[미국특허]
Method and apparatus for determining the closed loop power control set point in a wireless packet data communication system
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
H04B-007/00
H04Q-007/20
출원번호
UP-0488876
(2006-07-17)
등록번호
US-7835695
(2011-01-16)
발명자
/ 주소
Ling, Fuyun
Black, Peter J.
출원인 / 주소
Qualcomm Incorporated
대리인 / 주소
Mobarhan, Ramin
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42
초록▼
According to one aspect of the invention, a method for determining a power control set point is provided. In one embodiment, the power control set point is determined based on one or more factors including a first factor corresponding to a pilot bit error rate, a second factor corresponding to a nor
According to one aspect of the invention, a method for determining a power control set point is provided. In one embodiment, the power control set point is determined based on one or more factors including a first factor corresponding to a pilot bit error rate, a second factor corresponding to a normalized signal variance, and a third factor corresponding to an average number of fingers in lock.
대표청구항▼
What is claimed is: 1. A method operational in a communication device for determining a power control set point, comprising: calculating the power control set point in the communication device based on a combination of a plurality of factors including: a pilot bit error rate for a received pilot si
What is claimed is: 1. A method operational in a communication device for determining a power control set point, comprising: calculating the power control set point in the communication device based on a combination of a plurality of factors including: a pilot bit error rate for a received pilot signal, a normalized signal variance for the received pilot signal, and an average number of fingers in lock during receipt of the received pilot signal; and providing the power control set point to a transmitter to adjust transmissions accordingly. 2. The method of claim 1, further comprising: calculating the pilot bit error rate based on the received pilot signal. 3. The method of claim 2, the calculating the pilot bit error rate comprising: despreading the received pilot signal to generate despread pilot samples; demodulating the despread pilot samples to generate demodulated pilot samples; generating demodulated pilot symbols based on the demodulated pilot samples; and comparing the demodulated pilot symbols to a first predetermined threshold value. 4. The method of claim 1, further comprising: calculating the normalized signal variance based on the received pilot signal. 5. The method of claim 4, the calculating the normalized signal variance comprising: computing a first value corresponding to an average of the squared energy of the demodulated pilot symbols; computing a second value corresponding to a square of the average energy of the demodulated pilot symbols; and computing the normalized signal variance based on the first value corresponding to the average of the square energy of the demodulated pilot symbols and the second value corresponding to the square of the average energy of the demodulated pilot symbols. 6. The method of claim 1, further comprising: calculating the average number of fingers in lock based on the received pilot signal. 7. The method of claim 1, the calculating the power control set point comprising: generating a metric as a function of the plurality of factors; and determining an error rate based on the metric and a second predetermined threshold value. 8. The method of claim 7, wherein the metric is generated according to a formula: η(n)=PBER(n−1)+α1ρ(n−1)+α2Nf(n−1), where η(n) represents the metric for a current (nth) frame, PBER(n−1) represents a pilot bit error rate for a previous ((n−1)th) frame, ρ(n−1) represents a pilot signal variance for the previous ((n−1)th) frame, Nf(n−1) represents an average number of fingers in lock in the previous frame, and α1 and α2 represents a first and second scaling factors. 9. An apparatus for determining a power control set point, comprising: means for calculating the power control set point based on a combination of a plurality of factors including: a pilot bit error rate for a received pilot signal, a normalized signal variance for the received pilot signal, and an average number of fingers in lock during receipt of the received pilot signal. 10. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising: means for calculating the pilot bit error rate based on the received pilot signal. 11. The apparatus of claim 10, the means for calculating the pilot bit error rate comprising: means for despreading the received pilot signal to generate despread pilot samples; means for demodulating the despread pilot samples to generate demodulated pilot samples; means for generating demodulated pilot symbols based on the demodulated pilot samples; and means for comparing the demodulated pilot symbols to a first predetermined threshold value. 12. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising: means for calculating the normalized signal variance based on the received pilot signal. 13. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising: means for calculating the average number of fingers in lock based on the received pilot signal. 14. The apparatus of claim 9, the means for calculating the power control set point comprising: means for generating a metric as a function of the one or more factors; and means for determining an error rate based on the metric and a second predetermined threshold value. 15. An apparatus for determining a power control set point, comprising: a set point calculator to calculate the power control set point based on a combination of a plurality of factors including: a pilot bit error rate for a received pilot signal, a normalized signal variance for the received pilot signal, and an average number of fingers in lock during receipt of the received pilot signal. 16. The apparatus of claim 15, further comprising: a receiver to receive a pilot symbol stream comprising one or more pilot symbols; one or more metric calculators coupled to the receiver, each metric calculator to demodulate the received pilot symbols to generate demodulated pilot symbols, compute energy of the received pilot symbols, and determine whether a finger corresponding to the respective metric calculator is in lock; an error detector unit to determine a pilot bit error rate based on the demodulated pilot symbols and a predetermined pilot symbol sequence; and a variance calculator to compute a normalized signal variance based on the energy of the received pilot symbols. 17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein each calculator comprises: a demodulator to demodulate the received pilot symbols; an energy calculator to compute the energy of the received pilot symbols; and a lock detector to determine whether the finger corresponding to the respective metric calculator is in lock. 18. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the power control set point is calculated based on a metric as a function of the one or more factors. 19. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the metric is modified by a scaling factor corresponding to a linear function of the average number of fingers in lock. 20. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the metric is generated according to a formula: η(n)=PBER(n−1)+α1ρ(n−1)+α2Nf(n−1), where η(n) represents the metric for a current (nth) frame, PBER(n−1) represents the pilot bit error rate for a previous ((n−1)th) frame, ρ(n−1) represents the pilot signal variance for the previous ((n−1)th) frame, Nf(n−1) represents the average number of fingers in lock in the previous frame, and α1 and α2 represents first and second scaling factors.
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