OFDMA communication system and communication method

• US 8,699,427 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2007
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Tanigawa, Hironobu, Nakamura, Yasuhiro, Takamatsu, Nobuaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Jay P
• Application Number:
  US12/442,291
• Publication Number:
  US 20100067458A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,400 Days
• Field of Search: 370/203, 370/208, 370/329, 370/343, 370/431, 370/438
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/1484 operating bytewise
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation

Abstract

There is provided an OFDMA communication system capable of suppressing the communication resource reduction and reducing the processing load on a base station. The system includes a downlink frame generation unit (14) that generates a downlink frame for a downlink period for performing communication to at least one terminal (20) of a plurality of terminals from the base station (10), an uplink frame generation unit (24) that generates an uplink frame for an uplink period for performing communication to the base station (10) from at least one terminal (20) of the plurality of terminals, and a channel allocation unit that allocates, for one terminal of the plurality of terminals, one or more subchannels available in the one terminal, wherein the channel allocation unit allocates, among the subchannels, subchannels having a same time slot and a same frequency band in the downlink frame and in the uplink frame for a single terminal of the plurality of terminals.

Claims

1. An OFDMA communication system for performing communication using one or more subchannels between a base station and a plurality of terminals, the communication system comprising:

a downlink frame generation circuit which generates a downlink frame for a downlink period for performing communication from the base station to at least one terminal of the plurality of terminals;

an uplink frame generation circuit which generates an uplink frame for an uplink period for performing communication from at least one terminal of the plurality of terminals to the base station;

a channel allocation circuit which allocates, for one terminal of the plurality of terminals, one or more subchannels available in the one terminal, wherein

the channel allocation circuit allocates, among the subchannels, each of the subchannels having a same time slot among a plurality of time slots in a time-axis direction and a same frequency band among a plurality of frequency bands in a frequency-axis direction in the downlink frame and in the uplink frame for a single terminal of the plurality of terminals,

the channel allocation circuit notifies allocation information indicating the allocated subchannels for a sequence pair of the downlink and uplink frames to the one terminal by each downlink frame, and

the channel allocation is made for each sequence pair of the downlink and uplink frames, and each time the channel allocation is made, allocation information indicating the allocated subchannels is notified by each downlink frame.

2. The communication system of claim 1, wherein a number of subchannels configuring the downlink frame is same as a number of subchannels configuring the uplink frame.

3. The communication system of claim 1, wherein the downlink frame and the uplink frame are arranged continuously.

4. The communication system of claim 1,

wherein each of the downlink frame and the uplink frame includes a control subchannel to be used as a control channel of the base station and a traffic subchannel for transmitting data, and

wherein the traffic subchannel includes:

a first subchannel which is allocated for each terminal and includes information indicating an available or unavailable subchannel for each terminal; and

a second sub channel including data to be used substantially.

5. The communication system of claim 4, wherein the information indicating an availably or unavailable subchannel for each of the plurality of terminals is included in the first subchannel and notified from the base station to the corresponding terminal in the downlink period.

6. The communication system of claim 4, wherein, among the available subchannels in the information, a subchannel to be used and a subchannel to be unused in each terminal are included in the first subchannel while being differentiated from each other, and notified from the corresponding terminal to the base station in the uplink period.

7. An OFDMA communication method for performing communication using one or more subchannels between a base station and a plurality of terminals, the communication method comprising;

generating a downlink frame for a downlink period for performing communication from the base station to at least one terminal of the plurality of terminals, and an uplink frame for an uplink period for performing communication from at least one terminal of the plurality of terminals to the base station; and

allocating, for one terminal of the plurality of terminals, one or more subchannels available in the one terminal, wherein

communication is performed by allocating, among the subchannels, each of the subchannels having a same time slot among a plurality of time slots in a time-axis direction and a same frequency band among a plurality of frequency bands in a frequency-axis direction in the downlink frame and in the uplink frame for a single terminal of the plurality of terminals,

allocation information indicating the allocated subchannels for a sequence pair of the downlink and uplink frames is notified to the one terminal by each downlink frame, and

the channel allocation is made for each sequence pair of the downlink and uplink frames, and each time the channel allocation is made, allocation information indicating the allocated subchannels is notified by each downlink frame.

8. The communication method of claim 7, wherein a number of subchannels configuring the downlink frame is same as a number of subchannels configuring the uplink frame.

9. The communication method of claim 7, further comprising notifying information indicting an available or unavailable subchannel for each of the plurality of terminals to the corresponding terminal in the downlink period.

10. The communication method of claim 9, further comprising, after notifying the information to each terminal in the downlink period, notifying, among the available subchannels, a subchannel to be used and a subchannel to be unused in each terminal while being differentiated from each other, from the corresponding terminal to the base station in the uplink period.