Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method

• US 9,036,577 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2011
• Issued: 05/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Horiuchi, Ayako, Nakao, Seigo, Hoshino, Masayuki, Imamura, Daichi, Nishio, Akihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Jaroenchonwanit, Bunjob
• Application Number:
  US13/702,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20130077560A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,434 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0007 by modifying the frame length
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0046 Code rate detection or code type detection H04L1/0038 takes precedence; detection of the data rate H04L25/0262; for packet format H04L1/0091
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0072 Error control for data other than payload data, e.g. control data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0097 Relays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0226 sounding signals per se
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0051 of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/044 based on the type of the allocated resource
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/54 based on quality criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/047 using dedicated repeater stations

Abstract

To improve the channel estimation accuracy of “DL grant” that instructs data allocation of a downlink of R-PDCCH. A wireless communication apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes a receiver that is configured to receive a control signal, and a blind decoder that is configured to perform a blind decoding of a plurality of adjacent physical, resource blocks (PRBs) in which the same preceding is used in a unit of an RB group (RBG) that is composed of the plurality of PRBs, and to detect a resource area to which a control signal for the wireless communication apparatus that is included in the control signal is allocated.

Claims

1. A wireless communication apparatus, comprising:

a receiver that is configured to receive a control signal; and

a blind decoder that is configured to perform a blind decoding of a plurality of adjacent physical resource blocks (PRBs) in which the same precoding is used in a unit of an RB group (RBG) that is composed of a plurality of PRBs, wherein the adjacent PRBs on which the blind decoding is performed are determined according to an aggregation size of the corresponding RBG unit, and to detect a resource area to which a control signal for the wireless communication apparatus that is included in the control signal is allocated.

2. The wireless communication device according to claim 1, wherein

the blind decoder performs the blind decoding of the plurality of adjacent physical resource blocks (PRBs) on which VRB is mapped in the unit of the RB group (RBG) that is composed of the plurality of PRBs and in which the same precoding is used in the unit of the RBG, and detects the resource area to which the control signal for the wireless communication apparatus that is included in the control signal is allocated.

13. A wireless communication relay station apparatus comprising the wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1.

3. A wireless communication apparatus, comprising:

a search space determiner that is configured to determine a search space in a unit of an RB group (RBG) that is composed of a plurality of physical resource blocks (PRBs);

an aggregation size determiner that is configured to determine an aggregation size of a control signal for a communication partner apparatus based on a channel quality between the wireless communication apparatus and the communication partner apparatus;

an allocator that is configured to allocate the control signal for the communication partner apparatus to a plurality of adjacent PRBs in which the same precoding is used among the plurality of PRBs included in the search space, based on the determined aggregation size and the channel quality, wherein the adjacent PRBs are determined according to the aggregation size of the corresponding RBG unit; and

a transmitter that is configured to transmit the allocated control signal for the communication partner apparatus.

4. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

when the search space determiner determines the search space in a unit of an RBG that is composed of three PRBs, and the aggregation size determiner determines the aggregation size as 2,

the allocator allocates the control signal for the communication partner apparatus to two upper PRBs of the three PRBs in an RBG having an RBG number being 2n, where n is 0 or a positive integer, in the determined search space and allocates the control signal for the communication partner apparatus to two lower PRBs of the three PRBs in an RBG having an RBG number being 2n+1 in the determined search space.

5. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

when the search space determiner determines a first search space that is composed of RBGs having an RBG number being 2n, where n is 0 or a positive integer, and having an RBG number being 2n+1, or a second search space that is composed of RBGs having an RBG number being 2n+1 and 2n+2, wherein the first space or the second space is designated in a unit of an RBG that is composed of three RBGs, and the aggregation size determiner determines the aggregation size as 4,

the allocator allocates the control signal for the communication partner apparatus to two upper PRBs of the three PRBs in an RBG having an RBG number being 2n, and allocates the control signal for the communication partner apparatus to two lower PRBs of the three PRBs in an RBG having an RBG number being 2n+1, in the determined first search space, and

the allocator allocates the control signal for the communication partner apparatus to two lower PRBs of the three PRBs in an RBG having an RBG number being 2n+1, and allocates the control signal for the communication partner apparatus to two upper PRBs of the three PRBs in an RBG having an RBG number being 2n+2, in the determined second search space.

6. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

when the search space determiner determines the search space in a unit of an RBG that is composed of three PRBs, and the aggregation size determiner determines the aggregation size as 1,

the allocator allocates the control signal for the communication partner apparatus to a center PRB of the three PRBs in the determined search space.

7. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

when the search space determiner determines the search space in a unit of an RBG that is composed of four PRBs, and the aggregation size determiner determines the aggregation size as 2,

the allocator allocates the control signal for the communication partner apparatus to two upper PRBs or two lower PRBs of the four PRBs in the determined search space.

8. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

when the search space determiner determines the search space in a unit of an RBG that is composed of three PRBs, and the aggregation size determiner determines the aggregation size as 4,

the allocator allocates the control signal for the communication partner apparatus to two PRBs having an RBG number being n, where n is 0 or a positive integer, and to two PRBs having an RBG number being n+1, in the determined search space.

9. The wireless communication device according to claim 3, wherein

the allocator allocates the control signal for the communication partner apparatus to the plurality of adjacent PRBs in which the same precoding is used among the plurality of PRBs on which VRB is mapped in the unit of the RBG and which are included in the search space, based on the determined aggregation size and the channel quality.

12. A wireless communication base station apparatus comprising the wireless communication apparatus according to claim 3.

10. A wireless communication method, comprising:

receiving a control signal; and

performing a blind decoding, as a search space, of a plurality of adjacent physical resource blocks (PRBs) in which the same precoding is used in a unit of RB group (RBG) that is composed of a plurality of PRBs, wherein the adjacent PRBs on which the blind decoding is performed are determined according to an aggregation size of the corresponding RBG unit, and detecting a resource area to which a control signal for an own apparatus that is included in the control signal is allocated.

11. A wireless communication method, comprising:

determining a search space in a unit of an RB group (RBG) that is composed of a plurality of physical resource blocks (PRBs);

determining an aggregation size of a control signal for a communication partner apparatus based on a channel quality between an own apparatus and the communication partner apparatus;

allocating the control signal for the communication partner apparatus to a plurality of adjacent PRBs in which the same precoding is used among the plurality of PRBs included in the search space based on the determined aggregation size and the channel quality, wherein the adjacent PRBs are determined according to the aggregation size of the corresponding RBG unit; and

transmitting the allocated control signal for the communication partner apparatus.