RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND INTERFERENCE AVOIDING METHOD

• US 20080165832A1
• Filed: 03/10/2008
• Published: 07/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: FUKUDA, Shinji, TAKEHISA, Yoshihiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,555,030 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/134
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7143 Arrangements for generation of hop patterns
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/715 Interference-related aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/7154 with means for preventing interference

Abstract

The invention provides a frequency hopping method for switching a hopping carrier frequency in a predetermined hopping pattern based on a hopping carrier table, in which there is provided intermittent receiving means for starting carrier frequency designating means every constant cycle to give a command for receiving the control channels of opposed radio base stations. In the case in which a hopping order in a hopping carrier table is skipped by n to carry out switching every intermittent receiving cycle in an intermittent receiving operation, an intermittent receiving cycle is set in such a manner that the n and a total number m of hopping carrier frequencies in the hopping carrier table have a prime relationship with each other.

Moreover, the electric field strength of a carrier frequency in a spare carrier list is measured by the intermittent receiving operation and an interference counter of a spare carrier is increased or decreased corresponding to a frequency at which the electric field strength exceeds a predetermined threshold, and a carrier frequency deleted from a hopping pattern is set to have the worst value as the initialized value of the interference counter. A standby is maintained in a state of a non-exchange until the frequency at which an electric field strength measured for the frequency exceeds a threshold is sufficiently reduced, and the same frequency is recycled as an exchangeable carrier frequency after sufficiently confirming that a communication can be carried out.

Claims

1. A communication method for performing frequency hopping using a plurality of slots, the communication method comprising:

communication including;

setting, among a plurality of frequency bands, a frequency band according to each of the plurality of slots; and

performing communication with a communication apparatus using the set frequency band;

standby including;

setting, among the plurality of frequency bands, the frequency band according to each of the plurality of slots by skipping at least one slot among the plurality of slots according to a predetermined cycle, the predetermined cycle being prime to the number of a plurality of frequency bands; and

receiving a signal from the communication apparatus using the set frequency band.

2. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined cycle is a power of two, and the number of the plurality of frequency bands is odd.

3. The communication method according to claim 1, wherein:

said standby further includes checking a degree of interference of the received signal,

said communication further includes replacing the set frequency band with another frequency band which is not set to the plurality of slots, and

said communication further sets the another frequency band to the plurality of slots.

4. The communication method according to claim 3, wherein the degree of interference of the received signal includes CRC.

5. The communication method according to claim 3, wherein:

said standby includes checking whether or not the degree of interference of the received signal exceeds a threshold, and

said communication includes replacing the set frequency band with the another frequency band if the degree of interference of the received signal exceeds the threshold.

6. A method for performing communication, the method including a communication state and a standby state, the method comprising the following steps:

in the communication state,

setting, among a plurality of hopping carrier frequencies, a frequency band corresponding to each of a plurality of slots in a cycle based on frequency hopping, the cycle being repeated in the communication; and

performing communication with the communication apparatus using the hopping carrier frequencies;

in the standby state,

selecting the slot in the cycles so as to skip at least one slot from a present cycle to a next cycle, the number of the cycles and the number of hopping carrier frequencies being set to have a prime relationship; and

receiving a signal from the communication apparatus using the selected slot in the standby state.

7. The communication method according to claim 6, wherein the number of the cycles is a power of two, and the number of hopping carrier frequencies is odd.

8. The method according to claim 6, the method further comprising the following steps:

in the standby state, checking a degree of interference of the received signal; and

in the communication state, replacing the set frequency band with another frequency band which is not set to the plurality of slots,

wherein in the communication state, the another frequency band is set to the plurality of slots.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the degree of interference of the received signal includes CRC.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein:

in the standby state, it is checked whether or not the degree of interference of the received signal exceeds a threshold,

in the communication state, the set frequency band is replaced with the another frequency band if the degree of interference of the received signal exceeds the threshold.