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Kenichi Higuchi, Saitama JP

Kenichi Higuchi, Saitama JP

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20100254287MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, USER APPARATUS, AND METHOD - A user apparatus for use in a mobile communications system is disclosed. The user apparatus includes a unit which determines, using acknowledgement information received from a communications counterpart, whether retransmission is required for a transmitted signal; and a unit which transmits, to the communications counterpart, a signal required to be retransmitted according to a round-trip delay (RTD) which is set for the user apparatus for retransmission control, wherein, the RTD of the user apparatus is arranged to be changed, when the user apparatus enters a region which uses an RTD shorter than the RTD set for the user apparatus to an integer multiple of the shorter RTD.10-07-2010
20100302987MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, USER APPARATUS AND METHOD - In a mobile communication system, a downlink MBMS channel is transmitted from a plurality of cells in timing synchronized with each other. The system includes: a unit configured to collectively transit a notification of setting up an uplink line for responding to the downlink MBMS channel to a plurality of user apparatuses specified by an upper node of the base station apparatus; a unit configured to set up the uplink line for a user apparatus that responds to the notification; and a unit configured to transfer a signal received from each user apparatus via the uplink line to the upper node.12-02-2010
20100304665RELAY TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, RELAY STATION, AND METHOD - A base station used in a relay transmission system is disclosed. The base station includes a metric provision unit providing a metric indicating radio propagation conditions of a user equipment terminal; a relay information generation unit generating a relay information for the user equipment terminal based on the metric, the relay information indicating whether an uplink signal is to be transmitted via one or more relay stations; a scheduling unit generating an allocation plan of radio resources based on the relay information; and a control signal transmission unit transmitting a control signal including a scheduling information indicating the allocation plan.12-02-2010
20100309857MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, USER DEVICE, AND METHOD - A user device transmitting at least an uplink control channel using a single carrier scheme includes a channel quality indicator generating unit configured to generate a channel quality indicator indicating a downlink radio propagation condition; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the uplink control channel including the channel quality indicator using a dedicated frequency band when no radio resource is allocated for transmission of an uplink data channel. The transmitting unit is configured to transmit a predetermined number of unit blocks in each slot period. If a system bandwidth is greater than a predetermined value, a set of factors used to multiply some of the unit blocks belonging to the same slot and containing the same information represents an orthogonal sequence; and a predetermined number of symbol elements constituting each of the some of the unit blocks represent at least a part of the channel quality indicator.12-09-2010
20100317357MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROLLER AND METHOD - A mobile communication system includes a first assignment unit configured to assign radio resources to a user in a W-CDMA system, a second assignment unit configured to assign radio resources to a user in a LTE system, a dual mode terminal capable of communicating in the W-CDMA system and the LTE system, and a selection unit configured to select the first assignment unit or the second assignment unit depending on a type of user traffic data in communication with the dual mode terminal. The assignment unit selected by the selection unit determines which of the radio resources is available for the dual mode terminal and signals the determined radio resources to the dual mode terminal.12-16-2010
20110009139METHOD FOR REPORTING CHANNEL QUALITY INFORMATION VIA UPLINK, AND BASE STATION AND USER DEVICE ADAPTED FOR THE METHOD - A base station for a mobile communication system includes a speed detecting unit configured to detect the moving speed of a user device based on a signal received from the user device and indicating the moving speed; and a determining unit configured to select, based on the moving speed detected by the speed detecting unit, a wideband channel quality indicator indicating reception quality of an entire system frequency band allocated to the mobile communication system, or a combination of the wideband channel quality indicator and one or more channel quality indicators of subbands in the system frequency band as channel quality information that needs to be reported from the user device to the base station.01-13-2011
20110009142BASE STATION APPARATUS AND METHOD USED IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A base station apparatus in a mobile communications system is provided. The base station apparatus includes a measuring unit which receives a reference signal from a user apparatus and measures received quality for each frequency resource block; a unit which provides a reference metric from the received quality; a modifying unit which modifies the reference metric with at least first and second parameters, and provide the modified metric; a scheduler which compares modified metrics of respective frequency resource blocks and provides a radio resource allocation plan; and a unit which reports, to the user apparatus, control information which indicates the allocation plan.01-13-2011
20110013719WEIGHTING FACTOR REPORTING METHOD IN A MIMO MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, AND BASE STATION AND USER APPARATUS THAT ARE SUITABLE FOR USE IN THE METHOD - A user apparatus in a multi input multi output (MIMO) mobile communications system using pre-encoding is disclosed. The user apparatus includes a PMI generator which generates, in accordance with a radio propagation condition, a pre-encoding matrix indicator (PMI) which indicates a pre-encoding matrix to be used by a base station; a delay circuit which takes, as an input, the PMI and which outputs the PMI after a predetermined delay period has elapsed; an accumulating unit which takes, as an input, the PMI from the delay circuit and stores the input PMI; and a channel estimator which, on a signal from the base station, performs channel estimation using the PMI stored in the accumulating unit.01-20-2011
20110026417BASE STATION AND METHOD FOR USE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station for use in a mobile communication system includes: a measurement unit configured to measure one or more pieces of statistical data in the number of users in a cell, a user distribution state or a traffic amount; and a deriving unit configured to derive a value of a radio parameter corresponding to currently measured statistical data from predetermined correspondence relationship between the statistical data and the radio parameter. A value of the radio parameter set as office data in the base station is automatically updated to a value derived by the deriving unit.02-03-2011
20110051711MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION, BASIC FREQUENCY BLOCK SPECIFYING METHOD AND BAND CONTROL METHOD - A base station includes a receiving unit configured to receive a UE capability regarding a bandwidth from a mobile station; and a specifying unit configured to specify, among plural basic frequency blocks included in a system band, one or more basic frequency blocks to be used by the mobile station based on the UE capability.03-03-2011
20110075750BASE STATION APPARATUS, USER APPARATUS, AND METHOD USED IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A base station apparatus is used in a region in which a first system and a second system co-exist. In the first system, mobile communication is conducted using a variable system bandwidth not more than a basic bandwidth. In the second system, mobile communication is conducted using a variable system bandwidth which is not more than a bandwidth of an advanced system band which is at least as wide as multiple of the basic bandwidths. The base station apparatus generates a control signal for the first system and a control signal for the second system, orthogonally multiplexes them, and includes the same in a downlink signal to transmit the downlink signal. The advanced system band is divided such that it includes multiple of areas (P, Q, R, S) of the basic bandwidth. The control signal for the first system is included in one of the areas (Q). The control signal for the second system is included in at least one of the areas (P, Q, R, S).03-31-2011
20110085536BASE STATION, USER EQUIPMENT TERMINAL AND METHOD - A base station for communicating with a first user equipment terminal within a first system band and communicating with a second user equipment terminal within a second system band includes a first reference signal sequence generating unit configured to generate M types of reference signal sequences; a second reference signal sequence generating unit configured to generate N (N>M) types of reference signal sequences; a scheduling unit configured to allocate resource blocks to the first user equipment terminal and the second user equipment terminal; a signal multiplexing unit configured to multiplex the M types of reference signal sequences into the resource block for the first user equipment terminal and multiplex the N types of reference signal sequences into the resource block for the second user equipment terminal; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit signals including the M types of reference signal sequences and the N types of reference signal sequences.04-14-2011
20110090893MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RECEIVER AND METHOD - A transmitter in a mobile communication system code-multiplexes transmission symbols together with spreading codes, performs inverse Fourier transform and transmits the result from multiple transmit antennas. A receiver in the mobile communication system performs Fourier transform on signals received at multiple receive antennas, extracts signal components of individual subcarriers and estimates symbols in accordance with a QR decomposition algorithm. A unitary matrix is derived such that a product of a spreading matrix including spreading elements as its elements and a channel matrix representing radio channel states is equal to a product of the unitary matrix and a triangular matrix. A reception vector, a unitary matrix and a triangular matrix are used to estimate symbol candidates transmitted from individual transmit antennas.04-21-2011
20110103366BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION AND FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a base station comprising a multiplexer so constituted as to frequency-divide/multiplex a first channel for transmitting first data to be transmitted to a plurality of mobile stations, and a second channel for transmitting second data to be transmitted to one mobile station.05-05-2011
20110105138MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT METHOD - In a mobile communication system including a first base station and a second base station, the first base station includes: a user information obtaining unit configured to obtain user information in the first base station, and the second base station includes: a user information obtaining unit configured to obtain user information in the second base station; a base station internal information collection unit configured to collect user information in the first and the second base stations; and a resource assignment determination unit configured to determine radio resources that can be used by the first base station and radio resources that can be used by the second base station based on the user information in the first and the second base stations.05-05-2011
20110164532USER APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A user apparatus to which radio access schemes of a single-carrier scheme and a multicarrier scheme are applied includes: a radio access scheme setting unit configured to set a radio access scheme; a discrete Fourier transform unit configured to perform discrete Fourier transform on a modulated symbol sequence when the radio access scheme is the single-carrier scheme; a serial parallel conversion unit configured to perform serial parallel conversion on the modulated symbol sequence when the radio access scheme is the multicarrier scheme; a frequency domain signal generation unit configured to assign radio resources to the modulated symbol sequence on which discrete Fourier transform has been performed or to the demodulated symbol sequence on which serial parallel conversion has been performed so as to generate a signal in the frequency domain; a waveform shaping filter configured to perform waveform shaping on the signal in the frequency domain; a transmission signal generation unit configured to perform inverse fast Fourier transform on the signal in the frequency domain on which waveform shaping has been performed so as to generate a transmission signal; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the transmission signal by radio.07-07-2011
20110164659CLOSED-LOOP TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND TERMINAL - In a closed-loop TPC for a channel using a wireless resource, to which frequency hopping is applied, a high quality reception is achieved for all RBs without applying another technique to each RB. This transmission power control method, in a mobile communications system that transmits signals by frequency hopping in a plurality of resource blocks, includes a transmission power control method that transmission-power controls a channel in a closed loop using a wireless resource to which frequency hopping is applied, measures a reception channel quality of received signals for each resource block (RB07-07-2011