Patent Application

App. No. 19/078,087

Abstract

Claims (204)

1 . A method comprising:

setting an Antenna Calibration (AC) Inject/Capture switch to Interference Sensing (IS) by, in an AC mode, injecting at an AC inject block a Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence to a transmit Tx processor signal to capture the ZC sequence in a receiver Rx processor signal, wherein in an IS mode, no signal is injected to allow a sensing of external interference;

running an AC Rx calibration, wherein nothing is injected to a Digital Up Conversion (DUC], and the AC capture captures a received signal from the antennas instead of the injected ZC sequence from the transmitter Tx processor signal;

in the AC mode, capturing the received signal at one symbol in a time-domain in an AC capture block, the same as the ZC sequence in the AC mode;

cross correlating the captured received signal in the AC capture block with the AC injected signal with an AC algorithm; and

converting the estimated interference and representing the estimated interference as either a complex value or as an interference gain and phase.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

activating a carrier;

calibrating a first antenna for the Tx calibration and the Rx calibration;

writing the Tx calibration compensation to Tx processor memory and writing the Rx compensation to the receiver Rx processor memory;

processing uplink/downlink traffic using beamforming weights programmed to an RU precoder;

starting a Time-Division-Duplex (TDD) based traffic, where both the antenna calibration AC and the IS are performed during a guard period (GP) during an S-Slot;

capturing the received signal during the IS session; and

estimating the interfering signal.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

reading full BW cross-correlated results from all antennas;

including a past n antenna IS readings; and

based on all the current and past n antenna readings, estimating the interference gain and phase, and derive an interference Angle of Arrival (AoA) for an interference aggressor.

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5 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

obtaining a full BW for all RU Rx chains;

calculating a per CC interference power level; and

for an interference level greater than a threshold A above a noise floor, instructing, by a base-station (gNB), the UEs allocated in the same direction of the interference AoA, to equally increase their transmitting power to maintain a connection throughput performance.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the interference sensing includes a per RE or per physical resource block (PRB) interference gain estimation per carrier component.

7 . The method of claim 6 , further comprising, using a gNB to select the communication to a UE on certain REs in each CC, and when the interference occupies only part of the BW in CC, instructing the UE, by the gNB, to transmit at the REs where the interference level is below a certain threshold above the noise floor.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

providing additional information about the interference on empty sub-carriers of Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS).

9 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

where all Massive-MIMO antennas are used as individual receivers, performing channel estimation on each antenna; and

providing the additional information about the interference, including changes in interference Angle of Arrival (AoA), on the empty sub-carriers of PUSCH DMRS.

10 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

sending the ZC sequence to all the antenna receivers;

activating only one of the antenna receivers at each of a plurality of Digital Front-End (DFE) systems and capturing the ZC sequence; and

processing the captured ZC sequence from each active antenna of each of the plurality of DFEs simultaneously.

11 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

activating only one antenna receiver at each of a plurality of Digital Front-End (DFE) systems and capturing the Rx signal; and

processing the captured Rx signal from each active antenna of each of the plurality of DFEs simultaneously;

whereby all the antennas perform the interference sensing after y iterations, different sets of DFE antennas at each iteration.

12 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

when running the AC Rx calibration, a Tx Power Amplifier (Tx PA) of antenna 0 is disabled, and Rx low noise amplifiers (LNAs) for antenna chains are enabled so that a received over the air (OTA) signal including the interference is amplified by the LNA before entering an Rx digital side.

13 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

in the AC mode, the bandwidth (BW) of the received signal is the same as the BW of a carrier component (CC) that the AC capture is configured to capture.

14 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

in the IS mode, cross correlation supports a ZC sequence for the CC BW and/or a Delta function in a time-domain/frequency-domain as there is no injected signal.

15 . A method of obtaining a Gain and Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio (ACLR) from both sides of an antenna x to measuring, collect and detect out-of-CC power, the method comprising:

a) setting a Control Channel CC0 to aGHz and CC1 to bGHz carrier frequencies (CFs);

b) setting an Antenna Calibration (AC) CC0 to a Tx calibration mode and injecting a ZC sequence to antenna x;

c) setting an AC of the CC1 to capture from an antenna 0 of an AC Tx calibration receiver;

d) measuring the power of the captured symbol from antenna 0 ; and

e) repeating steps a)-d) but with CC2 instead of CC1, where CC2 CF is set to cGHz.

16 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising:

repeating steps a)-e) with plurality of different injected Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequences and then averaging the results.

17 . A method obtaining a Gain and Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio (ACLR) from both sides of an antenna x to measuring, collect and detect out-of-CC power, the method comprising:

a) setting a CC0 to aGHz and CC1 to bGHz carrier frequencies (CFs);

b) optionally setting an AC CC0 to an empty Rx calibration from antenna x;

c) setting an AC of the CC1 the empty Rx calibration from antenna x;

d) obtaining the SC-based power of the captured symbol from antenna x; and

e) repeating steps a-d but with CC2 instead of CC1, where CC2 CF is set to cGHz.

18 . The method of claim 17 , comprising:

repeating steps a)-e) with different injected sequences and then averaging the results.

19 . A method of measuring, collecting and detecting Super-Control Channel (CC) Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio (ACLR) Measurement (Tx) and Interference Detection comprising:

a) setting a CC0 to a super carrier frequency SCF of dGHz with gBW;

b) setting AC SCC1 to a Tx calibration mode and injecting an eZC sequence to antenna x at the upper half of the BW of the SCC1 SCF;

c) setting an AC of the SCC1 to gBW capture from an antenna 0 of the AC Tx calibration receiver;

d) measuring the power of the captured symbol from antenna 0 for SCC1; and

e) repeating steps a-d but with SCC2 instead of CC1, where CC2 CF is set to cGHz.

20 . The method of claim 19 , comprising:

repeating steps a)-e) with different injected sequences and then averaging the results.

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