Single-carrier/DS-CDMA packet transmitting method, uplink packet transmitting method in multi carrier/DS-CDMA mobile communication system, and structure of downlink channel in multi carrier/DS-CDMA mobile communication system

• US 7,298,721 B2
• Filed: 02/02/2001
• Issued: 11/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Abeta, Sadayuki, Ikeda, Takehiro, Sawahashi, Mamoru, Adachi, Fumiyuki, Atarashi, Hiroyuki, Okawa, Koichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham; Chi
• Assistant Examiner(s): HOANG, THAI D
• Application Number:
  US09/926,257
• Publication Number:
  US 20020159470A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,482 Days
• Field of Search: 370/335, 370/342, 370/336, 370/347
• US Class Current: 370/335
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/707 using direct sequence modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/00 Code division multiplex systems for frequency hopping H04B1/713
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0019 in which one code is applied, as a temporal sequence, to all frequencies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0064 Rate requirement of the data, e.g. scalable bandwidth, data priority
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0087 when data requirements change
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0092 Indication of how the channel is divided
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/06 the signals being represented by different frequencies combined with time-division multiplexing H04L5/26
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/52 based on load
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/563 of the wireless resources

Abstract

The present invention provides a single carrier/DS-CDMA packet transmission method wherein a predetermined time slot is assigned to reservation demand packet transmission in regard to a spreading code, and the reservation demand packet and data packets are time-multiplexed for transmission. An uplink packet transmission method in a multi-carrier/DS-CDMA mobile communication system is also provided, wherein frames are set up in each communication channel of a subcarrier, time slots which are time-segments of the frames are set up further, and a mobile station spreads a packet to be transmitted by a spreading code and the information signal is transmitted to a base station in a predetermined time slot. A downlink channel configuration in a multi-carrier/DS-CDMA mobile communication system is further provided, wherein a plurality of communication channels assigned to each of a plurality of subcarriers are divided for every predetermined time frame, and multiplexed, and the plurality of the communication channels assigned to each subcarrier include a common-control channel used by a plurality of users in common, and communication channels peculiar to each user.

Claims

1. A single carrier/DS-CDMA packet transmission method that expands a bandwidth of information symbols by a sequence of spreading codes, and transmits packets by use of spreading signals having an expanded bandwidth, comprising:

assigning a predetermined fixed time slot in a data frame for dedicated use for transmission of a reservation demand packet, the reservation demand packet being a request for an allocation of a spreading code and/or a time slot;

assigning, in said data frame, slots other than the predetermined fixed time slot for a transmission of data packets;

code-multiplexing said data frame with one of the spreading codes so as to code-multiplex information in the predetermined fixed time slot and information in the slots other than the predetermined fixed time slot; and

transmitting the code-multiplexed data frame containing the reservation demand packet and data packets.

2. The packet transmission method as claimed in claim 1, wherein reservation demand packet transmission admission probability determined in advance is lowered when a channel occupancy rate of the data packets exceeds a predetermined value.

3. A mobile-radio packet transmission method using the packet transmission method of claim 2, wherein a base station measures the channel occupancy rate of the data packet, and determines the reservation demand packet transmission admission probability and a number indicative of how many spreading codes are available for the reservation demand packets.

4. The mobile-radio packet transmission method of claim 3, wherein the base station inserts the number of spreading codes available for the reservation demand packets and the reservation demand packet transmission admission probability into an information channel of a downlink by time-sharing.

5. A single carrier/DS-CDMA packet transmission method that expands a bandwidth of information symbols by a sequence of spreading codes, and transmits packets by use of spreading signals having an expanded bandwidth, comprising:

assigning one of k (0<

k<

N) spreading codes among N total spreading codes as a fixed code for dedicated use for reservation demand packet transmission, the reservation demand packet being a request for an allocation of a spreading code and/or a time slot,

assigning another one of the k (0<

k<

N) spreading codes as a fixed code for dedicated use for data packet transmission, and

transmitting the reservation demand packet encoded with the one of the k (0<

k<

N) spreading codes and the data packet encoded with the another one of the k (0<

k<

N) spreading codes.

6. The packet transmission method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the spreading codes assigned to the reservation demand packet transmission are decreased in number, and the spreading codes assigned to data-packet transmission are increased in number when a channel occupancy rate of the data packets exceeds a predetermined value.

7. The packet transmission method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the reservation demand packet transmission admission probability determined in advance is lowered first when a channel occupancy rate of the data packets exceeds a predetermined value, and, subsequently, the spreading codes assigned to the reservation demand packet transmission are decreased in number while the spreading codes assigned to data-packet transmission are increased in number when the channel occupancy rate of the data packets still exceeds the predetermined value even after the reservation demand packet transmission admission probability is lowered.

8. The packet transmission method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the spreading codes assigned to the reservation demand packet transmission are decreased in number first when a channel occupancy rate of the data packets exceeds a predetermined value, and, subsequently, the reservation demand packet transmission admission probability determined in advance is lowered if the channel occupancy rate of the data packets still exceeds the predetermined value even after the spreading codes assigned to the reservation demand packet transmission were decreased in number.

9. A single carrier/DS-CDMA packet transmission system, comprising:

a base station and a mobile station, wherein the base station is configured

to assign a predetermined fixed time slot in a data frame for dedicated use for transmission of a reservation demand packet, the reservation demand packet being a request for an allocation of a spreading code and/or a time slot, and

to assign, in said data frame, slots other than the predetermined fixed time slot for a transmission of data packets; and

the mobile station is configured

to code-multiplex information in the predetermined fixed time slot and information in the slots other than the predetermined fixed time slot with one of the spreading codes and

to transmit the data frame containing the reservation demand packet and data packets.

10. A single carrier/DS-CDMA packet transmission system, comprising:

a base station and a mobile station, wherein the base station is configured

to assign one of k (0<

k<

N) spreading codes among all N total spreading codes as a fixed code for dedicated use for reservation demand packet transmission, the reservation demand packet being a request for an allocation of a spreading code and/or a time slot,

to assign another one of the k (0<

k<

N) spreading codes as a fixed code for dedicated use for data packet transmission, and

to notify the mobile station of an assigned reservation demand packet channel; and

the mobile station is configured to transmit a reservation demand packet via the one of k (0<

k<

N) spreading codes and data packets via the another one of the k (0<

k<

N) spreading codes.

11. A single carrier/DS-CDMA packet transmission system comprising a base station and a plurality of mobile stations, wherein the base station comprises:

a measurement unit configured to measure a channel occupancy rate of a data packet; and

a unit configured to determine a reservation demand packet transmission admission probability and a number indicative of how many spreading codes are available for reservation demand packets for notification to the mobile station,

wherein the base station determines the number of spreading codes available for reservation demand packets and the reservation demand packet transmission admission probability based on the measurement by the measurement unit, and notifies the mobile station of the determined number of spreading codes and the determined admission probability through a downlink broadcast channel by time-multiplexing.