5G Positioning Signal Offloading for Lower-Complexity Base Stations

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Solution Overview

Problem

The high cost and complexity of deploying positioning systems in 5G networks due to the need for numerous high-performance chips in positioning base stations.

Innovation Solution

A positioning system that includes a positioning signal generation server generating time domain oversampled signals, which are then sent to positioning stations, allowing these stations to focus solely on sending the signals without needing to generate them, thereby reducing system complexity and deployment costs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If positioning base stations generate positioning signals using complex coding calculations, then positioning accuracy is improved, but device complexity and deployment cost increase due to requiring high-performance chips

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositioning accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the complex signal generation function from the positioning base station and relocates it to a separate signal generation device. The base station only needs to perform simple signal transmission, while the external device handles the computationally intensive tasks of generating positioning reference signals and calculating positioning information, thereby reducing the base station's device complexity while maintaining positioning accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary signal generation device that acts as a mediator between the positioning base station and the terminal. This intermediary device generates the positioning reference signals and calculates positioning information, allowing the base station to focus solely on signal transmission without requiring high-performance chips for complex calculations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If a large number of positioning base stations with high-performance chips are deployed, then positioning function is achieved, but deployment cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositioning functionVSAvoiddeployment cost
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the expensive high-performance computing requirements from the base station deployment and consolidates them into separate signal generation devices. This allows the use of simpler, lower-cost base stations while maintaining the positioning function through the external generation of positioning reference signals and calculation of positioning information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent makes the signal generation device a universal component that can serve multiple base stations. Instead of each base station requiring its own high-performance chip for signal generation, a single external device can generate positioning reference signals for multiple base stations, reducing the overall deployment cost while maintaining positioning reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Measurement precision

If complex coding calculations are performed at the positioning base station, then positioning measurement is accurate, but the base station requires high-performance chips increasing system cost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositioning measurement accuracyVSAvoidcomputing power resources
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary signal generation device that performs the computationally intensive coding calculations for generating positioning reference signals. This intermediary handles the heavy computational load externally, allowing the base station to perform only simple signal transmission tasks, thereby reducing the computing power resources required at the base station while maintaining positioning measurement accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentEP3819666B1Positioning system, positioning signal generation and sending method, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2025.11.19 ZTE CORP
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AI summary

Disclosed is a positioning system. The positioning system includes a positioning signal generation server and a positioning station. The positioning signal generation server is configured to generate a time domain positioning oversampled signal according to a positioning signal parameter and send the time domain positioning oversampled signal to the positioning station. The positioning station is configured to receive the time domain positioning oversampled signal generated by the positioning signal generation server and send the time domain positioning oversampled signal according to sending time information of a positioning signal. Further provided are a positioning signal generation and sending method and a storage medium.