Method and apparatus for measuring a filtering characteristic, pre-equalizer and communication equipment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9979471-B2
Application number	US-201615375493-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 12, 2016
Priority date	Dec 11, 2015
Publication date	May 22, 2018
Grant date	May 22, 2018

Abstract

A method and apparatus for measuring a filtering characteristic, pre-equalizer and communication equipment. Wherein, the apparatus for measuring a filtering characteristic includes: a first measuring unit configured to measure multiple pieces of first average power of multiple first signals obtained after multiple first transmission signals pass through a transmitting end filtering module and are modulated, frequencies of the multiple first transmission signals being different; and a first processing unit configured to determine a filtering characteristic of the transmitting end according to the first average power, amplitudes of the first transmission signals and a first predefined correspondence relationship between average power of signals after passing through the transmitting end filtering module and being modulated and a product of amplitudes of the signals and the filtering characteristic of the transmitting end.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for measuring a filtering characteristic, comprising:
a first measuring unit configured to measure multiple pieces of first average power of multiple first signals obtained after multiple first transmission signals pass through a transmitting end filtering module and are modulated, frequencies of the multiple first transmission signals being different; and
a first processing unit configured to determine a filtering characteristic of a transmitting end according to the first average power, amplitudes of the multiple first transmission signals and a first predefined correspondence relationship between average power (P) of filtered signals after passing through the transmitting end filtering module and being modulated and a product (A×G(f)) of amplitudes (A) of the filtered signals and the filtering characteristic G(f) of the transmitting end.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the apparatus further comprises:
a first determining unit configured to determine the first predefined correspondence relationship.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the first determining unit comprises:
a second measuring unit configured to measure multiple pieces of second average power of multiple second signals obtained after multiple second transmission signals pass through the transmitting end filtering module and are modulated, frequencies of the multiple second transmission signals being identical, and amplitudes of the multiple second transmission signals being different; and
a second determining unit configured to determine the first predefined correspondence relationship according to the amplitudes of the multiple second transmission signals and the multiple pieces of second average power.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein one of the first transmission signals and the second transmission signals are narrowband signals.

5. The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein one of
the apparatus further comprises:
a first transmitting unit configured to transmit one of the first transmission signals and the second transmission signals;
and the apparatus further comprises:
a second transmitting unit and a transmitting end filtering module; wherein the second transmitting unit is configured to transmit one of the first transmission signals the second transmission signals, transmit one of the first transmission signals and the second transmission signals passing through the transmitting end filtering module.

6. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the first determining unit comprises:
a third determining unit configured to, when a modulator is a Mach-zehnder modulator, determine the first predefined correspondence relationship as:

P
=

0.5
-

0.5
⁢

J
0

⁡

(

A
⁢

⁢
π
⁢

⁢

G
⁡

(
f
)

V
pi

)

;

where, V pi denotes a voltage needed by a phase change π of the Mach-zehnder modulator, P denotes average power of modulated signals, G(f) denotes the filtering characteristic of the transmitting end, A denotes the amplitudes of the signals, and J 0 ( ) denotes a Bessel function.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the amplitudes of the multiple first transmission signals are one of identical and different.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein when the amplitudes of the multiple first transmission signals are different, the amplitudes of the first transmission signals increase as frequencies of the first transmission signals increase.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the one of the first transmission signals and the second transmission signals are narrowband signals.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein one of
the apparatus further comprises:
a first transmitting unit configured to transmit one of the first transmission signals and the second transmission signals;
and the apparatus further comprises:
a second transmitting unit and a transmitting end filtering module; wherein the second transmitting unit is configured to transmit one of the first transmission signals and the second transmission signals, transmit one of the first transmission signals and the second transmission signals passing through the transmitting end filtering module.

11. A communication equipment, comprising the apparatus for measuring a filtering characteristic as claimed in claim 1 .

12. A pre-equalizer, comprising:
a characteristic measuring unit configured to measure multiple pieces of first average power of multiple first signals obtained after multiple first transmission signals pass through a transmitting end filtering module and are modulated, frequencies of the multiple first transmission signals being different, and determine a filtering characteristic of the transmitting end according to the first average power, amplitudes of the first transmission signals and a first predefined correspondence relationship between average power (P) of filtered signals after passing through the transmitting end filtering module and being modulated and a product (A×G(f)) of amplitudes (A) of the filtered signals and the filtering characteristic G(f) of the transmitting end; and
a pre-equalizing unit configured to determine a coefficient of the pre-equalizer according to the filtering characteristic of the transmitting end, and perform pre-equalization on the transmission signals by using the coefficient of the pre-equalizer.

Assignees

• Fujitsu Ltd

Inventors

• Tao Zhenning
• Fan Yangyang
• Dou Liang

Classifications

• H04B10/07955 Primary

  Monitoring or measuring power · CPC title

• H04L27/01

  Equalisers {(baseband equalizers at the transmitter end H04L25/03343; in analogue transmission systems H04B3/04, H04B7/005)} · CPC title

• H04L25/03343 Primary

  Arrangements at the transmitter end · CPC title

• H04B17/101

  for measurement of specific parameters of the transmitter or components thereof · CPC title

• H04B10/5161

  Combination of different modulation schemes · CPC title