Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100309808 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, USER EQUIPMENT, AND METHOD - A base station apparatus is used in a mobile communication system in which at least a shared data channel is transmitted by an orthogonal modulation scheme using an I-channel and a Q-channel. The base station apparatus includes a providing unit providing Acknowledgement/Non-Acknowledgement information indicating whether retransmission of a signal received in uplink is required; a mapping unit mapping a number of multiplexed users of the Acknowledgement/Non-Acknowledgement information to the I-channel or the Q-channel based on a predetermined mapping table; and a reporting unit reporting the Acknowledgement/Non-Acknowledgement information to the respective users. The mapping table indicates that, when the number of the multiplexed users is equal to or less than a predetermined number, the Acknowledgement/Non-Acknowledgement information is associated with the I-channel or the Q-channel, and otherwise, the Acknowledgement/Non-Acknowledgement information is associated with the I-channel and the Q-channel. | 12-09-2010 |
20100310025 | TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING APPARATUSES AND METHODS - A transmitting apparatus which transmits a transmit symbol in orthogonal-frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes a unit which provides a unicast channel; a unit which provides a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) channel; a unit which provides a specific pilot channel which is specific to a specified cell; a unit which provides one or more common pilot channels common to a plurality of cells; and a multiplexing unit which multiplexes the unicast channel, the MBMS channel, the specific pilot channel, and the one or more common pilot channels, and creates the transmit symbol, wherein the multiplexing unit time-division multiplexes, in the same frequency band, a unicast frame which includes the unicast channel, and an MBMS frame which includes the MBMS channel, and wherein an insertion density of the common pilot channel included in the MBMS frame is larger than an insertion density of the specific pilot channel included in the unicast frame. | 12-09-2010 |
20110002235 | BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING CONTROL SIGNAL TRANSMISSION - A disclosed base station includes a transmission-rate determining unit for determining a transmission rate of a control channel for transmitting an upper-layer control signal, and a transmitter for allocating a predetermined bandwidth to the control channel for transmitting the upper-layer control signal according to the determined transmission rate, and transmitting the signal. | 01-06-2011 |
20110207493 | USER APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A user apparatus to which radio access schemes that are 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 set radio access scheme is the single-carrier scheme; a serial parallel conversion unit configured to perform serial parallel conversion on a modulated symbol sequence when the set radio access scheme is the multicarrier scheme; a frequency domain signal generation unit configured to assign a radio resource to the modulated symbol sequence on which discrete Fourier transform has been performed or to the modulated symbol sequence on which serial parallel conversion has been performed to generate a frequency domain signal; a transmission signal generation unit configured to perform inverse fast Fourier transform on the frequency domain signal to generate a transmission signal; a transmission power control unit configured to perform transmission power control according to the set radio access scheme; and an RF unit configured to convert the transmission signal to a radio frequency, and to transmit the transmission signal by performing the transmission power control. | 08-25-2011 |
20110216725 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A transmission apparatus which multiplexes control channels for multiple reception apparatuses into an OFDM symbol at the same timing in OFDM downlink radio access includes a pattern generating unit configured to generate a frequency mapping pattern which is specific to the transmission apparatus; and a frequency allocating unit configured to allocate subcarriers to the control channels for the multiple reception apparatuses according to the frequency mapping pattern. | 09-08-2011 |
20110216729 | USER APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A user apparatus transmits an uplink control signal to a base station apparatus using a single carrier scheme. The user apparatus includes: a unit configured to receive a downlink control signal and a downlink data signal; a unit configured to prepare acknowledgement information indicating positive acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement for the downlink data signal; a unit configured to prepare the uplink control signal including the acknowledgement information; a unit configured to transmit the uplink control signal using different resources which are different from resources that can be used for an uplink data signal; and a storage unit configured to store predetermined correspondence relationship which uniquely associates resources of the downlink control signal or the downlink data signal with resources used for the uplink control signal. | 09-08-2011 |
20110216849 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - A transmitter transmits data to a communicating opponent with a better channel condition with use of one or more frequency blocks including one or more carrier frequencies. The transmitter includes a communicating opponent selection unit evaluating the channel condition for each frequency block for each of plural communicating opponents and selecting one or more communicating opponents from the plurality of communicating opponents, a modulation scheme determination unit determining at least a modulation scheme depending on the evaluated channel condition, a control channel generation unit generating a control channel indicative of the determined modulation scheme and one or more frequency blocks available for the selected communicating opponents to receive a data channel, and a channel transmission unit providing the selected communicating opponents with the control channel and the data channel modulated in accordance with the modulation scheme. | 09-08-2011 |
20110261732 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus to be used for a newer system employing an FDD scheme in an area where an older system and the newer system coexist. The communication apparatus includes a first communication unit communicating at least a downlink data channel of the newer system using a frequency band belonging to a first frequency range (3.4-3.8 GHz); and a second communication unit communicating at least an uplink control channel of the newer system using a frequency band belonging to a second frequency range (2 GHz band) lower than the first frequency range. The second frequency range is used for uplink and downlink communications in the older system. | 10-27-2011 |
20120008584 | BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, TRANSMISSION METHOD AND RECEPTION METHOD - A base station includes: means configured to manage frequency blocks; means configured to determine, for each frequency block, scheduling information for assigning one or more resource blocks to a communication terminal being in a good channel state; means configured to generate a control channel including the scheduling information for each frequency block; and means configured to frequency multiplexing control channels within the system frequency band and to transmit it. In addition, the base station transmits the control channel by separating a non-specific control channel to be decoded by a non-specific communication terminal and a specific control channel to be decoded by a communication terminal to which one or more resource blocks are assigned. | 01-12-2012 |
20120020321 | BASE STATION, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, TRANSMISSION METHOD AND RECEPTION METHOD - A base station includes: means configured to manage frequency blocks; means configured to determine, for each frequency block, scheduling information for assigning one or more resource blocks to a communication terminal being in a good channel state; means configured to generate a control channel including the scheduling information for each frequency block; and means configured to frequency multiplexing control channels within the system frequency band and to transmit it. In addition, the base station transmits the control channel by separating a non-specific control channel to be decoded by a non-specific communication terminal and a specific control channel to be decoded by a communication terminal to which one or more resource blocks are assigned. | 01-26-2012 |
20120082261 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - A transmitter transmits data to a communicating opponent with a better channel condition with use of one or more frequency blocks including one or more carrier frequencies. The transmitter includes a communicating opponent selection unit evaluating the channel condition for each frequency block for each of plural communicating opponents and selecting one or more communicating opponents from the plurality of communicating opponents, a modulation scheme determination unit determining at least a modulation scheme depending on the evaluated channel condition, a control channel generation unit generating a control channel indicative of the determined modulation scheme and one or more frequency blocks available for the selected communicating opponents to receive a data channel, and a channel transmission unit providing the selected communicating opponents with the control channel and the data channel modulated in accordance with the modulation scheme. | 04-05-2012 |
20120127953 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS, RADIO BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD - To provide a radio communication method for enabling a control signal to be received with high quality and high efficiency, in the case of using spatial multiplexing transmission in data signals to transmit, and also transmitting the control signal in the same sub-frame, in the radio communication method of the invention, a mobile terminal apparatus receives a downlink signal including precoding information, separates a data signal and a control signal to assign to different radio resources, and performs MIMO-transmission on a signal of each transmission layer based on the precoding information, and a radio base station apparatus receives an uplink signal including the data signal and the control signal subjected to MIMO transmission, divides the uplink signal into data signals for each transmission layer, and reproduces the control signal from the uplink signal. | 05-24-2012 |
20120257590 | MOBILE STATION, RADIO BASE STATION, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD - To achieve system efficiency by avoiding inefficient resource assignment of “Carrier Segment/Extension Carrier”. A mobile station UE according to the present invention includes a control signal reception unit | 10-11-2012 |
20120257592 | USER APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A base station apparatus in a mobile communications system has a unit which transmits, to one or more user apparatuses, a downlink control signal including information for allocating a radio resource, a unit which receives an uplink signal from the one or more user apparatuses, and a unit which determines, based on a feedback from the user apparatus, a pre-encoding matrix indicator (PMI) indicating a pre-encoding matrix to be applied to multiple antennas of the base station apparatus. When a number of multiplexed users in the downlink control signal is no less than a predetermined number, the PMI indicating the pre-encoding matrix to be applied to a whole system bandwidth of the mobile communications system is reported to each of the user apparatuses. | 10-11-2012 |
20120327839 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF TRANSMITTING A RETRANSMISSION PACKET - A radio communication apparatus includes a scheduling unit configured to determine a resource block based on an allocation pattern of resource blocks, where frames in which multiple resource blocks are arranged in a frequency direction are repeatedly formed in a time direction, the allocation pattern using a frame number as a variable. The radio communication apparatus also includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit a packet according to the resource block determined by the scheduling unit. | 12-27-2012 |
20130163545 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, USER EQUIPMENT, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A disclosed base station apparatus is capable of communicating with a user equipment terminal in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) mobile communication system using Pre-coding. The base station apparatus includes a receiving unit receiving a Pre-coding Matrix Indicator (PMI) indicating a specific Pre-coding matrix, a determination unit determining a value of a flag indicator indicating whether the Pre-coding matrix specified in the PMI is to be used for downlink communications, a control signal generation unit generating a downlink control signal including at least the flag indicator, and a transmission unit transmitting a signal including the downlink control signal in downlink. | 06-27-2013 |
20130176979 | RADIO COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO BASE STATION, AND MOBILE TERMINAL - In each Mobile terminal, channel impulse characteristics from radio base stations to the mobile terminal is calculated. In a radio communication system, under the assumption that each of the mobile terminals performs optimum receiving beamforming in order to receive a data signal from a radio base station that actually sends the data signal to the mobile terminal, optimum receiving beamforming characteristics are estimated for each mobile terminal. Each of radio base stations that share optimum receiving beamforming characteristics calculates precoding characteristics for each mobile terminal according to the optimum receiving beamforming characteristics such that main beams are directed to mobile terminals to which the radio base station sends data signals and null beams are directed to mobile terminals to which the radio base station does not send data signals. | 07-11-2013 |
20130188584 | USER APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A user apparatus transmits an uplink control signal to a base station apparatus using a single carrier scheme. The user apparatus includes: a unit configured to prepare acknowledgement information indicating positive acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement for a downlink data signal based on a result of demodulation of the downlink data signal; a unit configured to prepare channel state information indicating reception quality of a downlink reference signal; a unit configured to channel-code multiplexed control information in which the acknowledgement information and the channel state information are multiplexed to prepare the uplink control signal; and a unit configured to transmit the uplink control signal using dedicated resources different from resources for an uplink data signal. | 07-25-2013 |
20130301576 | BASE STATION AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - A communication terminal in a multi-carrier system using a frequency bandwidth including a plurality of resource blocks, each of the resource blocks including one or more sub-carriers. The communication terminal includes a receiving unit configured to receive a signal in which a control channel is multiplexed into a single radio frame based on a number of control channels allocated into the single radio frame to use a lower coding rate by repeating transmitting without changing encoding method in which a channel other than the control channel is multiplexed in accordance with scheduling information for allocating one or more of the plurality of resource blocks to the communication terminal and a processing unit configured to perform a process on the signal received by the receiving unit. | 11-14-2013 |
20140086170 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, USER EQUIPMENT, AND METHOD - A base station apparatus is used in a mobile communication system in which at least a shared data channel is transmitted by an orthogonal modulation scheme using an I-channel and a Q-channel. The base station apparatus includes a providing unit providing Acknowledgement/Non-Acknowledgement information indicating whether retransmission of a signal received in uplink is required; a mapping unit mapping a number of multiplexed users of the Acknowledgement/Non-Acknowledgement information to the I-channel or the Q-channel based on a predetermined mapping table; and a reporting unit reporting the Acknowledgement/Non-Acknowledgement information to the respective users. The mapping table indicates that, when the number of the multiplexed users is equal to or less than a predetermined number, the Acknowledgement/Non-Acknowledgement information is associated with the I-channel or the Q-channel, and otherwise, the Acknowledgement/Non-Acknowledgement information is associated with the I-channel and the Q-channel. | 03-27-2014 |