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- the present invention relates to an interference wave suppressing device, a relay device, a relay system, and an interference wave suppressing method for suppressing an interference wave included in a received signal.
- a combination of a sub-filter and a Fourier transform means that signals of various bandwidths are combined.
- Digital demultiplexing and digital multiplexing are performed. Further, by combining such a digital demultiplexing device and a digital multiplexing device, it is possible to realize a repeater that repeats while arbitrarily changing the frequency of each band signal within the satellite.
- Patent Document 1 disclose techniques related to a digital multiplexing device and a digital branching device that support multirate as described above.
- Patent Document 1 Patent Document 1, Patent Document 2, and Non-Patent Document 1 do not describe a method for removing interference waves. For this reason, there is a problem that communication quality deteriorates when an interference wave is included in the received signal.
- the repeater using the conventional technique relays the interference wave together with the received signal. Therefore, there has been a problem that the transmission power of the repeater is wasted.
- the present invention has been made in view of the above, and interference wave suppression that can ensure communication quality even when an interference wave is added to a reception signal to be relayed and can suppress wasteful power consumption during relaying.
- An object is to obtain a device, a relay device, a relay system, and an interference wave suppression method.
- the present invention provides a demultiplexing unit that demultiplexes a received signal into a demultiplexed signal having a predetermined bandwidth, and for each demultiplexed signal,
- An interference wave detection unit that determines whether or not there is an interference wave based on a power value, and the signal value of the demultiplexed signal that the interference wave detection unit determines that there is an interference wave to a value that is a predetermined value or less Changed, output the demultiplexed signal after the change, and combined the signal output from the interference wave suppressing means and the interference wave suppressing means for outputting the demultiplexed signal determined to have no interference wave
- a combining means for outputting a combined signal.
- a received signal is demultiplexed into signals for each channel of a predetermined bandwidth, and when the average power value of the demultiplexed signal exceeds a predetermined threshold, the demultiplexed signal of that channel is not signaled. Since the interference suppression processing is performed, it is possible to ensure communication quality even when an interference wave is added to the reception signal to be relayed, and to suppress wasteful power consumption during relaying. .
- FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of the relay apparatus according to the first embodiment.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a processing procedure of interference wave removal according to the first embodiment.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of a digital demultiplexing unit using a plurality of low-pass filters.
- FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of processing of the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of the second branching process on the frequency axis.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of frequency characteristics of the channel filter.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of the relay apparatus according to the first embodiment.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a processing procedure of interference wave removal according to the first embodiment.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating
- FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of the digital multiplexing unit.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of the transmission low-pass filter frequency conversion unit.
- FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of processing of the transmission low-pass filter frequency conversion unit.
- FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of two-multiplexing processing on the frequency axis.
- FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of demultiplexing / combining processing during relay processing.
- FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating an example of an extraction target region of each frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit.
- FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of a target region to be combined by each transmission low-pass filter frequency converter and each adder.
- FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating another example of the demultiplexing / combining process.
- FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating an example of interference suppression processing according to the second embodiment.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of a first embodiment of a relay device according to the present invention.
- the relay apparatus includes an antenna 1, a voltage control variable gain amplifier 2, a mixer 3, a local oscillator 4, an LPF (Low Pass Filter) 5, an A / D. ((Analog) / (Digital)) converter (A / D) 6, digital demultiplexing unit (demultiplexing means) 7, interference wave detection unit 8, interference wave suppression unit 9, and control / monitor unit 10 And a clock supply unit 11, a switch matrix unit 12, a digital multiplexing unit (multiplexing means) 13, and a D / A converter (D / A) 14.
- the relay apparatus has a function as an interference wave suppression apparatus that suppresses an interference wave included in a received signal.
- the interference wave suppression apparatus includes a digital demultiplexing unit 7 and an interference wave detection unit 8.
- the interference wave suppression unit 9 and the digital multiplexing unit 13 are configured.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a processing procedure of interference wave removal according to the present embodiment. The operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
- the antenna 1 receives a signal (received signal).
- the voltage control type variable gain amplifier 2 is an amplifying unit, amplifies the received signal based on the gain set to the maximum in the initial state, and adjusts the gain based on the control gain from the interference wave detection unit 8.
- the received signal is amplified based on the later gain.
- the local oscillator 4 generates a signal having the same frequency (local frequency) as the center frequency of the main signal of the received signal as a local signal. It is assumed that the center frequency of the main signal of the received signal is known.
- the mixer 3 multiplies the received signal by a local signal, and converts the received signal into a high frequency signal and a baseband frequency signal.
- LPF 5 passes a signal having a frequency corresponding to a signal converted to a baseband frequency among signals converted by mixer 3 as a baseband signal, and removes a high frequency component. At this time, the LPF 5 removes high-frequency components so that alias components are not generated by sampling performed by the A / D converter 6.
- the voltage-controlled variable gain amplifier 2 may be realized by a combination of an attenuation variable attenuator and a fixed amplifier.
- the A / D converter 6 performs analog-digital conversion on the baseband signal, which is an analog signal, and outputs the data sampled by the analog-digital conversion to the interference wave detection unit 8 and the digital demultiplexing unit 7 as baseband data. To do.
- the baseband An IF signal may be input to the AD converter 6 instead of the signal, and the A / D converter 6 may convert the IF signal into digital data by A / D conversion.
- BPF Band Pass Filter
- the digital quadrature detection means since the digital quadrature detection means is provided immediately after the A / D converter 6 and the IF signal is converted into a baseband signal by the digital quadrature detection means, the number of circuits and the A / D converter 6 are increased. This increases the sampling rate.
- the digital quadrature detection means inputs to the interference wave detection unit 8 and the digital demultiplexing unit 7.
- FIG. 2A shows an example of a baseband signal input to the digital demultiplexing unit 7.
- the baseband signal includes a desired main signal and an interference wave
- FIG. 2 shows their spectra.
- the spectrum of the main signal on the trapezoidal shape indicates the frequency characteristic of the desired main signal
- the spectrum of the interference wave in the rectangular shape indicates the frequency characteristic of the interference wave.
- the spectrum of the interference wave overlaps part of the spectrum band of the main signal.
- the digital demultiplexing unit 7 demultiplexes a signal (baseband data) input as “main signal + interference wave” as illustrated in FIG. 2A into eight frequency bands (channels) in FIG. To do.
- the dotted lines shown in FIG. 2B indicate the frequency characteristics of eight channels for performing demultiplexing. Note that in this embodiment, an example of demultiplexing into eight channels is described, but the number of demultiplexed channels is not limited to this, and is a number corresponding to the channel configuration of the transmission signal.
- the digital demultiplexing unit 7 may use a demultiplexing method using FFT as described in Patent Document 1 and Non-Patent Document 1, for example.
- a demultiplexing method using a plurality of low-pass filters (half-band filters) is used.
- the frequency characteristic for extracting the signal of each channel at the time of demultiplexing is adjacent in the frequency direction as shown in each frequency characteristic illustrated by the dotted line in FIG.
- the amplitude characteristics of a region that is demultiplexed so as to have a portion overlapping with the channel to be overlapped (overlapping) and overlaps with an adjacent channel are set so as to have a feature that is 1 when both are added.
- Each frequency characteristic indicated by the dotted line in FIG. 2B is an example, and any frequency characteristic may be used as long as the frequency characteristic satisfies the above conditions.
- FIG. 2 shows an example of a spectrum of each signal demultiplexed into eight ((1) to (8)) by the digital demultiplexing unit 7.
- the interference wave detection unit 8 determines whether or not there is an interference wave for each of the signals divided into these eight signals. Hereinafter, processing of the interference wave detection unit 8 will be described.
- the interference wave detection unit 8 includes a power conversion unit 81, an averaging unit 82, a comparison unit 83, an integration unit 84, a voltage conversion unit 85, a power conversion unit 86, and an averaging unit.
- the unit 87 and the comparison / determination unit 88 are configured.
- the power conversion unit 86 of the interference wave detection unit 8 obtains the power value of each signal divided into eight.
- the averaging unit 87 averages the power value obtained by the power conversion unit 86 and outputs it as an average power value.
- the comparison / determination unit 88 compares the average power value of each channel obtained by the averaging unit 87 with a predetermined threshold value (set for each channel).
- the digital demultiplexing unit 7 has a characteristic that the amplitude characteristics of the overlapping area of adjacent channels in the frequency direction and the overlapping area of the adjacent channels become 1 when both are added. Since the demultiplexing is performed according to the frequency characteristics, the interference wave that can be taken by the main signal can be detected at any position on the frequency axis in the frequency band (for example, between channels).
- the threshold value TH (i) is acquired via the control / monitor unit 10 from another station that knows channel allocation information (information such as which channel's signal is transmitted as the main signal). To do.
- the other station that knows this channel assignment information corresponds to an earth station when the relay device of the present embodiment is a relay device mounted on a satellite, for example, and the relay station of the present embodiment When the device is installed on the ground, it corresponds to a base station.
- an interference wave exists when the average power value P (i) exceeds the threshold value TH (i).
- an interference wave exists based on the signal of each channel. Any method may be used as long as it is determined whether or not. For example, if a power value exceeds a threshold even once, it is determined that an interference wave exists, and a statistical value (dispersion, etc.) other than the average value of the power value is obtained and the interference wave exists based on the statistical value. It is good also as methods, such as determining whether to do.
- the other station (hereinafter referred to as a control station) that knows the channel assignment information is used as the transmission source of the received signal of the relay apparatus of the present embodiment, and the relay of the present embodiment when there is no interference wave. It is assumed that the received signal power of each channel in the apparatus can be predicted. Therefore, the other station that knows the channel assignment information sets the threshold value TH (i) based on the signal reception power for each channel.
- the threshold value TH (i) is set, for example, to a value that is several dB to tens of dB higher than each predicted value of the signal reception power for each channel.
- the interference wave detection unit 8 uses the calculated average power value P (i) and the determination result of whether or not there is an interference wave for each channel as interference wave detection information via the control / monitor unit 10.
- the control station is notified using a line different from the line through which the main signal is transmitted.
- the interference wave detecting unit 8 when detecting a signal exceeding the input amplitude range of the A / D converter 6, the interference wave detecting unit 8 always controls the voltage controlled gain variable amplifier 2 to reduce the gain, thereby constantly receiving the received signal. Is controlled so as to suppress the signal to the input amplitude range of the A / D converter 6.
- the power conversion unit 81 of the interference wave detection unit 8 converts the baseband data input from the A / D converter 6 into a power value
- the averaging unit 82 calculates an average value of the power values (average Power value).
- the comparison unit 83 compares the average power value Pa obtained by the averaging unit 82 with a predetermined threshold value THa. When the average power value Pa exceeds THa, the comparison unit 83 sets the control value C used to reduce the gain of the voltage controlled variable gain amplifier 2 to a predetermined positive value. For example, when the average power value Pa exceeds THa, the control value C is set to 1 (dB). Further, the integrating unit 84 integrates the control value C and sets the integrated value as the control gain G.
- the voltage converter 85 converts the control gain G into a voltage and outputs the voltage to the voltage controlled variable gain amplifier 2.
- the control value C is 0 and the control gain G is 0 dB, but when it exceeds, the control value C starts to have a positive value, and as a result While the average power value Pa exceeds THa, the control gain G increases to 1 dB, 2 dB,..., And the gain of the voltage control type variable gain amplifier 2 is obtained from the received signal by the control gain converted by the voltage converter 85. It is lowered until it falls within the input amplitude range of the A / D converter 6.
- comparing unit 83 sets control value C to a negative value (for example, ⁇ 1 (dB)) when average power value Pa is lower than THa.
- control gain is a negative value
- the gain of the voltage controlled variable gain amplifier 2 is increased.
- the control gain G for increasing the gain of the voltage controlled gain variable amplifier 2 decreases to..., 2 dB, 1 dB, and finally becomes 0 dB which is the initial state.
- the power conversion unit 81, the averaging unit 82, the comparison unit 83, the integration unit 84, and the voltage conversion unit 85 for performing automatic gain control are provided as automatic gain control means different from the interference wave detection unit 8. Also good.
- the automatic gain control described above is not essential, and may not be performed when there is another means for enabling normal digital signal processing. In this case, the interference wave detection unit 8 does not need to include the power conversion unit 81, the averaging unit 82, the comparison unit 83, the integration unit 84, and the voltage conversion unit 85.
- control gain G output from the integration unit 84 is also output to the comparison / determination unit 88.
- the comparison / determination unit 88 determines that the process on the receiving side is in an over-input state.
- the comparison result or the value of the control gain G itself is included in the above-described interference wave detection information, and the control / monitor unit 10 passes.
- the notification of the determination result or the control gain G is not essential. For example, the notification is necessary when the control station changes the transmission method (modulation method or the like) of the main signal using these pieces of information as will be described later. .
- the control station may perform adaptive coding modulation based on the information of the control gain G notified from the relay apparatus of the present embodiment.
- the value of the control gain G is X [dB]
- the modulation method is PSK (Phase Shift Keying) modulation
- the QQ (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) modulation ⁇ QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) modulation ⁇ BPSK (Binary Phase Shift Keying) modulation is sequentially changed.
- the spreading code length is sequentially changed from 128 chips ⁇ 256 chips ⁇ 512 chips.
- the interference wave suppression unit 9 removes the signal of the channel determined to have an interference wave based on the determination result received from the interference wave detection unit 8 among the signals for each channel output from the digital demultiplexing unit 7. Each signal is output to the switch matrix section 12 at the subsequent stage. Note that the interference wave suppression unit 9 outputs a no-signal (a signal in which both I and Q are all 0) for a channel determined to have an interference wave.
- the interference wave detecting unit 8 detects the interference wave in the channel corresponding to (3).
- the interference wave suppression unit 9 switches the signal (the area filled in with (d) in FIG. 2) excluding the signal of the channel corresponding to (3). Output to the matrix unit 12.
- the interference wave suppressing unit 9 limits the amplitude of the signal of the channel to be less than the threshold value TH (i) instead of outputting no signal for the channel determined to have an interference wave. Such processing may be performed.
- the switch matrix unit 12 is necessary when there are two or more relay destination areas or when there are two or more relay source areas. For example, when a part of the received signal received from area A is relayed to area B and another part of the received signal is relayed to area C, or conversely, the received signal received from area B and the received signal received from area C For example, both signals are relayed to area A.
- the relay apparatus of the present embodiment includes a digital multiplexing unit 13 for each relay destination area (in FIG. 1, only one digital multiplexing unit 13 is illustrated, but for each relay destination area.
- the digital multiplexing unit 13 may be provided, or one digital multiplexing unit 13 may perform processing for each relay destination by time division).
- the switch matrix unit 12 rearranges the demultiplexed signals for each relay destination, and outputs the demultiplexed signals to the digital multiplexing unit 13 corresponding to the corresponding relay destination.
- both the relay destination and the relay source are one area, it is not necessary to provide the switch matrix unit 12 and only one digital multiplexing unit 13 is required.
- digital demultiplexing means is provided for each relay source.
- FIG. 2E shows an example of a signal multiplexed by the digital multiplexing unit 13.
- FIG. 2E shows an example in which there is one relay destination area. Further, as described above, in the example of FIG. 2, there is also one relay source area. Therefore, in the example of FIG. 2, the switch matrix unit 12 is not essential, and the number of the digital multiplexing unit 13 may be one. .
- the digital multiplexing unit 13 multiplexes the demultiplexed signals of each channel, and generates a signal after removing the interference wave as shown in FIG. Finally, the D / A converter 14 performs digital-to-analog conversion on the signal (digital data) after the interference wave removal output from the digital multiplexing unit 13 and outputs it as a transmission signal. When there are a plurality of relay destination areas, the corresponding digital multiplexers 13 multiplex the demultiplexed signals of the respective channels for each relay destination area to obtain the signal after interference wave removal. Generate.
- the digital multiplexing unit 13 of the present embodiment may use a multiplexing method using FFT as described in Patent Document 1 and Non-Patent Document 1 described above. Although it is good, by using a multiplexing method that uses a plurality of low-pass filters (half-band filters), which will be described later, it is possible to realize low power consumption according to unused channels.
- the amplitude characteristics of the region where the frequency characteristics are multiplexed while overlapping with adjacent channels and two frequency characteristics overlap Synthesizes both to add up to 1.
- the frequency characteristics of each channel when performing multiplexing are the same as the frequency characteristics of each channel when performing demultiplexing. In this way, by using the same frequency characteristic for demultiplexing and multiplexing, the original signal can be restored by multiplexing even after the signal is demultiplexed into a plurality of channels.
- the clock supply unit 11 shown in FIG. 1 supplies an operation clock for operating each component in the digital demultiplexing unit 7 and the digital multiplexing unit 13.
- the clock supply unit 11 supplies a clock to each component based on the clock control signal when using a demultiplexing / multiplexing method using a plurality of low-pass filters (half-band filters). Will be described later.
- a transmission signal in which interference waves are suppressed can be generated.
- the ratio of the received power to the interference wave power ( ⁇ 30 dB) is canceled with the spreading gain of 30 dB, the S / N after despreading becomes 0 dB, and the communication quality is Deteriorates significantly.
- the interference suppression processing of the present embodiment when the interference suppression processing of the present embodiment is performed, the influence of despreading of the interference wave is eliminated by removing the interference wave, and the spreading gain only needs to be reduced to 19/20 times ( ⁇ 0.22 dB). Therefore, good communication quality can be ensured (sensitivity degradation: -0.22 dB only). Moreover, in the relay apparatus of this Embodiment, since the signal from which the interference wave was removed is relayed, it is possible to suppress useless transmission power generated by relaying including the interference wave.
- FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of the digital demultiplexing unit 7 using a plurality of low-pass filters (half-band filters).
- the digital demultiplexing unit 7 performs frequency conversion and low-pass filtering, and then outputs the frequency-converted reception low-pass filter after the sampling rate of the processed data is reduced to half the input data rate.
- FC Frequency Converter
- RXHBF Receiveiver Half Band Filter
- Frequency conversion filter means Frequency conversion filter means
- 71-1, 71-2, 72-1 to 72-4, 73-1 to 73-8, and frequency conversion reception low-pass filter section Receiving channel filter sections (CFfilter (Channel Filter)) 74-1 to 74-8 that perform filtering processing on output signals from 73-1 to 73-8.
- stage 3 as described above, the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter units 71-1 and 71-2 constitute the first stage, and the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 72- 1 to 72-4 constitute the second stage, and the frequency conversion reception low pass filter units 73-1 to 73-8 constitute the third stage.
- the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter units 71-1 and 71-2 of the first stage process the signals input to the two stages and then connect the two frequency conversion reception low-pass filters of the second stage to themselves. Output to the filter units 72-1 to 72-4, respectively.
- the second-stage frequency conversion reception low-pass filter units 72-1 to 72-4 process the signals input to the respective second stages and then connect to the second-stage frequency conversion reception low-pass filter units 73-1. To 73-8 respectively.
- the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter units are provided, and 16 reception channel filter units are provided.
- the frequency conversion reception low-pass number is doubled as the number of stages increases by one.
- the number of filter units will be increased.
- the number of reception channel filter units is equal to the number of frequency conversion reception low-pass filter units in the last stage.
- FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 71-1.
- the frequency conversion reception low pass filter units 71-2, 72-1 to 72-4 and 73-1 to 73-8 have the same configuration as the frequency conversion reception low pass filter unit 71-1.
- the configuration example in FIG. 4 is a configuration in which the number of filter taps is 19 taps.
- the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 71-1 includes a frequency conversion unit 75 that realizes an arbitrary (free) frequency offset by external settings, and low-pass filter units 76-1 and 76-2.
- the down sampler section ( ⁇ 2) 77 thins out the output data of the low-pass filter sections 76-1 and 76-2 by 1/2 (that is, thins the data once every two times and discards the rest). And.
- the low-pass filter unit 76-1 performs in-phase processing, and the low-pass filter unit 76-2 performs quadrature-side processing.
- the frequency converter 75 includes a complex multiplier 751 and a local signal generator 752.
- Each of the low-pass filter units 76-1 and 76-2 includes a shift register unit 761, multiplication units 763-1 to 763-11, and a real number addition unit 764.
- the shift register unit 761 includes registers 762-1 to 762-19. Note that the low-pass filter sections 76-1 and 76-2 may be configured by half-band filters that reduce the circuit scale (number of multipliers).
- FIG. 4 shows the case where the number of taps is 19, the number of taps of the filter is not limited to this, and any value may be used as long as it is appropriately set according to the conditions of the relay device.
- the number of taps is other than 19, the number of registers in the shift register unit 761 and the number of multiplication units may be changed according to the number of taps.
- the processing of the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 71-1 will be described.
- the processing of the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter units 71-2, 72-1 to 72-4, 73-1 to 73-8 is the same as the processing of the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 7-1.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of processing of the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 71-1.
- an extraction band the center frequency of the band
- the frequency conversion unit 75 performs frequency conversion so as to shift the frequency by ⁇ 0.125f IN . It is assumed that the shift amount when performing frequency conversion is set according to the extraction band.
- the frequency conversion unit 75 converts the center frequency of the signal # 0 to zero by shifting the frequency by ⁇ 0.125f IN ((2) in FIG. 5). Similarly, when the signal # 1 is used as the extraction band, the frequency can be converted so that the center frequency of the signal # 1 becomes zero by shifting the frequency by + 0.125f IN .
- the low-pass filter sections 76-1 and 76-2 pass the signal # 0 after the above frequency conversion processing for the I (in-phase) and Q (quadrature) components, respectively, and At least a part of the signal component in the region of 0.25f IN to 0.75f IN is removed ((3) in FIG. 5).
- the down sampler unit 77 thins out the data after passing through the low-pass filter units 76-1 and 76-2 by half ((4) in FIG. 5).
- the sampling frequency is 1/2, not satisfy the sampling theorem
- the bandwidth of the frequency components in the region of 0.5f IN ⁇ f IN of the signal before thinning is by aliasing, 0.0f IN ⁇ 0.
- the frequency components in the 5f IN region are covered, the signal components in the 0.25f IN to 0.75f IN region are removed in advance by the low-pass filter units 76-1 and 76-2, so that the signal band to be extracted It is possible to prevent the deterioration of the S / N ratio due to the aliasing component.
- FIGS. 5 (2) to (4) have been described by taking the case where the signal # 0 is the extraction band as an example, but the signal # 1 is similarly converted by frequency conversion so that the center frequency of the signal # 1 is zero. Can be extracted as an extraction band.
- the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter units 71-1 and 71-2 for example, in the example of FIG. 3, each of them is shifted by + 0.125f IN and ⁇ 0.125f IN respectively. It is assumed that the low-pass filtering process by 76-2 and the downsampling process by the downsampler unit 77 are performed. In this way, demultiplexed signals corresponding to the signals # 0 and # 1 are output from the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter units 71-1 and 71-2, respectively.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of the second branching process on the frequency axis.
- the processing of “frequency conversion ⁇ low pass filter ⁇ down sampling ⁇ frequency conversion ⁇ low pass filter ⁇ down sampling ⁇ ...” Is performed, and the sampling rate after down sampling is the minimum signal band in the system.
- the process is repeated until the width (bandwidth Bw) becomes twice the minimum channel width (Fc) that can be accommodated.
- the wide bandwidth signal (2Bw, 3Bw, 4Bw,...) May be decomposed into a plurality of signals. Since one-time (one cycle) demultiplexing process itself is equivalent to the conventional demultiplexing method, detailed description is omitted.
- a signal including the signal S1 and the signal S2 is defined as a signal S3.
- the signal S1, signal S2 both bandwidth 0.125F IN, left and right with respect to the center frequency of the signal S3 (the positive and negative directions) in the signal S1, the signal S2 is present.
- the first stage of FIG. 6 shows a state in which the frequency conversion unit 75 performs frequency conversion so that the center frequency of the signal S3 becomes zero.
- the low-pass filter sections 76-1 and 76-2 perform a filter that passes the band of the signal S 3 and removes high-frequency components. Then, as shown in the third stage of FIG. 6, the down sampler section 77 performs decimating by half.
- the signal after the downsampler unit 77 performs the decimation to 1 ⁇ 2 is input to the two frequency conversion reception low-pass filter units of the next stage.
- the processing in the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 72-1 is the processing from the top to the third stage in FIG. 6, and the output of the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 72-1 is the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 73. ⁇ 1, output to the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 73-2.
- the frequency conversion unit 75 of the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 73-1 shifts the frequency so that the center frequency of the signal S1 becomes zero (in this example, it is shifted by 0.125 / 2f IN (+45 deg)). And the frequency conversion unit 75 of the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 73-2 shifts by -0.125 / 2f IN (-45 deg) in this example so that the center frequency of the signal S2 becomes zero. , Perform frequency conversion.
- the low-pass filter units 76-1 and 76-2 of the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter units 73-1 and 73-2 respectively perform filters as demultiplexing processing in the next stage.
- the downsampler unit 77 performs the decimation process in the same manner, and the output signal after the decimation process is output to the reception channel filter units 74-1 and 74-2 (if it is not the final stage, the next stage two Output to the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter section).
- the low-pass filter ⁇ down-sample ⁇ frequency conversion is a one-stage demultiplexing process.
- one demultiplexing process (one stage (one stage) process) in FIG. 6 does not correspond to one frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit process, but the position of the break in one stage is changed and the frequency is changed.
- Conversion ⁇ low-pass filter ⁇ down-sampling may be a single-stage demultiplexing process, and may correspond to the process of one frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit, and the boundary of the single-stage demultiplexing process may be set anywhere.
- the signal output from the final-stage frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 73-i is, for example, the bandwidth of the signal to be demultiplexed (signal S1 and signal S2 in the case of FIG. 6) as shown in the lowermost stage of FIG. the When Bw, (for negative frequency components, present in the position with zero 0.5f iN) 0.5Bw each on both sides around the 0 contains signals.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of frequency characteristics of a filter (channel filter) used when the reception channel filter unit 74-i extracts a signal.
- a frequency characteristic (A (f) (f is a frequency)) with respect to the amplitude required for the channel filter is a characteristic (A (Fc ⁇ f)) obtained by folding the frequency characteristic A (f) from the center number frequency Fc. It has a characteristic that the sum of itself (A (f)) is constant.
- a filter satisfying the following equations (3) to (5) is illustrated as the amplitude versus frequency characteristic (A (f)) of the channel filter that satisfies such a requirement.
- a (f) 1.0 (f ⁇ 0.5 Bw) (3)
- a (f) 0.0 (f> Fc ⁇ 0.5Bw) (4)
- a (f) + A (Fc ⁇ f) 1.0 (0.5Bw ⁇ f ⁇ Fc ⁇ 0.5Bw) (5)
- the digital multiplexing unit 13 includes transmission channel filter units (CFilters) 131-1 to 131-8 that perform filtering on each input signal, and frequency-converts the sampling rate after interpolation to twice the input data rate.
- TXHBF Transceiver HBF
- FC filter frequency converter
- the first stage, the second stage, and the third stage are set from the side closer to the D / A converter 14 (downstream side). That is, transmission low-pass filter frequency converters 136-1 and 136-2 constitute a first stage, and transmission low-pass filter frequency converters 134-1 to 134-4 constitute a second stage, and transmission low-pass filter frequency converters Assume that 132-1 to 132-8 constitute the third stage.
- Adder 133-1 adds the output from transmission low-pass filter frequency conversion unit 132-1 (third stage) and the output from transmission low-pass filter frequency conversion unit 132-2, and adds the result to the transmission low-pass filter. Output to the frequency converter 134-1 (second stage).
- the adders 133-2 to 133-4 add the outputs from the two transmission low-pass filter frequency converters of the first stage to which the adders 133-2 are connected, and the addition result is the second-stage transmission low-pass filter to which the adders are connected. Output to the frequency converter.
- the adders 135-1 and 135-2 add the outputs from the two transmission low-pass filter frequency converters of the second stage to which they are connected, and the addition results are transmitted to the first stage to which they are connected.
- the adder 137 adds the output of the first-stage transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 136-1 and the output of the transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 136-2, and outputs the addition result.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of the transmission low-pass filter frequency conversion unit 132-1.
- the configuration of transmission low-pass filter frequency converters 132-2 to 132-8, 134-1 to 134-4, 136-1, and 136-2 is the same as that of transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 132-1.
- FIG. 9 shows a configuration when the number of filter taps is 19 taps.
- the transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 132-1 upsamples the input data (I, Q) by a factor of 2 (ie, inserts zeros between successive input data one by one) ( ⁇ 2) 78, low-pass filter sections 76-1, 76-2, and a frequency conversion section 75.
- the configurations of the low-pass filter units 76-1, 76-2 and the frequency conversion unit 75 are the same as the configurations of the low-pass filter units 76-1, 76-2 and the frequency conversion unit 75 of the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 71-1, respectively. is there.
- the processing of the transmission low-pass filter frequency converters 132-2 to 132-8, 134-1 to 134-4, 136-1, and 136-2 is the same as the processing of the transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 132-1.
- a signal as shown in (1) in FIG. 10 (the bandwidth of the signal, the total 0.25 F samp of each sides 0.125F samp) If is input, the upsampler 78 is twice the The sampling frequency input signal is interpolated to obtain a doubled sampling frequency ((2) in FIG. 10), and the low-pass filter sections 76-1, 76-2 pass a desired signal centered on 0. A filtering process is performed ((3) in FIG. 10).
- the frequency converting unit 75 converts the frequency of the input signal so that the center frequency of the input signal is offset (shifted) by + 0.125f samp or ⁇ 0.125f samp ((4) in FIG. 10).
- the offset amount is set in advance.
- the two transmission low-pass filter frequency conversion units (for example, the transmission low-pass filter frequency conversion unit 132-1 and the transmission low-pass filter frequency conversion unit 132-2) that output the processing result to the same addition unit have the same sign.
- Are set in advance for example, the transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 132-1 is + 0.125f samp and the transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 132-1 is -0.125f samp ).
- FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of two-multiplexing processing on the frequency axis.
- the addition process of the output signals of the two transmission low-pass filter frequency conversion units in the same stage is added to the above-described “up-sample ⁇ low-pass filter ⁇ frequency conversion”, and “up-sample ⁇ low-pass filter”
- the processing of “filter ⁇ frequency conversion ⁇ addition ⁇ upsample ⁇ low pass filter ⁇ frequency conversion ⁇ addition...” Is repeated until the sampling rate after upsampling reaches the sampling rate of the D / A converter 14.
- the frequency conversion unit 75 of the transmission low-pass filter frequency conversion unit 131-1 shifts the input signal including the signal S1 after upsampling by ⁇ 0.125f samp, and the transmission low-pass filter frequency conversion unit 131-2.
- the frequency converting unit 75 shifts the input signal including the upsampled signal S2 by +0.125 f samp .
- adder 133-1 adds the output signal of transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 131-1 after the shift and the output signal of transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 131-2 after the shift, and transmits the addition result. Output to the low-pass filter frequency converter 134-1.
- Transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 134-1 performs upsampling on the input signal and then performs filtering. Thereafter, as the next stage process, the frequency conversion unit 75 performs the frequency conversion, and the process continues thereafter.
- one stage of the multiplexing process does not correspond to the process of one transmission low-pass filter frequency converter, but this is where the boundary of the one-stage multiplexing process as an example is set. May be.
- one signal is offset by + 0.125f samp and the other signal is offset by -0.125f samp so that the two signals to be added overlap on the frequency axis.
- the one-time (one-cycle) multiplexing process itself is equivalent to the existing method, and thus detailed description thereof is omitted.
- FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of demultiplexing / combining processing during relay processing.
- signals # 1 to # 4 of different bands exist in the received signal. It is assumed that signals # 1, signal # 2, signal # 3, and signal # 4 exist in the high frequency band in this order. Further, as shown in FIG. 12A, it is assumed that the signal bands of the signals # 1 and # 4 are the minimum signal bandwidth (Bw) and fall within the minimum channel width (Fc). The signal band of signal # 3 is 2 Bw, and the signal band of signal # 2 is 3 Bw. Further, there is an unused area corresponding to the minimum channel width (Fc) between the signal # 2 and the signal # 3, and the system bandwidth including the unused area (the signal from the minimum frequency of the signal # 1 is used). The total frequency is up to 8Fc.
- the A / D converter 6 samples the reception signal (band: 8Fc) in FIG. 12A at the sampling frequency 32Fc.
- the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 71-1 has a band including “unused area, signal # 3, signal # 4”, and the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 71-2 has “signal # 1, signal # 2”.
- the included band is extracted by the operation shown in FIG.
- the subsequent frequency conversion reception low-pass filter units 72-1 to 72-4 and 73-1 to 73-8 are connected to one set (two) frequency conversion reception low-pass filter units of the same stage.
- the process of demultiplexing into two is performed in stages. In the course of these demultiplexing processes, it is assumed that demultiplexing into eight regions is performed using the filter characteristics of the eight shapes shown in (1) to (8) of FIG. Actually, since the frequency shifts as described above, each region is not arranged on the frequency axis as shown in FIG. 12B, but FIG. Are described as being arranged at the position of the original center frequency.
- FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating an example of an extraction target region of each frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit.
- FIG. 13 shows an example of a region to be extracted in the case of demultiplexing as shown in FIG. 12B.
- the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit is An area to be extracted (extraction area) is shown.
- the extraction region is indicated by using the filter characteristics (1) to (8) shown in FIG.
- demultiplexing processing is performed in a tournament (tree) format in which the extraction region is divided into two as the stage number increases.
- a part of the left and right signal components of each extraction region shown in FIG. 13 is also extracted.
- the reception channel filter units 74-1 to 74-8 finally perform the third-stage frequency conversion reception low-pass filter.
- the signals of the units 73-1 to 73-8 are extracted only in a desired region while waveform shaping with the above-described amplitude-to-frequency characteristic (A (f)).
- FIG. 12 shows a signal spectrum after processing by the reception channel filter units 74-1 to 74-8.
- the signal # 2 is separated into three ((2), (3), (4)), and the signal # 3 is divided into two ((6), (7)). To be separated.
- the same frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit can be operated in a time-sharing manner in units of stages because of the property that the signal is branched into two and the sampling rate is reduced to 1/2 each time the stage passes.
- the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit can be configured by the number of stages (three in the present embodiment).
- the switch matrix unit 12 uses the signals output from the reception channel filter units 74-1 to 74-8 as input signals, selects some or all of the input signals, changes the arrangement in the frequency direction, and outputs them. .
- FIG. 12D shows an example of the output of the switch matrix unit 12.
- signals in the areas (6), (7), and (8) corresponding to the signals # 4 and # 3 are selected, and the selected signals are changed to (8) ( In (1), (6) is rearranged in (2) and (7) is rearranged in (3) for output.
- no signal is input to the remaining output regions ((4), (5), (6), (7), (8)).
- Such operation of the switch matrix unit 12 is controlled by the control / monitor unit 10.
- the control / monitor unit 10 is based on channel information acquired from the control station via a separate line from the main signal (assuming that the frequency information of the signal included in the received signal, relay destination information, etc. is included), Understanding the frequency configuration of the received signal and the correspondence between the relay destination area and the signal to be output, etc., and setting the clock control signal to the clock supply unit 11 and the route setting signal to the switch matrix unit 12 (which input is to be output to where) Output signal).
- the clock control signal is a signal that controls whether or not a clock is supplied to each component. The clock control signal will be described later.
- the transmission channel filter units 131-1 to 131-8 perform waveform shaping and extraction of signals with the same frequency characteristics as the reception channel filter units 74-1 to 74-8. Note that when the digital demultiplexing unit 7 includes the reception channel filter units 74-1 to 74-8, the transmission channel filter units 131-1 to 131-8 are unnecessary. That is, in the process of relaying the signal, a channel filter may be provided until the multiplexing process of the demultiplexed signal is started. Even if it is installed after the last stage of the digital demultiplexing unit 7, the digital multiplexing unit Even if it installs in front of the first stage of 13, it does not matter.
- both the reception channel filter units 74-1 to 74-8 of the digital demultiplexing unit 7 and the transmission channel filter units 131-1 to 131-8 of the digital multiplexing unit 13 are provided.
- the product of the frequency characteristics of both channel filters for each channel may be the above-described A (f) (for example, the characteristics of equations (3) to (5)).
- the required number of taps 2 m (stage) when using two channel filters is greater than the required number of taps M (stage) when the target attenuation characteristic is realized with one channel filter. Since it becomes smaller (M> 2 m), an effect of reducing the circuit scale can be obtained.
- the signals rearranged by the switch matrix unit 12 are input to the digital multiplexing unit 13, and the digital multiplexing unit 13 performs transmission low-pass filter frequency conversion.
- the multiplexing process is performed in stages.
- the transmission low-pass filter frequency converters 132-1 to 132-8 are used.
- 134-1 to 134-4, 136-1, and 136-2 and adders 133-1 to 133-4, 135-1, 135-2, and 137 are shown in FIG. It becomes an area.
- FIG. 14 shows transmission low-pass filter frequency converters 132-1 to 132-8, 134-1 to 134-4, 136-1 and 136-2, and adders 133-1 to 133-4, 135-1, It is a figure which shows an example of the object area
- FIG. 14 shows a multiplexing target region that is handled by the transmission low-pass filter frequency converter and the adder of each stage. As is clear from FIG. 14, the multiplexing process is performed in a tournament (tree) format in which the multiplexing area is doubled as the number of stages decreases.
- a tournament tree
- (E) of FIG. 12 shows the signal spectrum of the signal output from the adder 137.
- the signal in the region (1) including the signal # 4 is transmitted to the transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 131-8, and the signal in the region (2) including one component of the signal # 3 is transmitted to the transmission low-pass filter.
- Each passes through the frequency converter 131-7.
- both signals after passing are added by the adder 133-4 and then input to the transmission low pass filter frequency converter 134-4.
- the signal in the region (3) including the other component of the signal # 3 passes through the transmission low pass filter frequency converter 131-7 and the adder 133-3, and then passes to the transmission low pass filter frequency converter 134-3. Entered.
- the adder 135-2 then passes the transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 134-4 (the signals in the areas (1) and (2)) and the signal passed through the transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 134-3. (The signal in the region (3)) is added and output to the transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 136-1. In this way, a combined signal including the signals # 3 and # 4 is generated while the signal # 3 is restored. Further, this combined signal passes through the transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 136-1 and the adder 137. In this way, the adder 137 outputs a spectrum signal shown in FIG.
- the D / A conversion unit 14 converts the combined signal output from the adder 137 from digital to analog and outputs it as a transmission signal.
- corresponding to one relay destination among the demultiplexed signals shown in FIG. 12C, corresponding to (6) to (8) (signal # 3 and signal # 4).
- An example in which a signal is input to the digital multiplexing unit 13 is shown.
- the number of digital multiplexing units 13 is provided as many as the number of relay destinations, and the switch matrix unit 12 sends a signal to be multiplexed to the corresponding digital multiplexing unit 13 for each relay destination. Output.
- the transmission low-pass filter frequency converters 132-1 to 132-5, 134-1, 134-2, and 136-1, and adders 133-1, 133-2, and 135 are used. Since no signal passes through -1, the operation of these circuits can be stopped. In this embodiment, power consumption is reduced by stopping the supply of a clock to each circuit (each component) through which a signal does not pass.
- control / monitor unit 10 determines a circuit for stopping the clock supply based on the channel information acquired from the control station and the multiplexing target area of each unit illustrated in FIG. Is notified to the clock supply unit 11 by a clock control signal.
- the clock supply unit 11 stops, continues, or starts the supply of the clock for each circuit based on the clock control signal.
- the power supply can be reduced by stopping the clock supply to the circuit not used for the combining process. Can do.
- each beam area of the multi-beam usually repeats 7 frequencies, and 1/7 of the system band per beam area is to be combined.
- the clock supply to about 6/7 circuits can be stopped. Therefore, in this case, the power consumption of the digital multiplexing unit 13 can be reduced to 1/7.
- FIG. 15 is a diagram showing another example of demultiplexing / combining processing.
- signal # 1 and signal # 2 are to be combined.
- (A) to (c) in FIG. 15 are the same as (a) to (c) in FIG.
- the switch matrix unit 12 includes regions ((1), (2), (3), (3) corresponding to the signals # 1 and # 2 among the signals demultiplexed by the digital demultiplexing unit 7. 4)) are rearranged in the frequency direction ((1) ⁇ (2), (2) ⁇ (5), (3) ⁇ (6), (4) ⁇ (7)) and output (FIG. 15). (D)).
- the signal # 2 which has been separated into three, is restored when it passes through the second stage adder 135-1, and further passes through the transmission low-pass filter frequency converter 136-1 and then is added by the adder 137. It is combined with the signal # 1 that has passed through the filter frequency conversion unit 136-2, and a combined signal shown in FIG. 15E is generated. In this case, since the transmission low-pass filter frequency converters 132-1, 132-5, 132-6, 132-8, 134-3, and the adder 133-3 do not pass signals, the clock supply of these circuits is stopped. Can be made.
- the demultiplexed signal # 2 ((2), (3 in FIG. 15C) ), (4)) may be transmitted using three non-consecutive unused bands.
- the signal # 2 is restored on the receiver side by demultiplexing / multiplexing with a configuration corresponding to the frequency allocation on the transmission side. In this way, when transmitting a signal with a wide bandwidth, by allowing transmission in a non-consecutive frequency band, effective use of the frequency is enhanced.
- the method for realizing low power consumption by stopping the clock supply when the total signal bandwidth to be multiplexed is a part of the system band has been described. Even when the total signal bandwidth becomes a part of the system bandwidth, the power consumption can be reduced by stopping the clock supply to the circuit not used for the demultiplexing process.
- control / monitor unit 10 determines a circuit (frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit, reception channel filter unit) through which a signal does not pass based on the channel information and the extraction region of each unit illustrated in FIG. The determination result is notified to the clock supply unit 11 as a clock control signal.
- the clock supply unit 11 stops, continues, or starts the clock supply to each unit based on the clock control signal.
- the signal in the unused band (corresponding to the region (5)) is received by the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 71-1 and the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 72. -2 and the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 73-4.
- the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 71-1 and the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 72-2 cannot be stopped because signals in other bands are also processed, but the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 73-4 Since it corresponds only to the area of (5), it can be stopped. Therefore, the clock supply to the frequency conversion reception low pass filter unit 73-4 can be stopped. Further, the clock supply to the reception channel filter unit 74-4 connected to the frequency conversion reception low-pass filter unit 73-4 can also be stopped.
- the supply of the clock to the unused circuit during the demultiplexing process and the multiplexing process by the clock control signal is not essential, and only one or both of them may be performed. It does not have to be.
- the demultiplexing signal input to the switch matrix unit 12 is described as a signal output from the digital demultiplexing unit 7.
- the signal output from the digital demultiplexing unit 7 is input to the switch matrix unit 12 via the interference wave suppressing unit 9 as described above.
- the interference wave suppression unit 9 performs a process of setting a band in which an interference wave exists as a no signal, but the channel configuration is not changed, and thus the process of the switch matrix is the same.
- the digital demultiplexing unit 7 demultiplexes the received signal into signals for each channel having a predetermined bandwidth, and the average power value of the demultiplexed signal exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
- interference suppression processing is performed in which the demultiplexed signal of the channel is set to no signal, and the signals after interference suppression processing are combined and transmitted. Therefore, even when an interference wave is added to the reception signal to be relayed, communication quality can be ensured and wasteful power consumption during relaying can be suppressed.
- the circuit in the process of performing the demultiplexing process, the circuit is stopped without supplying the clock to the circuit that performs the processing in the band where the signal does not pass.
- the circuit in the process of multiplexing, the circuit is stopped without supplying a clock to a circuit that performs processing in a band in which no signal passes.
- it is possible to realize low power consumption while realizing multiplexing of a plurality of signals having various bandwidths.
- FIG. FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating an example of interference suppression processing according to the present embodiment.
- the configuration of the relay apparatus according to the present embodiment is the same as that of the relay apparatus according to the first embodiment.
- an interference wave avoidance process in a relay system configured by a relay apparatus similar to that of the first embodiment and a control station such as a ground station or a base station will be described.
- a control station such as a ground station or a base station
- the relay apparatus performs the following interference suppression processing to avoid the interference wave and restore the original main wave while minimizing the frequency to be used. .
- the relay apparatus receives the signal shown in FIG. 16 (a), and performs the processing of the digital demultiplexing unit 7 and the interference wave detecting unit 8 as in the first embodiment.
- the three interference waves shown in (a) are detected, and the detection result is notified to the control station (ground station or base station) via a separate line via the control / monitor unit 10.
- the control station supports a channel that overlaps with the interference wave among the main waves, as shown in FIG.
- the signal of the area to be performed (the part indicated by a circle) is duplicated, and the duplicated signal is transmitted using another vacant band.
- This duplication processing can be realized by providing the transmission device of the control station with the same digital demultiplexing unit, switch matrix unit, and digital multiplexing as the relay device of the present embodiment. For example, in the transmission device of the control station, after the main wave is digitally demultiplexed into four channels by the digital demultiplexing unit, one of the demultiplexed signals (the signal in the band in which the interference wave is detected) is duplicated.
- the switch matrix unit of the transmission apparatus rearranges the duplicated signals so that they are arranged in a band where no interference wave exists, and then digitally multiplexes the signals of a total of five channels including the original main wave and the duplicated channel. To do.
- the control station can transmit the duplicate channel shown in FIG. 16B by such an operation. Also, the control station notifies the relay device of the channel usage status including the duplicate channel as channel information on a separate line from the main wave.
- the relay apparatus receives a signal including a duplicate channel transmitted by the process (B). Then, as in the first embodiment, the digital demultiplexing unit 7 separates the received signal into eight channels as shown in FIG.
- the interference wave detection unit 8 detects three interference waves as in (A) above, and notifies the control station of the detection result via another line.
- the interference wave suppression unit 9 switches the three channels (corresponding to (3), (6), and (8) in FIG. 16D) that detect the interference wave as no signals.
- the other channel inputs the output from the digital demultiplexing unit 7 to the switch matrix unit 12 as it is.
- the control / monitor unit 10 instructs the route (relationship between input and output) of the switch matrix unit 12 based on the channel information notified from the control station, and the switch matrix unit 12 Instead of the channel (3) where the interference wave exists, the signal of the duplicate channel is output to the digital multiplexer 13.
- the signals of the channels (1), (2), (7), and (4) are output to the digital multiplexing unit 13 in an arrangement as shown in FIG.
- the digital multiplexing unit 13 multiplexes the signals of the channels (1), (2), (7), and (4), thereby Waves can be reproduced.
- the operations of the present embodiment other than those described above are the same as those of the first embodiment.
- the control station duplicates the signal of the channel affected by the interference wave based on the information on the interference wave detected by the same relay apparatus as in the first embodiment.
- the duplicated signal is transmitted using another free band.
- the relay apparatus restores the main wave that is originally intended to be received by performing a multiplexing process using the duplicated signal instead of the channel affected by the interference wave.
- the signal band used is doubled as in frequency diversity.
- the use band is increased only for the channel affected by the interference wave. Therefore, the same effect as in the first embodiment can be obtained, and effective use of the frequency can be achieved.
- the increase in the signal band to be used can be suppressed to 5/4 times, the influence of interference waves can be avoided, and good communication quality can be ensured.
- the conventional frequency diversity cannot be applied when a single free band cannot be secured.
- a conventional vacant diversity cannot be applied since a vacant band cannot be secured.
- a collective vacant band is not necessary, and vacant areas may be scattered as long as vacant bands can be secured for the channels affected by the interference wave. Since interference avoidance can be realized even when there are only scattered empty areas, the tolerance to the number of appearance of interference waves is higher than the conventional frequency diversity.
- the interference wave suppressing device, the relay device, the relay system, and the interference wave suppressing method according to the present invention are useful for a relay device that suppresses an interference wave included in a received signal, and in particular, suppresses power consumption. Suitable for required relay equipment.
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図1は、本発明にかかる中継装置の実施の形態1の機能構成例を示す図である。図1に示すように、本実施の形態の中継装置は、アンテナ1と、電圧制御型利得可変アンプ2と、ミクサ3と、局部発振器4と、LPF(Low Pass Filter)5と、A/D((Analog)/(Digital))変換器(A/D)6と、ディジタル分波部(分波手段)7と、干渉波検出部8と、干渉波抑圧部9と、制御・モニタ部10と、クロック供給部11と、スイッチマトリックス部12と、ディジタル合波部(合波手段)13と、D/A変換器(D/A)14と、で構成される。
P(i) > TH(i) : 干渉波が存在すると判定 …(1)
P(i) ≦ TH(i) : 干渉波が存在しないと判定 …(2)
・変調方式:スペクトラム拡散変調
・干渉波の帯域幅:主波の帯域幅=1:20
・分波後のチャネル幅:主波の帯域幅=1:20
・受信電力:干渉波電力=1:1000 (→-30dB)
・拡散利得:30dB
A(f)=1.0 (f≦0.5Bw) …(3)
A(f)=0.0 (f>Fc-0.5Bw) …(4)
A(f)+A(Fc-f)=1.0 (0.5Bw<f≦Fc-0.5Bw)…(5)
図16は、本実施の形態の干渉抑圧処理の一例を示す図である。本実施の形態の中継装置の構成は、実施の形態1の中継装置と同様である。本実施の形態では、実施の形態1と同様の中継装置と、地上局または基地局等である制御局と、で構成される中継システムにおける干渉波回避処理について説明する。以下、実施の形態1と異なる点について説明する。
2 電圧制御型利得可変アンプ
3 ミクサ
4 局部発振器
5 LPF
6 A/D
7 ディジタル分波部
8 干渉波検出部
9 干渉波抑圧部
10 制御・モニタ部
11 クロック供給部
12 スイッチマトリックス部
13 ディジタル合波部
14 D/A
71-1,71-2,72-1~72-4,73-1~73-8 FC+RXHBF
74-1~74-8,131-1~131-8 CFilter
75 周波数変換部
76-1,76-2 ローパスフィルタ部
77 ダウンサンプラ部
78 アップサンプラ部
81,86 電力変換部
82,87 平均化部
83 比較部
84 積分部
85 電圧変換部
88 比較・判定部
132-1~132-8,134-1~134-4,136-1,136-2 TXHBF+FC
133-1~133-4,135-1,135-2,137 加算器
S1,S2,S3 信号
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- 受信信号を所定の帯域幅の分波信号に分波する分波手段と、
前記分波信号ごとに、前記分波信号の電力値に基づいて干渉波があるか否かを判定する干渉波検出手段と、
前記干渉波検出手段が、干渉波があると判定した前記分波信号の信号値を所定の値以下の値に変更し、変更後の前記分波信号を出力し、また、干渉波がないと判定した前記分波信号を出力する干渉波抑圧手段と、
前記干渉波抑圧手段から出力される信号を合波した合波信号を出力する合波手段と、
を備えることを特徴とする干渉波抑圧装置。 - 前記干渉波検出手段は、前記分波信号の電力値の平均値が所定のしきい値を超える場合に、干渉波があると判定する、
ことを特徴とする請求項1に記載の干渉波抑圧装置。 - 前記干渉波抑圧手段は、干渉波があると判定した前記分波信号の信号値を0に変更する、
ことを特徴とする請求項1または2に記載の干渉波抑圧装置。 - 前記受信信号を増幅するための増幅手段と、
前記受信信号の電力に基づいて、前記増幅手段での増幅の利得を制御する自動利得制御手段と、
をさらに備えることを特徴とする請求項1、2または3に記載の干渉波抑圧装置。 - 前記受信信号をN(Nは1以上の整数)段の分波処理により前記分波信号に分波することとし、
前記分波手段は、
入力された信号の中心周波数を所定の周波数分シフトさせるよう周波数変換を行い、前記周波数変換後の信号から所定の帯域の信号を抽出し、抽出された信号のサンプリング周波数を低下させるようダウンサンプリング処理を行ない、ダウンサンプリング後の信号を出力する周波数変換フィルタ手段、
を、初段として2個、2段以降では前段の個数の倍の個数備え、
2段以降では、同一段の2つの前記周波数変換フィルタ手段に、前段の同一の前記周波数変換フィルタ手段から出力される同一の信号を入力し、
前記同一の信号が入力される前記周波数変換フィルタ手段では、前記周波数変換でシフトさせる周波数を互いに異なる値に設定する、
ことを特徴とする請求項1~4のいずれか1つに記載の干渉波抑圧装置。 - 最終段の前記周波数変換フィルタ手段による処理後の信号に対して波形整形を行うチャネルフィルタ、
をさらに備えることを特徴とする請求項5に記載の干渉波抑圧装置。 - 前記受信信号をN(Nは1以上の整数)段の分波処理により前記分波信号に分波することとし、
前記分波手段は、
入力された信号の中心周波数を所定の周波数分シフトさせるよう周波数変換を行い、前記周波数変換後の信号から所定の帯域の信号を抽出し、抽出された信号のサンプリング周波数を低下させるようダウンサンプリング処理を行ない、ダウンサンプリング後の信号を出力する周波数変換フィルタ手段、
を、段ごとに1つ備え、
前記周波数変換フィルタ手段は、時分割で、前記周波数変換でシフトさせる周波数を変更する、
ことを特徴とする請求項1~4のいずれか1つに記載の干渉波抑圧装置。 - 最終段の前記周波数変換フィルタ手段による処理後の信号に対して波形整形を行うチャネルフィルタ、
をさらに備えることを特徴とする請求項7に記載の干渉波抑圧装置。 - 前記受信信号に含まれる主信号の使用帯域に基づいて、処理を行わない前記周波数変換フィルタ手段を決定し、決定した前記周波数変換フィルタ手段へのクロック供給を停止するようクロック制御信号により指示する制御モニタ手段と、
前記クロック制御信号に基づいてクロックの供給を停止するクロック供給手段と、
をさらに備えることを特徴とする請求項5または6に記載の干渉波抑圧装置。 - 前記合波手段は、
前記受信信号をM(Mは1以上の整数)段の合波処理により前記合波信号を生成することとし、
入力された信号のサンプリング周波数を増加させるようアップサンプリング処理を行い、アップサンプリング処理後の信号から所定の帯域の信号を抽出し、抽出された信号の中心周波数を所定の周波数分シフトさせるよう周波数変換を行うフィルタ周波数変換手段、
を、初段として2M個、2段以降では前段の個数の半分の個数備え、
さらに同一段の2つの前記フィルタ周波数変換手段から出力される信号を加算し、加算結果を、後段の前記フィルタ周波数変換手段へ出力する加算手段、
を備え、
前記加算手段で加算対象となる信号を出力する2つの前記フィルタ周波数変換手段では、前記周波数変換でシフトさせる周波数を互いに異なる値に設定する、
ことを特徴とする請求項1~8のいずれか1つに記載の干渉波抑圧装置。 - 前記合波手段は、
前記受信信号をM(Mは1以上の整数)段の合波処理により前記合波信号を生成することとし、
入力された信号のサンプリング周波数を増加させるようアップサンプリング処理を行い、アップサンプリング処理後の信号から所定の帯域の信号を抽出し、抽出された信号の中心周波数を所定の周波数分シフトさせるよう周波数変換を行うフィルタ周波数変換手段、
を、初段として2M個、2段以降では前段の個数の半分の個数備え、
さらに同一段の2つの前記フィルタ周波数変換手段から出力される信号を加算し、加算結果を、後段の前記フィルタ周波数変換手段へ出力する加算手段、
を備え、
前記加算手段で加算対象となる信号を出力する2つの前記フィルタ周波数変換手段では、前記周波数変換でシフトさせる周波数を互いに異なる値に設定する、
ことを特徴とする請求項9に記載の干渉波抑圧装置。 - 前記受信信号に含まれる主信号の使用帯域に基づいて、処理を行わない前記フィルタ周波数変換手段を決定し、決定した前記フィルタ周波数変換手段へのクロック供給を停止するようクロック制御信号により指示する制御モニタ手段と、
前記クロック制御信号に基づいてクロックの供給を停止するクロック供給手段と、
をさらに備えることを特徴とする請求項10に記載の干渉波抑圧装置。 - 前記制御モニタ手段は、さらに、前記受信信号に含まれる主信号の使用帯域に基づいて、処理を行わない前記フィルタ周波数変換手段を決定し、決定した前記フィルタ周波数変換手段へのクロック供給を停止するよう指示する、
をさらに備えることを特徴とする請求項11に記載の干渉波抑圧装置。 - 前記合波手段は、
前記受信信号をM(Mは1以上の整数)段の合波処理により前記合波信号を生成することとし、
入力された信号のサンプリング周波数を増加させるようアップサンプリング処理を行い、アップサンプリング処理後の信号から所定の帯域の信号を抽出し、抽出された信号の中心周波数を所定の周波数分シフトさせるよう周波数変換を行うフィルタ周波数変換手段、
を、段ごとに1つ備え、
前記フィルタ周波数変換手段は、時分割で、前記周波数変換でシフトさせる周波数を変更する、
ことを特徴とする請求項1~9のいずれか1つに記載の干渉波抑圧装置。 - 受信信号に、主信号として、既知の周波数帯域の2以上の帯域信号が含まれるとし、
前記合波手段は、前記帯域信号のうち、前記所定の帯域幅を超える周波数帯域の前記帯域信号に対応する前記分波信号を周波数軸上で隣接するまたは隣接しないよう合波することを特徴とする請求項1~14のいずれか1つに記載の干渉波抑圧装置。 - 受信信号を所定の帯域幅の分波信号に分波する分波手段と、
前記分波信号ごとに、前記分波信号の電力値に基づいて干渉波があるか否かを判定する干渉波検出手段と、
前記干渉波検出手段が、干渉波があると判定した前記分波信号の信号値を所定の値以下の値に変更し、変更後の前記分波信号を出力し、また、干渉波がないと判定した前記分波信号を出力する干渉波抑圧手段と、
前記干渉波抑圧手段から出力される信号を合波した合波信号を出力する合波手段と、
を備え、
前記合波信号を、中継先へ送信する送信信号とする、
ことを特徴とする中継装置。 - 前記中継先を2以上とし、
前記合波手段を前記中継先ごとに備え、
さらに、
前記干渉波抑圧手段から出力される信号を、その信号の中継先に対応する前記合波手段へ出力するスイッチマトリックス、
を備える、
ことを特徴とする請求項16に記載の中継装置。 - 前記受信信号の送信元を2以上とし、
前記分波手段を前記送信元ごとに備え、
さらに、
前記干渉波抑圧手段から出力される信号を前記合波手段へ出力するスイッチマトリックス、
を備える、
ことを特徴とする請求項16に記載の中継装置。 - 前記中継先を2以上とし、前記受信信号の送信元を2以上とし、
前記合波手段を前記中継先ごとに備え、
前記分波手段を前記送信元ごとに備え、
さらに、
前記干渉波抑圧手段から出力される信号を、その信号の中継先に対応する前記合波手段へ出力するスイッチマトリックス、
備える、
ことを特徴とする請求項16に記載の中継装置。 - 請求項16~19のいずれか1つに記載の中継装置と、
前記中継装置の中継対象とする信号を送信する制御局と、
を備えることを特徴とする中継システム。 - 前記中継装置は、分波信号ごとの干渉波があるか否かの判定結果を前記制御局へ通知し、
前記制御局は、主信号のうち、前記中継装置からの通知に基づいて、干渉波があると判定された分波信号に対応する帯域の信号を複製して複製信号とし、前記複製信号を、干渉波があると判定された以外の周波数帯を用いて前記複製信号を送信し、また、前記複製信号を送信した旨を前記中継装置へ通知し、
前記中継装置は、前記制御局からの通知に基づいて、干渉波があると判定された分波信号の代りにその分波信号に対応する前記複製信号の帯域の信号を合波する、
ことを特徴とする請求項20に記載の中継システム。 - 前記中継装置は、人工衛星に搭載されることとし、
前記制御局を地上局とする、
ことを特徴とする請求項20または21に記載の中継システム。 - 前記中継システムを、移動体通信システムにおける中継システムとし、
前記制御局を基地局とする、
ことを特徴とする請求項20または21に記載の中継システム。 - 受信信号を所定の帯域幅の分波信号に分波する分波ステップと、
前記分波信号ごとに、前記分波信号の電力値に基づいて干渉波があるか否かを判定する干渉波検出ステップと、
前記干渉波検出ステップで干渉波があると判定した前記分波信号の信号値を所定の値以下の値に変更し、変更後の前記分波信号を出力し、また、干渉波がないと判定した前記分波信号を出力する干渉波抑圧ステップと、
前記干渉波抑圧ステップで出力される信号を合波した合波信号を出力する合波ステップと、
を含むことを特徴とする干渉波抑圧方法。
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