Background technology
Along with development of Communication Technique, for the place that can't arrive, solve the signal covering problem at conventional wireless signals such as building, basement, subways, at present, adopt indoor distributed system in these local coverings that realizes wireless signal.
In the existing indoor distributed system, generally adopt distributed base station to realize that signal covers.Consult shown in Figure 1, distributed base station mainly comprises base station main equipment and radio frequency remote equipment (RRU), the base station main equipment is usually located in the operation machine room, RRU then be distributed in can not lay the base station main equipment be difficult to the position that arrives, as certain corner of antenna cat head, building, in the basement or the like.A base station main equipment can connect a plurality of RRU; Connect by optical fiber between base station main equipment and the RRU, adopt the Ir standard interface protocol to finish the transmission of data.
Along with the expansion of network size and the extensive use of RRU, no longer simple the integrated circuit board on base station maintenance to the maintenance of RRU.Use operating maintenance terminal that RRU is carried out Operation and Maintenance at present and mainly contain two kinds of approach:
One,, its abstract management object of coming out is left in the management information bank of base station side with the part of RRU as the management object of base station main equipment.Operating maintenance terminal sends the webmaster order by the OAMAgent software (OM) to the base station main equipment, the RRU management object is operated, after the OM resolve command, content of operation is converted to standard I r interface message, to RRU transmit operation order, thereby realization is to the Operation and Maintenance of RRU.
Yet RRU has in a large number independently management object and Operation and Maintenance demand, and RRU type difference, and its organize content also has difference.Defined limited several bookkeeping orders in the Ir standard that has realized at present, still can not realize comprehensive management each RRU to RRU.Therefore, if the organize content of each RRU is all brought in the management information bank of base station main equipment side, can cause following defective:
1, the management information amount that need safeguard of operating maintenance terminal is very huge.This scheme can cause serious system loading to operating maintenance terminal, because multiple style RRU complicated operations maintenance content all can't be brought in the management information bank of base station main equipment, thereby can not realize management comprehensively and effectively to RRU, can only realize some basic management maintenance operations.If whole RRU management information are put in the management information bank of base station main equipment, then early development amount is big, the later maintenance cost height.
2, organize content exceeds the range of definition of Ir standard.Set up complicated self-defining operation maintenance interface between base station main equipment and RRU, allow the webmaster instruction of operating maintenance terminal to base station main equipment transmit operation RRU, the OAMAgent function by the base station main equipment realizes RRU is managed attended operation.This implementation realizes that not only difficulty is big, the early development amount is big, and when the management object of RRU changes, will be referred to the management information bank of base station main equipment side, the modification of the each side network parameters such as Operation and Maintenance interface of the Operation and Maintenance interface of base station main equipment contents processing, RRU contents processing, base station main equipment and RRU, operating maintenance terminal contents processing, operating maintenance terminal and base station, influence surface is wider, and follow-up maintenance cost height, technical difficulty are big.
Two, be different from above-mentioned solution, another solution that provides under the prior art is, with the management information bank privatization of RRU, the management information bank that is about to each RRU leaves corresponding RRU this locality in, makes operating maintenance terminal directly be connected with RRU and carries out Operation and Maintenance.Be specially: leave the management information of RRU in RRU this locality, operating maintenance terminal carries out Operation and Maintenance by the direct-connected RRU of local network interface of RRU to RRU.Adopt this solution can realize comprehensive Operation and Maintenance function, when the Operation and Maintenance content of RRU changes, only need to revise the management information bank of RRU this locality, and the Operation and Maintenance interface between operating maintenance terminal and the RRU gets final product RRU.Although this solution early development cost and follow-up maintenance cost are all lower, yet, because RRU is common and the base station main equipment divides two places to be provided with, a plurality of RRU of same base station main equipment administration might be dispersed in a plurality of positions that are not easy to arrive, therefore, use operating maintenance terminal directly to connect RRU and carry out Operation and Maintenance, operating maintenance terminal can only connect with it by the local network interface of RRU, requiring operating personnel must arrive the residing position of RRU operates, and the present position of RRU is difficult to arrive usually, and can not realize substantially at one time a plurality of RRU being managed operation.Therefore, for operating personnel, manage maintenance one by one to each RRU of base station main equipment, then need to go to the position at each RRU place to operate, operation cost is high, and it is low to carry out efficient, and feasibility is also very low.
Summary of the invention
The embodiment of the invention provides a kind of method, Apparatus and system of remote maintenance radio frequency remote equipment, in order to long-range, the comprehensive management of realization radio frequency remote equipment, and reduces later maintenance cost.
The concrete technical scheme that the embodiment of the invention provides is as follows:
A kind of method of remote maintenance radio frequency remote equipment comprises:
The base station main equipment receives the radio frequency remote equipment administration order that operating maintenance terminal sends;
The base station main equipment again is encapsulated as transparent channel message with the radio frequency remote equipment administration order that receives according to the message format that is used for transparent transmission based on the Ir interface standard;
The base station main equipment mails to corresponding radio frequency remote equipment with the transparent channel message, indicates this radio frequency remote equipment according to its local management information bank of preserving associative operation is resolved and carried out to the transparent channel message that receives.
A kind of method of remote maintenance radio frequency remote equipment comprises:
Radio frequency remote equipment receives the transparent channel message that the base station main equipment sends, described transparent channel message based on the Ir interface standard, encapsulates acquisition according to the message format that is used for transparent transmission to the radio frequency remote equipment administration order that operating maintenance terminal sends by described base station main equipment again;
The management information bank that radio frequency remote equipment is preserved based on this locality is resolved the transparent channel message that receives and is carried out corresponding operating.
A kind of base station main equipment that is used for the remote maintenance radio frequency remote equipment comprises:
Receiving element is used to receive the radio frequency remote equipment administration order that operating maintenance terminal sends;
Encapsulation unit is used for the interface standard based on Ir, and the radio frequency remote equipment administration order that receives is encapsulated as the transparent channel message again according to the message format that is used for transparent transmission;
Transmitting element is used for the transparent channel message after the encapsulation is mail to corresponding radio frequency remote equipment, indicates this radio frequency remote equipment according to its local management information bank of preserving associative operation is resolved and carried out to the transparent channel message that receives.
A kind of radio frequency remote equipment that is used for the remote maintenance radio frequency remote equipment comprises:
Communication unit, be used to receive the transparent channel message that the base station main equipment sends, described transparent channel message based on the Ir interface standard, encapsulates acquisition according to the message format that is used for transparent transmission to the radio frequency remote equipment administration order that operating maintenance terminal sends by described base station main equipment again;
Processing unit, the management information bank that is used for preserving based on this locality is resolved the transparent channel message that receives and is carried out corresponding operating.
A kind of system that is used for the remote maintenance radio frequency remote equipment comprises:
The base station main equipment, be used to receive the radio frequency remote equipment administration order that operating maintenance terminal sends, and based on the Ir interface standard, the radio frequency remote equipment administration order that receives is encapsulated as the transparent channel message again according to the message format that is used for transparent transmission, and described transparent channel message mail to corresponding radio frequency remote equipment, indicate this radio frequency remote equipment associative operation is resolved and carried out to the transparent channel message that receives according to its local management information bank of preserving;
Radio frequency remote equipment is used to receive the transparent channel message that the base station main equipment sends, and resolves the transparent channel message that receives and carry out corresponding operating based on the management information bank that preserve this locality.
In the embodiment of the invention, in the main equipment of base station, increase an application level proxy service, and set up its privately owned management information bank in RRU this locality, can make the management object of the long-range direct control radio frequency remote equipment of operating maintenance terminal, thereby realize the comprehensive remote operation maintaining function of radio frequency remote equipment.On the other hand, because the management information of each radio frequency remote equipment is placed on radio frequency remote equipment this locality, the base station main equipment only provides the function of forwarding from the administration order of operating maintenance terminal, being about to administration order is encapsulated as again and can transmits after the message of transparent transmission again, any parsing is not done in administration order, therefore when the organize content of RRU changes, only need to revise the management information bank of radio frequency remote equipment this locality, the contents processing and the RRU contents processing of operating maintenance terminal gets final product, it is low to have later maintenance cost, the advantage that feasibility is strong.
Embodiment
In order to realize long-range, the comprehensive management of radio frequency remote equipment (RRU), in the embodiment of the invention, set up an application level proxy service in base station main equipment side, be used between operating maintenance terminal and RRU, transmitting the administration order that operating maintenance terminal mails to RRU, and transmit the various message that RRU reports to operating maintenance terminal.And set up its privately owned management information bank in RRU this locality, can use the management object of the long-range direct control RRU of operating maintenance terminal (as OMC management station), thereby realize the comprehensive Operation and Maintenance function of RRU; Adopt existing Operation and Maintenance interface between operating maintenance terminal and the base station main equipment, can adopt existing standard Ir interface between base station main equipment and the RRU.Wherein, owing to leave the management information of each RRU in RRU this locality, the base station main equipment only provides the function of transmitting administration order, therefore, when the organize content of RRU changed, the management information bank, operating maintenance terminal contents processing and the RRU contents processing that only need to revise RRU this locality got final product, and it is low to have reduced later maintenance cost, improved execution efficient, feasibility is stronger.
The full name of Ir is " Interface between the RRU and the BBU ", also is " interface of RRU and BBU ".Radio frequency unit (RRU) links to each other with Base Band Unit (BBU) on the main equipment of base station by the Ir interface.The Ir interface protocol is supported the transmission of all valid data between BBU and the RRU.
Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing the preferential execution mode of the present invention is elaborated.
Consult shown in Figure 1ly, in the embodiment of the invention, comprise several base stations main equipment, some radio frequency remote equipments (RRU) and operating maintenance terminal in the communication system, wherein,
Operating maintenance terminal is used for sending various command according to administrative staff's indication to the base station main equipment, as, the RRU administration order;
The base station main equipment, be used to receive the RRU administration order that operating maintenance terminal sends, and based on the Ir interface standard, the RRU administration order that receives is encapsulated as the transparent channel message again according to the message format that is used for transparent transmission, and described transparent channel message mail to corresponding radio frequency remote equipment, indicate this radio frequency remote equipment associative operation is resolved and carried out to the transparent channel message that receives according to its local management information bank of preserving;
Radio frequency remote equipment is used to receive the transparent channel message that the base station main equipment sends, and resolves the transparent channel message that receives and carry out corresponding operating based on the management information bank that preserve this locality.
Consult shown in Figure 2ly, in the embodiment of the invention, the base station main equipment comprises receiving element 20, encapsulation unit 21 and transmitting element 22, wherein,
Receiving element 20 is used to receive the RRU administration order that operating maintenance terminal sends;
Encapsulation unit 21 is used for the interface standard based on Ir, and the RRU administration order that receives is encapsulated as the transparent channel message again according to the message format that is used for transparent transmission;
Transmitting element 22 is used for the transparent channel message after the encapsulation is mail to corresponding radio frequency remote equipment, indicates this radio frequency remote equipment according to its local management information bank of preserving associative operation is resolved and carried out to the transparent channel message that receives.
In following examples, each base station main equipment is called base station main equipment _ 1, base station main equipment _ 2 for ease of describing ... base station main equipment _ N.
Consult shown in Figure 3ly, in the embodiment of the invention, radio frequency remote equipment comprises communication unit 30 and processing unit 31, wherein,
Communication unit 30, be used to receive the transparent channel message that the base station main equipment sends, described transparent channel message based on the Ir interface standard, encapsulates acquisition according to the message format that is used for transparent transmission to the radio frequency remote equipment administration order that operating maintenance terminal sends by described base station main equipment again;
Processing unit 31, the management information bank that is used for preserving based on this locality is resolved the transparent channel message that receives and is carried out corresponding operating.
In following examples, each radio frequency remote equipment is called RRU_1, RRU_2 for ease of describing ... RRU_N.
Based on the said system framework, in the embodiment of the invention, administrative staff can utilize the OM passage of Iub interface to realize the IP local area network (LAN) of wireless access network internal, thereby support operating maintenance terminal remote access base station main equipment.As shown in Figure 1, administrative staff can use operating maintenance terminal directly to connect base station main equipment n in this locality to carry out Operation and Maintenance, also can use operating maintenance terminal to connect base station main equipment _ 1 or RNC, indirectly base station main equipment _ n be carried out the remote maintenance operation, not repeat them here.
Based on above-mentioned technical foundation, administrative staff can be by remote access base station main equipment, thereby realize each RRU that this base station main equipment of remote access connects, for example, can be in base station main equipment _ 1 ..., base station main equipment _ n or base station controller (RNC) locate, use operating maintenance terminal (as, OMC management station) telemanagement RRU_1, RRU_2, RRU_3, RRU_4, and do not need operating personnel to operate on the spot to the residing position of these RRU.
Consulting shown in Figure 4ly, in the embodiment of the invention, is example with base station main equipment _ 1, RRU_1, introduces by the detailed process of base station main equipment _ 1 remote maintenance RRU_1 as follows:
Step 400: base station main equipment _ 1 receives the RRU administration order that operating maintenance terminal sends.In the present embodiment, need in this RRU administration order to carry at least RRU identifier, operational order sign (ID), operational order type identification (as, inquire about, be provided with etc.), the management object of needs operation identifies and the management object value of setting.
In the embodiment of the invention, above-mentioned RRU administration order is to set up in the Operation and Maintenance interface of operating maintenance terminal and base station main equipment 1.
On the other hand, after the RRU administration order that operating maintenance terminal sends was received in base station main equipment _ 1, the IP map addresses of searching corresponding RRU according to the RRU identifier that carries in this RRU administration order was to determine the IP address of target RRU; In the present embodiment, determine that finally target RRU is RRU_1.
Step 410: base station main equipment _ 1 encapsulates the RRU administration order that receives according to the message format that is used for transparent transmission again based on the Ir interface standard, obtains the transparent channel message.
For example, with operational order ID, action type, management object sign and the management object value of setting that comprises in the RRU administration order, form according to the message that transparent channel transmitted in the Ir standard encapsulates again, in the encapsulation process, base station main equipment _ 1 do not need to resolve each parameter of comprising in the RRU administration order (as, the management object sign) implication just encapsulates again and transmits.
Step 420: base station main equipment _ 1 is sent to RRU_1 with the transparent channel message, and associative operation is resolved and carried out to the management information bank of indicating this RRU_1 to preserve according to its local privatization to the transparent channel message that receives.
Based on the foregoing description, to consult shown in Figure 5ly, in the embodiment of the invention, it is as follows that RRU_1 receives the handling process of carrying out behind the transparent channel message of the encapsulation again that base station main equipment 1 transmits (promptly carrying out the remote maintenance operation):
Step 500:RRU_1 receives from operating maintenance terminal, and the transparent channel message of transmitting after base station main equipment _ 1 encapsulates again.In the present embodiment, need to carry at least in this transparent channel message again RRU identifier after the encapsulation, operational order ID, operational order type identification (as, inquire about, be provided with etc.), the management object of needs operation identifies and the management object value of setting.
The management information bank that step 510:RRU_1 preserves based on this locality is resolved and is received the transparent channel message and carry out corresponding operating.
When execution in step 510, after RRU_1 receives the transparent channel message, can identify the management object of clear and definite needs operation according to its management object of carrying, and according to its operational order ID that carries, operational order type (as, inquire about, be provided with etc.) carry out operation accordingly.For example:
The operational order type of supposing to carry in the transparent channel message is for being provided with, and specify the 1.3.2.1.1 that is designated of management object, and the value that appointment needs to be provided with is 30, after RRU_1 receives and reports the transparent channel message, can first reading order type be " setting ", determine that again management object is designated 1.3.2.1.1, and determine that the value that needs to be provided with is 30, then, RRU_1 is an aerial voltage standing-wave ratio thresholding by the management object of finding the 1.3.2.1.1 correspondence from management information bank, so, its value of RRU_1 is set to designated value 30.
RRU_1 returns the transparent channel response message to base station main equipment _ 1 after finishing according to transparent channel message execution corresponding operating, and promptly whether successfully the Response message is used for notifying operation.Be example still with above-mentioned " specifying the value of RRU aerial voltage standing-wave ratio thresholding to be set to 30 ", RRU_1 in the transparent channel response message except with command type (setting), management object sign (1.3.2.1.1), the value (30), the order ID former state that need to be provided with write, also need write operation execution result (success/failure), and the failure cause during operation failure.
Because the transparent channel message that RRU_1 receives by Ir is based on the message format encapsulation of transparent transmission, therefore, the transparent channel response message that RRU_1 returns is based on the message format encapsulation of transparent transmission too, be that RRU_1 and base station main equipment _ 1 are that message by transparent transmission communicates on the Ir interface, after base station main equipment _ 1 receives the transparent transmission response message, it to be encapsulated as again the message of the channel type that adopts when communicating by letter between this locality and the operating maintenance terminal, can forward it to operating maintenance terminal.
Based on above-mentioned two embodiment, base station main equipment _ 1 receives after the Response message that RRU_1 returns, based on the Ir interface standard, the Response message that receives is discerned according to the message format that is used for transparent transmission, again be encapsulated as RRU administration order response message, and RRU administration order response message mail to operating maintenance terminal, in RRU administration order response message, need to carry the RRU identifier after encapsulating again, operational order ID, the operational order type identification (as, inquiry, be provided with etc.), and the management object of RRU side sign and the management object value of setting, operating result (success/failure), and failure the time also need be carried failure cause (being called improper value); Wherein, base station main equipment _ 1 does not need to resolve the concrete implication of the Response message that RRU_1 returns, and just encapsulates again and be forwarded to operating maintenance terminal to get final product.Operating maintenance terminal receives after the RRU administration order response message that returns base station main equipment _ 1, resolves and carry out respective handling to get final product.For example, the operational order ID that operating maintenance terminal carries according to RRU administration order response message determines that above-mentioned base station main equipment _ 1 response of returning is at this operation of aerial voltage standing-wave ratio thresholding that RRU_1 is set, and determine operation failure according to improper value, then need on man-machine interface, carry out corresponding prompt or the like.
Wherein, after base station main equipment _ 1 receives the Response message, need with the IP map addresses of RRU_1 the identifier of RRU_1, this is because operating maintenance terminal is only known the identifier of RRU_1, have only base station main equipment _ 1 to know the identifier of RRU_1 and the mapping relations of its IP address, operating maintenance terminal provides the identifier of RRU_1 when sending the RRU administration order, the base station main equipment need be mapped to the IP address when sending the transparent channel message; Otherwise the base station main equipment receives after the transparent channel response message, need be the identifier of RRU_1 with the IP map addresses, is encapsulated in the RRU administration order response message and mails to operating maintenance terminal.
Further, in the Operation and Maintenance interface between operating maintenance terminal and base station main equipment side, also need to increase initiatively reporting message of a class RRU.For example, when RRU_1 produces fault or critical event takes place need be when operating maintenance terminal be given notice, send to base station main equipment _ 1 by the Ir interface and to be used to alarm or the transparent channel of event notice initiatively reports message, base station main equipment _ 1 receives that the transparent channel that RRU_1 sends initiatively reports after the message, based on the Ir interface standard, initiatively report message to discern according to the message format that is used for transparent transmission to the transparent channel that receives, it is encapsulated as initiatively reporting message of RRU again, and with this RRU initiatively reporting message mail to operating maintenance terminal, this RRU initiatively needs to carry the RRU identifier of encapsulation again in reporting message, the transparent channel that RRU_1 reports initiatively reports the management object sign and the management object value of setting of carrying in the message; Wherein, base station main equipment _ 1 does not need to resolve the concrete implication that transparent channel that RRU_1 reports initiatively reports message, just encapsulates again and transmit to get final product.Operating maintenance terminal receives RRU that base station main equipment _ 1 reports initiatively after the reporting message, handles getting final product accordingly.For example, receive alarm notification, operating maintenance terminal need show on man-machine interface in real time, comprises text prompt, lights stand by lamp or the like.
In embodiments of the present invention, as long as operating maintenance terminal can be visited any one base station main equipment, just can realize comprehensive long-distance management maintenance operation to all RRU that this base station main equipment connects.In fact the base station main equipment does not do to resolve or carry out action to the operational order and the message that relate in the RRU management, only is responsible for the encapsulation again and the forwarding of message.The technical scheme that the embodiment of the invention provides, can be directly as the design of the telemanagement of RRU under the various wireless access standards, also can be used as replenishing of Ir standard.The function that has defined for the Ir standard, still use existing mode to realize, for the function that exceeds Ir standard definition scope, then set up management information bank, by base station main equipment side the operational order of operating maintenance terminal is encapsulated as transparent channel message based on the Ir standard and mails to RRU and get final product in RRU this locality.Under such conceptual design, need not preserve the management information bank of RRU in base station main equipment side, thereby when the organize content of RRU changes, can wait the organize content of increase/deletion/modification RRU neatly, do not need to revise the processing mode of base station main equipment side yet, and the interface between base station main equipment and the operating maintenance terminal, interface between base station main equipment and each RRU, and only need revise the management information bank of RRU this locality, the contents processing of operating maintenance terminal, and the contents processing of RRU gets final product, effectively reduce the follow-up maintenance cost, improve the execution efficient of remote maintenance flow process, had higher feasibility.
Obviously, those skilled in the art can carry out various changes and modification to the present invention and not break away from the spirit and scope of the present invention.Like this, if of the present invention these are revised and modification belongs within the scope of claim of the present invention and equivalent technologies thereof, then the present invention also is intended to comprise these changes and modification interior.