Mobile station

• US 20060035594A1
• Filed: 06/07/2005
• Published: 02/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Tanaka, Atsushi, Otonari, Akihide, Araikawa, Yuka, Matusaki, Takahiro, Niimi, Junichi, Murata, Syuuichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,907,906 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/67.130
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1854 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1858 Transmission or retransmission of more than one copy of acknowledgement message
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1896 ARQ related signaling

Abstract

The present invention, focusing on the fact that sometimes the channel (HS-SCCH) which notifies that data is to be transmitted will be received but it will be misdetected that there was a notification addressed to the receiving station, is to effectively utilize the channel (HS-SCCH) via which notification is conducted even in cases where the reception result is transmitted repeatedly. An HSDPA-compatible mobile station which, upon detecting that a message addressed to that mobile station was transmitted via HS-SCCH, receives the corresponding HS-PDSCH sub-frame, and which, when transmitting the reception result, repeats the transmission of said reception result n times, said mobile station being characterized in that it comprises a control unit which provides control such that reception processing is performed on the second sub-frame that comes next after the first sub-frame of HS-SCCH on which said detection was performed.

Claims

1. A mobile station which receives a first datum and transmits a first reception result with a first timing when a first notification was received via a channel which notifies that data is to be transmitted, and receives a second datum and transmits a second reception result with a second timing when a second notification with a different timing was received via said channel,

said mobile station being characterized in that it comprises:

a repeat transmission unit which, upon receiving said first notification, transmits said first reception result with said first timing, and repeats the transmission with said second timing; and

a control unit which performs control such that, upon receiving said first notification, reception processing is performed with said different timing on said channel which notifies that data is to be transmitted.

2. A mobile station as set forth in claim 1, characterized in that said reception processing includes demodulation and decoding.

3. An HSDPA-compatible mobile station which, upon detecting that a message addressed to that mobile station was transmitted via HS-SCCH, receives the corresponding HS-PDSCH sub-frame, and which, when transmitting the reception result, repeats the transmission of said reception result n times,

said mobile station being characterized in that it comprises:

a control unit which provides control such that reception processing is performed on the second sub-frame that comes next after the first sub-frame of HS-SCCH on which said detection was performed.

4. A mobile station as set forth in claim 3, characterized in that

said control unit determines said detection for said first sub-frame to have been correct when reception processing was performed on said second sub-frame but said detection was not achieved with said second sub-frame.

5. A mobile station as set forth in claim 4, characterized in that

said control unit, upon making said determination, performs control which causes the reception result to be transmitted in a specific slot of HS-DPCCH corresponding to said first sub-frame, and causes the transmission of said reception result to be repeated n times in slots of subsequent sub-frames.

6. A mobile station as set forth in claim 3, characterized in that

when said detection was achieved also for said second sub-frame as a result of the reception processing for said second sub-frame, said control unit determines whether the detection of said first sub-frame or of said second sub-frame is more likely.

7. A mobile station as set forth in claim 6, characterized in that

said control unit provides control such that the reception result is transmitted in the corresponding slot of HS-DPCCH which corresponds to the sub-frame determined to be more likely in said determination.

8. A mobile station as set forth in claim 6, characterized in that

said control unit performs control such that, except for the transmission of reception results for repeats, reception results are not transmitted in the corresponding slot of HS-DPCCH which corresponds to the subframe which was not determined to be less likely in said determination.

9. A mobile station as set forth in claim 6, characterized in that

said control unit performs control such that the reception result is caused to be transmitted in the corresponding HS-DPCCH slot which corresponds to the subframe determined to be more likely in said determination, and transmission of said reception result is furthermore repeated n times in slots of subsequent sub-frames.

10. A mobile station as set forth in claim 6, characterized in that

said control unit performs said determination based on reliability information for the result of decoding of said first sub-frame and on reliability information for the result of decoding of said second sub-frame.

11. A mobile station as set forth in claim 6, characterized in that

said control unit performs said determination based on reliability information for the result of decoding of the HS-PDSCH sub-frame corresponding to said first sub-frame and on reliability information for the result of decoding of the HS-PDSCH sub-frame corresponding to said second sub-frame.