Wireless communication apparatus and method

• US 8,879,434 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2012
• Issued: 11/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Aoki, Tsuguhide, Tanabe, Yasuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Jay P
• Application Number:
  US13/729,624
• Publication Number:
  US 20130250872A1
• Time in Patent Office: 676 Days
• Field of Search: 370/278, 370/282
• US Class Current: 370/278
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/00 Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field H04B10/00, H04B15/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/04 using two or more spaced independent antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0027 Scheduling of signalling, e.g. occurrence thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1671 the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/28 characterised by path configuration, e.g. LAN [Local Area Networks] or WAN [Wide Area Networks] wireless communication networks H04W ; arrangements for dividing the transmission path H04W40/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/24 using SIR [Signal to Interference Ratio] or other wireless path parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/265 taking into account the quality of service QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a wireless communication apparatus includes a calculator and a controller. The calculator multiplies a first weighting factor by a first data signal to be transmitted on a first channel, the first weighting factor is based on a second weighting factor multiplied by a second data signal received on the first channel. The controller controls a transmission to transmit to a destination device a control signal if the first data signal transmitted to the partner device exists, and no second data signal to be transmitted on the first channel exists in the device.

Claims

1. A wireless communication apparatus comprising:

a calculator configured to multiply a first weighting factor by a first data signal to be transmitted on a first channel, the first weighting factor being based on a second weighting factor multiplied by a second data signal received on the first channel; and

a controller configured to control a transmission to transmit to a destination device a control signal if the first data signal transmitted to the destination device exists, and no second data signal to be transmitted on the first channel exists in the destination device, the control signal including an instruction to transmit a signal on the first channel without transmitting a transmission acknowledge signal relating to the first data signal on a second channel which is different from the first channel.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller controls a transmission to transmit to the destination device the control signal further including an instruction to transmit an indicator regarding channel quality on the first channel in a subframe.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first channel and the second channel are different in frequency.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller divides a service area associated with the wireless communication apparatus into a first region in which interference is not more than a threshold and a second region in which the interference is greater than the threshold, and controls a transmission to transmit the control signal to the destination device existing within the second region.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller instructs the destination device to transmit a signal on the first channel only in a subframe of a receiving segment arranged immediately before a subframe of a transmitting segment if a plurality of subframes of the receiving segment used for data reception are arranged prior to the subframe of the transmitting segment used for data transmission.

6. A wireless communication apparatus comprising:

a plurality of antennas;

a low noise amplifier configured to amplify a received signal received by the plurality of antennas;

a first filter configured to extract a received signal allocated to a first channel from the received signal;

a first mixer configured to multiply the received signal by a local signal and to generate a baseband received signal;

a first gain amplifier configured to amplify the baseband received signal;

a first convertor configured to perform analog-to-digital conversion relative to the baseband received signal to obtain a digital received signal;

a first signal processor configured to obtain a first bit sequence by performing signal processing to the digital received signal in receiving processing, and to obtain a digital transmission signal by performing signal processing to a second bit sequence in transmission processing;

a second signal processor configured to perform processing for transmitting the first bit sequence to an external network;

a second convertor configured to perform digital-to-analog conversion to the second bit sequence to obtain a baseband transmission signal;

a second gain amplifier configured to amplify the baseband transmission signal;

a second mixer configured to multiply the baseband transmission signal by the local signal to obtain a transmission signal;

a second filter configured to extract a transmission signal allocated to the first channel from the transmission signal; and

a power amplifier configured to amplify the extracted transmission signal,

wherein the first signal processor is configured to multiply a first weighting factor by a first data signal to be transmitted on a first channel, the first weighting factor being based on a second weighting factor multiplied by a second data signal received on the first channel, and further configured to control a transmission to transmit to a destination device a control signal if the first data signal transmitted to the destination device exists, and no second data signal to be transmitted on the first channel exists in the destination device, the control signal including an instruction to transmit a signal on the first channel without transmitting a transmission acknowledge signal relating to the first data signal on a second channel which is different from the first channel.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the first signal processor controls a transmission to transmit to the destination device the control signal further including an instruction to transmit an indicator regarding channel quality on the first channel in a subframe.

8. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the first channel and the second channel are different in frequency.

9. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the first signal processor divides a service area associated with the wireless communication apparatus into a first region in which interference is not more than a threshold and a second region in which the interference is greater than the threshold, and controls a transmission to transmit the control signal to the destination device existing within the second region.

10. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the first signal processor instructs the destination device to transmit a signal on the first channel only in a subframe of a receiving segment arranged immediately before a subframe of a transmitting segment if a plurality of subframes of the receiving segment used for data reception are arranged prior to the subframe of the transmitting segment used for data transmission.

11. A wireless communication method comprising:

multiplying a first weighting factor by a first data signal to be transmitted on a first channel, the first weighting factor being based on a second weighting factor multiplied by a second data signal received on the first channel; and

controlling a transmission to transmit to a destination device a control signal if the first data signal transmitted to the destination device exists, and no second data signal to be transmitted on the first channel exists in the destination device, the control signal including an instruction to transmit a signal on the first channel without transmitting a transmission acknowledge signal relating to the first data signal on a second channel which is different from the first channel.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the controlling the transmission controls a transmission to transmit to the destination device the control signal further including an instruction to transmit an indicator regarding channel quality on the first channel in a subframe.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the first channel and the second channel are different in frequency.

14. The method according to claim 11, wherein the controlling the transmission divides a service area associated with the wireless communication apparatus into a first region in which interference is not more than a threshold and a second region in which the interference is greater than the threshold, and controls a transmission to transmit the control signal to the destination device existing within the second region.

15. The method according to claim 11, wherein the controlling the transmission instructs the destination device to transmit a signal on the first channel only in a subframe of a receiving segment arranged immediately before a subframe of a transmitting segment if a plurality of subframes of the receiving segment used for data reception are arranged prior to the subframe of the transmitting segment used for data transmission.