OFDM guard band communication apparatus and method

• US 7,012,949 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2001
• Issued: 03/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Uesugi, Mitsuru
• Primary Examiner(s): Pascal, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): Flanagan, Krista M.
• Application Number:
  US09/959,501
• Publication Number:
  US 20030016731A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,828 Days
• Field of Search: 375/130, 375/135, 375/140, 375/141, 375/146, 375/260, 375/295, 375/316, 370/208, 381/3
• US Class Current: 375/130
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/707 using direct sequence modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/023 Multiplexing of multicarrier modulation signals multicarrier modulation H04L27/2601
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/06 the signals being represented by different frequencies combined with time-division multiplexing H04L5/26

Abstract

A transmitting apparatus and method may inverse Fourier transform transmit data converted to parallel form to obtain a first signal. The band of a second signal is limited to a guard frequency band adjacent to the band of the first signal, and a signal comprising the first and second signals is transmitted.

Claims

1. A transmitting apparatus comprising:

an inverse Fourier transformer that performs an inverse Fourier transform on transmit data converted to parallel form to obtain a first signal;

a spreader that spreads a second signal;

a first filter that limits the band of the spread second signal to a guard frequency band adjacent to the band of the first signal; and

a transmitter that transmits a signal comprising the first and second signals.

2. The transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a first spectrum processor that processes the spectrum of the second signal output from the first filter so that it becomes greater the nearer it is to the band of the first signal.

3. A receiving apparatus comprising:

a second filter that passes only signals in a guard frequency band among signals transmitted from the transmitting apparatus according to claim 2; and

a second spectrum processor that performs the opposite processing to that of the first spectrum processor on a signal that has passed through the second filter.

4. The transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a shifter that shifts the bands of a plurality of second signals output from the first filter so as not to overlap mutually within the range of the guard frequency band, wherein

the signal transmitted by the transmitter comprises the plurality of second signals output from the shifter.

5. The transmitting apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the shifter comprises a generator that generates a third signal for suppressing the composite amplitude of the first signal and shifts the bands of a plurality of second signals, output from the first filter, and the third signal so as not to overlap mutually within the range of the guard frequency band.

6. The transmitting apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the shifter shifts the third signal so as to be placed in a part of the signal transmit by the transmitter that is adjacent to the band of the first signal.

7. A receiving apparatus comprising a second filter that passes only signals in a guard frequency band among signals transmitted from the transmitting apparatus according to claim 1.

8. A receiving apparatus comprising:

a second filter that passes only signals in a guard frequency band among signals transmitted from the transmitting apparatus according to claim 1; and

a despreader that despreads a signal that has passed through the second filter.

9. A communication terminal apparatus equipped with a transmitting apparatus, the transmitting apparatus comprising:

an inverse Fourier transformer that performs an inverse Fourier transform on transmit data converted to parallel form to obtain a first signal;

a spreader that spreads a second signal;

a first filter that limits the band of the spread second signal to a guard frequency band adjacent to the band of the first signal; and

a transmitter that transmits a signal comprising the first and second signals.

10. A base station apparatus equipped with a receiving apparatus, wherein the receiving apparatus comprises a second filter that passes only signals in a guard frequency band among signals transmitted from the communication terminal apparatus according to claim 9.

11. A base station apparatus equipped with a transmitting apparatus, the transmitting apparatus comprising:

an inverse Fourier transformer that performs an inverse Fourier transform on transmit data converted to parallel form to obtain a first signal;

a spreader that spreads a second signal;

a first filter that limits the band of the spread second signal to a guard frequency band adjacent to the band of the first signal; and

a transmitter that transmits a signal comprising the first and second signals.

12. A communication terminal apparatus equipped with a receiving apparatus, the receiving apparatus comprising a second filter that passes only signals in a guard frequency band among signals transmitted from the base station apparatus according to claim 11.

13. A data transmission method comprising:

inverse Fourier transforming transmit data converted to parallel form to obtain a first signal;

spreading a second signal;

limiting the band of the spread second signal to a guard frequency band adjacent to the band of the first signal;

transmitting a signal comprising the first and second signals;

Fourier transforming the first signal and extracting the transmit data; and

demodulating the guard frequency band of the transmitted signal to extract the second signal.

14. The data transmission method according to claim 13, further comprising:

spectrum processing the spectrum of the second signal, after limiting the second signal, so that it becomes greater the nearer it is to the band of the first signal; and

performing the opposite processing to that of the spectrum processing prior to demodulating the guard frequency band.

15. The data transmission method according to claim 13, further comprising performing multicarrier transmission of the second signal.