KR20130038140A - Apparatus and method for time synchronization - Google Patents
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The time synchronization device of a femtocell base station receives a timing packet generated by a timing server directly connected to an adjacent macrocell base station adjacent to one femtocell base station through the adjacent macrocell base station, and cannot synchronize time from a GPS satellite. In this case, time synchronization is performed by obtaining system time information from a timing packet received through a macrocell base station corresponding to a master base station among neighboring macrocell base stations.
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The present invention relates to a time synchronization device and method, and more particularly, to a time synchronization device and method of a femtocell base station.
The type of mobile communication service is rapidly changing from voice to data, and the increase in data call volume is expected to increase rapidly due to the spread of smart phones. As a result, a femtocell base station having a concept of installing a small base station in a house to increase service capacity has emerged as a method for efficiently using a limited frequency resource.
However, since femtocell base stations are generally installed in buildings, the reception performance of time information signals from existing GPS satellites is significantly reduced, causing synchronization problems with existing base stations (eg, macro cell base stations). It became.
In order to solve this synchronization problem, various synchronization acquisition schemes have been devised, and the secondary GPS (Assisted GPS) method, which receives information about GPS satellites such as Almanac data or ephemeris data through a wired network from a separate auxiliary server, There is a wireless access technology based method for receiving and using a synchronization radio signal, and a network based method using a network synchronization protocol such as PTP (Precision Time Protocol).
Among the various types of synchronization schemes, the secondary GPS scheme or the radio access technology based scheme is relatively high in terms of the femtocell base station. Therefore, a network based scheme that can be implemented at a relatively low cost is preferred.
Existing network-based method is the IEEE 1588 standard of Precision Time Protocol (PTP), NTP (Federated) which is developed by the femtocell base station to synchronize asynchronous networks such as Ethernet in order to maintain time synchronization with the existing macrocell base station. Network Timing Protocol) is achieved by receiving time information provided by the protocol.
In this network-based method, a timing server connected to a wired internet network transmits a timing packet through a wired internet network, and a femtocell base station, a client, extracts a synchronization signal included in the received timing packet. .
However, the accuracy of synchronization in such a network-based scheme is largely determined by the imbalance of uplink and downlink packet delays of non-dedicated line services such as x-DSL and FTTH. That is, the delay of packet delivery is irregularly increased due to the increase of traffic volume on the asynchronous network through which timing packets are delivered. As the number of femtocells increases and the size of the network increases, the synchronization error increases proportionally.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in an effort to provide a time synchronization device and a method for quickly synchronizing time with a macro cell base station without a delay caused by a traffic volume of a network in a femtocell base station.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, in a wireless communication system including a plurality of macrocell base stations and at least one femtocell base station located in a cell region of each macrocell base station, a time synchronization device of any one femtocell base station is provided. . The time synchronization device includes a neighbor list generator, a receiver, and a synchronizer. The neighbor list generating unit generates a neighbor macrocell base station list including information of a neighboring macrocell base station adjacent to any one femtocell base station. The receiver receives a timing packet generated by a timing server directly connected to the neighboring macrocell base station through the neighboring macrocell base station. When the time synchronization from the GPS satellites is impossible, the synchronization unit obtains system time information from the timing packet received through the macro cell base station corresponding to the master base station among the neighboring macro cell base stations to perform time synchronization.
The time synchronization device may further include a master base station setting unit. The master base station setting unit sets one of the neighboring macrocell base stations as the master base station, and sets the other of the neighboring macrocell base stations as candidate master base stations.
The synchronization unit may perform time synchronization by acquiring system time information from a timing packet received through a macro cell base station corresponding to the candidate master base station when a network synchronization failure occurs after the time synchronization.
The time synchronization device may further include a receiver configured to receive a time information signal from the GPS satellite, and the synchronizer may determine whether time synchronization from the GPS satellite is impossible based on the reception quality of the time information signal. .
When it is determined that time synchronization from the GPS satellite is possible, the synchronization unit may perform time synchronization by acquiring the system time information from the time information signal.
According to another embodiment of the present invention, in a wireless communication system including a plurality of macrocell base station and at least one femtocell base station located in the cell region of each macrocell base station, there is provided a time synchronization method of any one femtocell base station do. The time synchronization method determines whether time synchronization from a GPS satellite is impossible, and receives, through the neighboring macrocell base station, a timing packet generated by a timing server directly connected to an adjacent macrocell base station adjacent to any one femtocell base station. And if time synchronization from the GPS satellites is impossible, acquiring system time information from a timing packet received through a macrocell base station corresponding to a master base station among the neighboring macrocell base stations to perform time synchronization. Include. In this case, the timing packet may include system time information obtained from a GPS satellite by a macrocell base station corresponding to the master base station.
The time synchronization method may further include setting one of the neighboring macrocell base stations as the master base station and setting another one of the neighboring macrocell base stations as a candidate master base station.
The time synchronization method further includes the step of performing time synchronization by acquiring system time information from a timing packet received through a macro cell base station corresponding to the candidate master base station when a network synchronization failure occurs after performing the time synchronization. can do.
According to another embodiment of the present invention, in a wireless communication system including a plurality of macrocell base station and at least one femtocell base station located in the cell region of each macrocell base station, the time synchronization method of any one macrocell base station This is provided. The time synchronization method may include receiving a time information signal including system time information from a GPS satellite, performing time synchronization using the system time information, and transmitting the system time information to the one macrocell base station. Transmitting to a timing server that is directly connected, receiving a timing packet including the system time information from the timing server, and transmitting the timing packet to an adjacent femtocell base station.
The time synchronization method may further include generating a neighbor femtocell base station list including information of the adjacent femtocell. In this case, the neighbor femtocell base station list may include a femtocell base station in a cell region of the one macrocell base station and a femtocell base station in an adjacent macrocell region of a cell region of the one macrocell base station.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the femtocell base station can obtain the time synchronization information of the macro cell base station quickly without delay according to the traffic volume of the network, and the GPS time of the adjacent macro cell base station to maintain the time synchronization with the macro cell base station. Since the synchronization information is used, the synchronization recovery time is fast.
In addition, it can be easily applied to the traffic capacity-distributed small base stations and repeaters, which are not femtocell base stations.
1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a diagram illustrating a time synchronization device of a femtocell base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a time synchronization method of a femtocell base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram illustrating a time synchronization device of a macro cell base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a diagram illustrating a time synchronization method of a macro cell base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention, and like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the specification.
Throughout the specification and claims, when a section is referred to as "including " an element, it is understood that it does not exclude other elements, but may include other elements, unless specifically stated otherwise.
The apparatus and method for synchronizing time according to an embodiment of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 1, a wireless communication system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes at least one femtocell 11, 12/21 in one
The
The
Femtocell base stations (110, 120, 210) are generally installed in a shadow area or a user dense area in the building, it may be connected to the macro cell base station (10, 20) through a wired network (50).
These
However, the femtocell
For time synchronization between the
The
When the
In particular, the femtocell base station (110, 120, 210) is obtained from the timing packet received through the master base station by setting one of the macro cell base station (10, 20) as a master base station, and the other as a candidate master base station If a network synchronization failure occurs in the system time information, time synchronization may be performed again using the system time information obtained from the timing packet received through the candidate mast base station.
That is, by providing a plurality of timing
2 is a diagram illustrating a time synchronization device of a femtocell base station according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a time synchronization method of a femtocell base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.
In FIG. 2, for convenience of description, the
Referring to FIG. 2, the
Referring to FIG. 3, the
The neighbor
The master base
The
The
If it is determined that the reception quality of the time information signal is good (S310), the
The GPS mode means that time synchronization is performed using the time information signal of the
On the other hand, if it is determined that the reception quality of the time information signal is not good (S310), the
The network-based mode means that time synchronization is performed using a timing packet received through the wired
If a network synchronization failure occurs due to a failure of the master base station after performing time synchronization (S320), the
In this manner, time synchronization of the
As such, the timing packet is transmitted only to the femtocell base station in some macrocells, not the entire network, by the timing
4 is a diagram illustrating a time synchronization device of a macro cell base station according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a time synchronization method of a macro cell base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.
In FIG. 4, the macro
Referring to FIG. 4, the
5, the
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An embodiment of the present invention is not implemented only through the above-described apparatus and / or method, but may be implemented through a program for realizing a function corresponding to the configuration of the embodiment of the present invention or a recording medium on which the program is recorded. Such an implementation can be easily implemented by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains based on the description of the above-described embodiments.
While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, It belongs to the scope of right.
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A neighbor list generator for generating a neighbor macrocell base station list including information of neighbor macrocell base stations adjacent to any one femtocell base station;
A receiver for receiving a timing packet generated by a timing server directly connected to the neighboring macrocell base station through the neighboring macrocell base station; and
When the time synchronization from the GPS satellites is impossible, the synchronization unit for acquiring the system time information from the timing packet received through the macro cell base station corresponding to the master base station of the adjacent macro cell base station to perform time synchronization
Vision synchronizing device comprising a.
A master base station setting unit for setting one of the neighboring macrocell base stations as the master base station and setting the other one of the neighboring macrocell base stations as a candidate master base station;
A visual synchronization device further comprising.
And the synchronization unit obtains system time information from a timing packet received through a macrocell base station corresponding to the candidate master base station and performs time synchronization when a network synchronization failure occurs after the time synchronization.
Receiving unit for receiving the time information signal from the GPS satellites
Further comprising:
And the synchronization unit determines whether time synchronization from the GPS satellites is impossible based on the reception quality of the time information signal.
And, when it is determined that time synchronization from the GPS satellite is possible, the synchronization unit obtains the system time information from the time information signal and performs time synchronization.
And the system time information is included in a time information signal received from a GPS satellite by a macrocell base station corresponding to the master base station.
Determining whether time synchronization from the GPS satellites is impossible;
Receiving, through the neighboring macrocell base station, a timing packet generated by a timing server directly connected to an adjacent macrocell base station adjacent to any one femtocell base station; and
Performing time synchronization by acquiring system time information from a timing packet received through a macro cell base station corresponding to a master base station among the neighboring macro cell base stations when time synchronization from the GPS satellites is impossible;
Including;
And the timing packet includes system time information obtained from a GPS satellite by a macrocell base station corresponding to the master base station.
And setting one of the neighboring macrocell base stations as the master base station, and setting the other one of the neighboring macrocell base stations as a candidate master base station.
Performing network synchronization by acquiring system time information from a timing packet received through a macrocell base station corresponding to the candidate master base station when a network synchronization failure occurs after performing the time synchronization.
The visual synchronization method further comprising.
The determining step
Receiving a time information signal from the GPS satellites, and
And determining whether time synchronization from the GPS satellites is impossible based on the reception quality of the time information signal.
If time synchronization from the GPS satellites is possible, performing time synchronization using system time information included in the time information signal received from the GPS satellites;
The visual synchronization method further comprising.
Receiving a time information signal containing system time information from a GPS satellite,
Performing time synchronization using the system time information;
Transmitting the system time information to a timing server directly connected to any one macrocell base station;
Receiving a timing packet including the system time information from the timing server, and
Transmitting the timing packet to an adjacent femtocell base station
Visual synchronization method comprising a.
Generating a neighbor femtocell base station list including information of the neighbor femtocell;
Further comprising:
The neighbor femtocell base station list includes a femtocell base station in a cell region of any one of the macrocell base station and a femtocell base station in an adjacent macrocell region of the cell region of the one macrocell base station.
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