TRANSMISSION METHOD, WIRELESS BASE STATION, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD

• US 20090247171A1
• Filed: 11/24/2008
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Suga, Junichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,983,664 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/447
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/046 the resource being in the space domain, e.g. beams
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/541 using the level of interference

Abstract

A transmission method that can implement efficient communication control. A transmission block sends a signal of a first frequency band allocated to each zone, by a first directive beam which covers the entire zone, in a first time slot of a predetermined period and sends a signal of a second frequency band which contains the first frequency band and has a greater width than the first frequency band, by a second directive beam which covers a part of the zone and has a smaller beam width than the first directive beam, in a second time slot of the predetermined period.

Claims

1. A transmission method for sending a radio signal to a first zone and a second zone adjacent to each other, in one or more wireless base stations, the transmission method comprising the steps of:

sending the radio signal to the first zone in a first time slot by using a first group of frequencies and sending the radio signal to the second zone by using a second group of frequencies, not including the same frequency as in the first group of frequencies;

sending the radio signal to a third zone in a second time slot by using a third group of frequencies, including more frequencies than the first group of frequencies, and sending the radio signal to a fourth zone by using a fourth group of frequencies, including more frequencies than the second group of frequencies and including the same frequency as in the third group of frequencies at least; and

shifting the third zone and the fourth zone from the direction of a boundary of the first zone and the second zone, forming the third zone by the beam width of which is narrower than a beam for the first zone, and forming the fourth zone by the beam width of which is narrower than a beam for the second zone.

2. A wireless base station that forms one or more zones by directive beams, the wireless base station comprising:

a transmission block that sends a signal of a first frequency band allocated, by a first directive beam covering the zone, in a first time slot in a predetermined period and sends a signal of a second frequency band which is broader than the first frequency band and contains the first frequency band, by a second directive beam which has a narrower beam width than the first directive beam and covers a part of the zone, in a second time slot in the predetermined period.

3. The wireless base station according to claim 2, further comprising:

a reception block for obtaining, from a mobile station, reception quality information of the signals sent by the transmission block; and

a control block for determining the time slot to which the mobile station is allocated, in accordance with the reception quality of the first frequency band and the reception quality of the second frequency band, represented by the reception quality information obtained by the reception block.

4. The wireless base station according to claim 3, wherein the control block determines a modulation and coding scheme used for a signal to be sent to the mobile station in accordance with the reception quality of the first frequency band if the first time slot is allocated, or in accordance with the reception quality of the second frequency band if the second time slot is allocated.

5. The wireless base station according to claim 2, wherein the transmission block sends the signals by a first antenna that can emit the first directive beam and a second antenna that can emit the second directive beam with time-sharing.

6. The wireless base station according to claim 2, wherein the transmission block sends the signals by controlling an adaptive array antenna to emit the first directive beam and the second directive beam.

7. A wireless communication method of a wireless base station that forms one or more zones by directive beams, the wireless communication method comprising the steps of:

sending a signal of a first frequency band allocated, by a first directive beam covering the entire zone, in a first time slot in a predetermined period; and

sending a signal of a second frequency band which is broader than the first frequency band and contains the first frequency band, by a second directive beam which covers a part of the zone and has a smaller beam width than the first directive beam, in a second time slot in the predetermined period.