Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080293398 | TRANSMISSION PROCESSING METHOD IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND BASE STATION - In a case where multiple kinds of frames having different lengths (Ngi_s and Ngi_l) of guard intervals inserted before the head of the effective data, the length of the guard intervals are adjusted in such a manner that at least the position of a part of the effective data is are apart from frame timing by the same amount. Thereby, on the receiving end, it is always possible to perform reception processing such as FFT processing in an appropriate time division at a fixed timing, without causing sample deviation of the effective data. | 11-27-2008 |
20090004971 | RADIO COMMUNICATIONS METHOD, TRANSMITTER, AND RECEIVER - The transmitter transmits at least any one of the multiple kinds of generated pilot signals corresponding to the multiple types of communications services by use of a predetermined band set in a part of a transmission band beforehand, and transmits the other kinds of pilot signals using parts of the transmission band other than the predetermined band. The receiver detects a signal in a band containing at least the predetermined band, out of reception signals from the transmitter, and detects the pilot signal from the detected signal. With this construction, even if other pilot signals are frequency-division multiplexed to the same time domain, the receiver is capable of detecting a pilot signal accurately while avoiding the effect of interference due to the other pilot signals. | 01-01-2009 |
20090168811 | METHOD OF SIGNAL MULTIPLEXING AND TRANSMITTER IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A transmitter time-division-multiplexes, in time domain, to assign at least a part of a second signal stream of a second channel being relatively high error-resilient compared to a first signal stream of a first channel between a boundary of the blocks and the first signal stream of the first channel of a time-division-multiplexing signal. | 07-02-2009 |
20090262712 | TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DEVICES IN CELLULAR SYSTEM - In a multi-carrier cellular system, a second synchronization code (a Walsh code or a GCL series code) mapped on a second synchronization channel is used as a signal for specifying in which cell of the base station a mobile station terminal device itself is. A signal transmitted from the base station to the mobile station terminal device is mapped in a radio frame having two-dimensional extension in frequency and time directions. When mapping a certain series number of the second code for specifying a cell or a cell group on the radio frame as the second synchronization channel, phase rotation or circular shift in which one radio frame is one cycle is applied to the second synchronization code. On the receiving side, the head timing of the radio frame is known by knowing the phase rotation angle or the amount of circular shift of the second synchronization code. | 10-22-2009 |
20100002617 | PILOT SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION AND CELLULAR SYSTEM TO WHICH THE METHOD IS APPLIED - In a cell-specific pilot signal transmitting method for use in a mobile communication system that comprises a base station and a wireless mobile station in the cell of a wireless communication area formed by the base station and that can mix and then transmit unicast data and broadcast/multicast data as downstream data from the base station to the mobile station, the difference between the start phase of a cell-specific pilot signal transmitted in a subframe in which the base station transmits the unicast data and the start phase of a cell-specific pilot signal transmitted in the next subframe is equal to the difference between the start phase of a cell-specific pilot signal transmitted in a subframe in which the base station transmits the broadcast/multicast data and the start phase of a cell-specific pilot signal transmitted in the next subframe. | 01-07-2010 |
20110075743 | RECEIVER, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND CHANNEL ESTIMATION METHOD - A receiver includes a channel estimation unit that calculates channel estimation values of symbols containing pilot signals from signals transmitted by a plurality of antennas to obtain channel estimation values of symbols in the same positions of the antennas, a de-precoding unit that de-precodes the channel estimation values of the antennas calculated by the channel estimation unit to calculate effective channel estimation values, and a time-direction interpolation unit that performs time-direction interpolation using the effective channel estimation values calculated by the de-precoding unit to calculate effective channel estimation values of symbols other than the symbols containing pilot signals. | 03-31-2011 |
20110075770 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND ERROR CORRECTING METHOD - A radio communication apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive signals, an obtaining unit configured to obtain a reference amplitude that depends on a modulation scheme for a received signal received by the receiving unit, and on amplitude fluctuations of the received signal in a propagation path, a demodulating unit configured to demodulate the received signal to obtain an in-phase component and a quadrature component of each received symbol included in the received signal, a calculating unit configured to calculate a likelihood ratio for each of bits mapped to each received symbol using the reference amplitude and the in-phase or quadrature component, and a decoding unit configured to perform error correction decoding on the received signal using the calculated likelihood ratios. | 03-31-2011 |
20110077018 | RATE ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A rate adjustment apparatus includes a first calculating section that calculates a first parameter for calculating judgment values used for judging whether puncturing or repetition is to be performed with respect to individual bits of input data, a second calculating section that sequentially calculates a second parameter for each of a plurality of processing units into which input data is divided, by computation using a recurrence equation obtained from a relationship between the judgment values corresponding to two processing units of the plurality of processing units, and an executing section that obtains the judgment values with respect to individual bits forming each of the processing units by using the first parameter and the second parameter respectively calculated by the first calculating section and the second calculating section, and executes deletion or addition of bits based on the obtained judgment values. | 03-31-2011 |
20110249665 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, MOBILE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A radio communication system including a communication apparatus can transmit signals each including same data from a transmission antenna and a transmission antenna to a mobile station. The mobile station measures a difference in receiving timing between the signal from the transmission antenna and the signal from the transmission antenna. The communication apparatus exercises control so as to change at least one of transmission timing of the signal from the transmission antenna and transmission timing of the signal from the transmission antenna according to the difference in receiving timing at the mobile station. | 10-13-2011 |
20110274152 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication apparatus calculates a residual component by noting one of a given plurality of transmitted signals and by canceling a component corresponding to a candidate/candidates for the other/others of the plurality of transmitted signals from a signal corresponding to one of a plurality of received signals. The communication apparatus determines a candidate for the given transmitted signal by selecting a value closest to the residual component from among the values that the given transmitted signal can take, and obtains a plurality of candidate groups by changing that given transmitted signal, each candidate group being constructed as a collection of candidate sets each comprising a candidate for that given transmitted signal and a candidate/candidates for that other transmitted signal/signals. Then, the communication apparatus selects transmitted signal candidate sets that are common to the plurality of candidate groups and estimates the plurality of transmitted signals using the selected candidate sets. | 11-10-2011 |
20120002657 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication system including: a base station apparatus; and a mobile station apparatus, the mobile station apparatus includes: a receiver which receives data signal transmitted from the base station apparatus; a controller which switches a unit of grouping to the data signal and groups the data signal, according to one parameter or a combination of a plurality of parameters out of a type of a channel, a type of modulation scheme and encoding rate, an assigned resource amount, or a number of transmitting antennas of the mobile station apparatus, when an ACK signal or an NACK signal to the data signal is transmitted; and a transmitter which transmits the ACK signal or the NACK signal in each the group, and the base station apparatus includes: a transmitter which transmits the data signal; and a receiver which receives the ACK signal or the NACK signal. | 01-05-2012 |
20120008700 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, RECEPTION APPARATUS, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication system, including: a transmission apparatus; and a reception apparatus, wherein the transmission apparatus and reception apparatus performs a radio communication, the transmission apparatus includes: one or more processor configured to enlarge a sequence length of a transmission data by repeating a sequence of the transmission data, and to perform a first subcarrier arrangement to arrange each of components included in the enlarged transmission data to each of subcarrier according to positions of the each of components in the enlarged transmission data, and to puncture the component of the arranged transmission data, when the subcarrier is not used for transmission; and a transmitter which transmits the transmission data arranged on the subcarrier to the reception apparatus, and the reception apparatus includes a receiver which receives the transmission data. | 01-12-2012 |
20120082055 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMITTING STATION, MOBILE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - The base station determines a possibly-allocated domain, which is a band that may be used in communication with the mobile station, with respect to each mobile station, and determines a frequency band to be allocated to the mobile station within the determined possibly-allocated domain. Then, the base station transmits possibly-allocated-domain information indicating the possibly-allocated domain and allocation information, which is information indicating allocation of the frequency band, to the mobile station. Then, the base station and the mobile station communicate with each other in accordance with the possibly-allocated-domain information and the allocation information. | 04-05-2012 |
20120128085 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND RECEIVER - A receiver selects, regarding each of signals corresponding to component elements of a transmission column vector, a number of transmission signal candidates equal to a number according to a predetermined parameter based on inter-signal point distances between a plurality of transmission signal candidates regarding the transmission column vector and the signal from among the plural transmission signal candidates. Then, the receiver reproduces the transmission signal by determining a unique set of transmission signal candidates regarding each component element of the transmission column vector based on the sum total of the inter-signal point distances between the selected transmission signal candidates and the signals. | 05-24-2012 |
20120196634 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE TERMINAL AND COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATION METHOD - A first base station receives from a mobile terminal identification information indicating a combination of a weight coefficient for the first base station and a weight coefficient for a second base station, transfers the received identification information to the second base station, and performs precoding of a data signal to be transmitted to the mobile terminal by collaborative transmission, by using the weight coefficient for the first base station identified by means of latest identification information. The second base station receives the identification information from the first base station, and performs precoding of a data signal to be transmitted by collaborative transmission, by using the weight coefficient for the second base station identified by means of identification information obtained as latest identification information and different from that for the weight coefficient for the first base station used for precoding of the data signal. | 08-02-2012 |
20130010905 | RADIO TERMINAL AND DEMODULATION METHOD - A receiving unit receives information on a modulation scheme applied to signals to a radio terminal from a transmission apparatus. An MLD unit performs maximum likelihood detection of a received signal by using a modulation scheme based on the information received by the receiving unit and a plurality of modulation schemes applicable to signals to the other radio terminals. An estimation unit estimates a modulation scheme applied to signals to the other radio terminals based on predetermined information obtained in a maximum likelihood detection process in each of the plurality of modulation schemes of the MLD unit. A controller controls the MLD unit to perform maximum likelihood detection by using the modulation scheme estimated by the estimation unit and the modulation scheme received by the receiving unit. | 01-10-2013 |
20130114499 | PILOT SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION AND CELLULAR SYSTEM TO WHICH THE METHOD IS APPLIED - A transmitting method in a mobile communication system, which has a base and mobile station that performs radio communication with the base station in a cell of a radio communication area formed by the base station, and mixes, allocates unicast data and broadcast/multicast data to subframes in a radio frame, and transmits the radio frame as downstream data from the base station to the mobile station, by the base station, multiplexing cell-specific pilot signals corresponding to the unicast data to a first subframe to where data is allocated, while multiplexing cell-specific pilot signals to a second subframe to where data is allocated, where the number of the cell-specific pilot signals allocated to the second subframe is different from the number of the cell-specific pilot signals allocated to the first subframe; setting a difference between the various start phase of cell-specific pilot signals transmitted in the various subframes. | 05-09-2013 |
20130243112 | WIRELESS DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - A wireless device, including: an antenna configured to receive a reception signal, a processor configured to convert the reception signal into a first signal that includes a product of an upper triangular matrix and a transmission signal, to detect a first region, to which the first signal belongs, on an IQ plane, a memory configured to store a symbol ranking table that stores symbol candidates in an order of shorter distance from a region center, up to an order that is equal to a rank upper limit value that is set to be lower than a modulation multi-level number of the transmission signal, wherein the processor is further configured to select a first symbol candidate based on the first region and the symbol ranking table. | 09-19-2013 |
20130281148 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a wireless communication system capable of wireless communication by using multiple frequency bands at the same time, a mobile station includes an uplink transmitting unit, which transmits allowable power difference between frequency bands and limitation node information indicating an object of power limitation in transmission power control of the mobile station to a base station, and a transmission-power control unit, which controls transmission power on the basis of a TPC command received from the base station, and the base station includes a TPC-command generating unit, which generates a TPC command on the basis of the allowable power difference between frequency bands and the limitation mode information, and a transmitting unit, which transmits the TPC command to the mobile station. | 10-24-2013 |
20130329624 | PILOT SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD, BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION AND CELLULAR SYSTEM TO WHICH THE METHOD IS APPLIED - A transmitting method in a mobile communication system, which has a base and mobile station that performs radio communication with the base station in a cell of a radio communication area formed by the base station, and mixes, allocates unicast data and broadcast/multicast data to subframes in a radio frame, and transmits the radio frame as downstream data from the base station to the mobile station, by the base station, multiplexing cell-specific pilot signals corresponding to the unicast data to a first subframe to where data is allocated, while multiplexing cell-specific pilot signals to a second subframe to where data is allocated, where the number of the cell-specific pilot signals allocated to the second subframe is different from the number of the cell-specific pilot signals allocated to the first subframe; setting a difference between the various start phase of cell-specific pilot signals transmitted in the various subframes. | 12-12-2013 |
20130343361 | METHOD OF SIGNAL MULTIPLEXING AND TRANSMITTER IN RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A transmitter time-division-multiplexes, in time domain, to assign at least a part of a second signal stream of a second channel being relatively high error-resilient compared to a first signal stream of a first channel between a boundary of the blocks and the first signal stream of the first channel of a time-division-multiplexing signal. | 12-26-2013 |
20140056390 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A radio communication apparatus includes a radio frequency unit that receives signals transmitted from a transmitter, and a baseband processor that obtains channel estimates based on the received signals and performs signal detection based on the channel estimates according to a QRM-MLD method. The baseband processor includes a stream separator that, in a first stage, detects a region to which a signal belongs, selects symbol candidates based on the detected region, and calculates metrics for the selected symbol candidates. In a second stage, the stream separator selects symbol candidates based on the metrics calculated for the symbol candidates selected in the first stage. After starting calculation of the metrics for the symbol candidates selected in a previous stage, the stream separator selects symbol candidates of a next stage based on metrics of surviving paths to which the symbol candidates whose metrics have been calculated belong. | 02-27-2014 |
20140185714 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A radio communication apparatus including: an antenna configured to receive a radio frame including first symbols to which reference signals are mapped and second symbols to which data is mapped, and a processor configured to determine a number of third symbols, the third symbols being used for demodulating each of the second symbols, and to select, for each of the second symbols, the third symbols from among the first symbols in accordance with the number. | 07-03-2014 |
20140192937 | RECEPTION DEVICE AND RECEPTION METHOD - A reception device including: an antenna configured to receive a radio signal including a radio frame that includes a plurality of symbols, and a processor configured to perform a first processing for estimating a first interference noise power for one or more first specified symbols of the plurality of symbols, each of the one or more first specified symbols including each of one or more reference signals respectively, and to perform a second processing for estimating a second interference noise power for one or more second specified symbols of the plurality of symbols, each of the one or more second specified symbols including no reference signal, the second interference noise power differing from the first interference noise power. | 07-10-2014 |