Radio transmitting apparatus and radio transmitting method

• US 8,111,639 B2
• Filed: 12/26/2006
• Issued: 02/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Imamura, Daichi, Matsumoto, Atsushi, Iwai, Takashi, Futagi, Sadaki, Takata, Tomofumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Huy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chery, Dady
• Application Number:
  US12/159,373
• Publication Number:
  US 20100220666A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,869 Days
• Field of Search: 370/328, 370/329, 370/278, 370/341, 370/336, 370/337, 370/347, 370/442, 370/441, 370/335, 370/342, 370/444
• US Class Current: 370/278
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/002 Transmission of channel access control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0891 for synchronized access

Abstract

A radio transmitting apparatus and a radio transmitting method wherein the increase of the guard time in a random access region is reduced to secure the data transmitting region of an upstream line. In this apparatus, when a received signal power estimated by a received signal power estimating part (205) is the higher, a RACH format selecting part (206) selects a RACH format having the longer frame length. Contrarily, when a received signal power estimated by the received signal power estimating part (205) is the lower, the RACH format selecting part (206) selects a RACH format having the shorter frame length. A RACH data part arranging part (207) appropriately selects, in accordance with the selected RACH format, top-priority information, such as terminal identifiers, priority information, such as connection request information or band assignment request information, and non-priority information and arranges RACH data parts.

Claims

1. A radio transmitting apparatus, comprising:

a propagation distance estimating section that estimates a propagation distance from a communicating party station based on a signal transmitted from the communicating party station;

a selecting section that selects a random access channel format of a frame length supporting the estimated propagation distance, from a plurality of random access channel formats of frame lengths supporting propagation distances;

a transmitting section that transmits a random access channel frame using the selected random access channel format; and

an arrangement section that arranges a plurality of items of information in the selected random access channel format, according to the frame length of the selected random access channel format, in descending order of levels of priority assigned respectively to the plurality of items of information, wherein;

the arrangement section arranges only an item of information of a highest level of priority in a random access channel format of a shortest frame length from among the plurality of random access channel formats.

2. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the arrangement section arranges identification information that identifies the radio transmitting apparatus and known information as the item of information of the highest level of priority.

3. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the arrangement section arranges access request information and resource allocation request information as information of a second highest level of priority.

4. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a coding section that individually performs coding for every item of information assigned a level of priority.

5. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the arrangement section arranges the item of information of the highest level of priority again in a final area in a random access channel format of a longest frame length from among the plurality of random access channel formats.

6. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a storing section that stores a type of information to be arranged next to the information of the highest level of priority, in association with an indicator showing the type,

wherein the arrangement section includes in the information of the highest level of priority the indicator according to the type of the information to be arranged next to the information of the highest level of priority.

7. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a cyclic prefix attaching section that sets a cyclic prefix length, for every item of information assigned a priority level and arranged in the selected random access channel format, matching a maximum propagation delay time based on the frame length, and attaches the cyclic prefix length of the set length to every one of the items of information.

8. A radio transmitting method comprising:

estimating a propagation distance from a communicating party station based on a signal transmitted from the communicating party station;

selecting a random access channel format of a frame length supporting the estimated propagation distance, from a plurality of random access channel formats of frame lengths supporting propagation distances;

transmitting a random access channel frame using the selected random access channel format; and

arranging a plurality of items of information in the selected random access channel format, according to the frame length of the selected random access channel format, in descending order of levels of priority assigned respectively to the plurality of items of information, wherein;

only an item of information of a highest level of priority is arranged in a random access channel format of a shortest frame length from among the plurality of random access channel formats.