Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
370209000 | Walsh functions | 40 |
20080212462 | Apparatus for Generating Down Link Signal, and Method and Apparatus for Cell Search in Cellular System - A method for generating a downlink signal and searching for a cell from the downlink signal in an OFDM-based cellular system is provided. Thus, a pilot pattern is formed in the downlink signal, and the pilot pattern is formed of a product of a cell-specific scrambling code and a cell group-specific code. The scrambling code is different for each cell and the same for each sub-frame, and the cell group-specific code is different for each cell and different for each sub-frame. | 09-04-2008 |
20080232239 | Method and Apparatus for Communicating Orthogonal Pilot Tones in a Multiple Antenna Communication System - Methods and apparatus are provided for communicating pseudo-orthogonal pilot tones in a multiple antenna communication system. Data is transmitted in a multiple antenna communication system having N transmit antennas by generating a number of pilot tones for each of the N transmit antennas, wherein the pilot tones for each of the N transmit antennas are pseudo-orthogonal with each other; and transmitting the data on each of the N transmit antennas. The pilot tones are generally embedded in the data. Data is received in a multiple antenna communication system having N transmit antennas by receiving the data on each of the N transmit antennas, wherein the data includes a number of pilot tones for each of the N transmit antennas, wherein the pilot tones for each of the N transmit antennas are pseudo-orthogonal with each other. The pilot tones can be orthogonal in the frequency domain, time domain, spatial domain, or all of them. | 09-25-2008 |
20080291820 | Method for Allocating Frequency Domain Spread Code in Base Station of Mc-Cdma Communication System - The present invention relates to a method for allocating a frequency domain spread code in a base station of a multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) communication system. A code allocation priority is established based on interference between previously allocated spread codes and a newly allocated spread code so as to minimize the interference caused by channel fading or a synchronization error according to a transmitting or receiving timing offset when a scheduler of the base station in the MC-CDMA communication system allocates a subcarrier group to the plurality of user terminals or channels, and the spread code is allocated to the plurality of user terminals or channels according to the established priority, by the scheduler of the base station. | 11-27-2008 |
20090290481 | M-ary Orthogonal Keying System - A digital modulation system provides enhanced multipath performance by using modified orthogonal codes with reduced autocorrelation sidelobes while maintaining the cross-correlation properties of the modified codes. For example, the modified orthogonal codes can reduce the autocorrelation level so as not to exceed one-half the length of the modified orthogonal code. In certain embodiments, an M-ary orthogonal keying (MOK) system is used which modifies orthogonal Walsh codes using a complementary code to improve the auto-correlation properties of the Walsh codes, thereby enhancing the multipath performance of the MOK system while maintaining the orthogonality and low cross-correlation characteristics of the Walsh codes. | 11-26-2009 |
20100046357 | USING CDMA TO SEND UPLINK SIGNALS IN WLANs - Methods and apparatus for using code-division multiple access (CDMA) via orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) to convey information from user terminals to an access point (AP) in a wireless local area network (WLAN), for example, are provided. Employed in an effort to support a large number of user terminals while avoiding collisions, this CDMA-based scheme may offer a number of advantages when compared to conventional techniques for transmitting UL signals from a large number of user terminals. First, efficiency with respect to the number of slots used may be increased. In addition, this scheme may be scalable to a high number of user terminals and may have a soft limit as to the number of users that can be supported. Furthermore, this CDMA-based scheme may offer greater tolerance to frequency offsets and may be utilized for ranging and power control. | 02-25-2010 |
20100202283 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WALSH SPACE ASSIGNMENT IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Techniques for Walsh space assignment are disclosed. In one aspect, a list of Walsh functions is maintained in the base station and mobile stations. A Walsh space indicator is transmitted to indicate which of the Walsh functions on the list are to be used in communication. The Walsh space indicator is updated according to the dynamically varying transmit power available or the use of Walsh functions within the base station. Methods by which a mobile station can request Walsh space information are provided. In another aspect, a Walsh space indicator channel is continually broadcast for mobile stations to detect the Walsh space indicator therefrom. In yet another aspect, the Walsh space indicator is used to initialize convolutional encoders and decoders, to provide a mechanism for mitigating against errors introduced while receiving Walsh space indicators. Various other aspects are also presented. | 08-12-2010 |
20100278035 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-USER DETECTION USING TWO-STAGE PROCESSING - Systems and methods for multi-user detection in a multiple access system are provided. In one aspect, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a processing unit configured to process received chips into received symbols for a plurality of users and a computation unit configured to compute a multi-user matrix using a Hadamard matrix, wherein the multi-user matrix relates user symbols for the plurality of users to the received symbols. The apparatus further comprises a detection unit configured to detect the user symbols for the plurality of users using the received symbols and the computed multi-user matrix. | 11-04-2010 |
20100296384 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND RESPONSE SIGNAL SPREADING METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus capable of minimizing the degradation in separation characteristic of a code multiplexed response signal. In this apparatus, a control part ( | 11-25-2010 |
20110019529 | INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION IN UPLINK ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - The present disclosure proposes design of a pico/femto uplink acknowledgement (ACK) channel that improves the interference suppression for pico/femto base stations. The proposed design provides a two-layered cell-separation ACK channel structure for femto/pico cells by using computer generated sequences (CGS) and Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) spreading. Thereby, ACK channels may be multiplexed across different femto/pico base stations with minimal interference. The proposed scheme is compatible with conventional standards for the base station in the macro cell and does not impose any changes on the macro cell. | 01-27-2011 |
20110110218 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING PACKET DATA IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK - Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting packet data in a WSN. The apparatus for transmitting packet data in a WSN includes: a serial-to-parallel converter to parallel-convert information and output the converted information to two channel paths; a Walsh code pair generation unit to select an arbitrary Walsh code pair, mix the selected Walsh code pair with a pseudo noise (PN) code, and output one Walsh code to one channel path and the other Walsh code to the other channel path; a first mixer to mix the signals inputted to two channel paths, and generate a spread symbol for each path; a delay to delay the other channel path signal by a predetermined time; and a transmission unit to convert one channel path signal and the other channel path signal delayed by the delay into transmission frequency band signals, and transmit the converted signals as wireless signals. | 05-12-2011 |
20110110219 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BALANCING REFERENCE SIGNAL POWERS ACROSS OFDM SYMBOLS - A base station includes a reference signal allocator that allocates a first layer of dedicated reference signals and a second layer of reference signals to the same resource elements in a first resource block. The reference signals are allocated to two adjacent resource elements corresponding to a first OFDM symbol and a second OFDM symbol on a first, second, and third subcarriers of the first resource block. The base station also includes a reference signal multiplexer that multiplexes the first layer with the second layer. A first cover code W | 05-12-2011 |
20110182170 | Digital Modulation System Using Modified Orthogonal Codes To Reduce Autocorrelation - A digital modulation system provides enhanced multipath performance by using modified orthogonal codes with reduced autocorrelation sidelobes while maintaining the cross-correlation properties of the modified codes. For example, the modified orthogonal codes can reduce the autocorrelation level so as not to exceed one-half the length of the modified orthogonal code. In certain embodiments, an M-ary orthogonal keying (MOK) system is used which modifies orthogonal Walsh codes using a complementary code to improve the auto-correlation properties of the Walsh codes, thereby enhancing the multipath performance of the MOK system while maintaining the orthogonality and low cross-correlation characteristics of the Walsh codes. | 07-28-2011 |
20120014244 | BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, PILOT TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND CHANNEL ESTIMATION METHOD - Disclosed are a base station, a mobile station, a pilot transmission method, and a channel estimation method, whereby excellent zone interference blocking characteristics can be obtained and high channel estimation precision is ensured even on a propagation path with low frequency correlation similar to when transmitting on an SFN of an MBS. A pilot symbol generating unit ( | 01-19-2012 |
20120063293 | USING A SINGLE FHT TO DECODE ACCESS-BASED HANDOFF PROBES FROM MULTIPLE USERS - A method includes scrambling a Walsh sequence with a random sequence to produce a scrambled Walsh sequence. The method also includes transmitting the scrambled Walsh sequence as an access-based handoff probe. | 03-15-2012 |
20120082023 | CODE MULTIPLEXING TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND RECEPTION APPARATUS - To obtain a high frequency diversity effect while suppressing inter-code interference in code multiplexing transmission in an OFDM-based radio access scheme, a transmission apparatus is provided with an orthogonal spreading code generating section ( | 04-05-2012 |
20120082024 | CONVERTER FOR PERFECT DESPREADING OF ORTHOGONAL CDMA SEQUENCES - The invention comprises a method for de-spreading of a data signal spread with a spread spectrum sequence. The invention is especially suited for the improvement of correlations of spread data signals after transmission. Therefor it can be integrated as software or hardware module into existing transmission systems. The method comprises the formation of a time-reversed spread data signal from the spread data signal, the formation of a sequence which arises through alternating multiplication of the chips of the spread data signal from the spread data signal, and the sequence of the time-reversed spread data signal, which arises from the time-reversed data signal through alternating multiplication of the chips by +1 and −1, the correlation of the spread data signal with the spread spectrum signal, of the time-reversed spread data signal with the time-reversed spread spectrum signal, of the spread data signal multiplied by the +1, −1 sequence with the spread spectrum sequence multiplied by the +1, −1 sequence and of the time-reversed spread data signal multiplied by the +1, −1 sequence with the time-reversed spread spectrum sequence multiplied by the +1, −1 sequence, and the summation of the four correlations. | 04-05-2012 |
20120113795 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK REFERENCE SIGNAL - The present invention relates to transmitting a downlink reference signal in a wireless communication system. A method for a base station to transmit a downlink signal by using two or more layers includes multiplexing and transmitting a reference signal for the two or more layers on the basis of a reference signal pattern on a data region of a downlink subframe and transmitting data for the two or more layers on the data region of the downlink subframe, wherein the reference signal for the two or more layers is a dedicated reference signal that is used to demodulate the data for the two or more layers on a receiving end, and in the multiplexing of the reference signal, the reference signal for the two or more layers is code-division-multiplexed by an orthogonal code having a length of at least 2. | 05-10-2012 |
20120170444 | TERMINAL STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD AND CONTROL METHOD - A terminal apparatus is disclosed wherein even in a case of applying SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO at the same time, the inter-sequence interference in a plurality of pilot signals used by the same terminal can be suppressed to a low value, while the inter-sequence interference in pilot signal between terminals can be reduced. In this terminal apparatus ( | 07-05-2012 |
20120176885 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING A REFERENCE SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed are a method and apparatus for transmitting a reference signal. In a base station apparatus for transmitting a reference signal in a wireless communication system, a processor generates the same scrambling sequence for resource elements (REs) allocated to each layer for reference signal transmission, and spreads or covers Walsh codes such that scrambling sequences generated for the resource elements can be orthogonal to each other on a time axis, in order to generate a reference signal sequence. Here, the Walsh code spreading or covering by the processor is applied on a frequency axis on the basis of a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) or on the basis of a pair of resource blocks, such that mutually different sequences having mutually different sequence values can be mapped between resource blocks or between pairs of resource blocks. A transmission module transmits the reference signal, to which the thus-generated reference signal sequence is applied, to user equipment via each layer. | 07-12-2012 |
20120269052 | SHARED CHANNEL STRUCTURE, ARQ SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A wireless terminal adapted to function in a code division multiple access (CDMA) communications system is provided. The terminal includes a receiver adapted to receive frames having a slot structure in which there is a user identification channel and a shared channel, the shared channel having been transmitted using a plurality of Walsh codes, and containing content for either a plurality of voice users, a plurality of voice users and one high-rate data user, or only one high-rate data user. A slot of the shared channel contains content for a plurality of users which was transmitted in parallel using different Walsh code spaces for different users. The wireless terminal is adapted to decode the user identification channel to determine when a slot of the shared channel contains voice and/or high-rate data content for the wireless terminal. | 10-25-2012 |
20120287770 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASE STATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided are a wireless communication terminal apparatus, a radio communication base station apparatus and a wireless communication method whereby the increase in the number of signaling bits can be suppressed, while the SRS capacity can be improved. RS type determining unit ( | 11-15-2012 |
20130039164 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless communication apparatus of the invention has a determination section that determines which one of a plurality of formats is used for determining transmission symbols to be transmitted to another communication apparatus; a control section that determines a type a sequence length of an orthogonal code and used for assigning ACK/NACK symbols to identical symbols in an identical slot on basis of the format determined by the determination section, without depending on a number of transmission symbols capable of being transmitted to the other communication apparatus; a spreading section that spreads the ACK/NACK symbols by an identical type of orthogonal code in the plurality of formats set based on the type and the sequence length of the orthogonal code determined by the control section; and a transmission section that transmits the spread ACK/NACK symbols using the determined format. | 02-14-2013 |
20130044581 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING CODE RESOURCES TO UPLINK ACK/NACK CHANNELS IN A CELLULAR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for allocating code resources to ACK/NACK channel indexes, when UEs need ACK/NACK transmission in a wireless communication system in which a predetermined number of orthogonal cover Walsh codes is selected from among available orthogonal cover Walsh codes, at least one subset is formed, having the selected orthogonal cover Walsh codes arranged in an ascending order of cross interference, subsets are selected for use in first and second slots of a subframe, and the orthogonal cover Walsh codes of the subset selected for each slot and ZC sequence cyclic shift values are allocated to the ACK/NACK channel indexes. | 02-21-2013 |
20130070580 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ORTHOGONAL COVER CODE (OCC) GENERATION, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OCC MAPPING - An apparatus and method for Orthogonal Cover Code (OCC) generation, and OCC mapping, includes generating the first group of OCC sequences, which is used to generate the first group of OCC sequences; generating the second group of OCC sequences, which is used to mirror the columns of the first group of OCC sequences to generate the second group of OCC sequences; generating the third group of OCC sequences, which is used to perform cyclic shift on the column vectors of the first group of OCC sequences to generate the third group of OCC sequences; and generating the fourth group of OCC sequences, which is used to mirror the columns of the third group of OCC sequences to generate the fourth group of OCC sequences. | 03-21-2013 |
20130135984 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK DATA - Disclosed herein relates to a method of transmitting uplink data to increase multiplex capacity. The method includes allocating, by each of a plurality of machine type communication user equipment (MTC UE), position information within a single resource block (RB), which is used when transmitting uplink data, to the single RB, generating information about a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) used when demodulating the data received from the plurality of MTC UE, and transmitting the position information within the RB and the information about the DMRS to each of the plurality of MTC UE. | 05-30-2013 |
20130294218 | Method of Allocating Walsh Codes and Quasi-Orthogonal Functional Codes in a CDMA Network - A method of allocating Walsh codes and Quasi-orthogonal Functional, QoF, codes in a CDMA system in which a finite number of Walsh codes are defined, and some mobile terminals operating in the CDMA system are capable of supporting Advanced Quasi-Linear Interference Cancellation, AQLIC, and some mobile terminals operating in the CDMA system are non-AQLIC-capable. Walsh codes are allocated to control channels. A code allocation unit then determines a threshold number of Walsh codes to reserve for non-AQLIC-capable mobile terminals. When a current Walsh code usage level is less than the threshold, the unit allocates Walsh codes to both the AQLIC-capable mobile terminals and the non-AQLIC-capable mobile terminals. When the current Walsh code usage level is greater than the threshold, the unit allocates QoF codes only to AQLIC-capable mobile terminals, and allocates Walsh codes to non-AQLIC-capable mobile terminals. | 11-07-2013 |
20130301401 | PHICH Transmission in Time Division Duplex Systems - A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunication system. The method comprises multiplexing, by a network element, at least one symbol of a PHICH onto at least one resource element of a PCFICH. | 11-14-2013 |
20130329543 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND RECEIVING METHOD - A transmission device includes reference signal generator ( | 12-12-2013 |
20140071801 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIGH BANDWIDTH AND LOW POWER BODY CHANNEL COMMUNICATION - A system and method for body channel communication is provided. The system includes a transceiver which encodes multiple bits per symbol when operating in a high data rate mode by selecting a first Walsh code in response to a first set of multiple bits of data and selecting a second Walsh code in response to a second set of multiple bits of data, both Walsh codes selected from a multiple-bit Walsh code sequence. The transceiver also generates a multi-level transmission signal having a predetermined symbol frequency by stacking the first Walsh code onto the second Walsh code, and transmits the multi-level signal having the first predetermined symbol frequency through the body channel. The transceiver also has additional modes of operation which include a normal mode and a low power mode, the low power mode decoding the multiple bits from the signal in response to harmonic energy from a harmonic frequency generated by the multiple-bit Walsh code sequence. Also, the transceiver modulates an M-Sequence code with the multi-bit Walsh code sequence up to a desired frequency band associated with the predetermined frequency in order to improve auto-correlation after passing through the body channel. | 03-13-2014 |
20140140193 | Wireless Terminal Apparatus and Wireless Base Station Apparatus - Both a wireless terminal apparatus and wireless base station apparatus are provided that can, in an operation of encoding the control signals of the upstream link transmitted from the multiple terminal stations while encoding with regard to each of the terminal stations, increase a number of the terminal stations to which different codes are respectively assigned. A wireless terminal apparatus includes: an encoding information receiving portion receiving encoding information which is used at the wireless terminal apparatus from the base station; a phase-shifting unit which conducts a phase-shifting operation on a predetermined first code based on the encoding information; a code selection unit which, based on the received encoding information, selects a second code from multiple codes orthogonally crossing each other; and a control signal encoding portion which conducts an encoding operation on the control signal that is going to be transmitted to the base station by using both the first code on which the phase-shifting operation has been conducted and the second code. | 05-22-2014 |
20140153379 | CHANNELIZING PACKET ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR MULTIPLE DATA CHANNELS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Acknowledgments for packets received on multiple data channels in wireless communication are channelized with multiple orthogonal codes to generate multiple symbol sequences. Modulation symbols for an acknowledgment channel are generated based on the symbol sequences. | 06-05-2014 |
20140160916 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING CODE RESOURCES TO UPLINK ACK/NACK CHANNELS IN A CELLULAR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for allocating code resources to ACK/NACK channel indexes, when UEs need ACK/NACK transmission in a wireless communication system in which a predetermined number of orthogonal cover Walsh codes is selected from among available orthogonal cover Walsh codes, at least one subset is formed, having the selected orthogonal cover Walsh codes arranged in an ascending order of cross interference, subsets are selected for use in first and second slots of a subframe, and the orthogonal cover Walsh codes of the subset selected for each slot and ZC sequence cyclic shift values are allocated to the ACK/NACK channel indexes. | 06-12-2014 |
20140169151 | PHICH Transmission in Time Division Duplex Systems - A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunication system. The method comprises multiplexing, by a network element, at least one symbol of a PHICH onto at least one resource element of a PCFICH. | 06-19-2014 |
20140347972 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING A REFERENCE SIGNAL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station apparatus for transmitting a reference signal in a wireless communication system is provided in which a processor generates the same sequence for resource elements (REs) allocated to each layer for reference signal transmission and spreads or covers Walsh codes for a user equipment-specific reference signal sequence such that sequences generated for the resource elements can be orthogonal to each other on a time axis. The Walsh code spreading or covering by the processor is applied on a frequency axis based on a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) or based on a pair of resource blocks such that mutually different sequences having mutually different sequence values can be mapped between resource blocks or between pairs of resource blocks. A transmission module transmits the reference signal, to which the generated reference signal sequence is applied to user equipment via each layer. | 11-27-2014 |
20140369176 | METHOD AND DECODER FOR DESPREADING DATA SIGNALS SPREAD USING WALSH SEQUENCES - According to the invention, a data stream with continuous, periodic transmitted, spread data signals of N chips each is split into two data streams of N chips each, which are shifted by N chips; for each of these data streams the correlation functions are calculated within every chip clock time and, in relation to their maxima, evaluated in order to separate user signals from extraneous signals and disturbing signals. | 12-18-2014 |
20150078151 | TERMINAL STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD AND CONTROL METHOD - A terminal apparatus is disclosed wherein even in a case of applying SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO at the same time, the inter-sequence interference in a plurality of pilot signals used by the same terminal can be suppressed to a low value, while the inter-sequence interference in pilot signal between terminals can be reduced. In this terminal apparatus: a pilot information deciding unit decides, based on allocation control information, Walsh sequences of the respective ones of first and second stream groups at least one of which includes a plurality of streams; and a pilot signal generating unit forms a transport signal by using the decided Walsh sequences to spread the streams included in the first and second stream groups. During this, Walsh sequences orthogonal to each other are established in the first and second stream groups, and users are allocated on a stream group-by-stream group basis. | 03-19-2015 |
20150098313 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE WALSH-HADAMARD TRANSFORM OF N SAMPLES OF A SIGNAL AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A computer-implemented method for determining the Walsh-Hadamard transform of N samples of a signal, comprises electing a plurality of hashing C matrices Σ | 04-09-2015 |
20150304153 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE PROVIDING PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER RATIO (PAPR) REDUCTION BASED UPON WALSH TRANSFORMATION MATRIX PERMUTATIONS AND RELATED METHODS - A wireless communications device using a multi-carrier modulation communication signal may include a transmitter and a controller operable with the transmitter. The controller may be configured to reduce a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) associated with the multi-carrier modulation communication signal by at least generating a plurality of intermediate multi-carrier modulation communication signals based upon respective different permutations of a Walsh transformation matrix, and selecting a given intermediate multi-carrier modulation communication signal for transmission as the multi-carrier modulation communication signal based upon a PAPR associated therewith. | 10-22-2015 |
20150381257 | TERMINAL STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD AND CONTROL METHOD - A terminal apparatus is disclosed wherein even in a case of applying SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO at the same time, the inter-sequence interference in a plurality of pilot signals used by the same terminal can be suppressed to a low value, while the inter-sequence interference in pilot signal between terminals can be reduced. In this terminal apparatus: a pilot information deciding unit decides, based on allocation control information, Walsh sequences of the respective ones of first and second stream groups at least one of which includes a plurality of streams; and a pilot signal generating unit forms a transport signal by using the decided Walsh sequences to spread the streams included in the first and second stream groups. During this, Walsh sequences orthogonal to each other are established in the first and second stream groups, and users are allocated on a stream group-by-stream group basis. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381258 | TERMINAL STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD AND CONTROL METHOD - A terminal apparatus is disclosed wherein even in a case of applying SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO at the same time, the inter-sequence interference in a plurality of pilot signals used by the same terminal can be suppressed to a low value, while the inter-sequence interference in pilot signal between terminals can be reduced. In this terminal apparatus: a pilot information deciding unit decides, based on allocation control information, Walsh sequences of the respective ones of first and second stream groups at least one of which includes a plurality of streams; and a pilot signal generating unit forms a transport signal by using the decided Walsh sequences to spread the streams included in the first and second stream groups. During this, Walsh sequences orthogonal to each other are established in the first and second stream groups, and users are allocated on a stream group-by-stream group basis. | 12-31-2015 |