Data transmission method for a mobile communication system

• US 7,356,004 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2003
• Issued: 04/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 (IP Bridge, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Hanaoka, Seishi, Kato, Takeshi, Yano, Takashi, Tamaki, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Trinh, Sonny
• Application Number:
  US10/636,696
• Publication Number:
  US 20040174840A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,705 Days
• Field of Search: 370/334, 370/328, 370/332, 370/310, 342/359, 342/360, 342/368, 455/560, 455/561, 455/562.1, 455/132, 455/133, 455/137
• US Class Current: 370/334
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0615 of weighted versions of same signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0617 for beam forming
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0669 using different channel coding between antennas space-time coding H04L1/0618
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0848 Joint weighting
• 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 1/005 Iterative decoding, including iteration between signal detection and decoding operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0061 Error detection codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0066 Parallel concatenated codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/06 using space diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/16 in which the return channel carries supervisory signals, e.g. repetition request signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1845 Combining techniques, e.g. code combining
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0096 Channel splitting in point-to-point links
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/28 using beam steering

Abstract

This invention provides a mobile communication system which expanded the operation limitation of the heretofore adopted mobile communication systems and improved the spectrum efficiency greatly. A data transmission method for use in the mobile communication system of the present invention includes means for channel pluralizing by which to expand the Shannon limit and means for interference reduction by which to expand the interference limit. More specifically, a transmitting module comprises M units of modulators and L units of transmitting antennas, generates L units of signals by multiplying M units of modulated signals by a complex matrix consisting of M×L units of elements, and transmits the L units of signals from the L units of transmitting antennas.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system comprising:

a transmitting station; and

a receiving station,

wherein said transmitting station comprises;

a plurality of modulators;

an encoder which encodes data to transmit into a code word, separates the code word into a plurality of signals, and outputs the plurality of signals to said plurality of modulators;

a plurity of antennas; and

an operation unit which performs beam forming of transmit signals modulated by said plurality of modulators in order to transmit the transmit signals from the plurality of antennas, and

wherein said receiving station comprises;

a plurality of antennas which respectively receive the signals transmitted from said plurality of antennas of said transmitting station;

a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) receiver which separates said plurality of signals from the signals input from said plurality of antennas;

a plurality of demodulators which demodulate the plurality of signals output from said MIMO receiver; and

a decoder which decodes said plurality of demodulated signals.

2. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein:

said transmitting station has M units of said modulators and L units of said antennas;

said operation unit multiples M units of signals input from said modulators by a complex matrix consisting of M×

L units of elements; and

said complex matrix is settled, according to conditions of propagation channels between the plurality of antennas of said transmitting station and the plurality of antennas of said receiving station.

3. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein an encoding rate of said encoder is fixed, according to conditions of the propagation channels between the plurality of antennas of said transmitting station and the plurality of antennas of said receiving station.

4. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein said modulators perform multilevel modulation.

5. The mobile communication system according to claim 4, wherein:

said transmitting station includes a first buffer to store said code word;

said first buffer divides said code word into bits and sequentially outputs the bits to said plurality of modulators;

in response to a receiving acknowledge signal transmitted from the receiving station, said first buffer outputs to said modulators are stopped and said code word stored is cleared from the buffer;

said encoder outputs a code word following said cleared code word to said first buffer; and

said receiving acknowledge signal indicates that received signals in a complete unit of encoding have been decoded normally on said receiving station.

6. The mobile communication system according to claim 5, wherein:

said receiving station includes a second buffer to store outputs of said plurality of demodulators, a third buffer to store outputs of said decoder, and an error detector;

said decoder sequentially reads signals stored in said second buffer, decodes the signals, and output the decoded results;

said error detector judges whether the signals in the complete unit of encoding have been decoded normally from said decoded results;

if the signals in the complete unit of encoding have been decoded normally, said error detector sends said receiving acknowledge signal to said transmitting station; and

said third buffer outputs the decoded results stored therein.

7. The mobile communication system according to claim 5, wherein:

said plurality of modulators reduces the number of modulation levels of said multilevel modulation, if the number of code word bits output from said first buffer or the number of symbols modulated by said plurality of modulators for each code word exceeds a predetermined criterion value.

8. The mobile communication system according to claim 7, wherein:

said predetermined criterion value is changed, according to circumstances of the propagation channels between the plurality of antennas of said transmitting station and the plurality of antennas of said receiving station.

9. The mobile communication system according to claim 4, wherein:

the number of levels of modulation to be performed by said modulators is controlled, according to parallellity of MIMO propagation channels between the plurality of antennas of said transmitting station and the plurality of antennas of said receiving station.

10. A transmitting station with a plurality of antennas which transmits data on a plurality of transmission channels to a receiving station with a plurality of antennas, said transmitting station comprising:

a plurality of modulators;

an encoder which encodes data to transmit into a code word, separates the code word into a plurality of signals, and outputs the plurality of signals to said plurality of modulators;

an operation unit which executes arithmetic operation for giving pointing directions of transmit beams to a plurality of transmit signals modulated by said plurality of modulators; and

the plurality of antennas from which signals output from said operation unit are transmitted to said receiving station.

11. The transmitting station according to claim 10, wherein:

said transmitting station has M units of said modulators and L units of said antennas;

said operation unit multiples M units of signals input from said modulators by a complex matrix consisting of M×

L units of elements; and

said complex matrix is settled, according to conditions of propagation channels between the plurality of antennas of said transmitting station and the plurality of antennas of said receiving station.

12. The transmitting station according to claim 10, wherein an encoding rate of said encoder is fixed, according to conditions of the propagation channels between the plurality of antennas of said transmitting station and the plurality of antennas of said receiving station.

13. The transmitting station according to claim 10, wherein:

said transmitting station includes a buffer to store the code word output from said encoder;

said buffer divides said code word into bits and sequentially outputs the bits to said plurality of modulators;

in response to a receiving acknowledge signal transmitted from the receiving station, said buffer outputs to said modulators are stopped and said code word stored is cleared from the buffer;

said encoder outputs a code word following said cleared code word to said buffer; and

said receiving acknowledge signal indicates that received signals in a complete unit of encoding have been decoded normally on said receiving station.

14. The transmitting station according to claim 13, wherein:

said plurality of modulators perform multilevel modulation; and

the number of levels of the multilevel modulation is reduced, if the number of code word bits output from said buffer or the number of symbols modulated by said plurality of modulators for each code word exceeds a predetermined criterion value.

15. The transmitting station according to claim 10, wherein:

said plurality of modulators perform multilevel modulation; and

the number of levels of the multilevel modulation is determined, according to parallellity of the propagation channels between the plurality of antennas of said transmitting station and the plurality of antennas of said receiving station.

16. A data transmission method for use in a transmitting station with a plurality of antennas which transmits data on a plurality of transmission channels to a receiving station with a plurality of antennas, said data transmission method comprising:

encoding data to transmit into a code word;

separating said code word into a plurality of signals;

modulating the plurality of signals by modulators;

executing arithmetic operation for giving pointing directions of transmit beams to said plurality of modulated signals when being simultaneously transmitted from said plurality of antennas; and

transmitting signals obtained from said arithmetic operation from said plurality of antennas.

17. The data transmission method according to claim 16, wherein:

said transmitting station has M units of said modulators and L units of said antennas;

said arithmetic operation is a procedure of multiplying M units of signals input from said modulators by a complex matrix consisting of M×

L units of elements; and

said complex matrix is settled, according to conditions of propagation channels between the plurality of antennas of said transmitting station and the plurality of antennas of said receiving station.

18. The data transmission method according to claim 16, wherein:

an encoding rate of said encoder is fixed, according to conditions of the propagation channels between the plurality of antennas of said transmitting station and the plurality of antennas of said receiving station.

19. The data transmission method according to claim 16, wherein:

in response to a receiving acknowledge signal received from said receiving station, code word modulation in process is stopped and modulation of a code word following the code word starts; and

said receiving acknowledge signal indicates that received signals in a complete unit of encoding have been decoded normally on said receiving station.

20. The data transmission method according to claim 16, wherein:

said modulation is multilevel modulation; and

the number of levels of the multilevel modulation is determined, according to parallellity of the propagation channels between the plurality of antennas of said transmitting station and the plurality of antennas of said receiving station.