RADIO BASE STATION AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD

• US 20120115526A1
• Filed: 08/06/2010
• Published: 05/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ogawa, Yoshihiko, Nishio, Akihiko, Iwai, Takashi, Nakao, Seigo, Imamura, Daichi
• Application Number:
  US13/384,268
• Publication Number:
  US 20120115526A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/509
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/713 using frequency hopping
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

Disclosed is a base station capable of minimizing in Type 0 assignment the number of resource block groups occupied by a terminal that performs frequency hopping, and thereby flexibly assigning resources in the Type 0 assignment. The base station (100) is used in a radio communication system in which a plurality of resource blocks constituting the system band thereof are grouped into resource block groups each consisting of P resource blocks, and the band that is not a PUCCH-assignable band to which PUCCHs assigned to both ends of the system band can be assigned is divided into a plurality of sub-bands. The base station (100) comprises an assignment unit (1102) and a demapping unit (112). The assignment unit (1102) assigns a plurality of resource blocks in units of resource block groups to terminal apparatuses to be subjected to noncontiguous-band assignment. The demapping unit (112) extracts, from a plurality of resource blocks in a second band, data signals for which frequencies are hopped by a frequency-hopping terminal apparatus from one to another of the plurality of sub-bands. Here, the bandwidth of each of the plurality of sub-bands is a natural-number multiple of P.

Claims

1. A radio base station apparatus used in a radio communication system in which a plurality of resource blocks consisting of a system band are grouped into a plurality of resource block groups for every P resource blocks and a second band is divided into a plurality of subbands, the second band being other than a first band to which control channels assigned at both ends of the system band can be assigned, the radio base station apparatus comprising:

an assignment section that assigns the plurality of resource blocks to a terminal apparatus assigned a non-continuous band in units of the resource block groups; and

an extraction section that extracts a data signal frequency-hopped for every plurality of subbands by a frequency hopping terminal apparatus, from the plurality of resource blocks in the second band, wherein

each bandwidth of the plurality of subbands is a natural number multiple of P.

2. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the assignment section causes one of boundaries between the plurality of resource block groups to coincide with a boundary between the plurality of subbands and assigns the plurality of resource blocks to the terminal apparatus assigned the non-continuous band in the units of the resource block groups.

3. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the assignment section causes a frequency position at an end on a low-frequency side of one of the plurality of resource block groups to coincide with a frequency position at an end on a low-frequency side of the second band and assigns the plurality of resource blocks to the terminal apparatus assigned the non-continuous band in the units of the resource block groups.

4. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the assignment section causes a frequency position at an end on a high-frequency side of one of the plurality of resource block groups to coincide with a frequency position at an end on a high-frequency side of the second band and assigns the plurality of resource blocks to the terminal apparatus assigned the non-continuous band in the units of the resource block groups.

5. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the assignment section assigns resource blocks consisting of a band other than bands to which the control channels are assigned out of the first band, to the terminal apparatus assigned the non-continuous band.

6. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the assignment section assigns resource blocks consisting of the band other than the bands to which the control channels are assigned out of the first band, in units of resource block groups grouped by the P resource blocks or in units of resource block groups grouped by other than the P resource blocks.

7. A radio communication method used in a radio communication system in which a plurality of resource blocks consisting of a system band are grouped into a plurality of resource block groups for every P resource blocks and a second band is divided into a plurality of subbands, the second band being other than a first band to which control channels assigned at both ends of the system band can be assigned, the method comprising:

assigning the plurality of resource blocks to a terminal apparatus assigned a non-continuous band in units of the resource block groups; and

extracting a data signal frequency-hopped for every plurality of subbands by a frequency hopping terminal apparatus, from the plurality of resource blocks in the second band, wherein;

each bandwidth of the plurality of subbands is a natural number multiple of P.