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- the present invention relates generally to wireless communications, and more particularly, to a system for measuring the Ricean stastical nature of radio propagation in real time.
- a channel having two fundamental components comprised of a fixed component and a fluctuating multipath component can be characterized as having a propagation environment that is Ricean in statistical nature.
- the K-factor of a Ricean channel is the ratio of the power received in the fixed component, to the total power received via indirect scattered paths.
- Knowledge of the Ricean K-factor is important in the understanding of fixed and other wireless channels. It is a statistical computation that helps to implement link budget calculations by allowing estimates of fast fading margins, i.e., it enables the description of the fast fading envelope's distribution. It also provides useful information to provide efficient power control.
- the present invention provides a system and method for measuring the Ricean K-factor of a wireless channel in real time.
- the method generally comprises the following steps. Initially, an amplitude sample of a transmitted RF waveform is low-pass filtered to eliminate high frequency noise if present.
- the sample can be either of a fixed or varying amplitude. If the sample is of a varying amplitude, it is normalized prior to being applied to the low-pass filter.
- the magnitude squared of the filtered sample amplitude is then squared to obtain the power gain of the sample and the magnitude squared of the power gain is computed.
- the sums of a window of power gains and the sum of the squares of the power gains are updated.
- Fig. 1 depicts a general schematic of a system for measuring the Ricean K-factor in accordance with the present invention
- Fig. 2 is a hardware schematic of the present invention
- Fig. 3 is a flow-chart diagram of a method for measuring the Ricean K-factor in accordance with the present invention.
- Fig. 1 there is depicted a general schematic of an end-to-end real-time system 10 for measuring the Ricean K-factor.
- the system 10 is part of a wireless communications system including a transmitter 12 and a receiver 14.
- the transmitter 12 sends a known signal (continuous or time keyed) 16 of a fixed or varying amplitude.
- the system 10 associated with the receiver 14 processes an amplitude sample of the signal and processes the signal sample to provide an updated K-factor for the channel. This may be done at either fixed or non-fixed time intervals.
- the K-factor value thus obtained can be displayed or used by other parts of the wireless system, e.g., to effect power control. The details of this procedure are described in greater detail hereinbelow.
- g(t) is the frequency-flat response
- N is a complex constant
- v(t) is a complex, zero mean random time variation caused by diverse factors such as vehicular motion, wind-blown foliage, etc.
- G d is the time average (rms value) of the power gain
- G v is the rms fluctuation of the power gain about Ga.
- G. and G Typically, only partial knowledge (i. e., estimates) of these two parameters are known. Accordingly, a real-time system which uses EQ. 1 and EQ. 2 to compute the K-factor must pay special attention to the estimates of G d and G v .
- the power gain of the narrowband wireless channel is defined as:
- the time average or true mean of G is represented by:
- G a
- the power gain G has a Ricean distribution over time.
- the total power is represented by Ga, and the K-factor is characterized by:
- EQ. 21 can be expressed using the moments derived above.
- the power of the fixed component therefore becomes:
- the first and second moments in EQ. 26 are the true moments of G, i. e., the time average and time variance, respectively. Since we only have statistical values, we must now utilize an efficient real-time algorithm to compute K. Since the time frame for enabling the calculation of the true values of the moments of G is not infinite, these moments are estimated using appropriate estimators.
- the best estimator of the mean is the sample mean defined as:
- ⁇ x X f ⁇ x , ( EQ. 27 ) .
- the above expression is intended to be an exemplary estimator of variance.
- the optimal estimator of the variance averages over N-1 samples instead of over N samples.
- the formula expressed above is not generally considered to be the best estimator of the variance since it is biased. However, given the size of N the bias is negligible in the context of the present invention.
- the exemplary estimator is computationally simpler than one that optimally estimates the variance over N-1 samples, and for all practical purposes the bias can be disregarded without any appreciable loss of accuracy (or if desired, the bias may be compensated for).
- the minimal sufficient statistics necessary to calculate the first and second moments just defined are calculated. Further explanations on the theory of sufficient statistics can be found in S. M.
- IIR low pass filters IIR low pass filters
- x[n] is the input sample at time n;
- y[n] is the output sample at time n
- ⁇ is a forgetting factor
- This type of IIR filter is simple and requires a minimum amount of memory. Although the effectiveness of the filter can be enhanced by increasing the order of the filter, the computational complexity, memory requirements, and computing time comensurately increases.
- two basic estimators are employed: the average of the power gains and the average of the power gains squared. Accordingly, it is preferred to to filter the output of these two esti- mators using the IIR filter defined in EQ. 36. The same methodology can be used to smooth the estimation of the K-factor as well.
- the simplest solution to the problem of estimating G d and G v is to record a certain number of amplitude samples from the channel and subsequently, off-line, computing the K-factor using EQ. 2. This is the common way in which the moment-based method has been implemented.
- the problem with this methodology is that it does not occur in real-time, i.e, because the moment estimation is not made online, changes in the settings of a wireless system can not be made "on the fly".
- the K-factor is first computed off-line, and then the information is used to make the requisite changes in the wireless system.
- the present invention enables the K-factor determination to be made on-line such that fast and automatic decisions can be made.
- Another possible solution involves recording a certain number of amplitude samples from the channel on-line (on the DSP chip), and then computing the K-factor on-line using EQ. 2.
- this method is advantageous over the first method described above.
- it creates an additional problem, namely, that of data storage. This problem is evident with the type of DSP chips commonly used in wireless devices because they typically have a very limited on-board memory. Accordingly, it is desirable to minimize the amount of buffering (storing of data) on the DSP chip.
- the present invention utilizes an improved methodology for estimating the requisite parameters.
- the minimum sufficient statistics of the channel are modelled utilizing EQ.l .
- This type of estimation solves two primary problems: it is implementable in real-time, and it requires minimum buffering. Accordingly, for a fixed period of time (i.e., for a window of amplitude samples) only two values need to be stored: the sum of the power gain samples, and the sum of the power gain samples squared. More detail on this approach is described below.
- the statistical nature of these computations unfortunately implies imperfect knowledge of our parameters. Thus, wild variations in an otherwise smooth measured signal will show up. Since these fluctuations can affect the accuracy of the calculations, a method of preventing such deviations is necessary.
- the present invention therefore employs first-order low-pass filtering to provide the requisite smoothing to keep our estimates within a margin of error of +-10%.
- K-factor is computed for every incoming datum, many operations would have to be executed in a short period of time.
- we can have extremely fast updates in the K-factor in the range of milliseconds). Such a high speed is not necessary and it can be a waste of computational resources.
- An update rate of once every few seconds is more appropriate and reliable.
- illustrative window size is 2000 samples.
- the K-factor is calculated after processing the sums of the power gains and power gains squared of 200C incoming amplitudes.
- the K- factor will be updated approximately every 6 seconds.
- Different window sizes can be selected depending upon how fast it is desired to obtain an updated K-factor and the available computational resources.
- Figs. 2 and 3 there is depicted a hardware diagram of the system, and a functional diagram of the methodology, respectively.
- an RF waveform of fixed amplitude is communicated from the transmitter 12.
- an RF waveform of varying amplitude is transmitted.
- the waveform is normalized to remove variations present in the signal. This normalization does not remove the received amplitude variation due to the channel. If waveforms of fixed amplitude are transmitted, this normalization procedure is unnecessary.
- an RF waveform of varying amplitude is normalized at 100.
- the normalized incoming amplitude sample is then low-pass filtered at 102 to eliminate potential high frequency noise in the sample.
- the cutoff frequency of the filter must be higher than the Doppler frequency of the fading profile. If the noise level is low enough, it is possible to to obtain good performance without this initial filtering procedure.
- the power gain is determined by computing the magnitude squared of the filtered sample amplitude at 104.
- the square of the power gain is then computed at 106.
- the sum ( ⁇ x) of the power gains, x, and the sum of the squares of the power gains ( ⁇ x 2 ) is updated in respective accumulators at 108 and 1 10 respectively. These are the minimal sufficient statistics previously discussed. As shown in Fig. 2, the sums and counter 109 are reset to zero at the end of each measurement window.
- the measurement window is set to N, the sample size, i.e., 2000, in register 1 11.
- the system checks the number of times that the sums of the power gains ( ⁇ x) and squares of the power gains ( ⁇ x 2 ) have been modified. If this number is equal to the selected window size N, then the end of the window has been reached, and the process proceeds to the final steps to calculate the K-factor. If the window N has not yet been reached, the system waits until the next amplitude sample arrives at 1 14 (while at the same time storing the values of the updated sums in accumulators 108, 110).
- the sum of the power gains ( ⁇ x) and the sum of the squares of the power gains ( ⁇ x 2 ) is final averaged at 1 16 by dividing these values by the sample size N. With these averages, an estimate is made of the first and second moments of the window of samples just processed.
- EQ. 37 and EQ. 38 represent the estimates of G d and G v respectively, where N is the size of the window of samples defined above. These estimates are then inserted into EQ.2 to obtain the estimate of the K-factor of the channel for the given sample window.
- the resultant K-factor can be passed through a low-pass IIR filter at 122 to further smooth it.
- the filtering process is applied is important.
- the low pass filtering can be implemented only after computation of the K-factor.
- this approach requires the use of higher order filters, thereby creating additional complexity, more computations, and likely buffering of some samples.
- filtering the averages (or the sums) bounds the inputs to the GME equation, thereby bounding the computed K-factor.
- further filtering is applied to remove noise in the estimated K-factor.
- This implementation advantageously reduces the margin of fluctuations in the estimation of the K-factor; avoids system overflows (by bounding the averages); reduces data buffering requirements; reduces the quantity of operations per filter (atttributable to the order of the filters); and provides quick convergence of the reported K-factor to the actual value.
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