Base Station Apparatus and Wireless Communication Method

• US 20100128684A1
• Filed: 08/29/2007
• Published: 05/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Sahara, Toru, Nakamura, Yasuhiro, Tanigawa, Hironobu, Takamatsu, Nobuaki
• Granted Patent: US 8,170,573 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1893 Physical mapping arrangements physical resource mapping in general H04L5/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A base station apparatus which conducts a packet communication with a wireless communication terminal includes: a retransmission request detection unit which detects a retransmission request from the wireless communication terminal; a bandwidth assignment unit which assigns a communication bandwidth applied to the packet communication; a modulation class calculation portion, based on both bandwidth information regarding the bandwidth assigned by the bandwidth assignment unit and a data amount of packets corresponding to the retransmission request, calculates a modulation class applied to a retransmission in order to adjust a number of retransmitted packets to be the same as a number of previously transmitted packets; a modulation class determination unit which determines whether or not the modulation class is lower than a modulation class applied to a previous packet transmission; and a retransmission unit which retransmits packets corresponding to the retransmission request based on the determination result regarding the modulation class.

Claims

1. A base station apparatus which conducts a packet communication with a wireless communication terminal comprising:

a retransmission request detection unit which detects a retransmission request from the wireless communication terminal;

a bandwidth assignment unit which assigns a communication bandwidth applied to the packet communication;

a modulation class calculation portion, based on both bandwidth information regarding the bandwidth assigned by the bandwidth assignment unit and a data amount of packets corresponding to the retransmission request, calculates a modulation class applied to a retransmission in order to adjust a number of retransmitted packets to be the same as a number of previously transmitted packets;

a modulation class determination unit which determines whether or not the modulation class is lower than a modulation class applied to a previous packet transmission; and

a retransmission unit which retransmits packets corresponding to the retransmission request based on the determination result regarding the modulation class.

2. A base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the communication bandwidth is a sub-channel used in an OFDMA method in which a communication bandwidth applied to a communication is used as a unit of sub-channel constituted from a plurality of subcarriers.

3. A base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

based on the determination result of the modulation class determination unit, if the modulation class is lower than the previous packet transmission, the retransmission unit retransmits the packets corresponding to the retransmission request.

4. A base station apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

when the retransmission unit retransmits the packets corresponding to the retransmission request based on the determination result of the modulation class, the bandwidth assignment unit assigns more sub-channels than a number of sub-channels that are assigned in the previous packet transmission.

5. A base station apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

based on the determination result of the modulation class, if the modulation class is lower than the previous packet transmission, the bandwidth assignment unit determines whether or not there are sub-channels that are assigned to other communication and can be released, and

if there are sub-channels that can be released, the bandwidth assignment unit releases the sub-channels.

6. A wireless communication method in which a base station apparatus conducts a packet communication with a wireless communication terminal comprising:

a retransmission request detection step of detecting a retransmission request from the wireless communication terminal;

a bandwidth assignment step of assigning a communication bandwidth applied to the packet communication;

a modulation class calculation step of, based on both bandwidth information regarding the bandwidth assigned by the bandwidth assignment unit and a data amount of packets corresponding to the retransmission request, calculating a modulation class applied to a retransmission in order to adjust a number of retransmitted packets to be the same as a number of previously transmitted packets;

a modulation class determination step of determining whether or not the modulation class is lower than a modulation class applied to a previous packet transmission; and

a retransmission step of retransmitting packets corresponding to the retransmission request based on the determination result regarding the modulation class.