WO1998015083A2 - Signal transformation method and apparatus - Google Patents

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WO1998015083A2
WO1998015083A2 PCT/SE1997/001585 SE9701585W WO9815083A2 WO 1998015083 A2 WO1998015083 A2 WO 1998015083A2 SE 9701585 W SE9701585 W SE 9701585W WO 9815083 A2 WO9815083 A2 WO 9815083A2
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Svante Signell
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  • the present invenuon relates to a method and apparatus for transforming a real digital wideband high-frequency signal into a set of complex digital baseband signals, a method and apparatus for transforming a set of complex digital baseband signals into a real digital wideband high- frequency signal, a preferred type of complex filter that may be used in these transformations and a base station in a radio communication system that uses these transformations.
  • a base station in a mobile telephony system receives and transmits wideband high- re ⁇ uency radio signals having a bandwidth of up to 30 MHz.
  • the received wideband signal is separated into narrowband (for example 30 kHz wide) channels (FDMA) or channel groups (TDM A).
  • FDMA narrowband wide
  • TDM A channel groups
  • channels or channel groups are combined into a wideband signal for transmission.
  • baseband signals are interpolated (up-sampled), modulated and combined into a wideband signal.
  • An object of the present invention is to reduce the amount of required data processing in the transformation from wideband signal to baseband signals and from baseband signals to wideband signals.
  • a further object of the present invention is a preferred type of complex filter that is used in this transformation
  • the present invention performs the channel separation at the high wideband signal sampling frequency by using complex bandpass filters. Instead of demodulating the wideband signal down to baseband, a frequency reduction may be performed on the I and Q signals that are obtained directly from the complex filters simply by decimating (down-sampling) the number of samples
  • a complex filter may be used to filter an interpolated (up-sampled) baseband or low 5 frequency signal for obtaining a narrowband high-frequency signal. Such high-frequency signals may then be combined into a wideband signal for transmission.
  • FIGURE 1 is a block diagram of a simple FIR filter
  • FIGURE 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a corresponding complex FIR filter
  • FIGURE 3 is a block diagram of another embodiment of a complex FIR filter
  • FIGURE 4 is a block diagram illustrating complex multiplication performed by the filters in figures 2 and 3;
  • FIGURE 5 is a block diagram of a real bilinear digital ladder filter (BDLF filter).
  • FIGURE 6 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a complex BDLF filter in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIGURE 7 is a block diagram of a previously known base station that transforms a wideband high-frequency signal into separated baseband signals
  • FIGURE 8 is a block diagram of a preferred embodiment of a base station in accordance with the present invention that transforms a wideband high-frequency signal into separated baseband signals;
  • FIGURE 9 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating die operation of the base station in figure 7;
  • FIGURE 10 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the operation of die base station m figure 8:
  • FIGURE 11 is a block diagram of a previously known base station that transforms a set of baseband signals into a wideband high-frequency signal
  • FIGURE 12 is a preferred embodiment of a base station in accordance with the present invention that transforms a set of baseband signals into a wideband high-frequency signal;
  • FIGURE 13 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the operation of the base station in figure 11 ;
  • FIGURE 14 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the operation of the base station in figure 12;
  • FIGURE 15 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a baseband signal
  • FIGURE 16 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of setting some of the samples in a baseband signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 15 to zero
  • FIGURE 17 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of omitting the zero samples in a signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 16;
  • FIGURE 18 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a passband signal
  • FIGURE 19 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of setting some of the samples in a passband signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 18 to zero;
  • FIGURE 20 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating die effect of omitting the zero samples in a signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 19;
  • FIGURE 21 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a wideband signal
  • FIGURE 22 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a complex filter intended to operate 0 on a wideband signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 21;
  • FIGURE 23 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of the complex filter on a wideband signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 21 ;
  • FIGURE 24 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of setting some of the samples in a passband signal having die power spectrum of Fig. 23 to zero;
  • FIGURE 25 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating die effect of omitting the zero samples in a signal having d e power spectrum of Fig. 24;
  • FIGURE 26 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a wideband signal
  • FIGURE 27 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a complex filter intended to operate on a wideband signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 26; o FIGURE 28 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating die effect of the complex filter on a wideband signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 26;
  • FIGURE 29 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating die effect of setting some of the samples in a passband signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 28 to zero;
  • FIGURE 30 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of omitting the zero 5 samples in a signal having die power spectrum of Fig. 29;
  • FIGURE 31 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating d e effect of lowpass filtering a signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 30;
  • FIGURE 32 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a baseband signal
  • FIGURE 33 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of zero filling a baseband o signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 32;
  • FIGURE 34 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of lowpass filtering a signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 33;
  • FIGURE 35 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a baseband signal
  • FIGURE 36 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of zero filling a baseband signal having die power spectrum of Fig. 35:
  • FIGURE 37 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of complex passband filtering a signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 36;
  • FIGURE 38 is a flow chart illustrating the mediod for transforming a wideband signal into a set of baseband signals in accordance with d e present invention;
  • FIGURE 39 is a flow chart illustrating the method for transforming a set of baseband signals into a wideband signal in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIGURE 40 is a block diagram of a more general sampling rate converter that converts sampling frequencies by rational ratios
  • FIGURE 41 is a block diagram ot a modified embodiment of a base station in accordance widi the present invention that transforms a wideband high-frequencv signal into separated baseband signals,
  • FIGURE 42 is a modified embodiment of a base station in accordance with the present invention that transforms a set of baseband signals into a wideband high-frequency signal;
  • FIGURE 43 is a flow chart illustrating a modified mediod in accordance with the present invention tor transforming a wideband signal into a set of baseband signals;
  • FIGURE 44 is a flow chart illustrating modified method in accordance with the present invention tor transforming a set of baseband signals into a wideband signal;
  • Figure 1 illustrates a simple FIR filter having two delay elements denoted z 1 and filter o coefficients a,,, a, and a 2
  • An essential component of the present invention is a complex bandpass filter.
  • such a complex bandpass filter is designed bv designing a low-pass filter prototype having all the desired properties, i.e. passband ripple, transmission band and cut off frequency, and by frequency translating this low-pass filter into a complex bandpass filter. This frequency translation is done by substituting Z Q z for z in the lowpass filter prototype transfer function.
  • Zn is a point on the unit circle defined by
  • the corresponding complex bandpass filter may be of the form shown in figure 2
  • a multiplication by a factor z 0 ' is associated with each delay element z '
  • the signal paths have been provided with double arrow heads in order to emphasize that the signals may be complex valued
  • Figure 3 shows an equivalent complex filter, in which the complex multiplication has been combined with the filter coefficients instead, thereby reducing the number of required multipliers
  • the transfer functions of the filters in figures 2 and 3 are the same.
  • Figure 4 illustrates a possible implementation of a multiplication of a complex input signal a by a complex coefficient z 0 for obtaining a complex output signal B. As may be seen from figure 4 this is accomplished by splitting the signals A and B and the multiplication coefficient z ⁇ , into their respective real and imaginary components and performing 4 real multiplications and 2 real additions.
  • BDLF filters bilinear digital ladder filters
  • WDF filters wave digital filters
  • cascade coupled biquads with respect to coefficient quantization and signal quantization noise levels.
  • WDF filters wave digital filters
  • Figure 5 shows a block diagram of a real fifth order BDLF low-pass filter. In this figure the same designations have been used as in f 1].
  • this low-pass filter may be transformed into a bandpass filter as the filters of figures 2 and 3.
  • Such a complex BDLF bandpass filter is illustrated m the block diagram of figure 6. (By utilizing high pass filters or wideband low-pass filter prototypes it is also possible to design complex band stop filters by performing the frequency shift on these prototypes instead.)
  • the reason complex BDLF filters are preferred is that they maintain the excellent properties of real BDLF filters mentioned above
  • Fig. 7 illustrates a typical base station in a radio communication system. To facilitate the description, only the blocks that are necessary to describe the difference between the prior art and the present invention are included in die figure.
  • An antenna receives a wideband signal that is amplified in a amplifier A, passed through a bandpass filter BP and converted into a digital real wideband signal by an analog-to-digital converter A/D.
  • the A/D conversion is performed directly on the RF signal, however, it is also possible to perform the A/D conversion on an IF signal by including one or more mixing stages between bandpass filter BP and the A/D converter
  • the digital wideband signal includes all die channels (in an FDMA system) or channel groups (in a TDMA system).
  • a channel or channel group separation is performed by feeding the digital wideband signal to a set of demodulators DEM These demodulators have respective demodulation frequencies ⁇ _, ⁇ 2 , •• ⁇ ⁇ * which corresponds to the center frequencies of the frequency bands that are to be separated.
  • the demodulator produces the inphase (I) and quadrature (Q) components of each frequency band
  • the I and Q components have to be low-pass filtered in filters LP
  • Figure 8 illustrates a similar block diagram of a base station in accordance with the present invention.
  • the received signal is amplified, bandpass filtered and converted to digital form as in the embodiment of figure 7.
  • the digital wideband signal is not forwarded to demodulators as in figure 7, but is instead forwarded to a set of complex bandpass filters CMPLX BP having center frequencies ⁇ ⁇ > ⁇ 2 » • ⁇ • ⁇ N - Since the wideband signal is a real signal, the other input to these complex bandpass filters CMPLX BP will be 0 (in this description it is assumed that die upper input and ou ⁇ ut signals of a complex bandpass filter correspond to the real parts while the lower input and ou ⁇ ut signals correspond to the imaginary part).
  • Figures 9 and 10 compare the signal processing of die previously known base station in figure 7 and die base station of the present invention in accordance with the embodiment of figure 8. Both embodiments start with a digital wideband signal WB.
  • This wideband signal contains a large number of frequency bands, each band containing a channel or channel group.
  • P represents the power of the respective signals, while represents (angular) frequency.
  • Wideband signal WB is a high-frequency signal. This fact has been represented by a broken frequency axis.
  • the demodulations bring the channels of the wideband signal down to baseband. This may be seen in the middle of figure 9. Note that the entire signal has been transformed to the base band, and mat different frequency bands of the wideband signal are centered on die base band, depending on the used demodulation frequencies
  • this signal is passed through a set complex bandpass filters CMPLX BP.
  • the complex narrowband high-frequency signals are decimated. Finally, these decimated signals are low-pass filtered for obtaining the separated complex baseband signals.
  • Figures 7-10 described how a wideband signal is separated into channels or channel groups.
  • Figures 11-14 describe the reverse process, namely how channels or channel groups may be combined into a wideband signal for transmission by a base station
  • FIG 11 shows die prior art solution to this problem
  • the I and Q components which now are baseband signals, are inte ⁇ olated in up-samplers ⁇ U and lowpass filters LP.
  • This up-sampling may be performed by inserting a number of zero samples between every sample of I and Q. If the same frequency bands as before are assumed, 999 zeros will be inserted between every sample of I and Q.
  • This up-sampling produces a sequence in which replicas of the original spectrum are produced.
  • the inte ⁇ olated sequence is then obtained by low-pass filtering these signals in low-pass filters LP. This removes die replicas of the spectrum that are obtained by die zero filling.
  • the inte ⁇ olated signals are then modulated in modulators MOD at modulation frequencies ⁇ 2 , ..., fj N .
  • the resulting components are combined in adders, and the obtained real narrowband high-frequency signals are combined, D/A converted, bandpass filtered (BP), amplified (A) and transmitted.
  • BP bandpass filtered
  • A amplified
  • Figure 12 illustrates a corresponding base station in accordance with the present invention.
  • zero filling will introduce replicas of the spectra.
  • This narrow spectrum is obtained by filtering the zero filled or up-sampled signals dirough complex bandpass filters CMPLX BP with center frequencies Q_ Q 2 , • •• ⁇ ⁇ N - AS a side effect a real narrowband high-frequency signal is obtained directly from these complex bandpass filters (in reality a small imaginary part may remain due to, for example, quantization errors, but this part is simply ignored).
  • the rest of the base station in figure 12 corresponds to the base station in figure 11.
  • Figures 13 and 14 illustrate these processes in signal spectrum form.
  • the baseband signals are inte ⁇ olated, modulated and bandpass filtered. This gives the narrowband high-frequency signals in the middle of the figure. These signals are combined into a wideband signal WB.
  • the baseband signals are up- sampled and bandpass filtered at die corresponding center frequencies ,, ⁇ 2 , .... I N These steps are described in more detail with reference to figures 32-37. Finally the high-frequency narrowband signals are combined into wideband signal WB.
  • Figures 15-17 illustrate decimation of a baseband signal.
  • the spectrum of the original signal is shown in figure 15.
  • the effect of the "zeroing" is to produce uniformly spaced replicas of the original spectrum.
  • the decimation is completed by omitting the zero samples.
  • the resulting spectrum is shown in figure 17.
  • Figure 18 illustrates the spectrum of a passband signal. As in the case with the baseband signal replicas of this spectrum are produced by zero filling the original signal. If the sampling frequency fs and decimation factor M have been carefully selected, the spectrum ot one of the replicas of the passband signal will fall into the baseband. This is illustrated by figure 19. In fact a comparison between figures 16 and 19 shows that they are in fact identical. Thus, by omitting the zero samples a decimated baseband signal with lower sampling frequency will be obtained also in this case, as illustrated by figure 20
  • a key feature in the conversion of a passband signal to baseband by decimation is that the passband signal falls on the "replica grid" produced by the "zeroing". In such a case a replica of the passband signal spectrum will automatically be produced in the baseband. A higher decimation factor will produce a denser grid and therefor increase the number of possible passband positions.
  • Figure 21 illustrates tiie spectrum of the wideband signal from analog-to-digital converter A/D in figure 8.
  • all possible “replica grid” positions have been indicated.
  • the operator ot the radio communication system is allocated only a certain frequency band in this wideband signal.
  • 3 channels or channel groups
  • Figure 26 illustrates a similar wideband signal as in figure 21. However, in tins case not every channel in the operator band is actually used, rather only channel 1 and 3 are used. As will be shown below, this makes it possible to choose a wider filter as illustrated in figure 27.
  • the spectrum looks as in figure 30.
  • the decimation factor M 5.
  • the unwanted part of the spectrum may be eliminated by a lowpass filter (LP m figure 8) represented by the wide solid line in figure 30.
  • LP m figure 8 represented by the wide solid line in figure 30.
  • Figures 32-37 illustrate the interpolation or up-sampling process in more detail.
  • Figure 32 shows the spectrum of a baseband signal.
  • the spectrum in figure 33 represents the spectrum of a signal obtained by zero filling the signal having the spectrum in figure 32. In the example 6 zeroes have been inserted between every sample in the original signal. After lowpass filtering (indicated by the wide solid line in figure 33) the spectrum of tiie interpolated signal looks as in figure 34.
  • FIG. 35 shows tiie same original signal as figure 32. After zero filling the spectrum looks as in figure 36, which is similar to figure 33. However, instead of lowpass filtering to obtain an interpolated baseband signal, one of the replicas is used for further processing. This has been indicated by the wide solid line in figure
  • This line represents a complex bandpass filter instead of a lowpass filter (in fact it represents the same lowpass filter transformed to a higher frequency as explained above with reference to figures 1 and 2), which produces the desired high frequency signal (figure 36) As in the case of decimation the desired frequency band has to lie on the "replica grid".
  • Figure 38 is a flow chart illustrating die essential steps in the channel or channel group separation method in accordance with the present invention.
  • Figure 39 is a flow chart illustrating the essential steps in the channel or channel group combination method in accordance with tiie present invention.
  • Figure 40 illustrates a generalization of the decimation and interpolation methods described above.
  • the resampling of the signal is performed by a rational factor U/D. This is done by an up-sampling by a factor U, followed by bandpass filtering and down-sampling by a factor D. In this way it may be easier to adapt the channels to the "replica grid".
  • the preferred embodiment of the present invention relies on the feature that channels e on, or may be transformed to (by rational resampling), the proper "replica grid".
  • some of the channels may not he on or be resampled to such a grid, which means that these channels may not be directly decimated down to baseband or inte ⁇ olated up to passband.
  • most of the advantage obtained by the present invention may still be gained by performing a demodulation after decimation or a modulation before inte ⁇ olation for these channels. These extra steps move these channels to frequencies on the grid, but do so at a low demodulation/modulation frequency instead of a high frequency as in the prior art. This still significantly reduces complexity.
  • Figure 41 is a block diagram ot a modified embodiment of a base station in accordance with the present invention that transforms a wideband high-frequency signal into separated baseband signals.
  • the difference between this modified version and the preferred embodiment of figure 8 is that low frequency demodulators DEM, defined by demodulation frequencies ⁇ , ⁇ 2 , ..., ⁇ N , have been provided after decimators ,D to down-convert the channels that did not quite reach baseband by die decimation. Since tins may apply only to some of the channels, the demodolators DEM are surrounded by a dashed line (they are only included if actually needed).
  • Figure 42 is a modified embodiment of a base station in accordance with the present invention that transforms a set of baseband signals into a wideband high-frequency signal.
  • the difference between tins modified version and the preferred embodiment of figure 12 is that low frequency modulators MOD, defined by modulation frequencies ⁇ , ⁇ 2 , ..., Q N , have been provided before interpolators U to up-convert the channels that would not quite reach the passband by the inte ⁇ olation. Since tins may apply only to some of the channels, the modolators MOD are surrounded by a dashed line (they are only included if actually needed).
  • Figure 43 is a flow chart illustrating the modified method for transforming a wideband signal into a set of baseband signals in accordance with the present invention.
  • the difference with respect to the flow chart in figure 38 is the extra demodulation step after the down-sampling step.
  • Figure 44 is a flow chart illustrating the modified method for transforming a set ot baseband signals into a wideband signal in accordance with the present invention.
  • the difference with respect to the flow chart in figure 39 is tiie extra modulation step before the up-sampling step.
  • complex bandpass filters that are used in the base station of the present invention preferably comprise complex BDLF filters, but it should be understood that other complex filter structures, such as FIR filters, WDF filters, biquads, etc may also be used.

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A base station in a radio communication system uses complex bandpass filters (Φ1, Φ2, ..., ΦN) and down-sampling to channelize a wideband signal containing many channels or channel groups.

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SIGNAL TRANSFORMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invenuon relates to a method and apparatus for transforming a real digital wideband high-frequency signal into a set of complex digital baseband signals, a method and apparatus for transforming a set of complex digital baseband signals into a real digital wideband high- frequency signal, a preferred type of complex filter that may be used in these transformations and a base station in a radio communication system that uses these transformations.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A base station in a mobile telephony system receives and transmits wideband high- reαuency radio signals having a bandwidth of up to 30 MHz. The received wideband signal is separated into narrowband (for example 30 kHz wide) channels (FDMA) or channel groups (TDM A). In the reverse process channels or channel groups are combined into a wideband signal for transmission.
It has been suggested to perform A/D conversion of the entire wideband spectrum and to perform the channel separation digitally. For each channel or channel group the digital wideband signal is demodulated with a different frequency in order to shift this particular channel or channel group down to the baseband. The demodulation is performed with a quadrature network for generaung the I and Q components. Thereafter these components are low-pass filtered in order to separate the desired channel or channel group from the unwanted neighbor channels or channel groups. Finally the samples of the separated signals are decimated (down-sampled).
In the reverse process baseband signals are interpolated (up-sampled), modulated and combined into a wideband signal.
A drawback of these methods is that the demodulation and modulation has to be performed at the high sampling frequency of the digital wideband signal, which requires a lot of data processing. Furthermore, the required local oscillators and multipliers require a lot of space and are power consuming. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to reduce the amount of required data processing in the transformation from wideband signal to baseband signals and from baseband signals to wideband signals.
This object is solved by the method, apparatus and base station in accordance with the accompanying claims.
A further object of the present invention is a preferred type of complex filter that is used in this transformation
Briefly the present invention performs the channel separation at the high wideband signal sampling frequency by using complex bandpass filters. Instead of demodulating the wideband signal down to baseband, a frequency reduction may be performed on the I and Q signals that are obtained directly from the complex filters simply by decimating (down-sampling) the number of samples
In a modification of the present invention, used when d e baseband may not reached directly by decimation, most of the advantage may still be obtained by performing a demodulation to baseband after decimation to a frequency near baseband
Similarly, a complex filter may be used to filter an interpolated (up-sampled) baseband or low 5 frequency signal for obtaining a narrowband high-frequency signal. Such high-frequency signals may then be combined into a wideband signal for transmission.
In a modification of the present invention, used when the high frequency band may not reached directly by interpolation, most of the advantage may still be obtained by pertorming a o modulation to a frequency near baseband before the interpolation. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The invention, together with further objects and advantages thereof, may best be understood by making reference to the following description taken together with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIGURE 1 is a block diagram of a simple FIR filter;
FIGURE 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a corresponding complex FIR filter;
FIGURE 3 is a block diagram of another embodiment of a complex FIR filter;
FIGURE 4 is a block diagram illustrating complex multiplication performed by the filters in figures 2 and 3;
FIGURE 5 is a block diagram of a real bilinear digital ladder filter (BDLF filter);
FIGURE 6 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a complex BDLF filter in accordance with the present invention;
FIGURE 7 is a block diagram of a previously known base station that transforms a wideband high-frequency signal into separated baseband signals;
FIGURE 8 is a block diagram of a preferred embodiment of a base station in accordance with the present invention that transforms a wideband high-frequency signal into separated baseband signals;
FIGURE 9 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating die operation of the base station in figure 7;
FIGURE 10 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the operation of die base station m figure 8:
FIGURE 11 is a block diagram of a previously known base station that transforms a set of baseband signals into a wideband high-frequency signal; FIGURE 12 is a preferred embodiment of a base station in accordance with the present invention that transforms a set of baseband signals into a wideband high-frequency signal;
FIGURE 13 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the operation of the base station in figure 11 ;
FIGURE 14 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the operation of the base station in figure 12;
FIGURE 15 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a baseband signal; FIGURE 16 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of setting some of the samples in a baseband signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 15 to zero; FIGURE 17 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of omitting the zero samples in a signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 16;
FIGURE 18 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a passband signal;
FIGURE 19 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of setting some of the samples in a passband signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 18 to zero;
FIGURE 20 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating die effect of omitting the zero samples in a signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 19;
FIGURE 21 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a wideband signal;
FIGURE 22 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a complex filter intended to operate 0 on a wideband signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 21;
FIGURE 23 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of the complex filter on a wideband signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 21 ;
FIGURE 24 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of setting some of the samples in a passband signal having die power spectrum of Fig. 23 to zero; s FIGURE 25 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating die effect of omitting the zero samples in a signal having d e power spectrum of Fig. 24;
FIGURE 26 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a wideband signal;
FIGURE 27 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a complex filter intended to operate on a wideband signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 26; o FIGURE 28 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating die effect of the complex filter on a wideband signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 26;
FIGURE 29 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating die effect of setting some of the samples in a passband signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 28 to zero;
FIGURE 30 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of omitting the zero 5 samples in a signal having die power spectrum of Fig. 29;
FIGURE 31 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating d e effect of lowpass filtering a signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 30;
FIGURE 32 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a baseband signal;
FIGURE 33 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of zero filling a baseband o signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 32;
FIGURE 34 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of lowpass filtering a signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 33;
FIGURE 35 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating a baseband signal; FIGURE 36 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of zero filling a baseband signal having die power spectrum of Fig. 35:
FIGURE 37 is a power spectrum diagram illustrating the effect of complex passband filtering a signal having the power spectrum of Fig. 36; FIGURE 38 is a flow chart illustrating the mediod for transforming a wideband signal into a set of baseband signals in accordance with d e present invention;
FIGURE 39 is a flow chart illustrating the method for transforming a set of baseband signals into a wideband signal in accordance with the present invention;
FIGURE 40 is a block diagram of a more general sampling rate converter that converts sampling frequencies by rational ratios;
FIGURE 41 is a block diagram ot a modified embodiment of a base station in accordance widi the present invention that transforms a wideband high-frequencv signal into separated baseband signals,
FIGURE 42 is a modified embodiment of a base station in accordance with the present invention that transforms a set of baseband signals into a wideband high-frequency signal;
FIGURE 43 is a flow chart illustrating a modified mediod in accordance with the present invention tor transforming a wideband signal into a set of baseband signals; and
FIGURE 44 is a flow chart illustrating modified method in accordance with the present invention tor transforming a set of baseband signals into a wideband signal;
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Throughout die figures of die drawings the same reference designations will be used for the same or similar elements
Since the concept of a complex filter is essential tor the present invention, this description will start by introducing complex filters with reference to figures 1-6.
Figure 1 illustrates a simple FIR filter having two delay elements denoted z 1 and filter o coefficients a,,, a, and a2
An essential component of the present invention is a complex bandpass filter. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention such a complex bandpass filter is designed bv designing a low-pass filter prototype having all the desired properties, i.e. passband ripple, transmission band and cut off frequency, and by frequency translating this low-pass filter into a complex bandpass filter. This frequency translation is done by substituting ZQ z for z in the lowpass filter prototype transfer function. Here Zn is a point on the unit circle defined by
= e°τ where 0 IS the center (angular) frequency of the passband of the translated complex filter and T is the sampling period.
Assuming that figure 1 represents the low-pass filter prototype, the corresponding complex bandpass filter may be of the form shown in figure 2 In figure 2 a multiplication by a factor z0 ' is associated with each delay element z ' Furthermore, in figure 2 the signal paths have been provided with double arrow heads in order to emphasize that the signals may be complex valued
Figure 3 shows an equivalent complex filter, in which the complex multiplication has been combined with the filter coefficients instead, thereby reducing the number of required multipliers Thus, the transfer functions of the filters in figures 2 and 3 are the same.
Figure 4 illustrates a possible implementation of a multiplication of a complex input signal a by a complex coefficient z0 for obtaining a complex output signal B. As may be seen from figure 4 this is accomplished by splitting the signals A and B and the multiplication coefficient z<, into their respective real and imaginary components and performing 4 real multiplications and 2 real additions.
An especially attractive form of digital filters are so called bilinear digital ladder filters (BDLF filters). The advantages of real BDLF filter are extensively discussed in [1]. This publication demonstrates that these filter outperform previously known real filter structures, such as wave digital filters (WDF filters) and cascade coupled biquads with respect to coefficient quantization and signal quantization noise levels. Furthermore, in comparison to WDF filters they turn out to have a less complicated structure in terms of the total number of required adders. Figure 5 shows a block diagram of a real fifth order BDLF low-pass filter. In this figure the same designations have been used as in f 1]. Of special interest here are the delay elements z 1 If these elements are supplemented by a multiplication by z,, ' this low-pass filter may be transformed into a bandpass filter as the filters of figures 2 and 3. Such a complex BDLF bandpass filter is illustrated m the block diagram of figure 6. (By utilizing high pass filters or wideband low-pass filter prototypes it is also possible to design complex band stop filters by performing the frequency shift on these prototypes instead.) The reason complex BDLF filters are preferred is that they maintain the excellent properties of real BDLF filters mentioned above
After having described complex filters as such, the application of these filters to the base station according to the present invention will now be described.
Fig. 7 illustrates a typical base station in a radio communication system. To facilitate the description, only the blocks that are necessary to describe the difference between the prior art and the present invention are included in die figure. An antenna receives a wideband signal that is amplified in a amplifier A, passed through a bandpass filter BP and converted into a digital real wideband signal by an analog-to-digital converter A/D. In the illustrated embodiment the A/D conversion is performed directly on the RF signal, however, it is also possible to perform the A/D conversion on an IF signal by including one or more mixing stages between bandpass filter BP and the A/D converter The digital wideband signal includes all die channels (in an FDMA system) or channel groups (in a TDMA system). Thus, a channel or channel group separation is performed by feeding the digital wideband signal to a set of demodulators DEM These demodulators have respective demodulation frequencies Ω_, Ω2, •• Ω\ * which corresponds to the center frequencies of the frequency bands that are to be separated. The demodulator produces the inphase (I) and quadrature (Q) components of each frequency band However, since the demodulation is performed on the entire wideband signal the I and Q components have to be low-pass filtered in filters LP The signals are now at baseband, but have an unnecessary high sampling rate. Therefore the sampling rate is reduced in down-samplers D, which essentially discard the required number of samples to reduce the sampling rate. For example, if the wideband signal has a bandwidth of 30 MHz and comprises 1.000 channels (N= 1000) or channel groups, each having a band width of only 30 kHz, down-samplers -D will typically retain only every 1000./. sample
A serious drawback of this previously known base station is that the demodulation has to be performed at a very high frequency (of the same order of magnitude as twice the bandwidth of the wideband signal). Since the signal is already in digital form, this implies an enormous amount of multiplications of the samples by sine and cosine values stored in tables.
Figure 8 illustrates a similar block diagram of a base station in accordance with the present invention. The received signal is amplified, bandpass filtered and converted to digital form as in the embodiment of figure 7. However, the digital wideband signal is not forwarded to demodulators as in figure 7, but is instead forwarded to a set of complex bandpass filters CMPLX BP having center frequencies Ωι > Ω2» •■• ΩN- Since the wideband signal is a real signal, the other input to these complex bandpass filters CMPLX BP will be 0 (in this description it is assumed that die upper input and ouφut signals of a complex bandpass filter correspond to the real parts while the lower input and ouφut signals correspond to the imaginary part). These complex digital bandpass filters will directly produce the desired I and Q components (since the real and imaginary ouφut signals from a complex filter are already in quadrature), but at the narrow high-frequency bands centered around Ω, , 2, ..., QN instead of at the baseband. These I and Q components are down-sampled in down-samplers D. If the wideband signal is assumed to have a bandwiddi of 30 MHz and the narrow bands are assumed to have a bandwidth of 30 kHz, the decimation will be of the order of 1000 times. Finally the decimated signals are low-pass filtered in digital low-pass filters LP.
Figures 9 and 10 compare the signal processing of die previously known base station in figure 7 and die base station of the present invention in accordance with the embodiment of figure 8. Both embodiments start with a digital wideband signal WB. This wideband signal contains a large number of frequency bands, each band containing a channel or channel group. In figures 9 and 10 P represents the power of the respective signals, while represents (angular) frequency. Wideband signal WB is a high-frequency signal. This fact has been represented by a broken frequency axis. In the previously known base station the demodulations bring the channels of the wideband signal down to baseband. This may be seen in the middle of figure 9. Note that the entire signal has been transformed to the base band, and mat different frequency bands of the wideband signal are centered on die base band, depending on the used demodulation frequencies
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In the base station of the present invention instead of demodulating wideband signal WB, this signal is passed through a set complex bandpass filters CMPLX BP. This transforms the wideband signal WB into a set of complex high-frequency narrowband signals centered around center frequencies l 5 Q2, •••- ΩN» as illustrated in the middle of figure 10
In the previously known base station die low-pass filtering will remove die unwanted narrow frequency bands and the decimation will reduce the sampling rate. The result will be the separated baseband signals illustrated on the right in figure 9.
In the base station of d e present invention the complex narrowband high-frequency signals are decimated. Finally, these decimated signals are low-pass filtered for obtaining the separated complex baseband signals. These steps will be further described with reference to figures 15-31.
Figures 7-10 described how a wideband signal is separated into channels or channel groups. Figures 11-14 describe the reverse process, namely how channels or channel groups may be combined into a wideband signal for transmission by a base station
Figure 11 shows die prior art solution to this problem The I and Q components, which now are baseband signals, are inteφolated in up-samplers γU and lowpass filters LP. This up-sampling may be performed by inserting a number of zero samples between every sample of I and Q. If the same frequency bands as before are assumed, 999 zeros will be inserted between every sample of I and Q. This up-sampling produces a sequence in which replicas of the original spectrum are produced. The inteφolated sequence is then obtained by low-pass filtering these signals in low-pass filters LP. This removes die replicas of the spectrum that are obtained by die zero filling. The inteφolated signals are then modulated in modulators MOD at modulation frequencies Ω2, ..., fjN. The resulting components are combined in adders, and the obtained real narrowband high-frequency signals are combined, D/A converted, bandpass filtered (BP), amplified (A) and transmitted. This previously known base station has the same drawback as the base station in figure 7, namely that an enormous amount of multiplications have to be performed during die modulation process of the interpolated signal.
Figure 12 illustrates a corresponding base station in accordance with the present invention. As in the embodiment of figure 11 zero filling will introduce replicas of the spectra. However, in this case one of these replicas is chosen as the spectrum that is to be maintained, namely the replica with center frequency V 1 = 1 , 2, ..., N. This narrow spectrum is obtained by filtering the zero filled or up-sampled signals dirough complex bandpass filters CMPLX BP with center frequencies Q_ Q2, • ••< ΩN- AS a side effect a real narrowband high-frequency signal is obtained directly from these complex bandpass filters (in reality a small imaginary part may remain due to, for example, quantization errors, but this part is simply ignored). The rest of the base station in figure 12 corresponds to the base station in figure 11.
Figures 13 and 14 illustrate these processes in signal spectrum form. In figure 13, which corresponds to the base station in figure 11 , the baseband signals are inteφolated, modulated and bandpass filtered. This gives the narrowband high-frequency signals in the middle of the figure. These signals are combined into a wideband signal WB.
In figure 14, which corresponds to the base station of figure 12, the baseband signals are up- sampled and bandpass filtered at die corresponding center frequencies ,, Ω2, .... I N These steps are described in more detail with reference to figures 32-37. Finally the high-frequency narrowband signals are combined into wideband signal WB.
The decimation process will now be explained with reference to figures 15-31.
Figures 15-17 illustrate decimation of a baseband signal. The spectrum of the original signal is shown in figure 15. A new signal may be obtained from this signal by retaining every Mth sample and setting the rest of the samples equal to zero. For example, performing tins process with M=6 produces a signal with the spectrum shown in figure 16. The effect of the "zeroing" is to produce uniformly spaced replicas of the original spectrum. The decimation is completed by omitting the zero samples. The resulting spectrum is shown in figure 17. The effect of omitting the zero samples is to lower the sampling frequency from fs to fs' (fs ' = fs/6 in the example).
In practice the above described "zeroing" step is omitted and only every Mth sample is retained. However, the "zeroing" step makes it easier to understand how the same decimation process may also be used for passband signals. This will now be explained with reference to figures 18- 20.
Figure 18 illustrates the spectrum of a passband signal. As in the case with the baseband signal replicas of this spectrum are produced by zero filling the original signal. If the sampling frequency fs and decimation factor M have been carefully selected, the spectrum ot one of the replicas of the passband signal will fall into the baseband. This is illustrated by figure 19. In fact a comparison between figures 16 and 19 shows that they are in fact identical. Thus, by omitting the zero samples a decimated baseband signal with lower sampling frequency will be obtained also in this case, as illustrated by figure 20
Thus, a key feature in the conversion of a passband signal to baseband by decimation is that the passband signal falls on the "replica grid" produced by the "zeroing". In such a case a replica of the passband signal spectrum will automatically be produced in the baseband. A higher decimation factor will produce a denser grid and therefor increase the number of possible passband positions.
Figures 21-25 illustrate decimation by a factor M = 10. Figure 21 illustrates tiie spectrum of the wideband signal from analog-to-digital converter A/D in figure 8. Here all possible "replica grid" positions have been indicated. However, the operator ot the radio communication system is allocated only a certain frequency band in this wideband signal. In figure 21 only 3 channels (or channel groups) have been reserved for this operator. Note that all 3 channels e on the "replica grid". It is therefor possible to separate and convert all 3 channels to baseband. Assume that the first of these channels is to be separated and converted to baseband. This has been indicated in figure 22 where die thick line represents tiie transfer function of a complex bandpass filter. After filtering the spectrum in figure 23 is obtained. This is similar to the spectrum in figure 18. Therefore figures 24 and 25 are similar to figures 19 and 20, respectively. Note that the replicas in figure 24 lie in the same grid positions as the channels in figure 21 as intended. Since the other 2 channels used by the operator also lie on the same grid, it is possible to convert also these channels to base band by using the same decimation factor (M= 10).
Since the channel separation typically is only ot die order of 25-30 kHz and the wideband signal may have a bandwidth of the order ot 30 MHz, this puts rather tough requirements on the complex bandpass filter, since the transition band is very narrow. Figures 26-31 illustrate a way to reduce these requirements by widening tiie transition band.
Figure 26 illustrates a similar wideband signal as in figure 21. However, in tins case not every channel in the operator band is actually used, rather only channel 1 and 3 are used. As will be shown below, this makes it possible to choose a wider filter as illustrated in figure 27. After complex bandpass filtering (figure 28), zeroing (figure 29) and omission of zeroes the spectrum looks as in figure 30. (Note that in tins example the decimation factor M=5.) The unwanted part of the spectrum may be eliminated by a lowpass filter (LP m figure 8) represented by the wide solid line in figure 30. The result is the spectrum in figure 31. If a decimation factor M = 10 is desirable, this may be still be accomplished by performing another decimation by a factor 2 (M=5*2= 10) on tiie signal in figure 31. This would result in the same spectrum as m figure 25.
Figures 32-37 illustrate the interpolation or up-sampling process in more detail. Figure 32 shows the spectrum of a baseband signal. The spectrum in figure 33 represents the spectrum of a signal obtained by zero filling the signal having the spectrum in figure 32. In the example 6 zeroes have been inserted between every sample in the original signal. After lowpass filtering (indicated by the wide solid line in figure 33) the spectrum of tiie interpolated signal looks as in figure 34.
As in the case with decimation the above inteφolation method may be applied for obtaining passband signals. This is illustrated by figures 35-37. Figure 35 shows tiie same original signal as figure 32. After zero filling the spectrum looks as in figure 36, which is similar to figure 33. However, instead of lowpass filtering to obtain an interpolated baseband signal, one of the replicas is used for further processing. This has been indicated by the wide solid line in figure
36. This line represents a complex bandpass filter instead of a lowpass filter (in fact it represents the same lowpass filter transformed to a higher frequency as explained above with reference to figures 1 and 2), which produces the desired high frequency signal (figure 36) As in the case of decimation the desired frequency band has to lie on the "replica grid".
Figure 38 is a flow chart illustrating die essential steps in the channel or channel group separation method in accordance with the present invention.
Figure 39 is a flow chart illustrating the essential steps in the channel or channel group combination method in accordance with tiie present invention.
Figure 40 illustrates a generalization of the decimation and interpolation methods described above. In figure 18 the resampling of the signal is performed by a rational factor U/D. This is done by an up-sampling by a factor U, followed by bandpass filtering and down-sampling by a factor D. In this way it may be easier to adapt the channels to the "replica grid".
As noted above the preferred embodiment of the present invention relies on the feature that channels e on, or may be transformed to (by rational resampling), the proper "replica grid". However, some of the channels may not he on or be resampled to such a grid, which means that these channels may not be directly decimated down to baseband or inteφolated up to passband. In such a case most of the advantage obtained by the present invention may still be gained by performing a demodulation after decimation or a modulation before inteφolation for these channels. These extra steps move these channels to frequencies on the grid, but do so at a low demodulation/modulation frequency instead of a high frequency as in the prior art. This still significantly reduces complexity.
Figure 41 is a block diagram ot a modified embodiment of a base station in accordance with the present invention that transforms a wideband high-frequency signal into separated baseband signals. The difference between this modified version and the preferred embodiment of figure 8 is that low frequency demodulators DEM, defined by demodulation frequencies ωι, ω2, ..., ωN, have been provided after decimators ,D to down-convert the channels that did not quite reach baseband by die decimation. Since tins may apply only to some of the channels, the demodolators DEM are surrounded by a dashed line (they are only included if actually needed).
Figure 42 is a modified embodiment of a base station in accordance with the present invention that transforms a set of baseband signals into a wideband high-frequency signal. The difference between tins modified version and the preferred embodiment of figure 12 is that low frequency modulators MOD, defined by modulation frequencies ωι, ω2, ..., QN, have been provided before interpolators U to up-convert the channels that would not quite reach the passband by the inteφolation. Since tins may apply only to some of the channels, the modolators MOD are surrounded by a dashed line (they are only included if actually needed).
Figure 43 is a flow chart illustrating the modified method for transforming a wideband signal into a set of baseband signals in accordance with the present invention. The difference with respect to the flow chart in figure 38 is the extra demodulation step after the down-sampling step. Figure 44 is a flow chart illustrating the modified method for transforming a set ot baseband signals into a wideband signal in accordance with the present invention. The difference with respect to the flow chart in figure 39 is tiie extra modulation step before the up-sampling step.
As has been mentioned above the complex bandpass filters that are used in the base station of the present invention preferably comprise complex BDLF filters, but it should be understood that other complex filter structures, such as FIR filters, WDF filters, biquads, etc may also be used.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications and changes may be made to the present invention without departure from the spirit and scope thereof, which is defined bv the appended claims.
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1. A method of transforming a real digital wideband high-frequency signal into a set of complex digital baseband signals, characterized by the steps of: forming a set of complex digital narrowband high-frequency signals by simultaneously filtering said real digital wideband high-frequency signal through a set of complex digital bandpass filters having essentially non-overlapping narrow passbands; and converting said set of complex digital narrowband high-frequency signals into said set of complex digital baseband signals by down-sampling and low-pass filtering each complex digital narrowband high-frequency signal into a corresponding complex digital baseband signal.
2. The method of claim 1, characterized by said converting step including demodulating at least some of said complex digital narrowband high-frequency signals after down-sampling but before low-pass filtering
3. An apparatus for transforming a real digital wideband high-frequency signal into a set of complex digital baseband signals, characterized by a set of complex digital bandpass filters (Ω,, Ω2, ..., QN) having essentially non-overlapping narrow passbands for separating said real digital wideband high-frequency signal into a set of complex digital narrowband high-frequency signals; and means (^D, LP) for converting said set of complex digital narrowband high-frequency signals into said set of complex digital baseband signals by down-sampling ( D) and low-pass filtering (LP) each complex digital narrowband high-frequency signal into a corresponding complex digital baseband signal.
4. The apparatus of claim 3, characterized by said means D, LP) for converting including demodulators (DEM) for demodulating at least some of said complex digital narrowband high- frequency signals after down-sampling (4,D) but before low-pass filtering (LP).
5. The apparatus of claim 3 or 4, characterized by each of said complex digital bandpass filters
ι » Ω2. •••ι ΩN) being formed by a real digital lowpass filter that has been transformed into a complex digital bandpass filter through a transformation of its digital lowpass filter transfer function into a complex digital bandpass filter transfer function.
6. The apparatus of claim 5, characterized by said complex digital bandpass filters (Ω_, Ω2> •••> ΩN) being formed by bilinear digital ladder filters with complex transfer functions.
7. A method of transforming a set of complex digital baseband signals into a real digital wideband high-frequency signal, characterized by the steps of: converting said set of complex digital baseband signals into a set of complex digital high- frequency signals by up-sampling each complex digital baseband signal into a corresponding complex digital high-frequency signal, forming a set of real digital narrowband high-frequency signals by filtering said set of complex high-frequency signals through a corresponding set of complex digital bandpass filters having essentially non-overlapping narrow passbands; and adding said real digital narrowband high-frequency signals for forming said real digital wideband high-frequency signal
8. The method of claim 7, characterized by said converting step including modulating at least some of said complex digital baseband signals before up-sampling.
9. An apparatus for transforming a set of complex digital baseband signals into a real digital wideband high-frequency signal, characterized by: means ( U) for converting said set of complex digital baseband signals into a set of complex digital high-frequency signals by up-sampling ( U) each complex digital baseband signal into a corresponding complex digital high-frequency signal; a set of complex digital bandpass filters (χι,, 2, ..., ΩN) having essentially non-overlapping narrow passbands for filtering said set of complex digital high frequency signals into a set of real digital narrowband high-frequency signals; and means (+) for adding said real digital narrowband high-frequency signals for forming said real digital wideband high-frequency signal.
10. The apparatus of claim 8, characterized by said converting means including modulators (MOD) for modulating at least some of said complex digital baseband signals before up- sampling.
11. The apparatus of claim 9 or 10, characterized by each of said complex digital bandpass filters ( i, Ω2. ••• . ΩN) being formed by a real digital lowpass filter that has been transformed into a complex digital bandpass filter through a transformation of its digital lowpass filter transfer function into a complex digital bandpass filter transfer function.
12. The apparatus of claim 11, characterized by said complex digital bandpass filters (Ωi, Ω2> • ••, ΩN) being formed by bilinear digital ladder filters with complex transfer functions.
13. A bilinear digital ladder filter, characterized by a complex transfer function.
14. The filter of claim 13, characterized by complex filter coefficients.
15. The filter of claim 13, characterized by each filter delay element, in addition to a delay, being associated with a multiplication by a predetermined complex number
16. The filter of claim 15, characterized by each filter delay element being associated with a multiplication by the same predetermined complex number (z0 ').
17. The filter of claim 16, characterized by said filter forming a complex bandpass filter.
18. A base station in a radio communication system, said base station including means for transforming a real digital wideband high-frequency signal into a set of complex digital baseband signals, characterized by: a set of complex digital bandpass filters (Ωi, Ω21 •••■. ΩN) having essentially non-overlapping narrow passbands for separating said real digital wideband high-frequency signal into a set of complex digital narrowband high-frequency signals; and means ( D, LP) for converting said set of complex digital narrowband high-frequency signals into said set of complex digital baseband signals by down-sampling (^D) and low-pass filtering (LP) each complex digital narrowband high-frequency signal into a corresponding complex digital baseband signal.
19. The base station of claim 18, characterized by said means ( -D, LP) for converting including demodulators (DEM) for demodulating at least some of said complex digital narrowband high- frequency signals after down-sampling (ID) but before low-pass filtering (LP)
20. The base station of claim 18 or 19, characterized by each of said complex digital bandpass filters (Ω, , 2, ■■■! ΩN) being formed by a real digital lowpass filter that has been transformed into a complex digital bandpass filter through a transformation of its digital lowpass filter transfer function into a complex digital bandpass filter transfer function.
21. The base station of claim 20, characterized by said complex digital bandpass filters (Ωi, Ω2. •••> ΩN) being formed by bilinear digital ladder filters with complex transfer functions
22. A base station in a radio communication system, said base station including means for transforming a set of complex digital baseband signals into a real digital wideband high- frequency signal, characterized by- means ( U) tor converting said set of complex digital baseband signals into a set of complex digital high-frequency signals by up-sampling (^U) each complex digital baseband signal into a corresponding complex digital high-frequency signal, a set of complex digital bandpass filters (Ω_, Ω2, > ΩN) having essentially non-overlapping narrow passbands for filtering said set of complex digital high frequency signals into a set of real digital narrowband high-frequency signals; and means (+) for adding said real digital narrowband high-frequency signals for forming said real digital wideband high-frequency signal
23. The base station of claim 22, characterized by said converting means including modulators (MOD) for modulating at least some of said complex digital baseband signals before up- sampling.
24. The base station of claim 22 or 23, characterized by each of said complex digital bandpass filters (Ω, , Q2, . , ΩN) being formed by a real digital lowpass filter that has been transformed into a complex digital bandpass filter through a transformation of its digital lowpass filter transfer function into a complex digital bandpass filter transfer function.
25. The base station of claim 24, characterized by said complex digital bandpass filters (Ω, , Ω2. • • . ΩN) being formed by bilinear digital ladder filters with complex transfer functions
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