Controller and transmission and reception method for radio communications in a transceiver for radio communications

• US 7,616,554 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2006
• Issued: 11/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2005
• 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: Asai, Takahiro, Oda, Yasuhiro, Sugiyama, Takatoshi, Yoshino, Hitoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Kumar, Pankaj
• Assistant Examiner(s): Huq, Obaidul
• Application Number:
  US11/348,376
• Publication Number:
  US 20060209746A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,372 Days
• Field of Search: 370/241, 370/252, 370/203, 370/208, 370/310, 370/328, 370/329, 370/330, 704/200, 704/201, 704/211, 704/216, 704/217, 708/100, 708/200, 708/420, 708/421, 708/422, 708/426
• US Class Current: 370/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/245 taking into account received signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/246 where the output power of a terminal is based on a path parameter calculated in said terminal

Abstract

A controller in a transceiver for radio communications in which the same frequency is shared between multiple communications systems is disclosed that includes: a cyclic autocorrelation value calculation part configured to calculate the cyclic autocorrelation value of a first one of the communications systems from a received signal; and a data transmission authorization part configured to determine whether to authorize data transmission in a second one of the communications systems based on the calculated cyclic autocorrelation value of the first one of the communications systems.

Claims

1. A controller in a transceiver for radio communications in which a same frequency is shared between a plurality of communications systems, comprising:

a reception level measurement part which measures a level of a received signal;

a cyclic autocorrelation value calculation part which calculates a cyclic autocorrelation value of a first one of the communications systems from the received signal only when the measured level of the received signal is lower than a threshold; and

a data transmission authorization part which determines whether to authorize data transmission in a second one of the communications systems based on at least one of the measured level of the received signal and the calculated cyclic autocorrelation value of the first one of the communications systems.

2. The controller as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the data transmission authorization part determines whether to authorize the data transmission in the second one of the communications systems based on both of the measured level of the received signal and the calculated cyclic autocorrelation value of the first one of the communications systems.

3. The controller as claimed in claim 2, further comprising:

a LOS/NLOS (Line of Sight)/(Non Line of Sight) estimation part which estimates whether a transmitter of the first one of the communications systems is in a LOS environment or in an NLOS environment; and

a distance estimation part which estimates a distance from the transmitter of the first one of the communications systems to the transceiver for the radio communications using a result of the estimation of the LOS/NLOS estimation part and the measured level of the received signal,

wherein the data transmission authorization part estimates whether the transceiver for the radio communications is within a service area of the first one of the communications systems by comparing the distance estimated in the distance estimation part and the service area of the first one of the communications systems, and determines whether to authorize the data transmission in the second one of the communications systems based on a result of the estimation and the calculated cyclic autocorrelation value of the first one of the communications systems.

4. The controller as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a data transmission power determination part which controls transmission power of the data transmission in the second one of the communications systems based on the calculated cyclic autocorrelation value of the first one of the communications systems.

5. The controller as claimed in claim 4, further comprising:

a LOS/NLOS (Line of Sight)/(Non Line of Sight) estimation part which estimates whether a transmitter of the first one of the communications systems is in a LOS environment or in an NLOS environment; and

a distance estimation part which estimates a distance from the transmitter of the first one of the communications systems to the transceiver for the radio communications using a result of the estimation of the LOS/NLOS estimation part and the measured level of the received signal,

wherein the data transmission authorization part estimates whether the transceiver for the radio communications is within a service area of the first one of the communications systems by comparing the distance estimated in the distance estimation part and the service area of the first one of the communications systems, and determines whether to authorize the data transmission in the second one of the communications systems based on a result of the estimation and the calculated cyclic autocorrelation value of the first one of the communications systems.

6. The controller as claimed in claim 5, wherein the data transmission power determination part controls the transmission power of the data transmission in the second one of the communications systems based on the distance estimated in the distance estimation part and the calculated cyclic autocorrelation value of the first one of the communications systems.

7. The controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data transmission authorization part determines whether to authorize the data transmission in the second one of the communications systems based on a result of a chi-square test using the calculated cyclic autocorrelation value of the first one of the communications systems.

8. The controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cyclic autocorrelation value is obtained by determining a correlation between an original signal and a signal in which the original signal is frequency-shifted.

9. A radio communications transmission and reception method in a transceiver for radio communications in which a same frequency is shared between a plurality of communications systems, the radio communications transmission and reception method comprising:

measuring a level of a received signal;

calculating a cyclic autocorrelation value of a first one of the communications systems from the received signal only when the measured level of the received signal is lower than a threshold;

determining whether to authorize data transmission in a second one of the communications systems based on at least one of the measured level of the received signal and the calculated cyclic autocorrelation value of the first one of the communications systems; and

performing the data transmission in the second one of the communication systems based on a determination that the data transmission should be authorized.