Base station apparatus and radio communication method

• US 6,847,828 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2001
• Issued: 01/25/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: INVT SPE LLC (FIG LLC (d/b/a Fortress Investment Group LLC))
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Miyoshi, Kenichi, Aoyama, Takahisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Hudspeth, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Afshar, Kamran
• Application Number:
  US10/069,484
• Publication Number:
  US 20020123351A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,303 Days
• Field of Search: 455/522, 455/464, 455560-561, 455/13.4, 455/17, 455/456.5, 455/69, 455/67.11, 455/67.13, 370/330, 370/331, 370/318, 370/317, 370/342, 375/260, 375/267, 375/317, 375/342
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/336 Signal-to-interference ratio [SIR] or carrier-to-interference ratio [CIR]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/373 Predicting channel quality or other radio frequency [RF] parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0003 by switching between different modulation schemes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0009 by adapting the channel coding H04L1/1812 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/002 Algorithms with memory of the previous states, e.g. Markovian models
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0033 arrangements specific to the transmitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/08 Closed loop power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/143 Downlink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/221 using past power control commands
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/24 using SIR [Signal to Interference Ratio] or other wireless path parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/241 taking into account channel quality metrics, e.g. SIR, SNR, CIR, Eb/lo
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/247 where the output power of a terminal is based on a path parameter sent by another terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/262 taking into account adaptive modulation and coding [AMC] scheme AMC per se H04L1/0001
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/32 TPC of broadcast or control channels

Abstract

An SIR information extracting section 106 extracts SIR measured at a communication terminal from the received data, and a fluctuation amount calculating section 109 calculates a fluctuation amount of SIR between time at which the communication terminal has measured SIR and transmission starting time of DSCH data using a TPC command, and a. transmission system determining section 110 adds the SIR fluctuation amount calculated in the fluctuation amount calculating section 109 to the SIR measured at the communication terminal and estimates SIR of DSCH data so as to determine an optimal transmission system of DSCH data according to the estimated SIR.

Claims

1. A base station apparatus, comprising:

a capturer that captures channel quality information about a downlink channel quality measured at a communication terminal;

a receiver that receives a TPC command from the communication terminal;

a calculator that calculates an amount of fluctuation in the downlink channel quality using the TPC command; and

a determiner that compensates the channel quality information with reference to the amount of fluctuation and determines a modulating scheme and a coding scheme for transmission of data to the communication terminal according to the compensated channel quality information.

2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

after the capturer captures the channel quality information, the calculator adds a plurality of TPC commands received by the receiver to produce a TPC added result and assigns the TPC added result as the amount of fluctuation; and

the determiner adds the amount of fluctuation to the channel quality information to compensate the channel quality information.

3. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a selector that selects from a plurality of communication terminals a transmission destination communication terminal for a DSCH shared by said plurality of communication terminals, wherein;

the capturer captures a plurality of channel quality information corresponding to said plurality of communication terminals respectively,

the selector selects the transmission destination communication terminal of the DSCH with reference to the plurality of channel quality information,

the calculator calculates an amount of fluctuation of the DSCH with reference to a TPC command transmitted from the transmission destination communication terminal of the DSCH, and

the determiner compensates channel quality information corresponding to the transmission destination communication terminal of the DSCH with reference to the amount of fluctuation of the DSCH and determines the modulating scheme and the coding scheme for the DSCH according to the compensated channel quality information for the transmission destination communication terminal of the DSCH.

4. A radio communication method, comprising:

capturing channel quality information about a downlink channel quality measured at a communication terminal;

receiving a TPC command from the communication terminal;

calculating an amount of fluctuation in the downlink channel quality with reference to the TPC command;

compensating the channel quality information with reference to the amount of fluctuation; and

determining a modulating scheme and a coding scheme for transmission of data to the communication terminal according to the compensated channel quality information.