Base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus, distributed antenna wireless communications system, pilot channel generation method, synchronization channel generation method, and antenna selection method

• US 9,049,601 B2
• Filed: 09/01/2008
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2007
• 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: Oh, Wahoh
• Primary Examiner(s): LY, ANH VU H
• Application Number:
  US12/676,483
• Publication Number:
  US 20100208656A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,465 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/004 Orthogonal
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/18 Allocation of orthogonal codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0051 of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/12 Fixed resource partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/085 Access point devices with remote components

Abstract

The present invention is to provide base station apparatuses and mobile station apparatuses suitable for a configuration of a distributed wireless communications system, configure the distributed wireless communications system, and provide a pilot channel generation method and synchronization generation method suitable for the distributed wireless communications system. Provided are a control signal generating section 13 which generates a plurality of mutually different first pilot signals and a second pilot signal based on control data input from the core network apparatus CN constituting the distributed wireless communications system, combines the first pilot signals and the second pilot signal, and thereby generates specific pilot channels for each of radio access unit apparatuses, and a transmitting section 10 that transmits the specific pilot channels respectively to the radio access unit apparatuses.

Claims

1. A base station apparatus that is applied to a wireless communications system and that is configured to connect at least two radio access unit apparatuses which respectively include at least one antenna and at least one signal conversion apparatus for performing radio communications with mobile station apparatuses, the base station apparatus comprising:

a control signal generating circuit configured to generate at least two different first pilot signals for the radio access unit apparatuses belonging to the base station apparatus and a second pilot signal common to all of the radio access unit apparatuses belonging to the base station apparatus, and generate baseband signals including any one of the first pilot signals and the second pilot signal respectively for the respective radio access unit apparatuses; and

a transmitting circuit configured to transmit the baseband signals respectively to the respective radio access unit apparatuses.

2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control signal generating circuit configured to time-multiplex, frequency-multiplex, or code-multiplex the first pilot signals and the second pilot signal among the at least one radio access unit apparatuses, and thereby generate the baseband signals.

3. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control signal generating circuit configured to associate a base station apparatus number with a code number of a second synchronization signal part, of first and second synchronization signal parts generated for a synchronization signal.

4. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control signal generating circuit configured to associate a radio access unit apparatus number with a code number of a first synchronization signal part, of first and second synchronization signal parts generated for a synchronization signal.

5. The base station apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the control signal generating circuit configured to associate a radio access unit apparatus number with a code number of a first synchronization signal part, of first and second synchronization signal parts generated for a synchronization signal.

6. A mobile station apparatus that is applied to a wireless communications system and that is configured to perform radio communications with at least one radio access unit apparatus that connects a base station apparatus and includes at least one antenna and at least one signal conversion apparatus for performing radio communications with mobile station apparatuses, the mobile station apparatus comprising:

a receiving circuit configured to receive at least one radio signal transmitted from the radio access unit apparatus, wherein

the radio signal transmitted from the radio access unit apparatus includes a first pilot signal and a second pilot signal, and

the first pilot signal is different from another first pilot signal transmitted from another radio access unit apparatus and the second pilot signal is common to the radio access unit apparatus and said another radio access unit apparatus; and

a control signal extracting circuit configured to extract the first pilot signal and the second pilot signal transmitted from the radio access unit apparatus;

a channel quality indicator measuring circuit configured to measure a channel quality indicator depending on the first pilot signal and the second pilot signal transmitted from the radio access unit apparatus; and

a transmitting circuit configured to transmit the channel quality indicator to the base station apparatus through the radio access unit apparatus or through said another radio access unit apparatus.

7. A radio communications system comprising:

at least two radio access unit apparatuses, wherein

either one of the two radio access unit apparatuses includes at least one of antenna configured to transmit a radio signal including a first pilot signal and a second pilot signal to a mobile station apparatus, and at least one of signal conversion apparatus configured to perform radio communications with at least one base station apparatus;

the other one of the two radio access unit apparatuses includes at least one antenna configured to transmit a radio signal including a first pilot signal that is different from the first pilot signal transmitted from the one of the two radio access unit apparatuses and the second pilot signal that is common to both of the two radio access unit apparatuses, and at least one signal conversion apparatus configured to perform communications with at least one base station apparatus; and

a base station apparatus configured to communicate with at least two radio access unit apparatuses, the base station including;

a control signal generating circuit configured to generate baseband signals respectively for the respective radio access unit apparatuses; and

a transmitting circuit configured to transmit the baseband signals respectively to the respective radio access unit apparatuses.

8. A baseband signal generation method applied to a base station, the baseband signal generation method comprising:

generating at least two different first pilot signals for the radio access unit apparatuses which includes at least one of antenna and at least one of signal conversion apparatus and belonging to a base station apparatus, and a second pilot signal common to all the radio access unit apparatuses belonging to the base station apparatus, the respective radio access unit apparatuses configured to perform radio communications with mobile station apparatuses;

generating baseband signals including any one of the first pilot signals and the second pilot signal respectively for the respective radio access unit apparatuses; and

transmitting the baseband signals respectively to the respective radio access unit apparatuses.

9. The baseband signal generation method applied to a base station according to claim 8,

wherein the method time-multiplexes, frequency-multiplexes, or code-multiplexes the first pilot signals and the second pilot signal among the radio access unit apparatuses.

10. An antenna selection method in a mobile station apparatus that is applied to a wireless communications system and that performs radio communications with a radio access unit apparatus, the antenna selection method comprising:

receiving a radio signal transmitted from the radio access unit apparatus;

extracting a synchronization channel and a baseband signal from the received radio signal;

detecting a base station apparatus number from a code number of a second synchronization signal part in the extracted synchronization signal;

detecting a number of the radio access unit apparatus from a code number of a first pilot signal in the extracted baseband signal, or of a first synchronization signal part in the extracted synchronization signal; and

identifying an antenna number of the radio access unit apparatus based on the detected radio access unit apparatus number and the detected base station apparatus number.