Abstract:
Spreading sections of the base station spread the respective distributed data using mutually orthogonal spreading codes and are transmitted from antennas. Despreading sections of the mobile station despread the received signals using the same spreading codes as those used at the base station. Demodulation sections demodulate the despread signals. Received signal power measuring sections measure their received signal powers from the demodulation result. A received signal power combination section combines the measured received signal powers and a transmit power control section controls transmission power based on the combined received signal power. When carrying out diversity reception through a plurality of antennas at the base station, transmit power control errors are suppressed to a small level at the mobile station.
Abstract:
Spreading sections 104 and 105 of the base station spread the respective distributed data using mutually orthogonal spreading codes and they are transmitted from antennas 106 and 107. Despreading sections 202 and 203 of the mobile station despread the received signals using the same spreading codes as those used at the base station, demodulation sections 204 and 205 demodulate the despread signals, received signal power measuring sections 207 and 208 measure their received signal powers from the demodulation result, received signal power measuring section 209 combines the measured received signal powers and transmit power control section 212 controls transmission power based on the combined received signal power. When carrying out diversity reception through a plurality of antennas at the base station, this suppresses transmit power control errors to a small level at the mobile station.
Abstract:
The radio communication apparatus of the present invention changes the transmission timing of a mobile station of the self station with respect to the transmission timing of a mobile station of a peripheral transmission station. This makes it possible to extract a received signal from the self station even if the mobile station of the self station and the mobile station of the peripheral transmission station use identical unique words.
Abstract:
The communication terminal apparatus measures reception quality and reports the measurement result to the base station apparatus, and the base station apparatus switches the transmission rate based on the reported result of the reception quality. In this way, the transmission rate is switched starting at the point in time at which the reception quality of the communication terminal apparatus deteriorates. Furthermore, the transmission rate is switched so that the amount of interference with others is within the allowable range according to the channel condition between the communication terminal apparatus and base station apparatus.
Abstract:
Transmitting/receiving apparatuses are installed in a base station and a mobile station, respectively, to perform mutual transmission and reception by using a plurality of spreading codes. The transmitting/receiving apparatus installed in the base station has a block for designating to the mobile station the kind and the number of spreading codes used in a reverse link from the mobile station to the base station through a forward link at the time that communication with the mobile station is started. The transmitting/receiving apparatus installed in the mobile station has a block for transmitting a signal to the base station by using spreading codes of the designated kind and number. The transmitting/receiving apparatus installed in the base station further has a block for detecting receiving quality values of the signal transmitted from the mobile station with respect to individual spreading codes used in the mobile station, a block for deciding whether or not the detected receiving quality values exceed a prescribed quality value, and a block for finally setting the kind and number of spreading codes to be used in the reverse link on the basis of the spreading codes for which the detected receiving quality values are determined to exceed the prescribed quality value.
Abstract:
The synchronizing apparatus includes a block for detecting a code from an input signal, a block for detecting from the code the variable points of the code at several times as high as the symbol rate, a block for calculating a histogram of the detected variables of the code to time, and a block for deciding that the phase number at which the calculated histogram takes the maximum value is a symbol synchronization point. This synchronizing apparatus detects the zero-cross points of an intermediate frequency band signal at N times as high as the symbol rate. It also calculates a histogram of detected time (0 to N−1). The time (0 to N−1) at which the histogram is the maximum within a predetermined detected time is selected as a symbol clock, and thereby symbol synchronization is established.
Abstract:
An estimator of error rate is provided for reducing variations of an error pulse count value at burst signals of a received signal for digital mobile communications and thereby improving an accuracy of estimating an error rate. The estimator of error rate includes detectors for detecting that phase information derived from a baseband signal of an I channel (I signal) and a baseband signal of a Q channel (Q signal) is located in an error pulse generation area, detectors for detecting that envelope information of the I signal and the Q signal is located in the error pulse generation area, and a counter for detecting that the phase error signal and the envelope error signal are outputted and counting the signals. The estimator operates to estimate an error rate based on an error pulse count value at one period. The estimator operates to detect that the phase information and the envelope information are located in the error pulse generation area. This serves to suppress the probability of counting correct signals and reducing variations of a count value at the burst signals, thereby improving an accuracy of estimating an error rate.
Abstract:
A complex multiplying section multiplies a receiving signal by a complex weighting factor of a weighting factor controlling section. The output is added by an adding circuit, and decoded by a decoding circuit so as to obtain a received signal. The weighting factor of the weighting factor controlling section is set using only the weighting factor calculated by a synchronous burst having a different unique word pattern. On one hand, it is assumed that an interference station having the same unique word pattern exists. Then, a decision feedback adaptive array antenna receiving circuit 400, which does not update the weighting factor using the unique word pattern, performs a signal reception. On the other hand, it is assumed that no interference station having the same unique word pattern exists. Then, the conventional decision feedback adaptive array antenna receiving circuit 500, which updates the weighting factor using the unique word pattern, performs a signal reception. Thereafter, a correct signal is selected from either one of the circuits. Thereby, the complex weighting factor of the adaptive array antenna is appropriately updated, so that a received signal can be extracted from the desired signal.
Abstract:
First and second phase control amount tables output to first and second vector multiply circuits phase control signals Sc1 and Sc2 representative of corresponding phase shift amounts with gains represented by input gain control signals Sg1 and Sg2 as arguments. The first and second vector multiply circuits shift the phases of in-phase components S13 and S23 and quadrature components S14 and S24 of an antenna 2 in opposite directions in accordance with the phase control signals Sc1 and Sc2. Consequently, the amount of phase shift caused by receiving amplifiers is corrected so that the phase difference at antenna terminals between the input signals to the antennas is maintained.
Abstract:
A synchronization device includes a first section for generating a predetermined signal. A second section is operative for detecting a correlation between a received signal and the predetermined signal generated by the first section for every sample interval. A third section is operative for selecting a correlation from among correlations detected by the second section for sample intervals of equal time positions in successive symbol intervals respectively. The correlation selected by the third section has a given order number regarding an order in which the correlations are arranged according to magnitude.