Spread code assigning method in code spread radio communication using a plurality of transmission/reception antennas and code spread radio communication system using the same

• US 7,948,957 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2004
• Issued: 05/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kakura, Yoshikazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Corsaro; Nick
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chambers; Tangela T.
• Application Number:
  US10/561,128
• Publication Number:
  US 20070116091A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,519 Days
• Field of Search: 370/342, 370/335, 370/441, 370/479
• US Class Current: 370/342
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/04 using two or more spaced independent antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0678 using different spreading codes between antennas code allocation H04J13/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/004 Orthogonal
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/18 Allocation of orthogonal codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0001 Systems modifying transmission characteristics according to link quality, e.g. power backoff adaptive data allocation for multicarrier modulation H04L5/0044; controlling transmission power for radio systems H04W52/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0025 Transmission of mode-switching indication

Abstract

A receiver connected to a plurality of reception antennas includes a propagation path correlation estimation circuit. The propagation path correlation estimation circuit calculates a correlation value of each propagation path between each of the transmission antennas and each of the reception antennas and transmits the calculation result as propagation path correlation information (S_COR). A transmitter connected to a plurality of transmission antennas includes a spread code assigning circuit. According to the propagation path correlation information, the spread code assigning circuit assigns only spread codes orthogonal to each other for the transmission antenna corresponding to a correlation value exceeding a threshold value and, for a transmission antenna having no propagation path of a correlation value exceeding the threshold value, assigns a spread code without considering orthogonality to a spread code in the other transmission antenna.

Claims

1. A spread code assigning method, for use in a code spread radio communication system including a first radio transmission device provided with a transmitter for transmitting different first through Mth code spread transmission signals from each of M (M is an integer of 2 or more) transmission antennas, and a second radio transmission device provided with a receiver for receiving and demodulating the first through Mth code spread transmission signals through N (N is an integer of 1 or more) reception antennas, for assigning spread codes to each of the transmission antennas, comprising:

calculating a correlation value of each of the propagation paths between the transmission antennas and the reception antennas;

preferentially assigning, to the ith (i is an integer of 1 or more and M or less) transmission antenna having a propagation path of a correlation value exceeding a predetermined threshold value, only spread codes orthogonal to the spread codes of the jth (j is an integer of 1 or more and M or less, i≠

j) transmission antenna corresponding to the correlation value or spread codes having a small cross correlation value to spread codes of the jth transmission antenna corresponding to the correlation value, and

assigning, to a transmission antenna having no propagation path of a correlation value exceeding the threshold value, spread codes without considering orthogonality to spread codes in the other transmission antennas.

2. The spread code assigning method as claimed in claim 1, wherein spread codes having a small cross correlation value to the spread codes of the jth transmission antenna are spread codes orthogonal to the spread codes of the jth transmission antenna.

3. The spread code assigning method as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein a standard correlation value is calculated based on each of the correlation values of the propagation paths between the M transmission antennas and the N reception antennas, and in the case of preset L threshold values of x₀, x₁, . . . , x_(L−

1) (0≦

x₀≦

x₁≦

. . . ≦

x<sub>(L−

1)</sub>≦

1), the standard correlation value is x_p or more and below x_(p+1) (p is an integer of 0 or more and (L−

1) or less), a code multiplex number for the transmission antenna corresponding to the standard correlation value is set to be (L−

p).

4. The spread code assigning method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the standard correlation value is the maximum value among the (M−

1)×

N correlation values obtained by calculating correlation values of a propagation path between the ith transmission antenna and the kth (k is an integer of 1 or more and N or less) reception antenna with propagation paths between the first, second, . . . , (i−

1)th, (i+1)th, . . . , Mth transmission antennas and the kth reception antenna for the entire reception antennas.

5. The spread code assigning method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the standard correlation value is an average value among the (M−

1)×

N correlation values obtained by calculating correlation values of a propagation path between the ith transmission antenna and the kth (k is an integer of 1 or more and N or less) reception antenna with propagation paths between the first, second, . . . , (i−

1)th, (i+1)th, . . . , Mth transmission antennas and the kth reception antenna for the entire reception antennas.

6. The spread code assigning method as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein a correlation value compared with the threshold value is a standard correlation value calculated based on a cross correlation value of each of the propagation paths between the M transmission antennas and the N reception antennas.

7. The spread code assigning method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the standard correlation value is the maximum value among the (M−

1)×

N correlation values obtained by calculating correlation values of a propagation path between the ith transmission antenna and the kth (k is an integer of 1 or more and N or less) reception antenna with propagation paths between the first, second, . . . , (i−

1)th, (i+1)th, . . . , Mth transmission antennas and the kth reception antenna for the entire reception antennas.

8. The spread code assigning method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the standard correlation value is an average value among the (M−

1)×

N correlation values obtained by calculating correlation values of a propagation path between the ith transmission antenna and the kth (k is an integer of 1 or more and N or less) reception antenna with propagation paths between the first, second, . . . , (i−

1)th, (i+1)th, . . . , Mth transmission antennas and the kth reception antenna for the entire reception antennas.

9. A spread code assigning method, for use in a code spread radio communication system including a first radio transmission device provided with a transmitter for transmitting different first through Mth code spread transmission signals from each of M (M is an integer of 2 or more) transmission antennas, and a second radio transmission device provided with a receiver for receiving and demodulating the first through Mth code spread transmission signals through N (N is an integer of 1 or more) reception antennas, for assigning spread codes to each of the transmission antennas comprising:

detecting a reception quality at a time when

each of said code spread transmission signals is received;

reducing, in the case that the detected reception quality is below an object minimum value, a maximum value of number of the spread codes assigned to the transmission antenna corresponding to the reception quality;

increasing, in the case that the detected reception quality exceeds an object maximum value, the maximum value of the number of spread codes assigned to the transmission antenna corresponding to the reception quality; and

transmitting information from the transmission antenna with an assigned spread code selected from the spread codes assigned to the transmission antenna.

10. The spread code assigning method as claimed in claim 9, wherein as the reception quality, any of a packet success rate, a signal to interference signal power ratio, or a bit error rate is used.

11. The spread code assigning method as claimed in claim 9 or 10, wherein a priority order of assigned spread codes is set for each transmission antenna, and in the case that the maximum value of the number of the spread codes assigned to each transmission antenna is relatively small, different spread codes orthogonal to each other are assigned to each of the transmission antennas.

12. A code spread radio communication system including a first radio transmission device provided with a transmitter for transmitting different first through Mth code spread transmission signals from each of M (M is an integer of 2 or more) transmission antennas, and a second radio transmission device provided with a receiver for receiving and demodulating the first through Mth code spread transmission signals through N (N is an integer of 1 or more) reception antennas,

wherein the receiver is provided with a correlation value estimation unit for calculating a correlation value of each propagation path between each of the transmission antennas and each of the reception antennas and transmitting the calculated result as propagation path correlation information,

wherein the transmitter is provided with a spread code assigning unit, and

wherein the spread code assigning unit, based on the propagation path correlation information, assigns, to the ith is an integer of 1 or more and M or less) transmission antenna having a propagation path of a correlation value exceeding a predetermined threshold value, only spread codes orthogonal to the spread codes of the jth (j is an integer of 1 or more and M or less, i≠

j) transmission antenna corresponding to the correlation value, and assigns, to a transmission antenna having no propagation path of a correlation value exceeding the threshold value, spread codes without considering orthogonality to spread codes in the other transmission antennas.

13. The code spread radio communication system as claimed in claim 12, wherein the spread code assigning unit preferentially assigns, based on the propagation path correlation information, to the ith (i is an integer of 1 or more and M or less) transmission antenna having a propagation path of a correlation value exceeding a predetermined threshold value, spread codes having a small cross correlation value to the spread codes of the jth (j is an integer of 1 or more and M or less, i≠

j) transmission antenna corresponding to the correlation value, and assigns, to a transmission antenna having no propagation path of a correlation value exceeding the threshold value, spread codes without considering orthogonality to spread codes in the other transmission antennas.

14. The code spread radio communication system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the spread codes having a small cross correlation value to the spread codes of the jth transmission antenna are spread codes orthogonal to the spread codes of the jth transmission antenna.

15. A code spread radio communication system including a first radio transmission device provided with a transmitter for transmitting different first through Mth code spread transmission signals from each of M (M is an integer of 2 or more) transmission antennas, and a second radio transmission device provided with a receiver for receiving and demodulating the first through Mth code spread transmission signals with N (N is an integer of 1 or more) reception antennas, wherein

the receiver is provided with a reception quality detection unit for detecting reception quality at a time when each of the code spread transmission signals is received and a code multiplex number control signal generating unit, the code multiplex number control signal generating unit, in the case that the reception quality is below an object minimum value, transmitting the code multiplex number control information indicating decreasing of the maximum value of the number of spread codes assigned to the transmission antenna corresponding to the concerned reception quality, and also, in the case that the reception quality exceeds an object maximum value, transmitting the code multiplex number control information indicating increasing of the maximum value of the number of spread codes assigned to the transmission antenna corresponding to the concerned reception quality, and wherein

the transmitter is provided with a spread code assigning unit for assigning spread codes to each of the transmission antenna based on the code multiplex number control information, and

the transmitter transmits information from the transmission antenna corresponding to the concerned reception quality and transmits the information with an assigned spread code selected from the spread codes assigned to the transmission antenna.

16. The code spread radio communication system as claimed in claim 15, wherein the reception quality is any of a packet success rate, a signal to interference signal power ratio, or a bit error rate.