Communication method and communication system

• US 8,509,793 B2
• Filed: 05/23/2008
• Issued: 08/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Tanigawa, Hironobu, Nakamura, Yasuhiro, Takamatsu, Nobuaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Eng, George
• Assistant Examiner(s): MEHRA, INDER P
• Application Number:
  US12/666,271
• Publication Number:
  US 20100178926A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,908 Days
• Field of Search: 455/411, 455/452.1, 455/522, 455/550, 455/561, 455/450, 455/509, 455/550.1, 370/280, 370/395.52, 370/466, 370/469, 370/471, 370/208, 370/252, 370/312, 370/328, 370/329, 370/335, 370/343, 370/348, 370/437, 375/219, 375/260, 375/295, 375/296
• US Class Current: 455/450
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0037 Inter-user or inter-terminal allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0094 Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated

Abstract

Present invention provides a communication method and a communication system that can provide more detailed communication control, larger transmission capacity, and more flexible resource distribution to users in comparison with a communication method using a conventional frame format.

There are provided a downlink frame generator 14 that generates a downlink frame for a downlink period in which a cell station 10 communicates with at least one personal station of the plurality of personal stations 20 in a predetermined frame format, and an uplink frame generator 24 that generates an uplink frame for an uplink period in which at least one personal station of the plurality of personal stations communicates with the cell station 10 in a predetermined frame format, wherein the frame format of the downlink frame includes a MAP field that notifies, in the downlink period, each personal station of information indicating an available or unavailable subchannel for each personal station.

Claims

1. A communication method for performing communication using one or more subchannels between a cell station and a plurality of personal stations, the communication method comprising:

performing communication with a downlink frame for a downlink period in which the cell station communicates with at least one of the plurality of personal stations and an uplink frame for an uplink period in which at least one of the plurality of personal stations communicates with the cell station, in predetermined frame formats, respectively,

wherein the frame format of the downlink frame includes a MAP field that notifies, in the downlink period, each personal station of information indicating an available or unavailable subchannel for each personal station, and wherein

the frame format of the uplink frame includes a Refuse MAP (RMAP) field that notifies, in the uplink period, the cell station from a personal station of information distinguishing a subchannel to be used from a suhchannel to be unused by the corressonding personal station among the available subchannels after notifying each personal station of the information.

2. The communication method of claim 1,

wherein each of the subchannels includes a training symbol required at beam formation of an adaptive array.

3. The communication method of claim 1,

wherein each of the predetermined frame formats of the downlink frame and the uplink frame includes an ACKCH field serving as a field for a hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ).

4. The communication method of claim 1,

wherein each of the predetermined frame formats of the downlink frame and the uplink frame includes:

a Modulate Indicator (MI) field serving as a field indicating a modulation scheme of an adaptive modulation part and a coding rate; and

a Modulate Request (MR) field indicating a request of a modulation scheme and a coding rate by an uplink from a personal station.

5. The communication method of claim 1,

wherein the predetermined frame format of the dovadink frame includes an Si) field serving as a field to be used to adjust symbol timing between personal stations.

6. The communication method of claim 1,

wherein each of the predetermined frame formats of the downlink frame and the uplink frame includes a Valid field indicating validation/invalidation of a physical field.

7. A communication system for performing communication using one or more subchannels between a cell station and a plurality of personal stations, the communication system comprising,:

a downlink frame generator that generates a downlink frame for a downlink period in which the cell station communicates with at least one of the plurality of personal stations in a predetermined frame format; and

an uplink frame generator that generates an uplink frame for an uplink period in which at least one of the plurality of personal stations communicates with the cell station in a predetermined frame format,

wherein the frame format of the downlink frame includes a MAP field that notifies, in the downlink period, each personal station of information indicating an available or unavailable subchanel for each personal station, and wherein

the frame format of the uplink frame includes a Refuse MAP (RMAP) field that notifies, in the uplinkperiod, the cell station from a personal station of information distinguishing a subchannel to be used from a subchannel to be unused by the corresponding personal station among the available subchannels after notifying each personal station of the information.

8. The communication system of claim 7,

wherein each of the subchannels includes a training symbol required at beam formation of an adaptive array.

9. The communication system of claim 7,

wherein each of the predetermined frame formats of the downlink frame and the uplink frame includes an ACKCH field serving as a field for a hybrid Automatic Repeat request (ARC).

10. The communication system of claim 7,

wherein each of the predetermined frame formats of the downlink frame and the uplink frame includes:

a Modulate Indicator (MI) field serving as a field indicating a modulation scheme of an adaptive modulation part and a coding rate; and

a Modulate Request (MR) field indicating a request of a modulation scheme and a coding rate by an uplink from a personal station.

11. The communication system of claim 7,

wherein the predetermined, frame format of the downlink frame includes a shift direction (SD) fail field serving as a field to be used to adjust symbol timing between personal stations.

12. The communication system of claim 7,

wherein each of the predetermined frame formats of the downlink frame and the uplink frame includes a Valid (V) field indicating validation/invalidation of a physical field,

the degraded radio terminals, by using one of the antenna groups obtained by the division.