Radio communication apparatus and packet scheduling method
First Claim
1. A packet scheduling method in a radio communication apparatus having array antennas and transmitting packets to a plurality of mobile apparatuses using a plurality of fixed beams created by the array antennas, the method comprising:
- a first step of selecting one of the fixed beams for communication with each of said mobile apparatuses residing in the coverage of the radio communication apparatus, and associating the selected fixed beam with the mobile apparatus;
a second step of estimating respective states of radio channels toward the mobile apparatuses;
a third step of selecting a specific combination of fixed beams to be output, based on expectation values of inter-beam interference quantities each estimated in advance and stored, in a management table formed in a memory, in association with each of combinations of beam identifiers indicating a plurality of simultaneously transmittable fixed beams, associations between the mobile apparatuses and the fixed beams associated in said first step, and the states of radio channels estimated in said second step; and
a fourth step of generating by said array antennas, the fixed beams in said specific combination selected in said third step, and transmitting packets to the mobile apparatuses corresponding to the fixed beams in the selected combination,wherein said specific combination of fixed beams is selected in said third step according to the state of radio channels toward mobile apparatuses associated with the fixed beams, from among a plurality of available combinations of fixed beams having been determined based on said management table to have inter-beam interference quantity less than a predetermined threshold.
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Abstract
A radio communication apparatus enhances cell throughput by adaptive selection of spatially multiplexed channels in consideration of interferences in a local cell and reducing load for calculation of array weights by storing them in advance as fixed values and outputting fixed beams. To reduce the calculation load for the adaptive selection of spatially multiplexed channels that takes interferences within the local cell into consideration, the radio communication apparatus adopts a packet scheduling method that selects a combination of fixed beams and determines the number of spatially multiplexed channels, based on the fixed beams for mobile apparatuses with packets waiting to be transmitted and pre-calculated correlative quantities of inter-beam interferences between these fixed beams.
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12 Claims
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1. A packet scheduling method in a radio communication apparatus having array antennas and transmitting packets to a plurality of mobile apparatuses using a plurality of fixed beams created by the array antennas, the method comprising:
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a first step of selecting one of the fixed beams for communication with each of said mobile apparatuses residing in the coverage of the radio communication apparatus, and associating the selected fixed beam with the mobile apparatus; a second step of estimating respective states of radio channels toward the mobile apparatuses; a third step of selecting a specific combination of fixed beams to be output, based on expectation values of inter-beam interference quantities each estimated in advance and stored, in a management table formed in a memory, in association with each of combinations of beam identifiers indicating a plurality of simultaneously transmittable fixed beams, associations between the mobile apparatuses and the fixed beams associated in said first step, and the states of radio channels estimated in said second step; and a fourth step of generating by said array antennas, the fixed beams in said specific combination selected in said third step, and transmitting packets to the mobile apparatuses corresponding to the fixed beams in the selected combination, wherein said specific combination of fixed beams is selected in said third step according to the state of radio channels toward mobile apparatuses associated with the fixed beams, from among a plurality of available combinations of fixed beams having been determined based on said management table to have inter-beam interference quantity less than a predetermined threshold. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A radio communication apparatus for transmitting packets to a plurality of mobile apparatuses using a plurality of fixed beams created by array antennas, said radio communication apparatus comprising:
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a storage including a first management table for storing a plurality of combination of array weights by which the plurality of fixed beams are created and a second management table for storing expectation values of inter-beam interference quantities estimated in advance for each of combinations of beam identifiers indicating a plurality of simultaneously transmittable fixed beams; a processor for packet scheduling; a beam former for creating the beams to transmit the packets according to the array weights designated from the processor; and array antennas for transmitting the packets, using the fixed beams created by the beam former, wherein said processor performs;
allocating one of said fixed beams to each of said plurality of mobile apparatuses;
associating an identifier of each of said mobile apparatuses with one of identifiers of said fixed beams and storing the associations into a third management table formed in said storage;
obtaining respective states of radio channels toward the plurality of mobile apparatuses;
selecting a specific combination of fixed beams to be output, based on inter-beam interference quantities for each combination of simultaneously transmittable fixed beams indicated by said first management table, the associations between the mobile apparatus identifiers and fixed beam identifiers stored in said third management table, and the states of the radio channels;
generating transmission packets to be transmitted to mobile apparatuses associated with the fixed beams in the specific combination;
retrieving array weights corresponding to the fixed beams in the specific combination from said second management table; and
outputting the array weights and the transmission packets to said beam former,wherein said specific combination of fixed beams is selected, according to the state of radio channels toward mobile apparatuses associated with the fixed beams, from among a plurality of available combinations of fixed beams having been determined based on said second management table to have inter-beam interference quantity less than a predetermined threshold. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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