Abstract:
An antenna apparatus is installed in a base station in a code division multiple access communication system. The antenna apparatus comprises a plurality of antenna elements, each receiving a radio signal; a controller that produces an antenna control signal based on information contained in the radio signal received at each of the antenna elements; an adjusting unit that adjusts directivity characteristics of each of the antenna elements based on the antenna control signal; and an allocating unit that allocates the antenna elements to sectors based on the antenna control signal. The sector covers a portion of a cell controlled by the base station, and the number of sectors in the cell is variable by means of the antenna control signal.
Abstract:
In mobile communication systems employing the CDMA method, the communication quality is acquired from the CDMA pilot channel. A communication quality acquisition apparatus comprises a delay profile acquisition unit comprising a control unit, synchronization unit and measurement unit, in addition to a data storage unit. The communication quality is measured by the synchronization unit and the measurement unit which are alternatively controlled by the control unit. When the communication quality is acquired through the CDMA pilot channel, the data acquisition efficiency can be significantly raised.
Abstract:
Provided are a receiving apparatus and an interference power estimation method that can perform interference power estimation with high accuracy even when correlation in a fading variation between reference signals is low and obtain accurate receiving quality. The interference power estimation method according to the present invention receives a plurality of discontinuous reference signals on the time/frequency plane, extracts the reference signals from the received signal, linear-combines channel variation values obtained from reference signals surrounding a reference signal of a specific time/frequency on the time/frequency plane with predetermined weighting and estimates interference power using the linear-combined value resulting from the linear combining.
Abstract:
A radio quality measurement apparatus extracts RS from a received signal on which FFT has been performed, and derives a FFT point number (N) of time samples to generate N0 division signals. The time window of N points includes N0 division windows. Each division signal includes a series of time samples in a corresponding division window. The apparatus obtains a phase deviation amount (θ) between subcarrier signal components in the division signal on which FFT has been performed, and an interference signal power (ISSI), so as to calculate SIR. A phase difference between the signal components is corrected by the phase deviation amount (θ) depending on a position (n′) of a delay path. SIR is calculated based on a first value λ1 and a second value λ2 that are respectively derived from ensemble mean of sum signal strength and difference signal strength (|ri±ri+1/ejθ|2) of corrected two signal components.
Abstract:
In mobile communication systems employing the CDMA method, the communication quality is acquired from the CDMA pilot channel. A communication quality acquisition apparatus comprises a delay profile acquisition unit comprising a control unit, synchronization unit and measurement unit, in addition to a data storage unit. The communication quality is measured by the synchronization unit and the measurement unit which are alternatively controlled by the control unit. When the communication quality is acquired through the CDMA pilot channel, the data acquisition efficiency can be significantly raised.
Abstract:
A cell search control method, a mobile station and a mobile communications system can save consumption power with maintaining high accuracy for selecting a base station. The mobile station measures receiving quality (highest received power and the like) of a currently captured perch channel of a base station; automatically makes a decision as to whether the mobile station is located at a cell periphery in which the need for searching for a new perch channel is great, or located in neighborhood of a base station in which the need is little; and increases the frequency of the search at a location where the need is great and decreases it at a location where the need is little.
Abstract:
In order to perform synchronization detection with high speed, high precision and high reliability and to measure communication quality (propagation characteristics) at high precision and high efficiency, a mobile station (202) includes synchronization detecting portion (221) for detecting synchronization chip timing of channel to be measured, a synchronization chip timing information portion accumulating information of detected synchronization chip timing, a correlation detecting portion (222) deriving a correlation value between spreading code of the channel to be measured and a received signal for performing communication with a base station and measurement of communication quality with taking the detected synchronization chip timing as a reception chip timing, a time series generating portion (223) for generating a time series data of received signal vector after correlation detection, and a communication quality calculating portion (224) for calculating communication quality from generated time series data.
Abstract:
Signals received from mobile station by respective slave units each are attenuated by a combination of attenuation factors set for the respective slave units, the attenuated signals thereafter are combined into a resultant signal in master unit, and the combination of attenuation factors is changed based on a predetermined rule. Then information about magnitudes of powers of signals received from the mobile station by the respective slave units is acquired based on change of information about a power of the resultant signal occurring with change in the combination of attenuation factors. At this time, the signal received from the mobile station by each slave unit increases its power with decreasing distance of the slave unit to the mobile station; therefore, distances from the mobile station to the respective slave units are estimated based on the information about the magnitudes of the powers, and the location of the mobile station is suitably estimated thereby.
Abstract:
In mobile communication systems employing the CDMA method, the communication quality is acquired from the CDMA pilot channel. A communication quality acquisition apparatus comprises a delay profile acquisition unit comprising a control unit, synchronization unit and measurement unit, in addition to a data storage unit. The communication quality is measured by the synchronization unit and the measurement unit which are alternatively controlled by the control unit. When the communication quality is acquired through the CDMA pilot channel, the data acquisition efficiency can be significantly raised.
Abstract:
In order to perform synchronization detection with high speed, high precision and high reliability and to measure communication quality (propagation characteristics) at high precision and high efficiency, a mobile station (202) includes synchronization detecting portion (221) for detecting synchronization chip timing of channel to be measured, a synchronization chip timing information portion accumulating information of detected synchronization chip timing, a correlation detecting portion (222) deriving a correlation value between spreading code of the channel to be measured and a received signal for performing communication with a base station and measurement of communication quality with taking the detected synchronization chip timing as a reception chip timing, a time series generating portion (223) for generating a time series data of received signal vector after correlation detection, and a communication quality calculating portion (224) for calculating communication quality from generated time series data.