Mobile communication system, transmitting equipment and transmission signal generation method

• US 8,155,173 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2007
• Issued: 04/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Oketani, Kengo, Kakura, Yoshikazu
• Primary Examiner(s): ODOM, CURTIS B
• Application Number:
  US11/924,683
• Publication Number:
  US 20080101507A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,628 Days
• Field of Search: 375/219, 375/343, 370203-211
• US Class Current: 375/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2636 with FFT or DFT modulators, e.g. standard single-carrier frequency-division multiple access [SC-FDMA] transmitter or DFT spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing [DFT-SOFDM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2647 Arrangements specific to the receiver only equalisation H04L27/01

Abstract

A transmitting equipment is used in a mobile communication system in which a signal obtained by cyclically shifting a predetermined sequence is used for communication. An inverse fast Fourier transform device of the transmitting equipment converts a signal obtained by signal processing on a predetermined sequence in a frequency region into a time region by inverse fast Fourier transform. A cyclic shift device cyclically shifts by a predetermined amount of shift the sequence in the signal converted into the time region by the inverse fast Fourier transform device.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system in which a signal obtained by cyclically shifting a predetermined sequence is used for communication, the system comprising:

a transmitting equipment which performs signal processing on a signal for the predetermined sequence in a frequency region, converts the signal into a time region by inverse fast Fourier transform, thereafter cyclically shifts the sequence in the signal converted into the time region by a predetermined amount of shift, and transmits the cyclically shifted signal; and

a receiving equipment which computes the value of crosscorrelation between the signal received from the transmitting equipment and the sequence stored in advance, converts the crosscorrelation value into a time region by inverse fast Fourier transform, and detects the sequence used in the transmitting equipment and the amount of the cyclic shift on the basis of the crosscorrelation value in the time region;

wherein the rate of sampling of the output from the inverse fast Fourier transform in the receiving equipment is a natural number multiple of the rate of sampling of the output from inverse fast Fourier transform in the transmitting equipment.

2. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein the cyclic shift by the predetermined amount of shift is realized by cyclically shifting the output from inverse fast Fourier transform by an amount corresponding to a predetermined number of samples.

3. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein the amount of the cyclic shift is prescribed by the number of samples in the output from inverse fast Fourier transform in the transmitting equipment.

4. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting equipment is a terminal equipment and the receiving equipment is a base station.

5. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein the pattern signal obtained by cyclically shifting the sequence is a reference signal used for demodulation of a data signal or a control signal, or a preamble for random access.

6. A transmitting equipment used in a mobile communication system in which a signal obtained by cyclically shifting a predetermined sequence is used for communication, the transmitting equipment comprising:

an inverse fast Fourier transform unit for converting a signal obtained by signal processing on the predetermined sequence in a frequency region into a time region by inverse fast Fourier transform; and

a cyclic shift unit for cyclically shifting by a predetermined amount of shift the sequence in the signal converted into the time region by the inverse fast Fourier transform unit;

wherein an integer multiple of the rate of sampling of the output from the inverse fast Fourier transform unit coincides with the rate of sampling of the output from inverse fast Fourier transform unit in a receiving equipment.

7. The transmitting equipment according to claim 6, wherein the cyclic shift unit realizes the cyclic shift by the predetermined amount of shift by cyclically shifting the output from the inverse fast Fourier transform unit by an amount corresponding to a predetermined number of samples.

8. The transmitting equipment according to claim 6, wherein the amount of the cyclic shift in the cyclic shift unit is prescribed by the number of samples in the output from the inverse fast Fourier transform unit in the transmitting equipment.

9. The transmitting equipment according to claim 6, wherein the transmitting equipment is a terminal equipment which transmits an upstream signal to a base station.

10. The transmitting equipment according to claim 6, wherein a pattern signal obtained by cyclically shifting the sequence is a reference signal used for demodulation of a data signal or a control signal, or a preamble for random access.

11. A transmitting equipment used in a mobile communication system in which a signal obtained by cyclically shifting a predetermined sequence is used for communication, the transmitting equipment comprising:

inverse fast Fourier transform means for converting a signal obtained by signal processing on the predetermined sequence in a frequency region into a time region by inverse fast Fourier transform; and

cyclic shift means for cyclically shifting by a predetermined amount of shift the sequence in the signal converted into the time region by the inverse fast Fourier transform means;

wherein the rate of sampling of the output from an inverse fast Fourier transform in a receiving equipment is a natural number multiple of the rate of sampling of the output from the inverse fast Fourier transform means in the transmitting equipment.

12. A transmission signal generation method in a transmitting equipment used in a mobile communication system in which a predetermined sequence is cyclically shifted to be used for communication, the method comprising:

performing signal processing on a predetermined sequence in a frequency region;

converting the signal in the frequency region processed by signal processing into a time region by inverse fast Fourier transform; and

cyclically shifting the sequence in the signal converted into the time region by a predetermined amount of shift;

wherein the rate of sampling of the output from an inverse fast Fourier transform in a receiving equipment is a natural number multiple of the rate of sampling of the output from the inverse fast Fourier transform in the transmitting equipment.