Channel arrangement method and wireless communication base station device

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DESCRIPTION

Wireless communication base station device and channel assignment method

Technical field

The present invention relates to a channel mapping method and a radio communications base station apparatus in multi-carrier communications.

Background of the technique

In recent years, various types of information such as images and data, in addition to voice, are transmitted in radio communications, and in particular, in mobile communications. In the future, the demands to follow the transmission at the higher speed are expected to increase even more, and the realization of the transmission at high speed requires a radio transmission technique to use the limited frequency resources more efficiently and make reality the efficiency of higher speed transmission.

One of the radio transmission techniques capable of meeting such demands is OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing). OFDM is a multicarrier transmission technique for parallel data transmission using many subcarriers, it has characteristics such as high frequency efficiency, reduced inter-symbol interference in a multipath environment, and is known to be effective in improved transmission efficiency.

Discussions are underway to realize frequency schedule transmission and frequency diversity transmission when frequency domain data is multiplexed to a plurality of mobile radio communications station apparatus (hereinafter referred to as , simply as "mobile stations") with a plurality of subcarriers using this OFDM in a downlink.

In frequency scheduling transmission, a radio communications base station apparatus (hereinafter simply referred to as "base station") adaptively assigns subcarriers to each mobile station based on received quality. by the frequency band in each mobile station, and thereby obtain maximum multi-user diversity effect and realize communication very efficiently. Such frequency schedule transmission is a suitable scheme for mainly data communication or high speed data communication when a mobile station is moving at a low speed. On the other hand, since the frequency schedule transmission needs feedback of the quality information received from each mobile station, the frequency schedule transmission is not suitable for data communication when the mobile station is moving at a speed. high. Furthermore, frequency scheduling is normally performed per resource block (RB) formed in a block by grouping several neighboring subcarriers in a unit of transmission time called "subframe". The channel for performing such frequency schedule transmission is referred to as a "localized channel" (hereinafter referred to as "Lch").

On the contrary, in frequency diversity transmission, the data for each mobile station is distributed across and assigned to subcarriers in the whole band, and therefore the effect of high frequency diversity can be obtained. Furthermore, the frequency diversity transmission does not need the quality information received from the mobile station, and therefore this is an efficient scheme in the above-described situation where it is difficult to apply the frequency schedule transmission. On the other hand, since the frequency diversity transmission is performed without taking into account the quality received at each mobile station, the multi-user diversity effect is not obtained as in the case of the frequency schedule transmission. The channel for performing such frequency diversity transmission is called "Distributed Channel" (hereinafter referred to as "Rch").

Furthermore, the frequency schedule transmission through the Lch and the frequency diversity transmission through the Dch can be performed at the same time. That is, the RBs used for the Lch and the RBs used for the Dch in a plurality of subcarriers of an OFDM symbol can be the multiplexed frequency domain. In this case, each RB and Lch are associated with each other and each RB and Dch are associated with each other in advance, and it is controlled in subframe units that the RB should use as Lch or Dch.

Furthermore, studies are being carried out to divide the RBs to be used by the Dch into a plurality of sub-blocks and to configure a Dch by a combination of different RB sub-blocks (for example, see non-patent document 1). To be more specific, when a RB is split into two sub-blocks, a R is mapped to two split sub-blocks.

Non-patent document 1: R1-072431 “Comparison between RB-level and Sub-carrier-level Distributed Transmission for Shared Data Channel in E-UTRA Downlink” from 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 LTE Meeting, Kobe, Japan, 7 to May 11, 2007.

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Disclosure of the invention

Problems to be solved by the invention

In accordance with the prior art described above, the interval between RBs to which a Dch is mapped (hereinafter referred to as "RB interval") is determined in advance. For example, a Dch is mapped to two RB subblocks where the interval Rb is "floor" ("basic") (the number of all RB / 2s). In this case, the operator floor (x) indicates the maximum integer that does not exceed x. This needs only the channel number of the Dch to be indicated from the base station to the mobile station, and therefore, the amount of control information can be suppressed to a small value. Furthermore, the Dch's can be mapped to the RBs at equal intervals. In this way, since the RB interval of the RB in which a Dch is mapped is determined in advance, the base station assigns the Dch's to the resource blocks first, and then allocates the Lch's to the resource blocks to avoid the collision between the assignment Dch and the assignment Lch.

In this case, when the base station allocates a plurality of Dch to a mobile station, the frequency diversity effect does not change basically, it does not matter that the Dch is allocated to the resource blocks, and therefore a plurality of Right with continuous channel numbers. In this way, by indicating only the first channel number and the last channel number among the continuous channel numbers from the base station to the mobile station, the mobile station can determine the Dch's assigned to that mobile station. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the control information to indicate the result of the Dch assignment.

On the other hand, when the base station allocates the Lchs, the base station reports the RBs to which the Lchs have been allocated to the mobile station through a bitmap type allocation report to allocate the Lchs to the mobile station. High quality RB. In this case, the base station groups of a plurality of RBs in a plurality of RB groups, allocate the Lch in RB group units, and thus reduce the control information to indicate the result of the allocation Lch. For example, in a system with 14 RB, mapping by RB needs 14 bits of control information, but mapping into RB group units made up of 2 rB needs only 7 bits of control information.

However, when Rch is mixed with Lch, if the interval of RB is mapped between RB in which a R is assumed to be the floor (the number of all RB / 2), there may be a case in the that Lch cannot be assigned in RB group units. Therefore, there may be some unoccupied BRs and the efficiency of utilization of communication resources may deteriorate. As a result, the performance of the system deteriorates. In this case, the assignment of unused and unoccupied RBs to Lch requires the assignment of Lch in RB units. However, the amount of control information to indicate the result of the Lch allocation becomes enormous and as a consequence the performance of the system deteriorates.

For example, when 14 consecutive RBs from # 1 to # 14 are divided in the frequency domain each into two sub-blocks, and the continuous channel numbers RB # 1 to # 14 are associated with RBs # 1 to # 14, a Dch is mapped to intervals of 7 (= floor (14/2)) RB. That is, RBs # 1 through # 7 are associated with one sub-block of RBs # 1 through # 7 and RBs # 8 through # 14 are associated with the other sub-block of RBs # 1 through # 7. Similarly, RBs # 1 through # 7 are associated with one sub-block of RBs # 8 through # 14 and RBs # 8 through # 14 are associated with the other sub-block of RBs # 8 through # 14. In this way, the RB # 1 is formed with the RB # 1 sub-block and the RB # 8 sub-block, and the RB # 2 is formed by the RB # 2 sub-block and the RB # 9 sub-block. The same applies to Rs # 3 through # 14.

In this case, when two Rs are assigned (for example Rch # 1 and Rch # 2), the Rs are assigned to RB # 1, # 2, # 8 and # 9 and the Lch are assigned to the rest of the RBs. . When the Lch are assigned to the units of a group of RB, each including two RBs, the Lch are assigned to the RB groups of (the RB # 3 and # 4), (the RB # 5 and # 6), ( RB # 11 and # 12) and (Rb # 13 and # 14). However, in the case of RB # 7 and RB # 10, since the other RBs that make up their respective RB groups are assigned to the Dch, the Lch cannot be assigned to RB # 7 and RB # 10. In this way, some RBs can remain idle without being used, causing the efficiency of using communication resources to deteriorate and thus, leading to a deterioration in system performance. In this case, the allocation of the RBs (RB # 7 and RB # 10) that can remain unoccupied without being used for the Lch requires the Lch allocation in the RB units. However, the Lch allocation in the RB units causes the amount of control information to indicate the result of the Lch allocation to become enormous, leading to a deterioration in system performance.

Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a channel mapping method for frequency diversity transmission and a base station capable of preventing the deterioration of system performance due to the deterioration in the efficiency of utilization of the resources of communication when performing frequency schedule transmission and frequency diversity transmission at the same time in multi-carrier communication.

Means to solve the problem

The channel mapping method according to the present invention divides a plurality of subcarriers that

ES 2 836 690 T3 comprise a multi-carrier signal in a plurality of blocks and resource groups of the plurality of resource blocks in a plurality of groups so that a distributed channel is mapped at intervals of an integer multiple of the number of resource blocks constituting a group in the plurality of resource blocks.

Advantageous effects of the invention

The present invention can avoid the deterioration of the utilization efficiency of communication resources when performing frequency schedule transmission and frequency diversity transmission at the same time in multi-carrier communication.

Brief description of the drawings

Figure 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a base station in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a mobile station in accordance with the embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 3 illustrates an Lch mapping method in accordance with the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 illustrates a Dch mapping method according to mapping method 1 of the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 5 illustrates an example of mapping according to mapping method 1 of the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 6 illustrates a Dch mapping method according to mapping method 1 of the embodiment of the present invention (the case of division into three parts);

Fig. 7 illustrates a Dch mapping method according to mapping method 2 of the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 8 illustrates an example of mapping according to mapping method 2 of the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 9 illustrates a Dch mapping method according to mapping method 3 of the embodiment of the present invention (when mapping method 1 is used);

Fig. 10 illustrates a Dch mapping method according to mapping method 3 of the embodiment of the present invention (when mapping method 2 is used);

Fig. 11 illustrates a Dch mapping method according to mapping method 4 of the embodiment of the present invention (when mapping method 1 is used);

Fig. 12 illustrates a Dch mapping method according to mapping method 4 of the embodiment of the present invention (when mapping method 2 is used);

Fig. 13 illustrates a Dch mapping method according to mapping method 5 of the embodiment of the present invention (when mapping method 1 is used); Y

Figure 14 illustrates a Dch mapping method according to mapping method 5 of the embodiment of the present invention (when mapping method 2 is used).

Best way to carry out the invention

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 illustrates a configuration of base station 100 in accordance with the present embodiment. The base station 100 divides a plurality of subcarriers that are composed of a symbol oFdM, which is a multi-carrier signal, into a plurality of RBs and uses the Dch and the Lch for each RB of the plurality of RBs. Furthermore, one of the Dch and Lch is assigned to a mobile station in the same subframe.

Base station 100 is provided with n (n is the number of mobile stations (MS) with which base station 100 can communicate) coding / modulation sections 101-1 to 101-n each comprising coding section 11 and modulation section 12 for the Dch data, n encoding / modulation sections 102-1 to 102-n each comprising encoding section 21 and modulation section 22 for the Lch data and n demodulation / decoding sections 115-1 to 115-n each comprising section 31 demodulation and section 32 decoding.

In the coding / modulation sections 101-1 to 101-n, the coding section 11 performs the coding processing using a turbo code or the like in the data # 1 to #n of the Right for each of the stations # 1 to #n mobiles and modulation section 12 performs modulation processing on the encoded RH data to thereby generate a RH data symbol.

In the coding / modulation sections 102-1 to 102-n, the coding section 21 performs the coding processing using a turbo code or the like in the data # 1 to #n of the Lch for each of the stations # 1 to #n mobiles and modulation section 22 performs modulation processing on the encoded Lch data to thereby generate an Lch data symbol. The coding rate and modulation scheme in

ES 2 836 690 T3 this case follows the MCS information (Modulation and Coding Scheme: MCS) input from the adaptive control section 116.

The allocation section 103 allocates the Dch data symbol and the Lch data symbol for each subcarrier which is composed of an OFDM symbol according to the control of the adaptive control section 116 and outputs the OFDM symbol to the multiplex section 104. In this case, the allocation section 103 collectively allocates the Dch data symbols and the Lch data symbols for each RB. Furthermore, in the allocation of the data symbols of the Lch, the allocation section 103 groups the plurality of RBs into a plurality of groups and allocates the Lch into RB group units. Furthermore, when a plurality of Rch is used for the Rch data symbol of a mobile station, the allocation section 103 uses the Rch with continuous channel numbers. Furthermore, the allocation section 103 assigns the data symbol of the Dch to a plurality of RBs to which a Dch is mapped at intervals of an integer multiple of the number of the RBs that constitute a group of RBs. In each RB, the mapping positions of the Rch and the Lch are associated with each other in advance. That is, the allocation section 103 stores a mapping pattern, which is the association between the Dch and the Lch, and the RBs in advance and assigns the data symbol of the Dch and the data symbol of the Lch to each RB accordingly. with the mapping pattern. The details of the Dch mapping method according to the present embodiment will be described later. In addition, the assignment of section 103 outputs the Dch data symbol assignment information (the information indicating which mobile station's Dch data symbol is assigned to which RB) and the RB symbol assignment information. Lch data (the information indicating which RB is assigned to the Lch data symbol of which mobile station) to control the information generation section 105. For example, the Dch data symbol assignment information includes only the first channel number and the last channel number of continuous channel numbers.

The control information generation section 105 generates the control information including the Dch data symbol assignment information, the Lch data symbol assignment information, and the MCS information input from the adaptive control section 116 and outputs the control information to the encoding section 106.

The encoding section 106 performs the encoding processing on the control information and the modulation section 107 performs the modulation processing on the encoded control information and outputs the control information to the multiplexing section 104.

The multiplexing section 104 multiplexes each data symbol input from the allocation section 103 with the control information and outputs the result of the multiplexing to the IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) section 108. The multiplexing of the control information is performed, for example, each subframe. According to the present embodiment, the multiplexing of the control information may be one of the time domain multiplexing and the frequency domain multiplexing.

IFFT section 108 performs IFFT on a plurality of subcarriers comprising a plurality of RBs to which control information and data symbols are assigned, to generate an OFDM symbol, which is a multicarrier signal.

The CP (Cyclic Prefix) sum section 109 adds the same signal as the last part of the OFDM symbol to the header of the OFDM symbol as a CP.

The radio transmission section 110 performs transmission processing such as D / A conversion, amplification and upconversion on the OFDM symbol with a CP and transmits the OFDM symbol from antenna 111 to each mobile station.

On the other hand, the radio reception section 112 receives n OFDM symbols at the same time transmitted from the maximum n mobile stations through the antenna 111 and performs reception processing, such as downconversion, A / D conversion into these OFDM symbols.

The CP delete section 113 removes the CP from the OFDM symbol after reception processing.

The FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) section 114 performs the FFT on the OFDM symbol without a CP to obtain a signal for each frequency domain multiplexed mobile station. In this case, the respective mobile stations transmit signals using subcarriers different from each other or RBs different from each other and a signal for each mobile station that includes the quality information received for each RB reported from each mobile station. Each mobile station can measure the received quality of each RB using the received SNR, received SIR, received SINR, received CINR, received power, interference power, bit error rate, throughput and MCS o similar that can achieve a certain error rate. Furthermore, the received quality information can be expressed as a "CQI" (Channel Quality Indicator), "CSI" (Channel Status Information), and so on.

In demodulation / decoding sections 115-1 to 115-n, demodulation section 31 performs the

ES 2 836 690 T3 processing the demodulation on the signal after the FFT and the decoding section 32 performs the decoding process on the demodulated signal. In this way, the received data is obtained. From the received data, the received quality information is input into the adaptive control section 116.

The adaptive control section 116 performs the adaptive control through the Lch data based on the quality information received for each RB reported from each mobile station. That is, for the encoding / modulation sections 102-1 to 102-n, the adaptive control section 116 selects an MCS by which a required error rate for each group of RBs can be satisfied based on the received quality information. for each RB and outputs the MCS information, and for allocation section 103, the adaptive control section 116 performs frequency scheduling to determine which RB group of data # 1 through #n of the Lch should be assigned, respectively, using a scheduling algorithm such as a SIR Max method or proportional fairness method. In addition, the adaptive control section 116 outputs the MCS information for each group of RBs to the control information generation section 105.

Next, the configuration of the mobile station 200 according to the present embodiment is shown in Fig. 2. The mobile station 200 receives a multi-carrier signal, which is an OFDM symbol composed of a plurality of sub-carriers divided into a plurality of RBs, from base station 100 (Figure 1). Also, the Dch and Lch are used for each RB in a plurality of RBs. Furthermore, one of the Dch and Lch is assigned to the mobile station 200 in the same subframe.

At mobile station 200, radio reception section 202 receives the OFDM symbol transmitted from base station 100 through antenna 201 and performs reception processing, such as down-conversion or A / D conversion on the symbol. OFDM.

The CP delete section 203 removes the CP from the OFDM symbol after reception processing.

The FFT section 204 performs the FFT on the OFDM symbol without a CP to obtain a received signal in which the control information and data symbols are multiplexed.

The demultiplexing section 205 demultiplexes the received signal after the FFT into a control signal and a data symbol. The demultiplexing section 205 outputs the control signal to the demodulation / decoding section 206 and outputs the data symbol to the unmapping section 207.

In demodulation / decoding section 206, demodulation section 41 performs demodulation processing of the control signal and decoding section 42 performs decoding processing of the demodulated signal. In this case, the control information includes the Dch data symbol assignment information, the Lch data symbol assignment information, and the MCS information. Next, the demodulation / decoding section 206 outputs the Dch data symbol allocation information and the Lch data symbol allocation information outside the control information to the demapping section 207.

The demapping section 207 extracts the data symbol assigned to that mobile station from the plurality of RBs to which the data symbols entered from the demultiplexing section 205 are assigned based on the allocation information entered from the section 206 of demodulation / decoding. In each RB, the mapping positions of the Dch and the Lch are associated with each other in advance as with base station 100 (FIG. 1). That is, the demapping section 207 stores the same mapping pattern as the allocation section 103 of the base station 100 and extracts the Dch data symbols and the Lch data symbols from a plurality of RBs according to the pattern. mapping. Furthermore, when the data symbol is extracted from the Lch, the unmapping section 207 extracts the Lch into RB group units into which a plurality of RBs are grouped into a plurality of groups. In addition, as described above, when a plurality of Dch is used for a data symbol of the Dch of a mobile station, the allocation section 103 of the base station 100 (FIG. 1) uses the Dch with continuous channel numbers. Furthermore, the assignment information included in the control information of the base station 100 indicates only the first channel number and the last channel number among the continuous channel numbers of the Dch used for the Dch data symbol. Thus, the demapping section 207 specifies the Dch used for the data symbol of the Dch assigned to that mobile station based on the first channel number and the last channel number indicated in the allocation information. To be more specific, the demapping section 207 identifies a plurality of continuous Dch's from the first channel number indicated in the allocation information to the last channel number indicated in the allocation information as the Dch used for the data symbol of the Right assigned to that mobile station. Next, the demapping section 207 extracts the RB associated with the specified channel number from the identified Dch and outputs the data symbol assigned to the extracted RB to the demodulation / decoding section 208.

In demodulation / decoding section 208, demodulation section 51 performs demodulation processing on the data symbol input from demapping section 207 and decoding section 52 performs decoding processing on the demodulated signal. In this way, the received data is obtained.

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On the other hand, in the coding / modulation section 209, the coding section 61 performs the coding processing using a turbo code or the like on the transmission data and the modulation section 62 performs the modulation processing on the transmission data. encoded to generate a data symbol. In this case, the mobile station 200 transmits the transmission data using different subcarriers or RBs from other mobile stations and the transmission data includes the received quality information for each RB.

IFFT section 210 performs IFFT on a plurality of subcarriers comprising a plurality of RBs to which data symbols input from coding / modulation section 209 are assigned, to generate an OFDM symbol, which is a multi-carrier signal.

The CP addition section 211 adds the same signal as the last part of the OFDM symbol to the header of the OFDM symbol as a CP.

Radio transmission section 212 performs transmission processing such as D / A conversion, amplification, and upconversion on the OFDM symbol with a CP and transmits the OFDM symbol to base station 100 (FIG. 1) from the antenna. 201.

Next, the Dch channel mapping method according to the present embodiment will be described. In the following explanations, a case will be described as a configuration example in which a plurality of subcarriers composed of an OFDM symbol is divided evenly into 14 RBs, from RBs # 1 to # 14, as shown in Fig. 3. Additionally, Lch # 1 through # 14 or Dch # 1 through # 14 are formed with each RB and the adaptive control section 116 controls the channels used by each mobile station. Furthermore, the Lch are assigned to each mobile station in RB group units. In this case, as shown in figure 3, RB # 1 to # 14 are grouped into RB groups, RBG # 1 to # 7. In this case, the number of RB constituting a group of RB (hereinafter referred to as "RB group size") is assumed to be 2. Therefore, as shown in the Figure 3, Lch # 1 and Lch # 2 mapped to RB # 1 and RB # 2 that constitute RBG1 are always assigned at the same time and Lch # 3 and Lch # 4 assigned to RB # 3 and RB # 4 that make up RBG2 are always assigned at the same time. The same applies for Lch # 5 through # 14 that constitute RBG # 3 through # 7, respectively. Furthermore, the configuration of the Lch in each RB shown in Fig. 3 and the configuration of the Dch in each RB shown below are associated with each other in advance in the allocation section 103.

In this case, since the frequency scheduling is done on the Lch in units of RB, each RB used for the Lch includes an Lch data symbol for only one mobile station. That is, an Lch corresponding to a mobile station is formed with an RB. Therefore, as shown in Figure 3, Lch # 1 through # 12 are mapped from RB # 1 through # 12, respectively. That is, the allocation unit of each Lch is "1 RB x 1 subframe".

On the other hand, since the frequency diversity transmission is performed for the Dch, the RB used for the Dch includes a plurality of Dch data symbols. In this case, each RB used for the Dch is temporarily divided into two sub-blocks and the different Dch are assigned to each sub-block. That is, a plurality of the different Dch's are time-domain multiplexed by 1 RB. Also, a Dch is formed with two different RB sub-blocks. That is, the allocation unit of each Dch is “(1 RB x 1/2 subframe) x 2” and is the same as the allocation unit of each Lch.

<Map method 1 (Figure 4)>

In the present mapping method, a Dch is mapped at intervals of an integer multiple of the RB group size for a plurality of RBs.

That is, the interval gap of the RB of the RBs in which a Dch is mapped is given by equation 1 below,

[1]

Gap = floor ((Nrb / Nd} / RBGsize) · RBGsize · · · (Equation 1) where Nrb is the number of all RBs, Nd is the number of sub-blocks into which a RB is divided and RBGsize is the group size by RB.

The following shows the relational expression between the channel number of the RB and an RB number of the RB to which the RB is mapped. The numbers j (indices) of RB Nd are assigned in which the Dch #k (k = 1 to 12) are given by equation 2 below.

[2] / = (((¿-1) + Hollow-p) mod (Hollow-aw)) + i, ρ ^ ο, ι, -, ^ - ι ·· (Equation 2)

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In this case, since Nrb = 14, Nd = 2, RBGsize = 2, the gap of the interval RB is 6 (= floor ((14/2) / 2) x 2) according to equation 1. Therefore , equation 2 above is j = (((k-1) + 6 xp) mod 12) + 1 (p = 0, 1), where k = 1, 2, ..., 12. In this way, maps a Dch in a distributed manner to two RBs of RB # (k) and RB # (k + 6), which are 6 RBs apart in the frequency domain. In other words, a Dch is mapped in a distributed manner to the 6 RBs apart from the RBs which is an integer multiple (in this case, three times) of the RB group size (RBGsize = 2) in the frequency domain. This interval of RB (interval RB 6) is a maximum interval equal to or below Nrb / Nd (= 14/2) between intervals of integer multiples of the group size of RB (RBGsize = 2).

To be more specific, as shown in figure 4, RB # 1 and # 7 map to RB # 1 (RB # 7), RB # 2 and # 8 map to RB # 2 (RB # 8) , Right # 3 and # 9 map to RB # 3 (RB # 9), Right # 4 and # 10 map to RB # 4 (RB # 10), Right # 5 and # 11 map to RB # 5 (RB # 11) and RB # 6 and # 12 map to RB # 6 (RB # 12). That is, according to the present mapping method, the maximum number of Dch that the allocation section 103 can assign to the RBs is 12.

Next, FIG. 5 illustrates an assignment example in assignment section 103 (FIG. 1) of base station 100 when four Dch's are assigned to a mobile station's Dch data symbol. In this case, to simplify the explanation, Rch # 1, # 2, # 7 and # 8 are assigned so that no odd sub-blocks are produced in the RBs used for Rch. Furthermore, the allocation section 103 stores the mapping pattern of the Dch shown in FIG. 4 in advance and assigns the data symbols of the Dch to the RBs according to the mapping pattern shown in FIG. 4.

As shown in Figure 5, the allocation section 103 assigns the data symbols of the RB # 1 and RB # 7 sub-block that make up RB # 1, the RB # 2 sub-block, and the RB # 2 sub-block. RB # 8 that make up RB # 2, the RB # 1 sub-block and RB # 7 sub-block that make up RB # 7, and the RB # 2 sub-block and RB # 8 sub-block that make up RB # 8 . That is, as shown in Figure 5, the data symbols of the Right are assigned to RB # 1, # 2, # 7 and # 8. Therefore, four Rs are assigned to the RB sub-blocks, RB # 1 and # 2 constituting RBG1 and RB # 7 and # 8 constituting RBG4 covering all RBs.

Furthermore, as shown in Figure 5, the allocation section 103 assigns the data symbols of the Lch to the rest of the other RBs other than the RBs to which the data symbols of the Dch are allocated, that is, the RBs. # 3 to # 6 and RBs # 9 to # 14. As described above, each Lch is assigned to the RB group units. In this way, as shown in Figure 5, the allocation section 103 assigns the data symbols from Lch to RB # 3 and RB # 4 that constitute RBG2 in which Lch # 3 and Lch # 4 are linked. map respectively, to RB # 5 and RB # 6 that constitute RBG3 in which Lch # 5 and Lch # 6 are mapped respectively, to RB # 9 and RB # 10 that constitute RBG5 in which Lch # 9 and Lch # 10 are mapped respectively, to RB # 11 and RB # 12 that constitute RBG6 in which Lch # 11 and Lch # 12 are mapped respectively, and to RB # 13 and RB # 14 that constitute RBG7 in which Lch # 13 and Lch # 14 are mapped respectively. That is, Lch # 3 through # 6 and Lch # 9 through # 14 shown in Figure 3 are used for the Lch data symbols. In this way, when the Lch data symbols are assigned to the RBs other than the RBs to which the Dch data symbols are assigned, the assignment section 103 can assign the Lch data symbols in the group units. of RB covering all RB.

Next, an extraction example will be described in the unmapping section 207 of the mobile station 200 (FIG. 2) in which the data symbols of the Dch using four Dch's are assigned to the mobile station 200. In this case, to simplify the explanation, the Rs # 1, # 2, # 7 and # 8 are used for the RB data symbols so that no odd sub-blocks are produced in the RBs. Furthermore, as with the allocation section 103, the unmapping section 207 stores the mapping pattern of the Dch shown in Fig. 4 in advance and extracts the data symbols of the Dch from a plurality of RBs according to the mapping pattern shown. in figure 4.

As with the allocation section 103, as shown in Figure 5, the unmapping section 207 extracts the RB # 1 formed with the RB # 1 sub-block and the RB # 7 sub-block, the RB # 2 formed with the RB # 7 sub-block of RB # 2 and RB # 8 sub-block, RB # 7 formed with RB # 1 sub-block and RB # 7 sub-block and RB # 8 formed with RB # 2 sub-block and RB # sub-block 8. That is, as shown in FIG. 5, the demapping section 207 extracts the data symbols from the Dch assigned to RBs # 1, # 2, # 7 and # 8 as data symbols addressed to the target station. In other words, as shown in figure 5, unmapping section 207 extracts four Rs assigned to RBG1 formed with RB # 1 and # 2 and RBG4 formed with RB # 7 and # 8 covering all RBs as symbols. of data directed to the target station.

In this way, according to the present mapping method, the RB interval of the RBs to which a Dch is assigned is set to an integer multiple of the RB group size of the RB group used for the Lch assignment (three times in the present mapping method). If the Lch's are assigned to the rest of the RBs then the Dch's are assigned, this allows the base station to assign the Lch's in RB group units without producing any RBs that cannot be used. Therefore, according to the present mapping method, even when the frequency schedule transmission and frequency diversity transmission are performed at the same time, it is possible to prevent the performance of the system from deteriorating due to the deterioration of efficiency. use of communication resources. Furthermore, according to the present mapping method, the Lch can be assigned without producing

ES 2 836 690 T3 no idle RB and the performance of the Lch can therefore be improved. Furthermore, according to the present mapping method, the Lch are assigned to the RB group units, and therefore, the amount of control information to indicate the result of the Lch assignment can be reduced.

In this case, with the 14 RBs (RB # 1 through # 14) shown in Figure 4, a maximum of 14 RB can be assigned. On the contrary, according to the present mapping method, a maximum of 12 Dch can be assigned as described above. That is, according to the present mapping method, the number of Dch that can be assigned is reduced by an amount corresponding to the RB group size (two Dch in Figure 4) at most. However, since the applications of the Dch are limited to data communication when a mobile station is moving at a high speed or the like, it is extremely rare that the Dch are assigned to all the RBs. Therefore, there is basically no deterioration in system performance due to a decrease in the number of Dch's that can be assigned using the present mapping method. On the other hand, the improvement in system performance by allocating the Lch without producing any idle RB # using the present mapping method becomes more important than the deterioration of system performance.

Although a case has been described in the present mapping method in which a RB is divided into two parts when the Dch are used, the number of divisions is not limited to 2, but an RB can be divided into three parts. For example, Figure 6 illustrates a mapping method in which an RB is divided into three parts when using the Rs. In the mapping method illustrated in Figure 6, when, for example, six Dch's are mapped, the Dch's can be mapped into the RB groups that cover all the RB sub-blocks, and thus effects similar to those of the present method can be obtained. mapping. Also, as shown in Fig. 6, since a Dch distributed across three RBs is configured, the diversity effect can be improved more than in the case of two-part division.

<Map method 2 (Figure 7)>

The present mapping method is the same as mapping method 1 in that a Dch is mapped at intervals of an integer multiple of the RB group size among a plurality of RBs, but the present mapping method is different from method 1 of mapping in which a Dch is mapped in the maximum interval between the possible intervals of the integer multiples of the group size of RB.

That is, the RB interval gap between the RBs to which a Dch is mapped is given by the following equation 3. [3]

Gap = floor ((Nrb - Wgap Nd} / RBGsize} · RBGsize + Wgap · · · (Equation 3) where, Wgap = floor ((Nrb / Nd) / RBGsize) x RBGsize and is equivalent to equation 1.

The numbers j (indices) of the RB Nd are assigned in which the Dch #k (k = 1 to 12) are given by equation 4 below.

[4] j = ((k - l) mod (PKgap)) + 1 + Gap p, p = o, l, ···, Nd -1 · · · (Equation 4) where, the Rs of k = 1 , 2, ..., WGAP are mapped to the first half of the RB sub-blocks and the R's of k = WGAP + 1, WGAP + 2, ..., Wgap x Nd are mapped to the last half of the RB sub-blocks.

In this case, since Nrb = 14, Nd = 2, RBGsize = 2 and WGAP = 6, the RB interval gap is 8 (= floor ((14/2) / 2) x 2 + 6) according to Equation 3. Therefore, equation 4 above becomes j = ((k-1) mod (6)) + 8 xp (p = 0, 1), where, k = 1, 2, ... , 12. In this way, a Dch is mapped, in a distributed manner, to two RBs of RB # (k) and RB # (k + 8), which are 8 RBs apart in the frequency domain. In other words, a Dch is mapped in a distributed manner to the 8 RBs apart from the RBs which is an integer multiple (in this case, four times) of the RB group size (RBGsize = 2) in the frequency domain. Furthermore, according to the present mapping method (Equation 3), the RB interval increases by the number of RB of the RB groups to which the Dch are not assigned compared to the RB interval (Equation 1) of method 1 mapping. To be more specific, according to mapping method 1 (figure 4), the RBs are not mapped to two RBs of RBs # 13 and # 14. Therefore, the RB interval gap according to the present mapping method becomes 8 RB which is 2 RB greater than the 6 RB interval RB according to mapping method 1. This is because, according to mapping method 1 (figure 4), RBs in which no Dch is mapped are assigned to one end of all RBs, while according to the present mapping method, RBs in which no Dch is mapped are assigned to the central part of all RBs.

To be more specific, as shown in figure 7, RB # 1 and # 7 map to RB # 1 (RB # 9), RB # 2 and # 8 map to RB # 2 (RB # 10) , Right # 3 and # 9 map to RB # 3 (RB # 11), Right # 4 and # 10 map to RB # 4 (RB # 12), Right # 5 and # 11 map to RB # 5 (RB # 13), and RB # 6 and # 12 map to RB # 6 (RB # 14). That is, according to the present mapping method, the maximum number of Dch that can be assigned to RBs

ES 2 836 690 T3 by allocation section 103 is 12 as with mapping method 1. Furthermore, according to mapping method 1 (figure 4), the RBs to which no Dch is mapped are the last RB # 13 and # 14 of the RB # 1 to # 14, while according to the present mapping method, the RBs to which no RB is mapped are RB # 7 and # 8 as shown in figure 7. That is, no RB is mapped to the central part of all RBs. In this way, the two RB subblocks that make up each Dch are mapped extending to a maximum extent through RB # 1 to # 6 and RB # 9 to # 14 on both sides of RB # 7 and # 8. That is, the Dch # 1 through # 12 are mapped into a maximum interval (8 RB interval) between the possible intervals of the integer multiples of the RB group size outside the 14 RB.

Next, as with mapping method 1, Fig. 8 illustrates a mapping example in which four Dch's are used for the Dch data symbols of a mobile station. In this case, Dch # 1, # 2, # 7 and # 8 are assigned as with mapping method 1. Furthermore, the allocation section 103 stores the mapping pattern of the Dch shown in FIG. 7 in advance and assigns the data symbols of the Dch to the RBs according to the mapping pattern shown in FIG. 7.

As shown in Figure 8, the allocation section 103 assigns the data symbols of the Dch to the sub-block of RB # 1 and to the sub-block of RB # 9 that make up the Dch # 1, to the sub-block of RB # 2, and to the sub-block of RB # 2. RB # 10 that make up RB # 2, the RB # 1 sub-block and RB # 9 sub-block that make up RB # 7, and the RB # 2 sub-block and RB # 10 sub-block that make up RB # 8 . That is, the data symbols from R are assigned to RB # 1, # 2, # 9, and # 10 as shown in Figure 8. That is, the four Rs are assigned to RB # 1 and # 2 that make up RBG1, and RB # 9 and # 10 that make up RBG5 that covers all RB sub-blocks.

Also, as shown in Figure 8, the allocation section 103 assigns the Lch data symbols to the rest of RBs # 3 through # 8 and RBs # 11 through # 14 other than the RBs to which they have been assigned. assigned the right data symbols. In this case, the allocation section 103 allocates the Lch data symbols in RB group units as with mapping method 1. To be more specific, as shown in FIG. 8, the allocation section 103 assigns the Lch data symbols to two RBs constituting RBGs # 2, # 3, # 4, # 6, and # 7, respectively. That is, Lch # 3 through # 8 and Lch # 11 through # 14 shown in Figure 3 are used for the Lch data symbols. In this way, in assigning the Lch data symbols to blocks other than the RBs to which the Dch data symbols have been assigned, the assignment section 103 can assign the Lch data symbols in group units. RB covering all RBs as with mapping method 1.

Next, an extraction example will be described in the unmapping section 207 of the mobile station 200 (FIG. 2) in which the data symbols of the Dch using four Dch are assigned to the mobile station 200. In this case, Rch # 1, # 2, # 7, and # 8 are used for Rch data symbols as with mapping method 1. In addition, the demapping section 207 stores the mapping pattern of the Dch shown in FIG. 7 in advance as with the mapping section 103 and extracts the data symbols of the Dch from a plurality of RBs according to the mapping pattern shown in figure 7.

As with the allocation section 103, as shown in Figure 8, the unmapping section 207 extracts the RB # 1 formed with the RB # 1 sub-block and the RB # 9 sub-block, the RB # 2 formed with the RB # 9 sub-block RB # 2 and RB # 10 sub-block, RB # 7 formed with RB # 1 sub-block and RB # 9 sub-block, and RB # 8 formed with RB # 2 sub-block and RB sub-block # 10. That is, as shown in FIG. 8, the demapping section 207 extracts the data symbols from the Dch assigned to RBs # 1, # 2, # 7 and # 8 as data symbols addressed to the target station. In other words, as shown in figure 8, the unmapping section 207 extracts four Rs assigned to RBG1 formed with RB # 1 and # 2, and RBG5 formed with RB # 9 and # 10 covering all RBs. as data symbols directed to the target station.

In this case, in FIG. 8, as in the case of mapping method 1 (FIG. 5), the data symbols of the Dch are assigned to four RBs and the data symbols of the Lch are assigned to 10 RBs. However, according to the present mapping method as shown in Figure 8, the data symbols of the Dch are assigned in a distributed manner to RB # 1, RB # 2, RB # 9 and RB # 10, and by therefore, their interval is longer by the RB interval in which no Dch is assigned (RB interval of 2 of RB # 7 and # 8) than by mapping method 1 (figure 5). Therefore, the present mapping method can improve the frequency diversity effect.

Hereby, the present mapping method maps a Dch in a maximum interval (RB interval of 8 of four times the RB group size in figure 7) between the possible intervals of the integer multiples of the RB group size. . Hereby, Lch's can be allocated in RB group units while maximizing the RB range of a Dch without producing any RB that cannot be used. Therefore, according to the present mapping method, it is possible to obtain similar effects as mapping method 1 and improve the frequency diversity effect compared to mapping method 1.

Although a case has been described in the present mapping method in which a RB is divided into two parts when using the Dch, the number of divisions of a RB is not limited to two, but rather the number of divisions of a RB it can be three or more as in the case of mapping method 1.

ES 2 836 690 T3 <Map method 3 (Figure 9)>

The present mapping method is the same as with mapping method 1 in that a Dch is mapped at intervals of an integer multiple of RB group size among a plurality of RBs, but the present mapping method differs from method 1 of mapping in which a plurality of Dch with continuous channel numbers are mapped to one RB.

Hereinafter, the present mapping method will be described more specifically. In this case, a Dch is mapped to two RBs which are mapped in a distributed manner at 6 RB intervals as with mapping method 1 (Figure 4).

As shown in Figure 9, RB # 1 and # 2 with continuous channel numbers are mapped to RB # 1 (RB # 7). Similarly, RB # 3 and # 4 map to RB # 2 (RB # 8), RB # 5 and # 6 map to RB # 3 (RB # 9), RB # 7 and # 8 are map to RB # 4 (RB # 10), RB # 9 and # 10 map to RB # 5 (RB # 11) and RB # 11 and # 12 map to RB # 6 (RB # 12).

In this way, since a Dch is mapped to two RBs at 6 RB intervals, in assigning the Lch to the rest of the RB after assigning the Dch as with mapping method 1, it is possible to assign the Lch in units RB group without producing any RB that cannot be used. Furthermore, since a plurality of Dch with continuous channel numbers are mapped to one RB, when a mobile station uses a plurality of Dch, all the one RB sub-blocks are used first, and then the other RBs are used. Therefore, the data symbols are assigned to some sub-blocks of a plurality of sub-blocks that constitute an RB, and on the other hand, it is possible to minimize the possibility that other sub-blocks cannot be used later. This makes it possible to improve the efficiency of utilization of the resources of the Dch.

In addition, as with mapping method 1, the base station 100 allocation section 103 (Figure 1) and the mobile station 200 unmapping section 207 (Figure 2) store the mapping pattern of the Dch shown in the figure. 9, which is the correspondence between the RB and the Dch, in advance. Next, the allocation section 103 of the base station 100 allocates the RB data symbols to the RBs according to the RB mapping pattern shown in FIG. 9. On the other hand, the unmapping section 207 of the mobile station 200 extracts the data symbols of the Dch directed to the target station from a plurality of RBs according to the mapping pattern of the Dch shown in Fig. 9 as with the section 103 assignment.

Hereby, the present mapping method maps a plurality of RBs to continuous channel numbers in one RB, and thus increases the probability that the data symbols can be assigned to all RB subblocks used for the RBs. Therefore, it is possible to avoid the deterioration of the system performance due to the deterioration of the utilization efficiency of the communication resources compared to the mapping method 1.

As with mapping method 2 (Figure 7), the present mapping method can map a Dch in the maximum interval between possible intervals of the integer multiples of the RB group size. To be more specific, as shown in Figure 10, a Dch can be mapped to the mapped RB in a distributed manner at 8 RB intervals. This makes it possible to achieve a diversity effect similar to that of mapping method 2, while effects similar to those of the present mapping method are achieved.

<Map method 4 (Figure 11)>

The present mapping method is the same as with mapping method 1 in which a Dch is mapped to intervals of an integer multiple of the RB group size of a plurality of RBs, but the present mapping method is different from the method 1 mapping in which a plurality of Dch with continuous channel numbers are mapped to different RBs constituting a group of RBs.

Hereinafter, the present mapping method will be described more specifically. In this case, as with mapping method 1 (Figure 4), a Dch is mapped to two RBs mapped in a distributed manner at 6 RB intervals.

As shown in figure 11, RB # 1 and # 3 map to RB # 1 (RB # 7), RB # 2 and # 4 map to RB # 2 (RB # 8), RB # 5 and # 7 map to RB # 3 (RB # 9), RB # 6 and # 8 map to RB # 4 (RB # 10), RB # 9 and # map to RB # 5 (RB # 11 ) and RB # 10 and # 12 map to RB # 6 (RB # 12).

That is, as shown in Figure 11, Dch # 1 through # 4 with continuous channel numbers are mapped to RB # 1 and # 2 (RB # 7 and # 8) that make up RBG1 (RBG4). Also, on RBG1 (RBG4), RB # 1 (RB # 3) and RB # 2 (RB # 4) with continuous channel numbers between RB # 1 through # 4 are mapped to different RBs from RB # 1 and # 2, respectively. Also, as shown in Figure 11, RB # 3 and RB # 2 with continuous channel numbers are also mapped to different RBs from RB # 1 and # 2, respectively. The same applies to RBG2 (RBG5) and RBG3 (RBG6).

In this way, since a plurality of Dch with continuous channel numbers are mapped to a group of RB, even

ES 2 836 690 T3 when a mobile station uses a plurality of R's, the RBs are used in RB group units for the R's. Therefore, when RBs other than the RBs used for the Dch are assigned to the Lch, the RBs can also be used in RB group units for the Lch. That is, since RBs can be used comprehensively, it is possible to avoid the deterioration in the efficiency of utilization of communication resources more than in mapping method 1. Furthermore, in the RB group, the Dch's with continuous channel numbers are mapped to different Rb, and therefore, the diversity effect can be enhanced.

In addition, as with mapping method 1, the base station 100 allocation section 103 (Figure 1) and the mobile station 200 unmapping section 207 (Figure 2) store the mapping pattern of the Dch shown in the figure. 11, which is the correspondence between the RB and the Dch, in advance. Next, the allocation section 103 of the base station 100 allocates the data symbols from the Dch to the RBs according to the Dch mapping pattern shown in FIG. 11. On the other hand, as with the allocation section 103, the unmapping section 207 of the mobile station 200 extracts the Dch data symbols addressed to the target station from a plurality of RBs according to the Dch mapping pattern shown in figure 11.

Hereby, the present mapping method maps a plurality of Dch with continuous channel numbers in different RBs constituting a group of RBs respectively. Hereby, even when a plurality of Dch is used, the plurality of Dch is collectively assigned in RB group units. That is, even when a mobile station uses a plurality of Dch's, the Dch's are assigned to RB units, and therefore the Lch's can also be assigned in RB group units. In this way, the present mapping method can avoid the deterioration of the system performance due to the deterioration of the utilization efficiency of the communication resources compared to the mapping method 1. Furthermore, since different Dch's with continuous channel numbers are assigned to different RBs within a group of RBs, the frequency diversity effect can be further enhanced.

As with mapping method 2 (Figure 7), the present mapping method can also map a Dch in the maximum interval between possible intervals of the integer multiples of the RB group size. To be more specific, as shown in Figure 12, a Dch can be mapped to the mapped RBs in a distributed manner at 8 RB intervals. This makes it possible to achieve a diversity effect similar to that of mapping method 2, while effects similar to those of the present mapping method are achieved.

<Map method 5 (Figure 13)>

The present mapping method is the same as with mapping method 4 in that a plurality of Dch with continuous channel numbers are mapped to different RBs that constitute a group of RBs, but the present mapping method is different from method 4 of mapping in which a plurality of Dch with discontinuous channel numbers are mapped to RBs neighboring each other among a plurality of RBs constituting groups RBs of neighbors to each other.

Hereinafter, the present mapping method will be described more specifically. In this case, as with mapping method 1 (Figure 4), a Dch is mapped to two RBs mapped in a distributed manner at 6 RB intervals.

As shown in figure 13, RB # 1 and # 7 map to RB # 1 (RB # 7). Right # 2 and # 8 map to RB # 2 (RB # 8), Right # 5 and # 11 map to RB # 3 (RB # 9), Right # 6 and # 12 map to RB # 4 (RB # 10), RB # 3 and # 9 map to RB # 5 (RB # 11), and RB # 4 and # 10 map to RB # 6 (RB # 12).

That is, as shown in Figure 13, RB # 1 and # 2 (Rch # 7 and # 8) with continuous channel numbers are mapped to RB # 1 and # 2 that make up RBG1. Similarly, RB # 5 and # 6 (Rch # 11 and # 12) with continuous channel numbers are mapped to RB # 3 and # 4 that make up RBG2, and RB # 3 and # 4 (RB # 9 and # 10) with continuous channel the numbers are mapped to RB # 5 and # 6 that constitute RBG3.

Also, a plurality of different Dch's with discontinuous channel numbers are mapped to RB # 2 and RB # 3, which are RBs neighboring each other (i.e., the RBs at the boundary between RBG1 and RBG2) of the RBs that make up RBG1 (RB # 1 and # 2) and RBG2 (RB # 3 and # 4) neighboring each other. To be more specific, as shown in figure 13, RB # 2 and RB # 5 (RB # 8 and RR # 11) with discontinuous channel numbers are mapped to RB # 2 and RB # 3 , respectively. Similarly, RB # 6 and RB # 3 (RB # 12 and RB # 9) with discontinuous channel numbers map to neighboring RB # 4 and RB # 5 to each other between RB # 3 and # 4 that make up RBG2, and RB # 5 and # 6 that make up RBG3. The same applies for the RBG4 to the RBG6.

Hereby, at least one set of Dch with continuous channel numbers is mapped to a group of RB.

Furthermore, the channel numbers of the Dch's assigned to the RBs neighboring each other among a plurality of RBs constituting RB groups of neighbors to each other respectively is discontinuous. In other words, Dch's with continuous channel numbers between Dch's mapped to different RB groups are mapped to RBs distributed in the frequency domain.

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In this way, when a mobile station uses many Dch's, the allocation section 103 allocates the Dch's to the RBs distributed in the frequency domain, and thus a frequency diversity effect is provided. On the other hand, when a mobile station uses few Rs, the allocation section 103 may collectively allocate the Rs in a group of RBs. By this means, when RBs other than the RBs used for the Dch are assigned to the Lch, the RBs can be used exhaustively, and therefore, it is possible to avoid the deterioration of the utilization efficiency of the communication resources. .

In addition, as with mapping method 1, the base station 100 assignment section 103 (FIG. 1) and the mobile station 200 unmapping section 207 (FIG. 2) store the mapping pattern of the Dch shown in FIG. 13, which is the correspondence between the RB and the Dch, in advance. Next, the allocation section 103 of the base station 100 allocates the RB data symbols to the RBs in accordance with the RB mapping pattern shown in FIG. 13. On the other hand, as with the allocation section 103, the unmapping section 207 of the mobile station 200 extracts the Dch data symbols addressed to the target station from a plurality of RBs according to the Dch mapping pattern shown in figure 13.

Hereby, the present mapping method maps a plurality of Dch with discontinuous channel numbers in RBs neighboring each other among a plurality of RBs constituting groups RBs of neighbors to each other. In this way, as with mapping method 1, it is possible to avoid the deterioration of the system performance due to the deterioration in the efficiency of using communication resources when a mobile station uses a few Dch, and to improve the diversity effect of frequency when a mobile station uses many Dch.

According to the present mapping method, a Dch can be mapped in the maximum interval between the possible intervals of the integer multiples of the RB group size as with mapping method 2 (Figure 7). To be more specific, as shown in Figure 14, a Dch can be mapped to the mapped RBs in a distributed manner at 8 RB intervals. This makes it possible to achieve a diversity effect similar to that of mapping method 2, while effects similar to those of the present mapping method are achieved.

Methods 1 to 5 of mapping in accordance with the present embodiment have been described so far.

In this way, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to avoid the deterioration of the utilization efficiency of the communication resources, even when the frequency schedule transmission through the Lch and the frequency diversity transmission through the The Dch can be done at the same time.

An embodiment of the present invention has so far been described.

In the embodiment described above, the channel mapping method to map the Dch's in the RBs depends on the number of all RBs (Nrb) determined by the system bandwidth as shown in equation 1 or equation 3. Therefore, the base station and the mobile station can be configured to have a correspondence table between the Dch channel numbers and the RB numbers for each system bandwidth (e.g. Figure 4, Figure 7, Fig. 9, Fig. 11 and Fig. 13) and look up the mapping table that corresponds to the system bandwidth for which the Dch data symbols are assigned in the assignment of the Dch data symbols.

Furthermore, a case has been described with the embodiment described above in which a signal received by the base station (i.e. a signal transmitted by the mobile station via an uplink) is transmitted based on an OFDM scheme, but this signal can also be transmitted based on transmission schemes different from the OFDM scheme such as a single carrier scheme or a CDMA scheme.

Furthermore, a case with the above-described embodiment has been described in which an RB is formed with a plurality of subcarriers comprising an OFDM symbol, but an RB can be any block formed with continuous frequencies.

Furthermore, a case with the above-described embodiment has been described in which the RBs are configured continuously in the frequency domain, but the RBs can also be configured continuously in the time domain.

Furthermore, a case has been described with the above-described embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a signal transmitted by the base station (i.e., a signal transmitted by the base station via a downlink), but the present The invention can also be applied to a signal received by the base station (ie a signal transmitted by the mobile station via an uplink). In this case, the base station performs adaptive control, such as RB assignment in an uplink signal.

Furthermore, in the embodiment described above, the adaptive modulation is performed only on the Lch, but the adaptive modulation can also be performed on the Dch in a similar way. In this case, the base station can perform adaptive modulation on the Dch data based on the average received quality information of a whole band reported from each mobile station.

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Furthermore, a case with the above-described embodiment has been described in which the RB used for the Dch is divided into a plurality of sub-blocks in the time domain, but the RB used for the Dch can also be divided into a plurality of sub-blocks in the frequency domain or can also be divided into a plurality of sub-blocks in time domain and frequency domain. That is, a plurality of Dch can be frequency domain multiplexed in one RB or it can be time domain multiplexed or frequency domain multiplexed.

Furthermore, although a case has been described in the present embodiment in which when a plurality of different Dch with continuous channel numbers are assigned to a mobile station, only the first channel number and the last channel number are reported from the station. base to the mobile station, the first channel number and the number of channels can be reported from the base station to the mobile station.

Furthermore, although a case has been described in the present embodiment in which a Dch is mapped to RBs that are mapped to be uniformly distributed in the frequency domain, the RBs to which a Dch is mapped are not limited to RBs mapped to be uniformly distributed in the frequency domain.

Furthermore, although a case has been described with the embodiment described above, in which the Dch are used as channels to perform the frequency diversity transmission, the channels are not limited to the Dch, but the channels can be any channel that it maps in a distributed manner to a plurality of RBs or a plurality of subcarriers in the frequency domain and can provide the effect of frequency diversity. Furthermore, although the Lch's are used as the channels for performing frequency programming transmission, the channels used are not limited to the Lch's, but rather the channels can be any of the channels that can provide the multi-user diversity effect.

Furthermore, the Dch may also be referred to as "DVRB" (Distributed Virtual Resources Block) and the Lch may also be referred to as "LVRB" (Localized Virtual Resources Block). In addition, the RB used for the Dch can also be referred to as "DRB" or "DPRB" (Distributed Physical Resources Block) and the RB used for the Lch can also be referred to as "LRB" or "LPRB" (Localized Physical Resources Block). ).

Furthermore, a mobile station may also be referred to as a "UE", a base station apparatus may also be referred to as a "Node B", and a subcarrier may also be referred to as a "tone". Furthermore, an RB may also be referred to as a "subchannel", "subcarrier block", "subcarrier group", "subband" or "chunk". Furthermore, a CP can also be referred to as a "guard interval (GI)". Furthermore, a subframe can also be referred to as a "slot" or "frame". A sub-block can also be referred to as a "slot".

Furthermore, a case with the above-described embodiment has been described in which an RB is divided into two sub-blocks in the time domain and a Dch is assigned to them, and each divided sub-block may be referred to as "RB". In this case, coding and adaptive control or the like are performed on two RBs in the time domain.

On the other hand, although cases with the above embodiment in which the present invention is configured by hardware have been described, the present invention can be implemented by software.

Each function block employed in the description of the aforementioned embodiment can normally be implemented as an LSI made up of an integrated circuit. These can be individual or partial chips or totally contained in a single chip. In this case, "LSI" has been adopted but this can also be referred to as "IC", "LSI system", "super LSI" or "ultra LSI" depending on the different degrees of integration.

Furthermore, the circuit integration method is not limited to LSI, and implementation using dedicated circuitry or general-purpose processors is also possible. After LSI fabrication, it is also possible to use an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) or a reconfigurable processor in which the connections and circuit cell settings can be reconfigured in an LSI.

Furthermore, if the integrated circuit technology appears to replace that of the LSI as a result of the advancement of semiconductor technology or a derivative of other technology, it is also naturally possible to perform function block integration using this technology. The application of biotechnology is also possible.

Industrial applicability

The present invention is applicable to a mobile communication system or the like.