Communication terminal device and spread code estimation method

• US 20040208234A1
• Filed: 02/10/2004
• Published: 10/21/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishio, Akihiko, Naka, Katsuyoshi
• Application Number:
  US10/486,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20040208234A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/148
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7083 Cell search, e.g. using a three-step approach
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7105 Joint detection techniques, e.g. linear detectors
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7113 Determination of path profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7117 Selection, re-selection, allocation or re-allocation of paths to fingers, e.g. timing offset control of allocated fingers

Abstract

It is determined whether a secondary spreading code is multiplexed based on a result obtained by despreading a data portion of a received signal using a primary spreading code corresponding to a midamble shift included in a received signal and a result obtained by despreading the data portion using the secondary spreading code corresponding to the primary spreading code. Moreover, among the spreading codes corresponding to the midamble shifts used in the own station, when the number of the midamble shifts allocated to the own station is multiple, the delay profiles generated by the midamble shifts used in the own station are normalized to power per spreading code and a threshold value for a midamble shift determination is set using the normalized delay profiles. This makes it possible to specify all spreading codes multiplexed into the received signal and improve accuracy in the midamble shift determination even when the number of spreading codes corresponding to the midamble shifts is multiple.

Claims

1. A communication terminal apparatus comprising:

a receiving section that receives a signal spread and sent from a communication partner;

a despreading section that despreads the received signal using a plurality of spreading codes, which is made to correspond to midamble codes multiplexed into the signal received by said receiving section on a predetermined priority basis, in the priority order; and

a spreading code determining section that determines a spreading code used when the received signal is formed based on signal power after despreading.

2. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of spreading codes, which is made to correspond to the midamble codes on the predetermined priority basis, are a primary spreading code and a secondary spreading code.

3. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a midamble code determining section that determines that a known midamble code where a correlation value between the midamble code multiplexed into the received signal and the known midamble code exceeds a predetermined threshold value is a midamble code multiplexed into the received signal; and

a threshold setting means that normalizes a correlation value between a midamble code used in a own station and the known midamble code in unit of one spreading code to set a threshold value used in determining the midamble code multiplexed into the received signal based on the normalized correlation value.

4. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said threshold setting section normalizes a maximum value of the correlation value between the midamble code used in the own station and the known midamble code by the number of spreading codes allocated to the own station.

5. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 3, wherein when the number of midamble codes used in the own station is multiple, said threshold setting section normalizes a maximum value of the correlation value between the midamble codes used in the own station and the known midamble code for each midamble code by the number of spreading codes, which corresponds to the midamble codes used in the own station and are allocated to the own station, to average the normalized correlation values by the number of midamble codes used in the own station.

6. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 3, wherein when the number of midamble codes used in the own station is multiple, said threshold setting section normalizes a maximum value of the correlation value between any one of midamble codes used in the own station and the known midamble code by the number of spreading codes, which corresponds to the midamble code where the maximum value was obtained and are allocated to the own station.

7. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 3, wherein when the number of midamble codes used in the own station is multiple, said threshold setting section normalizes a maximum value of the correlation value between the midamble code, which corresponds to the maximum number of spreading codes allocated to the own station among the spreading codes corresponding to the plurality of multiple midamble codes, and the known midamble code by the maximum number of spreading codes.

8. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a JD operating section that executes joint detection operation using a spreading code determined as being multiplexed into the received signal.

9. A spreading code estimation method comprising:

a receiving step of receiving a signal spread and sent from a communication partner;

a despreading step of despreading the received signal using a plurality of spreading codes, which is made to correspond to midamble codes multiplexed into the signal received by said receiving step on a predetermined priority basis, in the priority order; and

a spreading code determining step of determining a spreading code used when said received signal is formed based on signal power after despreading.