Transmission apparatus and transmission method

• US 7,826,871 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2006
• Issued: 11/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sudo, Hiroaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao; Minh D
• Application Number:
  US11/814,658
• Publication Number:
  US 20090042519A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,743 Days
• Field of Search: 455/562.1, 455/575.7, 455/13.3, 455/10, 455/168.1, 370/335, 370/236, 370/208, 375/260, 375/267
• US Class Current: 455/562.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/061 using feedback from receiving side
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0632 Channel quality parameters, e.g. channel quality indicator [CQI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0691 using subgroups of transmit antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0697 using spatial multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0023 characterised by the signalling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/06 using space diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1893 Physical mapping arrangements physical resource mapping in general H04L5/00

Abstract

There is provided a transmission device capable of preventing increase of retransmission information or encoding redundant bit and improving a throughput in a MIMO communication method. In this device, an encoding unit (130) subjects data transmitted from a first transmission antenna (110) and a second transmission antenna (120) each formed by a plurality of antennas, to encoding processing all at once. Modulation units (113, 123) modulate the data encoded by the encoding unit (130) for each of the first and the second transmission antennas (110, 120). Transmission units (115, 125) process the modulated data so that it can be transmitted from the corresponding first and the second antennas (110, 120). A transmission control unit (160) performs transmission control of the data transmitted from the respective antennas (110, 120). When retransmitting data, the transmission control unit (160) retransmits the data transmitted from a transmission antenna having a smaller number of antennas than the first and the second antennas (110, 120).

Claims

1. A transmission apparatus of a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication scheme that simultaneously transmits different data from a plurality of antennas, the transmission apparatus comprising:

an encoding section that collectively performs encoding processing on first data to be transmitted from each of the plurality of antennas;

a modulating section that performs modulation processing on the encoded first data according to each corresponding antenna;

a transmitting section that transmits the modulated first data from each corresponding antenna; and

a transmission controlling section that controls transmission of the modulated first data to be transmitted from each of the plurality of antennas, wherein;

when a data retransmission relating to the first data is performed, the transmission controlling section controls the data retransmission such that (i) not all of the first data previously transmitted from the plurality of antennas is included in the data retransmission and (ii) data included in the data retransmission excludes any part of the first data previously transmitted from at least one of the plurality of antennas.

2. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission controlling section controls the data retransmission such that a part of the first data previously transmitted from an antenna having the worst quality upon reception by a communicating party is included in the data retransmission.

3. The transmission apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the transmission controlling section determines data to be included in the data retransmission, based on information that is transmitted from the communicating party, and indicates data transmitted from which antenna is included in the data retransmission.

4. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission controlling section controls the data retransmission such that the data to be included in the data retransmission is retransmitted using an antenna other than the antenna used in previous transmission.

5. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when second and subsequent data retransmissions are performed, the transmission controlling section controls data retransmission such that data not previously retransmitted is preferentially included in the data retransmission.

6. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission controlling section adaptively changes data amount to be included in the data retransmission according to channel quality upon transmission.

7. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when data requiring better quality than other data is transmitted from a specific antenna, the transmission controlling section controls the data retransmission such that data requiring better quality upon retransmission is preferentially included in the data retransmission.

8. The transmission apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the data requiring better quality than the other data is systematic bits when a turbo code is used.

9. A base station apparatus comprising the transmission apparatus according to claim 1.

10. A mobile station apparatus comprising the transmission apparatus according to claim 1.

11. A transmission method of a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication scheme that simultaneously transmits different data from a plurality of antennas, the transmission method comprising:

collectively performing encoding processing on first data to be transmitted from each of the plurality of antennas;

performing modulation processing on the encoded first data according to each corresponding antenna;

transmitting the modulated first data from each corresponding antenna; and

controlling transmission of the modulated first data to be transmitted from each of the plurality of antennas and a data retransmission relating to the first data such that (i) not all of the first data previously transmitted from the plurality of antennas is included in the data retransmission and (ii) data included in the data retransmission excludes any part of the first data previously transmitted from at least one of the plurality of antennas.

12. A transmission apparatus of a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication scheme that simultaneously transmits data from a plurality of antennas, the transmission apparatus comprising:

an encoding section that encodes first data to be transmitted from the plurality of antennas;

a transmission controlling section that distributes the encoded first data to the plurality of antennas; and

a transmitting section that transmits the distributed first data from each corresponding antenna, wherein;

when a data retransmission relating to the first data is performed, the transmission controlling section controls the data retransmission such that data included in the data retransmission (i) includes a part of the distributed data previously transmitted from some antennas of the plurality of antennas and (ii) excludes a part of the distributed data previously transmitted from other antennas of the plurality of antennas.

13. A transmission method of a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication scheme that simultaneously transmits data from a plurality of antennas, the transmission method comprising:

encoding first data to be transmitted from the plurality of antennas;

distributing the encoded first data to the plurality of antennas;

transmitting the distributed first data from each corresponding antenna; and

performing a data retransmission relating to the first data such that data included in the data retransmission (i) includes a part of the distributed data previously transmitted from some antennas of the plurality of antennas and (ii) excludes a part of the distributed data previously transmitted from other antennas of the plurality of antennas.