Base station apparatus and radio communication method

• US 7,876,716 B2
• Filed: 04/16/2002
• Issued: 01/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: III Holdings 12, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sudo, Hiroaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Moe; Aung S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Grey; Christopher P
• Application Number:
  US10/311,592
• Publication Number:
  US 20030189917A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,206 Days
• Field of Search: 370/347, 370/436, 370/442, 370/458, 370/337, 370/280, 370/294, 370/210, 370/208, 370/276, 370/277, 455/101, 455/127.1, 455/127.2
• US Class Current: 370/280
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0817 with multiple receivers and antenna path selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0857 using maximum ratio combining techniques, e.g. signal-to- interference ratio [SIR], received signal strenght indication [RSS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/10 Open loop power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/12 Outer and inner loops
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/143 Downlink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/42 in systems with time, space, frequency or polarisation diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/58 Format of the TPC bits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/02 Hybrid access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A base station (10) performs bi-directional radio communications with terminal station apparatuses using communication frames each having time slots and being composed of a first region with a predetermined open-loop period and a second region with an open-loop period shorter than the open-loop period of the first region. A level detecting section (21) detects a received level of an uplink slot configured in the second region. A transmission diversity section (14) performs diversity transmission on a downlink transmission signal assigned to a downlink slot corresponding to the uplink slot, corresponding to a result of detection of the received level. It is thereby possible to enhance the effect of improving the received quality due to transmission diversity without degrading the transmission efficiency.

Claims

1. A base station apparatus comprising:

a timing generating section that generates a timing for assigning an uplink slot and a timing for assigning a downlink slot to a communication frame having time slots for communicating a transmission signal; and

a band assigning section that provides in the communication frame, in accordance with said timings generated by said timing generating section, both (i) a first region in which the downlink slot is assigned to the beginning of the frame after a plurality of downlink slots are collectively assigned, uplink slots are collectively assigned, and (ii) a second region in which the uplink slot is assigned to the beginning of the second region and the downlink slot are alternately assigned,

wherein the band assigning section arranges the second region between the downlink slot and the uplink slot contained in the first region.

2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, comprising:

a section that detects a received level of an uplink slot configured in the second region; and

a diversity section that performs diversity transmission on a downlink transmission signal assigned to a downlink slot corresponding to the uplink slot, corresponding to a result of detection of the received level.

3. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a section that assigns a transmission signal with a high priority to a downlink slot contained in the second region; and

a diversity section that performs diversity transmission on the transmission signal with a high priority, corresponding to a result of detection of a received level of an uplink slot corresponding to the downlink slot assigned the transmission signal with high priority.

4. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a target downlink slot contained in the first region is configured at the beginning of the first region, while a target uplink slot corresponding to the target downlink slot is configured at the end of a frame.

5. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a section that controls transmission power of a downlink transmission signal assigned to a downlink slot corresponding to an uplink slot, corresponding to a result of detection of a received level of the uplink slot.

6. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a spreading section that performs spreading on a downlink transmission signal, and thereby assigns each of subcarriers composing the downlink transmission signal to spreading chips.

7. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a downlink transmission signal is an OFDM signal obtained by performing IFFT on a transmission signal.

8. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the band assigning section makes the number of uplink slots and the number of downlink slots assigned to the second region smaller than the number of uplink slots and the number of downlink slots assigned to the first region.

9. A radio communication method comprising:

a timing generating step of generating a timing for assigning an uplink slot and a timing or assigning a downlink slot to a communication frame having time slots; and

a band assigning step of providing in the communication frame, in accordance with the timings generated by said timing generating step, both (i) a first region in which the downlink slot is assigned to the beginning of the frame and, after a plurality of downlink slots are collectively assigned, uplink slots are collectively assigned, and (ii) a second region in which the uplink slot is assigned to the beginning of the second region and the uplink slot and the downlink slot are alternately assigned,

wherein the band assigning step comprises arranging the second region between the downlink slot and the uplink slot contained in the first region.