Radio communication system

• US 6,031,828 A
• Filed: 04/10/1997
• Issued: 02/29/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited, TOHO Electronics Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited, TOHO Electronics Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Koro, Kenji, Takayanagi, Tatsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Chau
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHUONGCHAU BA
• Application Number:
  US08/838,590
• Time in Patent Office: 1,055 Days
• Field of Search: 370/321, 370/324, 370/350, 370/503, 370/337, 370/332, 370/336, 370/347, 375/345, 375/259, 455/69, 455/63, 455/504, 455/70, 455/522, 455/67.1
• US Class Current: 370/336
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/046 using a dotting sequence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/52 using AGC [Automatic Gain Control] circuits or amplifiers

Abstract

A base station transmits a synchronizing signal and a clock and AGC circuits of numerous sub-stations produce AGC voltages for indicating adjustment of gain and adjust levels of received signals converted to an intermediate frequency supplied from a frequency conversion unit on the basis of the AGC voltage so that the levels of the received signals are maintained constant in order that the base station can collect a small amount of data from each of the sub-stations in an extremely short time. A data processing circuit of each sub-station transmits data to the base station at a transmission timing corresponding to an identification number of its own sub-station on the basis of the synchronizing signal and the clock in the received data and a gain control circuit adjusts transmission power on the basis of the AGC voltage.

Claims

1. A radio communication system, comprising:

a non-mobile base station for performing communication by a radio wave, wherein said base station includes;

comparison means for comparing a time slot in a reference data string for regulating the time slot with a position of data corresponding to said time slot in the data string transmitted actually by a plurality of non-mobile sub-stations to thereby extract a timing error of said data with respect to said time slot; and

timing error transmission means for transmitting said timing error to said plurality of sub-stations, and

wherein each of said plurality of sub-stations includes transmission timing correction means for correcting a timing for transmitting said data to said base station on the basis of said timing error transmitted by said base station so as to reduce said timing error; and

are located within a specific distance from said base station each for transmitting by radio waves to said base station data of several bits to be collected instantaneously by said base station,

wherein the data each are assigned at a predetermined time slot in said data string of the time division multiple access system.

2. A radio communication system according to claim 1, wherein said transmission timing correction means corrects the timing for transmitting said data in consideration of a necessary time of data communication which is different for each of location places of said plurality of sub-stations and is depending on radio wave propagation conditions between said base station and each sub-station.

3. A radio communication system according to claim 1, wherein said base station includes:

data transmission time designation means for designating, for each of said plurality of sub-stations, time that said plurality of sub-stations are to transmit data to said base station;

data reception time monitoring means for monitoring, for each of said plurality of sub-stations, actually received time of data from said plurality of sub-stations;

time difference calculating means for calculating a time difference between the time that said data is to be transmitted and the received time of said data; and

time difference notification means for notifying the time difference to each of said plurality of sub-stations; and

said transmission timing correction means corrects said timing on the basis of said notified time difference.

4. A radio communication system comprising:

a non-mobile base station for performing communication by a radio wave; and

a plurality of non-mobile sub-stations are located within a specific distance from said base station each for transmitting by radio waves to said base station data of several bits to be collected instantaneously by said base station,

wherein a first frequency used by said base station and a second frequency used by said sub-stations have the interrelation in terms of fading; and

each of said plurality of sub-stations includes;

received power monitoring means for monitoring received power of radio waves of said first frequency from said base station;

fading situation judgement means for judging a situation of fading on the basis of the received power monitored; and

transmission power correction means for correcting transmission power of radio waves of said second frequency to said base station on the basis of said judged fading situation in order to prevent one data transmitted by the sub-station itself from interfering with another data transmitted by another sub-station,

wherein the data each are assigned at a predetermined time slot in a data string of the time division multiple access system.

5. A radio communication system according to claim 4, wherein said base station includes:

received power monitoring means for monitoring, for each of said plurality of sub-stations, received power of radio waves of said second frequency from said plurality of sub-stations;

received power error calculating means for calculating, for each of said plurality of sub-stations, an error between said monitored received power and a predetermined reference received power; and

received power error notification means for notifying, for each of said plurality of sub-stations, said calculated error of received power to said plurality of sub-stations; and

said transmission power correction means corrects said transmission power of radio waves of said second frequency to said base station on the basis of said error of received power notified to the sub-station itself.

6. A radio communication system according to claim 5, wherein said base station includes:

pseudo data transmission indication means for indicating said plurality of sub-stations to transmit pseudo data; and

said received power error notification means notifies the error of the received power of radio waves of said second frequency containing said pseudo data transmitted by said plurality of sub-stations and corrects the transmission power of radio waves of said second frequency to said base station on the basis of the notified error of the received power of radio waves of said second frequency.