Radio communication base station device and control channel arrangement method

• US 7,941,153 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2008
• Issued: 05/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Optis Wireless Technology, LLC (Brevet Capital)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Golitchek Edler Von Elbwart, Alexander, Nishio, Akihiko, Fukuoka, Masaru, Nakao, Seigo
• Primary Examiner(s): Corsaro; Nick
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vu; Michael T
• Application Number:
  US12/532,352
• Publication Number:
  US 20100048219A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,145 Days
• Field of Search: 455/451, 455/452.1, 455/455, 455/434, 455/464, 370/330, 370/343, 370/347, 370/328
• US Class Current: 455/450
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0028 Formatting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/18 Automatic repetition systems, e.g. Van Duuren systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1273 of downlink data flows
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management

Abstract

Provided is a radio communication base station device which can obtain a maximum frequency diversity effect of a downstream line control channel. The device includes: an RB allocation unit (101) which allocates upstream line resource blocks continuous on the frequency axis for respective radio communication mobile stations by the frequency scheduling and generates allocation information indicating which upstream line resource block has been allocated to which radio communication mobile station device; and an arrangement unit (109) which arranges a response signal to the radio communication mobile station device in the downstream line control channels distributed/arranged on the frequency axis while being correlated to the continuous upstream line resource blocks according to the allocation information.

Claims

1. A base station apparatus comprising:

an allocating unit configured to allocate, to a mobile station, one or a plurality of resource block(s) of uplink, the resource blocks being consecutive in a frequency domain;

a mapping unit configured to map a response signal to a resource of downlink, the resource being determined from an index of the allocated resource block; and

a transmitting unit configured to transmit the mapped response signal to the mobile station,

wherein;

the indices of a plurality of the consecutive resource blocks are respectively associated with a plurality of the resources which are different in a frequency domain;

the plurality of the resources are respectively comprised of a plurality of subcarrier groups which are inconsecutive in a frequency domain; and

said mapping unit maps the response signal to the subcarrier group.

2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said transmitting unit transmits allocation information indicating the allocated resource block(s) to the mobile station.

3. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said mapping unit maps the response signal to the resource determined from an index of a resource block, which is used for a transmission in the uplink at the mobile station.

4. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said mapping unit maps the response signal to a plurality of the resources distributed in the frequency domain.

5. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a spreading unit configured to spread the response signal, wherein said mapping unit maps the spread response signal to the resource.

6. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a repetition unit configured to generate a plurality of the same response signals with a repetition, wherein said mapping unit maps the plurality of the same response signals to a plurality of the resources distributed in the frequency domain, respectively.

7. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the response signal is carried on a hybrid ARQ indicator channel (HICH), and said mapping unit maps the response signal to the resource to which the hybrid ARQ indicator channel is mapped.

8. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said mapping unit maps a plurality of the response signals to the resource with code-multiplexing.

9. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the response signal is carried on a hybrid ARQ indicator channel (HICH), and said mapping unit maps a plurality of the response signals to the resource, to which a plurality of the hybrid ARQ indicator channels are mapped, with code-multiplexing.

10. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the index of the resource block is associated with the resource depending on a cell.

11. A method for mapping a response signal comprising:

allocating, to a mobile station, one or a plurality of resource block(s) of uplink, the resource blocks being consecutive in a frequency domain; and

mapping a response signal to a resource of downlink, the resource being determined from an index of the allocated resource block,

wherein;

the indices of a plurality of the consecutive resource blocks are respectively associated with a plurality of the resources which are different in a frequency domain;

the plurality of the resources are respectively comprised of a plurality of subcarrier groups which are inconsecutive in a frequency domain; and

the response signal is mapped to the subcarrier group.

12. The method for mapping a response signal according to claim 11, wherein the response signal is mapped to the resource determined from an index of a resource block, which is used for a transmission in the uplink at the mobile station.

13. The method for mapping a response signal according to claim 11, wherein the response signal is mapped to a plurality of the resources distributed in the frequency domain.

14. The method for mapping a response signal according to claim 11 further comprising spreading the response signal, wherein the spread response signal is mapped to the resource.

15. The method for mapping a response signal according to claim 11 further comprising generating a plurality of the same response signals with a repetition, wherein the plurality of the same response signals are respectively mapped to a plurality of the resources distributed in the frequency domain.

16. The method for mapping a response signal according to claim 11, wherein the response signal is carried on a hybrid ARQ indicator channel (HICH), and the response signal is mapped to the resource to which the hybrid ARQ indicator channel is mapped.

17. The method for mapping a response signal according to claim 11, wherein a plurality of the response signals are mapped to the resource with code-multiplexing.

18. The method for mapping a response signal according to claim 11, wherein the response signal is carried on a hybrid ARQ indicator channel (HICH), and a plurality of the response signals are mapped to the resource, to which a plurality of the hybrid ARQ indicator channels are mapped, with code-multiplexing.

19. The method for mapping a response signal according to claim 11, wherein the index of the resource block is associated with the resource depending on a cell.