Transmission/reception apparatus

• US 6,842,482 B1
• Filed: 03/02/2000
• Issued: 01/11/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hiramatsu, Katsuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, DON NGUYEN
• Application Number:
  US09/674,251
• Time in Patent Office: 1,776 Days
• Field of Search: 370/337, 370/241, 370/252, 455/510, 455/410, 455/53.1, 455/456, 375/354, 375/357, 375/219, 375/220, 714/748, 714/749
• US Class Current: 375/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements

Abstract

Decision section 110 extracts retransmission requests from the reception signal after a CRC check, which is the output of CRC check section 107, counts, decides whether the number of times the retransmission requests are consecutively received has reached an arbitrary threshold or not, and in the case where the number of times has reached the arbitrary threshold, decision section 110 instructs timing control section 111 to change the transmission timing and timing control section 111 advances the transmission timing according to the instruction of decision section 110 and sets a new transmission timing in modulation section 108 and transmission RF section 109.

Claims

1. A transmission/reception apparatus comprising:

a receiver that receives a retransmission request sent from an other end of communication;

a decider that makes a decision as to whether or not a number of times the retransmission request has been received has reached a predetermined threshold; and

a controller that advances a timing of a signal transmission when the decision is made that the number of times the retransmission request has been received has reached the predetermined threshold.

2. The transmission/reception apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein said decider makes said decision according to whether or not said number of times the retransmission request has been received consecutively has reached said predetermined threshold;

and

wherein said controller advances said timing of said signal transmission when said decision is made that the number of times the retransmission request has been received consecutively has reached the predetermined threshold.

3. The transmission/reception apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein said decider makes said decision according to whether or not said number of times the retransmission request has been received in a predetermined period of time has reached said predetermined threshold;

and

wherein said controller advances said timing of said signal transmission when said decision is made that the number of times the retransmission request has been received said predetermined period of time has reached the predetermined threshold.

4. The transmission/reception apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a distance estimator that estimates a distance between said transmission/reception apparatus and the other end of communication,

wherein said controller advances said timing of said signal transmission only when said decision is made that the number of times the retransmission request has been received has reached the predetermined threshold and said distance estimator estimates that the estimated distance exceeds another predetermined threshold.

5. The transmission/reception apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the distance estimator comprises a predetermined arithmetic expression that relates a propagation loss to the distance between said transmission/reception apparatus and the other end of communication, a height of an antenna at the other end of communication and a carrier frequency, and estimates said distance between said transmission/reception apparatus and the other end of communication by applying the propagation loss, obtained by subtracting a received power at said transmission/reception apparatus from a transmitted power at the other end of communication, to the arithmetic expression.

6. A transmission timing control method comprising:

receiving a retransmission request sent from an other end of communication;

making a decision as to whether or not a number of times the retransmission request has been received has reached a predetermined threshold; and

advancing a timing of a signal transmission when the decision is made that the number of times the retransmission request has been received has reached the predetermined threshold.