Radio Base Station, Relay Station, Radio Relay System, And Radio Relay Method

• US 20090201900A1
• Filed: 04/16/2009
• Published: 08/13/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: SUGA, Junichi
• Application Number:
  US12/424,953
• Publication Number:
  US 20090201900A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/155 Ground-based stations H04B7/204 takes precedence

Abstract

A radio base station for performing communication with a radio terminal via a relay station, including a radio frame generation unit which generates a radio frame including a signal relay region allocated in the relay station to transmit received data with predetermined delay from the radio terminal or the radio base station to the radio base station or the radio terminal respectively, and a data relay region allocated in the relay station to perform demodulation and decode, further encode and modulation processing for receive data and to transmit from the radio terminal or the radio base station to the radio base station or the radio terminal respectively; and a transmission unit which transmits the generated radio frame to the relay station.

Claims

1. A radio base station for communicating with a radio terminal via a relay station, comprising:

a radio frame generation unit which generates a radio frame including a signal relay area including signal which the relay station transmits without performing demodulation and modulation, and a data relay area including signal which the relay station transmits after performing demodulation and modulation; and

a transmission unit which transmits the generated radio frame to the relay station.

2. The radio base station according to claim 1, wherein a radio communication method according to a lower line quality, of a line quality between the radio base station and relay station, and a line quality between the relay station and radio terminal at a destination of relay signal from the relay station, is selected as a radio communication method in the signal relay area.

3. The radio base station according to claim 1, wherein a radio communication method according to a line quality between the radio base station and relay station, is selected as a radio communication method in the data relay area.

4. The radio base station according to claim 1, wherein the radio frame generation unit including a sorting determination unit which determines data to be sorted into the signal relay area, and an area determination unit which determines the signal relay area in the radio frame.

5. The radio base station according to claim 4, wherein the sorting determination unit sorts data on the basis of data type of control information and data information, and type of QoS class.

6. A relay station for relaying communication between a radio terminal and a radio base station, comprising:

a receive unit which receives radio frame which includes a signal relay area and data relay area; and

a transmission unit which transmits receive signal received in the signal relay area without performing demodulation and modulation, and transmits signal which includes data received in the data relay area after performing demodulation and modulation.

7. The relay station according to claim 6, wherein the receive-signal is transmitted in a same radio frame in the signal relay area, and the signal which includes received data is transmitted in a subsequent different radio frame in the data relay area.

8. A radio relay system, comprising:

a radio terminal;

a radio base station; and

a relay station, wherein

the radio relay system performs communication between the radio terminal and the radio base station via the relay station;

the radio base station includes a radio frame generation unit which generates a radio frame including a signal relay area and data relay area, and a transmission unit which transmits the generated radio frame to the relay station, and

the relay station includes a receive unit which receives the radio frame, and a transmission unit which transmits receive signal received in the signal relay area without performing demodulation and modulation, and transmits signal which includes data received in the data relay area after performing demodulation and modulation.

9. A radio relay method for performing communication between a radio terminal and a radio base station via a relay station, comprising:

generating a radio frame including a signal relay area and data relay area, and transmitting the radio frame to the relay station, in the radio base station, and

transmitting receive signal received in the signal relay area without performing demodulation and modulation, and transmitting signal which includes data received in the data relay area after performing demodulation and modulation.