Transmissing of downlink ack/nack signals
8 claims: 3 independent, 5 dependent
- 1REIVINDICAÇÕES 1. Aparelho de estação base de radiocomunicação compreendendo:uma seção de alocação que aloca um primeiro canal de controle formado com uma pluralidade de blocos de recursos consecutivos ou uma pluralidade de elementos de canais de controle consecutivos para um aparelho de estação móvel de radiocomunicação;e uma seção de mapeamento que mapeia sinais de controle para o aparelho de estação móvel de radiocomunicação para uma pluralidade de segundos canais de controle mapeados de maneira distribuída em um domínio de frequência em associação com a pluralidade de blocos de recursos ou a pluralidade de elementos de canais de controle.
- 2Aparelho de estação base de radiocomunicação, de acordo com a reivindicação 1, em que a seção de mapeamento mapeia sinais de reconhecimento ou sinais de reconhecimento negativos em resposta aos dados transmitidos do aparelho de estação móvel de radiocomunicação para a pluralidade de segundos canais de controle.
- 3Aparelho de estação base de radiocomunicação, de acordo com a reivindicação 1, em que a seção de mapeamento mapeia os sinais de controle para a pluralidade de segundos canais de controle mapeados de maneira distribuída em diferentes padrões de mapeamento no domínio de frequência.
- 4Aparelho de estação base de radiocomunicação, de acordo com a reivindicação 1, em que a seção de mapeamento mapeia os sinais de controle para a pluralidade de segundos canais de controle mapeados em uma base randômica no domínio de frequência.
- 5Aparelho de estação base de radiocomunicação, de acordo com a reivindicação 1, em que a seção de mapeamento mapeia os sinais de controle para a pluralidade de segundos canais de controle, adotando diferentes padrões de mapeamento entre células ou setores vizinhos.
- 6Aparelho de estação base de radiocomunicação, de acordo com a reivindicação 1, em que a seção de mapeamento mapeia os sinais de controle para a pluralidade de segundos canais de controle mapeados de maneira distribuída no domínio de frequência em associação com uma pluralidade de elementos de canais de controle para uso entre uma pluralidade de números diferentes de elementos de canais de controle multiplexados entre 5 a pluralidade de elementos de canais de controle.
- 7Aparelho de estação móvel de radiocomunicação compreendendo:uma seção de recebimento que recebe informação de alocação designando uma pluralidade de blocos de recursos alocados para o aparelho 10 de estação móvel de radiocomunicação ou um primeiro canal de controle alocado para o aparelho de estação móvel de radiocomunicação;e uma seção de especificação que especifica uma pluralidade de segundos canais de controle para o aparelho de estação móvel de radiocomunicação que são mapeados de maneira distribuída em um domínio de 15 frequência em associação com uma pluralidade de elementos de canais de controle formando uma pluralidade de blocos de recursos ou um primeiro canal de controle.
- 8Método de mapeamento de canal de controle compreendendo o mapeamento de uma pluralidade de canais de controle de maneira distri20 buída em um domínio de frequência em associação com uma pluralidade de blocos de recursos consecutivos ou uma pluralidade de elementos de canais de controle consecutivos. 1/23 CD cr r— CQ QC co CD cr io CQ CC -3 - 3t CQ QC CO 4t CQ CC CQ QC CD CC ro Ό c «φ ο cr φ ó Ll. 2/23 Código ro 'α c «CD O M °· J1 o
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(54) Title: BASE STATION DEVICE (57) Summary: RADIOCOMMUNICATION AND CONTROL CHANNEL DISPOSITION METHOD (30) Unionist Priority: 23/03/2007 jp 2007-077502, 01/05/2007 JP 2007-120853, 13/08/2007 JP 2007-211104, 23/03/2007 JP 2007-077502 (73) Owner (s): Panasonic Corporation (72) Inventor (s): Akihiko Nishio, Alexander Golitschek EdlerVon Elbwart, Masaru Fukuoka, Seigo Nakao (74) Attorney (s): Dannemann, Siemsen, Bigler & Ipanema Moreira (86) International Request: pct JP2008000675 of 21/03/2008 (87) International Publication: wo 2008 / i298i0de 30/10/2008
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Descriptive Report of the Invention Patent for RADIOCOMMUNICATION BASE STATION DEVICE AND CONTROL CHANNEL DISPOSAL METHOD.
Technical Field
The present invention relates to a radiocommunication base station apparatus and a control channel mapping method. Background of the Technique
In a mobile communication, ARQ (Automatic Repeat reQuest) is applied to the uplink data transmitted from a mobile radiocommunication station device (hereinafter, simply mobile station) to a radiocommunication base station device (hereinafter forward, simply, base station) uplink and a response signal, showing the result of uplink data error detection, it is fed back to the mobile station on the downlink. The base station performs a CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) for the uplink data and, if CRC = OK, an ACK (Acknowledgment Recognition) signal is fed back and, if CRC = NG (error), a NACK signal (Negative Acknowledgment) is fed back as a response signal to the mobile station.
To use downlink communication resources efficiently, studies have recently been conducted around ARQ, which associates uplink resource blocks (RBs) to transmit uplink data and downlink control channels to transmit link response signals. descendant (for example, see Non-Patent Document 1).
By this means, a mobile station is able to identify control channels in which a response signal is transmitted to the mobile station according to the RB allocation information reported from the base station, even when allocation information about the transmission channel. control is not reported separately.
In addition, studies have been conducted for ARQ recently whereby a response signal is disseminated and the dissemination response signal is duplicated, in order to determine the average interference of the response signal from neighboring cells or sectors and provide gain of frequency diversity for the response signal (for example, see Non-Patent Document 2).
Non-patent document 1: 3GPP RAN WG1 Meeting document, R1-070932, Assignment of Downlink ACK / NACK Channel, Panasonic, February 2007.
Non-patent document 2: 3GPP RAN WG1 Meeting document, R1-070734, ACK / NACK Channel Transmission in E-UTRA Downlink, Tl, February 2007.
Description of the Invention
Problems to be solved by the Invention
It is possible to use the ARQs studied above recently by combining them. Now, a specific example for mapping response signals to downlink control channels will be explained. With the following explanation, a base station receives uplink data transmitted from mobile stations RB N ° 1 to RB N ° 8 of uplink, shown in figure 1 and the base station maps response signals to uplink data (signals ACK and NACK signals) for downlink control channels CH N ° 1 to CH N ° 8, mapped in four frequency bands, subcarriers af<sub>4</sub>, fg to fi2. I did the f2o θ Í25 to f28. shown in figure 2, and transmit the response signals to the mobile stations. Furthermore, the base station propagates a response signal with a propagation code, having a dispersion factor 4 and repeats the dispersion response signal with a repetition factor 2.
Therefore, as shown in figure 2, downlink control channels CH N ° 1 to CH N ° 4 are mapped to identical bands, subcarriers fi af<sub>4</sub> ef<sub>17</sub> the I2o in a localized way and downlink control channels CH N ° 5 to CH N ° 8 are mapped to identical bands, subcarriers Fg ab<sub>2</sub> ef<sub>2</sub>5 af<sub>2</sub>s in a localized manner.
Also, as shown in figure 3, the upstream link RBs shown in figure 1 and the downlink control channels shown in figure 2 are associated one by one. Therefore, as shown in figure 3, a response signal for uplink data transmitted using RB No. 1, shown in figure 1, is mapped to CH No. 1 downlink control channel, that is, mapped to fi subcarriers. af<sub>4</sub> and fv to f2o, shown in figure 2. Also, as shown in figure 3, a response signal for uplink data transmitted using RB No. 2, shown in figure 1, is mapped to downlink control channel CH N ° 2, that is, mapped to subcarriers fí af<sub>4</sub> and fi<sub>7</sub> a f2o, shown in figure 2. The same applies to RB N ° 3 to RB N ° 8.
In addition, when a coding block is formed with a plurality of consecutive RBS in the frequency domain and RBS are allocated in units of a block, the base station transmits response signals to mobile stations by mapping response signals to a plurality of downlink control channels in association with a plurality of uplink RBs included in an encoding block. For example, when a coding block is formed with three consecutive uplink RBs, RB N ° 1 to RB N ° 3, between RB N ° 1 to RB N ° 8, shown in figure 1, the base station maps multiplexed propagation response by code for downlink control channels CH N ° 1 to CH N ° 3 localized in identical bands, subcarriers f and af<sub>4</sub> and fi<sub>7</sub> to f2o, shown in figure 2.
Although downlink control channels CH N ° 1 to CH N ° 8 are mapped to sixteen subcarriers, the subcarriers are af<sub>4</sub>, fg a fu, fi7 θ Í2o θ f25 a Es, so, with the example above, response signals are mapped only to eight subcarriers, subcarriers fi af<sub>4</sub> and fi<sub>7</sub> a 2 - That is, with the example above, the response signals are mapped only to half of all subcarriers to which the downlink control channels are mapped.
In the case where downlink control channels mapped in the frequency domain are used in this way, little effect of frequency diversity can be obtained, depending on the positions to which the downlink control channels are mapped.
Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a base station and control channel mapping method that can maximize the effect of frequency diversity on downlink control channels.
Means to Solve the Problem
The base station of the present invention adopts a configuration including: an allocation section that allocates a first control channel formed with a plurality of RBS or a plurality of CCEs for a mobile radio communication device; and a mapping section that maps control signals to the mobile radiocommunication station apparatus for a plurality of second control channels mapped distributed over a frequency domain in association with the plurality of RBS or the plurality of CCEs.
Advantageous Effect of the Invention
According to the present invention, it is possible to maximize the effect of frequency diversity on downlink control channels.
Brief Description of Drawings
Figure 1 illustrates an example of uplink RB mapping;
Figure 2 illustrates an example of mapping downlink control channels;
Figure 3 shows the associations between uplink RBS and downlink control channels;
Figure 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the base station according to embodiment 1 of the present invention;
Figure 5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the mobile station according to the embodiment of the present invention;
Figure 6 illustrates the mapping of the downlink control channel according to mode 1 of the present invention;
Figure 7 illustrates the downlink control channel mapping according to mode 2 of the present invention;
Figure 8 illustrates the downlink control channel mapping in cell 2, in accordance with embodiment 3 of the present invention;
Figure 9 shows the associations between SCCHs and CCEs according to embodiment 4 of the present invention;
Figure 10 illustrates the example of downlink CCE mapping according to embodiment 4 of the present invention;
Figure 11 shows the associations between downlink CCEs and downlink control channels according to modality 4 of the present invention;
Figure 12 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the base station according to embodiment 4 of the present invention;
Figure 13 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the mobile station according to embodiment 4 of the present invention;
Figure 14 shows the associations (variations) between SCCHs and downlink CCEs, according to modality 4 of the present invention;
Figure 15 illustrates the downlink control channel mapping according to modality 4 of the present invention;
Figure 16 illustrates downlink CCEs used in the number of OFDMs for multiplexing according to modality 5 of the present invention;
Figure 17 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the base station according to embodiment 5 of the present invention;
Figure 18A illustrates the physical resources (the number of OFDMs for multiplexing: 1) according to modality 5 of the present invention;
Figure 18B illustrates the physical resources (the number of OFDMs for multiplexing; 2) according to embodiment 5 of the present invention;
Figure 19 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the mobile station according to embodiment 5 of the present invention;
Figure 20 illustrates the downlink control channel mapping in accordance with embodiment 5 of the present invention;
Figure 21 illustrates another downlink control channel mapping (example 1); and
Figure 22 illustrates another downlink control channel mapping (example 2).
Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention
Now, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The base station according to the present embodiment of the present invention transmits a response signal using the OFDM scheme. In addition, the mobile station in accordance with the present modality transmits uplink data by FDMA DFTs (Discrete Fourier Transform spread Frequency Division Multiple Access - Discrete Fourier Transformation - Multiple Access by Frequency Division). When uplink data is transmitted by DFTs - FDMA, as described above, a coding block is formed with a plurality of consecutive RBs on the frequency axis (in the frequency domain) and the base station allocates RBs to mobile stations in units of a block.
(Mode 1)
Figure 4 shows the configuration of the base station 100 in accordance with the present embodiment and Figure 5 shows the configuration of the mobile station 200 in accordance with the present embodiment.
In order to avoid complex explanation, figure 4 shows components that belong to the reception of uplink data and the downlink transmission of response signals to uplink data, to which the present invention relates closely, and drawings and explanations of components that belong to the forward link data transmission are omitted. Similarly, figure 5 shows components that belong to the transmission of uplink data, to which the present invention closely refers and drawings and explanations of components that belong to the reception of downlink data are omitted.
At base station 100 in figure 4, the RB 101 allocation section allocates uplink RBs to mobile stations through frequency programming and generates RB allocation information, showing that uplink RBs are allocated to those mobile stations (ie that is, allocation information showing RB allocation results) and the RB allocation information generated for coding section 102 and mapping section 109 is output. In addition, the RB 101 allocation section allocates RBs using a plurality of consecutive RBSs included in a coding block, as a unit. An RB is formed by grouping in a block a number of subcarriers neighboring each other in coherent bandwidth intervals.
The encoding section 102 encodes the RB allocation information and passes the encoded RB allocation information to the modulation section 103.
Modulation section 103 modulates the encoded RB allocation information to generate RB allocation information symbols and passes the RB allocation information symbols to the S / P section (serial to parallel conversion section) 104.
S / P section 104 converts the RB allocation information symbols received as input from modulation section 103 into RB allocation information symbols in parallel and passes the RB allocation information symbols in parallel to the mapping section 109.
Modulation section 105 modulates a response signal received as input to CRC section 117 and passes the modulated response signal to propagation section 106.
Propagation section 106 propagates the response signal received as input from modulation section 105 and passes the response signal
J0 propagated to repetition section 107.
Repeat section 107 duplicates (repeats) the response signal received as input from propagation section 106 and passes a plurality of response signals, including identical response signals, to S / P section 108.
The S / P section 108 converts the response signals received as input from the repeat section 107 into serial series response signals in parallel and passes the response signals in parallel to the mapping section 109.
Mapping section 109 maps the RB allocation information symbols and response signals to a plurality of subcarriers, forming an OFDM symbol, and passes the RB allocation information symbols and response signals mapped to the section IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) 110. Here, based on the RB allocation information received as input from the RB 101 allocation section, mapping section 109 maps the response signals to downlink control channels mapped in the frequency domain in association with link RBs. ascending. For example, when mapping section 109 receives RB No. 1 to RB No. 3, shown in figure 1 of the allocation section of RB 101 as RB allocation information for mobile station 200, as shown in figure 3, the mapping section 109 maps response signals 20 to uplink data transmitted from mobile station 200, using RB No. 1 to RB No. 3 for downlink control channels CH No. 1 to CH No. 3. The mapping process in mapping section 109 will be described later in detail.
The IFFT 110 section performs an IFFT on the RB allocation information symbols and response signals mapped to a plurality of subcarriers in order to generate an OFDM symbol and passes the generated OFDM symbol to the addition section of CP (Cyclic Prefix - Cyclic Prefix 111.
The CP 111 addition section adds the same signal as the rear part of the OFDM symbol, such as a CP, to the OFDM symbol header.
The radio transmission section 112 carries out the transmission process, including D / A conversion, amplification and upward conversion, in the OFDM symbol with a CP and transmits the OFDM symbol with a CP after the transmission process, from antenna 113 for mobile station 200.
At the same time, the radio reception section 114 receives uplink data transmitted from mobile station 200 via antenna 113, and performs reception processing including downward conversion and A / D conversion for these uplink data.
The demodulation section 115 demodulates the uplink data and passes the demodulated uplink data to the decoding section 116.
The decoding section 116 decodes the demodulated uplink data and passes the decoded uplink data to the CRC section 117.
The CRC section 117 performs error detection for the uplink data after decoding, using CRC, to generate, as a response signal, an ACK signal, if CRC = OK or a NACK signal, if CRC = NG (error) and passes the response signal generated to the modulation section 105. Also, if CRC = OK, the CRC section 117 passes the uplink data after decoding as received data.
Meanwhile, at mobile station 200, shown in figure 5, radio receiving section 202 receives an OFDM symbol transmitted from base station 100 via antenna 201 and performs the receiving process, including downward conversion and A / D in that OFDM symbol.
The CP 203 removal section removes the CP from the OFDM symbol after receiving processing.
The FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) section 204 performs an FFT on the OFDM symbol after CP removal, to acquire RB allocation information symbols and response signals and passes them to the 205 demultiplexing section .
Demultiplexing section 205 demultiplexes the input signals in the RB allocation information symbols and the response signals and passes the RB allocation information symbols to the P / S section 206 and the response signals to the section P / S 210. Here, based on the specified result received as input from mapping specification section 209, demultiplexing section 205 demultiplexes response signals from the input signal.
The P / S section 206 converts a plurality of parallel RB allocation information symbols received as input from the demultiplexing section 205 into serial RB allocation information symbols and passes the serial RB allocation information symbols to the demodulation section 207.
Demodulation section 207 demodulates RB allocation information symbols and transmits demodulated RB allocation information to decoding section 208. The decoding section
208 decodes decoded RB allocation information and passes modified RB allocation information to transmission control section 214 and mapping specification section 209.
Based on the RB allocation information received as input from decoding section 208, mapping specification section 209 specifies downlink control channels to which uplink data response signals transmitted from the mobile station are mapped. . For example, when the RB allocation information for a mobile station is RB N ° 1 to RB N ° 3, shown in figure 1, as shown in figure 3, the mapping specification section
209 specifies CH No. 1 to CH No. 3 to be the downlink control channels for the mobile station to which the response signals are mapped. Then, the mapping specification section 209 passes the specified result to the demultiplexing section 205. The specification processing in the mapping specification section 209 will be described in more detail later.
The P / S section 210 converts the parallel response signals received as input from the demultiplexing section 205 in series and passes the series response signals to the concentration section 211.
Concentration section 211 concentrates the response signals and passes the concentrated response signals to the combination section 212.
In propagation response signals, the combination section 212 combines the original response signal and the response signals generated by repeating the original response signal and passes the response signal after the combination to the demodulation section 213.
The demodulation section 213 demodulates the response signal after combining and passes the demodulated response signal to the retransmission control section 216.
When the RB allocation information received as input from decoding section 208 shows that uplink RBs are allocated to the mobile station in question, the transmission control section 214 maps the transmission data to the RBS designated in the allocation information of RB and passes the transmission data mapped to coding section 215.
The encoding section 215 encodes the transmission data and passes the encoded transmission data to the retransmission control section 216.
With the initial transmission, the retransmission control section 216 keeps the transmission data encoded and passes it to the modulation section 217. The retransmission control section 216 maintains the transmission data until the retransmission control section 216 receive an ACK signal from modulation section 213. In addition, when a NACK signal is received as input to the demodulation section 213, that is, with retransmission, the retransmission control section 216 passes the transmission data that is maintained to the modulation section 217.
The modulation section 217 modulates the encoded transmission data received as input from the retransmission control section 216 and passes the modulated transmission data to the radio transmission section 218.
The radio broadcast section 218 performs transmission processing, including D / A conversion, amplification and upward conversion on the modulated transmission data and transmits the transmission data after processing the antenna transmission 201 to the base station 100. The data transmitted in this way become uplink data.
In the following the mapping process in mapping section 109 at base station 100 and the specification process in mapping specification section 209 at mobile station 200 will be explained in detail.
With the present embodiment, base station 100 receives uplink data transmitted from mobile station 200, using RB No. 1 to RB No. 8, shown in figure 1 and base station 100 maps response signals to uplink data ( ACK signals and NACK signals) for CH N ° 1 to CH N ° 8, mapped in four frequency bands, subcarriers af<sub>4</sub>, f<sub>9</sub> af<sub>12</sub>I did af<sub>2</sub>oef<sub>25</sub> af<sub>28</sub> shown in figure 6 and transmits the response signals to the mobile station 200.
Also, similar to figure 2, the propagation section 106 in the base station 100 propagates the response signal with propagation code having propagation factor 4 and repetition section 107 repeats the propagation response signal with repetition factor 2. Also, as shown in figure 3, the uplink RBs, shown in figure 1, and the downlink control channels, shown in figure 6, are associated one by one.
Mapping section 109 maps response signals to mobile station 200 to a plurality of downlink control channels, which are associated with a plurality of RBs and which are subject to distributed mapping in the frequency domain. Mapping section 109 maintains association information between uplink RBs and downlink control channels in figure 3 and the downlink control channel mapping information, shown in figure 6, and, based on that, maps the response signals for subcarriers to which the downlink control channels are mapped.
To be more specific, when the RB allocation information for mobile station 200 designates RB No. 1 to RB No. 3, mapping section 109 maps the response signals to CH No. 1 associated with RB No. 1 in the figure 3, that is, it maps the response signals to fi af subcarriers<sub>4</sub> and fi7 af<sub>2</sub>o, shown in figure 6. Likewise, mapping section 109 maps the response signals to CH No. 2 associated with RB No. 2, that is, it maps the response signals to subcarriers f<sub>9</sub> the fi<sub>2</sub> θ subcarriers F<sub>25</sub> af<sub>28</sub> and maps the response signals to CH No. 3 associated with RB No. 3, that is, it maps the response signals to the subcarriers af<sub>4</sub> and for subcarriers fi<sub>7</sub>af<sub>20</sub>.
Here, in the downlink control channel mapping, shown in figure 6, the downlink control channels (for example, CH No. 1 and CH No. 2) associated with the two RBs<sub>s</sub> consecutive uplink connections in figure 1 (for example, RB N ° 1 and RB N ° 2) are mapped to different frequency bands in a distributed manner. In other words, the downlink control channels mapped locally in identical bands in figure 6 correspond to a plurality of non-consecutive uplink RBS in two RB intervals in figure 1. To be more specific, for example, downlink control channels mapped to fi af subcarriers<sub>4</sub>, shown in Figure 6 in a localized manner are downlink control channels CH # 1, CH # 3, CH # 5 and CH # 7 and the uplink RBs associated with those downlink control channels are Non-consecutive RBs in two intervals of RB N ° 1, RB N ° 3, RB N ° 5 and RB N ° 7, as shown in figure 3.
Consequently, when base station 100 transmits response signals to the uplink data transmitted from mobile station 200, using a plurality of consecutive uplink RBs, it is possible to prevent response signals from being mapped concentrated in identical bands. That is, the base station 100 is capable of mapping response signals across a plurality of frequency bands in a distributed manner to transmit the response signals in question for distributed mapping. For example, as described above, when the RB allocation information for mobile station 200 designates RB No. 1 to RB No. 3, the mapping section 109 maps the response signals to subcarriers fi af<sub>4</sub> and fi7 to Í20, shown in figure 6, the response signals for subcarriers f<sub>9</sub> a θ Í25 af<sub>2</sub>e, and the response signals for subprotectors fi af<sub>4</sub>, 9 to fi<sub>2</sub>, fp af<sub>2</sub>oef<sub>25</sub> af<sub>2</sub>8, evenly, in a distributed manner to which downlink control channels are mapped.
In this way, mapping section 109 maps response signals to downlink control channels, based on the associations between RB<sub>s</sub> uplink and downlink control channels, shown in figure 3 and the mapping of downlink control channels, shown in figure 6, so that radio transmission section 112 at base station 100 is capable of transmitting response signals for mobile station 200, using downlink control channels that are associated with uplink RBS and that are mapped in a distributed manner in the frequency domain.
Likewise, the mapping specification section 209 at the mobile station 200 (figure 5) maintains the association information between uplink RBs and downlink control channels shown in figure 3 and the downlink control channel mapping information. shown in figure 6 and specifies the downlink control channels to which response signals to the mobile station are mapped, from the received RB allocation information. To be more specific, when the mapping specification section 209 receives RB allocation information as input, showing that RB No. 1 to RB No. 3, shown in figure 1, are allocated to a mobile station in the decoding section 208 , based on the associations shown in figure 3, the mapping specification section 209 specifies that the response signals to the mobile station are mapped to fi af subcarriers<sub>4</sub> e fi7 θ f<sub>20</sub> for which downlink control channels CH No. 1 to CH No. and for subcarriers f<sub>9</sub> the fi<sub>2</sub> ef<sub>2</sub>5 af<sub>2</sub>8, to which the CH No. 2 downlink control channel is mapped, as shown in figure 6.
Thus, according to the present modality, it is less likely that response signals for uplink data, which are transmitted using a plurality of consecutive uplink RBs, concentrated in bands of identical frequencies in multiplexed by code, so that it is possible to map response signals in a distributed manner in the frequency domain. Therefore, according to the present modality, it is possible to maximize the effect of the frequency diversity in the downlink control channels.
Mode 2
By mapping propagation blocks generated by propagating response signals to consecutive subcarriers (eg subcarriers af<sub>4</sub>, shown in figure 6) as in mode 1, inter-symbol interference (ISI), which is caused between neighboring subcarriers, decreases to an ISI extent and can be ignored.
However, if the base station 100 controls the transmit energy on a basis per downlink control channel, it is no longer possible to ignore ISI because the transmit energy varies between a plurality of downlink control channels mapped in frequency bands. identical and ISI from a larger transmit power downlink control channel to a smaller transmit power downlink control channel increases. For example, focusing on the CH # 1 and CH # 3 downlink control channels, shown in Figure 6, if the transmission power for CH # 1 downlink control channel is greater than the transmission to CH N ° 3 downlink control channel, CH N ° 1 and CH N ° 3 downlink control channels are mapped to identical frequency bands, haf subcarriers<sub>4</sub> and fv to f2o, and therefore, CH1 downlink control channel ISI to CH3 down link control channel is caused in both frequency bands.
Then, the mapping section 109 according to the present modality maps response signals to a plurality of downlink control channels in different mapping patterns distributed in the frequency domain.
That is, in figure 6, downlink control channels CH N ° 1 and CH N ° 3 are mapped to subcarriers fi af<sub>4</sub> and fi<sub>7</sub> af<sub>2</sub>o in identical mapping patterns. In contrast to this, with the present modality, as shown in figure 7, the mapping pattern of the CH N ° 1 downlink control channel and the mapping pattern in the CH N ° 3 downlink control channel vary and the CH N ° 1 downlink control channel is mapped to fi af subcarriers<sub>4</sub> ef<sub>17</sub> af<sub>2</sub>o and CH N ° 3 downlink control channel is mapped to subcarriers af<sub>4</sub> and fg a fi<sub>2</sub>. That is, with the present modality, as shown in figure 7, downlink control channels CH N ° 1 and CH N ° 3 are mapped to identical subcarriers fi af<sub>4</sub> and in the meantime, the CH # 1 downlink control channel is mapped to subcarriers f<sub>17</sub> af<sub>2</sub>o and downlink control channel CH No. 3 is mapped to fg a fi subcarriers<sub>2</sub>. That is, CH N ° 1 and CH N ° 3 are mapped in different mapping patterns in a distributed way in the frequency domain.
Hereby, similar to modality 1, when mapping section 109 maps response signals to uplink data transmitted using RB N ° 1 to Rb N ° 3, for downlink control channels CH N ° 1 A CH N 3, ISI is not caused in both frequency bands, the subcarriers fg a fi<sub>2</sub> and the subcarriers fi<sub>7</sub> af<sub>20</sub>, in any case, ISI is caused in the fi af subcarriers<sub>4</sub> between the CH # 1 downlink control channel of higher transmission power and the CH # 3 downlink control channel of lower transmission power.
Thus, according to the present modality, it is possible to provide the same advantage as in modality 1 and it is possible to reduce ISI by randomizing ISI caused by transmission energy control.
By mapping downlink control channels CH No. 1 to CH No. 8 on a random basis in the frequency domain, it is possible to map downlink control channels CH No. 1 to CH No. 8 in different patterns of mapping in a distributed way in the frequency domain.
Mode 3
With the present modality, response signals are mapped to a plurality of downlink control channels, adopting different mapping patterns between neighboring cells.
Here, a case will be explained where a cell next to cell 1 is a cell 2, cell 2. Also, cell 1 and cell 2 are synchronized. Also, when figure 6 shows a downlink control channel mapping pattern in cell 1, figure 8 shows a downlink control channel mapping pattern in cell 2. Also, similar to modality 1, the downlink control channels, shown in figure 8, are mapped in a distributed way in the frequency domain, in association with a plurality of consecutive uplink RBs.
The downlink control channels mapped in bands of identical frequencies vary between the mapping pattern in cell 1 (figure 6) and the mapping pattern in cell 2 (figure 8). That is, the downlink control channels are mapped to different frequency bands in a distributed manner in cell 1 and cell 2.
To be more specific, in cell 1, as shown in figure 6, the downlink control channels CH N ° 1, CH N ° 3, CH N ° 5 and CH N ° 7 are mapped to subcarriers fi af<sub>4</sub>I did af<sub>2</sub>o θ downlink control channels CH N ° 2, CH N ° 4, CH N ° 6 and CH N ° 8 are mapped to fg ah subcarriers<sub>2</sub> ef<sub>25</sub> af<sub>2</sub>s. In contrast to this, in cell 2, as shown in figure 8, downlink control channels CH No. 2, CH No. 4, CH No. 6 and CH No. 8 are mapped to subcarriers f<sub>Ί</sub> af<sub>4</sub> ef<sub>17</sub> af<sub>2</sub>o and downlink control channels CH N ° 1, CH N ° 3, CH N ° 5 and CH N ° 7 are mapped to subcarriers fg to Í12 Θ Í25 3 ^ 28 In this way, according to the present modality, mapping standards downlink control channel CH No. 1 to CH No. 8 in the frequency domain are made different between neighboring cells. Therefore, according to the present modality, it is possible to provide the same advantage as non-modality 1 in the same cell and, when response signals are transmitted at the same time in neighboring cells, it is possible to reduce inter-cell interference through inter-cell interference randomization. neighboring cells between downlink control channels.
Although a case has been explained above with the present embodiment, where the present invention is implemented between neighboring cells, the present invention can also be implemented between neighboring sectors in the same cell. That is, in the explanation above, looking at cell 1 as sector 1 and cell 2 as sector 2, the present invention can also be implemented between neighboring sectors. Still, it is not necessary to take into account the synchronization between neighboring sectors, so that the present invention can be implemented more easily between neighboring sectors than between neighboring cells.
Yet, although a case with an example where the number of cells is two has been explained above, the present invention can also be implemented where the cell number is three or more.
Mode 4
With this modality, a case will be explained where CCEs (Control Channel Elements) and downlink control channels for transmission of downlink response signals are associated.
Control information that is required to transmit uplink data from a mobile station to a base station (for example, the RB allocation information described above) is transmitted from the base station to the mobile station using a downlink control channel different from the downlink control channel to transmit response signals (for example, a SCCH (Shared Control Channel).
In addition, the base station allocates a plurality of SCCHs to mobile stations and transmits SCCH allocation information showing which SCCHs in a plurality of SCCHs are assigned to which mobile stations (that is, allocation information showing SCCH allocation results), to mobile stations before transmitting RB allocation information.
In addition, each SCCH is formed with a CCE or a plurality of CCEs. For example, SCCH N ° 1 to SCCH N ° 8 adopt the configurations shown in figure 9. That is, SCCH N ° 1 is formed with CCE N ° 1 and CCE N ° 2, SCCH N ° 2 is formed with CCE N ° 3 and CCE N ° 4, SCCH N ° 3 is formed with CCE N ° 5 and CCE N ° 6, SCCH N ° 4 is formed with CCE N ° 7 and CCE N ° 8, SCCH N ° 5 is formed with CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 4 and SCCH N ° 6 is formed with CCE N ° 5 to CCE N ° 8. In this way, when an SCCH is formed with a plurality of CCEs, an SCCH is formed with a plurality of consecutive CCEs.
CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 8 and physical resources in the frequency axis (in the frequency domain) are associated, as shown in figure 10, for example. That is, a CCE is associated with a plurality of physical resources mapped in the frequency domain in a distributed manner.
Here, in order to use downlink communication resources efficiently, a possibility to associate CCEs and downlink control channels for transmission of downlink response signals and identify the control channels on which response signals are transmitted to a mobile station with based on SCCH allocation information the base station reports to the mobile station. For example, as shown in figure 11, the CCEs shown in figure 9 and the downlink control channels shown in figure 2 are associated one by one. Therefore, as shown in figure 11, response signals for SCCH No. 1 uplink data allocated from mobile station, shown in figure 9, are mapped to CH No. 1 and CH No. 2 downlink control channels. , that is, mapped to fi af subcarriers<sub>4</sub> and ί<sub>Ί7</sub> to Í20, shown in figure 2. Also, as shown in figure 11, response signals for SCCH No. 1 uplink data allocated from the mobile station, shown in figure 9, are mapped to downlink CH control channels. N ° 3 and CH N ° 4, that is, mapped to fi af subcarriers<sub>4</sub> and fv to f2o, shown in figure 2. The same applies to SCCH N ° 3 to SCCH N ° 6.
Although CH N ° 1 to CH N ° 8 downlink control channels are mapped to sixteen subcarriers, subcarriers
IO f<sub>4</sub>, fg to fi2, I made Í2o θ Í25 to Í28 in this way, with the example above, response signals are mapped only to eight subcarriers, the subcarriers fi af<sub>4</sub> and fi7 to f2o- That is, with the example above, the response signals are mapped only to half of all the subcarriers to which downlink control channels are mapped.
Therefore, even when CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 8 on downlink with downlink control channels CH N ° 1 to CH N ° 8 are associated one by one, as shown in figure 11, similar to the case where RB N ° 1 to RB N ° 8 of uplink and downlink control channels CH N ° 1 to CH N ° 8 are associated one by one, as
It is shown in figure 3, little effect of frequency diversity can be obtained, depending on the positions to which the downlink control channels are mapped.
Then, with the present modality, when CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 8 of downlink and downlink control channels CH N °
1a CH N ° 8 are associated, the mapping of downlink control channels CH N ° 1 to CH N ° 8 is shown in figure 6 (Mode 1).
Figure 12 shows the configuration of the base station 300 in accordance with the present embodiment and Figure 13 shows the configuration of the mobile station 400 in accordance with the present embodiment. In figure 12, the same reference numerals are assigned to the same components in figure 4 (Mode 1) and their description will be omitted. Also, in figure 13 the same reference numerals are attributed to the same components in figure 5 (Mode 1) and their description will be omitted.
At base station 300, shown in figure 12, the SCCH allocation section 301 allocates SCCH No. 1 to SCCH No. 8 for mobile stations, generates SCCH allocation information and outputs the SCCH allocation information to the coding section 302 and for mapping section 305.
The encoding section 302 encodes the SCCH allocation information, and the SCCH allocation information is output to the modulation section 303.
Modulation section 303 modulates the encoded SCCH allocation information to generate SCCH allocation information symbols and outputs the SCCH allocation information symbols to the S / P section 304.
The S / P section 304 converts the SCCH allocation information symbols received as input from the modulation section 303 of SCCH allocation information symbols from in series to parallel and outputs the SCCH allocation information symbols in parallel for mapping section 305.
Mapping section 305 maps SCCH allocation information symbols, RB allocation information symbols and response signals to a plurality of subcarriers forming an OFDM symbol and passes the mapped SCCH allocation information symbols, the RB allocation information symbols and the response signals for the IFFT 306 section.
Here, based on the SCCH allocation information received as input from the SCCH allocation section 301, mapping section 305 maps the response signals to downlink control channels mapped in the frequency domain in association with CCEs. For example, when mapping section 305 receives SCCH No. 1, shown in figure 9, from SCCH allocation section 301 as the SCCH allocation information for mobile station 400, as shown in figure 9, SCCH No. 1 is formed with CCE N ° 1 and CCE N ° 2, as shown in figure 11. For this reason, mapping section 305 maps response signals to uplink data transmitted from mobile station 400 to downlink control channels CH No. 1 and CH No. 2 associated with CCE No. 1 and CCE N ° 2. This mapping process will be described in detail later.
Also, based on SCCH allocation information received as input from SCCH allocation section 301, mapping section 305 maps RB allocation information symbols to SCCH No. 1 through SCCH No. 8 mapped in the frequency domain. For example, when mapping section 305 receives SCCH No. 1 from SCCH allocation section 301 as SCCH allocation information for mobile station 400, mapping section 305 maps the RB allocation information symbols to SCCH N ° 1.
The IFFT 306 section performs an IFFT on the SCCH allocation information symbols, RB allocation information symbols and response signals mapped to a plurality of subcarriers, in order to generate an OFDM symbol and the OFDM symbol for the CP 111 addition section.
Meanwhile, at the mobile station 400 shown in figure 13, the FFT section 401 performs an FFT on the OFDM symbol after removing CP, to acquire SCCH allocation information symbols, RB allocation information symbols and RB allocation signs. response and passes them to demultiplexing section 402.
The demultiplexing section 402 demultiplexes the input signals into the SCCH allocation information symbols, the RB allocation information symbols and response signals, and the SCCH allocation information symbols out to the P / S section 403, the RB allocation information symbols for the P / S section 206 and the response signals for the P / S section 210. Here, based on the specified result received as input from mapping specification section 406, demultiplexing section 402 demultiplexes the RB allocation information symbols and the response signals from the input signal.
The P / S section 403 converts a plurality of SCCH allocation information symbols in parallel, received as input from demultiplexing section 402 into serial SCCH allocation information symbols and passes the SCCH allocation information symbols into series for the demodulation section 404.
Demodulation section 404 demodulates SCCH allocation information symbols and demodulated SCCH allocation information is output to decoding section 405.
The decoding section 405 decodes the demodulated SCCH allocation information and passes the decoded SCCH allocation information to the mapping specification section 406.
Based on the SCCH allocation information received as input from decoding section 405, mapping specification section 406 specifies downlink control channels to which response signals for uplink data transmitted from the mobile station are mapped. For example, when the SCCH allocation information for the mobile station is SCCH No. 1 shown in figure 9, SCCH No. 1 is formed with CCE No. 1 and CCE No. 2, as shown in figure 9 and therefore as shown in figure 11, the mapping specification section 406 specifies CH # 1 and CH # 2 to be the downlink control channels for the mobile station to which the response signals are mapped. Then, the mapping specification section 406 transmits the specified result to the demultiplexing section 402. The specification process will be described in detail later.
In addition, based on the SCCH allocation information received as input from the decoding section 405, the mapping specification section 406 specifies the SCCH to which the RB allocation information symbols are mapped to the mobile station. For example, when the SCCH allocation information for a mobile station is SCCH No. 1, mapping specification section 406 specifies SCCH No. 1 to be a SCCH for the mobile station for which the allocation information symbols are RB to the mobile station are mapped. Then, the mapping specification section 406 transmits the specified result to demultiplexing section 402.
Demodulation section 208 decodes the demodulated RB allocation information and transmits the decoded RB allocation information to the transmission control section 214.
In the following, the mapping process in mapping section 305 at base station 300 and the specification process in mapping specification section 406 at mobile station 400 will be explained in detail.
With the present modality, mobile station 400 receives RB allocation information transmitted from base station 300 using SCCH No. 1 to SCCH No. 8, shown in figure 9. Also, base station 300 maps response signals to link data. ascending (ACK signals and NACK signals) for downlink control channels CH No. 1 to CH No. 8, mapped into four frequency bands, subcarriers fi to Í4, f<sub>9</sub> to fi2, fi7 to Í2o θ f25 to f28 shown in figure 6 and transmits response signals to mobile station 400. Also, similar to figure 2, propagation section 106 in base station 300 propagates the response signal with propagation code having propagation factor 4 and repetition section 107 repeats the propagation response signal with repetition factor 2. Also, as shown in figure 11, the CCEs shown in figure 9 and the downlink control channels shown in figure 6 are associated one by one.
Mapping section 305 maps response signals to mobile station 400 to a plurality of downlink control channels that are associated with a plurality of CCEs and which are subject to mapping distributed in the frequency domain. Mapping section 305 maintains association information between SCCHs and CCEs shown in figure 9, association information between CCEs and downlink control channels in figure 11 and the downlink control channel mapping information shown in figure 6 and Based on this, it maps the response signals to subcarriers to which the downlink control channels are mapped.
To be more specific, when the allocation information of
SCCH for mobile station 400 designates SCCH N ° 1, SCCH N ° 1 is formed with CCE N ° 1 and CCE N ° 2, as shown in figure 9. For this reason, mapping section 305 maps response signals to CH N ° 1 associated with CCE N ° 1 in figure 11, that is, it maps response signals for subcarriers fi to Í4 and I did af<sub>2</sub>o, shown in figure 6 and maps response signals to CH No. 2 associated with CCE No. 2 ie, maps response signals to subcarriers f<sub>9</sub> af<sub>12</sub> ef<sub>25</sub> af<sub>28</sub>.
Here, in the downlink control channel mapping shown in Figure 6, the downlink control channels (for example, CH # 1 and CH # 2) associated with two consecutive down-link CCEs in Figure 9 (for example, example, CCE N ° 1 and CCE N ° 2) are mapped to different frequency bands in a distributed manner. In other words, the downlink control channels mapped in a localized manner in identical frequency bands in figure 6 correspond to a plurality of non-consecutive downlink CCEs in two CCE intervals in figure 9. To be more specific, for example, downlink control channels mapped to subcarriers to Í4 shown in figure 6 in a localized manner are downlink control channels CH N ° 1, CH N ° 3, CH N ° 5 and CH N No. 7 and the downlink CCEs associated with those downlink control channels are non-consecutive CCEs at intervals of two CCEs, CCE No. 1, CCE No. 3, CCE No. 5 and CCE No. 7, as shown in figure 11.
Consequently, when base station 300 transmits response signals for uplink data transmitted from mobile station 400 to which RB allocation information is transmitted using a SCCH formed with a plurality of consecutive CCEs, it is possible to prevent response signals from mapped concentrated in bands of identical frequencies. That is, base station 300 is capable of mapping response signals across a plurality of frequency bands in a distributed manner, to transmit the response signals subject to distributed mapping. For example, as described above, when SCCH allocation information for mobile station 400 designates SCCH No. 1, mapping section 305 maps response signals to the subcarriers fj af<sub>4</sub> and fv af<sub>2</sub>o shown in figure 6 and response signals for subcarriers fg a fi2 θ Í25 af<sub>28</sub>. Hereby, response signals are mapped to all subcarriers af<sub>4</sub>, fg af<sub>12</sub>, fv af<sub>2</sub>oef<sub>2</sub>saf<sub>2</sub>and evenly, to which downlink control channels are mapped in a distributed manner.
In this way, mapping section 305 maps response signals to downlink control channels based on the associations between SCCHs and CCEs, shown in figure 9, the associations between CCEs and downlink control channels shown in figure 11 and the downlink control channel mapping, shown in figure 6, so that radio broadcast section 112 at base station 300 is capable of transmitting response signals to mobile station 400 using downlink control channels that are associated with downlink CCEs and are mapped in a distributed manner in the frequency domain .
Likewise, the mapping specification section 406 on mobile station 400 (figure 13) maintains the association information between SCCHs and CCEs shown in figure 9, the association information between CCEs and downlink control channels shown in figure 11 and the downlink control channel mapping information shown in figure 6 and specifies the downlink control channels for which response signals to the mobile station are mapped from the SCCH allocation information received. To be more specific, when mapping specification section 406 receives SCCH allocation information as input showing that SCCH No. 1 shown in figure 9 is allocated to a mobile station in decoding section 405, based on the associations shown in the figures 9 and 11, mapping specification section 406 specifies that the response signals to the mobile station are mapped to CH No. 1 and fi subcarriers<sub>7</sub> af<sub>2</sub>o, to which the CH N ° 1 downlink control channel is mapped and are mapped to subcarriers f<sub>9</sub> a ί<sub>Ί2</sub> ef<sub>25</sub> af<sub>28</sub>, to which the CH No. 2 downlink control channel is mapped, as shown in figure 6.
In this way, according to the present modality, when a SCCH is formed with a plurality of consecutive downlink CCEs, it is less likely that response signals are concentrated in identical frequency bands and are multiplexed by code, so that it is possible map response signals in a distributed manner in the frequency domain. Therefore, according to the present modality, similar to modality 1, it is possible to maximize the effect of frequency diversity in the downlink control channels.
Although a case with the present embodiment has been explained where a SCCH is an example of a control channel formed with a plurality of CCEs, control channels to apply in the present invention are not limited to a SCCH. All control channels formed with a plurality of consecutive CCEs are applicable to the present invention.
Also, similar to modality 2, the mapping section 305 in the present modality can map response signals to a plurality of downlink control channels mapped in a distributed way in the frequency domain in different patterns.
Also, similar to modality 3, the mapping section 305 in the present modality can map response signals to a plurality of downlink control channels, adopting different mapping patterns between neighboring cells or sectors.
Yet, although a case with the present modality has been explained where SCCH allocation information is transmitted before the RB allocation information is transmitted in an SCCH, it is not necessary to transmit SCCH allocation information before the transmission of the allocation information of RB. For example, the base station includes mobile station IDs that can identify mobile stations in SCCHs and transmit them and the mobile station decodes all received SCCHs28 and performs blind detection as to whether or not there is a SCCH for the mobile station, so that it is possible to make it unnecessary to transmit SCCH allocation information before the transmission of RB allocation information.
Also, as for the time to switch downlink control channels associated with CCEs to a newly allocated SCCH, fixed time can be set in advance, or a time that changes adaptively can be reported from the base station to the mobile station using, for example, a SCCH.
Also, when SCCH N ° 1 to SCCH N ° 6 adopt the configurations shown in figure 14, that is, when SCCH N ° 1 is formed with CCE N ° 1 and CCE N ° 3, SCCH N ° 2 is formed with CCE N ° 5 and CCE N ° 7, SCCH N ° 3 is formed with CCE N ° 2 and CCE N ° 4, SCCH N ° 4 is formed with CCE N ° 6 and CCE N ° 8, SCCH N ° 5 is formed with CCE N ° 1, CCE N ° 3, CCE N ° 5 and CCE N ° 7 and SCCH N ° 6 is formed with CCE N ° 2, CCE N ° 4, CCE N ° 6 and CCE N ° 8, control channels of downlink CH N ° 1 to CH N ° 8 can be mapped, as shown in figure 15. The downlink control channels (for example, CH N ° 1 and CH N ° 3) associated with a plurality of downlink CCEs forming the SCCHs (for example, CCE N ° 1 and CCE N ° 3 forming SCCH N ° 1) in figure 14, are mapped in different frequency bands in a distributed manner. Consequently, when base station 300 transmits response signals for uplink data transmitted from mobile station 400, to which RB allocation information is transmitted, using a SCCH formed with a plurality of CCEs, it is possible to prevent response signals. to be mapped concentrated in bands of identical frequencies. That is, as described above, the base station 300 is capable of transmitting response signals by mapping the response signals to a plurality of bands in a distributed manner.
Mode 5
A case with the present modality will be explained where the number of CCEs to use varies based on per subframe.
Studies are underway to change the number of OFDM symbols by which CCEs, which form a downlink control channel (for example, SCCH) to report uplink or downlink allocation information, are multiplexed (hereinafter hereinafter referred to as the number of OFDMs for multiplexing) on a per subframe basis. At that time, the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is reported from the base station to the mobile stations using a PCFICH (Physical Control Format Indicator Channel). There are more physical resources to multiplex CCEs by increasing the number of OFDMs for multiplexing and, therefore, the number of CCEs to use increases more. For example, when the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is one between CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 16, shown in figure 16, CCE N ° 1 to CH N ° 4 are multiplexed into an OFDM symbol and, when the number of OFDMs for multiplexing are two, CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 16 are multiplexed into two OFDM symbols. That is, in the case where an SCCH is formed with a CCE or a plurality of CCEs, any one of CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 4 is used when the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is one and any one of CCE N ° 1 CCE No. 16 is used when the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is two.
At that time, between CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 16 shown in figure 16, while CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 4 are used when a plurality of numbers of OFDMs for multiplexing (one or two) are different, CCE N ° 5 to CCE N ° 16 are used only when the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is two. That is, CCE No. 1 to CCE No. 16 are classified into CCEs for use among a plurality of different numbers of OFDMs for multiplexing and CCEs for not using. In addition, CCEs with downlink control channels for transmitting downlink response signals are associated and the number of CCEs for use increases or decreases, depending on the number of OFDMs for multiplexing and, consequently, the number of control channels. downlink used to transmit response signals increases or decreases. That is, similar to CCEs, downlink control channels are classified into downlink control channels for use among a plurality of different numbers of OFDMs for multiplexing and downlink control channels not to use.
Here, if the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is one, that is, if CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 4 shown in figure 16 are the only ones used, the downlink control channels CH N ° 1 to CH N ° 4 are mapped concentrated in bands of identical frequencies, the subcarriers f 1 to f<sub>4</sub> and the subcarriers n—<sub>17</sub> af<sub>2</sub>o, subject to downlink control channel mapping, shown in figure 2, for example. For this reason, the
I The transmission energy varies between frequency bands to which downlink control channels are mapped (that is, between four frequency bands of subcarriers af<sub>4</sub>, fg to fi2, did Í2o θ Í25 af<sub>2</sub>8, in figure 2). In particular, if the response signals are concentrated and multiplexed by code in frequency bands for which
I5 downlink control CH No. 1 to CH No. 4 are mapped, the interference energy against other cells increases. In addition, ISI increases in frequency bands in which response signals are concentrated and are multiplexed by code.
Then, with the present modality, link control channels> 0 descending for transmission of response signals in association with CCEs for use between a plurality of different numbers of OFDMs for multiplexing are mapped in a distributed way in the frequency domain.
Figure 17 shows the configuration of the base station 500 according to the present mode and Figure 19 shows the configuration of the mobile station 600 according to the present mode. In figure 17, the same reference numerals are assigned to the same components in figure 12 (Mode 4) and their description will be omitted. Also, in figure 19, the same reference numerals are attributed to the same components in figure 13 (Mode 4) and their description will be omitted.
On base station 500, shown in figure 17, the OFDM number determination section 501 determines the number of
OFDM whereby CCEs are multiplexed according to the number of SCCHs that are required to report control information on a per subframe basis. To be more specific, the OFDM number determination section 501 determines the increase in the number of OFDMs for multiplexing when the number of SCCHs that are required to report control information is greater. Then, the OFDM 501 number determination section generates multiplexed OFDM number determination information, showing the number of OFDMs for determined multiplexing and passes the generated multiplexed OFDM number determination information to coding section 502 and to allocation section of SCCH 505.
The encoding section 502 encodes the multiplexed OFDM number determination information and the encoded multiplexed OFDM number determination information exits to the modulation section 503.
Modulation section 503 modulates encoded multiplexed OFDM number determination information, to generate multiplexed OFDM number determination information symbols and outputs multiplexed OFDM number determination information to S / P section 504.
S / P section 504 converts the multiplexed OFDM number determination information symbols received as input from the serial modulation section 503 into multiplexed OFDM number determination information symbols in parallel and passes the information symbols in parallel for mapping section 506.
Based on the multiplexed OFDM number determination information received as input from the multiplexed OFDM number determination section 501, the SCCH allocation section 505 allocates SCCHs to mobile stations. For example, when the number of multiplexed OFDMs received as input from the multiplexed OFDM number determination section 501 is one, the SCCH allocation section 505 allocates SCCHs formed with a CCE or a plurality of CCEs between
CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 4 shown in figure 16 above, for mobile stations. Meanwhile, when the number of multiplexed OFDMs received as input from the multiplexed OFDM number determination section 501 is two, the SCCH allocation section 505 allocates SCCHs formed with a CCE or a plurality of CCEs between CCE No. 1 to CCE N ° 16, shown in figure 16 above, for mobile stations.
Mapping section 506 maps multiplexed OFDM number determination information symbols, RB allocation information symbols and response signals to a plurality of subcarriers, forming an OFDM symbol and passes them to the IFFT section 507. Here, mapping section 506 maps response signals to downlink control channels CCE No. 1 to CCE No. 16, including downlink control channels CH No. 1 to CH No. 4, which are mapped distributed in the frequency domain in association with CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 4 for use among a plurality of different numbers of OFDMs for multiplexing, between CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 16, shown in figure 16 above. This mapping process will be described in detail later.
In addition, mapping section 506 maps the information symbols for determining the number of multiplexed OFDMs to PCFICHs mapped in the frequency domain.
The IFFT 507 section performs an IFFT on multiplexed OFDM number determination information symbols, RB allocation information symbols and response signals mapped to a plurality of subcarriers, to generate an OFDM symbol and passes the OFDM generated for CP 111 addition section.
Downlink control channels for transmitting response signals (for example, ACK / NACK channels), PCFICHs and CCEs are multiplexed into physical resources defined in the frequency and time domains, as shown in figures 18A and 18B , for example. When the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is one, as shown in figure 18A, channels of ACK / NACK, PCFICHs and CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 4 are multiplexed in an OFDM symbol and, when the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is two, as shown in figure 18B, ACK / NACK channels, PCFICHs and CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 16 are multiplexed into two OFDM symbols.
Meanwhile, at the mobile station 600, shown in figure 19, the FFT section 601 performs an FFT on the OFDM symbol after the CP removal, to acquire the multiplexed OFDM number determination information symbols, allocation information symbols RB and response signals and passes them to demultiplexing section 602.
IO Demultiplexing section 602 demultiplexes the input signals into the multiplexed OFDM number determination information symbols, the RB allocation information symbols and the response signals and passes the multiplexed OFDM number determination information symbols to the P / S section 603, the RB allocation information symbols for the P / S section 206 and the response signals for the P / S section 210.
The P / S section 603 converts the multiplexed OFDM number determination information symbols in parallel received as input from the demultiplexing section 602 into the multiplexed multiplexed OFDM number determination information symbols' 0 and passes the information symbols for determining the number of multiplexed OFDMs in series for demodulation section 604.
Demodulation section 604 demodulates multiplexed OFDM number determination information and passes multiplexed OFDM number termination information to decoding section 605.
The decoding section 605 decodes the multiplexed OFDM number determination information and passes the decoded multiplexed OFDM number determination information to the multiplexed OFDM number extraction section 606.
The multiplexed OFDM number extraction section 606 extracts the number of OFDMs for multiplexing that is multiplexed from the multiplexed OFDM number determination information received as input to the decoding section 605.
Based on the number of multiplexing OFDMs received as input from the multiplexed OFDM number extraction section 606, the mapping specification section 607 specifies downlink control channels to which response signals are mapped and CCEs for use for allocation SCCH. Then, the mapping specification section 607 outputs the specified result for demultiplexing section 602. The specification processing will be described in detail later.
In the following, the mapping processing in the mapping section 506 at the base station 500 and the specification processing in the mapping specification section 607 at the mobile station 600 will be explained in detail.
With the present modality, as shown in figure 16, there are two possible values for the number of OFDMs for multiplexing, one or two. In addition, mobile station 600 receives RB allocation information transmitted from base station 500, using SCCHs formed with a CCE or a plurality of CCEs, between CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 16, shown in the figure
16. Also, similar to modality 4, propagation section 106 at base station 5 propagates the response signal with the propagation code having propagation factor 4 and repetition section 107 repeats the propagation response signal with repetition factor 2. However , for ease of explanation, an explanation will be given only for downlink control channels CH N ° 1 to CH N ° 16 mapped to four frequency bands, the subcarriers af<sub>4</sub>, f9 to fi<sub>2</sub>I did af<sub>20</sub> ef<sub>2</sub>5 af<sub>2</sub>and, to which response signals are mapped, as shown in figure 20, regardless of repetition. Still CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 16, shown in figure 16 and downlink control channels CH N ° 1 to CH N °
16, shown in figure 20, are associated one by one.
Mapping section 506 maps the response signals for mobile station 600 to downlink control channels CH No. to CH No. 16, including CH No. 1 to CH No. 4, which are subjected to mapping distributed in the domain frequency and that are associated with CCE No. 1 to CCE No. 4 for use among a plurality of different numbers of OFDMs for multiplexing between CCE No. 1 to CCE No. 16, shown in figure 16 above.
That is, as shown in figure 20, the CH # 1 downlink control channel is mapped to fi af subcarriers<sub>4</sub>, CH N ° 2 downlink control channel is mapped to fg to fi subcarriers<sub>2</sub>, CH N ° 3 downlink control channel is mapped to subcarriers fi<sub>7</sub> af<sub>2</sub>o and downlink control channel CH No. 4 is mapped to subcarriers f<sub>25</sub> af<sub>28</sub>.
Also, as shown in figure 20, downlink control channels CH No. 5 to CH No. 16 other than downlink control channels CH No. 1 to CH No. 4 are mapped to four frequency bands, the subcarriers fi af<sub>4</sub>, f<sub>9</sub> the fi<sub>2</sub>fi<sub>7</sub> af<sub>20</sub> ef<sub>25</sub> af<sub>28</sub>.
Here, in the mapping of the downlink control channel in figure 20, the downlink control channels CH No. 1 to CH No. 4, which are associated with CCE No. 1 to CH No. 4, for use between a plurality of different numbers of OFDMs for multiplexing (one or! 0 two), in figure 16, are mapped in a distributed way in different bands. In other words, the downlink control channels mapped locally in bands of identical frequencies in Figure 20 are channels outside the downlink control channels CH No. 1 to CH No. 4, associated with CCE No. 1 to CCE N ° 4 for use between a plurality of 5 different numbers of OFDMs for multiplexing in figure 16 and three channels outside the downlink control channels CH N ° 5 to CH N ° 16, associated with CCE N ° 5 to CCE N ° 16 used only when the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is two, in figure 16. To be more specific, for example, downlink control channels mapped to sub-carriers fi af<sub>4</sub>, shown in figure 20 in a localized manner are the downlink control channels CH N ° 1, CH N ° 5, CH N ° 9 and CH N ° 13. As shown in figure 16, the downlink CCEs in association with these downlink control channels are CCE N ° 1 for use between a plurality of different numbers of OFDMs for multiplexing (one or two) and CCE N ° 5, CCE N ° 9 and CCE N ° 13, which are used only when the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is two.
As a result, when base station 500 transmits response signals for uplink data transmitted from mobile station 600, RB allocation information transmitted using SCCHs, formed with CCEs for use between a plurality of different numbers of
OFDMs for multiplexing, it is possible to prevent response signals from being mapped concentrated in bands of identical frequencies. That is, the base station 500 is capable of mapping response signals across a plurality of frequency bands in a distributed manner, even when the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is one. That is, the number of response signals for code multiplexing is the same between frequency bands.
By this means, the transmission energy in frequency bands to which the downlink control channels for transmitting response signals are little changed and, therefore, the effect of the average transmission energy is improved. That is, it is possible to suppress an increase in part of the transmission energy in frequency bands to which the downlink control channels are mapped, in a concentrated manner, so that it is possible to reduce inter-cell interference between neighboring cells. In addition, it is possible to prevent> 5 response signals from being mapped concentrated in identical frequency bands because response signals are mapped in a distributed manner in the frequency domain, so that it is also possible to reduce ISI between downlink control channels mapped in bands of identical frequencies.
Thus, based on information about the number of
OFDMs for multiplexing shown in figure 16 and the downlink control channel mapping shown in figure 20. Mapping section 506 maps response signals to downlink control channels. Hereby, the radio transmission section 112 at base station 500 is capable of transmitting response signals to mobile station 600, using downlink control channels mapped in a distributed manner in the frequency domain in association with downlink CCEs to use between a plurality of different numbers of OFDMs for multiplexing.
Likewise, the mapping specification section 607 on mobile station 600 (figure 19) maintains information on the number of
OFDMs for multiplexing shown in figure 16 and the downlink control channel mapping information shown in figure 20 and specifies the downlink control channels to which the response signals to the mobile station are mapped, from the information number of multiplexed OFDMs received. For example, when the number of multiplexed OFDMs received as input from the multiplexed OFDM number extraction section 606 is one, the mapping specification section 607 specifies downlink control channels for which the response signals for mobile station are mapped, downlink control channels CH N °
1a CH N ° 4, shown in figure 20 in association with CCE N ° 1 to CCE N ° 4 shown in figure 16.
In this way, according to the present modality, downlink control channels in association with CCEs for use between different numbers of OFDMs for multiplexing are mapped in a distributed way in the frequency domain. In this way, response signals are less likely to be concentrated in bands of identical frequencies and multiplexed by code. Therefore, the present modality provides the same advantage as in Modality 4. Also, according to the present modality, even when the number of OFDMs for multiplexing30 changes on a per subframe basis, the transmission energy of downlink control channels is mediated between the frequency bands, so that it is possible reduce inter-cell interference between neighboring cells. In addition, according to the present modality, it is possible to reduce ISI between downlink control channels mapped in an identical frequency band.
Although a case with the present modality has been explained where there are two possible values, one or two, for the number of OFDMs for multiplexing, the present invention can also be implemented where there are three or more possible values for the number of OFDMs for multiplexing .
Yet, although a case with the present modality has been explained where a plurality of CCEs are classified in CCEs for use among a plurality of different numbers of OFDMs for multiplexing and CCEs not for use, a plurality of CCEs can be classified based on how often they are used. For example, if the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is between one and three, a CCE for use where the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is between one and three is high frequency of use, a CCE for use where the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is two or three is medium frequency of use and one CCE for use where the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is only three is low frequency of use. Then, the base station can map response signals to downlink control channels in a distributed manner in the frequency domain in association with a high frequency CCE of use.
One case has been explained with the present modality where the CCE numbers of CCEs (i.e., CCE No. 1 to CCE No. 4 shown in figure 16) for use between a plurality of different numbers of OFDMs for multiplexing are consecutive. However, the CCE numbers of CCEs for use among a plurality of different numbers of OFDMs for multiplexing are not limited to being consecutive. The present invention can also be implemented where the CCE numbers of CCEs for use among a plurality of different numbers of OFDMs for multiple use are non-consecutive.
Yet, although a case has been explained with the present modality where the CCE numbers and the downlink control channels for transmitting response signals are associated, the present invention can also be implemented in a case where link control channels descendant formed with a plurality of CCEs, for example, the SCCH numbers of SCCHs and downlink control channels for transmitting response signals are associated.
Still, although a case with the present modality has been explained where response signals are multiplexed in a plurality of downlink control channels mapped in different frequency bands in association with a plurality of CCEs for use between a plurality of different numbers of OFDMs for multiplexing, the multiplexing of response signals on a plurality of downlink control channels, mapped in different bands and the multiplexing of response signals in different propagation coding blocks are equivalent.
Still, although a case with the present modality has been explained where the number of OFDMs for multiplexing is determined according to the number of SCCHs that are required to report control information, with the present invention, where the number of OFDMs for multiplexing can be be determined according to other control information, without limitation on the number of SCCHs. For example, the number of OFDMs for multiplexing can be determined according to the number of multiplexing ACK / NACK channels that multiplex the response signals.
Modalities of the present invention have been explained.
> 5 The present invention can be applied to mobile stations located near a cell edge. In general, channel quality is poorer near a cell edge than in the center of a cell and a mobile station near a cell edge transmits uplink data using a MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme 50 Modulation and Coding Scheme). That is, a mobile station near a cell edge transmits uplink data using a lower encoding rate and a modulation scheme for a lower modulation M40 number than a mobile station near the center of a cell and therefore , longer uplink data lengths, that is, more consecutive RBS are required. Then, by applying the present invention to a mobile station near a cell edge, it is possible to obtain a greater effect of frequency diversity.
Yet, although cases with the above modalities have been explained as an example of completely consecutive RBS, the present invention can also be implemented through highly consecutive RBS, even when the RBS has partially non-consecutive portions.
Yet, although cases with the above modalities have been explained where the number of uplink RBS and the number of downlink CCEs is eight, the number of uplink RBS and the number of downlink CCEs are not limited to eight .
Still, although cases with the above modalities have been explained as an example where eight channels of downlink control CH N ° 1 to CH N ° 8 are mapped to sixteen subcarriers, the subcarriers af<sub>4</sub>, fg af<sub>12</sub>fi<sub>7</sub> af<sub>2</sub>o θ f<sub>2</sub>5 af<sub>2</sub>8, the number of subcarriers and the number of downlink control channels are not limited to these numbers. For example, as shown in figure 21, sixteen downlink control channels CH No. 1 to CH No. 16 are mapped to thirty-two subcarriers, as shown in figure 21.
Yet, although cases with the above modalities have been explained to show only subcarriers for which downlink control channels are mapped in the figures, other control channels or data channels can be mapped to frequencies in addition to the frequencies for which control channels downlink links are mapped.
Also, although cases with the above modalities have been explained where a response signal is propagated, a response signal can be mapped to a downlink control channel mapped to frequencies without propagating a response signal and transmitted. For example, as shown in figure 22, a response signal can be mapped to downlink control channels CH No. 1 to CH No. 8 in a distributed manner in the frequency domain, without propagating a response signal, i.e. , without code multiplexing on the same frequencies.
Yet, although cases with the above modalities have been explained as examples where the SF propagation factor is 4 in the propagation section 106 and the RF repeat factor is 2 in the repetition section 107, SF and RF are not limited to these values.
Still, although cases with the above modalities have been explained about the downlink control channel mapping method, the present invention may be applicable to the uplink control channels. For example, the mobile station performs the same processing as the base station 100 or 300 above and the base station performs the same processing as the mobile station 200 or 400, so that the present invention can be applicable to the uplink.
Yet, although cases with the above modalities have been explained, where DFTs-FDMA is used as an uplink access scheme, the present invention is not limited to DFTs-FDMA and the same advantage as above can be provided in an communication in which a plurality of consecutive RBS is allocated to a mobile station and a communication scheme in which a control channel is formed from a plurality of consecutive CCEs.
Yet, although cases with the above modalities have been explained as an example where the downlink communication scheme is the OFDM scheme, the downlink communication scheme is not limited in the present invention and the same advantage as above can be provided in a communication scheme of carrying out transmission, using different frequencies.
In addition, the downlink control channels for transmitting response signals used in explaining the above modalities are channels for feedback of ACK signals or NACK signals to mobile stations. For this reason, downlink control channels for transmitting response signals can be referred to as
DCCHs (Dedicated Control Channels), ACK / NACK channels, response channels and HICH (Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel).
Yet, although cases with the above modalities have been explained about downlink control channels for mapping response signals, signals mapped to downlink control channels are not limited to response signals. For example, control signals for reporting a modulation scheme or encoding rate by retransmission, control signals for reporting transmission energy via retransmission, control signals for reporting a time transmission are performed via retransmission or control signals for reporting RBS allocations through retransmission, they are mapped to downlink control signals.
In addition, the RB used in the explanation with the above modalities may have other transmission units in the frequency domain, for example, a subcarrier block and a subband.
A base station, a mobile station and a subcarrier can be referred to as Node B, UE and tone, respectively. A CP can be referred to as a guard interval (Gl).
In addition, the error detection method is not limited to a? 5 CRC check.
In addition, the transformation method between the frequency domain and the time domain is not limited to EFFT and FFT.
In addition, although cases with the above modalities have been described where the present invention can be implemented by software.
Each function block used in the description of the aforementioned modality, typically, can be implemented as an LSI consisting of an integrated circuit. This can be individual chips or partially or completely contained in a single chip. LSI is adopted here, but it can also be referred to as IC, LSI system, super-LDI or ultra-LSI, depending on different integration extensions.
Furthermore, the circuit integration method is not limited to
LSI's and implementation, using dedicated circuit or general purpose processors, is also possible. After LSI fabrication, the use of an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array - Field Programmable Gate Array) or a reconfigurable processor where connections and circuit speed settings within an LSI can also be reconfigured.
Still, if the integrated circuit technology comes to replace LSI's as a result of the advancement of semiconductor technology or other derived technology, of course, it is also possible to perform function block integration using this technology. The application of biotechnology is also possible.
The descriptions of Japanese Patent Application No. 2007-077502, filed on March 23, 2007, Japanese Patent Application No. 2007120853, filed on May 1, 2007 and Japanese Patent Application No.> 0 2007-211104, filed as of August 13, 2007, including specifications, drawings and abstracts, are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.
Industrial Applicability
The present invention is applicable, for example, to> 5 mobile communications systems.
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- RADIOCOMMUNICATION BASE STATION DEVICE AND CONTROL CHANNEL DISPOSAL METHOD
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