Radio transmission device, radio reception device, radio transmission method, and radio reception method

• US 8,300,725 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2007
• Issued: 10/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kishigami, Takaaki, Kayama, Hidenori
• Primary Examiner(s): WANG, TED M
• Application Number:
  US12/377,362
• Publication Number:
  US 20100220808A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,797 Days
• Field of Search: 375/295, 375/297, 375/219, 375/260
• US Class Current: 375/295
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0232 by interpolation between sounding signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0023 Time-frequency-space
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver

Abstract

It is possible to provide a radio reception device, a radio transmission device, a radio reception method, and a radio transmission method which can improve the channel estimation accuracy and the reception quality. The radio reception device (200) includes: reception units (203, 204) which receive a data sequence added by a reference signal for channel estimation of a spatial propagation path at a predetermined interval; demodulation units (205, 206) which demodulate the data sequence; a channel estimation unit (208) which estimates a propagation path fluctuation state according to the reference signal in the data sequence and outputs a channel estimation value obtained by interpolating or extrapolating the data sequence; and a decoding processing unit (210) which decodes the data sequence by using the interpolated or extrapolated channel estimation value.

Claims

1. A radio transmitting apparatus using a transmission format in which a subframe comprises a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols, the apparatus comprising:

a generating section that generates a reference signal for channel estimation of a spatial channel;

an assigning section that assigns a data signal to a subcarrier in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol;

a power adjusting section that adjusts transmission power of the reference signal such that the transmission power of the reference signal is greater than transmission power of the data signal;

a reference signal multiplexing section that allocates the reference signal having the transmission power adjusted in the power transmission adjusting section at predetermined intervals in a frequency domain or a time domain of subcarriers in the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol; and

a transmitting section that performs an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing modulation with respect to the data signal and reference signal assigned to the subcarriers in the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol and transmits an acquired orthogonal frequency division multiplexing modulation signal.

2. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined interval is set variable according to a condition of channel variation.

3. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reference signal multiplexing section allocates the reference signal to a specific region in the frequency domain.

4. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the specific region in the frequency domain is assigned per cell and varies between adjacent cells.

5. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the specific region in the frequency domain is assigned per cell and is common between adjacent cells.

6. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the transmission power of the data signal in the specific region in the frequency domain is lower than transmission power of the data signal outside the specific region in the frequency domain.

7. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in the specific region in the frequency domain, the data signal of lower transmission power than the reference signal comprises a binary or quaternary modulation signal.

8. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission format is assigned dedicated data for a plurality of users, in a minimum unit of subframes sequentially transmitted in the time domain.

9. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in the subframe, when the channel variation becomes insignificant, the last reference signal allocated to the subframe is allocated to the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol that is located further away in the time domain.

10. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reference signal multiplexing section allocates the reference signal for increasing transmission power, to a specific region in a frequency domain.

11. The radio transmitting apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the specific region in the frequency domain is assigned per cell and is common between adjacent cells.

12. A radio transmitting method using a transmission format in which a subframe comprises a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols, the method comprising the steps of:

generating a reference signal for channel estimation in a spatial channel;

assigning a data signal to a subcarrier in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol;

adjusting transmission power of the reference signal such that the transmission power of the reference signal is greater than transmission power of the data signal;

allocating the reference signal of the transmission power adjusted in the power transmission adjusting step at predetermined intervals in a frequency domain or time domain of subcarriers in the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol; and

performing an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing modulation with respect to the data signal and reference signal assigned to the subcarriers in the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol and transmitting the acquired orthogonal frequency division multiplexing modulation signal.