WO2004107779A2 - Wireless communications methods and apparatus using licensed-use system protocols with unlicensed-use access points - Google Patents
Wireless communications methods and apparatus using licensed-use system protocols with unlicensed-use access pointsInfo
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- the present invention relates to wireless communications, and more particular, to communications with licensed-use and unlicensed-use communications systems.
- Wireless communications are increasingly being used for applications other than voice telephony.
- Conventional "licensed-use” systems i.e., systems that use licensed frequency bands in defined regions, such as GSM and the emerging "3G" standards (CDMA-2000, W-CDMA), also include capabilities for data communications for such applications as wireless internet, e-mail, and multimedia.
- "Unlicensed-use” networks such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and the like, may also provide voice and data communications services.
- These networks typically use unlicensed frequency bands, such as the International Scientific and Medical (ISM) band (2.4 GHz to 2.5 GHz), to provide relatively short-range communications with devices that may be constrained in terms of output power, and/or radiated waveform characteristics.
- ISM International Scientific and Medical
- spread-spectrum waveforms are typically required of devices that are designed to intentionally radiate over an unlicensed band.
- the output radiated power of a device that is configured to intentionally radiate over an unlicensed band may be as high as one (1) Watt, provided that pseudorandom and uniformly-distributed frequency hopping is employed, and the hopping rate exceeds, or equals, a lower bound and/or direct sequence spreading is used.
- unlicensed bands are commonly used for Local Area Networks (LANs) and Personal Area Networks (PANs). Such LANs and/or PANs are expected to proliferate and find wide commercial use.
- communications of a wireless terminal with an unlicensed-use access point are established and/or controlled using a protocol exchange over a licensed-use wireless communications system.
- communications of a wireless terminal with an unlicensed-use access point may be established and/or controlled via a protocol exchange over a Control Channel (CCH) and/or a Random Access Channel (RACH) in a GSM or CDMA wireless communications system.
- the terminal may communicate with the unlicensed-use system using substantially the same protocol that it uses to communicate with the licensed-use communications system.
- a presence signal transmitted by the unlicensed-use access point is detected by the wireless terminal, and the communications of the wireless terminal with the unlicensed-use access point are established and/or controlled responsive to detection of the presence signal by the wireless terminal.
- the wireless terminal transmits an access request message, and communications of the wireless terminal with the unlicensed-use access point are established and/or controlled using a control channel responsive to a determination of communication quality based on reception of the access request at the unlicensed-use access point.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary environment in which some embodiments of the present invention may be practiced.
- FIG. 2 illustrates wireless communications of a terminal with licensed and unlicensed systems according to some embodiments of the present invention.
- FIGs. 3-5 are flowcharts illustrating exemplary operations according to various embodiments of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 illustrates a wireless terminal apparatus according to some embodiments of the invention.
- wireless communications system refers to terrestrial and/or satellite-based wireless communications systems that may or may not employ a cellular structure, including, but not limited to, PCS and other wireless systems.
- Licensed-use systems include systems that use one or more frequencies in an exclusive manner as granted by governmental or quasi-governmental entities. Examples of such systems include, but are not limited to, wireless networks operated by cellular providers that operate under government-granted licenses to exclusively use particular frequencies in a particular manner in defined areas.
- Unlicensed-use systems include systems that use one or more frequencies in a non-exclusive (or “freely-licensed") manner, including, but not limited to, systems, such as WiFi and Bluetooth systems, that use the ISM band and/or other so-called “unlicensed” frequencies.
- unlicensed-use systems may use frequencies that may be subject to an exclusive license for other uses (e.g., subject to certain power, signal type or geographical constraints).
- licensed-use systems may use frequencies that may also be used for other, unlicensed uses.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary environment in which some embodiments of the present invention may be used.
- a terminal here a mobile terminal 130, is operative to communicate with a base station 110 of a licensed frequency wireless communications system.
- the terminal 130 is also operative to communicate with access points 120a, 120b using one or more unlicensed-use frequencies.
- the terminal 130 may communicate with the unlicensed-use access points 120a, 120b under control of the licensed-use wireless communications system, e.g., via control channel(s) established between the terminal and the base station 110.
- the communications between the terminal 130 and the unlicensed-use access points 120a, 120b may use substantially the same protocol used by the licensed-use wireless communications system, but radiated over the unlicensed-use frequencies.
- transceiver components of the terminal 130 such as intermediate-frequency (IF) and baseband components, including software and firmware, may be commonly used for communications with the different systems.
- IF intermediate-frequency
- baseband components including software and firmware
- the present invention arises from a realization that an established licensed-use wireless communications protocol, such as that used with GSM and/or CDMA terrestrial cellular/PCS systems, may be used, subject to relatively small modifications or, perhaps, no modifications at all, over unlicensed-use frequencies, provided that the regulatory requirements relevant to the unlicensed-use frequencies, for example, the use of spread-spectrum waveforms, are satisfied.
- the GSM protocol for example, has already been specified to accommodate frequency hopping to achieve spread- spectrum modulation of TDMA carriers.
- protocol elements of a GSM air interface standard may be used substantially as is to provide short-range communications over at least some of the unlicensed-use frequencies.
- a potential benefit of being able to use an existing mass-market protocol for relatively short- range communications over unlicensed-use frequencies lies in having that protocol, in particular, a transceiver chip-set associated with that protocol, already inside of a terminal device, such as a cellular/PCS terminal.
- a terminal device such as a cellular/PCS terminal.
- the terminal device may register with the access point and begin commmiications within the unlicensed-use frequency band, instead of consuming the resources (e.g., frequencies) of the licensed-use wireless communications system.
- a terminal and/or a system may be configured to preferentially use an unlicensed-use wireless communications system for certain types of services.
- a terminal could be configured to preferentially use an unlicensed-use system for data communications while limiting use of a licensed- use system for such services.
- the unlicensed use system could be used for bandwidth-intensive data communications applications, such as wireless internet, multimedia, and the like, while limiting use of the licensed-use system to voice communications and/or simple text messaging.
- a system may also be configured such that a terminal will preferentially use the unlicensed-use system for data communications, with provision of such services by the licensed-use system limited to circumstances in which the unlicensed-use system is unavailable to the terminal (e.g., when the terminal is in an area not covered by the unlicensed-use system and/or when a proximate access point of the unlicensed-use system is dysfunctional or overloaded).
- a terminal may interleave communications between an unlicensed-use system and a licensed-use system to achieve improved link performance through diversity.
- transmissions from a licensed-use system and an unlicensed-use system to a terminal and/or vice versa may be interleaved on a frame-by-frame or other basis to provide a transmit and/or receive diversity that can improve reception at the terminal and/or at the system.
- one approach to enabling communications of a terminal with an unlicensed-use access point is to have the terminal synchronize and monitor a control channel of a licensed-use wireless communications system while attempting to detect "proximity" to an unlicensed-use access point.
- the terminal may inform the licensed-use wireless communications system, e.g., a cellular/PCS base station, that the terminal is in contact with a particular unlicensed-use access point.
- each unlicensed-use access point may radiate a "presence" signal.
- the terminal may detect the presence signal and thus know that it is proximate to an unlicensed-use access point.
- the presence signal may relay to the terminal the coordinates and/or other identifying information associated with the unlicensed-use access point.
- the terminal may continue to detect proximity to the unlicensed-use access point, e.g., periodically, and/or during intervals when the terminal is not monitoring the licensed-use wireless communications system. If the terminal decides that proximity to the unlicensed-use access point is lost and/or more favorable proximity is attained with respect to another unlicensed-use access point, the terminal may relay to the licensed-use wireless communications system this information.
- the terminal may be commanded via a control channel of the licensed- use wireless communications system and/or via the unlicensed-use access point, to receive and/or transmit information via the unlicensed-use access point, via frequencies associated with the unlicensed-use access point, and not via the frequencies used by the licensed-use wireless communications system to establish communications .
- the "presence" signal radiated by an unlicensed-use access point may be a direct sequence spread-spectrum waveform and/or a frequency-hopped carrier. If the presence signal is a frequency-hopped carrier, its frequency hop pattern may depend on Time-of-Day (ToD) and/or the physical coordinates of the access point.
- ToD Time-of-Day
- a terminal that is monitoring a control channel of a licensed-use wireless communications system may acquire accurate ToD from the control channel of the licensed-use wireless communications system and may thus tune its receiver accordingly to detect proximity to an unlicensed-use access point.
- the terminal may be equipped with GPS signal processing, and thus may be able to derive ToD information from processing of GPS signals.
- a terminal may tune its receiver at a predetermined or randomly selected unlicensed-use system carrier frequency center, and wait there (per its permitted scheduling) until a "hit" of the presence carrier occurs.
- Each hop of the presence carrier may be configured to reveal the next hop location thus allowing a terminal that has detected one presence carrier hop to track and detect the rest.
- the hopping patterns of different presence carriers associated with geographically-proximate access points may be configured to be substantially orthogonal to prevent or minimize interference.
- Another way to establish proximity to an unlicensed-use access point may be for a terminal to transmit information over an unlicensed-use system carrier frequency at, or near, the time when the terminal is being paged or is initiating a call.
- the terminal may transmit a Random Access Channel (RACH) message over an unlicensed-use carrier frequency.
- RACH Random Access Channel
- An unlicensed-use access point that receives a terminal's transmission (RACH signal) may determine, from the received signal, whether or not the unlicensed-use access point is able to serve the terminal, and assign a reliability measure (a level of confidence) to such service.
- the unlicensed-use access point may then send a message to the system indicating a level of confidence regarding servicing the terminal.
- the system may decide to instruct the unlicensed-use access point having the highest acceptable level of confidence to start servicing the terminal.
- the system may also transmit a "seed" to the terminal and to the unlicensed-use access point, the seed to be used by the terminal and the unlicensed-use access point in establishing, for example, a pseudo-random hopping pattern (or any other multiple access discriminator) to use in exchanging information.
- the seed may be sent to the terminal by the system via, for example, a control channel. If the terminal message (the RACH) is not heard by any unlicensed-use access point, or the system decides against allowing an unlicensed-use access point to serve the terminal, the terminal may not receive a response to its message transmission. Thus, the terminal waiting interval for such a response may expire, at which time the terminal may resend the message (the RACH) over the licensed-use wireless communications system frequencies.
- the channels that may be allocated for communications between a terminal and an unlicensed-use access point may be based, for example, on Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and/or Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) waveforms and may utilize either direct-sequence spreading and/or frequency hopping.
- CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
- TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
- the hopping may be, or may not be, orthogonal between two or more users that may be active over the same unlicensed-use access point.
- direct sequence spreading is employed, an access point may, or may not, use orthogonal codes between two or more users that may be active over the unlicensed-use access point.
- using orthogonal codes on both the forward and return links may improve performance and increase access point capacity.
- FIGs. 2-6 are diagrams illustrating exemplary apparatus and operations according to embodiments of the present invention. It will be understood that operations depicted in the diagrams, and combinations thereof, may be implemented using one or more electronic circuits, for example, in a communications circuit of a cellular base station, unlicensed-use access point, and or wireless terminal.
- operations depicted in the diagrams, and combinations thereof may be implemented in one or more electronic circuits, such as in one or more discrete electronic components, one or more integrated circuits (ICs), one or more application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and application specific circuit modules, as well as by computer program instructions which may be executed by a computer or other data processing apparatus, such as a microprocessor or digital signal processor (DSP), to produce a machine such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus create electronic circuits or other means that implement the specified operations.
- the computer program instructions may also be executed on one or more computers or other data processing apparatus to cause a series of actions to be performed by the com ⁇ uter(s) or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process that includes the specified operations.
- the computer program instructions may also be embodied in the form of a computer program product in a computer-readable storage medium, i.e., as computer- readable program code embodied in the medium for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system.
- the computer-readable storage medium may include, but is not limited to, electronic, magnetic, optical and other storage media, such as a magnetic or optical disk or an integrated circuit memory device.
- the computer program instructions may be embodied in memory included in a device. Accordingly, blocks of the diagrams of FIGs. 2-6 support electronic circuits and other apparatus that perform the specified operations, acts for performing the specified operations, and computer program products configured to perform the specified operations.
- FIG. 2 illustrates exemplary embodiments of the invention.
- a base station 210 of a licensed-use wireless communications system may be configured to communicate with a wireless terminal 230 over a Control Channel (CCH) 211.
- the CCH 211 may be a Broadcast Control Channel (BCCH).
- the terminal 230 includes a transceiver 232 that is configured to receive the CCH 211, and is further operative to communicate over other channels using frequency hopping and/or direct sequence spreading as specified in, for example, the GSM and/or CDMA specifications.
- the transceiver 232 is also configured to use substantially the same protocol as it uses to communicate with the licensed-use wireless communications system in a frequency band used by an unlicensed-use access point 220, for example, the unlicensed-use ISM band.
- the CCH may be used to establish and/or control communications between the terminal 230 and the unlicensed-use access point 220 using, for example, information about the unlicensed-use access point 220 conveyed via the terminal 230 and/or via a network 240 coupling the base station 210 to the unlicensed-use access point 220.
- control channel communications may be established between the licensed-use wireless communications system and the terminal (Block 310).
- Quality of communications between the terminal and an unlicensed-use access point is then determined using, for example, one or more of the techniques described below with reference to FIGs. 4 and 5 (Block 320).
- the licensed-use wireless communications system may then command the terminal to use the unlicensed-use access point responsive to the determination of quality (Block 330).
- quality may be determined by detection of a "presence" signal transmitted by the unlicensed-use access point.
- the unlicensed-use access point may continuously or intermittently transmit a presence signal, e.g., a frequency-hopped and/or direct-sequence spread signal conforming to the requirements of the unlicensed-use band (Block 410).
- Quality of reception of the presence signal at the terminal may then be determined using, for example, signal strength and/or other quality measurements, such as bit error rate (Block 420).
- the licensed-use wireless communications system may then command the terminal to communicate (or not communicate) with the unlicensed-use access point based on the determination of quality (Block 430), a measure of which is relayed to the system by the terminal.
- FIG. 5 illustrates exemplary operations that may be used in lieu of, or in combination with, the operations of FIG. 4.
- a terminal may transmit an access grant request, e.g., a random access channel (RACH) message, on an unlicensed-use band frequency (Block 510).
- RACH random access channel
- Quality of reception e.g., whether the message was received and, if so, with what strength and/or other quality, is then determined (Block 520).
- a licensed-use wireless communications system in communication with the terminal may then command the terminal and or the unlicensed-use access point to establish communications on an unlicensed-use band based on the determination of quality (Block 530).
- a terminal may transmit an access grant request on a licensed-use band frequency. Then, based on the quality of reception of an unlicensed-use access point presence signal by the terminal (a measure of which may be transmitted to the system by the' terminal), the system may instruct the terminal and/or the unlicensed-use access point to initiate communications over the unlicensed-use band associated with the access point presence signal. It will be understood that, instead of the system making a decision regarding the terminal's ability to communicate with the unlicensed-use access point, the terminal itself can be configured to make such a decision and then inform the system. The system then may make a final determination (based on measures that may be related to it by the terminal) and inform the terminal and/or the relevant unlicensed-use access point. Unlicensed-use networks may be configured as stand-alone networks. The
- GSM protocol may be used to provide communications and the control channels of GSM that currently do not hop may be configured/redefined to frequency hop.
- CDMA protocols particularly, W-CDMA protocols, may be used to provide communications over an unlicensed-use band with relatively insubstantial modifications to the protocol.
- FIG. 6 illustrates a wireless terminal according to some embodiments of the present invention, in particular, a terminal 600 configured to communicate with a licensed-use wireless communications system using the frequencies thereof, and with unlicensed-use infrastructure (access points) using the frequencies thereof.
- the wireless terminal 600 includes an IF/baseband transceiver 640 (which may include analog-to-digital (A/D) and digital-to-analog (D/A) conversion, frequency synthesis, demodulation, modulation and other circuitry) that is fed by a low noise amplifier (LNA) 635 and receive filter 630, which are configured to be coupled to an antenna 610 by a switch 615b.
- A/D analog-to-digital
- D/A digital-to-analog
- the IF/baseband transceiver 640 also feeds the antenna 610 via first and second power amplifiers (PA) 625a, 625b and associated transmit filters 620a, 620b that are configured for communications over the licensed-use frequencies and the unlicensed-use frequencies, respectively, as selected by switch 615a.
- PA power amplifier
- IF and baseband circuitry e.g., the IF/baseband transceiver 640, may be commonly used for communications with licensed-use and unlicensed-use systems.
- the dual PA configuration illustrated in FIG. 6 may be replaced with a single, broadband PA configuration.
- switch configurations 615a and 615b may be replaced by a frequency duplexer filter configuration, for example, in CDMA terminals.
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