Base station apparatus and transmission power control method

• US 6,526,032 B1
• Filed: 08/28/2000
• Issued: 02/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hayashi, Masaki, Miya, Kazuyuki, Kitade, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Yao, Kwang Bin
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HANH N
• Application Number:
  US09/649,005
• Time in Patent Office: 911 Days
• Field of Search: 320/318, 320/330, 320/320, 320/326, 320/329, 320/332, 320/335, 320/342, 320/347, 320/337, 320/442, 455/522, 455/69, 455/517, 455/13.1, 455/13.2, 455/13.3, 455/13.4
• US Class Current: 370/337
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/08 Closed loop power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/10 Open loop power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/24 using SIR [Signal to Interference Ratio] or other wireless path parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/26 using transmission rate or quality of service QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/267 taking into account the information rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/54 Signalisation aspects of the TPC commands, e.g. frame structure
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/58 Format of the TPC bits

Abstract

The base station apparatus according to the present invention places pilot data and transmission power control data independently of each other in a slot based on processing delays and propagation delays required for transmission power control and places slots by providing an offset for the slot locational relationship between the uplink and downlink.

Claims

1. A base station apparatus for communicating with a mobile station apparatus which changes transmission power at the beginning of first pilot data after reception of transmission power control data on downlink and which provides a predetermined offset to transmit a slot on uplink based on the reception timing on downlink, the base station apparatus comprising:

a reception section th at receives the slot on uplink from the mobile station apparatus;

a transmission section that transmits a frame having a plurality of slots where, in at least one of said slots, transmission power control data and pilot data are arranged separated from each other by an amount taking into account a propagation delay on downlink, a processing delay required to generate transmission power control data in the mobile station apparatus, a propagation delay on uplink, and a processing delay required to generate the transmission power control data in the base station apparatus; and

a transmission control section that changes transmission power at the beginning of next pilot data on downlink after reception of the transmission power control data on uplink, and that performs transmission power control to the mobile station apparatus within one-slot delay.

2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission section includes a transmission section that performs multi-rate transmission comprising different transmission rates, pilot data and transmission power control data each of the lowest transmission rate among the different transmission rates are configured within respective given intervals of said slots, and pilot data and transmission power control data each of transmission rates excluding said lowest transmission rate among the different transmission rates are respectively configured in said respective given intervals of said slots.

3. A mobile station apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus that receives a slot on uplink from the mobile station apparatus, that transmits a frame having a plurality of slots where, in at least one of said slots, transmission power control data and pilot data are arranged separated from each other by an amount taking into account a propagation delay on downlink, a processing delay required to generate transmission power control data in the mobile station apparatus, a propagation delay on uplink, and a processing delay required to generate the transmission power control data in the base station apparatus, that changes transmission power at the beginning of next pilot data on downlink after reception of the transmission power control data on uplink, and that performs transmission power control to the mobile station apparatus within one-slot delay, said mobile station apparatus comprising:

a reception section that receives the frame on downlink from the base station apparatus; and

a transmission section that provides a predetermined offset based on the reception timing on downlink to transmit a slot on uplink to enable the base station apparatus to perform the transmission power control within one-slot delay.