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Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2017

Filed:

May. 14, 2014
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventor:

Robert Griffioen, Ottawa, CA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/0035 (2013.01); H04W 56/0085 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 88/085 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for measuring end-to-end processing delay of the RE between an input interface and a transmit port in the downlink direction and a receive port and an output interface on the uplink direction is disclosed. The method and system if for use in a radio equipment node (RE) connected to a radio equipment control node (REC). Once the downlink and uplink radio channels are activated at a predetermined carrier frequency, a chirp sine wave is added at the input interface and the receive port such that the chirp sine wave becomes mixed with the carrier frequency. Sampling of a received downlink mixed signal is done at the transmit port and of the received uplink mixed signal at the output interface. The sampled mixed signals are then cross-correlated with a reference chirped sine wave to obtain a signal phase shift which is then converted to obtain a time delay associated with the end-to-end processing delay of the RE.


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