Digital Fronthaul Microwave Transmission with Pilot Interleaving

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative Solutions
Generate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

In distributed base stations, the quality of radio signal information transmitted via microwave channels is degraded due to multipath, phase noise, frequency offset, and I/Q imbalance, making it difficult to compensate using channel parameters from common information, thereby degrading system performance.

Innovation Solution

A digital fronthaul data transmission method where a microwave air interface frame is generated in a time division multiplexing manner, with common information and radio signal information encapsulated and a pilot included in a microwave overhead, allowing for channel damage compensation using estimated microwave channel parameters.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If frequency division multiplexing is used to transmit common information and radio signal information on separate microwave channels, then both types of information can be transmitted simultaneously, but channel damage compensation becomes difficult because different microwave channels experience different damage

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransmission capacityVSAvoidchannel damage compensation capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges common information and radio signal information into a single microwave carrier for transmission. By combining these previously separate channels into one unified transmission medium, the system ensures that both types of information experience identical channel conditions, enabling effective damage compensation using channel parameters derived from common information to restore radio signal information quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent makes a single microwave carrier serve multiple functions by simultaneously carrying both common information and radio signal information. This multi-functional approach allows the system to use the same transmission channel for different types of data, ensuring uniform channel characteristics and enabling cross-information compensation strategies.

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

2Reliability

If separate microwave channels are used for common information and radio signal information, then channel damage can be independently managed, but hardware complexity and costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveindependent channel managementVSAvoidhardware complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent reduces hardware complexity by merging separate transmission channels into a single microwave carrier. This consolidation eliminates the need for multiple independent channel management systems, reducing hardware requirements while maintaining the ability to manage different information types through software-based multiplexing and demultiplexing operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentEP3294001B1Digital fronthaul data transmission method, device and system
Publication Date: 2021.05.05 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
  • EP3294001B1 patent drawingFigure 1~3
  • EP3294001B1 patent drawingFigure 4
  • EP3294001B1 patent drawingFigure 5~6

AI summary

The present invention discloses a digital fronthaul data transmission method, device, and system, which relate to the communications field and improve system performance of a distributed base station. A specific solution is: a first microwave device receives digital fronthaul data; obtains common information and radio signal information from the digital fronthaul data; performs digital QAM on the common information to obtain I/Q data of the common information; generates a microwave air interface frame in a time division multiplexing manner based on the radio signal information and the I/Q data of the common information, where the radio signal information and the I/Q data of the common information are encapsulated in a payload area of the microwave air interface frame, and a pilot in a microwave overhead and the payload area are arranged at a preset interval in an interleaved manner; and sends the microwave air interface frame. The present invention is applied to a digital fronthaul data transmission process.