RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION AND RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL TRANSMISSION METHOD THEREOF

• US 20090305693A1
• Filed: 06/23/2009
• Published: 12/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: SEKI, Hiroyuki, SHIMOMURA, Tsuyoshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,199,778 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/422.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/08 by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/004 in the uplink, i.e. towards network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0866 using a dedicated channel for access

Abstract

A random access channel transmission method in which a user terminal selects a preamble pattern from among a plurality of known preamble patterns and transmits that preamble pattern to a base station, where that transmission method comprises: a step of dividing a cell into a plurality of areas, and setting one or more preamble patterns and the number of repetitions for transmitting the preamble pattern for each area; and a step wherein a user terminal that exists in an are close to the base station transmits a specified preamble pattern one time, and a user terminal that exists in an area far from the base station transmits another specified preamble pattern a plurality of times.

Claims

1. A random access channel transmission method, comprising steps of:

selecting a preamble pattern from among a plurality of known preamble patterns in a user terminal; and

transmitting that preamble pattern to a base station from the user terminal, wherein

a user terminal that exists in an area close to the base station repeats a first preamble pattern M number of times and transmits the preamble generated by the repetition, and a user terminal that exists in an area far from the base station repeats a second preamble pattern N (M<

N) number of times and transmits the preamble generated by the repetition.

2. The random access channel transmission method of claim 1 wherein said M number of repetitions is ‘

0’

.

3. The random access channel transmission method of claim 1, wherein

the base station sets said known preamble patterns for each area using CAZAC sequences, and a CAZAC sequence is used as a plurality of preamble patterns by changing the cyclic shift interval of the CAZAC sequence by each of a plurality of user terminals.

4. The random access channel transmission method of claim 3 wherein

the cyclic shift interval of a CAZAC sequence which is used in an area where the number of repetitions is small, is made to be narrow, and the cyclic shift interval of a CAZAC sequence which is used in an area where the number of repetitions is large, is made to be wide.

5. The random access channel transmission method of claim 3 wherein

the base station sets a CAZAC sequence having a small peak to average power ratio (PAPR) as the CAZAC sequence for an area where the number of repetitions is large.

6. The random access channel transmission method of claim 1 wherein

the base station broadcasts said known preamble patterns and the number of repetitions for each of said areas to user terminals using a broadcast channel.

7. The random access channel transmission method of claim 6 wherein

the base station broadcasts the transmission power to the user terminals using the broadcast channel;

each of the user terminals computes the difference between said transmission power and reception power, and based on that difference, identifies the area where the user terminal exists, selects a specified preamble pattern that is assigned to that area, and transmits the preamble pattern repeatedly a number of times that corresponds to said number of repetitions.

8. The random access channel transmission method of claim 7 wherein

when the transmitted preamble pattern is not received by the base station, the user terminal increases the number of repetitions and continuously transmits said preamble pattern.

9. The random access channel transmission method of claim 7 wherein

the base station calculates the correlation between the reception signal and each of said broadcasted preamble patterns, adds the correlation results said number of times for each preamble pattern, detects a preamble pattern having a correlation peak value that is equal to or greater than a set value, and notifies the user terminal that that preamble pattern was received.

10. The random access channel transmission method of claim 9 wherein

when the base station transmits predetermined information to a user terminal, the base station transmits the information at a transmission power that corresponds to the number of repetitions of the preamble pattern that was received from the user terminal.

11. The random access channel transmission method of claim 1 wherein

when the time necessary for transmitting a preamble pattern one time is taken to be 1 access slot, and the maximum number of repetitions is taken to be M, a user terminal that exists in an area where the number of repetitions is ‘

0’

transmits the selected preamble pattern to the base station in a specified access slot from among (M+1) number of access slots

12. The random access channel transmission method of claim 1 wherein

the base station broadcasts said known preamble patterns, said number of repetitions, and a hopping pattern for each of said areas to user terminals using a broadcast channel, and

a user terminal that exists in an area where the number of repetitions is 1 or more changes the transmission frequency based on said hopping pattern and transmits the selected preamble pattern by the transmission frequency.

13. A base station of a radio communication system in which a user terminal selects one preamble pattern from among a plurality of known preamble patterns and transmits that preamble pattern to the base station, comprising:

broadcast means for broadcasting to the user terminals, a plurality of preamble patterns and a number of repetitions for transmitting repeatedly each of the preamble patterns;

preamble detection means for detecting a preamble pattern that is transmitted from a user terminal; and

transmission means for creating and transmitting preamble reception confirmation information to the user terminal in a case where said preamble pattern is received.

14. The base station of claim 13 wherein

the number of repetitions of the preamble pattern that is selected by a user terminal that exists in an area close to the base station is smaller than the number of repetitions of the preamble that is selected by a user terminal that exists in an area far from the base station.

15. The base station of claim 13, wherein

said broadcast means specifies one or more CAZAC sequence as said preamble patterns and cyclic shift intervals for each CAZAC sequence, and said user terminal selects a CAZAC sequence and shifts the CAZAC sequence the specified cyclic shift interval amount to generate a preamble pattern.

16. The base station of claim 13, wherein

said preamble detection means comprises:

a correlation unit that calculates the correlation between the received signal and each of said broadcasted preamble patterns;

an addition unit that adds for each preamble patterns, the correlation results a plurality of times that correspond to said number of repetitions for transmitting the preamble pattern; and

a comparison unit that performs a comparison to determine whether the peak correlation value is equal to or greater than a set value for each preamble pattern, and when the peak correlation value is equal to or greater than the set value, determines that the preamble pattern that corresponds to that peak correlation value has been received.

17. The base station of claim 13, further comprising

a transmission power control unit that, when the base station transmits predetermined information to a user terminal, determines the transmission power based on the number of repetitions of the preamble pattern received from that user terminal.

18. A radio communication system in which a user terminal selects one preamble pattern from among a plurality of known preamble patterns and transmits that preamble pattern to a base station, wherein

the base station comprises:

broadcast means for dividing a cell into a plurality of areas, setting one or more preamble patterns for each area and the number of repetitions for transmitting repeatedly each of the preamble patterns, and broadcasting the set information to user terminals;

preamble detection means for detecting a preamble pattern that is transmitted from a user terminal; and

transmission means for creating and transmitting preamble reception confirmation information to the user terminal when said preamble pattern is received; and

the user terminal comprises;

a memory unit that saves broadcast information that is transmitted from the base station;

area detection means for detecting the area where that user terminal exists;

a preamble pattern selection unit that selects a preamble pattern that corresponds to the area from the broadcast information stored in said memory unit; and

a preamble transmission unit that generates the preamble pattern and transmits the preamble pattern repeatedly the number of repetitions.

19. The radio communication system of claim 18, wherein

said area detection means comprises:

calculation means for calculating the difference between the transmission power that was broadcasted from the base station and the signal reception power of the user terminal; and

detection means for identifying the area where the user terminal exists based on the calculated difference.

20. The radio communication system of claim 18, wherein

said user terminal comprises:

receiving means for receiving the preamble reception confirmation information that is transmitted from the base station;

reception confirmation means for determining, based on the preamble reception confirmation information, whether the preamble pattern that was transmitted by that user terminal was received by the base station; and

means for increasing the number of repetitions for transmitting the preamble pattern when the base station did not receive the transmitted preamble pattern;

wherein

said preamble transmission unit continuously transmits the preamble pattern the increased number of repetitions for transmission.

21. The radio communication system of claim 18, wherein

when the time necessary for transmitting a preamble pattern one time is taken to be 1 access slot, and the maximum number of repetitions is taken to be M, said preamble transmission unit of a user terminal that exists in an area where the number of repetitions is ‘

0’

transmits the selected preamble pattern to the base station in a specified access slot from among (M+1) number of access slots.

22. The radio communication system of claim 18, wherein

in addition to the preamble patterns for each said area, and the number of repetitions, said broadcast means of the base station broadcasts a hopping pattern to user terminals using a broadcast channel, and said preamble transmission unit of a user terminal that exists in an area where the number of repetitions is ‘

1’

or more transmits the selected preamble pattern by changing the transmission frequency based on said hopping pattern.