Wireless communication system

• US 8,320,493 B2
• Filed: 04/27/2005
• Issued: 11/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Matsushita, Yoshiteru, Sanpei, Seiichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ometz, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ghulamali, Qutbuddin
• Application Number:
  US11/587,580
• Publication Number:
  US 20070177683A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,771 Days
• Field of Search: 375/259, 375/260, 375/262, 375/267, 375/299, 375/220, 370/342, 370/329, 370/208, 370/498
• US Class Current: 375/268
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0003 by switching between different modulation schemes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2602 Signal structure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2647 Arrangements specific to the receiver only equalisation H04L27/01

Abstract

Improvement of transmission efficiency is sought by stopping transmission of unnecessary MLI data.

A transmitting circuit 111 in a base station apparatus 110 has an MLI modulation part 248 composed of an MLI generating circuit 238, a symbol modulation circuit 239, and an IFFT circuit 240, a user data modulation part 249 composed of an encoder circuit 234, a symbol modulation circuit 235, a transmission power control circuit 236, and an IFFT circuit 237, and a transmission operation control circuit 113. The transmission operation control circuit 113 controls operation timing of the MLI modulation part 248, the user datamodulationpart 249, and a multiplexer 243 based on a signal to notify that ACK input from a receiving circuit 112 has been received so that slots containing no MLI data are generated.

Claims

1. A mobile station apparatus in a communication system that applies an adaptive modulation level at which a base station apparatus transmits to the mobile station apparatus a slot that can transmit user data and modulation level information indicative of a modulation level of said user data, the mobile station apparatus comprising:

a receiving section configured to receive a plurality of slots, where each slot contains user data; and

a demodulation section configured to demodulate the user data based on modulation level information contained in the latest slot of the received slots containing modulation level information in case that the most recently received slot does not contain modulation level information.

2. A communication method of a mobile station apparatus in a communication system that applies an adaptive modulation level at which a base station apparatus transmits to the mobile station apparatus a slot that can transmit user data and modulation level information indicative of a modulation level of said user data, the communication method comprising:

receiving a plurality of slots, where each slot contains user data; and

demodulating the user data based on modulation level information contained in the latest slot of the received slots containing modulation level information in case that the most recently received slot does not contain modulation level information.

3. A mobile station apparatus in a communication system that applies an adaptive modulation level at which a base station apparatus transmits to the mobile station apparatus a slot that can transmit user data and modulation level information indicative of a modulation level of said user data, the mobile station apparatus comprising:

a receiving section configured to receive both a first slot containing user data and modulation level information and the receiving section configured to receive a second slot containing user data without modulation level information, wherein the second slot is received after the first slot; and

a demodulation section configured to demodulate the user data, received in the first slot, based on the modulation level information and the demodulation section configured to demodulate the user data, received in the second slot, based on modulation level information contained in the first slot in case that the second slot does not contain modulation level information.

4. A communication method of a mobile station apparatus in a communication system that applies an adaptive modulation level at which a base station apparatus transmits to the mobile station apparatus a slot that can transmit user data and modulation level information indicative of a modulation level of said user data, the communication method comprising:

receiving a first slot containing both user data and modulation level information;

demodulating the user data, received in the first slot, based on the modulation level information;

receiving a second slot containing user data without modulation level information, wherein the second slot is received after the first slot; and

demodulating the user data, received in the second slot, based on modulation level information contained in the first slot in case that the second slot does not contain modulation level information.