Wireless relay apparatus, wireless receiving apparatus, and decoding method

• US 9,385,836 B2
• Filed: 11/26/2014
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Tadashi, Aoki, Tsuguhide, Tanabe, Yasuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): BRITT, CYNTHIA H
• Application Number:
  US14/554,204
• Publication Number:
  US 20150082114A1
• Time in Patent Office: 587 Days
• Field of Search: 714/776, 714/794
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/2792 Interleaver wherein interleaving is performed jointly with another technique such as puncturing, multiplexing or routing
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 13/2957 Turbo codes and decoding
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/155 Ground-based stations H04B7/204 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0045 Arrangements at the receiver end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/005 Iterative decoding, including iteration between signal detection and decoding operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0097 Relays

Abstract

In one embodiment, a wireless relay apparatus for replaying a signal processed by first encoding from a transmitting apparatus to a receiving apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a demodulation unit, a decoding unit, a detection unit, an extraction unit, and an encoding unit. The demodulation unit demodulates a received signal. The decoding unit performs error correction decoding corresponding to the first encoding on the demodulated signal. The detection unit detects an error in a decoded signal. The extraction unit extracts a portion pertaining to information data from the demodulated signal by hard decision, if the detection unit detects an error. The encoding unit performs error correcting coding on the extracted portion pertaining to the information data with an error. The information data encoded by the encoding unit is transmitted.

Claims

1. A wireless apparatus comprising:

a first decoder to perform a first decoding process of calculating a first a posteriori value using a first a priori value and a first frame transmitted from a first apparatus, and output a hard decision value of the first a posteriori value and a first external value;

a second decoder to perform a second decoding process of calculating a second a posteriori value using a second a priori value and a second frame transmitted from a second apparatus, and output a hard decision value of the second a posteriori value and a second external value, the second apparatus having received the first frame, the second frame containing re-encoded data of the first frame containing an error;

an error rate estimator to estimate an error rate of one of the first frame or the second frame;

a first a priori value calculator to calculate the second a priori value by correcting the first external value based on the error rate; and

a second a priori value calculator to calculate the first a priori value by correcting the second external value based on the error rate.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an interleaver to perform a first interleaving process on the first external value,

wherein the first a priori value calculator calculates the second a priori value by correcting the first external value having undergone the first interleaving process, based on the error rate of one of the first frame or the second frame,

further comprising a deinterleaver to perform, on the second external value, a deinterleaving process of performing rearrangement in an order opposite to that of the first interleaving process, and

wherein the second a priori value calculator calculates the first a priori value by correcting the second external value having undergone the deinterleaving process, based on the error rate.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the second frame has undergone a second interleaving process of performing the same rearrangement as that of the first interleaving process.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the error rate estimator estimates the error rate which changes from one bit to another using the second external value.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the error rate is an error rate of the first frame notified from the second apparatus.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an antenna.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the error estimator estimates the error rate from a communication quality transmitted from the first apparatus.

8. A method of a wireless apparatus comprising:

performing a first decoding process of calculating a first a posteriori value using a first a priori value and a first a first frame transmitted from a first apparatus, and outputting a hard decision value of the first a posteriori value and a first external value;

performing a second decoding process of calculating a second a posteriori value using a second a priori value and a second frame transmitted from a second apparatus, and outputting a hard decision value of the second a posteriori value and a second external value, the second apparatus having received the first frame, the second frame containing re-encoded data of the first frame containing an error;

estimating an error rate of one of the first frame or the second frame;

calculating the second a priori value by correcting the first external value based on the error rate; and

calculating the first a priori value by correcting the second external value based on the error rate.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising performing a first interleaving process on the first external value,

wherein the calculating the second a priori value calculates the second a priori value by correcting the first external value having undergone the first interleaving process, based on the error rate of one of the first frame or the second frame,

further comprising performing, on the second external value, a deinterleaving process of performing rearrangement in an order opposite to that of the first interleaving process, and

wherein the calculating the first a priori value calculates the first a priori value by correcting the second external value having undergone the deinterleaving process, based on the error rate.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the second frame has undergone a second interleaving process of performing the same rearrangement as that of the first interleaving process.

11. The method according to claim 8, further comprising estimating the error rate which changes from one bit to another using the second external value.

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein the error rate is an error rate of the first frame notified from the second apparatus.

13. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the step of estimating the error rate comprises estimating the error rate from a communication quality transmitted from the first apparatus.