Mobile station apparatus and random access method

• US 8,411,557 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2011
• Issued: 04/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Optis Wireless Technology, LLC (Brevet Capital)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Imamura, Daichi, Iwai, Takashi, Matsumoto, Atsushi, Futagi, Sadaki, Takata, Tomofumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US13/333,805
• Publication Number:
  US 20120087329A1
• Time in Patent Office: 468 Days
• Field of Search: 370/208, 370/335, 370/342, 370/441
• US Class Current: 370/208
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/0059 CAZAC [constant-amplitude and zero auto-correlation]
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/0066 GCL [generalized chirp-like] sequences
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/16 Code allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/22 Allocation of codes with a zero correlation zone
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0091 Signaling for the administration of the divided path
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access

Abstract

A mobile station apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive control information; a selecting unit configured to randomly select a sequence from a plurality of sequences contained in one group of a plurality of groups, into which a predetermined number of sequences generated from a plurality of base sequences are grouped and which are respectively associated with different amounts of data or reception qualities; and a transmitting unit for transmitting the selected sequence. The predetermined number of sequences are grouped by partitioning the predetermined number of sequences, in which sequences generated from the same base sequence and having different cyclic shifts are arranged in an increasing order of the cyclic shifts. A position at which the predetermined number of sequences are partitioned is determined based on the control information, and a number of sequences contained in each of the plurality of groups varies in accordance with the control information.

Claims

1. A mobile station apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive control information;

a selecting unit configured to randomly select a sequence from a plurality of sequences contained in one group of a plurality of groups, into which a predetermined number of sequences that are generated from a plurality of base sequences are grouped and which are respectively associated with different amounts of data or reception qualities, wherein the predetermined number of sequences are grouped by partitioning the predetermined number of sequences, in which sequences generated from the same base sequence and having different cyclic shifts are arranged in an increasing order of the cyclic shifts; and

a transmitting unit configured to transmit the selected sequence,

wherein a position at which the predetermined number of sequences are partitioned is determined based on the control information, and a number of sequences contained in each of the plurality of groups varies in accordance with the control information.

2. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said transmitting unit transmits the selected sequence on a random access channel.

3. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the number of sequences contained in each of the plurality of groups is different.

4. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined number of sequences are grouped by partitioning the predetermined number of sequences, which are arranged in an increasing order of sequence indices of the base sequences.

5. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein one group associated with one of the different amounts of data or reception qualities is comprised of all of sequences that are generated from at least one of the base sequences.

6. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein one group associated with one of the different amounts of data or reception qualities is comprised only of sequences that are generated from at least one of the base sequences.

7. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a group associated with the amount of data or reception quality with higher probability of occurrence is comprised of a greater number of sequences.

8. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the number of the sequences contained in each of the plurality of groups varies in accordance with probability of occurrence of the amount of data or reception quality.

9. The mobile station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the base sequence is a Generalized Chirp-like (GCL) sequence.

10. A random access method comprising:

receiving control information;

grouping a predetermined number of sequences that are generated from a plurality of base sequences into a plurality of groups, which are respectively associated with different amounts of data or reception qualities, by partitioning the predetermined number of sequences, in which sequences generated from the same base sequence and having different cyclic shifts are arranged in an increasing order of the cyclic shifts; and

randomly selecting a sequence from a plurality of sequences contained in one group of the plurality of groups,

wherein a position at which the predetermined number of sequences are partitioned is determined based on the control information, and a number of sequences contained in each of the plurality of groups varies in accordance with the control information.