Wireless Transmission/Reception Apparatus and Wireless Transmission/Reception Method

• US 20100128643A1
• Filed: 10/19/2007
• Published: 05/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Tanaka, Takanori
• Application Number:
  US12/447,646
• Publication Number:
  US 20100128643A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/280
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0615 of weighted versions of same signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0837 using pre-detection combining H04B7/0868 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1893 Physical mapping arrangements physical resource mapping in general H04L5/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03414 Multicarrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03426 transmission using multiple-input and multiple-output channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0204 of multiple channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03006 Arrangements for removing intersymbol interference

Abstract

To a wireless transmission/reception apparatus that has a plurality of antennas, and performs antenna diversity for transmission and reception and transmits and receives a radio signal of a frame configuration containing a plurality of symbol sequences in the frequency axis direction and the time axis direction by using the time division duplex scheme and the multicarrier scheme, a reception weight calculation unit 5-1 for calculating weight based on a first known signal contained in symbol sequences in the frequency axis direction among received signals of the plurality of antennas, a received signal synthesizing unit 6-1 for weighting the received signal based on the calculated weight and synthesizing the signal, a correction amount calculation unit 7-1 for calculating a correction amount of the symbol sequences at least in time axis direction based on a second known signal contained in the symbol sequences in the time axis direction among the synthesized received signals that were synthesized, and a transmission weighting unit 15-1 for correcting a transmission signal to be transmitted from the plurality of antennas and weighting the signal based on the weight in a transmission frame next to the reception frame where the weight and the correction amount have been calculated are provided.

Claims

1. A wireless transmission/reception apparatus having a plurality of antennas, performing antenna diversity for transmission and reception, and transmitting and receiving radio signal of a frame structure containing a plurality of symbol sequences in a frequency axis direction and a time axis direction by using a time division duplex scheme and a multicarrier scheme, comprising:

a reception weight calculation unit for calculating a weight based on a first known signal contained in the symbol sequences in the frequency axis direction among received signals obtained from the plurality of antennas;

a received signal synthesizing unit for weighing and synthesizing the received signals based on the weight calculated by the reception weight calculation unit;

a correction amount calculation unit for calculating a correction amount of the symbol sequences at least in the time axis direction based on a second known signal contained in the symbol sequences in the time axis direction among synthesized received signals that have been synthesized by the received signal synthesizing unit; and

a transmission weighting unit for weighting, after a transmission signal to be transmitted from the plurality of antennas is corrected based on the correction amount, the transmission signal based on the weight in a transmission frame next to a reception frame where the weight and the correction amount have been calculated.

2. The wireless transmission/reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the correction amount calculation unit calculates, as the correction amount, respective average values of phase shift amount and amplitude fluctuation amount in a data area of the reception frame where the weight has been calculated.

3. The wireless transmission/reception apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the transmission weighting unit provides a transmission initial phase by performing phase shift of the average value of the phase shift amount by a time from the central point of the data area on a time axis in the reception frame where the correction amount has been calculated to a head of the next transmission frame.

4. A wireless transmission/reception apparatus having a plurality of antennas, performing antenna diversity for transmission and reception, and transmitting and receiving radio signal of a frame structure containing a plurality of symbol sequences in a frequency axis direction and a time axis direction by using a time division duplex scheme and a multicarrier scheme, comprising the steps of;

calculating a weight based on a first known signal contained in the symbol sequences in the frequency axis direction among received signals obtained from the plurality of antennas;

weighting and synthesizing the received signals based on the calculated weight;

calculating a correction amount of the symbol sequences at least in the time axis direction based on a second known signal contained in the symbol sequences in the time axis direction among synthesized received signals that have been synthesized; and

weighting, after correcting a transmission signal to be transmitted from the plurality of antennas based on the correction amount, the transmission signal based the weight in a transmission frame next to a reception frame where the weight and correction amount have been calculated.

5. The wireless transmission/reception apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising the steps of correcting the synthesized received signal based on the calculated correction amount;

and recognizing error about the corrected synthesized received signal, wherein, when there is no error that cannot be corrected based on the recognition, the transmission signal to be transmitted from the plurality of antennas is corrected based on the correction amount and weighted based on the weight in the transmission frame next to the reception frame.