Radio communication method, radio communication system, and radio transmission apparatus

• US 8,654,751 B2
• Filed: 04/26/2012
• Issued: 02/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hamaguchi, Yasuhiro, Kubota, Minoru, Namba, Hideo, Toh, Shimpei, Yokomakura, Kazunari
• Primary Examiner(s): WONG, XAVIER S
• Application Number:
  US13/457,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20120213054A1
• Time in Patent Office: 663 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/343
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/692 Hybrid techniques using combinations of two or more spread spectrum techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/707 using direct sequence modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2201/70706 with means for reducing the peak-to-average power ratio
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/15 Active relay systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/0044 OVSF [orthogonal variable spreading factor]
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/20 having an orthogonal variable spreading factor [OVSF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2615 Reduction thereof using coding
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0021 in which codes are applied as a frequency-domain sequences, e.g. MC-CDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/026 using code division
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames

Abstract

A transmission apparatus according to the present invention includes: an encoding section; a modulation section; a variable-SF spreading section that performs spreading with variable SF according to control information A from a control section; an IDFT section that performs IDFT on output from the spreading section; a GI inserting section; a parallel/serial conversion section that converts output from the GI inserting section into a serial data sequence; a digital/analog conversion section; and an RF section that transmits a signal from an antenna after converting the signal to a frequency band for analog signal transmission and controlling it to an appropriate transmission power. The control section is configured to generate control information A for determining the variable SF and input the information A to the variable-SF spreading section and the RF section. In control information A, SF is varied depending on transmission power required.

Claims

1. A transmission apparatus comprising:

a spreading section configured to spread transmission data by discrete Fourier transform to generate a first multi-carrier signal in each of a plurality of frequency channels;

a data selection section configured to select, based on control information, one of the first multi-carrier signal and a second multi-carrier signal that is not spread by the spreading section;

a sub-carrier allocation section configured to allocate the first multi-carrier signal to a plurality of sub-carriers using one of a first manner and a second manner in each of the plurality of frequency channels which the first manner being a manner for non-continuously allocating the plurality of sub-carriers in at least a first group and a second group where the first group includes a first portion of the plurality of sub-carriers continuously allocated to form the first group and where the second group includes a second portion of the plurality of sub-carriers continuously allocated to form the second group, and the second manner being a manner for allocating the plurality of sub-carriers continuous to form a single group of sub-carriers, in a case that the data selection section selected the first multi-carrier signal; and

an Radio Frequency (RF) section configured to transmit the first multi-carrier signal simultaneously from each of the plurality of frequency channels.

2. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the spreading section is configured to differ, for each of the plurality of frequency channels, the number of sub-carriers to be used for spreading the transmission data.

3. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a control section configured to control a limit of a power for transmitting the one of the first and second multi-carrier signals.

4. The transmission apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said spreading of the spreading section, said selecting of the data selection section, said transmitting of the RF section, and said controlling of the control section are performed based on each of the plurality of frequency channels.

5. A transmission method for a transmission apparatus, comprising:

spreading transmission data by discrete Fourier transform to generate a first multi-carrier signal in each of a plurality of frequency channels;

selecting, based on control information, one of the first multi-carrier signal and a second multi-carrier signal that is not spread;

allocating the first multi-carrier signal to a plurality of sub-carriers using one of a first manner and a second manner in each of the plurality of frequency channels which the first manner being a manner for non-continuously allocating the plurality of sub-carriers in at least a first group and a second group where the first group includes a first portion of the plurality of sub-carriers continuously allocated to form the first group and where the second group includes a second portion of the plurality of sub-carriers continuously allocated to form the second group, and the second manner being a manner for allocating the plurality of sub-carriers continuous to form a single group of sub-carriers, in a case of selecting the first multi-carrier signal; and

transmitting the first multi-carrier signal simultaneously from each of the plurality of frequency channels.

6. The transmission method according to claim 5, wherein spreading the transmission data comprises differing, for each of the plurality of frequency channels, the number of sub-carriers to be used for spreading the transmission data.

7. The transmission method according to claim 5, further comprising:

controlling a limit of a power for transmitting the one of the first and second multi-carrier signals.

8. The transmission method according to claim 7, wherein said spreading, said selecting, said transmitting, and said controlling are performed based on each of the plurality of frequency channels.

9. A processor comprising:

a control section configured to perform control of simultaneously transmit, from each of a plurality of frequency channels, a first multi-carrier signal which is allocated to a plurality of sub-carriers using one of a first manner and a second manner in each of the plurality of frequency channels which the first manner being a manner for non-continuously allocating the plurality of sub-carriers in at least a first group and a second group where the first group includes a first portion of the plurality of sub-carriers continuously allocated to form the first group and where the second group includes a second portion of the plurality of sub-carriers continuously allocated to form the second group, and the second manner being a manner for allocating the plurality of sub-carriers continuous to form a single group of sub-carriers, in a case of selecting the first multi-carrier signal as one of a first multi-carrier signal and the second multi-carrier signal, the first multi-carrier signal being generated by spreading transmission data by discrete Fourier transform in each of the plurality of frequency channels, and the second multi-carrier signal being not subjected to spreading.

10. The processor according to claim 9, wherein the control section is configured to perform control of differing, for each of the plurality of frequency channels, the number of sub-carriers to be used for spreading the transmission data.

11. The processor according to claim 9, wherein the control section is configured to control a limit of a power for transmitting the one of the first and second multi-carrier signals.

12. A processor comprising:

a sub-carrier allocation section configured to allocate, to a plurality of sub-carriers, one of first and second multi-carrier signals which is selected based on control information, the first multi-carrier signal being generated by spreading transmission data by discrete Fourier transform in each of a plurality of frequency channels, and the second multi-carrier signal being not subjected to spreading,

wherein if the first multi-carrier signal is selected, the sub-carrier allocation section is configured to allocate the first multi-carrier signal using anyone of first and second manners in each of the plurality of frequency channels, the first manner being a manner for non-continuously allocating the plurality of sub-carriers in at least a first group and a second group where the first group includes a first portion of the plurality of sub-carriers continuously allocated to form the first group and where the second group includes a second portion of the plurality of sub-carriers continuously allocated to form the second group, and the second manner being a manner for allocating the plurality of sub-carriers continuous to form a single group of sub-carriers.