JP2005318246A - Communication device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a communication device which establishes communication with another communication device which meets different standards of the physical layer and MAC layer. <P>SOLUTION: The communication device is equipped with a modulation system rough estimation part 7 which estimates whether a modulation system performs digital nonlinear modulation or digital linear modulation from a received signal, a modulating speed rough estimation part 8 which estimates the modulating speed of the received signal, a symbol change point timing regeneration part 9 which detects a symbol change point based upon the modulating speed estimation value and a phase variation quantity based upon the received signal, a sampling rate conversion part 10 which converts the sampling rate of the received signal based upon the modulating speed estimation value and symbol change point, a modulation system estimation part 11 which estimates a modulation system in detail, a communication various-element database part 12 which retrieves a communication standard that the other communication device employs and transmits communication various elements, software, and hardware constitution information corresponding to the communication standard, and a block constitution altered object area 21 which performs reception processing and transmission processing meeting the communication standard. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a communication apparatus that establishes communication with another communication apparatus having a different communication standard, and in particular, estimates a communication standard by analyzing a received digital radio wave signal, and a communication apparatus having a different communication standard. The present invention relates to a communication apparatus that establishes communication.

  For example, when establishing communication with a plurality of communication devices with different standards, a technique for estimating communication parameters (modulation method, etc.) of radio signals and adapting the receiver to the communication parameters is required.

  As a conventional receiver (communication device) having the above-described technique, for example, there is a modulation system automatic discrimination receiver (see Patent Document 1). In this modulation method automatic discrimination receiver, first, a digital radio wave signal from an arbitrary communication device is received, this signal is converted into a baseband frequency band signal (received signal), and the symbol position of the received signal is estimated. . Next, the instantaneous amplitude value at the estimated symbol position of the estimated received signal is extracted, and the standard deviation of the instantaneous amplitude value is calculated. Next, the standard deviation of the instantaneous amplitude value is compared with the characteristic standard deviation value of the instantaneous amplitude value respectively corresponding to a plurality of preset modulation schemes, and the modulation scheme of the received signal is identified. Then, a demodulation method corresponding to the modulation method of the received signal is selected, and the received signal is demodulated by the demodulation method.

  Accordingly, in the prior art, multi-level modulation schemes such as QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) and frequency modulation schemes such as GMSK (Gaussian filtered minimum shift keying), or multi-level modulation schemes such as QAM and QPSK (quadrature phase shift keying). In other words, it is possible to distinguish between a multi-level modulation method and other modulation methods.

JP 2001-111644 A

  However, in the above conventional modulation method automatic discrimination receiver, although it is possible to demodulate digital radio wave signals with unknown communication specifications, it does not have a function such as error correction, so it is impossible to reproduce a message. There was a problem.

  In addition, the conventional modulation method automatic discrimination receiver has a problem that it is impossible to establish communication because it does not have an upper layer MAC (Media Access Control).

  In addition, in the conventional automatic modulation system discrimination receiver, since it is not premised on the use of information necessary for demodulating the BTR (Bit Timing Recovery: signal for timing reproduction) pattern prescribed in the standard, it is low. There is a problem that good communication cannot be performed under a CNR (Carrier-to-noise-power ratio).

  In addition, in the conventional modulation method automatic discrimination receiver, the mean square value of the digital radio wave signal is used for the modulation speed estimation method. However, since the change in amplitude is small in the digital nonlinear modulation signal, an error occurs in the modulation estimation. There was a problem that it was easy. In addition, since there is no correction process in the case where an error is included in the modulation speed estimation value, there is a problem that a synchronization shift may occur.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above, and when a digital radio wave signal is received from a communication device whose communication standard (W-CDMA, CDMA2000, wireless LAN, etc.) is unknown, communication with the communication device is performed. An object of the present invention is to obtain a communication device that establishes

  In order to solve the above-described problems and achieve the object, a communication apparatus according to the present invention is a communication apparatus that establishes communication with another communication apparatus having a different communication standard, for example, a time of a spectrum of a received signal. Based on the progress, a modulation method rough estimation means (corresponding to a modulation method rough estimation unit 7 in an embodiment to be described later) for estimating whether the modulation method is digital nonlinear modulation or digital linear modulation, and according to the estimation result of the modulation method A modulation rate rough estimation means (corresponding to the modulation rate rough estimation unit 8) for estimating the modulation rate of the received signal based on the result, a modulation rate estimation value, and a delay with respect to the received signal Symbol change point detection means (symbol change point timing) for detecting the timing at which the symbol changes based on the instantaneous amplitude fluctuation value and instantaneous phase fluctuation value obtained by detection. Reproduction unit 9), sampling rate conversion means (equivalent to sampling rate conversion unit 10) for converting the sampling rate of the received signal based on the modulation rate estimation value and the symbol change point, and details in a known manner Based on the information obtained from each of the modulation scheme estimation means (corresponding to the modulation scheme estimation section 11) for estimating the modulation scheme, a communication standard adopted by the other communication device is searched, and the communication standard is Based on the information obtained from the database means (corresponding to the communication specifications database unit 12) for transmitting software and hardware configuration information suitable for the communication standard together with the corresponding communication specifications, And a transmission / reception means (corresponding to the block configuration change target area 21) for performing the corresponding reception process and transmission process. And it features.

  According to the present invention, when there is a connection request from another communication device whose communication standard is not clear, for example, transmission signal bandwidth information, carrier frequency information, modulation speed information, and modulation method information obtained from the received signal Based on the above, the communication standard adopted by the other communication device is searched, and further, processing (encoding, modulation, demodulation) according to the communication standard is performed based on software and hardware configuration information suitable for the determined communication standard. , Decoding, MAC layer processing, etc.) to change the configuration of the block configuration change target area.

  According to the present invention, even when communication is performed with other communication apparatuses having different physical layer (modulation processing, demodulation processing, encoding processing, decoding processing, etc.) and MAC layer (TDMA, CSMA, etc.) standards, There is an effect that communication can be established.

  Embodiments of a communication apparatus according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a first embodiment of a communication apparatus according to the present invention. The communication apparatus according to the present embodiment includes an antenna 1 that acquires radio signals from space, a circulator 2 that demultiplexes transmission signals and reception signals from the antenna 1, and an RF unit 3 that performs amplification and frequency conversion of electrical signals. , An AD converter (ADC) 4 that digitally samples the intermediate frequency signal output from the RF unit 3, a digital down converter (DDC) 5 that converts the digitally sampled intermediate frequency signal into a baseband signal, and a digital signal A DA converter (DAC) 6 that converts an analog electric signal, a modulation scheme rough estimation unit 7 that determines whether digital linear modulation or digital nonlinear modulation, a modulation rate rough estimation unit 8 that calculates a modulation rate, and a symbol change Symbol change point timing reproduction unit 9 for detecting the sampled points, and sampling from the symbol change points and modulation rate information A sampling rate conversion unit 10 that converts a data rate, a modulation method estimation unit 11 that performs detailed modulation method estimation processing, and a plurality of communication parameters (modulation method, demodulation method, encoding method, decoding method, etc.) The communication specification database unit 12 that searches for communication standards (W-CDMA, CDMA2000, wireless LAN, etc.) and reception / transmission processing (encoding, modulation, demodulation, decoding, MAC layer processing) according to the communication standard And the like, and a block configuration change target area 21 (including the sampling rate conversion unit 10).

  As the block configuration change target region 21, for example, the sampling rate conversion unit 10, the demodulation unit 13 that performs accumulated batch demodulation, the error correction unit 14 that performs error correction, and the deinterleave unit 15 that performs deinterleaving processing. A MAC unit 16 that performs access control, a modulation unit 17 that performs modulation, an encoding processing unit 18 that performs encoding processing, and an interleaving unit 19 that performs interleaving processing. The internal structure is changed by rewriting. These software are downloaded from the communication specification database unit 12 together with the communication specifications.

  Here, the operation of the communication apparatus configured as described above will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. First, the RF unit 3 amplifies the high frequency signal induced in the antenna 1 and further converts it to an intermediate frequency. The ADC 4 converts the high frequency signal converted to the intermediate frequency into a digital signal, and the DDC 5 converts the received digital signal into a baseband signal.

  Next, the modulation scheme rough estimation unit 7 performs a short-time Fourier transform on the digital baseband signal to convert it into a plurality of spectra, and analyzes the frequency transition pattern over time. In the above description, the short-time Fourier transform is used. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a continuous wavelet transform may be used. 2 and 3 are diagrams showing spectra cut out at a specific time of short-time Fourier transform as an example. The left signal spectrum is MSK (minimum shift keying), and the right signal spectrum is BPSK (binary phase shift keying). MSK, which is one of the frequency modulations, has a characteristic that the maximum power frequency of the spectrum changes with time, but BPSK has a characteristic that a certain band spectrum is symmetric with respect to the carrier frequency. This characteristic is identified by using kurtosis, skewness, and maximum power frequency as an evaluation function, and a digital nonlinear modulation system (frequency modulation) or a digital linear modulation system (phase modulation, quadrature amplitude modulation) is discriminated. At the same time, the carrier frequency is estimated by detecting the center of the signal band, and the bandwidth of the transmission signal is measured.

  Next, if the result of the discrimination is modulation by a digital linear modulation method, the modulation rate rough estimation unit 8 performs Fourier transform on the signal after performing envelope detection on the baseband signal, and the spectrum (Reference [1] Yasushi Higashida et al. “Timing Extraction and Carrier Estimation in PSK Signal Accumulation Demodulation”, IEICE Transactions B Vol.J71-B N0.4 pp540-546 1988 April). On the other hand, if the result of the discrimination is modulation by a digital non-linear modulation method, the mean square value of the phase change amount or the vector difference of the received signal is calculated based on the baseband signal, and then the Fourier transform is performed. Then, as described above, the modulation speed is estimated from the peak of the spectrum.

  Next, the symbol change point timing reproduction unit 9 uses the modulation rate information obtained from the modulation rate coarse estimation unit 8 and the instantaneous amplitude variation value and instantaneous phase variation value obtained by delay detection of the baseband signal. The timing at which the symbol changes (symbol changing point position) is detected. As a result, the symbol synchronization signal can be extracted. Next, the sampling rate conversion unit 10 estimates how many symbols are transmitted at the symbol change point position interval based on the modulation speed estimated above and the symbol change point position detected above, and determines an appropriate sampling point. The sampling rate is converted by determining. That is, resampling processing (decimation) is performed starting from a plurality of symbol change point positions. At this time, since resampling is performed based on all symbol change point positions, even if the estimated modulation rate includes an error (even if a clock synchronization shift occurs), the symbol change point position Retimed to eliminate error accumulation and prevent bit slip.

  The modulation scheme estimation unit 11 estimates the modulation scheme from statistical processing using a method equivalent to the processing described in Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-111644) described above.

  Based on the carrier frequency information and transmission signal bandwidth information output from the modulation method rough estimation unit 7, the estimated modulation rate and the estimated modulation method, the communication specification database unit 12, for example, another communication device that requests connection. The software and hardware configuration information suitable for the determined communication standard together with the corresponding communication specifications are retrieved from the demodulation unit 13, the error correction unit 14, the deinterleave unit 15, the MAC unit 16, and the modulation unit 17. , Transmission (download) to the encoding processing unit 18 and the interleaving unit 19 to instruct a change in configuration.

  After the construction of the processing configuration instructed from the communication specification database unit 12 is completed, the demodulation unit 13 obtains the baseband signal decimated by the sampling rate conversion unit 10, for example, by the modulation scheme rough estimation unit 8. Based on the carrier frequency, the offset is removed and accumulated batch demodulation is performed. The error correction unit 14 performs decoding processing such as convolutional decoding or block decoding on the demodulated data. The deinterleaving unit 15 performs a deinterleaving process on the decoding result, and transfers the decoding result to the MAC unit 16 after completing the decoding process in the physical layer. The MAC unit 16 negotiates with the communication device on the other side based on the obtained decoding result. On the other hand, when transmission is performed, after the construction of the processing configuration instructed from the communication specification database unit 12 is completed, known interleaving, encoding processing, and modulation processing are executed according to an instruction from the MAC unit 16.

  As described above, in the communication device of the present embodiment, when there is a connection request from another communication device whose communication standard is not clear, transmission signal bandwidth information, carrier frequency information, and modulation obtained from the received signal Based on the speed information and modulation method information, a communication standard adopted by the counterpart device is searched, and further, processing (code) corresponding to the communication standard is performed based on software and hardware configuration information suitable for the determined communication standard. , Modulation, demodulation, decoding, MAC layer processing, etc.) is changed. Thereby, even if it is communication with the other communication apparatus from which the standard of a physical layer or a MAC layer differs, communication can be established seamlessly.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration of the communication apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In the first embodiment, since only a single frequency band is received and demodulated, when considering other communication apparatuses using a plurality of frequency bands, it is necessary to match the frequency band each time, which is inefficient. . Therefore, in the second embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, by adding a monitoring receiver 31, frequency converter 32, BPF 33, and frequency converter 34, digital radio signals in a plurality of frequency bands are automatically detected. Communicating with other communication devices using a plurality of frequency bands without operation by the operator.

  Here, the operation of the communication apparatus configured as shown in FIG. 4 will be described. Here, only processing different from that of the first embodiment described above will be described.

  For example, when a digital radio signal is transmitted from another communication device, in the communication device of the second embodiment, the monitoring receiver 31 senses and uses the digital radio signal transmitted from the other communication device in real time. A plurality of carrier frequencies being specified. Specifically, the monitoring receiver 31 performs a short-time Fourier transform on the baseband signal output from the DDC5, and detects changes in power in the carrier frequency, transmission signal bandwidth, and monitoring frequency band in real time. Monitor the presence of digital radio signals and multiple carrier frequencies.

  The frequency conversion unit 32 converts the frequency of the baseband signal output from the DDC 5 based on the detection result of the monitoring reception unit 31. In the converted baseband signal, an unnecessary band is deleted by the BPF 22.

  On the other hand, in the processing on the transmission side, the frequency conversion unit 34 converts the frequency of the modulated signal into a frequency band used at the time of reception, that is, a frequency band before down-conversion by the DDC 5 at the time of reception, and outputs to the DAC 6 To do.

  As described above, in the communication device according to the present embodiment, even when there is a connection request from another communication device using a plurality of frequency bands, a change in power in the monitoring frequency band is detected in real time, We decided to monitor the presence of digital radio signals. As a result, even when there is a connection request from another communication device using a plurality of frequency bands, communication can be seamlessly established with another communication device having different physical layer or MAC layer standards. it can.

Embodiment 3 FIG.
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration of the communication apparatus according to the third embodiment of the present invention. In the first and second embodiments, communication cannot be established for a communication standard that is not registered in the communication specification database 12. When the communication standard is not registered in the communication specification database 12, the received signal is only treated as an unknown radio signal, and it cannot be determined whether it is a transmission signal or an unnecessary radio signal. In the third embodiment, for example, an external storage device 41 and an analysis device 42 are added as shown in FIG. 5, and even when the communication standard used by other communication devices is unknown, an unknown radio signal is analyzed. By registering, communication can be established thereafter. In this embodiment, the case where the above configuration is applied to Embodiment 1 will be described in particular. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and can be applied to Embodiment 2.

  Here, the operation of the communication apparatus configured as shown in FIG. 5 will be described. Here, only processing different from that of the first embodiment described above will be described.

  In the communication apparatus according to the present embodiment, the digital radio wave signal (reception signal) converted into the baseband by the DDC 5 is temporarily recorded in the external storage device 41 composed of a semiconductor storage device (RAM, ROM, etc.). . The analysis device 42 downloads the digital radio wave signal recorded in the external storage device 41 as necessary, that is, the digital radio wave signal recorded in the external storage device 41 is not registered in the communication specification database 12. If the communication standard is a digital radio signal from another communication device, the digital radio signal is downloaded, analyzed, and the communication standard is determined. Specifically, the analysis device 42 has a function capable of offline analysis of a digital radio wave signal, and analyzes a frequency spectrum, a delay profile, a constellation, an eye pattern, and the like. Then, the analysis device 42 combines components such as the physical layer configuration and the MAC configuration registered in the analysis device 42 (components for configuring the block configuration change target area 21) from these analysis results, and these Are registered in the communication specification database 12 as communication specifications of the new communication standard.

  The above components represent basic blocks constituting the physical layer and the MAC layer, and are created by software (execution format) for each block in consideration of a hardware configuration (DSP or the like). Such a component is applied to, for example, a software defined radio that uses the same hardware and can change the device configuration by rewriting software. As a result, the user can change the device configuration without knowledge of advanced hardware and software, and each component is created specifically for the hardware of the communication device, enabling high-speed operation.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, even if the communication standard is not in the communication specification database 12, a received digital radio wave signal (received signal converted into a baseband signal) whose communication standard is unknown is used. By temporarily storing and analyzing, the communication specifications of the communication standard determined based on the analysis result are newly registered. Thereby, when the same digital radio wave signal as described above is received thereafter, communication with the communication device can be established. Further, since the physical layer and MAC layer components registered in the analysis device 42 take into account the hardware configuration and software configuration of the communication device, the communication specification database 12 corresponding to a new communication standard can be easily obtained. Can be built.

  As described above, the communication device according to the present invention is useful for a communication device that operates in a communication environment in which a digital radio signal may be received from another communication device whose communication standard is unknown. It is suitable as a communication device that establishes communication with another different communication device.

It is a figure which shows the structure of Embodiment 1 of the communication apparatus concerning this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the spectrum cut out in the specific time of short-time Fourier transform. It is a figure which shows an example of the spectrum cut out in the specific time of short-time Fourier transform. It is a figure which shows the structure of Embodiment 2 of the communication apparatus concerning this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of Embodiment 3 of the communication apparatus concerning this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 Antenna 2 Circulator 3 RF Unit 4 AD Converter (ADC)
5 Digital down converter (DDC)
6 DA converter (DAC)
7 Rough modulation method estimation unit 8 Rough modulation rate estimation unit 9 Symbol change point timing recovery unit 10 Sampling rate conversion unit 11 Modulation method estimation unit 12 Communication specification database unit 13 Demodulation unit 14 Error correction unit 15 Deinterleave unit 16 MAC unit 17 Modulation unit 18 Encoding processing unit 19 Interleaving unit 21 Block configuration change target region 31 Monitoring reception unit 32, 34 Frequency conversion unit 33 BPF
41 External storage device 42 Analysis device

Claims (6)

In communication devices that establish communication with other communication devices with different communication standards,
Modulation method rough estimation means for estimating whether the modulation method is digital non-linear modulation or digital linear modulation based on the time lapse of the spectrum of the received signal;
A modulation rate rough estimation means for executing a Fourier transform according to the estimation result of the modulation scheme and estimating a modulation rate of the received signal based on the result;
Symbol change point detection means for detecting a timing at which a symbol changes based on the modulation speed estimation value and the instantaneous amplitude fluctuation value and instantaneous phase fluctuation value obtained by delay detection on the received signal;
Sampling rate conversion means for converting a sampling rate of the received signal based on the modulation speed estimation value and the symbol change point;
Modulation scheme estimation means for estimating the modulation scheme in detail by a known method;
Based on the information obtained from each means, the communication standard employed by the other communication device is searched, and the software and hardware configuration information suitable for the communication standard are transmitted together with the communication specifications corresponding to the communication standard. Database means to
Based on information obtained from the database means, transmission / reception means for performing reception processing and transmission processing according to a communication standard;
A communication apparatus comprising:   The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the modulation scheme rough estimation unit estimates a modulation scheme based on a time lapse of a spectrum obtained by short-time Fourier transform or continuous wavelet transform on the received signal.   The sampling rate conversion means determines an appropriate sampling point based on the modulation speed estimation value and the symbol change point, and performs resampling processing starting from a plurality of symbol change points. Item 3. The communication device according to Item 1 or 2.   The transmission / reception means performs encoding processing, modulation processing, demodulation processing, decoding processing, MAC layer processing, and sampling rate conversion means processing as reception processing and transmission processing according to the communication standard according to the communication standard. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, 2, or 3, wherein Monitoring means for monitoring in real time a plurality of frequency bands used for transmission by other communication devices by performing a short-time Fourier transform on the received signal;
Frequency converting means for converting the frequency of the received signal based on the monitoring result;
With
The modulation scheme rough estimation means, the modulation speed rough estimation means, the symbol change point detection means, and the sampling rate conversion means use a plurality of frequency bands by inputting the received signal after the frequency conversion. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein communication with another communication apparatus to be transmitted is established. Recording means for temporarily recording the received signal;
When the received signal recorded in the recording means is a received signal from another communication device whose communication standard is not registered in the database means, the received signal is analyzed, and further from the analysis result Analyzing means for determining a communication standard and registering communication specifications of the communication standard obtained as a determination result in the database means;
The communication apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising:

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