WO2012109768A1 - Method, radio unit and radio base station for adjusting thresholds for crest factor reduction - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates generally to the field of wireless communication, and particularly to a method and apparatus for adjusting the thresholds for crest factor reduction (CFR) and a radio unit and radio base station associated therewith.
- CFR crest factor reduction
- Downlink transmitted signals are generated by adding up multiple statistically independent signals (for different users and carriers), which lead to high peak to average power ratio (PAR).
- PAR peak to average power ratio
- CFR algorithms are used to reduce PAR of transmitted signal in Radio Unit side.
- Noise shaping and peak cancellation are two CFR algorithms in digital IF (Intermediate Frequency) domain.
- the similarity of the two algorithms is to use cascaded clipping stages to reduce PAR gradually.
- Different clipping stages have different clipping thresholds in order to achieve an optimal EVM (Error Vector Magnitude) result.
- EVM Error Vector Magnitude
- Different sets of clipping thresholds are needed for IF signals that have different PAR values. For example, simulation results show clipping thresholds for multi-stage Noise shaping should follow an arithmetic series in order to achieve the optimal result.
- one set of clipping thresholds will be fixed and applied to respective clipping stages after setup of one configuration, which clipping thresholds are determined in assumption of fixed original PAR and target
- original PAR refers to PAR of signals before clipping, i.e. PAR of signals to be input into clipping stages
- target PAR refers to a target PAR of signals after clipping, i.e. an expected PAR of clipped signals from clipping stages.
- Both original PAR and target PAR are defined at certain probability point of CCDF (Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function) curve.
- CCDF Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function
- the original PAR and the target PAR are in dB and are defined at probability 10 '4 .
- An object of the present invention is to provide an improved method, apparatus, radio unit, and radio unit for adjusting the thresholds for crest factor reduction CFR, which obviates at least the above-mentioned disadvantage.
- the present invention provides a method for adjusting clipping thresholds for Crest Factor Reduction CFR in a radio unit.
- the radio unit comprises one or more clipping stages that apply respective clipping thresholds to clip input signals.
- the method comprises: determining a target threshold for the clipping stages based on a target PAR and amplitudes or powers of the input signals, estimating the direction in which original PAR of the input signals changes by comparing amplitudes of the clipped signals from the clipping stages with the target threshold, and adjusting the clipping thresholds based on the estimated direction.
- RECTIFIED SHEET RULE 91 ISA/CN clipping stages are adjusted to input signals with varying original PAR and may always be tuned to optimal points, signals after clipping have optimal EVM for target PAR.
- the direction is estimated by the following steps: counting the number of clipped samples of the clipped signals of which amplitudes exceed the target threshold for a counting time period, generating a first count value, and if the first count value is higher than a predetermined upper limit, then the direction is estimated as increase, or if the first count value is lower than a predetermined lower limit, then the direction is estimated as decrease.
- the clipping thresholds if the estimated direction is to increase, adjusting the clipping thresholds to clip more signals, or if the estimated direction is to decrease, adjusting the clipping thresholds to clip less signals.
- the adjusted clipping threshold 7%, ' for clipping stage i is calculated as follows:
- 7%, ⁇ is the initial clipping threshold for the clipping stage i
- Astep is the minimal step size for one adjustment
- «, ⁇ is a weighting factor
- PAR t is the target PAR
- PAR 0 is the original PAR
- N is the number of clipping stages in use.
- P RA T is the average power of input signals in digital domain before DAC corresponding to the rated transmit power of the radio unit
- PAR t is the target PAR
- the upper limit and lower limit are set as a function of the duration of the
- the radio unit further comprises one or more measurement stages applying respective measurement thresholds, and in each measurement stage, amplitudes of samples of input signals are compared with the measurement threshold of the measurement stage, and the number of samples of which the amplitudes exceed the measurement threshold during a measuring time period is counted and a second count value is generated.
- the original PAR of the input signals is then estimated based on the second count value, a maximal allowable original PAR of the radio unit and the target PAR, and the number of clipping stages to be used is determined and one or more corresponding clipping stages are selected based on the estimated original PAR, the target PAR and a minimal PAR value for which all clipping stages in the radio unit are needed to guarantee the CFR performance requirement of the radio unit.
- the number of clipping stages may be dynamically controlled to be adaptive to the power or original PAR of the input signals and some clipping stages may be bypassed, the radio unit consumes less power for CFR.
- a measurement threshold for a measurement stages is determined based on a reference PAR assigned to respective measurement stage that is dependent on the maximal original PAR, the target PAR and the total number of measurement stages.
- the initial clipping thresholds for the selected one or more clipping stages are recalculated based on the estimated original PAR and the target PAR.
- the radio unit is of a Frequency Division Duplex system or a Time Division Duplex system
- the input signals are signals to be transmitted in
- the present invention provides an apparatus for adjusting thresholds for Crest Factor Reduction CFR in a radio unit.
- the radio unit comprises one or more clipping stages that apply respective clipping thresholds to clip input signals.
- the apparatus comprises a first determining unit for determining a target threshold for the clipping stages based on a target PAR and amplitudes or powers of the input signals, an estimating unit for estimating the direction in which original PAR of the input signals changes by comparing amplitudes of clipped signals from the clipping stages with the target threshold, and an adjustor for adjusting the clipping thresholds based on the estimated direction.
- the present invention provides a radio unit comprising one or more clipping stages and an apparatus according to the present invention.
- the present invention provides a radio base station comprising a radio unit according to the present invention.
- the present invention is easy to implement and cost little resource, since only several e.g. multipliers, adders, comparators and some control logic etc. are needed.
- Figure 1 schematically illustrates a block diagram of an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 2 schematically illustrates a flow chart of a method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 3 illustrates in more detail a process of dynamic threshold adjustment according to the present invention.
- FIG. 4 schematically illustrates a block diagram of a radio unit comprising an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 5 schematically illustrates a process of dynamic stage control operation according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 6 schematically shows variations of clipping thresholds and clipping stages with different original PAR.
- FIG. 1 schematically illustrates a block diagram of an apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the apparatus 100 is used for adjusting thresholds for clipping stages in a system, like a (Remote ) Radio Unit (R)RU of a Radio Base Station RBS.
- the apparatus 100 comprises a determining unit 110, an estimating unit 120, and an adjustor 130 that are operatively coupled.
- the determining unit 110 determines a target threshold for the clipping stages.
- the target threshold hereinafter refers to an expected clipping threshold when considering all clipping stages as a whole, in other words, the target threshold may be regarded as expected peak
- the determination of the target threshold may be based on a target PAR and the amplitudes or powers of input signals.
- the target PAR is a system requirement that may be different for different systems.
- the target PAR of a system is generally determined by original PAR of input signals, the performances of CFR and power amplifier in the system.
- the target PAR may be calculated as:
- PAR T PAR 0 - APAR, and PAR T ⁇ PAR PA ,
- PAR 0 is original PAR
- PAR T is target PAR
- APAR is the amount of PAR reduced by CFR
- PAR PA is the maximal PAR at which the power amplifier can work with good linearity.
- the amplitudes or powers of input signals may be represented by RMS (Root Mean Square) amplitudes for a set of samples of the input signals.
- the RMS amplitude varies slowly with the power of input signals and may be calculated by means of power meter.
- the determining unit may determine the target threshold Th t as:
- Th A ms - 10
- PAR T is the target PAR in dB
- a RMS is the RMS amplitude of iples of the input signals.
- the amplitudes or powers of input signals may be indicated by P RAT that is the average power of input signals in digital domain before DAC corresponding to the rated transmit power of the system.
- PR A T is the maximal RMS power that corresponds to the maximal RMS amplitude of samples of the input signals.
- the estimating unit 120 estimates the direction in which original PAR (PARo) of the input signals changes by comparing the amplitudes of the clipped signals from clipping stages with the determined target threshold.
- the direction of PAR 0 change indicates whether PAR 0 increases or decreases, which determines whether to modify the clipping thresholds to clip more or less signals. If the direction indicates increase, the clipping thresholds may be modified to clip more signals, or if the direction indicates decrease, the clipping thresholds may be modified to clip less signals.
- the estimating unit 120 may comprise a counter that counts the number of clipped samples that have amplitudes above the target threshold and estimate the direction of original PAR change based on count value of the counter.
- the counting may last for a predetermined counting time period.
- the predetermined counting time period is set at the order of 10ms that is the length of one radio frame for wireless systems like TD-SCDMA, WCDMA and LTE. But as will be appreciated, the counting time period may be set to other values based on required precision of measurement.
- the counter Upon expiration of the predetermined counting time period, the counter generates a count value that is an indicative of the number of clipped samples that exceed the target threshold in the predetermined counting time period.
- the counter may be reset then, or alternatively, the counter may be reset before a new counting time period starts.
- the adjustor 130 then adjusts the clipping thresholds of respective clipping stages based on the estimated direction of original PAR change, e.g. based on the count value from the counter.
- the adjusted clipping thresholds are then sent to respective clipping stages for updating their clipping thresholds. This will make the clipping stages more adaptive to original PAR of input signals and the clipped signals will have optimal EVM for target PAR.
- the apparatus is configured to:
- RECTIFIED SHEET RULE 91 ISA/CN 100 may be implemented in a (remote) radio unit, which radio unit may comprise one or more clipping stages that apply respective clipping thresholds to clip signals.
- the apparatus 100 may perform this dynamic threshold adjustment in a Frequency Divisional Duplex (FDD) system such as GSM, CDMA2000, WCDMA and FDD-LTE, or a Time Divisional Duplex (TDD) system such as TD-SCDMA or TD-LTE.
- FDD Frequency Divisional Duplex
- TDD Time Divisional Duplex
- the dynamic threshold adjustment is only done for downlink time slots. Accordingly, the counting time period should be determined according to the measurement time of downlink slots.
- FIG 2 illustrates a flow chart of a method 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the method 200 is for adjusting clipping thresholds for CFR in a radio unit, which radio unit comprises one or more clipping stages that apply respective clipping thresholds.
- the method 200 may be performed by the apparatus 100 as illustrated in Figure 1.
- a target threshold is determined for the clipping stages based on a target PAR of the radio unit and amplitudes or powers of input signals into the clipping stages. Then, the direction in which original PAR of the input signals changes is estimated by comparing the amplitude of clipped signals with the determined target threshold in step 220. In step 230, the clipping thresholds are adjusted based on the estimated direction. The adjusted clipping thresholds are then applied to respective clipping stages for subsequent clipping.
- Figure 3 illustrate in more detail a process 300 of dynamic threshold adjustment according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a counter is reset before a new counting time period starts, but as will be understood, the counter may be reset at other appropriate time points, e.g. after the counting is over.
- step 320 the amplitudes of clipped samples of clipped signals are determined based on I 2 +Q 2 , here I and Q respectively designate I components and Q components of the clipped signals. If it is determined in
- RECTIFIED SHEET RULE 1 I A/CN step 330 that the amplitude of a clipped sample exceeds the target threshold Th t , e.g. (I 2 +Q 2 ) is larger than (Th t ) 2 , the counter is increased by one in step 340. A predetermined counting time period is monitored to determine whether to end the counting in step 350. If no, the counting will continue. Otherwise, the counting is over and a count value will be generated by the counter to indicate the number of clipped samples that have amplitudes above the target threshold Th t during this counting time period.
- Th t target threshold
- the counter is increased by one in step 340.
- a predetermined counting time period is monitored to determine whether to end the counting in step 350. If no, the counting will continue. Otherwise, the counting is over and a count value will be generated by the counter to indicate the number of clipped samples that have amplitudes above the target threshold Th t during this counting time period.
- the count value is compared with a lower limit and an upper limit in steps 360 and 370, respectively.
- the lower limit and the upper limit defines a range for count values, a count value within this range may indicate that current clipping thresholds are appropriate for respective clipping stages.
- the lower limit (Count ) and the upper limit (Count u ) may preferably be set based on the predetermined counting time period, a rate of the clipped samples and a certain probability point of CCDF curve where the PAR t is defined and measured. For example, Counti and Count u are set using following equations.
- T m duration of the predetermined counting time period
- Fs is the rate of clipped samples
- 10 "4 is the probability point where PAR t is generally defined and measured.
- the clipping thresholds When adjusting the clipping thresholds, if the count value is lower than the lower limit, then the estimated direction of original PAR change is decrease and the clipping thresholds are modified to clip less signals in step 365. If the count value is higher than the upper limit, then the estimated direction of original PAR change is increase and the clipping thresholds are modified to clip more signals in step 375. Otherwise, all clipping thresholds remain unchanged. The modified new clipping
- RECTIFIED SHEET RULE 91 ISA/CN thresholds are used by the clipping stages for subsequent clipping in step 380.
- the clipping thresholds may be adjusted dependent on a step size set for each adjustment and the target PAR (PAR t ).
- the step size for each adjustment may be no more than a pre-defined value, e.g. +/- O. ldB, in order to tune the clipping thresholds with fine resolution.
- the clipping thresholds may be only tunable within a certain range, e.g. 6.0-10.0dB, to guarantee both reasonable EVM and PAR t .
- PAR t may remain unchanged during the adjustment of clipping thresholds.
- the target PAR determines the power amplifier back off point and efficiency
- a fixed target PAR may limit the possibility to increase power amplifier efficiency for signals having low power and low original PAR.
- the target PAR may be changed, e.g. in the same direction as PAR 0 .
- a dynamic PAR t enables to increase power amplifier efficiency when signals with low power or low PAR 0 are to be transmitted. Thus, it is possible to decrease power amplifier back-off and increase power amplifier efficiency.
- the step size may be of a predefined value, or alternatively, the step size may be adaptive.
- the adjusted clipping threshold for clipping stage i may be calculated as follows:
- Th t is the initial clipping threshold upon setup of one configure
- Thi is the adjusted clipping threshold
- Astep is the minimal step size for one adjustment
- n t is a weighting factor
- PAR t is the target PAR
- PAR 0 is the original PAR
- N is the number of clipping stages in use.
- the upper/lower limit for weighting factor n t is ⁇
- RECTIFIED SHEET RULE 91 ISA/CN which makes sure that 7%, is within the range of (3 ⁇ 4; , Th i+1 ).
- the relationship of the resulting count value with the lower and upper limits determines the sign of For example, if the current count value is lower than the lower limit, then the weighting factor n should be positive for one or more clipping stages so as to increase the thresholds to clip less; if the current count value is higher than the upper limit, then n should be minus for one or more clipping stages so as to decrease the thresholds to clip more.
- the proper value of n may be chosen based on the amount that the original PAR changes, e.g. by monitoring the change of the count values, one feasible and easy solution may be to set n at a value randomly selected from the set of ⁇ 0, ⁇ i, ⁇ 2,... , ⁇ [ATh /(2 - Astep) .
- clipping thresholds are adjusted with fine resolution by taking varying original PAR of input signals into account, clipping thresholds can be always tuned to their optimal points, enabling signals after CFR to have an optimal EVM for the target PAR.
- FIG. 4 schematically illustrates a block diagram of a radio unit 400 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the radio unit 400 comprises clipping part 410 that includes a plurality of N clipping stages and an apparatus according to the present invention.
- the apparatus comprises a dynamic threshold adjustment part 420 that may implement a method according to the present invention, e.g. a process as illustrated in Figure 3.
- the apparatus may further comprise a dynamic stage control part 430.
- the introduction of the dynamic stage control is in view of a scenario where the transmit power of (R)RU is backed off from PR A T, which generally means the number of peaks over PAR T is relatively small.
- the first several clipping stages are actually wasting power and contribute little to the overall performance, thus the number of clipping stages may be reduced so as to save the power consumed for CFR.
- the dynamic stage control part 430 comprises a number of
- the number of measurement stages may be determined by the required precision of PAR 0 measurement.
- Each measurement stage comprises a first comparator, a counter and a second comparator that operatively coupled.
- Each measurement stage is assigned to a unique reference PAR (PAR 0 . re ⁇ ) for e.g. evaluating whether the PAR 0 to be measured is around the PAR 0 . ref , and applies a measurement threshold to indicate a peak amplitude corresponding to the PAR 0 . ie ⁇ .
- PAR PAR 0 . re ⁇
- the PAR 0 . re ⁇ assigned to a measurement stage may be determined as shown in Table 1.
- PAR max is the maximal allowable original PAR of the radio unit 400.
- PAR max is generally determined by signals in IF (Inter-Frequency) domain and may vary with different radio access technology.
- the corresponding measurement threshold may be determined as, e.g.
- the method starts in step 510, where the amplitudes of input signals are determined by calculating I 2 +Q 2 for each input complex sample of the input signals.
- the calculated I 2 +Q 2 is input into each of the measurement stages, where the first comparator compares the amplitudes of input signals with a respective measurement threshold Th measure by e.g. comparing I 2 +Q 2 with (Th measure ) 2 in step 520.
- the count values or comparison results of all measurement stages are transferred to the stage number controller 432, where the current PAR 0 is estimated based on these count values or comparison results and PAR 0 . Te ⁇ assigned to respective measurement stages.
- the stage number controller 432 uses a Boolean variable c t to indicate whether the count value exceeds its respective lower limit County. For example, in
- Ci is set to 1 if the count value is higher than the lower limit
- the stage number controller 432 estimates the current PAR 0 based on the sum and the reference PARs assigned to respective measurements stages, and determines the number of clipping stages that are to be used based on the estimated PAR 0 in step 580 .
- the stage number controller 432 selects one or more corresponding clipping stages based on the estimated PAR 0 , and sends corresponding stage On/Off control signals to clipping stages.
- the stage number controller 432 controls to bypass one or more clipping stages if the determined number of clipping stages is lower than the number of clipping stages currently in use.
- current PAR 0 may be estimated as follows:
- the number of clipping stages to be used largely depends on CFR performance and system requirements for PAR 0 .
- CFR performance determines PAR C FR
- PAR CFR is defined as the minimal PAR value for which all clipping stages are needed to work for in order to guarantee a good CFR performance, e.g. to meet a EVM requirement of the radio unit.
- RECT Table 2 shows an example of selection of the number of clipping stages to be used based on the estimated PAR 0 .
- N is the total number of clipping stages in the system, e.g. the radio unit.
- At least one clipping stage should be used even if PAR 0 is smaller than PAR t .
- the clipping stage will be bypassed in an order from CS1 to CS N-l .
- the first stage is bypassed. If one clipping stage is needed, only the last stage works.
- the stage number controller 432 also outputs the estimated PAR 0 and information about the determined number of clipping stages to the dynamic threshold adjustment part 420, where they are used to e.g. recalculate the initial clipping thresholds for the selected clipping stages to be used if the determined number changes. As an alternative, this recalculation may be done by the stage number controller 432.
- the initial clipping thresholds may be calculated as follows:
- ATh f(PAR t ,PAR o N')
- the estimated PAR 0 may also be used to estimating the direction of the original PAR change. In case of a coarse estimation of PAR 0 , the fine tuning of clipping thresholds is still done by
- a radio unit employing such a dynamic stage control can work for high power and original PAR signals with full performance on one hand, and work for low power or low original PAR signals with reduced power on the other hand.
- a power saving ratio of (N-l)/N will be achieved depending on the PAR 0 measurement of input signal, when there are N clipping stages in total and up to N-l clipping stages are determined to be bypassed for low power or low original PAR signals.
- Figure 6 shows the changes of clipping thresholds and clipping stages with varying PAR 0 values of input signals when implementing the present invention.
- the number of clipping stages is illustrated as 6. But as will be appreciated, the number of clipping stages may be other numbers.
- the line denoted by PAR o2 indicates an initial state of clipping thresholds for respective clipping stages (Th l 5 Th 2 , ... Th 6 ) when PAR 0 of the input signals is PAR o2 .
- PAR 0 increases to PAR 0 ⁇ and becomes larger than PAR o2
- clipping thresholds Thi, Th 2 , ... Th 6 are modified (as the solid line denoted by PAR o shows) to clip more signals in order to keep the target PAR, unchanged; when PAR 0 decrease to PAR o3 , and becomes smaller than PAR o2 , Th 1 ? Th 2 , ... Th 6 are modified to clip less signals (as the dash line denoted by PAR o3 shows), so as to get a better EVM result.
- PAR 0 drops to a very low level as shown by PAR o4 , the first three clipping stages are bypassed, which will save 50% power of CFR block.
- the present invention may be embodied as a method, apparatus, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc.) or an
- RECTIFIED SHEET RULE 91 ISA/CN embodiment combining software and hardware aspects that may all generally be referred to herein as a "circuit,” “module” or “system.”
- the present invention may take the form of a computer program product on a computer-usable storage medium having computer-usable program code embodied in the medium.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to clipping thresholds adjustment for Crest Factor Reduction CFR in a radio unit, wherein the radio unit comprises one or more clipping stages that apply respective clipping thresholds to clip input signals, comprising: determining a target threshold for the clipping stages based on a target PAR and the amplitudes or powers of the input signals, estimating the direction in which original PAR of the input signals changes by comparing amplitudes of the clipped signals from the clipping stages with the target threshold, and adjusting the clipping thresholds based on the estimated direction. The present invention also relates to dynamic stage control. With the present invention, clipping thresholds and clipping stages are adaptively changes with dynamic original PAR of input signals and the efficiency of power amplifier is increased with a low implementation cost.
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METHOD, RADIO UNIT AND RADIO BASE STATION FOR ADJUSTING THRESHOLDS FOR CREST FACTOR REDUCTION
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates generally to the field of wireless communication, and particularly to a method and apparatus for adjusting the thresholds for crest factor reduction (CFR) and a radio unit and radio base station associated therewith.
BACKGROUND
In modern communication systems, high order modulations like 16QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) and 64QAM are adopted. Downlink transmitted signals are generated by adding up multiple statistically independent signals (for different users and carriers), which lead to high peak to average power ratio (PAR).
In order to increase power amplifier efficiency and to better utilize DAC (Digital Analog Converter) dynamic range, many CFR algorithms are used to reduce PAR of transmitted signal in Radio Unit side. Noise shaping and peak cancellation are two CFR algorithms in digital IF (Intermediate Frequency) domain. The similarity of the two algorithms is to use cascaded clipping stages to reduce PAR gradually. Different clipping stages have different clipping thresholds in order to achieve an optimal EVM (Error Vector Magnitude) result. Different sets of clipping thresholds are needed for IF signals that have different PAR values. For example, simulation results show clipping thresholds for multi-stage Noise shaping should follow an arithmetic series in order to achieve the optimal result.
Currently, one set of clipping thresholds will be fixed and applied to respective clipping stages after setup of one configuration, which clipping thresholds are determined in assumption of fixed original PAR and target
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PAR values for signals to be transmitted. Hereinafter, original PAR refers to PAR of signals before clipping, i.e. PAR of signals to be input into clipping stages, while target PAR refers to a target PAR of signals after clipping, i.e. an expected PAR of clipped signals from clipping stages. Both original PAR and target PAR are defined at certain probability point of CCDF (Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function) curve. Generally, the original PAR and the target PAR are in dB and are defined at probability 10'4.
However, due to changes of factors like carriers, the number of users and modulation types (QPSK, 16QAM or 64QAM), said original PAR after carrier combination will change. In this case, problem will arise with fixed clipping thresholds, since fixed thresholds will not adapt to change of original PAR, and then such a solution will not be an optimal solution for the balance between PAR reduction and EVM.
SUMMARY
An object of the present invention is to provide an improved method, apparatus, radio unit, and radio unit for adjusting the thresholds for crest factor reduction CFR, which obviates at least the above-mentioned disadvantage.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a method for adjusting clipping thresholds for Crest Factor Reduction CFR in a radio unit. The radio unit comprises one or more clipping stages that apply respective clipping thresholds to clip input signals. The method comprises: determining a target threshold for the clipping stages based on a target PAR and amplitudes or powers of the input signals, estimating the direction in which original PAR of the input signals changes by comparing amplitudes of the clipped signals from the clipping stages with the target threshold, and adjusting the clipping thresholds based on the estimated direction.
According to the present invention, since clipping thresholds of
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clipping stages are adjusted to input signals with varying original PAR and may always be tuned to optimal points, signals after clipping have optimal EVM for target PAR.
Preferably, according to one embodiment of the present invention, the direction is estimated by the following steps: counting the number of clipped samples of the clipped signals of which amplitudes exceed the target threshold for a counting time period, generating a first count value, and if the first count value is higher than a predetermined upper limit, then the direction is estimated as increase, or if the first count value is lower than a predetermined lower limit, then the direction is estimated as decrease.
Preferably, according to another embodiment of the present invention, if the estimated direction is to increase, adjusting the clipping thresholds to clip more signals, or if the estimated direction is to decrease, adjusting the clipping thresholds to clip less signals.
Preferably, the adjusted clipping threshold 7%, ' for clipping stage i is calculated as follows:
Tti. = 7¾. + n. · Astep, where i = l to N
Astep = O.ldB
ATh = Thi - ThM = /(PAR, , PARo , N)
where 7%,· is the initial clipping threshold for the clipping stage i, Astep is the minimal step size for one adjustment, «,· is a weighting factor, PARt is the target PAR, PAR0 is the original PAR, and N is the number of clipping stages in use.
wherein PRA T is the average power of input signals in digital domain before DAC corresponding to the rated transmit power of the radio unit, and PARt is the target PAR.
Preferably, according to another embodiment of the present invention, the upper limit and lower limit are set as a function of the duration of the
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counting time period, a rate of the samples and a probability point of Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function curve where the target PAR is defined and measured.
Preferably, according to another embodiment of the present invention, the radio unit further comprises one or more measurement stages applying respective measurement thresholds, and in each measurement stage, amplitudes of samples of input signals are compared with the measurement threshold of the measurement stage, and the number of samples of which the amplitudes exceed the measurement threshold during a measuring time period is counted and a second count value is generated. The original PAR of the input signals is then estimated based on the second count value, a maximal allowable original PAR of the radio unit and the target PAR, and the number of clipping stages to be used is determined and one or more corresponding clipping stages are selected based on the estimated original PAR, the target PAR and a minimal PAR value for which all clipping stages in the radio unit are needed to guarantee the CFR performance requirement of the radio unit.
Since according to the present invention, the number of clipping stages may be dynamically controlled to be adaptive to the power or original PAR of the input signals and some clipping stages may be bypassed, the radio unit consumes less power for CFR.
Preferably, a measurement threshold for a measurement stages is determined based on a reference PAR assigned to respective measurement stage that is dependent on the maximal original PAR, the target PAR and the total number of measurement stages.
Preferably, if the number of selected clipping stages is changed, the initial clipping thresholds for the selected one or more clipping stages are recalculated based on the estimated original PAR and the target PAR.
Preferably, according to one embodiment of the present invention, the radio unit is of a Frequency Division Duplex system or a Time Division Duplex system, and the input signals are signals to be transmitted in
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downlink time slots when in a Time Division Duplex system.
According to a second aspect, the present invention provides an apparatus for adjusting thresholds for Crest Factor Reduction CFR in a radio unit. The radio unit comprises one or more clipping stages that apply respective clipping thresholds to clip input signals. The apparatus comprises a first determining unit for determining a target threshold for the clipping stages based on a target PAR and amplitudes or powers of the input signals, an estimating unit for estimating the direction in which original PAR of the input signals changes by comparing amplitudes of clipped signals from the clipping stages with the target threshold, and an adjustor for adjusting the clipping thresholds based on the estimated direction.
According to a third aspect, the present invention provides a radio unit comprising one or more clipping stages and an apparatus according to the present invention.
According to a fourth aspect, the present invention provides a radio base station comprising a radio unit according to the present invention.
The present invention is easy to implement and cost little resource, since only several e.g. multipliers, adders, comparators and some control logic etc. are needed.
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The foregoing and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments and accompany drawings.
Figure 1 schematically illustrates a block diagram of an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 2 schematically illustrates a flow chart of a method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 3 illustrates in more detail a process of dynamic threshold adjustment according to the present invention.
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Figure 4 schematically illustrates a block diagram of a radio unit comprising an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 5 schematically illustrates a process of dynamic stage control operation according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 6 schematically shows variations of clipping thresholds and clipping stages with different original PAR.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
In the following description, for purposes of explanation rather than limitation, specific details, such as the particular architecture, interfaces, techniques, etc., are set forth for illustration. However, it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that other embodiments that depart from these specific details would still be understood to be within the scope of the present invention. Moreover, for the purpose of clarity, detailed descriptions of well-known devices, circuits, and methods are omitted so as not to obscure the description of the present invention. It should be expressly understood that the drawings are included for illustrative purposes and do not represent the scope of the present invention. In the accompanying drawings, like reference numbers in different drawings may designate similar elements.
Figure 1 schematically illustrates a block diagram of an apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The apparatus 100 is used for adjusting thresholds for clipping stages in a system, like a (Remote ) Radio Unit (R)RU of a Radio Base Station RBS. As shown in Figure 1 , the apparatus 100 comprises a determining unit 110, an estimating unit 120, and an adjustor 130 that are operatively coupled.
The determining unit 110 determines a target threshold for the clipping stages. The target threshold hereinafter refers to an expected clipping threshold when considering all clipping stages as a whole, in other words, the target threshold may be regarded as expected peak
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amplitude of clipped signals output from the clipping stages. The determination of the target threshold may be based on a target PAR and the amplitudes or powers of input signals.
As is known, the target PAR is a system requirement that may be different for different systems. The target PAR of a system is generally determined by original PAR of input signals, the performances of CFR and power amplifier in the system. For example, the target PAR may be calculated as:
PART= PAR0 - APAR, and PART < PARPA ,
where PAR0 is original PAR, PART is target PAR, APAR is the amount of PAR reduced by CFR, and PARPA is the maximal PAR at which the power amplifier can work with good linearity.
The amplitudes or powers of input signals may be represented by RMS (Root Mean Square) amplitudes for a set of samples of the input signals. The RMS amplitude varies slowly with the power of input signals and may be calculated by means of power meter. Then, preferably, the determining unit may determine the target threshold Tht as:
PAR,
Th = Ams - 10
Here, PART is the target PAR in dB, and ARMS is the RMS amplitude of iples of the input signals. ARMS for a set of amplitude samples {A0, A],
Or alternatively, the amplitudes or powers of input signals may be indicated by PRAT that is the average power of input signals in digital domain before DAC corresponding to the rated transmit power of the system. PRAT is the maximal RMS power that corresponds to the maximal RMS amplitude of samples of the input signals. Then, the target threshold Tht ined by:
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The estimating unit 120 estimates the direction in which original PAR (PARo) of the input signals changes by comparing the amplitudes of the clipped signals from clipping stages with the determined target threshold. The direction of PAR0 change indicates whether PAR0 increases or decreases, which determines whether to modify the clipping thresholds to clip more or less signals. If the direction indicates increase, the clipping thresholds may be modified to clip more signals, or if the direction indicates decrease, the clipping thresholds may be modified to clip less signals.
Preferably, the estimating unit 120 may comprise a counter that counts the number of clipped samples that have amplitudes above the target threshold and estimate the direction of original PAR change based on count value of the counter. The counting may last for a predetermined counting time period. Preferably, the predetermined counting time period is set at the order of 10ms that is the length of one radio frame for wireless systems like TD-SCDMA, WCDMA and LTE. But as will be appreciated, the counting time period may be set to other values based on required precision of measurement.
Upon expiration of the predetermined counting time period, the counter generates a count value that is an indicative of the number of clipped samples that exceed the target threshold in the predetermined counting time period. The counter may be reset then, or alternatively, the counter may be reset before a new counting time period starts.
The adjustor 130 then adjusts the clipping thresholds of respective clipping stages based on the estimated direction of original PAR change, e.g. based on the count value from the counter. The adjusted clipping thresholds are then sent to respective clipping stages for updating their clipping thresholds. This will make the clipping stages more adaptive to original PAR of input signals and the clipped signals will have optimal EVM for target PAR.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, the apparatus
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100 may be implemented in a (remote) radio unit, which radio unit may comprise one or more clipping stages that apply respective clipping thresholds to clip signals. The apparatus 100 may perform this dynamic threshold adjustment in a Frequency Divisional Duplex (FDD) system such as GSM, CDMA2000, WCDMA and FDD-LTE, or a Time Divisional Duplex (TDD) system such as TD-SCDMA or TD-LTE. When in a TDD system, the dynamic threshold adjustment is only done for downlink time slots. Accordingly, the counting time period should be determined according to the measurement time of downlink slots.
Figure 2 illustrates a flow chart of a method 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The method 200 is for adjusting clipping thresholds for CFR in a radio unit, which radio unit comprises one or more clipping stages that apply respective clipping thresholds. The method 200 may be performed by the apparatus 100 as illustrated in Figure 1.
As shown in Figure 2, in step 210, a target threshold is determined for the clipping stages based on a target PAR of the radio unit and amplitudes or powers of input signals into the clipping stages. Then, the direction in which original PAR of the input signals changes is estimated by comparing the amplitude of clipped signals with the determined target threshold in step 220. In step 230, the clipping thresholds are adjusted based on the estimated direction. The adjusted clipping thresholds are then applied to respective clipping stages for subsequent clipping.
Figure 3 illustrate in more detail a process 300 of dynamic threshold adjustment according to an embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in Figure 3, in step 310, a counter is reset before a new counting time period starts, but as will be understood, the counter may be reset at other appropriate time points, e.g. after the counting is over.
In step 320, the amplitudes of clipped samples of clipped signals are determined based on I2+Q2, here I and Q respectively designate I components and Q components of the clipped signals. If it is determined in
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step 330 that the amplitude of a clipped sample exceeds the target threshold Tht, e.g. (I2+Q2) is larger than (Tht)2, the counter is increased by one in step 340. A predetermined counting time period is monitored to determine whether to end the counting in step 350. If no, the counting will continue. Otherwise, the counting is over and a count value will be generated by the counter to indicate the number of clipped samples that have amplitudes above the target threshold Tht during this counting time period.
In order to estimate the direction in which the original PAR changes, according to one embodiment of the present invention, the count value is compared with a lower limit and an upper limit in steps 360 and 370, respectively. The lower limit and the upper limit defines a range for count values, a count value within this range may indicate that current clipping thresholds are appropriate for respective clipping stages.
The lower limit (Count ) and the upper limit (Countu) may preferably be set based on the predetermined counting time period, a rate of the clipped samples and a certain probability point of CCDF curve where the PARt is defined and measured. For example, Counti and Countu are set using following equations.
Count t = [τ„ x /¾ x l(T* J
Count u = 2 x Count/
where Tm is duration of the predetermined counting time period, Fs is the rate of clipped samples, 10"4 is the probability point where PARt is generally defined and measured.
When adjusting the clipping thresholds, if the count value is lower than the lower limit, then the estimated direction of original PAR change is decrease and the clipping thresholds are modified to clip less signals in step 365. If the count value is higher than the upper limit, then the estimated direction of original PAR change is increase and the clipping thresholds are modified to clip more signals in step 375. Otherwise, all clipping thresholds remain unchanged. The modified new clipping
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thresholds are used by the clipping stages for subsequent clipping in step 380.
There are many ways to recalculate the adjusted clipping thresholds for respective clipping stages. According to one embodiment, the clipping thresholds may be adjusted dependent on a step size set for each adjustment and the target PAR (PARt).
The step size for each adjustment may be no more than a pre-defined value, e.g. +/- O. ldB, in order to tune the clipping thresholds with fine resolution. Moreover, preferably, the clipping thresholds may be only tunable within a certain range, e.g. 6.0-10.0dB, to guarantee both reasonable EVM and PARt. PARt may remain unchanged during the adjustment of clipping thresholds. However, since the target PAR determines the power amplifier back off point and efficiency, a fixed target PAR may limit the possibility to increase power amplifier efficiency for signals having low power and low original PAR. Then, alternatively, the target PAR may be changed, e.g. in the same direction as PAR0. A dynamic PARt enables to increase power amplifier efficiency when signals with low power or low PAR0 are to be transmitted. Thus, it is possible to decrease power amplifier back-off and increase power amplifier efficiency.
The step size may be of a predefined value, or alternatively, the step size may be adaptive. As an example, the adjusted clipping threshold for clipping stage i may be calculated as follows:
77i;. = Tht + nt · Astep, where i = 1 to N
Astep = O.ldB
/I, e {0,± l,± 2,...,±[ATh /(2 - Astep)
ATh = Thi - Thi+1 = f(P ARt , PARo , N)
where Tht is the initial clipping threshold upon setup of one configure, Thi is the adjusted clipping threshold, Astep is the minimal step size for one adjustment, nt is a weighting factor, PARt is the target PAR, PAR0 is the original PAR, and N is the number of clipping stages in use.
The upper/lower limit for weighting factor nt is ± |_Δ7¾ /(2 · Astep)} ,
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which makes sure that 7%, is within the range of (¾; , Thi+1 ). The relationship of the resulting count value with the lower and upper limits determines the sign of For example, if the current count value is lower than the lower limit, then the weighting factor n should be positive for one or more clipping stages so as to increase the thresholds to clip less; if the current count value is higher than the upper limit, then n should be minus for one or more clipping stages so as to decrease the thresholds to clip more. Though the proper value of n may be chosen based on the amount that the original PAR changes, e.g. by monitoring the change of the count values, one feasible and easy solution may be to set n at a value randomly selected from the set of {0,± i, ± 2,... ,±[ATh /(2 - Astep) .
According to the present invention, since clipping thresholds are adjusted with fine resolution by taking varying original PAR of input signals into account, clipping thresholds can be always tuned to their optimal points, enabling signals after CFR to have an optimal EVM for the target PAR.
Figure 4 schematically illustrates a block diagram of a radio unit 400 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The radio unit 400 comprises clipping part 410 that includes a plurality of N clipping stages and an apparatus according to the present invention.
As shown in Figure 4, the apparatus comprises a dynamic threshold adjustment part 420 that may implement a method according to the present invention, e.g. a process as illustrated in Figure 3. Preferably, the apparatus may further comprise a dynamic stage control part 430.
The introduction of the dynamic stage control is in view of a scenario where the transmit power of (R)RU is backed off from PRAT, which generally means the number of peaks over PART is relatively small. In this scenario, the first several clipping stages are actually wasting power and contribute little to the overall performance, thus the number of clipping stages may be reduced so as to save the power consumed for CFR.
The dynamic stage control part 430 comprises a number of
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measurement stages 431 , e.g. MS 1 to MS M as shown in Figure 4, for measuring the original PAR, i.e. PAR0, of input signals, and a stage number controller 432.
The number of measurement stages may be determined by the required precision of PAR0 measurement. Each measurement stage comprises a first comparator, a counter and a second comparator that operatively coupled. Each measurement stage is assigned to a unique reference PAR (PAR0.re{) for e.g. evaluating whether the PAR0 to be measured is around the PAR0.ref, and applies a measurement threshold to indicate a peak amplitude corresponding to the PAR0.ie{. For each measurement stage, its measurement threshold is also unique.
According to an embodiment, the PAR0.re{ assigned to a measurement stage may be determined as shown in Table 1.
Table l
Where PARmax is the maximal allowable original PAR of the radio unit 400. PARmax is generally determined by signals in IF (Inter-Frequency) domain and may vary with different radio access technology.
Accordingly, the corresponding measurement threshold may be determined as, e.g.
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In the following, the operation of the dynamic stage control part 430 will be explained in connection with figure 5 that illustrates a process of dynamic stage control operation according to an embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in Figure 5, after the counter is reset, the method starts in step 510, where the amplitudes of input signals are determined by calculating I2+Q2 for each input complex sample of the input signals. The calculated I2+Q2 is input into each of the measurement stages, where the first comparator compares the amplitudes of input signals with a respective measurement threshold Thmeasure by e.g. comparing I2+Q2 with (Thmeasure)2 in step 520.
If the result of I +Q exceeds the square of the measurement threshold, which means that the amplitude of the sample exceeds the measurement threshold, the counter is increased by one in step 530. Whether the measurement is over is determined in step 540 by monitoring a measuring time period. If the measuring time period expires, the measurement is over and the counter generates a corresponding count value. This count value is compared in the second comparator with a predetermined value, e.g. a lower limit County that may be calculated as above, i.e. Countl = \ Tm x s x l(T4J, in step 550. If the count value exceeds the lower limit
(Counti), then it may mean current PAR0 of input signal is larger than the
PAR0.re{ assigned to this measurement stage; otherwise the current PAR0 is smaller than or equal to the PAR0.Tef.
The count values or comparison results of all measurement stages are transferred to the stage number controller 432, where the current PAR0 is estimated based on these count values or comparison results and PAR0.Te{ assigned to respective measurement stages.
There are many ways to estimate the current PAR0. According to an embodiment of the present invention, for each measurement stage i, the stage number controller 432 uses a Boolean variable ct to indicate whether the count value exceeds its respective lower limit County. For example, in
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step 560, Ci is set to 1 if the count value is higher than the lower limit
Count , otherwise ct is set to 0, that is,
1 1, if count value > Count u
[0, if count value≤ Count u
The Boolean variables for all measurement stages, e.g. from 1 to M,
M
are summed as c Sum =∑c, in step 570. The stage number controller 432 i
estimates the current PAR0 based on the sum and the reference PARs assigned to respective measurements stages, and determines the number of clipping stages that are to be used based on the estimated PAR0 in step 580 . The stage number controller 432 then selects one or more corresponding clipping stages based on the estimated PAR0, and sends corresponding stage On/Off control signals to clipping stages. The stage number controller 432 controls to bypass one or more clipping stages if the determined number of clipping stages is lower than the number of clipping stages currently in use.
According to an embodiment, current PAR0 may be estimated as follows:
The number of clipping stages to be used largely depends on CFR performance and system requirements for PAR0. Here CFR performance determines PARCFR while PARCFR is defined as the minimal PAR value for which all clipping stages are needed to work for in order to guarantee a good CFR performance, e.g. to meet a EVM requirement of the radio unit.
The better the performance is, the larger PARCFR can be set.
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Table 2 shows an example of selection of the number of clipping stages to be used based on the estimated PAR0.
Where N is the total number of clipping stages in the system, e.g. the radio unit.
Preferably, as shown in table 2, in order to protect the power amplifier in e.g. (R)RU of RBS system from great PAR0 change (for example, huge PAR0 change from low to high), at least one clipping stage should be used even if PAR0 is smaller than PARt.
Preferably, the clipping stage will be bypassed in an order from CS1 to CS N-l . For example, if N-l clipping stages are needed, the first stage is bypassed. If one clipping stage is needed, only the last stage works.
Preferably, the stage number controller 432 also outputs the estimated PAR0 and information about the determined number of clipping stages to the dynamic threshold adjustment part 420, where they are used to e.g. recalculate the initial clipping thresholds for the selected clipping stages to be used if the determined number changes. As an alternative, this recalculation may be done by the stage number controller 432.
As an example, the initial clipping thresholds may be calculated as follows:
Th, = PAR '-ATh
Thi+I = Tht - ATh, where i = l to N'-l
ATh = f(PARt,PARo N')
According to an embodiment, the estimated PAR0 may also be used to estimating the direction of the original PAR change. In case of a coarse estimation of PAR0, the fine tuning of clipping thresholds is still done by
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the dynamic threshold adjustment part 420.
Since dynamic stage control enables to dynamically change the number of clipping stages according to the power or original PAR of input signals, a radio unit employing such a dynamic stage control can work for high power and original PAR signals with full performance on one hand, and work for low power or low original PAR signals with reduced power on the other hand. As an example, depending on the PAR0 measurement of input signal, when there are N clipping stages in total and up to N-l clipping stages are determined to be bypassed for low power or low original PAR signals, a power saving ratio of (N-l)/N will be achieved.
Figure 6 shows the changes of clipping thresholds and clipping stages with varying PAR0 values of input signals when implementing the present invention. For the sake of simplicity, in Figure 6, the number of clipping stages is illustrated as 6. But as will be appreciated, the number of clipping stages may be other numbers.
As shown in Figure 6, the line denoted by PARo2 indicates an initial state of clipping thresholds for respective clipping stages (Thl 5 Th2, ... Th6) when PAR0 of the input signals is PARo2. When PAR0 increases to PAR0\ and becomes larger than PARo2, clipping thresholds Thi, Th2, ... Th6 are modified (as the solid line denoted by PARo shows) to clip more signals in order to keep the target PAR, unchanged; when PAR0 decrease to PARo3, and becomes smaller than PARo2 , Th1 ? Th2, ... Th6 are modified to clip less signals (as the dash line denoted by PARo3 shows), so as to get a better EVM result. When PAR0 drops to a very low level as shown by PARo4, the first three clipping stages are bypassed, which will save 50% power of CFR block.
As will be appreciated by one of skill in the art, the present invention may be embodied as a method, apparatus, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc.) or an
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embodiment combining software and hardware aspects that may all generally be referred to herein as a "circuit," "module" or "system." Furthermore, the present invention may take the form of a computer program product on a computer-usable storage medium having computer-usable program code embodied in the medium.
The present invention has been described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems) and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each block of the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
Although specific embodiments have been illustrated and described herein, those of ordinary skill in the art appreciate that any arrangement which is calculated to achieve the same purpose may be substituted for the specific embodiments shown and that the invention has other applications in other environments. This application is intended to cover any adaptations or variations of the present invention. The following claims are in no way intended to limit the scope of the invention to the specific embodiments described herein.
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Claims
1. A method for adjusting clipping thresholds for Crest Factor Reduction CFR in a radio unit, wherein the radio unit comprises one or more clipping stages that apply respective clipping thresholds to clip input signals, the method comprising:
determining a target threshold for the clipping stages based on a target Peak to Average power Ration PAR and amplitudes or powers of the input signals (210),
estimating the direction in which original PAR of the input signals changes by comparing amplitudes of the clipped signals from the clipping stages with the target threshold (220), and
adjusting the clipping thresholds based on the estimated direction (230).
2. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of estimating comprising counting the number of clipped samples of the clipped signals of which amplitudes exceed the target threshold for a counting time period and generating a first count value, and if the first count value is higher than a predetermined upper limit, then the direction is estimated as increase, or if the first count value is lower than a predetermined lower limit, then the direction is estimated as decrease.
3. A method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the step of adjusting comprising: if the estimated direction is to increase, adjusting the clipping thresholds to clip more signals, or if the estimated direction is to decrease, adjusting the clipping thresholds to clip less signals.
4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the adjusted clipping threshold Th for clipping stage i is calculated as follows:
Τ { - Thi + ni · Astep, where i = l to N
Astep = 0.1 dB
n. e {0 + 1,± 2,...,±[ATh /(2■ Astep)
ATh = Thi - Thi+! = /{PAR, , PARo , N) where Th{ is the initial clipping threshold for the clipping stage' /,'
Astep is the minimal step size for one adjustment, rii is a weighting factor,
PARt is the target PAR, PAR0 is the original PAR, and N is the number of clipping stages in use.
5. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the target threshold 7%, is determined as:
6. A method according to claim 2, wherein the upper limit and lower limit are set as a function of the duration of the counting time period, a rate of the samples and a probability point of Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function curve where the target PAR is defined and measured.
7. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the radio unit further comprises one or more measurement stages applying respective measurement thresholds, the method comprising:
for each measurement stage,
comparing amplitudes of samples of input signals with the measurement threshold of the measurement stage, and
counting the number of samples of which the amplitudes exceed the measurement threshold during a measuring time period and generating a second count value,
the method further comprising:
estimating the original PAR of the input signals based on the second count value, a maximal allowable original PAR of the radio unit and the target PAR, and
determining the number of clipping stages to be used and selecting one or more corresponding clipping stages based on the estimated original PAR, the target PAR and a minimal PAR value for which all clipping stages in the radio unit are needed to guarantee the CFR performance requirement of the radio unit.
8. A method according to claim 7, wherein a measurement threshold for a measurement stage is determined based on a reference PAR assigned to the measurement stage that is dependent on the maximal allowable original PAR, the target PAR and the total number of measurement stages.
9. A method according to claim 7, wherein the step of adjusting comprising: if the determined number of clipping stages is changed, recalculating the initial clipping thresholds for the selected one or more clipping stages based on the estimated original PAR and the target PAR.
10. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the radio unit is of a Frequency Division Duplex system or a Time Division Duplex system, and the input signals are signals to be transmitted in downlink time slots when in a Time Division Duplex system.
11. An apparatus (100) for adjusting thresholds for Crest Factor Reduction CFR in a radio unit, wherein the radio unit comprises one or more clipping stages that apply respective clipping thresholds to clip input signals, wherein the apparatus comprising:
a first determining unit (110) for determining a target threshold for the clipping stages based on a target Peak to Average power Ration PAR and amplitudes or powers of the input signals,
an estimating unit (120) for estimating the direction in which original PAR of the input signals changes by comparing amplitudes of clipped signals from the clipping stages with the target threshold, and
an adjustor (130) for adjusting the clipping thresholds based on the estimated direction.
12. An apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the estimating unit comprises a first counter for counting the number of clipped samples of the clipped signals of which amplitudes exceed the target threshold for a counting time period and generating a first count value, and the estimating unit is configured to estimate the direction as increase if the first count value is higher than a predetermined upper limit, and estimate the direction as decrease if the first count value is lower than a predetermined lower limit.
13. An apparatus according to claim 11 or 12, wherein the adjustor is configured to adjust the clipping thresholds to clip more signals if the estimated direction is increase, and adjust to clip less signals if the estimated direction is decrease.
14. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the adjusted clipping threshold 7%,· ' for clipping stage i is calculated as follows:
7¾ = Th. + ni ■ Astep, where i = 1 to N
Astep = 0.1dB
ni€ {0,± 1,± 2,...,±[ATh 1(2■ Astep)§
ATh = 7%,. - ThM = f(PAR„ PARo , N) where Tht is the initial clipping threshold for the clipping stage i,
Astep is the minimal step size for one adjustment, rii is a weighting factor, PART is the target PAR, PAR0 is the original PAR, and N is the number of clipping stages in use.
16. An apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the upper limit and lower limit are set as a function of the duration of the counting time period, a rate of the samples and a probability point of Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function curve where the target PAR is defined and measured.
17. An apparatus according to claim 11 , further comprising one or more measurement stages (431 ) applying respective measurement thresholds, each of the measurement stages comprising: a comparator for comparing amplitudes of samples of input signals with the measurement threshold of the measurement stage, and
a second counter for counting samples of which the amplitudes exceed the measurement threshold for a measuring time period and generating a second count value
the apparatus further comprising:
a stage number controller (432) for estimating the original PAR of the input signals based on the second count value, a maximal allowable original PAR of the radio unit and the target PAR, and determining the number of clipping stages to be used and selecting one or more corresponding clipping stages based on the estimated original PAR, the target PAR and a minimal PAR value for which all clipping stages in the radio unit are needed to guarantee the CFR performance requirement of the radio unit.
18. An apparatus according to claim 17, wherein a measurement threshold for a measurement stage is determined based on a reference PAR assigned to the measurement stage that is dependent on the maximal allowable original PAR, the target PAR and the total number of measurement stages.
19. An apparatus of claim 17, wherein the adjuster is configured to recalculate the initial clipping thresholds for the selected one or more clipping stages based on the estimated original PAR and the target PAR if the determined number of clipping stages is changed.
20. An apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the radio unit is of a Frequency Division Duplex system or a Time Division Duplex system, and the input signals are signals to be transmitted in downlink time slots when in a Time Division Duplex system.
21. A radio unit (400) comprising one or more clipping stages (410) and an apparatus according to claims 1 1 or 17.
22. A radio base station comprising a radio unit according to claim 21.
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