Transmitting/receiving apparatus and transmitting/receiving method

• US 8,064,897 B2
• Filed: 01/27/2005
• Issued: 11/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Redwood Technologies, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Imamura, Daichi, Nishio, Akihiko, Futagi, Sadaki, Matsumoto, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid, Lester
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jama, Isaak R
• Application Number:
  US10/586,970
• Publication Number:
  US 20070155323A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,490 Days
• Field of Search: 455/303, 455/453, 455/423, 370/232, 370/343, 370/431, 370/436
• US Class Current: 455/423
• 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 5/006 Quality of the received signal, e.g. BER, SNR, water filling

Abstract

A transmission/reception apparatus capable of preventing degradation in system capacity, improving system throughput, and minimizing power consumption of an apparatus is disclosed. In this apparatus, a propagation path determining section (131) determines a propagation path state in all the regions in the used frequency band of a received multicarrier signal based on propagation path estimation information such as a channel estimation value and the like calculated in a propagation path estimating section (126), and specifies a frequency region having a good propagation path state from the used frequency band of OFDM. More specifically, the used frequency band is divided into a plurality of frequency bands (subbands), each comprised of smaller predetermined bandwidth, and by selecting a subband having a good propagation path state in the propagation path determining section (131), a frequency region having the good propagation path state is specified. A transmitting section (110) reports the subband information to a base station.

Claims

1. A base station apparatus comprising:

an acquisition section that acquires from a communication terminal apparatus, frequency band information indicating a frequency band having a propagation path state that is equal to or better than a predetermined level among a plurality of frequency bands, into which a frequency band used for a transmission multicarrier signal is divided and which are known to both the base station apparatus and the communication terminal apparatus; and

a transmitting section that transmits a signal to the communication terminal apparatus via the frequency band indicated by the frequency band information, wherein;

the transmitting section sets a repetition number of the frequency band information in accordance with a number of accommodated communication terminal apparatuses and instructs each of a plurality of communication terminal apparatuses on the repetition number.

2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition section comprises:

an identifying section that identifies the frequency band through which a signal is transmitted from the communication terminal apparatus; and

a judging section that judges that the identified frequency band is the frequency band having the propagation path state that is equal to or better than the predetermined level.

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

the acquisition section acquires a priority of the propagation path state of the frequency band in addition to the frequency band information from each of the plurality of communication terminal apparatuses; and

the transmitting section determines a frequency band to assign to a signal for each communication terminal apparatus based on the frequency band information and the priority of the propagation path state of the frequency band.

4. The base station apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the transmitting section reports the determined frequency band to each communication terminal apparatus before transmitting a signal to each communication terminal apparatus.

5. The base station apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the transmitting section transmits the report signal via the determined frequency band.

6. The base station apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the transmitting section assigns a lower frequency band in a carrier center frequency for a communication terminal apparatus having a higher priority.

7. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition section performs the acquiring when updating the frequency band assigned to the communication terminal apparatuses.

8. A transmission method in a base station apparatus, the method comprising:

from a communication terminal apparatus, acquiring frequency band information indicating a frequency band having a propagation path state equal to or better than a predetermined level among a plurality of frequency bands, into which a frequency band used for a transmission multicarrier signal is divided and which are known to both the base station apparatus and the communication terminal apparatus; and

transmitting a signal to the communication terminal apparatus via the frequency band indicated by the frequency band information, wherein;

the transmitting comprises setting a repetition number of the frequency band information in accordance with the number of accommodated communication terminal apparatuses and instructing each of a plurality of communication terminal apparatuses on the repetition number.