OFDM transmission/reception apparatus

• US 7,106,689 B1
• Filed: 02/24/2000
• Issued: 09/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 (IP Bridge, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sudo, Hiroaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Chi
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jagannathan, Melanie
• Application Number:
  US09/512,262
• Time in Patent Office: 2,392 Days
• Field of Search: 370206-210, 370/335, 370/342, 370/328, 342/380
• US Class Current: 370/208
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/04 Circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/04 using frequency diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/18 Automatic repetition systems, e.g. Van Duuren systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1896 ARQ related signaling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2602 Signal structure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2605 Symbol extensions, e.g. Zero Tail, Unique Word [UW]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2627 Modulators
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2628 Inverse Fourier transform modulators, e.g. inverse fast Fourier transform [IFFT] or inverse discrete Fourier transform [IDFT] modulators H04L27/2634 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2647 Arrangements specific to the receiver only equalisation H04L27/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/265 Fourier transform demodulators, e.g. fast Fourier transform [FFT] or discrete Fourier transform [DFT] demodulators H04L27/26524 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/006 Quality of the received signal, e.g. BER, SNR, water filling
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA

Abstract

Modulation section 201 performs modulation processing on transmission data. Mapping control section 202 controls mapping of the baseband signal onto the subcarriers so that the important information conventionally transmitted by one subcarrier is transmitted by two subcarriers and one of the two subcarriers should be the subcarrier with a carrier frequency signal of frequency 0 which was conventionally not used. IFFT section 203 performs IFFT processing on the modulated transmission data. Transmission section 204 performs transmission processing on the IFFT-processed transmission data and transmits the processed transmission data from antenna 205.

Claims

1. An OFDM transmission apparatus providing a transmission period in which communication control information and user data are transmitted at the same time using a plurality of subcarriers forming an OFDM signal, said transmission period being different from a transmission period of a known signal that is used for channel estimation, said OFDM transmission apparatus comprising:

an OFDM signal former that allocates;

(i) the same communication control information to each of specific subcarriers of the OFDM signal, in duplication, and (ii) the user data to subcarriers of the OFDM signal other than said specific subcarriers; and

a transmitter that transmits the OFDM signal formed in the OFDM signal former.

2. The OFDM transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein one of the specific subcarriers to which the communication control information is allocated is a DC subcarrier.

3. The OFDM transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the OFDM signal former allocates:

(i) the same communication control information to subcarriers of a lower band and higher band with respect to a center frequency of the OFDM signal, in duplication; and

(ii) the user data to subcarriers of the OFDM signal other than said subcarriers of the lower band and higher band.

4. The OFDM transmission apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the OFDM signal former allocates the communication control information to a DC subcarrier in addition to said subcarriers of the lower band and higher band with respect to the center frequency of the OFDM signal.

5. An OFDM transmission apparatus providing a transmission period in which communication control information and user data are transmitted using the same OFDM symbol, said OFDM transmission apparatus comprising:

an OFDM signal former that allocates;

(i) the same communication control information to subcarriers of a lower band and higher band with respect to a center frequency of an OFDM signal, in duplication; and

(ii) the user data to subcarriers of the OFDM signal other than said subcarriers of the lower band and higher band; and

a transmitter that transmits the OFDM signal formed in the OFDM signal former.

6. The OFDM transmission apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the OFDM signal former allocates the same communication control information to a DC subcarrier in addition to said subcarriers of the lower band and higher band with respect to the center frequency of the OFDM signal.

7. An OFDM transmission method comprising:

transmitting a known signal for use in channel estimation; and

allocating the same communication control information to each of specific subcarriers of an OFDM signal in duplication and transmitting said specific subcarriers in a user data transmission period that is different from the transmission period of the known signal.

8. An OFDM transmission method of transmitting communication control information and user data using the same OFDM symbol, said OFDM transmission method comprising:

allocating;

(i) the same communication control information to subcarriers of a lower and higher band with respect to a center frequency of an OFDM signal; and

(ii) the user data to subcarriers of the OFDM signal other than said subcarriers of the lower band and higher band; and

transmitting the OFDM signal.