JP2007019729A - Communication method and communication apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an efficient communication method and a communication apparatus in which signal quality is not degraded in accordance with the change of a data length. <P>SOLUTION: A transmitter comprises: a propagation path estimation circuit 1 for estimating a propagation path on the basis of reception signals; a modulation parameter selection circuit 2 for inputting estimated propagation path information and the data length and selecting a modulation parameter on the basis of them; an adaptive modulation encoding circuit 3 provided immediately after the modulation parameter selection circuit 2; an IFFT circuit 4 for inputting the output; and a D/A circuit 5. The propagation path estimation circuit 1 estimates the propagation path. The modulation parameter selection circuit 2 selects the modulation parameter on the basis of the data length to be transmitted and a propagation path estimated result. The adaptive modulation encoding circuit 3 performs encoding and modulation by the modulation parameter selected in the modulation parameter selection circuit 2. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a communication method and a communication apparatus, and more particularly to a communication technique for performing transmission / reception by selecting an appropriate modulation parameter from among a plurality of modulation parameters.

  In wireless communication, communication characteristics generally vary greatly depending on propagation path conditions. Therefore, there exists a system that adaptively changes the modulation scheme based on transmission parameters. For example, a technique for changing a modulation method according to parameters of data to be transmitted is disclosed (see Patent Document 1). FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a schematic configuration example of a wireless communication device X that changes a general modulation scheme. As shown in FIG. 11, the propagation path estimation circuit 101 estimates a propagation path condition based on a signal notified in advance by a counterpart wireless device that performs transmission, and a modulation scheme suitable for the estimated propagation path condition is determined as a modulation scheme / An IFFT circuit 104 that performs fast inverse Fourier transform and D / D that performs digital / analog conversion. A signal is transmitted through the A conversion circuit 105.

  In particular, in a system that performs adaptive modulation for each subcarrier, the data length that can be transmitted may be significantly shortened depending on the state of the propagation path. Also, in a system in which users are assigned for each subcarrier, the data length assigned to one user may be shortened.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-232687

  In recent years, an encoding method based on a turbo code has attracted attention as a high-performance encoding method. In the turbo code, the quality changes depending on the data length input to the interleaver. However, the turbo code is dealt with by taking a sufficiently long data length, and a study considering shortening the data length has not been made sufficiently. As described above, the idea of changing the modulation scheme according to the transmission parameter has existed for some time, but even when the same modulation parameter (modulation / coding scheme) is selected, the quality changes depending on the data length. That was not taken into account. For this reason, the conventional communication apparatus has a problem that processing such as adding redundant data is performed in order to make the data length necessary to satisfy the quality, resulting in a decrease in throughput.

  An object of the present invention is to provide an efficient transmission method and communication apparatus in which signal quality does not deteriorate even when the data length changes.

  A communication apparatus according to the present invention includes a modulation parameter selection threshold correction unit that corrects a modulation parameter based on a transmission data length, propagation path estimation information by a propagation path estimation circuit, and a threshold value calculated by the modulation parameter selection threshold correction circuit. And a modulation parameter selection unit that selects a modulation parameter.

  By correcting the modulation parameter selection threshold based on the transmission data length in this way, the threshold can be adjusted to select a lower modulation method against signal quality degradation due to a reduction in data length. It is possible to communicate while suppressing deterioration.

  In addition, the wireless communication apparatus according to the present invention provides a transmittable data length calculation unit that calculates the transmittable data length from the propagation path state estimation information and the threshold of each MCS, and obtains desired quality from the calculated data length. A desired quality threshold value calculation unit that calculates a necessary modulation parameter selection threshold value, a first determination unit that performs determination by comparing the data length calculated by the original threshold value and the data length calculated by the desired quality threshold value calculation unit And a modulation parameter selection threshold correction circuit that corrects the modulation parameter threshold to a threshold deemed to be transmittable by the first determination unit, channel estimation information by the channel estimation circuit, and correction by the modulation parameter selection threshold correction circuit And a modulation parameter selection unit that selects a modulation parameter using the set threshold value.

  By correcting to the threshold value for obtaining the desired quality based on the transmittable data length in this way, and further recursively obtaining the threshold value based on the change in the transmittable data length due to the change of the threshold value, Communication can be performed with optimum signal quality.

  In addition, the radio communication apparatus according to the present invention includes a scheduling unit that allocates an optimal subcarrier for each user, a data length calculation unit that calculates a transmittable data length from the allocated subcarrier and modulation scheme, and a calculation for each user. And a re-allocation unit that increases allocation of users with a short transmittable data length so as to obtain a data length necessary to obtain a desired quality based on the data length.

  As described above, the allocation to each user can reduce the error rate as a whole and increase the throughput so that the signal quality is not deteriorated due to the shortening of the data length.

  Also, here, the distribution is performed so that the data length becomes long. However, if the data length is short and the desired signal quality is not satisfied, allocation is given to other users or other coding methods are used. It is also possible to reduce the overall error rate and increase the throughput.

  According to the present invention, there is an advantage that transmission can be performed while suppressing deterioration of communication quality in a communication system in which signal quality changes depending on the transmission data length.

  In this specification, the modulation parameter refers to a parameter including at least one of a coding scheme, a coding rate, and a modulation multilevel number (modulation scheme). The signal quality indicates, for example, bit error rate characteristics at the time of demodulation. Further, the transmission data length varies depending on the type of data to be sent (voice, text, moving image, etc.). The data length is used because there is an instruction from the upper layer regarding the data to be sent. Even when the same encoding / modulation method is used, the present invention can be applied to a communication system in which the signal quality varies depending on the length of transmission data. The signal quality is a bit error rate characteristic at the time of demodulation. As the data length, the data length immediately before the encoder is used.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Further, in the following explanation, a description will be given for a communication system using an adaptive modulation scheme (subcarrier adaptive modulation scheme) that gives an appropriate modulation parameter to each subcarrier according to the propagation path state. The description is not limited to subcarrier adaptive modulation systems.

  The communication apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, the communication apparatus (transmission apparatus) according to the present embodiment includes a propagation path estimation circuit 1 that estimates a propagation path based on a received signal, estimated propagation path information, and transmission data length. Modulation parameter selection circuit 2 that selects a modulation parameter based on these as an input, an adaptive modulation encoding circuit 3 provided immediately after the modulation parameter selection circuit 2, an IFFT circuit 4 that receives the output, and a D / A Circuit 5.

  The propagation path estimation circuit 1 uses a propagation path (signal power to noise power ratio: SNR, signal power to interference noise power ratio: SINR, carrier power to noise power ratio: CNR, carrier power based on information from a receiver (not shown). To interference noise power ratio: CINR, desired signal power to undesired signal power ratio: DUR, etc.). However, the propagation path may be estimated on the receiver side or may be estimated using a predetermined value. The modulation parameter selection circuit 2 selects a modulation parameter based on the data length to be transmitted and the propagation path estimation result.

  The adaptive modulation and coding circuit 3 performs coding and modulation using the modulation parameter selected by the modulation parameter selection circuit 2. The modulation parameter selection circuit 2 is disposed immediately before the adaptive modulation encoding circuit 3.

  The IFFT circuit 4 converts the signal on each subcarrier frequency axis modulated by the adaptive modulation encoding circuit 3 into a signal on the time axis. The D / A conversion circuit 5 converts the signal on the time axis converted by the IFFT circuit 4 into an analog signal.

  Here, the modulation parameter selection circuit will be specifically described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, the modulation parameter selection circuit 2 includes a coding method selection circuit 2a and a modulation method / coding rate selection circuit 2b. The encoding method selection circuit 2a selects an encoding method from two, for example, a turbo code and a convolutional code based on Viterbi decoding.

  Since the turbo code has the property that the signal quality deteriorates when the data length input to the encoder is shortened, if the data length becomes longer than the data length where the coding gain of the turbo code is lower than the coding gain of the convolutional code, A turbo code is selected, otherwise a convolutional code is selected.

  In the selected coding method, the modulation method / coding rate selection circuit 2b obtains the coding rate / modulation multi-level number of each subcarrier based on the propagation path estimation result as in the conventional case, and performs adaptive modulation coding. Output to circuit 3.

  As described above, according to the communication apparatus according to the present embodiment, it is possible to appropriately select a modulation parameter even when the modulation parameter for obtaining a desired quality varies depending on the data length. Accordingly, it is possible to suppress deterioration in communication performance such as a deterioration in error rate characteristics and a decrease in throughput.

  For example, when a turbo code is used as an encoding method, a modulation parameter is appropriately selected even when the modulation / coding method for obtaining a desired error rate characteristic changes depending on the data length input to the interleaver. Can do.

  Next, a communication apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The communication apparatus according to the present embodiment has the same configuration as that of the communication apparatus according to the first embodiment, but the modulation parameter selection circuit 2 includes a modulation parameter selection threshold correction circuit, a modulation scheme / coding rate selection, and the like. Circuit. The modulation parameter selection 2 threshold correction circuit 2c calculates a threshold for selecting a modulation parameter based on the data length to be transmitted. The modulation scheme / coding rate selection circuit 2b obtains the coding rate, the modulation multi-level number, etc. of each subcarrier from the propagation path estimation result and the threshold value corrected by the modulation parameter selection threshold correction circuit. To the circuit 3. The modulation parameter selection threshold correction circuit 2c according to the present embodiment outputs the threshold value corrected by the correction value derived from the data length to the modulation scheme / coding rate selection circuit 2b. For example, as follows.

  First example: A data length and a correction value for satisfying a desired quality for the data length are held in a plurality of tables, and a correction value for the data length on the table closest to the actual data length is used.

  Second example: A data length and a correction value for satisfying a desired quality for the data length are stored in a plurality of tables, and the correction value for the maximum data length on the table that does not exceed the actual data length is used. .

  Third example: A data length and a correction value for satisfying the desired quality for the data length are held in a plurality of tables, and the desired quality for the data length located between the data lengths on the table is satisfied. The correction value for the actual data length is used by complementing the correction value for the previous and subsequent data lengths on the table by linear approximation.

  Fourth example: An equation y = f (x) representing the relationship between the data length x and the correction value y for satisfying the desired quality for the data length is held, and the actual data length is substituted into this equation. The correction value obtained in this way is used.

Next, the modulation parameter selection threshold correction circuit will be specifically described.
Here, description will be made assuming a communication system using a turbo code.
In a conventional communication system, the average E _S / N ₀ value that satisfies the desired quality in the average data length assumed in the system is used as a threshold value, and correction is made based on other criteria, and the modulation multi-level number and coding rate Was switching. In FIG. 4, the horizontal axis represents the data length input to the encoder, and the vertical axis represents the average E _S / N ₀ (average received energy to noise power density ratio per symbol) value that satisfies the desired bit error rate. It is a figure which shows the example of a characteristic in the modulation system 16QAM and the coding rate 3/4 in the case. As shown in FIG. 4, as the encoder input data length in the horizontal axis becomes longer, E _S / N ₀ values that satisfy a certain bit error rate is found to be smaller.

Therefore, in the communication technique according to the present embodiment, the modulation parameter selection threshold correction circuit 2c determines the desired value according to the data length based on the characteristic that the average E _S / N ₀ value that satisfies the desired quality varies depending on the data length. The threshold value is corrected to an average CNR value satisfying the signal quality. For example, the correction coefficient can be applied by storing the values shown in FIG. 4 in a memory as a table. In the modulation scheme / coding rate selection circuit 2b, the modulation scheme / coding rate is selected using the propagation path estimation value and the switching threshold value, and is output to the adaptive modulation coding circuit 3.

  As described above, according to the communication apparatus according to the present embodiment, when the modulation parameter for obtaining a desired quality changes depending on the data length (for example, when the turbo code is used as an encoding method) Even when the threshold for selecting a modulation / coding scheme for obtaining a desired error rate characteristic varies depending on the data length input to the interleaver), the error rate characteristic can be corrected by appropriately correcting the threshold. There is an advantage that it is possible to suppress deterioration in communication performance such as deterioration and a decrease in throughput.

  The modulation parameter selection circuit 2 is provided with a function for selecting an encoding method according to the data length as in the first embodiment, and for selecting a modulation parameter according to the data length as in the second embodiment. And calculating the coding rate and the modulation multi-level number of each subcarrier from the propagation path estimation result in the modulation scheme / coding rate selection circuit and the threshold value corrected by the modulation parameter selection threshold correction circuit. By combining the functions, it is possible to make all combinations of the encoding method, the encoding rate, and the modulation multi-value number appropriate according to the data length.

  Next, a communication device according to a third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The communication circuit according to the present embodiment basically has the same device configuration as the communication circuit according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the modulation parameter selection circuit according to the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 5, the modulation parameter selection circuit 2 according to the present embodiment has the following configuration.

  The transmittable data length calculation circuit 11 calculates a transmittable data length based on the propagation path estimation value and the modulation parameter selection threshold. The desired quality threshold calculation circuit 19 obtains a modulation parameter selection threshold for obtaining a desired signal quality for the transmittable data length. The first determination circuit 15 performs processing shown in a flowchart described later, repeats the calculation of the threshold value and the transmittable data length so as to obtain the desired signal quality, and calculates the threshold value for obtaining the desired quality.

  The modulation scheme / coding rate selection circuit 17 obtains the coding rate, the modulation multi-level number, etc. of each subcarrier from the propagation path estimation result and the corrected threshold value, and outputs them to the adaptive modulation coding circuit 3.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the flow of determination processing in the first determination circuit 15. As shown in FIG. 6, when the process is started (step S1), it is determined whether or not it is the first determination (step S2). If the first determination (Yes), the flow proceeds to step S3, it substitutes the data length transmittable to L _A. Next, in step S4, a data length that can be transmitted by the desired quality threshold value calculation circuit 19 is calculated.

In step S2, if not the first determination (No), substitutes the transmittable data length _{L B} in step S5, comparing the length of the _{L A} and _{L B} in step S6. In step S7, if _{L B} is greater than or equal to _{L A} (Yes), and terminates the iterative process (step S11). If L _B is less than _{L A} is (No), determines whether repeat end condition is satisfied (step S8), and if they meet the step S11, if is not satisfied in _{L B} in _{L A} The value is substituted (step S9), and the desired quality threshold calculation circuit 19 recalculates the transmittable data length (step S10).

If the determination circuit determines that the desired quality cannot be obtained at the end of repetition (step S11), for example, one of the following processes is performed.
1) Send the original threshold value.
2) Change the encoding method.
3) No transmission is performed to save power.
4) Amplify power as described later to improve quality.
5) Assign to other users as described below.
It is conceivable to perform any one of the processes.

The repetitive end condition in the determination circuit 15 includes the following conditions, for example.
1) The predetermined number of times has been exceeded.
2) The transmittable data length falls below a preset value (for example, transmission data length).
3) the difference between _{L A} and _{L B} is below a preset value.
_{4) (the} absolute value of the value of _L A -L _B) ÷ L _B is below a preset value.

  As described above, according to the communication apparatus according to the present embodiment, even when the modulation parameter for obtaining a desired quality varies depending on the data length and the transmission time allocated to each person is fixed, By deriving modulation parameters that can be transmitted during the allocation time so that signal quality can be obtained, it is possible to suppress deterioration in communication performance such as deterioration in error rate characteristics and reduction in throughput.

  Next, a communication device according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 7 is a functional block diagram showing a configuration example of the communication apparatus according to this embodiment. The communication apparatus B according to the present embodiment includes a propagation path estimation circuit 21, a transmission power correction circuit 22, a modulation scheme / coding rate selection circuit 23, an adaptive modulation coding circuit 24, an IFFT circuit 25, a signal amplifier. 26 and a D / A conversion circuit 27.

  The propagation path estimation circuit 21 estimates a propagation path (SINR, CNR, DUR, etc.) based on information from the receiver. Note that the propagation path estimation process may be performed on the receiver side, or a predetermined value may be used. The transmission power correction circuit 22 determines the transmission signal quality based on the data length to be transmitted and corrects the transmission power so that the desired signal quality is obtained.

  The adaptive modulation and coding circuit 24 performs coding and modulation according to the coding rate and the modulation multi-value number selected by the modulation method and coding rate selection circuit. The IFFT circuit 25 converts the signal on each subcarrier frequency axis modulated by the adaptive modulation coding circuit into a signal on the time axis. The signal amplifier 26 amplifies the signal based on the power correction value in the transmission power correction circuit. The D / A conversion circuit 27 converts the signal on the time axis amplified by the signal amplifier into an analog signal.

  Here, the signal amplifier 26 amplifies the digital signal on the time axis. However, in this embodiment, the signal amplifier 26 may amplify the digital signal on the frequency axis, or an analog signal. You may go to

  According to the communication apparatus according to the present embodiment, even when the modulation parameter for obtaining the desired quality varies depending on the data length, the transmission power is obtained so that the desired signal quality can be obtained without changing the modulation parameter. By controlling the power with the correction circuit, it is possible to suppress deterioration in communication performance such as a deterioration in error rate characteristics and a decrease in throughput.

  Next, a communication device according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. This embodiment is an example of further controlling channel assignment parameters. In this embodiment, a communication path composed of one or a plurality of subcarriers in the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system is referred to as a channel, but the frequency band in the frequency division multiplexing system and the symbol in the time division multiplexing system are used. The present invention can also be applied to communication paths that are divided by codes in code division multiplexing, phases in repetition frequency division multiplexing, or combinations thereof.

  FIG. 8 is a functional block diagram showing a configuration example of the communication apparatus according to the present embodiment. The communication apparatus C according to the present embodiment includes a propagation path estimation circuit 31, a modulation parameter selection circuit 33, an adaptive modulation encoding circuit 43, an IFFT circuit 45, and a D / A conversion circuit 47. .

1) The propagation path estimation circuit 31 estimates a propagation path (SINR, CNR, DUR, etc.) based on information from the receiver. (Estimation may be performed on the receiver side, or it may be determined.)
2) The channel allocation circuit 35 performs channel allocation based on QoS (Quality of Service) information such as RT / NRT (real-time / non-real-time) data and / or propagation path estimation values, and modulates the channel allocation method. The data is sent to the system / coding rate selection circuit 37.
3) The modulation scheme / coding rate selection circuit 37 selects the modulation scheme / coding rate based on the QoS of the data in the allocated channel and the channel estimation value of the user who requests the data, The modulation parameter is sent to the second determination circuit 41.
4) The second determination circuit 41 calculates the transmittable data length of each data, and the calculated transmittable data length does not exceed the threshold of the transmittable data length set to satisfy the desired quality by QoS. User data information (hereinafter referred to as “data ID”) is notified to the channel allocation circuit. If there is no data whose transmittable data length does not exceed the threshold, the channel allocation method and modulation parameters are sent to the adaptive modulation and coding circuit.
5) The channel allocation circuit 35 assigns the channel allocated to the data corresponding to the data ID notified from the second determination circuit 41 to other data (for example, data having different QoS of the same user, or data of another user). Reassign to.

6) The modulation scheme / coding rate selection circuit 37 selects the modulation scheme / coding rate based on the QoS of the data in the reassigned channel and the channel estimation value of the user who requests the data.
7) Repeat steps 4) to 6) until there is no more data that does not exceed the threshold.
8) The adaptive modulation and coding circuit performs coding and modulation according to the channel assignment method and the modulation parameter sent from the second determination circuit 41.
9) The IFFT circuit converts the signal on each subcarrier frequency axis modulated by the adaptive modulation encoding circuit into a signal on the time axis.
10) The D / A conversion circuit converts the signal on the time axis converted by the IFFT circuit into an analog signal.

Here, regarding the threshold value of the transmittable data length, the following may be mentioned.
1) One threshold value to be set in advance 2) Threshold value table to be set in advance for each MCS 3) A threshold value table to be set in advance for each MCS is received from the mobile station (packet error rate: PER or positive response) : ACK / Negative response: NACK etc.)

  Regarding reassignment, reassignment is performed in order from the channel assigned to the data with the shortest transmittable data length or the data with the largest value obtained by subtracting the transmittable data length from the threshold. In that case, the following method is mentioned.

1) Reassign the data of the user with the best propagation path condition. Thereby, the maximum system throughput can be obtained while satisfying the desired quality.
2) Reallocate data preferentially to data whose transmittable data length has not reached the threshold. As a result, the data length of other data whose transmittable data length does not reach the threshold can be increased, so that desired quality can be obtained if the increased result threshold is satisfied. In addition, since the number of loops 4), 5), and 6) can be reduced, the amount of calculation can be reduced.
3) Reallocate with priority to other RT data. As a result, by assigning to other RT data, the redundancy of the assigned RT data can be increased, so that transmission can be performed at a transmission rate with a margin for the desired quality. As a result, the possibility of satisfying the desired quality is improved even when the quality deteriorates due to the influence of propagation path fluctuation or the like.

  As described above, according to the communication device according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention, the desired quality can be satisfied when the modulation parameter for obtaining the desired quality varies depending on the transmittable data length. By assigning a channel to other data instead of assigning a channel to difficult data having a short transmission data length, there is an advantage that throughput of the entire system can be improved while maintaining a desired quality.

  Next, a communication device according to a sixth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The communication device according to the present embodiment is the same communication device as the fifth embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a communication apparatus according to the present embodiment.

(1) The propagation path estimation circuit 31 estimates a propagation path (SINR, CNR, DUR, etc.) based on information from the receiver (estimation may be performed on the receiver side or a predetermined value). good.).
(2) The channel allocation circuit 35 performs channel allocation based on QoS (Quality of Service) (for example, RT / NRT data) and / or propagation path estimation values, and assigns the channel allocation method to the modulation parameter selection circuit 37. send.
(3) The modulation scheme / coding rate selection circuit 37 selects the modulation scheme / coding rate based on the QoS of the data in the allocated channel and the channel estimation value of the user who requests the data, The modulation parameter is sent to the second determination circuit.

As shown in FIG. 9, the second determination circuit 41 includes the following circuits.
(4) The transmittable data length calculation circuit 41a calculates the transmittable transmit data length of each user, and the calculated transmit data length exceeds the transmittable data length threshold set to satisfy the desired quality by QoS. Notifying the channel allocation circuit of the unused data ID. If there is no data that does not exceed, the channel assignment method and modulation parameters are sent to the adaptive modulation and coding circuit 43. FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the flow of determination processing in the second determination circuit. As shown in FIG. 10, determination processing is started (step S21), and channel allocation is performed in step S22. In step S23, a modulation parameter is selected. In step S24, the transmittable data length is calculated. In step S25, it is determined whether or not there is data satisfying “transmittable data length <threshold”. If it exists (Yes), in step S26, the data ID of the data having the minimum transmittable data length is acquired, and the process returns to step S22. If it does not exist (No), the process is terminated (step S27). In this way, the transmittable data length comparison circuit 41b compares the transmittable data length calculated by the transmittable data length calculation circuit 41a with the threshold 41c, and if there is data with a larger threshold, the channel Processes such as allocation.

(5) The channel allocation circuit 35 assigns a channel allocated other than the data corresponding to the data ID notified from the transmittable data length calculation circuit 41a to the data corresponding to the notified data ID (for example, the QoS of the same user is different) Data or other user data).
(6) The modulation scheme / coding rate selection circuit 37 selects the modulation scheme / coding rate based on the QoS of the data in the reassigned channel and the channel estimation value of the user who requests the data.
(7) The above steps (4) to (6) are repeated until there is no more data that does not exceed the threshold.
(8) The adaptive modulation and coding circuit 43 performs coding and modulation according to the channel assignment method and the modulation parameter sent from the determination circuit.
(9) The IFFT circuit 45 converts the signal on each subcarrier frequency axis modulated by the adaptive modulation encoding circuit 43 into a signal on the time axis.
(10) The D / A conversion circuit 47 converts the signal on the time axis converted by the IFFT circuit 45 into an analog signal.

  Next, reassignment will be described. A user who requests data to be reassigned reassigns the channel with the best channel conditions. Thereby, since it can transmit with a higher transmission rate with respect to the desired quality of the data to reallocate, degradation of a throughput can be suppressed. Reassign channels assigned to data with the worst channel conditions. Accordingly, since the channel is assigned to a channel having a low transmission rate, it is possible to suppress the deterioration of the throughput.

  The channel assigned to the data whose transmittable data length does not reach the threshold is preassigned preferentially. Thereby, since the number of data whose transmission data length does not reach the threshold can be reduced, the number of loops from (4) to (6) can be reduced. Therefore, the calculation amount can be reduced.

  Reassign channels that had been assigned NRT data. Thereby, it is possible to suppress the delay of the RT data by reassigning the channel that has been assigned to the NRT data having a low requirement for the delay. Alternatively, it is also possible to create a free channel and assign it to it by reducing the redundancy of NRT data that is low in demand for the desired quality.

  As described above, the communication device according to the sixth embodiment of the present invention satisfies the desired quality when the modulation parameter for obtaining the desired quality varies depending on the transmittable data length. Since the data length can be increased by reassigning a channel to a user having a short transmission data length that is difficult to achieve, desired quality can be maintained.

  The present invention is applicable to a communication device.

It is a functional block diagram which shows the example of 1 structure of the communication apparatus (transmission apparatus) by the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows one structural example of the modulation parameter selection circuit by this Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the communication apparatus by the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. Example of characteristics for each combination of modulation multilevel number and coding rate when the horizontal axis represents the data length input to the encoder and the vertical axis represents the average E _S / N ₀ value that satisfies the desired bit error rate FIG. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the modulation parameter selection circuit in the communication apparatus by the 3rd Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart figure which shows the flow of the determination process in a determination circuit. It is a functional block diagram which shows the example of 1 structure of the communication apparatus by the 4th Embodiment of this invention. It is a functional block diagram which shows the example of 1 structure of the communication apparatus by the 5th Embodiment of this invention. It is a communication apparatus by the 6th Embodiment of this invention, Comprising: It is a figure which shows the structural example of a propagation path estimation circuit. It is a flowchart figure which shows the flow of the determination process in a determination circuit. It is a figure which shows the example of schematic structure of the radio | wireless communication apparatus X which changes a general modulation system.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Propagation path estimation circuit, 2 ... Modulation parameter selection circuit, 3 ... Adaptive modulation encoding circuit, 4 ... IFFT circuit, 5 ... D / A circuit.

Claims (18)

Selecting a modulation parameter based on transmission data length and propagation path condition;
Encoding and modulating transmission data based on selected modulation parameters;
Transmitting a signal that has been encoded and modulated. A communication method for performing transmission by selecting each modulation parameter for each subcarrier or for each block composed of a plurality of subcarriers,
Selecting a modulation parameter based on transmission data length and propagation path condition;
Encoding and modulating transmission data based on selected modulation parameters;
Transmitting a signal that has been encoded and modulated.   The transmission method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the modulation parameter is selected from a group including a coding scheme, a coding rate, and a modulation scheme. The modulation parameter selection step includes:
Correcting a threshold when selecting the modulation parameter based on the data length;
The transmission method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising a step of performing modulation and encoding using the modulation parameter selected based on the propagation path condition and the threshold value. . A modulation parameter selection circuit that selects a modulation parameter based on a transmission data length and a propagation path condition;
An adaptive modulation and encoding circuit for encoding and modulating transmission data based on the selected modulation parameter;
And a transmitter that transmits a signal that has been encoded and modulated. A transmission device that selects and transmits each modulation parameter for each subcarrier or for each block composed of a plurality of subcarriers,
A modulation parameter selection circuit that selects a modulation parameter based on a transmission data length and a propagation path condition;
An adaptive modulation and encoding circuit for encoding and modulating transmission data based on the selected modulation parameter;
And a transmitter that transmits a signal that has been encoded and modulated. The modulation parameter selection unit includes:
A modulation parameter selection threshold correction unit for correcting a threshold when selecting the modulation parameter based on the transmission data length;
The modulation system / coding rate selection unit that outputs the modulation parameter selected based on the propagation path condition and the threshold value to the adaptive modulation coding circuit. Transmitter. The modulation parameter selection unit includes:
8. The modulation parameter is adjusted so as to select a modulation parameter having a good error rate characteristic as the length of data at a coding end unit is shortened. The transmitting device described.   The transmission apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the length of the data is defined by at least one of a length of data before encoding and a length of data after being converted into time data. A transmission apparatus used in a communication system having a fixed transmission unit time, wherein the modulation parameter selection threshold correction unit is
A transmittable data length calculation unit that calculates the transmittable data length by selecting the modulation parameter based on the propagation path condition and the threshold of the modulation parameter;
A desired quality threshold value calculation unit for calculating a modulation parameter selection threshold value for obtaining a desired quality based on a transmittable data length;
Repeat the calculation of the threshold and the transmittable data length so that the desired signal quality is obtained,
10. The transmission device according to claim 7, further comprising: a first determination unit configured to determine whether or not a transmittable data length is a data length at which desired quality is obtained.   The modulation parameter selection unit recursively calculates a transmittable data and calculates a desired quality threshold for satisfying the signal quality of the calculated data length, and obtains an optimum threshold for deriving a modulation parameter. The transmission device according to claim 10. Determining transmission signal quality based on transmission data length;
Correcting transmission power to achieve a desired transmission signal quality;
Transmitting the transmission data with the corrected transmission power. A transmission power correction circuit that determines transmission signal quality based on the data length to be transmitted and corrects transmission power so as to obtain a desired signal quality;
And a transmission unit configured to transmit transmission data with the corrected transmission power. The transmission power correction circuit includes:
14. The transmission apparatus according to claim 13, wherein adjustment is performed such that transmission power is increased as the length of encoding end unit data becomes shorter. In a system for performing communication by sharing a plurality of channels assigned to one transmission unit by a plurality of users,
Assigning channels for each user based on the required communication quality and propagation path conditions for each user;
A transmission method comprising: calculating a transmittable data length for each user based on communication quality for each user, propagation path status, and channel assignment information, and re-determining the communication quality.   The transmission method according to claim 15, wherein the channel allocation is adjusted based on the communication quality of the user re-determined in the step of re-determining the communication quality. In a system for performing communication by sharing a plurality of channels assigned to one transmission unit by a plurality of users,
A channel allocation circuit that performs channel allocation for each user based on the required communication quality and propagation path status for each user;
Transmission comprising: a second determination unit that calculates a transmittable data length for each user based on communication quality, propagation path status, and channel allocation information for each user, and re-determines the communication quality apparatus.   The transmission apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the channel allocation is adjusted based on a communication quality of a user re-determined by the second determination unit.

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