Communication method and radio transmitter

• US 8,855,077 B2
• Filed: 06/12/2013
• Issued: 10/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2004
• 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: Hamaguchi, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Kizou, Hassan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ahmed, Abdullahi
• Application Number:
  US13/915,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20130272248A1
• Time in Patent Office: 482 Days
• Field of Search: 370/329
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2626 Arrangements specific to the transmitter only
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2627 Modulators
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2647 Arrangements specific to the receiver only equalisation H04L27/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/26524 Fast Fourier transform [FFT] or discrete Fourier transform [DFT] demodulators in combination with other circuits for demodulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0039 Frequency-contiguous, i.e. with no allocation of frequencies for one user or terminal between the frequencies allocated to another
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0044 allocation of payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/023 Multiplexing of multicarrier modulation signals multicarrier modulation H04L27/2601
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0473 the resource being transmission power
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

Radio transmission is performed even to a communication party whose bandwidth that can be used for transmission and reception is limited without having an influence of an offset of a DC component. A radio transmitter applied to an OFDMA communication system in which a plurality of different terminals performs communication using OFDM signals at the same time that includes a mapping part that allocates transmission power to each subcarrier, and also selects a subcarrier to which minimum power of the transmission power to be allocated is allocated and modulates transmission data in units of communication slots to output the modulated data; and a transmission part for transmitting radio signals including the modulated data using each of the subcarriers.

Claims

1. A first communication apparatus configured to transmit OFDM signals, each of the OFDM signals comprising a first period and a second period, the first communication apparatus comprising:

a transmitting circuit configured for transmitting the OFDM signals to a second communication apparatus by using a plurality of subcarriers allocated among a number M of contiguous frequency channels that can be used simultaneously by the second communication apparatus, wherein the number M is an even number greater than or equal to two and does not exceed the number of frequency channels that can be simultaneously used by the first communication apparatus; and

a processing circuit configured for;

allocating data for transmission during the first period to a first subset of subcarriers of the plurality of subcarriers without allocating data to each of respective subcarriers positioned in respective centers of the number M of the contiguous frequency channels,

allocating data for transmission during the second period to a second subset of subcarriers of the plurality of subcarriers without allocating data to at least a subcarrier positioned in a center of a frequency band of the number M of the contiguous frequency channels for the second period, the second subset of carriers comprising the respective subcarriers positioned in respective centers of the number M of the contiguous frequency channels.

2. The first communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data for transmission in the first period to be allocated to the first subset of subcarriers of the plurality of subcarriers that are allocated among the number M of the contiguous frequency channels comprises data representing control information.

3. The first communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control information comprises information about the second period and indirectly indicating positions of subcarriers to which data is not allocated, wherein the positions of the plurality of subcarriers are known mutually between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus based on the information indirectly indicating the subcarrier positions to which data is not allocated.

4. The first communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the information indirectly indicating the subcarrier positions to which data is not allocated includes information indicating a frequency bandwidth of the OFDM signals for the second period.

5. The first communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting circuit is further configured for:

converting a digital signal represented by the plurality of subcarriers to an analog signal; and

converting the analog signal to a radio frequency signal based on a center frequency of the frequency band of the number M of the contiguous frequency channels.

6. The first communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each frequency channel of the number M of the contiguous frequency channels has a bandwidth of 20 MHZ and comprises 64 subcarriers.

7. The first communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a number of frequency channels for transmitting the OFDM signals is determined by the first communication apparatus for each frame.

8. A method for transmitting OFDM signals by a first communication apparatus, each of the OFDM signals comprising a first period and a second period, the method comprising:

transmitting the OFDM signals from the first communication apparatus to a second communication apparatus by using a plurality of subcarriers allocated among a number M of contiguous frequency channels that can be used simultaneously by the second communication apparatus, wherein the number M is an even number greater than or equal to two and does not exceed the number of frequency channels that can be simultaneously used by the first communication apparatus;

allocating data for transmission during the first period to a first subset of subcarriers of the plurality of subcarriers without allocating data to each of respective subcarriers positioned in respective centers of the number M of the contiguous frequency channels;

allocating data for transmission during the second period to a second subset of subcarriers of the plurality of subcarriers without allocating data to at least a subcarrier positioned in a center of a frequency band of the number M of the contiguous frequency channels for the second period, the second subset of carriers comprising the respective subcarriers positioned in respective centers of the number M of the contiguous frequency channels.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the data for transmission in the first period to be allocated to the first subset of subcarriers of the plurality of subcarriers that are allocated among the number M of the contiguous frequency channels comprises data representing control information.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the control information comprises information about the second period and indirectly indicating positions of subcarriers to which data is not allocated, wherein the positions of the plurality of subcarriers are known mutually between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus based on the information indirectly indicating the subcarrier positions to which data is not allocated.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the information indirectly indicating the subcarrier positions to which data is not allocated includes information indicating a frequency bandwidth of the OFDM signals for the second period.

12. The method according to claim 8, further comprising converting a digital signal represented by the plurality of subcarriers to an analog signal and converting the analog signal to a radio frequency signal based on a center frequency of the frequency band of the number M of the contiguous frequency channels.

13. The method according to claim 8, wherein each frequency channel of the number M of the contiguous frequency channels has a bandwidth of 20 MHZ and comprises 64 subcarriers.

14. The method according to claim 8, wherein a number of frequency channels for transmitting the OFDM signals is determined by the first communication apparatus for each frame.