Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method

• US 7,729,443 B2
• Filed: 12/26/2005
• Issued: 06/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Imai, Tomohiro, Fukuoka, Masaru, Imamura, Daichi, Futagi, Sadaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Bocure; Tesfaldet
• Application Number:
  US11/722,831
• Publication Number:
  US 20070286310A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,618 Days
• Field of Search: 375/260, 375/295, 375/296, 375/285, 375/358, 375/377, 370/210, 370/208
• US Class Current: 375/295
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/02 Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas RAKE receivers H04B1/7115
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0071 Use of interleaving interleaving per se H03M13/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/04 using frequency diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/08 by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0204 of multiple channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0232 by interpolation between sounding signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0044 allocation of payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0058 Allocation criteria

Abstract

A wireless communication method of repetition system and the like for ensuring that when the same data symbols are combined, a diversity gain is achieved. In a step (ST 420), a data symbol placing part (105) decides destination places of respective replicated data symbols (S₁-S₄) such that the same data symbols are not placed at destination place numbers (7,8) of data symbols that exhibit poor channel estimation precisions. In a step (ST 430), the data symbol placing part (105) places, in accordance with the decision in the foregoing step (ST 420), the four data symbols (S₁-S₄), which are received from a repetition part (102), in one frame received from a channel estimation error predicting part (104).

Claims

1. A radio communication apparatus comprising:

a repetition section that repeats a data symbol and generates a plurality of same data symbols;

an error predicting section that predicts channel estimation errors in allocated locations of the generated same data symbols; and

a data symbol mapping section that maps the same data symbols in the allocated locations where amount of the predicted channel estimation error is a predefined threshold or less.

2. The radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data symbol mapping section maps different symbols of the same data symbols in a plurality of the allocated locations where the level of the predicted channel estimation error exceeds the threshold.

3. The radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the error predicting section predicts the channel estimation errors based on an arrangement aspect of a pilot symbol allocated together with the same data symbols and a channel estimation scheme; and

when the channel estimation scheme uses one pilot symbol, predicts that the channel estimation errors in the allocated locations increase as a distance between the allocated location and the one pilot symbol increases.

4. The radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the error predicting section predicts the channel estimation errors based on an arrangement aspect of a pilot symbol allocated together with the same data symbols and a channel estimation scheme; and

when the error predicting section performs channel estimation using a plurality of pilot symbols, data symbol mapping section maps the same data symbols in one of the allocated locations a predetermined number from an end of a channel estimation interval and in one of the allocated locations a predetermined number from a center of the channel estimation interval, respectively.

5. The radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the plurality of pilot symbols are mapped discretely both in the time domain and the frequency domain, the error predicting section predicts that the channel estimation errors increase, as a distance increases, the distance between the allocated location and a pilot symbol that is a shortest distance in the time domain and the frequency domain among the plurality of pilot symbols.

6. The radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a transmitting section that radio transmits an OFDM signal where a plurality of pilot symbols are mapped discretely in the time domain and the frequency domain, and the same data symbols are mapped by the data symbol mapping section; and

a receiving section that receives feedback information including a Doppler frequency and delay spread measured by another radio communication apparatus that receives the OFDM signal,

wherein the error predicting section calculates distances between the allocated locations and the plurality of pilot symbols by reflecting the Doppler frequency in the distances in the time domain between the allocated locations and the pilot symbols, and reflecting the delay spread in the distances in the frequency domain between the allocated locations and the pilot symbols, specifies a shortest distance among a plurality of distances calculated for each of the allocated locations, and predicts that the channel estimation errors increase in the allocated locations having the longer specified shortest distance.

7. A radio communication method comprising:

a repetition step of repeating a data symbol and generating a plurality of same data symbols;

an error predicting step of predicting channel estimation errors in allocated locations of the generated same data symbols; and

a data symbol mapping step of mapping the same data symbols in the allocated locations where a level of the predicted channel estimation error is a predefined threshold or less.