US5815801A
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Method for estimating the quality of a connection, and a receiver
Assignee: Nokia Oyj
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Filing: 1996-05-15
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Granted: 1998-09-29
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Expires: 2016-05-15
Abstract
Abstract A method for estimating the quality of a connection in a cellular radio system, and a receiver of a cellular radio system, utilizing comparison circuitry for estimating, by use of received pilot signals and received combined broadband signal the interference caused by base stations at the terminal equipment. The method may be utilized e.g. for distributing the traffic load of the base stations and in interference cancellation methods.
Inventors
- 👤 Seppo Hamalainen
- 👤 Jere Keurulainen
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-27 11:46
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04W; H04W52/00; H04W52/04; H04W52/30; H04W52/34; H04B; H04B1/00; H04B1/69; H04B1/707; H04B1/7097; H04B1/7103; H04W72/00; H04W72/50; H04W72/54; H04W72/541
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 23
Claim 1
Independent Claim
118 words
A method for estimating the quality of a connection in a receiver of a subscriber terminal equipment in a CDMA cellular radio system having a plurality of base stations, the estimating being accomplished when each of said base stations is transmitting a pilot signal, wherein interference caused by transmissions of one or more of said base stations is estimated by comparing the strengths of the pilot signals transmitted by individual ones of said base stations with the strength of a received broadband signal within a given measurement period, said received broadband signal comprising a plurality of data signals wherein each of said data signals is modulated by a spectral spreading code enlarging a bandwidth of the data signal.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
118 words
A method for estimating the quality of a connection in a receiver of a subscriber terminal equipment in a CDMA cellular radio system having a plurality of base stations, the estimating being accomplished when each of said base stations is transmitting a pilot signal, wherein interference caused by transmissions of one or more of said base stations is estimated by comparing the strengths of the pilot signals transmitted by individual ones of said base stations with the strength of a received broadband signal within a given measurement period, said received broadband signal comprising a plurality of data signals wherein each of said data signals is modulated by a spectral spreading code enlarging a bandwidth of the data signal.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
34 words
A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the comparison of two or more received pilot signals and the received broadband signal is carried out parallel so that several comparisons are going on simultaneously.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
36 words
A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the comparison of the received pilot signals and the received broadband signal is carried out in series so that the comparisons are made consecutively one at a time.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
30 words
A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the comparison of the received pilot signals and the received broadband signal is carried out by calculating the correlation between said signals.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
36 words
A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the attenuation with communication distance between the base station and the receiver is also taken into account in the estimation of the interference levels of the base stations.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
42 words
A method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the attenuation with communication distance is calculated on the basis of the transmission power of the pilot signal of the base station and the power of the pilot signal received by the terminal equipment.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
26 words
A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein only one received pilot signal at a time is compared with the received broadband signal in one comparison.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
53 words
A method as claimed in claim 7 wherein relative interference levels of the transmissions of the respective base stations are obtained in the form of a proportion of the interference level of the individual base stations and the total interference level wherein the total interference level is the sum of individual interference levels.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
29 words
A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the estimating results of the interference levels of the base stations are utilized when choosing the base station to communicate with.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
25 words
A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the estimating results of the interference levels of the base stations are utilized in interference cancellation methods.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
33 words
A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein said comparing of strengths of pilot signals includes a correlating of the strengths of the pilot signals transmitted by respective ones of said base stations.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
156 words
A receiver located in a subscriber terminal equipment of a cellular radio system having a plurality of base stations, the receiver serving to estimate the quality of a connection in the receiver when each base station is transmitting a pilot signal, the receiver comprising comparison means for estimating interference by means of the pilot signals received from respective ones of said base stations, said comparison means being operative to compare the strength of an individual one of the pilot signals transmitted by the base stations with the strength of a broadband signal received from the base stations within a given measurement period, and wherein the received broadband signal has interference caused at the terminal equipment by signal transmissions of one or more of the base stations, said received broadband signal comprising a plurality of data signals wherein each of said data signals is modulated by a spectral spreading code enlarging a bandwidth of the data signal.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
156 words
A receiver located in a subscriber terminal equipment of a cellular radio system having a plurality of base stations, the receiver serving to estimate the quality of a connection in the receiver when each base station is transmitting a pilot signal, the receiver comprising comparison means for estimating interference by means of the pilot signals received from respective ones of said base stations, said comparison means being operative to compare the strength of an individual one of the pilot signals transmitted by the base stations with the strength of a broadband signal received from the base stations within a given measurement period, and wherein the received broadband signal has interference caused at the terminal equipment by signal transmissions of one or more of the base stations, said received broadband signal comprising a plurality of data signals wherein each of said data signals is modulated by a spectral spreading code enlarging a bandwidth of the data signal.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
30 words
A receiver as claimed in claim 12, comprising means for making a comparison as a correlation between the pilot signal received from the base station and the received broadband signal.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
22 words
A receiver as claimed in claim 12, comprising means for taking into account the attenuation with communication distance in estimating the interference.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
43 words
A receiver as claimed in claim 14, comprising means for calculating the attenuation with communication distance on the basis of the transmission power of the pilot signal of the base station and the power of the pilot signal received by the terminal equipment.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
18 words
A receiver as claimed in claim 12, comprising means for calculating relative interference levels of the base stations.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
17 words
A receiver as claimed in claim 16, comprising means for choosing the base station to communicate with.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
11 words
A receiver as claimed in claim 16, comprising interference cancellation means.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
29 words
A receiver according to claim 12 wherein said comparison means includes correlation means for correlating the strengths of the pilot signals transmitted by respective ones of said base stations.
Claim 22
Independent Claim
173 words
A method for estimating the quality of a connection in a receiver of a subscriber terminal equipment in a CDMA cellular radio system having a plurality of base stations transmitting respective signals each of which includes a pilot tone, the respective signals interfering with each other at the receiver, the method comprising steps of: receiving a broadband signal composed of a sum of a plurality of transmitted signals from respective ones of said base stations, said received broadband signal comprising a plurality of data signals wherein each of said data signals is modulated by a spectral spreading code enlarging a bandwidth of the data signal; correlating respective ones of the pilot tones of respective ones of said transmitted signals with said sum of transmitted signals to obtain respective tone correlations; and for each of selected pilot tones of respective ones of said base stations, dividing the tone correlation by the sum of tone correlations of all of said transmitted signals to obtain relative interference levels of the transmitted signals of said base stations.
Claim 23
Independent Claim
173 words
A method for estimating the quality of a connection in a receiver of a subscriber terminal equipment in a CDMA cellular radio system having a plurality of base stations transmitting respective signals each of which includes a pilot tone, the respective signals interfering with each other at the receiver, the method comprising steps of: receiving a broadband signal composed of a sum of a plurality of transmitted signals from respective ones of said base stations, said received broadband signal comprising a plurality of data signals wherein each of said data signals is modulated by a spectral spreading code enlarging a bandwidth of the data signal; correlating respective ones of the pilot tones of respective ones of said transmitted signals with said sum of transmitted signals to obtain respective tone correlations; and for each of selected pilot tones of respective ones of said base stations, dividing the tone correlation by the sum of tone correlations of all of said transmitted signals to obtain relative interference levels of the transmitted signals of said base stations.
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