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The 2015 Excellence in eGovernment Awards, ICT Professional of the Year Award, and the ICT Young Professional of the Year Award (the Awards) are now open for online nomination.
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Pet Piglet Begs For Human Food [VIDEO]
Almost anyone with a dog knows that they love to beg for food at the kitchen table or wherever their owner is eating, but who would have thought that pet piggies would as well?!?
Almost anyone with a dog knows that they love to beg for food at the kitchen table or wherever their owner is eating, but who would have thought that pet piggies would as well?!?
Do you hate listening to the dreadfully boring flight attendant safety precautions at the beginning of flights? Well if every safety lesson were like this woman's it would make flights that much more pleasant.
This is the BEST April Fools prank ever! A teacher at Aquinas College in Michigan has a policy, if your phone rings during class, you have to answer it on speaker phone.
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Have you ever lost a bet? I bet it wasn't as funny as the one two brothers made over a basketball game. For the first time, the older brother lost and had to dance on a busy street corner in Provo, Utah for a half hour to whatever music his younger brother chose. Although it sounds humiliating, the losing brother made the best of it and danced like nobody was watching. Two women passing by even joined in.
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Each of us conjures our own city, one of many incarnations; a place throbbing with so many layers, meanings, and hidden corners cannot be the same for any two citizens.
Communion Town calls to mind David Mitchell's Ghostwritten, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, and China Miéville's The City & The City, but is uniquely its own. This incandescent novel maps an imaginary city and explores the lives of its outcasts and scapegoats. Each chapter is told from the perspective of a different citizen — defining the city itself as a character, both protagonist and antagonist — and each is told in a different genre, from a hardboiled detective story to steampunk to gothic horror, displaying the great range of Sam Thompson's literary ability. As the novel unfolds in different neighborhoods, we encounter a lovelorn folksinger, a repressed detective, a slaughterhouse worker, a lost tourist, a bon vivant, and a ghost. From their lonely voices we gather the many-faceted story of the city: a place imagined differently by each citizen as he or she searches for connection, transformation, or escape.
"Sam Thompson's debut, a novel of stories set in enigmatic Communion Town, landed a coveted spot on the Man Booker longlist. Like David Mitchell and Italo Calvino, Thompson has some fun trying out literary styles. One chapter is written as a noir-ish caper, another as a futuristic romance, another follows a serial killer, and there's even a lovely childhood fable with notes of magical realism. The cumulative effect is of a world simultaneously revealed and obscured: just when you've gotten a grip on Communion Town, it's transformed. Thompson's sentences are graceful enough that he mostly pulls off these crafty fireworks — at least when it comes to miming a style. But too often, exhilarating sentences (like one describing the sea as 'full of the movements of an anticipatory audience, rustling programs, shushing itself...') are buried in descriptive layers that deaden an entire page. In the opening story, a dramatic event is obliquely mentioned over and over in the span of 20 pages. When the action is revealed, it hardly seems worth the wait. Thompson is a talented writer with a seemingly boundless interest in language and its potential; one can't help but wish that he applied some of his energy to getting to the point." Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
"Thompson is a master of voice...as well as imagined geography....Communion Town is a book for the careful reader; the stories, though they stand on their own, build to a multi-narrative that rewards attention to detail. Thompson's dexterity in this regard is the surest sign that he is a writer to watch, and the Booker listing a sign of things to come." The Daily Beast
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"What a place: Communion Town is a vividly depicted dystopia with a faintly steampunk air…meticulous prose…this accomplished book is quite novel indeed." Washington Independent Review of Books
"Lyrical and suspenseful… Communion Town serves as the real protagonist, a fully realized place that Thompson — with often breathtaking prose and versatility — peoples with cynics, dangerous wanderers, and lonely outcasts. A shadowy city saturated with life and lore, and held together by human struggles." Booklist
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A secretive mission will pass a quiet milestone at the end of this month when the U.S. Air Force's unmanned spaceplane the X-37B surpasses 500 days in space.
A secretive mission will pass a quiet milestone at the end of this month when the U.S. Air Force's unmanned spaceplane the X-37B surpasses 500 days in space.
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Hello Irina
You had posted photos of your
blue/purple AVs. One was Private Dancer.
I was about to order one called Modesty
from Optimara before I viewed your photo.
That encouraged me to wait to order PD.
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It was not me. I had Private Dancer before and it is an absolutely lovely plant. Optimara is probably going to be tougher - so it is your call.
Since I cannot keep everything - I usually sell them off on our Show and Sale - so I can have space to try something else.
I am kind of wary of RR. The reason is a wide spread of the INSV virus - and the fact that if the culture is good - the plant doesn't show it that well. You can with best intentions put the rare plant leaf in the RR - and - oops - somebody loses the whole collection.
If something looks stunted when it shouldn't - chuck it. Do not save stunted plants from the shelves of a big box store - or neglected plants from friends - you can bring doom to the rest of your treasured collection.
I chucked literally hundreds of plants in 2007.
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I was reading a book on building your own greenhouse and hot beds with various materials.
Two of the suggestions were galvanized pipe and rebar. The author said wherever the plastic film rubs on metal, a hole will appear. He suggested covering the metal with rubber or foam tubing.
All the materials I could find would be pretty expensive. Then I thought of that latex used to dip tool handles in.
I am thinking of using a small roller to roll this material onto the metal where it would touch the film.
Has anyone done anything like this?
My first thought was to roll the latex on the side of the panels that would be on the outside, then arch them into place. Then I wondered if bending the panels would stretch the latex too much.
My second thought was to arch the panels into place, then roll the latex on the outer surfaces.
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Cattle panels make a good little greenhouse about 8 feet wide. I made one and used it for one year and then went much larger. The metal never rubbed a hole in the plastic. Just bend them with the vertical pieces on the inside. Run your hand over the horizontal pieces and if you find a rough spot, grind it or file it down or wrap it with tape. The ends are the problem, there is a very easy and cheap fix. The wires stick out about 1/2 inch. So I took black pipe insulation as small as you can find and put it on the ends. Then wrap a few pieces of tape every few feet. This covers the ends and protects the plastic. You could use plastic pipe or even garden hose, but you will have to split those. The pipe insulation is foam and is already split.
Here is a picture of the building that I built three years ago.
Here's a site that shows a hoop house made from square tube coated with what I believe is a clear plastic coating. They don't indicate any issues with rubbing through. I really like their design too.
Here is a link that might be useful: Hoop House
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An electrical terminal is provided for an electrically heated glass sheet. The terminal includes a base plate defining a central axis generally perpendicular thereto. The base plate is concentric about the axis to facilitate spin-soldering the terminal to a conductive pad on the glass sheet. A terminal post projects upwardly from the base plate for connection to an appropriate mating terminal. The terminal is a drawn, one-piece laminated structure including a base conductor layer and a solder layer.
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a unitary laminated structure consisting of a base conductor layer and a solder layer, the structure including
a circular base plate defining a central axis generally perpendicular thereto, the base plate being generally concentric about said axis and being adapted to be fixedly mounted to a conductive pad on the glass sheet such that, upon mounting the terminal, the solder layer is in contact with the conductive pad; and
a terminal post upstanding from the base plate along the central axis for connection to a corresponding mating terminal, the terminal post configured such that, upon mounting the terminal, the base conductor layer is in contact with the mating terminal.
2. The electrical terminal of claim 1, wherein said terminal post is generally cylindrical.
3. The electrical terminal of claim 1, wherein said terminal post is generally hexagonal.
4. The electrical terminal of claim 1 wherein said terminal post is of generally uniform cross-section and has an enlarged head portion.
This invention generally relates to the art of electrical connectors and, particularly, to a male electrical terminal. The terminal is specifically applicable for use with an electrically heated glass sheet, for example.
Electrical connector assemblies are used for a wide variety of applications wherein it is desirable to interconnect an electrical device with an electrical power source. Male and female or plug and socket connectors often are used, and the connectors, themselves, employ male and female conductive terminals.
One type of electrical terminal assembly is used for electrically connecting an electrical power source with heating conductors incorporated or embedded in glass sheets, such as in rear window defrosters of automobiles or other vehicles. Specifically, the glass sheets used in the rear windows of vehicles often are heated electrically in order to eliminate or avoid fogging or frosting. Resistance conductors are incorporated or embedded on or in the glass sheet itself. Electric current is supplied to the heating resistance conductors by terminal assemblies which include a glass terminal applied generally to a conductive pad on the glass sheet. A mating harness terminal is electrically coupled to a lead line to the power source. Typically, the glass terminal is a male or plug terminal, and the harness terminal coupled to the lead line is a female or receptacle terminal.
Various problems are encountered in fabricating and using electrical terminal assemblies of the character described, particularly in use with vehicular rear window defroster applications. Applying the glass terminal to the window is also a source of varying problems. It also would be desirable to provide a glass terminal which is "omnidirectional" in which the harness terminal can be secured to the glass terminal in any direction. Protecting the harness terminal, particularly the contacts thereof, during shipping, handling and assembly also is a constant source of problems. It also is desirable to provide the terminals, particularly the harness terminal, with a low profile, yet providing contact beams which will provide high contact forces permanent set. The present invention is directed to solving these problems and satisfying the various needs described above.
An object, therefore, of the invention is to provide a new and improved electrical terminal particularly adapted for use with an electrically heated glass sheet.
In the exemplary embodiment of the invention, the terminal includes a base plate defining a central axis generally perpendicular thereto. The base plate is concentric about the central axis to facilitate spinsoldering of the terminal to a conductive pad on the glass sheet. A terminal post projects from the base plate for connection to an appropriate mating terminal, such as a female harness terminal.
As disclosed herein, the base plate is circular, the terminal post is generally cylindrical and the post is located on the central axis. The terminal post has an enlarged head portion to facilitate securely connecting the terminal to the complementary mating harness terminal.
The invention contemplates that the terminal is a one-piece structure, with the base plate and the terminal post being integral portions thereof. The terminal is a laminated structure including a base conductor layer and a solder layer. The terminal is a drawn structure fabricated from a laminated sheet of material.
Other objects, features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.
The features of this invention which are believed to be novel are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The invention, together with its objects and the advantages thereof, may be best understood by reference to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which like reference numerals identify like elements in the figures and in which:
FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of an electrical terminal assembly incorporating the glass terminal and the harness terminal of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the terminal assembly;
FIG. 3 is a bottom perspective view of the assembly, with the glass terminal removed;
FIG. 4 is a top perspective view of the harness terminal;
FIG. 5 is a bottom perspective view of the harness terminal;
FIG. 6 is a vertical section taken generally along line 6--6 of FIG. 2;
FIG. 7 is a top perspective view, partially cutaway, of the harness terminal;
FIG. 8 is a top perspective view, partially cutaway, of the terminal assembly; and
FIG. 9 is a top perspective view of a second embodiment of the glass terminal.
Referring to the drawings in greater detail, and first to FIGS. 1-3, the invention is embodied in an electrical terminal assembly, generally designated 10 (FIG. 1), specifically applicable for use with an electrically heated glass sheet, such as a rear window defroster system in an automobile or other vehicle. Generally, the terminal assembly includes a glass terminal, generally designated 12, adapted for applying to the glass sheet of the rear window; a harness terminal, generally designated 14, for securing to a lead line from a power source of the vehicle; and a dielectric cover or boot, generally designated 16, which is snap fit over harness terminal 14.
More particularly, referring to FIG. 6 in conjunction with FIG. 1, glass terminal 12 is a one-piece laminated structure which includes a base plate portion 18 and an integral upstanding terminal post portion 20. The base plate portion is planar and circular and defines a central axis 22 (FIG. 6) perpendicular to the base plate portion. Terminal post portion 28 is cylindrical and concentric with axis 22. The terminal post portion has an enlarged head 20a.
Glass terminal 12 is a laminated structure and includes a relatively rigid base conductor layer 24 on the top side thereof and a solder layer 26 on the bottom side thereof. Base conductor layer 24 may be fabricated of a copper alloy, for instance. Solder layer 26 may be fabricated of an appropriate reflowable solder material.
With the unique structure of glass terminal 12 described above, the glass terminal can be connected to a conductive pad on the glass sheet of the vehicle rear window by a spin-soldering process. In other words, terminal post portion 20 of the glass terminal can be gripped by a spinning fixture as base plate portion 18 is maintained in contact with the conductive pad on the glass sheet. Specifically, solder layer 26 at the bottom of the base plate portion is maintained in contact with the conductive pad on the glass sheet. The terminal is rotated in a spinning fashion at a rapid speed about axis 22 whereupon the terminal is soldered to the conductive pad by the friction involved in the spin soldering process.
Referring to FIGS. 4, 5 and 7 in conjunction with FIG. 1, harness terminal 14 is a one-piece terminal stamped and formed of conductive sheet metal material. The harness terminal is adapted for mating with glass terminal 12, and the harness terminal includes a crimp arm portion 28 for termination to an electrical lead from a power source, such as the power source of a vehicle. The lead typically is an insulated electrical wire or cable. Arm 28 has a first pair of crimping portions 30 for clamping on to the conductive core of the lead wire, and a second pair of crimping portions 32 for clamping onto the outer insulation of the lead wire to provide a strain relief means.
More particularly, harness terminal 14 includes a base portion 34 which is generally planar and perpendicular to a mating axis 36 which, when the harness terminal is mated with glass terminal 12, is coincident with central axis 22 (FIG. 6) of the glass terminal. A plurality of inwardly curved contact beams 38 are integral with and extend from base portion 34 and define an interior socket, generally designated 40 (FIG. 7), for receiving terminal post portion 20 of glass terminal 12. Contact beams 38 are spaced equidistant, circumferentially about axis 36. As best seen in FIG. 7, inwardly curved contact beams 38 are curved in a substantial circular loop and terminate in distal ends 38a juxtaposed beneath and slightly spaced from the underside of planar base portion 34.
Generally, harness terminal 14 includes a shell integral with and extending from base portion 34 exteriorly of contact beams 38 to provide protection for the beams. Specifically, the shell is provided by a plurality of shell fingers 42 spaced circumferentially about axis 36 of the harness terminal and between inwardly curved contact beams 38. Shell fingers 42 are formed or inwardly turned from base portion 34 around the bottom of the terminal and terminate in inwardly turned distal ends 42a which substantially close the bottom of the harness terminal except for a circular entrance 44 (FIG. 5) to interior socket 40 (FIG. 7). In particular, inwardly turned distal ends 42a of the shell fingers have arcuate edges as best seen in FIG. 5 which combine to define the circular configuration for entrance 44 to the interior socket of the terminal.
At least some of shell fingers 42, namely the two shell arms diametrically opposite crimp arm 28, are provided with laterally projecting portions 46 which are disposed outside contact beams 38 to protect the beams. This is particularly important during shipping, handling and assembly of the harness terminal which can be subjected to considerable abuse at various times prior to assembly to glass terminal 12.
As best seen in FIGS. 5 and 7, the inwardly turned distal ends 42a of the two shell fingers 42 diametrically opposite crimp arm 28 are disposed immediately beneath inwardly curved contact beams 38. Therefore, the distal ends of the shell fingers not only provide protection for the contact beams at the underside of the harness terminal, but the distal ends of the shell fingers also provide an anti-overstress means for the beams. In fabrication, contact beams 38 first are formed inwardly from base plate 34, and then shell fingers 42 are formed over the contact beams.
FIG. 3 best shows how dielectric cover 16 is mounted over harness terminal 14. Specifically, the cover includes a pair of inwardly directed flanges 50 which snap-fit over the pair of crimp portions 32 of crimp arm 28 of the harness terminal. Crimping portions 30 and 32 are shown in FIG. 3 in their crimped condition, but the lead wire is not shown in this depiction. Cover 16 is a one-piece structure unitarily molded of dielectric material such as plastic or the like. The cover has a very low profile matching the low profile of harness terminal 14.
FIGS. 6 and 8 show terminal assembly 10 in mated or connected condition. In other words, harness terminal 14 is mated with glass terminal 12. The harness terminal is mated with the glass terminal in the direction of arrow "A" (FIG. 6). During mating, inwardly curved contact beams 38 flex radially outwardly when they engage the top of enlarged head 20a of terminal post 20 of the glass terminal. The contact beams then snap back inwardly behind the enlarged head of the terminal post in the mated condition of the terminal assembly as shown in FIGS. 6 and 8.
FIG. 9 shows a second embodiment of a glass terminal designated 12' also adapted for applying to a glass sheet but which upstanding terminal post portion 20' is hexagonally-shaped. This shape may be desirable in some applications where resistance to fretting corrosion and mechanical vibration is important. Upon mating, the points or sides of the hexagon lock in position with the contact beams and therefore avoid intermittent contact with the harness terminal.
The terminal assembly, particularly harness terminal 14, of the invention has an extremely low profile as can be seen in the drawings. The circularly curved contact beams 38 reduce the beam profile and increase the total contact deflection the beams will tolerate without taking excessive permanent set. This is particularly desirable since it provides a high contact force system that is tolerant of significant contact interface dimensional variations. Since the contact beams can potentially be damaged during fabrication, shipping, handling and assembly, the outside shell provided by shell fingers 42 not only provides significant protection for the contact beams but also provides an anti-overstress means. All extraneous or additional components are eliminated by this one-piece stamped and formed structure. Glass terminal 12 further provides an extremely efficient and effective connector assembly by allowing the glass terminal to be secured to a conductive pad on the glass sheet by a spin soldering (friction) process.
It will be understood that the invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or central characteristics thereof. The present examples and embodiments, therefore, are to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, and the invention is not to be limited to the details given herein.
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According to the invention, a pilot signal 4 is transmitted from a base station on each available carrier. This is done for each available carrier and in every time slot of the carrier irrespective of whether or not a useful signal is transmitted in the time slot. The pilot signal contains a limited quantity of information concerning the base station, such as information about the radio interface. The information is time slot synchronized so that the same information is transmitted in every time slot. The pilot signal level varies, and in time slots which are in traffic use it is suitably lower than the level of the useful signal 1 proper, but in idle time slots it has a very low static level. It has the same band width Df as the normal useful signal. However, it is coded in a different way than the useful signal and in such a way that although it almost drowns in noise, it can still be extracted from the noise. The mobile gets information from the pilot signal on the state of channels (time slots) in the uplink direction. When deciding to perform channel exchange, it chooses any free channel it likes and transmits an access burst to the base station on this channel. If the base station accepts the channel, it will transmit back an access grant burst on the same channel, whereafter the base station and the mobile will immediately transfer the traffic to this channel.
1. A method of allocating a channel in a mobile telephone system, in a radio interface of which transmission and reception take place at different carrier wave frequencies and a transmission frame and a reception frame comprise several time slots, whereby a time slot and frequency form a channel, on which a traffic signal is transmitted as bursts, comprising:
forming at least one message containing information about a base station,
transmitting formed messages continuously from the base station via a pilot signal, wherein the frequency of the pilot signal is a same frequency as a carrier wave frequency but the signal level of the pilot signal is lower than the signal level of the traffic signal, the band width of the pilot signal is the same as that of the traffic signal, and wherein each individual message is located in the pilot signal within a period which corresponds to a transmission time slot in terms of time,
so that when the message is located in time slots where no traffic signal is transmitted, the signal level of the pilot signal is at a first amplitude lower than the traffic signal and above an input resolution for detection of the pilot signal, and when the message is located in time slots where a traffic signal is being transmitted, the signal level of the pilot signal is but above the first amplitude of the pilot signal where no traffic signal is transmitted lower than the traffic signal level, and
after a mobile has received the pilot signal, handover is performed when required to a free channel indicated in the message.
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This invention concerns allocation of radio channels in a radio system using both time division and frequency division at the same time.
In a radio system, the great number of mobile terminal equipment, such as mobile stations, on the one hand and the band width requirements of multimedia applications on the other hand make it necessary to utilize as efficiently as possible the frequency spectrum allocated for the system. The interference caused by the radio environment or by other terminal equipment of the system is a fundamental factor limiting reuse of frequencies. It can be reduced by developing efficient radio subsystems and channel allocation techniques. Time and space diversity, low-noise filters and efficient channel correctors and modes of modulation are used in radio and transfer subsystems to reduce interference and to separate the desired signal. However, the factor limiting system total capacity more than any other factor is co-channel interference caused by reuse of frequencies. In fact, the basis for algorithms used in channel allocation is to use loss characteristics of radio wave propagation to minimize the carrier-to-interference or CIR ratio and thus to boost reuse of the radio spectrum.
Channel allocation means dividing a given frequency spectrum into a set of adjacent or non-interferring channels, all of which may be used simultaneously while the quality of the received signal remains acceptable. Several known techniques are available for dividing channels, such as Frequency Division (FD), Time Division (TD) or Code Division (CD). In frequency division, the separation of channels is brought about by dividing the spectrum into adjacent frequency bands, in time division by dividing the frequency into sequential time periods or time slots, while in code division the separation of channels is obtained by using different modulation codes. As an example of a cellular system using a combination of FD and TD, the known GSM mobile system is mentioned, whereas Digital European Cordless Telecommunication (DECT) is mentioned as an example of a TD system.
The distance at which the same channel may be reused so that CIR remains acceptable, is called the reuse distance of the same channel. On the other hand, since CIR is a function of the reuse distance and transmission power, the interference level may be lowered in a cellular system by increasing the distance between base stations or by using dynamic control of the transmission power.
At least fixed channel allocation (FCA) and dynamic channel allocation (DCA) are channel allocation methods.
In fixed channel allocation, the range is divided into cells, for each of which a set of frequencies is allocated according to some reuse pattern. Simplicity is an advantage of this allocation, but it suffers from an inability to adapt to traffic situations and to the numbers of mobile subscribers in the cells.
In dynamic channel allocation, all channels are in a �channel pool� and channels are taken from the pool for new calls as calls come to the system, making sure at the same time that the minimum CIR is maintained. Thus, there is no fixed relation between channels and cells, but any channel may be choosed by any cell provided that the signal interference is acceptably low. Different dynamic ways of allocation can be distinguished depending on how the channels are chosen. Advantages of this allocation are great flexibility and an ability to adapt to changing traffic, but it is less efficient than fixed channel allocation if the load is very high. Dynamic channel allocation is described thoroughly in the publication IEEE Personal Communications, June 1996; Channel Assignment Schemes for Cellular Mobile Telecommunication Systems; A Comprehensive Survey; I. Katzela, M. Naghshineh.
The present TDMA/FDD-based cellular mobile systems mainly use fixed channel allocation FCA. Advanced systems also use frequency jumping to improve the quality of the connection for averaging loss and interference. In a frequency jumping pattern only the traffic channel frequency can be changed or, besides that, also the time slot. Should the signal quality become poorer and fall below an acceptable limit due to a change in the environment or a movement of the mobile, a change of channel or handover is performed, whereby the channel is exchanged for another while the connection remains the same with the base station (a so-called intra cell handover) or the connection is transferred to pass through another base station (so-called intra cell handover). Handover may thus be caused by qualitative deterioration of the radio link, or then the network may command the mobile to perform the handover, because the network wishes to rearrange the channels in order to avoid congestions.
In the first-mentioned case, the mobile performs continuous measurements of the connection quality, usually calculation of the bit error ratio, and measurements of carrier powers of adjacent base stations and transmits the measurement results to the network at regular intervals. The network uses these measurement results in its making of decisions on handover. In such a case, the handover is mobile assisted handover. If in intracellular handover no free channels are found from the cell's own base station or in channel exchange between cells from that adjacent base station to the cell of which the mobile is going, then disconnection must be done. When the capacity is increased in a cellular system by reducing the cell size and in a system, where the cell size is very small from the start, in a so-called mikrocell system, channel exchange must be done several times during a call. In addition, when the number of users grows, not only will it be increasingly more difficult to maintain a good service level, but it will also become increasingly probable that no free channels will be found.
Dynamic channel allocation is used in the DECT system, which is in accordance with TDMAITDD, that is, transmission and reception take place at the same frequency. In such a system channel exchange may be performed by the mobile and not by the network as in, for example, the GSM system. This is possible because the mobile is able to monitor all channels in the uplink and downlink directions and thus it has constant information about the condition of the radio interface, that is, about free and busy channels and about their interference levels.
To increase the capacity in any TDMA/FDD system it would be natural to use dynamic channel allocation DCA instead of fixed channel allocation, but in such a way that the mobile and not the network could choose the channel from the set of free channels. Hereby the new channel would be taken from a pool containing several channels also in channel exchange situations. A problem when using DCA in this form is that although many channels are available, all of them can not be used. The mobile can not perform the choice of a new channel at random, because a channel picked at random may already be in use. Since the mobile lacks information about the state of the radio interface, especially about the state of channels in the uplink direction, the mobile is thus unable to perform any exchange of channels. No method of acquiring such information has been presented so far.
It is an objective of the present invention to provide a method allowing use of dynamic channel allocation also in TDMA/FDD systems so that a mobile is able itself to choose the channel it will use and thus to perform channel exchange. Channel exchange must be possible at least within the cell and at least to another time slot of the same frequency, but preferably also from one cell to another.
The established objective is achieved with the attributes described in the independent claims.
According to the invention, a special very low-level signal, which is called pilot signal hereinafter, is transmitted continuously on a carrier from a base station. This is done for every avilable carrier and in its every time slot irrespective of whether or not a useful signal (traffic bursts) is transmitted in the time slot. The information contained in the pilot signal is time slot synchronized so that the same information is transmitted in each time slot. Hereby, in order to obtain all information, it will suffice at a minimum that the receiver receives just any one time slot at the frequency in question and decodes the information of the pilot signal from it.
In the time slot where the useful signal is transmitted, the pilot signal level is lower than that of the useful signal proper and it has the same band width as a normal useful signal. However, it is coded in a different way than the useful signal, so even though the frequency is the same as for the useful signal, the pilot signal can be detected in the receiver.
In a time slot where the useful signal is not transmitted, the pilot signal level is very low, but still such that although it almost drowns in noise, it can still be extracted therefrom.
The pilot signal contains a limited number of information concerning the base station. The most important piece of information is whether the channels of the concerned frequency are available for dynamic channel allocation, that is, whether uplink direction channels corresponding to downlink directions are in use. When desired, the signal can also contain information identifying the base station, whereby based on this information the mobile is able to distinguish between base stations. In addition, the pilot signal may contain limited synchronization information, if the network is not synchronic.
It is advantageous from a practical point of view if the dispersion sequence of the pilot signal is directly in a known relation to synchronization bursts transmitted by the base station. Hereby base stations according to the CDMA system need not be in synchrony, but the mobile may calculate the timing of the adjacent station from the pilot signal which it receives from this.
The base station may also on a broadcasting channel transmit information to the cell that the pilot signal is in use, whereby mobiles able to utilize it may operate in a correct manner.
The mobile receives a carrier-frequency signal at other times than in the actual reception time slot, it decodes a pilot signal from it, if there is one, and it obtains information from the signal about the state of channels (time slots) in the uplink direction. When deciding to perform handover, it selects the free channel it desires and transmits an access burst on this to the base station. If the base station accepts the channel, it will transmit back an access grant burst on the same channel, whereupon the base station and the mobile will immediately transfer the traffic to this channel.
The invention will be described in greater detail with the aid of the appended figures, wherein
FIG. 1 shows a pilot signal and a user signal as functions of time,
FIG. 2 shows the energy spectrum of signals as a function of frequency,
FIG. 3 illustrates the contents of different time slots of a frame,
FIG. 4 shows possible fields of a pilot signal, and
FIG. 5 is a flow chart of channel exchange.
FIG. 1 shows a transmission burst of a TDM/FDD system. The system used as example is a GSM system.
Transmission takes place as a burst in a transmission time slot. During the time slot, the envelope amplitude 1 of the transmission signal rises from an initial value of zero to a nominal value, whereupon the signal phase is modulated for transmitting a bit packet comprising 147 bits. Then, at the end of the time slot, the transmission signal amplitude will again drop to zero. A normal burst contains two 58-bit periods with a 26-bit instruction period in between. There are 3 tail bits in the beginning and end of the burst. To prevent received sequential bursts from overlapping, there is a safety time in the end of each burst. The actual length of the safety time depends on the envelope of the transmission burst, but generally speaking the safety time is defined as the time in which the burst signal is below −70 dB (or −36 dB, depending on which is higher). Hereby, the safety time will be about 30 microseconds. A safety time is necessary, because mobiles transmitting on the same radio carrier are at a random distance from the base station, whereby the transmission time of radio waves from the base station to the mobile will vary on a time slot basis. For this reason, the duration of bursts to be sent in time slots must be a little shorter than the time slot, so that bursts transmitted in adjacent time slots will not overlap when the base station is receiving.
Mobile receivers have a definite input resolution 3 and the receiver is not able to distinguish from noise such signals which are weaker than the input resolution. The input resolution varies from one receiver to the next, so input resolution 3 in Figure is only suggestive.
According to the invention, a low-level pilot signal 4 is added to each available carrier at the base station, FIG. 1. It is added constantly to the carrier, so that it will occur at every time slot whether or not it is in traffic channel use. However, the information contained in the pilot signal is time slot synchronized so that the same information is transmitted at each time slot, that is, all information contained in the pilot signal may be received during one time slot. It is hereby advantageous that the dispersion code of the pilot signal is in some known relation to the synchronizing bursts.
When the pilot signal is transmitted during the actual useful signal, envelope 1, its level must be lower in some suitable relation than the level of the useful signal. A suitable difference between signals could be such, for example, that the pilot signal level is lower by about 20 dB than the level of the useful signal. When using power control, the level of the useful signal varies, so the pilot signal level will vary in the same proportion.
When the pilot signal is transmitted in a time slot where no useful signal is transmitted, it might cause interference in receivers operating at the same frequency. For this reason, its level must be very low, but still above the normal input resolution of the system's receiver, so that the normal reception procedure will be able to distinguish it from noise.
FIG. 2 shows the same as FIG. 1, but now as a function of frequency. When the carrier band is Df, the energy spectrum of user data is as shown by curve 1, while the energy spectrum of the pilot signal is as shown by curve 4. Thus pilot signal 4 has the same band width as traffic signal 1, but the pilot signal level is considerably lower than the minimum level of the traffic signal.
FIG. 3 illustrates the idea of the invention with the aid of frames. A system is shown as an example wherein a carrier is divided into sequential time slots and 8 time slots form a frame. In the example, time slots 1, 2, 6 and 7 of frame N are busy, because traffic bursts are transmitted to four mobiles during these time slots. Thus four channels are in use. The time slot of a traffic burst is here illustrated by a box, and during the time slot the pilot signal level is considerably above the input resolution of the receiver, but slightly lower, for example, by 20 dB, than the traffic burst level. In time slots 3, 4, 5 and 8, where no traffic bursts are transmitted, the pilot signal level has been lowered close to the input resolution of the receiver, but still to a level where it can be distinguished from noise. In the following frame n+1, the first time slot has become free (the channel is free) and time slots 2, 6 and 7 are still in use. Whether the time slot is in use or not, pilot signal 4, which is seen in the figure as a small ripple of varying level, is transmitted in each time slot.
The information contained in pilot signal 4 has the same band width as the normal burst 1 transmitted in the time slot, FIG. 2, but it is differently coded, so that it can be extracted from noise. It is especially advantageous to use the CDM method (Code Division Multiplexing) in coding, whereby the pilot signal information is spread over the whole transmission band using a dispersion code. It is advantageous for the dispersion sequence to be directly in a known relation to the synchronizing bursts. It is also possible to use some convolution coding of a high order, either alone or together with CDM coding. When aiming at optimum performance, it is possible to use both coding methods together. With the said codings it is possible to detect a pilot signal, the level of which is lower than the normal input resolution 3 by 15 . . . 25 dB. In some receivers, however, it may be necessary to enlarge the Automatic Gain Control (AGC) in order to cover very low levels as well.
When coding the pilot signal according to the CDM method, it is possible when desired to use different dispersion codes at different base stations, whereby the mobiles are able fully to identify the base stations which transmit the pilot signal. It is true that this adds to complexity, but it allows an operation which is independent of the network, if several operators are operating in the same area.
It is also possible for the pilot signal always to have the same static level. The level may be fixed in every time slot, both in �idle� time slots and also in a time slot containing a traffic burst, as is illustrated in FIG. 2. Since the receiver knows the level of the transmitted signal, it may based on the received signal measure the loss of the radio link in use and it may also conclude if a normal traffic channel would work in such a state. If the loss is bigger than what is acceptable it may not be worth while for it to use the channel, because the transmission power would then have to be increased to too high a level.
The characteristics of the pilot signal have been considered in the foregoing without taking its information contents into account. But it is the content which allows the mobile to conclude the state of the radio interface. The pilot signal contains a limited quantity of information on the base station. In the pilot signal, the message transmitted in each time slot may contain at least the fields shown in FIG. 4.
Firstly, it contains uplink information coded as infobits, that is, information on whether or not any uplink frequency corresponding to this downlink frequency is available for dynamic channel allocation and which uplink time slots are free. It is known that in TDM/FDD systems certain time slot couples of the transmission frame and the reception frame form a two-way traffic channel, whereby the channel is symmetric and comprises, for example, when given a GSM system, one time slot in either direction. Thus, a certain uplink channel corresponds to a downlink channel. However, in data transmission in particular, the channels may be asymmetric, because the requirement of data transmission is usually much bigger in one direction than in the opposite direction, as data is mostly transmitted in a direction from the network to the mobile. Hereby it will be told in the pilot signal which uplink time slots are busy and which ones are free. If Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) is used in the system, whereby the transmitters are turned off for the time when there is nothing to transmit, the pilot signal may be used for indicating specific time slots which are momentarily free.
Secondly, the pilot signal may be used for relaying limited synchronization information, especially time slot timing information. This is not necessary in a GSM system, because all traffic channels are synchronized to the BCCH carrier at the base station. Should synchronization be needed, a frequency correction burst must be transmitted for each carrier. It contains only zero bits and its demodulation results in a pure sine wave, the frequency of which is equal to the frequency of the concerned carrier or is at a predetermined distance from this. It is also possible to synchronize a DCA carrier by using code dispersion on a time slot basis, although this leads to a good correlation result only in the middle of the time slot.
Thirdly, such information may be contained in the pilot signal which in some way identifies the transmitting base station. Thus, a mobile when receiving carriers is able to distinguish from which base station each carrier was transmitted.
For mobiles operating in the network to know that the network has the property according to the invention, this information must be signalled to them. For signalling, that broadcasting channel transmitted by the base station is used, on which also other necessary information is signalled to the mobiles. In a GSM network, this channel is called the Broadcast Control Channel (BCCH). If required, this channel is also used for stating the numbers of those channels which support dynamic channel allocation DCA, even if this is an optional property which may be used to speed up choice of the channel.
When base stations transmit a pilot signal according to the invention, the mobiles must of course in one way or another first receive and then detect it. Mobile functions are described in the following with the aid of FIG. 5.
In a normal traffic connection time slot, reception is not successful because the mobile has enough to do in demodulating the received normal signal and in channel decoding. However, in known mobile systems at least four moments of time can be found, whereby the mobile has time to monitor frequency, phase 51, and to seek the pilot signal.
a) monitoring time slot by which the mobile monitors its own transmission and that of adjacent base stations. It is known that in all cellular systems mobiles monitor strengths of the BCCH carrier signal of adjacent base stations, so the pilot signal can be distinguished from the signal received in this time slot.
b) time slot of the idle frame, whereby there is no transmission in the normal transmission time slot of the traffic channel and no reception in the reception time slot, and the idle frame is a frame during which the mobile does not normally transmit or receive anything.
c) when using Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) that reception time slot of the traffic connection in which nothing is received at that moment. In discontinuous transmission DTX neither the base station nor the mobile will transmit anything, which means that the mobile does not receive anything in the reception time slot relating to this transmission time slot. Thus, this time slot may be used for receiving the pilot signal.
d) when using a less than full speed traffic channel that time slot which has the same time slot number but which due to a lower speed is not in traffic use. The full speed traffic channel is formed by such time slots having the same number which belong to cyclically sequential frames. Halfspeed or slower traffic channels are formed by using time slots having the same number from every second frame or from less frames for traffic use. During time slots which are not used, the mobile may thus receive the pilot signal.
e) that time slot of the traffic channel during which no normal burst is transmitted. Such a situation is possible, for example, when transmitting packet data. In this time slot the mobile may thus receive the pilot signal.
A sixth possibility is to interrupt the normal traffic of the traffic channel for some time, so that the mobile can receive the pilot signal. This is of course troublesome for the recipient and it is thus most suitable for use when the traffic use is packet data transmission.
When the base stations transmit a pilot signal and the mobiles receive it, it may turn out in some cases that the mobiles are not able to detect the pilot signal, phase 52. There are at least three reasons for this: 1) with this carrier no channels are available for dynamic channel allocation, 2) the pilot signal has a poor signal/noise ratio (S/N), because the normal traffic uses the whole time slot and carrier, and 3) the interference level or the noise caused by the environment is too high. Whatever the reason may be of those mentioned, the conclusion is that the channel is not available for dynamic channel allocation, phase 53.
With the mechanisms described above, the mobile after decoding the signal will learn, phase 54, which channels in the downlink and uplink directions are free at each time. If the pilot signal also contains a base station identifier, the mobile will learn which channels are free at the own base station and also at adjacent base stations. With this information the mobile may start a channel exchange from the channel in its use at that time to some free channel, phase 55. The channel exchange criterion may be any suitable one and does not as such belong within the scope of the present invention.
When an exchange of channels is necessary, the mobile examines its memory to find out whether free channels are available at that moment. If no channels are available, it remains on the same channel, whereby the connection or link may be cut off in the worst case, phase 56.
If there are free channels, the mobile will choose a free channel, phase 57, and starts a channel exchange by transmitting access bursts to the base station on the free channel (that is, time slot/frequency) of its choice, phase 58.
If the channel exchange is an intracellular exchange, timing will be automatically correct, because all timings of the same base station are synchronized to the BCCH carrier. If the channel exchange is between cells, the mobile has learnt the timing of the adjacent base station from the pilot signal which it has received from that base station. In both cases, the base station receives burts, accepts the channel by transmitting back an access grant burst on the channel, phase 59, and at the same time immediately transfers the traffic to this new channel chosen by the mobile, phase 60. Correspondingly, the mobile transfers the traffic from the �old� channel to the new channel of its choice after receiving the access grant burst. If there is no access grant burst, the mobile will remain on the old channel, phase 61.
The proposed method is suitable for use especially in an interference-limited cellular micronetwork. This means a network where there may be free channels in a cell, which may not, however, be put into use at the moment, because they would cause too much interference in the connections of other cells. Due to the Rayleigh drop-out, the method is not especially suitable for use when the mobile is moving at a high speed. No big changes need be made in present base stations and mobiles, but what is needed is just extra logic to disperse/decode some bits into the pilot signal and also to detect the time slot timing of another carrier, if the network is not synchronic. In addition, arrangements must be added to the base station so that it can receive access bursts on all traffic channels and not only on the Random Access Channel (RACCH) as in the present systems. Besides, arrangements must be added to the base station so that it can transmit information about the characteristic according to the invention on the broadcast control channel (BCCH).
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