Radio communication system, radio transmitter and radio receiver

• US 20050259565A1
• Filed: 05/04/2005
• Published: 11/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshino, Hitoshi, Asai, Takahiro, Fujii, Hiromasa, Shen, Jiyun
• Granted Patent: US 7,532,567 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2614 Peak power aspects

Abstract

A radio transmitter adopting the OFDM scheme is disclosed. The radio transmitter includes an amplitude measuring part for measuring the amplitude of a transmission signal on which inverse Fourier transform has been performed; a power control part for outputting, based on the result of the measurement, control signals each for adjusting the amplitude of a signal on which inverse Fourier transform has not been performed, each signal corresponding to one of plural sub-carriers; and multiple multiplying parts each for multiplying the amplitude of the signal by a multiplying number indicated by the control signal. The power control part outputs the control signal based on a product of a signal p_f(n) obtained by performing Fourier transform on an output of the amplitude measuring part and the signal s_f(n).

Claims

1. A radio communication system adopting the OFDM scheme, comprising a transmitter and a receiver, the transmitter comprising:

an amplitude measuring part for measuring an amplitude of a transmission signal on which inverse Fourier transform has been performed;

a power control part for outputting, based on the result of the measurement, control signals each for adjusting an amplitude of a signal on which inverse Fourier transform has not been performed, each signal corresponding to one of plural sub-carriers; and

multiple multiplying parts each for multiplying the amplitude of the signal by a multiplying number indicated by the control signal;

wherein the power control part outputs the control signal based on a product of an obtained signal that is obtained by performing Fourier transform on an output of the amplitude measuring part and the signal on which inverse Fourier transform has not been performed.

2. A radio transmitter adopting the OFDM scheme, comprising:

an amplitude measuring part for measuring an amplitude of a transmission signal on which inverse Fourier transform has been performed;

a power control part for outputting, based on the result of the measurement, control signals each for adjusting an amplitude of a signal on which inverse Fourier transform has not been performed, each signal corresponding to one of plural sub-carriers; and

multiple multiplying parts each for multiplying the amplitude of the signal by a multiplying number indicated by the control signal;

wherein the power control part outputs the control signal based on a product of an obtained signal that is obtained by performing Fourier transform on an output of the amplitude measuring part and the signal on which inverse Fourier transform has not been performed.

3. The radio transmitter as claimed in claim 2, wherein the power control part calculates an inner product of the obtained signal obtained by performing Fourier transform on the output of the amplitude measuring part and the signal for each sub-carrier, and

the control signal to be applied to the signal is selected from among predetermined control signals according to a value of the inner product.

4. The radio transmitter as claimed in claim 2, wherein, when the value of the inner product is large, a control signal for decreasing the amplitude is selected, and when the value of the inner product is small, a control signal for increasing the amplitude is selected.

5. The radio transmitter as claimed in claim 2, wherein a pilot signal is inserted in each signal on which inverse Fourier transform has not been performed in the frequency domain so that the signal including the pilot signal is supplied to each multiplying part.

6. The radio transmitter as claimed in claim 2, wherein a first pilot signal is inserted in each signal on which inverse Fourier transform has not been performed so that the signal including the first pilot signal is supplied to each multiplying part, and a second pilot signal in the frequency domain is inserted into each output of the multiple multiplying parts.

7. The radio transmitter as claimed in claim 2, wherein the amplitude measuring part outputs a transmission signal that exceeds a predetermined threshold.

8. The radio transmitter as claimed in claim 2, wherein the amplitude measuring part outputs a difference between a transmission signal and a predetermined threshold.

9. A radio receiver that receives a transmission signal from a radio transmitter adopting the OFDM scheme, the radio transmitter comprising:

an amplitude measuring part for comparing an amplitude of a transmission signal on which inverse Fourier transform has been performed with a threshold;

a power control part for outputting control signals each for adjusting an amplitude of a signal on which inverse Fourier transform has not been performed, each signal corresponding to one of plural sub-carriers, wherein the power control part outputs the control signal based on a product of an obtained signal obtained by performing Fourier transform on a transmission signal exceeding the threshold and the signal on which inverse Fourier transform has not been performed;

multiple multiplying parts each for multiplying the signal by a multiplying number indicated by the control signal;

wherein a second pilot signal is inserted into each signal that has not been multiplied by the multiplying number, and a first pilot signal in the frequency domain is inserted into each output of the multiple multiplying parts;

wherein

the radio receiver includes;

a channel estimation part for obtaining channel estimation values for all sub-carriers based on the received first pilot signal; and

a power control amount estimation part for obtaining a power control amount of a transmission signal based on the received second pilot signal.