Autonomous radio controlling method and system thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9537559-B1
Application number	US-201615080602-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Mar 25, 2016
Priority date	Aug 17, 2015
Publication date	Jan 3, 2017
Grant date	Jan 3, 2017

Abstract

An autonomous radio controlling method and a system thereof are disclosed herein, in which the autonomous radio controlling method includes: antenna combinations of an antenna matrix are switched. Signal-to-interference ratios (SIRs) and received signal strength indicator (RSSI) values of the antenna combinations are respectively through a first computing process to generate first computed SIRs and first computed RSSI values. The SIRs are through a second computing process to generate second computed SIRs. A relation between a minimum of the second computed SIRs and a first threshold is determined, and further a relation between a minimum of the first computed SIRs and a first range, or a relation between a minimum of the first computed RSSI value and a second range is determined to control an autonomous radio system to operate in a first mode or a second mode.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An autonomous radio controlling method, comprising:
switching a plurality of antenna combinations in an antenna array;
processing a plurality of signal-to-interference ratios (SIRs) and a plurality of received signal strength indicator (RSSI) values of the antenna combinations through a first computing process respectively to generate a plurality of first computed SIRs and a plurality of first computed RSSI values;
processing the SIRs through a second computing process to generate a plurality of second computed SIRs;
determining a relation between a minimum of the second computed SIRs and a first threshold value;
further determining a relation between a minimum of the first computed SIRs and a first range if the minimum of the second computed SIRs is lower than the first threshold value; controlling an autonomous radio system to operate in a first mode if the minimum of the first computed SIRs is higher than the first range; controlling an autonomous radio system to operate in a second mode if the minimum of the first computed SIRs is lower than the first range;
further determining a relation between a minimum of the first computed RSSI values and a second range if the minimum of the second computed SIRs is higher than the first threshold value; and
controlling the autonomous radio system to operate in the first mode if the minimum of the first computed RSSI values is higher than the second range; controlling the autonomous radio system to operate in the second mode if the minimum of the first computed RSSI values is lower than the second range.

2. The autonomous radio controlling method of claim 1 , further comprising:
processing the RSSI value through the second computing process to generate a plurality of second computed RSSI values;
further determining a relation between a maximum of the second computed RSSI values and a third range if the minimum of the first computed RSSI values is within the second range; and
controlling the autonomous radio system to operate in the second mode if the maximum of the second computed RSSI values is higher the third range; controlling the autonomous radio system to operate in a third mode if the maximum of the second computed RSSI values is lower than the third range.

3. The autonomous radio controlling method of claim 2 , further comprising:
processing a plurality of data rates (DRs) of the antenna combinations through the first computing process to generate a plurality of first computed DRs;
further determining a relation between a minimum of the first computed DRs and a fourth range if the maximum of the second computed RSSI values is within the third range; and
controlling the autonomous radio system to operate in a fourth mode if the minimum of the first computed DRs is higher than the fourth range; controlling the autonomous radio system to operate in the second mode if the minimum of the first computed DRs is lower than the fourth range.

4. The autonomous radio controlling method of claim 3 , further comprising:
processing the DRs through the second computing process to generate a plurality of second computed DRs;
further determining a relation between a maximum of the second computed DRs and a second threshold value if the minimum of the first computed DRs is within the fourth range; and
controlling the autonomous radio system to operate in the second mode if the maximum of the second computed DRs is higher than the second threshold value; controlling the autonomous radio system to operate in a fifth mode if the maximum of the second computed DRs is lower than the second threshold value.

5. The autonomous radio controlling method of claim 4 , wherein the first mode is a spatial diversity (SD) mode, the second mode is a large-number stream spatial multiplexing (SM) mode, the third mode is a single stream beam forming (BF) mode, the fourth mode is a small-number stream spatial multiplexing mode, and the fifth mode is a medium-number stream spatial multiplexing mode.

6. The autonomous radio controlling method of claim 1 , further comprising:
further determining a relation between a maximum of the second computed SIRs and a fifth range if the minimum of the first computed SIRs is within the first range; and
controlling the autonomous radio system to operate in the second mode if the maximum of the second computed SIRs is higher than the fifth range; controlling the autonomous radio system to operate in a third mode if the maximum of the second computed SIRs is lower than the fifth range.

7. The autonomous radio controlling method of claim 6 , further comprising:
processing a plurality of DRs of the antenna combinations through the first computing process to generate a plurality of first computed DRs;
further determining a relation between a minimum of the first computed DRs and a fourth range if the maximum of the second computed SIRs is within the fifth range; and
controlling the autonomous radio system to operate in a fourth mode if the minimum of the first computed DRs is higher than the fourth range; controlling the autonomous radio system to operate in the second mode if the minimum of the first computed DRs is lower than the fourth range.

8. The autonomous radio controlling method of claim 7 , further comprising:
processing the DRs through the second computing process to generate a plurality of second computed DRs;
further determining a relation between a maximum of the second computed DRs and a second threshold value if the minimum of the first computed DRs is within the fourth range; and
controlling the autonomous radio system to operate in the second mode if the maximum of the second computed DRs is higher than the second threshold value; controlling the autonomous radio system to operate in a fifth mode if the maximum of the second computed DRs is lower than the second threshold value.

9. The autonomous radio controlling method of claim 8 , wherein the first mode is a spatial diversity (SD) mode, the second mode is a large-number stream spatial multiplexing (SM) mode, the third mode is a single stream beam forming (BF) mode, the fourth mode is a small-number stream spatial multiplexing mode, and the fifth mode is a medium-number stream spatial multiplexing mode.

10. The autonomous radio controlling method of claim 1 , wherein the first computing process is a computation of root mean square deviation, and the second computing process is a computation of mean.

11. The autonomous radio controlling method of claim 1 , wherein the first computing process is a computation of maximum difference, and the second computing process is a computation of minimum.

12. An autonomous radio system, comprising:
a beam processing network (BPN), configured to switch a plurality of antenna combinations in an antenna array; and
an access point device, coupled to the BPN and configured to execute following steps:
processing a plurality of signal-to-interference ratios (SIRs) and a plurality of received signal strength indicator (RSSI) values of the antenna combinations through a first computing process respectively to generate a plurality of first computed SIRs and a plurality of first computed RSSI values;
processing the SIRs through a second computing process to generate a plurality of second computed SIRs;
determining a relation between a minimum of the second computed SIRs and a first threshold value;
further determining a relation between a minimum of the first computed SIRs and a first range if the minimum of the second computed SIRs is lower than the first threshold value; controlling an autonomous radio system to operate in a first mode if the minimum of the first computed SIRs is higher

Assignees

• Accton Tech Corp

Inventors

• Liu I-Ru

Classifications

• H04L1/20

  using signal quality detector · CPC title

• H04B7/0808

  comparing all antennas before reception · CPC title

• H04B7/082

  selecting best antenna path · CPC title

• H04B7/0871

  using different reception schemes, at least one of them being a diversity reception scheme · CPC title

• H04L1/06

  using space diversity · CPC title