NLOS wireless backhaul uplink communication

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12568497-B2
Application number	US-202318487367-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 16, 2023
Priority date	Jun 5, 2013
Publication date	Mar 3, 2026
Grant date	Mar 3, 2026

Abstract

A method for uplink (UL) wireless backhaul communication at a wireless backhaul remote unit in a radio access network comprising receiving a configuration for radio frames and a transmission schedule through a downlink (DL) physical layer broadcast channel, wherein the transmission schedule comprises a transmission allocation for the remote unit, generating a UL data frame, wherein generating the UL data frame comprises performing forward error correction (FEC) encoding on a data bit stream to generate a plurality of FEC codewords, wherein performing the FEC encoding comprises performing Reed Solomon (RS) encoding on the data bit stream to generate a plurality of RS codewords, performing byte interleaving on the RS codewords, and performing Turbo encoding on the byte interleaved RS codewords to generate one or more Turbo codewords, wherein each Turbo codeword is encoded from more than one RS codeword, and transmitting the UL data frame according to the transmission allocation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for uplink (UL) wireless backhaul communication at a wireless backhaul remote unit in a radio access network (RAN), the method comprising:
receiving a configuration for radio frames and a transmission schedule through a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), wherein each radio frame comprises a plurality of UL time slots and a plurality of DL time slots, and wherein the transmission schedule comprises a transmission allocation for the wireless backhaul remote unit; generating a UL data frame, wherein generating the UL data frame comprises:
performing forward error correction (FEC) encoding on a data bit stream to generate a plurality of FEC codewords, wherein performing the FEC encoding comprises:
performing Reed Solomon (RS) encoding on the data bit stream to generate a plurality of RS codewords;
performing byte interleaving on the RS codewords; and
performing Turbo encoding on the byte interleaved RS codewords to generate one or more Turbo codewords; and

transmitting the UL data frame according to the transmission allocation.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein performing the Turbo encoding further comprises dividing the byte interleaved RS codewords into a plurality of interleaved sub-frames, and wherein the Turbo encoding generates one Turbo codeword for each interleaved sub-frame.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the data bit stream comprises a media access control (MAC) layer transport block, wherein the method further comprises dividing the MAC layer transport block into a plurality of data bit frames, and wherein the FEC encoding generates one FEC codeword for each data bit frame.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein each DL time slot or UL time slot comprises a fixed time duration of about 0.5 milliseconds (ms), and wherein the transmission schedule comprises a scheduling period between about five ms to about ten ms.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein each UL time slot comprises a plurality of symbols in time and a plurality of sub-carriers in a system bandwidth, and wherein the method further comprises:
receiving a UL control channel parameter associated with frequency resource mapping; selecting a first set of the sub-carriers located near a lower frequency edge of the system bandwidth and a second set of the sub-carriers located near a higher frequency edge of the system bandwidth according to the frequency resource mapping received in the UL control channel parameter, wherein the first set of sub-carriers and the second set of sub-carriers are located at about a same number of sub-carriers away from a direct current (DC) sub-carrier; generating a UL control frame, wherein generating the UL control frame comprises:
mapping a first portion of the UL control frame to the first set of sub-carriers in a first symbol of the plurality of symbols; and
mapping a second portion of the UL control frame to the second set of sub-carriers in the first symbol; and
transmitting the UL control frame according to the transmission allocation.

6 . The method of claim 5 further comprising performing frequency multiplexing to combine the UL data frame and the UL control frame across all symbols in the UL time slot.

7 . The method of claim 5 further comprising:
receiving a first DL data frame through a DL PHY shared data channel in a first DL time slot of the plurality of DL time slots;
generating a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback comprising a reception status associated with the received first DL data frame;
transmitting the HARQ feedback in the UL control frame; and
receiving a second DL data frame subsequent to transmitting the HARQ feedback when the reception status indicates a reception failure, wherein the second DL data frame comprises same information bits as the first DL data frame.

8 . An apparatus, comprising:
a digital interface configured to receive an uplink (UL) data bit stream; a processing resource coupled to the digital interface and configured to:
perform forward error correction (FEC) encoding on the UL data bit stream to generate a plurality of FEC codewords, wherein to perform the FEC encoding, the processing resource is to:
perform Reed Solomon (RS) encoding on the UL data bit stream to generate a plurality of RS codewords;
perform byte interleaving across the plurality of RS codewords; and
perform Turbo encoding on the byte interleaved RS codewords to generate one or more Turbo codewords, wherein each Turbo codeword is encoded from more than one RS codeword; and

perform Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) modulation on the FEC codewords to generate a UL digital radio frame comprising a plurality of SC-FDMA symbols in time and a plurality of sub-carriers in a system bandwidth; and
generate a UL control frame by mapping a first portion of the UL control frame to a first set of the sub-carriers located near a lower frequency edge of the system bandwidth in a first SC-FDMA symbol of the plurality of SC-FDMA symbols; and
a transmitter configured to transmit the UL digital radio frame.

9 . The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein to perform the FEC encoding, the processing resource is further configured to segment the byte interleaved RS codewords into a plurality of interleaved sub-frames, and wherein the Turbo encoding generates one Turbo codeword for each interleaved sub-frame.

10 . The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the UL data bit stream comprises a media access control (MAC) layer transport block, wherein to perform the FEC encoding, the processing resource is further configured to segment the MAC layer transport block into a plurality of data bit frames, and wherein the FEC encoding generates one FEC codeword for each data bit frame.

11 . The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the UL digital radio frame comprises at least one time slot, and wherein the time slot comprises a time duration of about 0.5 milliseconds (ms).

12 . The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the processing resource is further configured to:
segment the FEC codewords into a plurality of words, each comprising a number of bits that correspond to a selected modulation symbol size; and interleave across a number of the words, wherein the number of words correspond to about a number of sub-carriers in the time slot.

13 . The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the processing resource is further configured to perform a half sub-carrier frequency shifting on the SC-FDMA symbols without a phase reset for each SC-FDMA symbol.

14 . The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the UL data bit stream comprises a media access control (MAC) layer transport data block, and wherein the processing resource is further configured to add a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) for the MAC layer transport data block.

15 . The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein to generate the UL control frame, the processing resource is further configured to:
map a second portion of the UL control frame to a second set of the sub-carriers located near a higher frequency edge of the system bandwidth in the first SC-FDMA symbol, wherein the first set of sub-carriers and the second set of sub-carriers are located about a same number of sub-carriers from a direct current (DC) sub-carrier.

16 . The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the UL control frame comprises a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback, wherein the radio front end digital interface is further configured to cause a DL digital radio frame to be received, and wherein the processing resource is further configured to generate the HARQ feedback to provide a reception status associate

Assignees

• Texas Instruments Inc

Inventors

• Roh June Chul
• Bertrand Pierre
• Hosur Srinath
• Pothukuchi Vijay
• Mansour Mohamed Farouk

Classifications

• H04W72/0446

  Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames · CPC title

• H04L1/1812

  Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ] · CPC title

• H04L1/0071

  Use of interleaving (interleaving per se H03M13/27) · CPC title

• H04L1/0061

  Error detection codes · CPC title

• H04L1/0041

  Arrangements at the transmitter end · CPC title