RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, BASE STATION, TERMINAL APPARATUS AND PILOT SIGNAL CONTROLLING METHOD

• US 20100150000A1
• Filed: 07/11/2007
• Published: 06/17/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Sakata, Ren
• Application Number:
  US11/816,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20100150000A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2613 Structure of the reference signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/26134 Pilot insertion in the transmitter chain, e.g. pilot overlapping with data, insertion in time or frequency domain
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0023 Time-frequency-space
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/325 Power control of control or pilot channels

Abstract

There is provided with a radio communication system in which a base station using a multicarrier transmission scheme as a transmission scheme and a terminal apparatus are wirelessly connected, wherein the base station includes: a data generator configured to generate first pilot signals for the terminal apparatus to measure channel quality, second pilot signals for the terminal apparatus to estimate a channel and data signals to be transmitted to the terminal apparatus; a transmission power controller configured to control transmission power of the second pilot signals and the data signals by adjusting amplitude of the second pilot signals and the data signals respectively; and a transmitter configured to generate subcarrier data by mapping the first pilot signals, the second pilot signals power-controlled by the transmission power controller and the data signals power-controlled by the transmission power controller to a plurality of subcarriers and transmit the subcarrier data generated.

Claims

1. A radio communication system in which a base station using a multicarrier transmission scheme as a transmission scheme and a terminal apparatus are wirelessly connected,

wherein the base station comprises:

a data generator configured to generate first pilot signals for the terminal apparatus to measure channel quality, second pilot signals for the terminal apparatus to estimate a channel and data signals to be transmitted to the terminal apparatus;

a transmission power controller configured to control transmission power of the second pilot signals and the data signals by adjusting amplitude of the second pilot signals and the data signals respectively; and

a transmitter configured to generate subcarrier data by mapping the first pilot signals, the second pilot signals power-controlled by the transmission power controller and the data signals power-controlled by the transmission power controller to a plurality of subcarriers and transmit the subcarrier data generated.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the transmitter maps at least one of the second pilot signals to a subcarrier arranged between subcarriers to which the first pilot signals are mapped.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal apparatus comprises:

a receiver configured to perform a Fourier transform on received signals obtained by an antenna and thereby acquire the first and second pilot signals and the data signals;

an amplitude measuring unit configured to measure the amplitude of the second pilot signals;

an amplitude adjuster configured to adjust the amplitude of the first pilot signals to same amplitude as that of the second pilot signals;

a channel estimator configured to estimate a channel using the first pilot signals whose amplitude is adjusted and the second pilot signals and thereby acquire a channel estimated value indicating a state of the channel; and

a demodulator configured to demodulate the data signals using the channel estimated value.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the terminal apparatus further comprises:

a channel quality measuring unit configured to measure reception power of the first pilot signals obtained by the receiver and thereby measure the channel quality; and

a feedback information generator configured to add information on the second pilot signals received by the receiver to information on the channel quality to thereby generate and transmit feedback information,

the base station further comprises a feedback information receiver configured to receive the feedback information from the terminal apparatus and extract information on the second pilot signals from the feedback information, and

the transmitter of the base station controls the number of the second pilot signals based on extracted information on the second pilot signals.

5. A radio communication system in which a base station using a multicarrier transmission scheme as a transmission scheme and a terminal apparatus each having a plurality of transmission antennas are wirelessly connected,

wherein the base station comprises:

a data generator configured to generate first pilot signals for the terminal apparatus to measure channel quality, second pilot signals for the terminal apparatus to estimate a channel and data signals to be transmitted to the terminal apparatus and divide the data signals into portions corresponding in number to the plurality of transmission antennas;

a transmission power controller configured to control transmission power of the second pilot signals and each divided data signals by adjusting the amplitude of the second pilot signals and each divided data signals respectively; and

a plurality of transmitters provided in correspondence with the respective transmission antennas configured to map the first or second pilot signals and the divided data signals to a plurality of subcarriers to generate subcarrier data in such a way that the first and second pilot signals are each transmitted from at least one of the transmission antennas and transmit generated subcarrier data from the respective transmission antennas.

6. A base station which is wirelessly connected to a terminal apparatus and uses a multicarrier transmission scheme as a transmission scheme, comprising:

a data generator configured to generate first pilot signals for the terminal apparatus to measure channel quality, second pilot signals for the terminal apparatus to estimate a channel and data signals to be transmitted to the terminal apparatus;

a transmission power controller configured to control transmission power of the second pilot signals and the data signals by adjusting amplitude of the second pilot signals and the data signals respectively; and

a transmitter configured to generate subcarrier data by mapping the first pilot signals, the second pilot signals power-controlled by the transmission power controller and the data signals power-controlled by the transmission power controller to a plurality of subcarriers and transmit the subcarrier data generated.

7. The base station according to claim 6, wherein the transmitter maps at least one of the second pilot signals to a subcarrier arranged between subcarriers to which the first pilot signals are mapped.

8. The base station according to claim 6, further comprising a feedback information receiver configured to receive feedback information including information on the second pilot signals from the terminal apparatus and extract the information on the second pilot signals from the feedback information,

wherein the transmitter controls the number of the second pilot signals based on extracted information on the second pilot signals.

9. A terminal apparatus wirelessly connected to a base station using a multicarrier transmission scheme as a transmission scheme, comprising:

a receiver configured to perform a Fourier transform on received signals obtained by an antenna and thereby acquire first pilot signals for measuring channel quality and second pilot signals for estimating a channel and data signals;

an amplitude measuring unit configured to measure amplitude of the second pilot signals;

an amplitude adjuster configured to adjust the amplitude of the first pilot signals to same amplitude as that of the second pilot signals;

a channel estimator configured to estimate a channel using the first pilot signals whose amplitude is adjusted and the second pilot signals and thereby acquire a channel estimated value indicating a state of the channel; and

a demodulator configured to demodulate the data signals using the channel estimated value.

10. The terminal apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising:

a channel quality measuring unit configured to measure reception power of the first pilot signals obtained by the receiver and thereby measure the channel quality; and

a feedback information generator configured to add information on the second pilot signals received by the receiver to information on the channel quality to thereby generate and transmit feedback information.

11. A base station having a plurality of transmission antennas which is wirelessly connected to a terminal apparatus and uses a multicarrier transmission scheme as a transmission scheme, comprising:

a data generator configured to generate first pilot signals for the terminal apparatus to measure channel quality, second pilot signals for the terminal apparatus to estimate a channel and data signals to be transmitted to the terminal apparatus and divide the data signals into portions corresponding in number to the plurality of transmission antennas;

a transmission power controller configured to control transmission power of the second pilot signals and each divided data signals by adjusting the amplitude of the second pilot signals and each divided data signals respectively; and

a plurality of transmitters provided in correspondence with the respective transmission antennas configured to map the first or second pilot signals and the divided data signals to a plurality of subcarriers to generate subcarrier data in such a way that the first and second pilot signals are each transmitted from at least one of the transmission antennas and transmit generated subcarrier data from the respective transmission antennas.

12. A pilot signal controlling method of a radio communication system in which a base station using a multicarrier transmission scheme as a transmission scheme and a terminal apparatus are wirelessly connected, comprising:

generating by the base station first pilot signals for the terminal apparatus to measure channel quality, second pilot signals for the terminal apparatus to estimate a channel and data signals to be transmitted to the terminal apparatus;

controlling by the base station transmission power of the second pilot signals and the data signals by adjusting amplitude of the second pilot signals and the data signals respectively; and

generating by the base station subcarrier data by mapping the first pilot signals, the second pilot signals power-controlled and the data signals power-controlled to a plurality of subcarriers and transmitting by the base station the subcarrier data generated.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the generating by the base station subcarrier data includes mapping at least one of the second pilot signals to a subcarrier arranged between subcarriers to which the first pilot signals are mapped.

14. The method according to claim 12, further comprising:

performing by the terminal apparatus a Fourier transform on received signals obtained by an antenna and thereby acquiring first pilot signals for measuring channel quality and second pilot signals for estimating a channel and data signals;

measuring by the terminal apparatus amplitude of the second pilot signals;

adjusting by the terminal apparatus adjust the amplitude of the first pilot signals to same amplitude as that of the second pilot signals;

estimating by the terminal apparatus a channel using the first pilot signals whose amplitude is adjusted and the second pilot signals and thereby acquire a channel estimated value indicating a state of the channel; and

demodulating by the terminal apparatus the data signals using the channel estimated value.

15. The method according to claim 14, further comprising:

measuring by the terminal apparatus reception power of the first pilot signals and thereby measuring the channel quality;

adding by the terminal apparatus information on the second pilot signals to information on the channel quality to thereby generate and transmit feedback information; and

receiving by the base station the feedback information from the terminal apparatus and extracting the information on the second pilot signals from the feedback information,

wherein the generating by the base station subcarrier data includes controls the number of the second pilot signals based on extracted information on the second pilot signals.