at the start of the procedure envisioned for any typical use of the invention , there is a two - step process called acquisition and tracking which is independently performed in each receiver while a transmitting station broadcasts test signals interlaced with communication . a transmitted test signal is sent out by one station and received independently by a number of receiving stations . since the receiving stations begin operation from a cold start , their knowledge of the transmit signal &# 39 ; s timing is nil to begin with , so a boot - up type of operation is needed whereby each receiver sequentially discovers various facts about the transmitted signal that allows it to reduce the misalignment . the presence of gross misalignment at start - up is illustrated in the sketch in fig7 . completion of the acquisition step , however close it may be , is still not perfect alignment . the next mode , tracking , is meant to reduce any remaining misalignment errors to zero . as just noted , the tracking stage commences when acquisition has reduced misalignment errors to a sufficiently small condition . conditions during tracking are illustrated in the sketch in fig8 , and can be characterized as the maintenance of a small difference frequency , small enough to keep the downconverted signal within a relatively narrow bandwidth of the filter preceding the a / d converter in fig1 , filter 7 . tracking is a continuous process that exists as long as the received signal strength is sufficient . if the signal is lost , acquisition may again be necessary . in the preferred embodiment , adjustments are made during tracking mode by the logical processor , abruptly in the form of a correction which eliminates all the artifacts at once . the logical processor then has available the desired channel estimate in numerical form . a prototype version discussed in section 4 performed the artifact removal as a continuous feedback operation for reasons which are given in that section . continuous feedback takes longer than the preferred embodiment . in summary , the new vna works in a two - step process , acquisition and tracking , during which equipment imperfections such as timing error , frequency offset error , among others , are progressively reduced and eliminated . the logical steps used in this invention are listed in table 3 . steps 2 , 3 , and 4 in table 3 will now be described in somewhat more detail . since the free - running probe generator in the receiver may be relatively far off in timing and in frequency offset , the incoming signal and the locally generated signal will repeatedly cross , producing short periodic pulses into the baseband filter , as shown in the sketch in fig9 and 10 ( a ). these pulses will not be sufficient to produce a clear determination of the timing and frequency offsets . the concept adapted by this invention to facilitate acquisition is to make the locally generated signal artificially fast or artificially slow so that a relatively long , higher powered , coincidence pulse occurs when the two signals overlap , as sketched in fig1 ( b ). it should be clear that it does not matter whether the signal runs fast or slow : it is always going to be easier to detect the artificial coincidence than to detect periodic crossovers . having measured the coincidence on ( in this case ) the downsweep , the locally generated signal can be adjusted so that a coincidence next occurs on the upsweep . with two such measurements , the timing and frequency offset error can be computed and the locally generated signal can be adjusted again so that the difference frequency lies entirely within the filter 7 bandwidth . then step # 6 in table 3 , the tracking stage of the measurement , begins . probe signal building blocks used in the preferred embodiment are made up of what is variously called a chirp signal , a frequency sweep signal , or linear fm signal , see fig2 . the complex ( bandpass equivalent ) of a chirp signal or linear frequency modulated signal is 35 36 37 : note , that when the phase angle of the complex signal is differentiated , one gets the instantaneous angular frequency as a function of time : this function is a frequency ramp with slope m hz per second . the maximum frequency at the end of the ramp is therefore mt fm . fig2 ( a ) shows a time plot of the real and imaginary part of equation ( 1 ) which become the in - phase and quadrature components of the real signal , along with a plot of the instantaneous frequency , shown in 2 ( b ). the equivalent impulse response channel from tower to receiver is generally represented as a complex bandpass impulse response , h ( t ) which lasts from t = 0 to some initially unknown t = t max , called the delay spread of the channel . a line of sight ( los ) link ideally has no dispersion . the response of the channel to the chirp signal is , by convolution , substituting ( 1 ) into ( 5 ), and considering the output of the channel only inside the chirp interval t max ≦ t ≦ t fm , now recognize that the upper limit can be replaced by zero . rearranging terms , replace the upper limit by ∞ since t is always greater than the delay spread , the left hand side of equation ( 8 ) is a processed ( deswept ) version of the received signal . the right hand side of equation ( 8 ) is a time - analog of a close approximation to h ( jω ) as demonstrated next . the delay spread , t max , is expected to range from nanoseconds for los to 10 &# 39 ; s of microseconds for nlos users 20 to 40 kilometers away from the tower . duration of the sweep should therefore be made much longer than the expected size of the delay spread . note from ( 8 ) that as m gets smaller , the approximation for h ( jω ) gets better , as would be expected . nevertheless , in this application , we do not have the luxury of letting m → 0 , so additional signal processing may be needed . table 3 shows how the impulse response becomes distorted for non - zero slope . if the sweep bandwidth is large enough to resolve individual reflection coefficients in the impulse response , then correcting this error is relatively straightfoward since the correction can be done independently at each coefficient . table 4 indicates that for sweeps on the order of a tenth of a second and bandwidths of 2 mhz , this error is not significant at all , so will be neglected in what follows . a closer look will show how initial misalignment due to equipment and measurement uncertainties adds signal processing burden to the task over - and - above equation ( 9 ). the derivation leading to equation ( 9 ) assumed the end - state ( step 9 of table 3 ) of acquisition and tracking , namely a perfectly in - sync receiver with perfect frequency translation and perfect oscillator match at transmit and receive stations , and no phase noise . therefore let &# 39 ; s back up from this condition by introducing the errors that must be discovered and removed during the tracking phase . introducing misalignment error terms into a modified version of equation ( 8 ) shows what happens to the measurement while tracking steps are in operation as given in table 3 , steps 6 , 7 , and 8 . let φ ( t ) be the phase noise in the receiver referenced to the transmitter , from end - to - end . let δf / f be the oscillator long - term instability at the receiver relative to the transmitter . the probe signal is still the same , see equation ( 1 ), but the desweeping signal is modified by these errors . slope error δm is caused by the relative long - term frequency uncertainty of the receiver oscillator relative to the transmitter oscillator , δf / f . say δf is positive . this not only speeds up the sweep , it causes the maximum sweep frequency to overshoot . these two effects multiply to give , fig1 is a sketch explaining equation ( 11 ). therefore , the non - ideal desweep signal in terms of initially unknown equipment uncertainties becomes , ( t − τ ε ) 2 = t 2 − 2 tτ ε + τ ε 2 ( 13 ) combining all of the error terms , the processed time function at the receiver , instead of being the wanted analog of the channel transfer function becomes : deswept ⁢ ⁢ r ⁡ ( t ) = h ⁡ ( ω ′ ) ⁢ ⅇ - j2π ⁢ δ ⁢ ⁢ f f ⁢ mt 2 + j2π ⁢ ⁢ f ɛ ⁢ t + j2π ⁢ ⁢ τ ɛ ⁢ mt + jϕ ⁡ ( t ) + j · constant ⁢ ⁢ phase ⁢ ⁢ term ( 15 ) where h ( ω ′) was previously defined in equation ( 8 ). collecting terms inside the exponent : thus , f ε + τ ε m is a combined frequency - time error noticeable as a rapid spin in deswept r ( t ), rapid compared to the other effects inside the exponent . a rough estimate of the number of cycles of spin during a sweep time t fm of the received signal is , cycles of spin in deswept r ( t )≈( f ε + τ ε m ) t fm ( 17 ) is adding a phase error which increases slowly at first , then more rapidly as the sweep ends . the spreadsheet in table 5 gives some idea of the accumulated phase error due just to the parabolic term when the oscillator instability is comparable to commercial grade crystal oscillators . the numbers in the spreadsheet , divided by 360 , give the additional number of rotations caused by the parabolic term in ( 16 ). order - of - magnitude , the parabolic term is not significant to the spin term but could be very significant compared to the phase noise and to the actual phase of h ( jω ). now note from table 4 , that the parabolic term just by itself would mask the true angle versus frequency characteristics of h ( jω ). a person familiar with ofdm modulation in general and coded phase modulation in particular , will realize that these errors are not acceptable and must be removed . let us now consider the logical processor calculations to remove artifacts . note , that the current assumption , for simplicity is that the test signal is a sawtooth waveform produced by repeating the upsweep and downsweep in a periodic fashion without any breaks in time . without writing out all the terms , suffice it to say that the resulting sawtooth fm signal will have these characteristics : the number of cycles of spin on the first up - sweep is approximately ( f ε + τ ε − up − 1 m ) t fm , where τ ε − up − 1 is the sync error on the first up - sweep . the number of cycles of spin on the first down - sweep is , similarly ( f ε − τ ε − down − 1 m ) t fm . when δf / f is not zero , the sawtooth fm signal walks with respect to the incoming received signal as shown in fig1 ( a ), in such a way that time sync keeps slipping by an amount ( δf / f ) t fm every t fm seconds . thus , since the original time error is designated τ ε − up − 1 on the first up - sweep , during the first down - sweep , sync error will have an added amount , this term keeps accumulating as shown in fig1 ( b ) and 13 ( c ). table 6 shows what would be recorded if one measured the successive differences in cycle spins , from all sources , neglecting the small number of spins contributed by the parabolic term and h ( jω ) itself . it shows that the second differences in number of up - and down - spins is proportional to δf / f and no longer contains the terms f ε or τ ε − up − 1 . this fact means that by adding a minimum of two more fm sweeps , one down and one up , the error δf / f can be separated out from the other two and can be computed . once the spin components due to δf / f are removed ( set δf / f equal to zero in table 6 ), the alternating first differences all become proportional to the initial error τ ε − up − 1 , so this error may also be computed . finally , if instead of first differences , one recomputed first sums , that is 1 + 2 , 2 + 3 , 3 + 4 , and so on with δf / f set to zero , these would all be proportional to f ε , so it could then be computed . what this brief discussion has shown is that three sweeps are sufficient to compute and therefore abruptly remove , timing , frequency offset , and oscillator stability errors . therefore , the observed deswept signal ( with other errors removed ) now consists of the time analog of the transfer function h ( jω ′) at some unknown angle , ( the constant phase term ), along with a phase noise component φ ( t ). without loss of generality , the term φ ( t ) may be taken as the difference between the phase noise at the beginning of the sweep and the phase noise at some point in time t into the sweep since the constant phase term incorporates the starting phase . then using conventional techniques 38 39 , the sweep duration t fm can be chosen sufficiently small to make the accumulated phase noise as small as wanted . however , as table 4 indicated , if the sweep is too short compared to the delay spread , another type of phase error is introduced , a phase twist in the computed impulse response according to equation ( 8 ). hence there is a range over which t fm can be traded off to minimize both of these effects . finally , the remaining constant phase term in equation ( 19 ) is not important to the operation of this invention . instead , it can be considered as a normally occurring phase error found in any coherent system of communication , that must be removed in some fashion , say by a phase locked loop . the analysis in this section showed that it is possible to remove misalignment errors that cause artifacts with a minimum of three sweeps , two up and one down ( or two down and one up ) during the tracking stage . the sweeps do not necessarily have to be contiguous but could occur in many different combinations , a few of which are shown in fig1 , as long as appropriate care is taken to account for the accumulation of timing errors between sweeps . the inventors have developed a prototype working model of the vna described in this application and obtained permission in 2001 , in the form of a special temporary authority from the fcc , to test it outdoors . see fig1 . note , fig1 is not in the form of an applique to a communication system . its purpose is to test algorithms for artifact removal . the direct digital synthesizer , fig1 , is made by analog devices , and is their model number ad9852 / pcb . the 30 db amplifier with 0 . 2 watts output is made by q - bit and is their model number qb - 500 - 2 rf amplifier 8718 - 11 . the transmit antenna is a 300 ohm television rabbit ears . a balun is used to match the q - bit amplifier to the antenna . the same transmit unit was used to run all of the tests approved for 2001 operation by the fcc . frequencies requested were 82 mhz to 88 mhz . the frequency sweep waveform is completely settable by the analog devices direct digital synthesizer . maximum effective radiated power ( erp ) or equivalent isotropically radiated power ( eirp ) from the television rabbit ears , which is the equivalent of a short dipole with maximum gain 1 . 77 db 40 , along with a radiated power of two tenths of a watt , results in an eirp of − 5 . 2 dbw or about 25 dbm . the fcc emission designator is for a repetitive fm energy dispersal function with linear frequency up - ramp and down - ramp having continuous phase at the transitions . according to paragraph 2 . 201 of 47 cfr chapter 1 ( oct . 1 , 1999 edition ), this signal has emission designator f3n : f for frequency modulation , 3 for single channel containing analog information , and n for no information transmitted since no additional information is carried other than the sawtooth . examples of in - phase and quadrature waveforms recorded during a test with transmitter and receiver separated by 35 meters are shown next . sampled output of the baseband filter during an acquisition coincidence depicted schematically in fig1 ( b ), is shown here in fig1 . duration of the sweep is roughly one second long and represents a sweep covering 6 mhz . the prototype invention was first calibrated by measuring a known transfer function . fig1 shows the artificial coincidence in more detail , illustrating that the rotation direction changes at the precise time of the coincidence maximum . sampled output of baseband filter during tracking ( step 6 of table 3 ) is shown in fig1 . the heterodyned signal &# 39 ; s frequency is now totally within the baseband filter . see also fig8 and 11 for definition of the tracking condition . also shown in fig1 is visible parabolic phase versus time due to δf / f . fig1 shows the logical processor results after parabolic phase distortion due to δf / f has been removed , and all residual spin removed . fig1 is the computed h ( jω ) real part and imaginary part , corresponding to the in - phase and quadrature signal respectively . fig2 shows the in - phase and quadrature signals plotted in polar coordinates . note , significantly , changes in amplitude and phase over the band . some multipath signal cancellation is evident in the link . at the rf frequency used in the prototype , phase noise is negligible . a person familiar with the design of signal processing electronics will see that there are many implementations possible to this invention . the implementation described in this application is preferred by the authors in the prototype version they have built , where flexibility is necessary to allow hardware to be field - calibrated and software to be tested and debugged . however , as the authors point out , many variations of the underlying invention can be configured to meet different wireless system constraints and system needs . the inventors have already noted that settability parameters on the test signal and the facsimile signal produce a wide variety of additional embodiments that : enable flexibility in the way signals get interlaced with communication , see fig5 ( a ), enable flexibility between start - up of communications and continuation of communications , enable flexibility to interlace signals with both forward - going and backward - going communications over the same frequency band as shown in fig5 ( b ). also , the inventors pointed out that the use of linear fm sweeps shown in fig2 and equation ( 1 ) were preferred embodiments but that there were many other suitable waveforms to use for the vna probe signal . a simple example of an alternative embodiment is the use of cdma 41 as the test signal . fig2 shows a cdma burst interlaced with communications . fig2 shows the facsimile cdma signal undergoing control variations of start time , frequency offset and time base . with cdma , there would also be an acquisition mode and a tracking mode operationally having the same function and purpose as our preferred embodiment . the reason someone would choose to implement the invention with cdma instead of linear fm is that they may already have cdma chip sets and software which can more easily be adapted to the logical processor control functions . other test signals and facsimile signals are possible , but all would have to have : settability parameters similar to that shown in fig3 ( a ) and 3 ( b ), control parameters on the facsimile similar to that shown in fig4 , operation by means of embedding into an active communications channel , start - up functionality by means of acquisition and track modes in the logical processor , measurements collection and conveyance capability when tracking errors are driven close to zero , indicating removal of artifacts . one final word about the logical processor &# 39 ; s determination that artifact removal is complete . the way coherent digital communications receivers work , they normally have to acquire and track out residual errors in frequency , timing , and unknown phase . as equation ( 19 ) showed , a random constant phase is not considered the problem of the vna but of the demodulator . similarly , a small frequency offset or time offset can be left for the demodulator to find and remove . the job of the vna in this invention is to find out how amplitude and phase shift vary across the band of the communications , so any small fixed frequency offset and time offset , which translate into a linear phase versus frequency term added to the underlying phase versus frequency caused by multipath , are immaterial to the final result . note also , that time offset and frequency offset , even if they are large , do not affect the amplitude versus frequency of the measurement . stated in different terms , the answer produced by the vna in this invention is not unique . while this fact may seem disconcerting at first , an experienced communications engineer familiar with the way modems work will understand that non - uniqueness is not a liability in the channel measurement as long as the modem sees a signal within its normal capture range . the inventors envision that the adaptivity function 9 in fig1 in its control of the data modem 10 , will perform frequency equalization using the h ( jω ) just measured , and will also correct time and frequency offsets that were estimated in the logical processor . the statements above point out the synergism realized in the use of this invention . to take advantage of the adjustments in time and frequency offset that were measured in the logical processor as it removed artifacts , it is necessary to synchronize the communications start time and frequency with the measurement signal time and frequency . hence the precise start of the communication 56 and 57 , or 62 and 63 in fig5 , must be synchronized with the test signal &# 39 ; s time and frequency . this is possible since the transmit end adaptivity function 34 controls parameters on the data encoder 20 and the data modulator 4 before the signals arrive at the interlacing function 15 . a person familiar with the design of data modems , realizing that provision must be made for timing and frequency offset at the receive end , would therefore know how to use the logical processor &# 39 ; s instructions 33 to the adaptivity function 9 to enhance the design of the data modem receiver 10 in the manner discussed above . 5 . 2 . alternate embodiment : the new vna as a pure channel measurement device the inventors envision that there will be a need to run the new vna design in a pure data - gathering mode . fig2 shows an additional embodiment of the invention with end - user network connections removed and the associated data multiplexing toggle switches removed . note , that communications components are here used entirely for internally generated control and measurements distribution . a storage device for the measurements is not shown in the figure . once again , a critical element in the invention &# 39 ; s usefulness is the fact that the propagation path is being measured between two internal points , 96 and 95 in fig1 and also in fig2 . this fact should not lessen its usefulness as a pure propagation gathering instrument since every propagation measurement contains effects from the measurement gear itself , antennas , mixers , and so on . the invention described here combines two functions , a new way to perform rapid and accurate vector network analysis at - a - distance along with communications . the combination provides a valuable way to combat problems found with fading multipath channels used in wireless systems under 5 ghz operating in non - 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