WO2012163037A1 - Energy-saving processing method for base station, and base station - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are an energy-saving processing method for a base station and a base station. The method includes: a base station detecting the current service traffic (101); and, when the current service traffic is lower than a preset threshold value, concentrating the current service of the base station from the current air interface band of the base station to the air interface band designated by the base station according to the current service traffic and releasing the idle air interface band, or concentrating the current service of the base station from the current multiple input multiple output channel to the multiple input multiple output channel designated by the base station and performing a degradation operation on the idle multiple input multiple output channel (102 to 104). The present invention is suitable for reducing energy for the base station.

Description

 Base station energy-saving processing method and base station

 The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and a base station for energy-saving processing of a base station. Background technique

 MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) is one of the main methods for improving the system throughput and spectrum efficiency of base stations in mobile communication. It is now more and more widely used, but it consumes a lot of system power consumption. MBB (Mobile Broadband) communication is the mainstream development direction of future broadband services, from GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) to UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) to LTE (Long Term Evolution (Long Term Evolution) and WIMAX ( Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access), the air interface traffic grows from tens of Kps to tens of Mbps to IGbps, and the corresponding air interface bandwidth is also from the first few hundred. k gradually develops to 5M and then to 20M, which also consumes a lot of system power.

 In the process of implementing the present invention, the inventors have found that at least the following problems exist in the prior art: The current carrier-off technology can be applied to a scene or a system with a large number of carriers, and the power consumption of the system is reduced by turning off part of the carrier frequency. Extend the working time of the base station. However, the scene or system using MBB and MIM0 technology is not applicable, and it is impossible to achieve energy saving and consumption reduction for such scenes or systems. Summary of the invention

 The embodiments of the present invention provide a method for processing energy saving of a base station and a base station, which can reduce system power consumption by releasing the idle air interface band of the base station or degrading the MIM0 channel of the base station when the traffic is low.

 The technical solution adopted by the embodiment of the present invention is:

 A method for processing energy saving of a base station, comprising:

The base station detects the current traffic of the base station; When the current traffic of the base station is lower than a preset threshold, the base station concentrates the current service of the base station from the current air interface frequency band of the base station to the air interface frequency band specified by the base station according to the current traffic volume, Or concentrating the current service of the base station from the current multiple input multiple output channel to the multiple input multiple output channel specified by the base station;

 When the base station concentrates the current service of the base station from the current air interface frequency band of the base station to the air interface frequency band specified by the base station according to the current traffic, the base station releases the idle air interface frequency band;

 When the base station concentrates the current service of the base station from the current multiple input multiple output channel to the multiple input multiple output channel designated by the base station according to the current traffic volume, the base station pairs the idle multiple input multiple output channel Perform degradation operations.

 A base station comprising:

 a detecting module, configured to detect a current traffic volume of the base station;

 a service migration module, configured to: when the current traffic of the base station is lower than a preset threshold, concentrate current service of the base station from a current air interface frequency band of the base station to an air interface specified by the base station according to the current traffic volume In the frequency band, or centralizing the current service of the base station from the current multiple input multiple output channel into the multiple input multiple output channel designated by the base station;

 a processor, configured to: when the base station concentrates a current service of the base station from a current air interface frequency band of the base station to an air interface frequency band specified by the base station according to the current traffic volume, releasing an idle air interface frequency band; or The base station performs a degrading operation on the idle multiple input multiple output channel when the current service of the base station is concentrated from the current multiple input multiple output channel to the multiple input multiple output channel designated by the base station according to the current traffic volume.

The method for the energy-saving processing of the base station and the base station provided by the embodiment of the present invention, when the current traffic of the base station is lower than the preset threshold, may concentrate the current service of the base station from the current air interface frequency band of the base station to the designated base station according to the current traffic volume. The free air interface frequency band is released in the air interface frequency band, or the current service of the base station is concentrated from the current multiple input multiple output channel to the multiple input multiple output channel designated by the base station, and the idle multiple input multiple output channel is degraded. Compared with the prior art, the embodiment of the invention It can reduce the system consumption of the base station at low traffic, and achieve energy saving. DRAWINGS

 In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings used in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described below. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are merely the present invention. Some of the embodiments may be obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art in view of these drawings without any inventive effort.

 1 is a flowchart of a method for processing energy saving of a base station according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention;

 2 is a flowchart of a method for processing energy saving of a base station according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention;

 3 is a flowchart of a method for processing energy saving of a base station according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention;

 4 and FIG. 5 are schematic structural diagrams of a base station according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention.

detailed description

 The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. It is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without creative efforts are within the scope of the present invention.

 In order to make the advantages of the technical solutions of the present invention clearer, the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments.

 Embodiment 1

 The embodiment provides a method for processing energy saving of a base station. As shown in FIG. 1, the method includes:

101. The base station detects a current traffic volume of the base station.

 When the current traffic of the base station is lower than a preset threshold, the base station concentrates the current service of the base station from the current air interface frequency band of the base station to the air interface frequency band specified by the base station according to the current traffic volume. Or centralizing the current service of the base station from the current multiple input multiple output channel into the multiple input multiple output channel designated by the base station.

When the base station concentrates the current service of the base station from the current air interface frequency band of the base station to the air interface frequency band specified by the base station according to the current traffic volume, the base station releases idle Air interface band.

 104. When the base station concentrates the current service of the base station from the current multiple input multiple output channel to the multiple input multiple output channel specified by the base station according to the current traffic volume, the base station has multiple inputs for idle The output channel performs degradation operations.

 Specifically, the base station releases the idle air interface frequency band, including:

 The base station releases the spectrum of the idle air interface frequency band.

 Specifically, the base station releases the idle air interface frequency band, including:

 The base station turns off a baseband processing unit that controls the free air interface band.

 Specifically, the base station performs a degrading operation on the idle multiple input multiple output channel, including: the base station turns off at least one of the radio frequency link, the intermediate frequency, and the baseband of the idle multiple input multiple output channel.

 The bandwidth of the current air interface frequency band is greater than the bandwidth of the specified air interface frequency band.

 The number of channels of the current multiple input multiple output channel is greater than the number of channels of the specified multiple input multiple output channel.

 Further, after the base station performs the degrading operation on the idle multiple input multiple output channel, the method further includes:

 The base station sets the multiple input multiple output channel after the degrading operation as a backup channel, where the backup channel is used to process the part of the base station when the current traffic of the base station is higher than or equal to a preset threshold. Current business.

 Further, when the current air interface frequency band is the first air interface resource, and the specified air interface frequency band is the second air interface resource, the method further includes:

 When the base station detects that the current traffic is equal to the preset threshold, the base station keeps the current service maintained in the second air interface resource; or

 When the base station detects that the current traffic is higher than the preset threshold, the base station transfers the current service in the first air interface resource.

Further, when the number of the current multiple input multiple output channels is k, the specified multiple losses When the number of input multiple output channels is n, it also includes:

 When the base station detects that the current traffic is equal to the preset threshold, the base station keeps the current service maintained in the n multiple input multiple output channels; or

 When the base station detects that the current traffic is higher than the preset threshold, the base station processes the current service in the k multiple input multiple output channels.

 The preset threshold is determined by a base station network condition and a service type.

 In the energy-saving processing method of the base station, the base station detects the current traffic of the base station, and when the current traffic of the base station is lower than the preset threshold, the base station sends the base station according to the current traffic. The current service is concentrated from the current air interface frequency band of the base station to the air interface frequency band specified by the base station, or the current service of the base station is concentrated from the current multiple input multiple output channel to the multiple input multiple output channel designated by the base station. When the base station concentrates the current service of the base station from the current air interface frequency band of the base station to the air interface frequency band specified by the base station according to the current traffic volume, the base station releases an idle air interface frequency band; When the base station concentrates the current service of the base station from the current multiple input multiple output channel to the multiple input multiple output channel specified by the base station according to the current traffic volume, the base station performs a degrading operation on the idle multiple input multiple output channel. . Compared with the prior art, the embodiment of the present invention can shut down part of the hardware resources or software resources of the base station MIM0 when the traffic is low, or release some air interface resources or close the corresponding software resources of the air interface resource, and reduce the reliability of the system. .

 Embodiment 2

 The embodiment provides a method for processing energy saving of a base station. As shown in FIG. 2, the method includes:

201. The base station performs traffic quantity detection on the air interface frequency band BW^ of the normal working in the base station.

202. When the base station detects that the current traffic volume is lower than the preset threshold, the base station collects the current service of the base station from the current air interface frequency band BW^ of the base station to the air interface specified by the base station according to the current traffic volume. Band BW _n _ ₂ .

The bandwidth of the air interface band BW^ is greater than the bandwidth of the air interface band BW _n _ ₂ . 203, the current air interface in the frequency band BW of the current service base station, the base station from the base station to the base station ^ concentrated air interface specified frequency band BW _{2 n-_} later, the base station releases the frequency band free air interface.

 Specifically, the releasing, by the base station, an idle air interface frequency band includes:

 The base station releases the spectrum of the idle air interface frequency band.

 Further, the base station releases the idle air interface frequency band, including:

 The base station turns off a baseband processing unit that controls the free air interface band.

 204. When detecting that the current traffic volume is higher than a preset threshold, the base station turns to process the current service in the air interface frequency band BW^.

Further, when the base station detects that the current traffic is equal to the preset threshold, the base station keeps the current service maintained in the air interface band BW _n _ ₂

 The preset threshold is determined by a base station network condition and a service type.

The method for the energy-saving processing of the base station provided by the embodiment of the present invention, the base station performs traffic detection on the air interface frequency band BW^ of the normal working in the base station; when the base station detects that the current traffic volume is lower than the preset threshold, the base station according to the The current traffic volume concentrates the current service of the base station from the current air interface frequency band BW of the base station to the air interface frequency band BW _n _ ₂ specified by the base station; the base station releases the idle air interface frequency band; when the current traffic volume is detected When the preset threshold is higher, the base station transfers the current service in the air interface band BW^. Compared with the prior art, the embodiment of the present invention can reduce the release of a part of the air interface resource or close the corresponding software resource of the air interface resource when the traffic is low, thereby reducing energy consumption.

 Embodiment 3

 The embodiment provides a method for processing energy saving of a base station. As shown in FIG. 3, the method includes: 301. A base station performs traffic detection on n MIM0 channels that are working normally in the base station.

 302. When the base station detects that the current traffic volume is lower than a preset threshold, the current service of the base station is concentrated from the current n MIM0 channels into the specified m MIM0 channels.

 Where m and n are positive integers, m<n.

303. After the base station collects the current service of the base station from the current n MIM0 channels into the specified m MIM0 channels, the base station performs a degrading operation on the idle MIM0 channel. Specifically, performing, by the base station, the degrading operation on the idle MIMO channel, includes: the base station shutting down at least one of a radio frequency link, an intermediate frequency, and a baseband of the idle MIMO channel.

 304. Set the MIM0 channel after the degraded operation as the backup channel.

 The backup channel is configured to process part of the current service of the base station when the current traffic of the base station is higher than or equal to a preset threshold.

 305. When the base station detects that the current traffic is higher than the preset threshold, the base station processes the current service in the n MIM0 channels.

 The base station keeps the current service maintained in the m MIM0 channels when the base station detects that the current traffic is equal to the preset threshold.

 The preset threshold is determined by a base station network condition and a service type.

 According to the energy-saving processing method of the base station, the base station performs traffic detection on the n MIM0 channels that are working normally in the base station; when the base station detects that the current traffic volume is lower than the preset threshold, the base station is used. The current service is concentrated from the current n MIM0 channels into the specified m MIM0 channels; after the base station concentrates the current service of the base station from the current n MIM0 channels into the specified m MIM0 channels, the base station pairs the idle MIM0. The channel performs a degrading operation; the MIM0 channel after the degrading operation is set as a backup channel; when the base station detects that the current traffic volume is higher than the preset threshold, the base station is processed by the n MIM0 channels The current business. In the embodiment of the invention, part of the hardware resources or software resources of the base station MIM0 can be turned off when the traffic is low, and the energy consumption is reduced. In addition, the closed MIM0 channel can be used as a backup channel, which improves the reliability of the system.

 Embodiment 4

 The embodiment provides a base station. As shown in FIG. 4, the device includes:

 The detecting module 41 is configured to detect, by the base station, a current traffic volume of the base station;

The service migration module 42 is configured to: when the current traffic of the base station is lower than a preset threshold, concentrate current service of the base station from a current air interface frequency band of the base station to the base station specified according to the current traffic volume. In the air interface frequency band, or the current service of the base station from the current multiple input multiple output The channel is concentrated into a multiple input multiple output channel designated by the base station;

 The processor 43 is configured to: when the base station concentrates the current service of the base station from the current air interface frequency band of the base station to the air interface frequency band specified by the base station according to the current traffic volume, releasing the idle air interface frequency band; or Deactivating the idle multiple input multiple output channel when the base station concentrates the current service of the base station from the current multiple input multiple output channel to the multiple input multiple output channel designated by the base station according to the current traffic volume .

 Further, the processor 43 is further configured to:

 Release the spectrum of the free air interface band;

 The baseband processing unit that controls the free air interface band is turned off.

 Further, the processor 43 is further configured to:

 At least one of the radio frequency link, the intermediate frequency, and the baseband of the idle multiple input multiple output channel is turned off.

 Further, as shown in FIG. 5, the base station further includes:

 The channel backup module 44 is configured to set the multi-input and multi-output channel after the degrading operation as a backup channel, where the backup channel is used to process the base station when the current traffic of the base station is higher than or equal to a preset threshold. Part of the current business.

 Further, when the current air interface frequency band is the first air interface resource, and the specified air interface frequency band is the second air interface resource, the processor 43 is further configured to:

 And when the base station detects that the current traffic is equal to the preset threshold, maintaining the current service to be maintained in the second air interface resource; or

 When the base station detects that the current traffic is higher than the preset threshold, the base station processes the current service in the first air resource.

 Further, when the number of the current multiple input multiple output channels is k, and the number of the specified multiple input multiple output channels is n, the processor 43 is further configured to:

When the base station detects that the current traffic is equal to the preset threshold, keeps the current service maintained in the n multiple input multiple output channels; or When the base station detects that the current traffic volume is higher than the preset threshold, the base station processes the current service in the k multiple input multiple output channels.

 In the base station, the detecting module 41 detects the current traffic of the base station, and when the current traffic of the base station is lower than the preset threshold, the service migration module 42 uses the current traffic of the base station according to the current traffic. Concentrating from the current air interface frequency band of the base station to the air interface frequency band specified by the base station, or concentrating the current service of the base station from the current multiple input multiple output channel to the multiple input multiple output channel designated by the base station; When the base station concentrates the current service of the base station from the current air interface frequency band of the base station to the air interface frequency band specified by the base station according to the current traffic volume, the processor 43 releases the idle air interface frequency band; When the current traffic volume concentrates the current service of the base station from the current multiple input multiple output channel into the multiple input multiple output channel designated by the base station, the processor 43 performs a degrading operation on the idle multiple input multiple output channel. . Compared with the prior art, the embodiment of the present invention can turn off part of the hardware resources or software resources of the base station MIM0 when the traffic is low, or release some air interface resources and corresponding software resources of the air interface resource, thereby reducing energy consumption. In addition, the channel backup module 44 sets the multi-input multi-output channel after the degrading operation as a backup channel, thereby improving the reliability of the system.

 The method for the energy-saving processing of the base station and the base station provided by the embodiment of the present invention may implement the foregoing method embodiments. For the specific function implementation, refer to the description in the method embodiment, and details are not described herein again. The energy-saving processing method and base station of the base station provided by the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to the base station, but is not limited thereto.

 A person skilled in the art can understand that all or part of the process of implementing the above embodiment method can be completed by a computer program to instruct related hardware, and the program can be stored in a computer readable storage medium. In execution, the flow of an embodiment of the methods as described above may be included. The storage medium may be a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a read-only memory (ROM), or a random access memory (RAM).

The above is only the specific embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any change or replacement that can be easily conceived by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present invention is All should be covered by the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection of the present invention The scope of protection shall be subject to the scope of protection of the claims ₍

Claims

Claim  A method for processing energy saving of a base station, comprising:  The base station detects the current traffic of the base station;  When the current traffic of the base station is lower than a preset threshold, the base station concentrates the current service of the base station from the current air interface frequency band of the base station to the air interface frequency band specified by the base station according to the current traffic volume, Or concentrating the current service of the base station from the current multiple input multiple output channel to the multiple input multiple output channel specified by the base station;  When the base station concentrates the current service of the base station from the current air interface frequency band of the base station to the air interface frequency band specified by the base station according to the current traffic, the base station releases an idle air interface frequency band; The base station performs a degrading operation on the idle multiple input multiple output channel when the current service of the base station is concentrated from the current multiple input multiple output channel to the multiple input multiple output channel designated by the base station according to the current traffic volume.  2. The method for processing energy saving of a base station according to claim 1, wherein the releasing, by the base station, the free air interface frequency band comprises:  The base station releases the spectrum of the idle air interface frequency band.  The method for processing an energy-saving of a base station according to claim 1, wherein the releasing, by the base station, the free air interface frequency band includes:  The base station turns off a baseband processing unit that controls the free air interface band.  The method for processing the energy-saving of the base station according to claim 1, wherein the base station performs a degrading operation on the idle multiple-input multiple-output channel, including:  The base station turns off at least one of a radio frequency link, an intermediate frequency, and a baseband of the idle multiple input multiple output channel.  The method for processing energy saving of a base station according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the bandwidth of the current air interface frequency band is greater than the bandwidth of the designated air interface frequency band. The method for processing energy saving of a base station according to claim 1 or 4, wherein the number of channels of the current multiple input multiple output channel is greater than the number of channels of the specified multiple input multiple output channel. The method for processing the energy-saving of the base station according to claim 1 or 4, wherein after the base station performs the degrading operation on the idle multiple-input multiple-output channel, the method further includes:  The base station sets the multiple input multiple output channel after the degrading operation as a backup channel, where the backup channel is used to process part of the base station when the current traffic of the base station is higher than or equal to a preset threshold. Current business.  The method for processing energy-saving of a base station according to claim 5, wherein when the current air interface frequency band is the first air interface resource and the designated air interface frequency band is the second air interface resource, the method further includes: When the base station detects that the current traffic is equal to the preset threshold, the base station keeps the current service maintained in the second air interface resource; or  When the base station detects that the current traffic is higher than the preset threshold, the base station transfers the current service in the first air interface resource.  The energy-saving processing method of the base station according to claim 6, wherein when the number of the current multiple-input multiple-output channels is k, and the number of the specified multiple-input multiple-output channels is n, Also includes:  When the base station detects that the current traffic is equal to the preset threshold, the base station keeps the current service maintained in the n multiple input multiple output channels; or  When the base station detects that the current traffic volume is higher than the preset threshold, the base station processes the current service in the k multiple input multiple output channels.  10. A base station, comprising:  a detecting module, configured to detect a current traffic volume of the base station;  a service migration module, configured to: when the current traffic of the base station is lower than a preset threshold, concentrate current service of the base station from a current air interface frequency band of the base station to an air interface specified by the base station according to the current traffic volume In the frequency band, or according to the current traffic, the current service of the base station is concentrated from the current multiple input multiple output channel into the multiple input multiple output channel specified by the base station; a processor, configured to: when the base station concentrates a current service of the base station from a current air interface frequency band of the base station to an air interface frequency band specified by the base station according to the current traffic volume, releasing an idle air interface a frequency band; or when the base station concentrates the current service of the base station from the current multiple input multiple output channel to the multiple input multiple output channel specified by the base station according to the current traffic volume, the idle multiple input multiple output channel Perform degradation operations.  The base station according to claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to: release a spectrum of an idle air interface frequency band.  The base station according to claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to: close a baseband processing unit that controls the idle air interface band.  The base station according to claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to: shut down at least one of a radio frequency link, an intermediate frequency, and a baseband of the idle multiple input multiple output channel.  The base station according to claim 10 or 13, further comprising:  a channel backup module, configured to set the multi-input and multi-output channel after the degrading operation as a backup channel, where the backup channel is used when the current traffic of the base station is higher than or equal to a preset threshold, The current service of the base station.  The base station according to claim 10, wherein, when the current air interface frequency band is the first air interface resource, and the specified air interface frequency band is the second air interface resource, where the first air interface resource is greater than The second air interface resource, the processor is further configured to:  And when the base station detects that the current traffic is equal to the preset threshold, maintaining the current service maintenance in the second air interface resource; or  When the base station detects that the current traffic volume is higher than the preset threshold, the base station processes the current service in the first air interface resource.  The base station according to claim 10, wherein when the number of the current multiple input multiple output channels is k, and the number of the specified multiple input multiple output channels is n, The current number of multiple input multiple output channels is greater than the number of the specified multiple input multiple output channels, and the processor is further configured to: Maintaining the current service dimension when the base station detects that the current traffic volume is equal to the preset threshold Handling in the n multiple input multiple output channels; or  When the base station detects that the current traffic is higher than the preset threshold, the base station processes the current service in the k multiple input multiple output channels.