JP4373410B2 - Transmitting apparatus and transmitting method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a technical field of wireless communication, and more particularly to a base station, a communication terminal, a transmission method, and a reception method used in a communication system in which frequency scheduling and multicarrier transmission are performed.

  In this type of technical field, it is becoming increasingly important to realize broadband wireless access that efficiently performs high-speed and large-capacity communication. Especially in the downlink channel, the multi-carrier method-more specifically, the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method-is promising from the viewpoint of performing high-speed and large-capacity communication while effectively suppressing multipath fading. Is being viewed. And it is also proposed to perform frequency scheduling in the next-generation system from the viewpoint of improving the frequency utilization efficiency and improving the throughput.

As shown in FIG. 1, the frequency band that can be used in the system is divided into a plurality of resource blocks (divided into three in the illustrated example), and each resource block includes one or more subcarriers. A resource block is also called a frequency chunk. One or more resource blocks are allocated to the terminal. In frequency scheduling, a resource block is preferentially allocated to a terminal with good channel state according to the received signal quality or channel state information (CQI: Channel Quality Indicator) for each resource block of the downlink pilot channel reported from the terminal. Therefore, it is intended to improve the transmission efficiency or throughput of the entire system. When frequency scheduling is performed, it is necessary to notify the terminal of the contents of scheduling, and this notification is performed by a control channel (which may be referred to as an L1 / L2 control signaling channel or an accompanying control channel). Furthermore, using this control channel, the modulation scheme (eg, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, etc.) used in the scheduled resource block, channel coding information (eg, channel coding rate, etc.), and hybrid automatic retransmission request ( HARQ: Hybrid Auto Repeat ReQuest) will also be sent. A technique for dividing a frequency band into a plurality of resource blocks and changing the modulation scheme for each resource block is described in Non-Patent Document 1, for example.
P.Chow, J.Cioffi, J. Bingham, “A Practical Discrete Multitone Transceiver Loading Algorithm for Data Transmission over Spectrally Shaped Channel”, IEEE Trans.Commun.vol.43, No.2 / 3/4, February / March / April 1995

  On the other hand, in the next generation wireless access scheme in the future, a wide variety of frequency bands may be prepared, and the terminal may be required to be able to use various bands depending on the location or depending on the application. In this case, the frequency bandwidth that can be received by the terminal can be prepared in various wide and narrow frequency bands depending on the application and price. Also in this case, if frequency scheduling is appropriately performed, it is possible to expect improvement in frequency utilization efficiency and throughput. However, since it is assumed that the frequency band that can be used in the existing communication system is a fixed band, all combinations are allowed when various frequency bands are prepared on the base station side and terminal side. In addition, a specific method for appropriately notifying the contents of scheduling to the terminal or the user has not been established yet.

  On the other hand, if a specific resource block common to all terminals is fixedly allocated for the control channel, the channel state of the terminal is generally different for each resource block, so that depending on the terminal, the control channel is good. May not be received. If the control channel is distributed to all resource blocks, any terminal may be able to receive the control channel with a certain level of reception quality, but it is difficult to expect a higher reception quality. Therefore, it is desired to transmit the control channel to the terminal with higher quality.

  In addition, when adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) control is performed in which the modulation scheme and channel coding rate are adaptively changed, the number of symbols required to transmit the control channel is determined for each terminal. Different. This is because the amount of information transmitted per symbol differs depending on the combination of AMC. In a future system, it is also considered to transmit and receive different signals with a plurality of antennas respectively prepared on the transmission side and the reception side. In this case, the aforementioned control information such as scheduling information may be required for each signal communicated by each antenna. Therefore, in this case, the number of symbols necessary for transmitting the control channel is not only different for each terminal, but may be different depending on the number of antennas used for the terminal. When the amount of information to be transmitted on the control channel differs from terminal to terminal, it is necessary to use a variable format that can flexibly cope with fluctuations in the amount of control information in order to use resources efficiently. There is a concern that the signal processing burden on the reception side and the reception side will increase. Conversely, when the format is fixed, it is necessary to secure a dedicated field for the control channel according to the maximum amount of information. However, in this case, even if a field dedicated to the control channel is vacant, that part of the resource is not used for data transmission, which is contrary to a request for effective use of the resource. Therefore, it is desired to transmit the control channel simply and efficiently.

  The present invention has been made to address at least one of the above-described problems. The problem is that the frequency band allocated to the communication system is divided into a plurality of frequency blocks, and each of the frequency blocks is one or more. In order to efficiently transmit a control channel to various terminals having different communicable bandwidths in a communication system in which a terminal performs communication using one or more frequency blocks. It is to provide a base station, a communication terminal, a transmission method, and a reception method.

  According to one aspect of the invention, a transmission device is used. The transmitter is
  A frequency scheduling unit in which a frequency band given to the communication system includes a plurality of frequency blocks, each frequency block includes a plurality of resource blocks, and allocates at least one resource block to each communication terminal;
  A first generation unit that generates a data channel for a communication terminal to which at least one resource block is allocated in the frequency scheduling unit;
  A second generation unit that generates a specific control channel for each communication terminal assigned at least one resource block in the frequency scheduling unit;
  A third generation unit that generates an unspecified control channel common to communication terminals to which at least one resource block is allocated in the frequency scheduling unit;
  A fourth generation unit for generating a broadcast channel including broadcast information for notifying a communication terminal;
  Among the plurality of frequency blocks included in the frequency band given to the communication system, the broadcast channel generated in the fourth generation unit is arranged in the frequency block including the center frequency, and the frequency band given to the communication system The unspecified control channel generated by the third generation unit, at least one specific control channel generated by the second generation unit, and at least one generated by the first generation unit over a plurality of frequency blocks included in A multiplexing unit for arranging the data channels of
  A transmission unit for transmitting an output signal of the multiplexing unit;
  It is a transmitter characterized by comprising.

  According to the present invention, in a communication system including a plurality of resource blocks each including one or more subcarriers, each of a plurality of frequency blocks constituting a system frequency band, control channels are provided to various communication terminals having different communicable bandwidths. Can be transmitted efficiently.

  In one embodiment of the present invention, frequency scheduling is performed for each frequency block, and a control channel for notifying scheduling information is created for each frequency block according to the minimum bandwidth. As a result, the control channel can be efficiently transmitted to various communication terminals having different communicable bandwidths.

  The control channel created for each frequency block may be frequency multiplexed according to a predetermined hopping pattern. Thereby, it is possible to achieve uniform communication quality between communication terminals and between frequency blocks.

  The broadcast channel may be transmitted in a band including the center frequency of the frequency band given to the communication system and having a bandwidth corresponding to one frequency block. As a result, any communication terminal that intends to access the communication system can easily connect to the communication system by receiving a signal having the minimum bandwidth near the center frequency.

  The paging channel is also transmitted in a band including the center frequency of the frequency band given to the communication system and having a bandwidth corresponding to one frequency block. This is preferable from the viewpoint of reducing the number of frequency tunings as much as possible because the reception band at the time of standby and the band for cell search can be matched.

  From the viewpoint of uniformly using the entire frequency band, a paging channel for calling the communication terminal may be transmitted using the frequency block assigned to the communication terminal.

  In one aspect of the present invention, the control channel is divided into an unspecified control channel that is decoded by an unspecified communication terminal and a specific control channel that is decoded by a specific communication terminal to which one or more resource blocks are allocated, They are encoded and modulated separately. The control channel is time-multiplexed with the non-specific control channel and the specific control channel according to the scheduling information, and is transmitted in a multicarrier system. Thereby, even if the amount of control information differs for each communication terminal, it is possible to efficiently transmit the control channel in a fixed format without wasting resources.

  The non-specific control channel may be mapped so as to be distributed over the entire frequency block, and the specific control channel related to a specific communication terminal may be mapped only to the resource block assigned to the specific communication terminal. The quality of the specific control channel can be improved while ensuring the quality of the non-specific control channel to a certain level or more over all users. This is because the specific control channel is mapped to a resource block having a good channel state for each specific communication terminal.

  The downlink pilot channel may also be mapped so as to be distributed over a plurality of resource blocks allocated to a plurality of communication terminals. By mapping the pilot channel over a wide band, the channel estimation accuracy and the like can be improved.

  In one aspect of the present invention, transmission power control is performed for an unspecified control channel, and transmission power control and adaptive modulation are performed for the specified control channel from the viewpoint of maintaining or improving the reception quality of control channels including unspecified and specified control channels. One or both of the encoding controls are performed.

  Transmission power control of the unspecified control channel may be performed so that the specific communication terminal to which the resource block is allocated can receive the unspecified control channel with high quality. This is because all users or communication terminals that have received an unspecified control channel have an obligation to attempt demodulation, but ultimately a user to whom a resource block is actually allocated may succeed in demodulation.

  The unspecified control channel may include information on one or both of the modulation scheme and the coding scheme applied to the specific control channel. Since the combination of the fixed modulation scheme and the coding scheme is fixed for the unspecified control channel, the modulation scheme and the coding scheme for the specific control channel are demodulated by demodulating the user unspecified control channel to which the resource block is allocated. Etc. can be obtained. As a result, adaptive modulation and coding control can be performed on the specific control channel portion of the control channel, and the reception quality of that portion can be improved.

  When transmission power control and adaptive modulation and coding are controlled for a control channel, the total number of combinations of modulation schemes and coding schemes for a specific control channel is based on the total number of combinations of modulation schemes and coding schemes for a shared data channel Less may be prepared. This is because even if the required quality cannot be achieved by the adaptive modulation and coding control, it is sufficient that the required quality can be achieved by performing the transmission power control.

  FIG. 2 shows the frequency band used in one embodiment of the present invention. For convenience of explanation, specific numerical values are used, but the numerical values are merely examples, and various numerical values may be used. As an example, the frequency band (total transmission band) given to the communication system has a bandwidth of 20 MHz. The entire transmission band includes four frequency blocks 1 to 4, and each frequency block includes a plurality of resource blocks including one or more subcarriers. In the illustrated example, a state in which a large number of subcarriers are included in each frequency block is schematically illustrated. In this embodiment, four types of bandwidths of 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz, and 20 MHz are prepared as communication bandwidths, and the terminal uses one or more frequency blocks and any one of the four bandwidths. Communicate with. A terminal that communicates within a communication system may be able to communicate in any of the four bands, or may be able to communicate only in any bandwidth. However, it is necessary to be able to communicate in a band of at least 5 MHz.

  In this embodiment, the control channel (L1 / L2 control signaling channel) for notifying the terminal of the scheduling contents of the data channel (shared data channel) is configured with a minimum bandwidth (5 MHz), and the control channel is in each frequency block. Prepared independently. For example, when a terminal that performs communication in a bandwidth of 5 MHz performs communication in the frequency block 1, it can receive the control channel prepared in the frequency block 1 and obtain the contents of scheduling. Which frequency block the terminal can communicate with may be notified in advance using a broadcast channel, for example. Moreover, the frequency block to be used may be changed after the start of communication. When a terminal that communicates with a bandwidth of 10 MHz communicates with frequency blocks 1 and 2, the terminal uses two adjacent frequency blocks, and both control channels prepared in frequency blocks 1 and 2 are used. The content of the scheduling over the range of 10 MHz can be obtained. A terminal that performs communication with a bandwidth of 15 MHz uses three adjacent frequency blocks. When communication is performed using frequency blocks 1, 2, and 3, the terminals are all prepared in frequency blocks 1, 2, and 3. And control content over a 15 MHz range can be obtained. A terminal that performs communication with a bandwidth of 20 MHz can receive all the control channels prepared in all frequency blocks, and obtain scheduling contents over a range of 20 MHz.

  In the figure, four discrete blocks are shown in the frequency block for the control channel, and this shows how the control channel is distributed and mapped to a plurality of resource blocks in the frequency block. A specific mapping example of the control channel will be described later.

  FIG. 3 shows a partial block diagram of a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention. 3 includes a frequency block allocation control unit 31, a frequency scheduling unit 32, a control signaling channel generation unit 33-1 and a data channel generation unit 34-1 in the frequency block 1,. . . Control signaling channel generation unit 33-M and data channel generation unit 34-M in frequency block M, broadcast channel (or paging channel) generation unit 35, first multiplexing unit 1-1 related to frequency block 1,. . . The first multiplexing unit 1-M, the second multiplexing unit 37, the third multiplexing unit 38, the other channel generation unit 39, the inverse fast Fourier transform unit 40 (IFFT), and the cyclic prefix (CP) addition unit 50 for the frequency block M are provided. It is drawn.

  The frequency block allocation control unit 31 confirms the frequency block used by the terminal based on the information on the maximum communicable bandwidth reported from the terminal (which may be a mobile terminal or a fixed terminal). The frequency block allocation control unit 31 manages the correspondence between individual terminals and frequency blocks, and notifies the frequency scheduling unit 32 of the contents. As to which frequency block a terminal that can communicate with a certain bandwidth may communicate with may be broadcast in advance on a broadcast channel. For example, the broadcast channel may allow a user communicating with a bandwidth of 5 MHz to use any one of the frequency blocks 1, 2, 3, and 4 or use any of them. May be limited. Moreover, use of a combination of two adjacent frequency blocks such as frequency blocks (1, 2), (2, 3) or (3,4) is permitted for a user communicating with a bandwidth of 10 MHz. . Use of all of these may be permitted, or use may be limited to any combination. A user communicating with a bandwidth of 15 MHz is allowed to use a combination of three adjacent frequency blocks such as frequency block (1, 2, 3) or (2, 3, 4). Use of both may be permitted, or use may be restricted to one combination. All frequency blocks are used for users communicating in a 20 MHz bandwidth. As described later, usable frequency blocks may be changed after the start of communication according to a predetermined frequency hopping pattern.

  The frequency scheduling unit 32 performs frequency scheduling in each of the plurality of frequency blocks. In the frequency scheduling within one frequency block, scheduling information is determined so that resource blocks are preferentially allocated to terminals having good channel conditions based on channel state information CQI for each resource block reported from the terminals.

  The control signaling channel generation unit 33-1 in the frequency block 1 configures a control signaling channel for notifying the terminal of scheduling information in the frequency block 1 using only resource blocks in the frequency block 1. Similarly, other frequency blocks use only resource blocks in the frequency block to configure a control signaling channel for notifying the terminal of scheduling information in the frequency block.

  The data channel generation unit 34-1 in the frequency block 1 generates a data channel to be transmitted using one or more resource blocks in the frequency block 1. Since the frequency block 1 may be shared by one or more terminals (users), N data channel generators 1-1 to N are prepared in the illustrated example. Similarly, for other frequency blocks, data channels of terminals sharing the frequency block are generated.

  The first multiplexing unit 1-1 related to the frequency block 1 multiplexes signals related to the frequency block 1. This multiplexing includes at least frequency multiplexing. How the control signaling channel and the data channel are multiplexed will be described later. The other first multiplexing unit 1-x similarly multiplexes the control signaling channel and data channel transmitted in the frequency block x.

  The second multiplexing unit 37 performs an operation of changing the positional relationship on the frequency axis of various multiplexing units 1-x (x = 1,..., M) according to a predetermined hopping pattern. This will be described in the second embodiment.

  The broadcast channel (or paging channel) generation unit 35 generates broadcast information for notifying a subordinate terminal such as station data. Information indicating the relationship between the maximum frequency band in which a terminal can communicate and the frequency block that can be used by the terminal may be included in the control information. When the usable frequency block is changed variously, information specifying a hopping pattern indicating how the frequency block changes may be included in the broadcast information. Note that the paging channel may be transmitted in the same band as the broadcast channel, or may be transmitted in a frequency block used in each terminal.

  The other channel generation unit 39 generates a channel other than the control signaling channel and the data channel. For example, the other channel generation unit 39 generates a pilot channel.

  The third multiplexing unit 38 multiplexes the control signaling channel and data channel of each frequency block and the broadcast channel and / or other channels as necessary.

  The inverse fast Fourier transform unit 40 performs inverse fast Fourier transform on the signal output from the third multiplexing unit 38 and performs OFDM modulation.

  The cyclic prefix adding unit 50 adds a guard interval to the OFDM-modulated symbol and generates a transmission symbol. The transmission symbol may be created, for example, by adding a series of data at the end (or the beginning) of the OFDM symbol to the beginning (or the end).

  FIG. 4A shows signal processing elements for one frequency block (xth frequency block). x is an integer of 1 or more and M or less. In general, a control signaling channel generation unit 33-x and a data channel generation unit 34-x, multiplexing units 43-A and 43-B, and a multiplexing unit 1-x related to the frequency block x are illustrated. The control signaling channel generator 33-x includes an unspecific control channel generator 41 and one or more specific control channel generators 42-A, 42-B,. . . Have

  The unspecified control channel generation unit 41 is a channel in a portion of an unspecified control channel (which may be referred to as unspecified control information) that all terminals using the frequency block of the control signaling channel must decode and demodulate. Encoding and multilevel modulation are performed and output.

  Specific control channel generators 42-A, 42-B,. . . Is a channel code in a part of a specific control channel (which may be referred to as specific control information) that must be decoded and demodulated by a terminal to which one or more resource blocks are allocated in the frequency block. And multi-level modulation and output it.

  FIG. 5 shows an example of information items and the number of bits that may be included in the control signaling channel. The downlink control signaling channel may include not only downlink information but also uplink information, but they are not distinguished for simplicity of explanation. In general, the unspecified control channel includes terminal identification information, resource block allocation information, and antenna number information. For example, the terminal identification information requires 16 × Nue_max bits when one piece of identification information is expressed by 16 bits. Nue_max represents the maximum number of terminals that can be accommodated in the frequency block. In the figure, Nrb represents the number of resource blocks included in the frequency block. The antenna number information indicates how many antennas are used on the transmission side and the reception side when a multi-antenna apparatus such as a MIMO (Multi Input Multi Output) system is used.

  The specific control channel includes information for each terminal regarding modulation scheme information, channel coding information, and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). The modulation scheme information indicates a modulation scheme (for example, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, etc.) used for data channel modulation. Nrb_assign represents the number of resource blocks assigned to the terminal. Nant represents the number of transmission antennas used for transmission from the terminal. The channel coding information indicates an error correction coding scheme (for example, channel coding rate) applied to the data channel. Information related to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) includes information indicating a process number, information indicating a redundancy format, and information indicating whether the packet is a new packet or a redundant packet. The information items and bit numbers listed in FIG. 5 are merely examples, and more or less information items and bit numbers may be included.

  The data channel generators 1-A, 1-B,. . . Are the individual terminals A, B,. . . Channel coding and multi-level modulation are performed for the data channel to which it is addressed. Information regarding this channel coding and multi-level modulation is included in the specific control channel.

  Multiplexers 43-A, 43-B,. . . Associates a specific control channel and a data channel with a resource block for each terminal to which the resource block is assigned.

  As described above, encoding (and modulation) for the unspecified control channel is performed by the unspecified control channel generation unit 41, and encoding (and modulation) for the specific control channel is performed by the specific control channel generation units 42-A and 42. -B,. . . Done individually. Therefore, in this embodiment, as conceptually shown in FIG. 6, the unspecified control channel includes information for all the users to which the frequency block x is assigned, and these are collectively included in the error correction coding target. Become. In another embodiment, the unspecified control channel may also be error correction encoded for each user. In this case, each user cannot uniquely identify which of the blocks error-correction-coded for each user contains the information of the own station. Therefore, each user needs to decode and demodulate the unspecified control channel for all the users. In this alternative embodiment, since the encoding process is closed for each user, addition and change of users are relatively easy.

  On the other hand, the specific control channel includes only information related to users to which resource blocks are actually allocated, and is error-correction coded for each user. The user to whom the resource block is assigned can be determined by decoding and demodulating the unspecified control channel. Therefore, it is not necessary for everyone to decode the specific control channel, and only the user to whom the resource block is assigned needs to decode it. Note that the channel coding rate and the modulation scheme for the specific control channel are appropriately changed during communication, but the channel coding rate and the modulation scheme for the non-specific control channel may be fixed. However, it is desirable to perform transmission power control (TPC) to ensure a certain level of signal quality.

  FIG. 7A shows an example of data channel and control channel mapping. The illustrated mapping example relates to one frequency block and one subframe, and generally corresponds to the output content of the first multiplexing unit 1-x (however, the pilot channel and the like are multiplexed by the third multiplexing unit 38). .) One subframe may correspond to, for example, one transmission time interval (TTI) or may correspond to a plurality of TTIs. In the illustrated example, seven resource blocks RB1 to RB7 are included in the frequency block. These seven resource blocks are allocated to terminals having good channel conditions by the frequency scheduling unit 32 of FIG.

  In general, unspecified control channels, pilot channels, and data channels are time-multiplexed. The unspecified control channel is distributed and mapped over the entire frequency block. That is, the unspecified control channel is distributed over the entire band occupied by the seven resource blocks. In the illustrated example, the non-specific control channel and other control channels (excluding the specific control channel) are frequency-multiplexed. Other channels may include, for example, a synchronization channel. In the illustrated example, the unspecified control channel and the other control channels are frequency-multiplexed so that each has a plurality of frequency components arranged at some interval. Such a multiplexing scheme is called a distributed frequency division multiplexing (distributed FDM) scheme. The intervals between the frequency components may all be the same or different. In any case, it is necessary that the unspecified control channel is distributed over the entire area of one frequency block.

  In the illustrated example, pilot channels and the like are also mapped over the entire frequency block. From the viewpoint of accurately performing channel estimation and the like for various frequency components, it is desirable that the pilot channel is mapped over a wide range as illustrated.

  In the illustrated example, resource blocks RB1, RB2, and RB4 are assigned to user 1 (UE1), resource blocks RB3, RB5, and RB6 are assigned to user 2 (UE2), and resource block RB7 is assigned to user 3 (UE3). . As described above, such allocation information is included in the unspecified control channel. Furthermore, a specific control channel for user 1 is mapped to the head of resource block RB1 among the resource blocks allocated to user 1. A specific control channel related to user 2 is mapped to the head of resource block RB3 among the resource blocks allocated to user 2. A specific control channel related to the user 3 is mapped to the head of the resource block RB7 assigned to the user 3. In the figure, it should be noted that the sizes occupied by the specific control channels of the users 1, 2 and 3 are drawn unevenly. This represents that the amount of information of a specific control channel may differ depending on the user. The specific control channel is mapped locally only to the resource block allocated to the data channel. In this regard, unlike distributed FDM that is distributed and mapped across various resource blocks, such a mapping scheme is also called localized frequency division multiplexing (localized FDM).

  FIG. 7B shows another example of mapping of unspecified control channels. The specific control channel of user 1 (UE1) is mapped to only one resource block RB1 in FIG. 7A, but over the entire resource blocks RB1, RB2, and RB4 (entire resource blocks assigned to user 1) in FIG. 7B. The distributed FDM method is discretely distributed and mapped. Also, the specific control channel for user 2 (UE2) is also mapped over the entire resource blocks RB3, RB5, RB6, unlike the case shown in FIG. 7A. User 2's specific control channel and shared data channel are time-division multiplexed. As described above, the specific control channel and the shared data channel of each user are time-division multiplexed (TDM) and / or frequency division multiplexed among all or a part of one or more resource blocks allocated to each user. Multiplexing may be performed in a system (including localized FDM system and distributed FDM system). By mapping the specific control channel over two or more resource blocks, the frequency diversity effect can be expected for the specific control channel, and the signal quality of the specific control channel can be further improved.

  FIG. 8 shows a partial block diagram of a mobile terminal used in an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 8 shows a carrier frequency tuning unit 81, a filtering unit 82, a cyclic prefix (CP) removing unit 83, a fast Fourier transform unit (FFT) 84, a CQI measuring unit 85, a broadcast channel (or paging channel) decoding unit 86, A specific control channel decoding unit 87, a specific control channel decoding unit 88, and a data channel decoding unit 89 are depicted.

  The carrier frequency tuning unit 81 appropriately adjusts the center frequency of the reception band so that the signal of the frequency block assigned to the terminal can be received.

  The filtering unit 82 filters the received signal.

  The cyclic prefix removing unit 83 removes the guard interval from the received signal and extracts the effective symbol portion from the received symbol.

  A fast Fourier transform unit (FFT) 84 performs fast Fourier transform on information included in the effective symbol and performs OFDM demodulation.

  CQI measuring section 85 measures the received power level of the pilot channel included in the received signal, and feeds back the measurement result to the base station as channel state information CQI. CQI is performed for every resource block in the frequency block, and they are all reported to the base station.

  The broadcast channel (or paging channel) decoding unit 86 decodes the broadcast channel. If a paging channel is included, it is also decoded.

  The unspecified control channel decoding unit 87 decodes the unspecified control channel included in the received signal and extracts scheduling information. The scheduling information includes information indicating whether or not a resource block is allocated to the shared data channel addressed to the terminal, information indicating a resource block number when the resource block is allocated, and the like.

  The specific control channel decoding unit 88 decodes the specific control channel included in the received signal. The specific control channel includes data modulation, channel coding rate, and HARQ information regarding the shared data channel.

  The data channel decoding unit 89 decodes the shared data channel included in the received signal based on the information extracted from the specific control channel. An acknowledgment (ACK) or a negative acknowledgment (NACK) may be reported to the base station according to the decoding result.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing an operation example according to an embodiment of the present invention. As an example, it is assumed that a user having a mobile terminal UE1 that can communicate with a bandwidth of 10 MHz enters a cell or a sector that performs communication with a bandwidth of 20 MHz. It is assumed that the minimum frequency band of the communication system is 5 MHz, and the entire band is divided into four frequency blocks 1 to 4 as shown in FIG.

  In step S11, the terminal UE1 receives the broadcast channel from the base station, and confirms what frequency blocks the local station can use. The broadcast channel may be transmitted in a 5 MHz band including the center frequency of the entire 20 MHz band. In this way, any terminal having a different receivable bandwidth can easily receive the broadcast channel. The broadcast channel allows users communicating with a bandwidth of 10 MHz to use a combination of two adjacent frequency blocks such as frequency blocks (1, 2), (2, 3) or (3,4). To do. Use of all of these may be permitted, or use may be limited to any combination. As an example, it is assumed that use of the frequency blocks 2 and 3 is permitted.

  In step S12, the terminal UE1 receives the downlink pilot channel and measures the received signal quality regarding the frequency blocks 2 and 3. The measurement is performed for each of a number of resource blocks included in each frequency block, and all of them are reported to the base station as channel state information CQI.

  In step S21, the base station performs frequency scheduling for each frequency block based on the channel state information CQI reported from the terminal UE1 and other terminals. It is confirmed and managed by the frequency block allocation control unit (31 in FIG. 3) that the data channel addressed to UE1 is transmitted from frequency block 2 or 3.

  In step S22, the base station creates a control signaling channel for each frequency block according to the scheduling information. The control signaling channel includes an unspecified control channel and a specified control channel.

  In step S23, the control channel and the shared data channel are transmitted from the base station for each frequency block according to the scheduling information.

  In step S13, the terminal UE1 receives signals transmitted in the frequency blocks 2 and 3.

  In step S14, the unspecified control channel is separated from the control channel received in the frequency block 2, is decoded, and scheduling information is extracted. Similarly, the unspecified control channel is separated from the control channel received by the frequency block 3, is decoded, and the scheduling information is extracted. Any scheduling information includes information indicating whether or not a resource block is allocated to the shared data channel addressed to the terminal UE1, information indicating a resource block number when the resource block is allocated, and the like. When no resource block is assigned to the shared data channel addressed to the own station, the terminal UE1 returns to the standby state and waits for reception of the control channel. If any resource block is allocated to the shared data channel addressed to the own station, the terminal UE1 separates the specific control channel included in the received signal in step S15 and decodes it. The specific control channel includes data modulation, channel coding rate, and HARQ information regarding the shared data channel.

  In step S16, the terminal UE1 decodes the shared data channel included in the received signal based on the information extracted from the specific control channel. An acknowledgment (ACK) or a negative acknowledgment (NACK) may be reported to the base station according to the decoding result. Thereafter, the same procedure is repeated.

  In the first embodiment, the control channel is divided into a specific control channel that the terminal to which the resource block is allocated must decode and demodulate, and the specific control channel is mapped only to the allocated resource block, Other control channels were mapped over the entire frequency band. As a result, the transmission efficiency and quality of the control channel can be improved. However, the present invention is not limited to such a transmission method example.

  FIG. 7C is a diagram illustrating an example of data channel and control channel mapping according to the second embodiment of the present invention. Also in this embodiment, a base station as shown in FIG. 3 is used. In this case, the processing elements shown in FIG. 4B for the control channel are mainly used. In this embodiment, neither specific control information nor non-specific control information is clearly distinguished, and is transmitted over the entire frequency band over a plurality of resource blocks. As shown in FIG. 4B, in this embodiment, error correction coding is performed using the entire control channel for a plurality of users as one processing unit. A user apparatus (typically a mobile station) decodes and demodulates the control channel, determines whether or not the own station is allocated, and restores a data channel transmitted in a specific resource block according to the channel allocation information. .

  For example, it is assumed that 10-bit control information is transmitted to each of the first to third users UE1, UE2, UE3 to which resource blocks are assigned. The entire 30 bits of control information for three persons are error-correction coded as one processing unit. If the coding rate (R) is 1/2, 30 × 2 = 60 bits are generated and transmitted. On the other hand, unlike the present embodiment, it is also conceivable that each person's control information is individually error correction encoded and transmitted. In that case, 10 bits of control information for 1 person are error-correction-encoded to generate 10 × 2 = 20 bits, which are prepared for 3 persons (60 bits in total). The amount of control information to be transmitted is 60 bits, but according to this embodiment, the processing unit of error correction coding is three times longer than the other, so this embodiment increases the coding gain (ie, This is advantageous from the viewpoint of making errors less likely to occur. Further, in this embodiment, error detection bits (CRC bits, etc.) are added to the entire 60 bits, but when error correction coding is performed for each user, error detection bits are added every 20 bits. Therefore, this embodiment is more advantageous from the viewpoint of suppressing an increase in overhead due to the detection bits.

  FIG. 7D is a diagram illustrating an example of data channel and control channel mapping according to the third embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the base station as shown in FIG. 3 is used, but the processing elements shown in FIG. 4C are mainly used for the control channel. In this embodiment, the specific control information and the non-specific control information are not clearly distinguished, but the control channel is mapped only to the resource block assigned to the user who should receive it. For example, the control channel of the first user UE1 is mapped to the first and second resource blocks RB1 and RB2, the control channel of the second user UE2 is mapped to the third and fourth resource blocks RB3 and RB4, and the third user UE3 The control channel is mapped to the fifth resource block RB5. Error correction coding is performed for each user. This is different from the second embodiment in which the control channels of the first to third users are collectively error-corrected and mapped to the resource blocks RB1 to RB5.

  In this embodiment, both the control channel and the data channel are limited to the same resource block, but it is unknown to the mobile station which resource block is allocated to the mobile station before receiving the control channel. Therefore, each mobile station needs to receive all the resource blocks to which the control channel can be mapped, and demodulate not only the own station but also the control channel of the other station. In the example shown in FIG. 7D, the first user UE1 demodulates the control channel mapped to all the resource blocks RB1 to RB5, thereby confirming that its own station is allocated to the first and second resource blocks RB1 and RB2. I can know.

  In the second embodiment, in order for a user in the worst communication environment to receive the control channel with the required quality, the transmission power of the base station is determined in accordance with the user in the worst environment. Therefore, it becomes excessive quality for users in the worst communication environment, and the base station must always consume extra power. However, in the third embodiment, processing such as error correction coding and the transmission band are limited to each user's resource block, so transmission power control can also be performed for each user. For this reason, it is not necessary to consume extra power of the base station. Further, since the resource block is assigned to a user with a good channel state, the control channel is transmitted in such a good channel state, and the quality of the control channel can be improved.

  FIG. 7E is a diagram illustrating an example of data channel and control channel mapping according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, a base station as shown in FIG. 3 is used, but the processing elements related to the control channel are as shown in FIG. 4D. In the present embodiment, the specific control information and the non-specific control information are not clearly distinguished, and the control channel is subjected to error correction coding for each user as in the third embodiment, and the transmission power is determined. However, the control channel is mapped so as to be distributed not only to the resource block assigned to the user who should receive it but also to other resource blocks. Even in this way, the control channel can be transmitted.

  In the first to fourth embodiments, when the control channels are distributed and mapped to a plurality of resource blocks, it is not essential that the control channels are mapped to all resource blocks in a given frequency band. . For example, the interest control channel may be mapped only to odd-numbered resource blocks RB1, RB3,... In a given frequency band, or may be mapped only to even-numbered resource blocks. The control channel may be mapped only to any appropriate resource block known between the base station and the mobile station. By doing so, it is possible to appropriately narrow the search range when the mobile station extracts its own allocation information.

  By the way, in the second embodiment, it is pointed out that the transmission power of the base station is determined according to the user in the worst communication environment, and the base station must always consume extra power. However, if the communication environment of a large number of users is as good as that, such a concern is resolved. Therefore, the method described in the second embodiment is advantageous in a communication environment in which the same quality can be obtained for a plurality of users. From this point of view, in the fifth embodiment of the present invention, user devices in the cell are appropriately grouped, and the used frequency band is divided for each group.

  FIG. 7F shows a conceptual diagram for explaining a fifth embodiment of the present invention. In the illustrated example, three groups are prepared according to the distance from the base station, group 1 includes resource blocks RB1 to RB3, group 2 includes resource blocks RB4 to RB6, and group 3 includes resource blocks RB7 to RB9. Are assigned to each. The number of groups and the number of resource blocks prepared are only examples, and any appropriate number may be used. After grouping, various methods described in the first to fourth embodiments may be performed. By grouping users and frequency bands, the difference in reception quality between users can be reduced. As a result, it is possible to effectively cope with the problem that the transmission power of the base station is consumed excessively due to the user in the worst environment (the problem concerned in the second embodiment). Further, even in the case of the third embodiment, by performing grouping as in the present embodiment, the transmission power of the control channel in the same group becomes approximately the same, and the operation of the base station transmitter is stabilized. It becomes advantageous from the viewpoint of.

  In the illustrated example, three groups are prepared according to the distance from the base station in order to simplify the description. However, groupings may be made based on channel quality indicators (CQI) as well as distances. CQI may be measured in any suitable amount known in the art, such as SIR or SINR.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an operation example when frequency hopping is performed. The frequency band assigned to the communication system is 20 MHz, and includes four frequency blocks having a minimum bandwidth of 5 MHz. In the illustrated example, the communication system can accommodate 40 users who can communicate in a 5 MHz band, 20 users who can communicate in a 10 MHz band, and 10 users who can communicate in a 20 MHz band.

  A user who can communicate in a 20 MHz band can always use all of the frequency blocks 1 to 4. However, out of 40 users who can communicate only in the 5 MHz band, the first to tenth users are allowed to use only frequency block 1 at time t and use only frequency block 2 at time t + 1. It is permitted to use only frequency block 3 at time t + 2. The eleventh to twentieth users are allowed to use frequency blocks 2, 3, and 4 at times t, t + 1, and t + 2. The 21st to 30th users are allowed to use frequency blocks 3, 4, 1 at times t, t + 1, t + 2. The 31st to 40th users are permitted to use the frequency blocks 4, 1 and 2 at times t, t + 1 and t + 2. Of the 20 users who can communicate only in the 10 MHz band, the first to tenth users are allowed to use only frequency blocks 1 and 2 at time t, and at frequency t + 1, frequency blocks 3 and 4 is allowed to use only, and at time t + 2, only frequency blocks 1 and 2 are allowed to use. The eleventh to twentieth users are allowed to use frequency blocks 3 and 4, 1 and 2, 3 and 4 at times t, t + 1 and t + 2.

  Such a frequency hopping pattern is notified to each user in advance by a broadcast channel or another method. In this case, several patterns are defined in advance as frequency hopping patterns, and by notifying the user of the pattern number indicating which pattern is used, the frequency hopping pattern can be transmitted to the user with a small number of bits. You can be notified. In the case where there are several choices of usable frequency blocks as in the present embodiment, changing the usable frequency block after the start of communication is a viewpoint of achieving uniform communication quality between users and between frequency blocks. To preferred. For example, if frequency hopping is not performed as in the present embodiment, a specific user must always communicate with a bad quality when there is a large difference in communication quality between frequency blocks. By performing frequency hopping, even if the communication quality is bad at one point, it can be expected to improve at another point.

  In the illustrated example, a frequency hopping pattern in which 5 MHz and 10 MHz frequency blocks are shifted to the right one by one is shown, but various other hopping patterns may be used. This is because no matter what hopping pattern is adopted, it should be known on the transmission side and the reception side.

  In the third embodiment of the present invention described below, a method for transmitting a paging channel in addition to a control signaling channel will be described.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a flowchart (left side) and a frequency band (right side) of an operation example according to one embodiment of the present invention. In step S1, the broadcast channel is transmitted from the base station to the subordinate users. As shown in FIG. 11 (1), the broadcast channel is transmitted with the minimum bandwidth including the center frequency of the entire frequency band. The broadcast information notified through the broadcast channel includes the correspondence between the bandwidth that can be received by the user and the usable frequency blocks.

  In step S2, a user (for example, UE1) enters a standby state at a designated frequency block (for example, frequency block 1). In this case, the user UE1 adjusts the band of the received signal so that the signal of the frequency block 1 permitted to be used can be received. In the present embodiment, not only the control signaling channel related to the user UE1 but also the paging channel related to the user UE1 are transmitted in the frequency block 1. When it is confirmed that the user UE1 has been called on the paging channel, the flow proceeds to step S3.

  In step S3, the data channel is received in accordance with the scheduling information at the designated frequency block. Thereafter, the user UE1 returns to the standby state again.

  FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a flowchart (left side) and a frequency band (right side) of another operation example according to one embodiment of the present invention. In the same manner as described above, in step S1, a broadcast channel is transmitted from the base station, and the broadcast channel is transmitted with the minimum bandwidth including the center frequency of all frequency bands (FIG. 12 (1)). Assume that the frequency block that can be used is the frequency block 1 as in the example of FIG.

  In step S2, the user UE1 enters a standby state. Unlike the above example, the user UE1 does not adjust the band of the received signal at this point. Therefore, the paging channel is waited in the same band as the broadcast channel is received ((2) in FIG. 12).

  In step S3, after the paging channel is confirmed, the terminal moves to frequency block 1 assigned to the terminal, receives the control signaling channel, and performs communication according to the scheduling information ((3) in FIG. 12). Thereafter, the user UE1 returns to the standby state again.

  In the example shown in FIG. 11, the terminal quickly shifts to frequency block 1 when waiting, but in the example shown in FIG. 12, the terminal does not shift at that time and shifts to frequency block 1 after the call of the local station is confirmed. To do. In the former method, various users wait for a signal in a frequency block assigned to each user. In the latter method, all users wait for a signal in the same band. Therefore, the former may be preferable in terms of using frequency resources more uniformly than the latter. On the other hand, the neighboring cell search for confirming the necessity of handover is performed using the lowest bandwidth at the center of all bands. Therefore, from the viewpoint of reducing the frequency tuning frequency of the terminal, it is desirable to match the standby band and the cell search band as in the example shown in FIG.

  By the way, it is desirable to perform link adaptation from the viewpoint of improving the received signal quality of the control channel. In the fourth embodiment of the present invention, transmission power control (TPC) and adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) control are used as methods for performing link adaptation. FIG. 13 shows how transmission power control is performed, and it is intended to achieve the required quality on the receiving side by controlling the transmission power of the downlink channel. More specifically, since the channel state for the user 1 far from the base station is expected to be bad, the downlink channel is transmitted with a large transmission power. On the contrary, it is expected that the channel state is good for the user 2 close to the base station. In this case, if the transmission power of the downlink channel to the user 2 is large, the received signal quality for the user 2 may be good, but interference will be large for other users. Since the channel state of the user 2 is good, the required quality can be ensured even if the transmission power is small. Therefore, in this case, the downlink channel is transmitted with a relatively small transmission power. When transmission power control is performed independently, the modulation scheme and the channel coding scheme are kept constant, and a known combination is used on the transmission side and the reception side. Therefore, it is not necessary to separately notify the modulation scheme and the like in order to demodulate the channel under transmission power control.

  FIG. 14 shows a state in which adaptive modulation and coding control is performed. The required quality on the receiving side is achieved by adaptively changing either or both of the modulation method and the coding method according to the quality of the channel state. Is intended. More specifically, if the transmission power from the base station is constant, the channel state for the user 1 far from the base station is expected to be poor, so the modulation multilevel number is small and / or the channel coding rate. Is also set small. In the example shown in the figure, QPSK is used as the modulation scheme for user 1 and 2 bits of information are transmitted per symbol. On the other hand, the user 2 close to the base station is expected to have a good channel state, and the modulation multi-level number is set large and / or the channel coding rate is set large. In the illustrated example, 16QAM is used as a modulation scheme for the user 2, and information of 4 bits per symbol is transmitted. As a result, the required quality is achieved by increasing the reliability for users with poor channel conditions, and the throughput can be improved while maintaining the required quality for users with good channel conditions. In adaptive modulation and coding control, when demodulating a received channel, information such as the modulation method, coding method, and number of symbols applied to that channel is required, so that information is notified to the receiving side by some means. It is necessary to. In addition, since the number of bits that can be transmitted per symbol differs depending on whether the channel state is good or not, information can be transmitted with a small number of symbols if the channel state is good, but on the other hand, a large number of symbols is required.

In the fourth embodiment of the present invention, transmission power control is performed for an unspecified control channel that an unspecified user has to decode, and transmission is performed for a specified control channel that a specific user to which a resource block is allocated may decode. One or both of power control and adaptive modulation and coding control are performed. Specifically, the following three methods can be considered.
TPC-TPC
In the first method, transmission power control is performed on an unspecified control channel, and only transmission power control is performed on a specific control channel. In the transmission power control, since the modulation scheme and the like are fixed, if the channel is received well, it can be demodulated without prior notification regarding the modulation scheme and the like. Since the unspecified control channel is distributed over the entire frequency block, it is transmitted with the same transmission power over the entire frequency range. In contrast, a specific control channel for a user occupies only a specific resource block for that user. Therefore, the transmission power of the specific control channel may be individually adjusted so that the received signal quality is improved for each user to which the resource block is assigned. For example, in the example shown in FIGS. 7A and 7B, the non-specific control channel is transmitted with the transmission power P ₀ , the specific control channel of the user 1 (UE1) is transmitted with the transmission power P ₁ suitable for the user 1, and the user 2 (UE2 ) May be transmitted with the transmission power P ₂ suitable for the user 2, and the specific control channel of the user 3 (UE 3) may be transmitted with the transmission power P ₃ suitable for the user 3. Incidentally portion of the shared data channel may be transmitted in the same or a different transmission power P _D.

As described above, the unspecified control channel must be decoded by all unspecified users. However, the main purpose of transmitting the control channel is to notify the user to which the resource block is actually allocated that there is data to be received and scheduling information thereof. Therefore, the transmission power when transmitting the unspecified control channel may be adjusted so that the required quality is satisfied for the user to which the resource block is allocated. For example, in the example of FIGS. 7A and 7B, when all users 1, 2 and 3 to which resource blocks are allocated are located in the vicinity of the base station, the transmission power P ₀ of the unspecified control channel is set to be relatively small. Good. In this case, for example, users at the cell edge other than the users 1, 2 and 3 may not be able to decode the unspecified control channel satisfactorily.

(2) TPC-AMC
In the second method, transmission power control is performed on an unspecified control channel, and only adaptive modulation and coding control is performed on the specific control channel. In general, when AMC control is performed, it is necessary to notify the modulation scheme and the like in advance. In this method, information such as the modulation scheme for the specific control channel is included in the non-specific control channel. Accordingly, each user first receives an unspecified control channel, decodes and demodulates it, and determines whether or not there is data addressed to the own station. If it exists, in addition to extracting scheduling information, information on the modulation scheme, coding scheme, number of symbols, etc. applied to the specific control channel is also extracted. Then, the specific control channel is demodulated according to information such as scheduling information and modulation scheme, information such as the modulation scheme of the shared data channel is acquired, and the shared data channel is demodulated.

  The control channel does not require much transmission at a higher throughput than the shared data channel. Therefore, when AMC control is performed for an unspecified control channel, the total number of combinations of modulation schemes and the like may be smaller than the total number of combinations of modulation schemes for shared data channels. As an example, as a combination of AMC of unspecified control channels, the modulation scheme may be fixed to QPSK, and the coding rate may be changed to 7/8, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4.

  According to the second method, it is possible to improve the quality of the specific control channel while ensuring the quality of the non-specific control channel at a certain level or higher for all users. This is because the specific control channel is mapped to a resource block having a good channel state for each specific communication terminal, and an appropriate modulation scheme and / or encoding scheme is used. By performing adaptive modulation and coding control on a specific control channel portion of the control channel, the reception quality of that portion can be improved.

  Note that the number of combinations of modulation schemes and channel coding rates may be limited to be extremely small, and demodulation may be attempted for all combinations on the receiving side. The content that has been successfully demodulated is finally adopted. In this way, a certain amount of AMC control can be performed even if information on the modulation scheme or the like is not notified in advance.

(3) TPC-TPC / AMC
In the third method, transmission power control is performed on an unspecified control channel, and both transmission power control and adaptive modulation and coding control are performed on the specific control channel. As described above, when AMC control is performed, in principle, it is necessary to notify the modulation scheme and the like in advance. In addition, it is desirable that the total number of combinations of modulation schemes and channel coding rates is large from the viewpoint of ensuring required quality even when fading varies greatly. However, if the total number is large, the determination process such as the modulation method becomes complicated, the amount of information required for notification increases, and the calculation burden and overhead increase. In the third method, transmission power control is used in combination with AMC control, and the required quality is maintained by both controls. Therefore, it is not necessary to compensate for all fading that varies greatly only by AMC control. Specifically, a modulation method that reaches the vicinity of the required quality is selected, and the required quality is ensured by adjusting the transmission power under the selected modulation method. For this reason, the total number of combinations of modulation schemes and channel coding schemes may be limited.

  In any of the above methods, only transmission power control is performed on the unspecified control channel, so that the user can easily obtain control information while maintaining required quality. Unlike AMC control, the amount of information transmitted per symbol does not change and can be easily transmitted in a fixed format. Since the unspecified control channel is distributed over the entire frequency block or over many resource blocks, the frequency diversity effect is large. Therefore, it can be expected that the required quality can be sufficiently achieved by simple transmission power control that adjusts the long-period average level. By including AMC control information (information for specifying a modulation scheme or the like) for a specific control channel in the non-specific control channel, AMC control can be performed for the specific control channel. For this reason, the transmission efficiency and quality of a specific control channel can be improved. The number of symbols required for the unspecified control channel is substantially constant, but the number of symbols required for the specified control channel varies depending on the content of AMC control, the number of antennas, and the like. For example, if the number of symbols required is N when the channel coding rate is 1/2 and the number of antennas is 1, the number of symbols required when the channel coding rate is 1/4 and the number of antennas is 2 is 4N. It increases to. Thus, even if the number of symbols required for the control channel changes, in this embodiment, the control channel can be transmitted in a simple fixed format as shown in FIGS. 7A and 7B. The content of the changing number of symbols is not included in the non-specific control channel, but is included only in the specific control channel. Therefore, it is possible to flexibly cope with such a change in the number of symbols by changing the ratio of the specific control channel and the shared data channel in the specific resource block.

  For convenience of explanation, the present invention has been described in several embodiments. However, the division of each embodiment is not essential to the present invention, and one or more embodiments may be used as necessary.

The figure for demonstrating frequency scheduling is shown. It is a figure which shows the frequency band used by one Example of this invention. FIG. 2 shows a partial block diagram of a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the signal processing element regarding one frequency block. FIG. 3 shows signal processing elements for a control channel. FIG. 3 shows signal processing elements for a control channel. FIG. 3 shows signal processing elements for a control channel. It is a figure which shows the information item example of a control signaling channel. It is a figure which shows the unit of error correction encoding. It is a figure which shows the example of mapping of a data channel and a control channel. It is a figure which shows the example of mapping of a data channel and a control channel. It is a figure which shows the example of mapping of a data channel and a control channel. It is a figure which shows the example of mapping of a data channel and a control channel. It is a figure which shows the example of mapping of a data channel and a control channel. It is a figure which shows a mode that the user in a cell is grouped. FIG. 2 shows a partial block diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the operation example in case frequency hopping is performed. It is a figure which shows the flowchart and frequency band of an operation example by one Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the flowchart and frequency band of another operation example by one Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows a mode that TPC is performed. It is a figure which shows a mode that AMC control is performed.

Explanation of symbols

31 frequency block allocation control unit 32 frequency scheduling unit 33-x control signaling channel generation unit in frequency block x 34-x data channel generation unit in frequency block x 35 broadcast channel (or paging channel) generation unit 1-x frequency block first multiplexing unit 37 related to x 37 second multiplexing unit 38 third multiplexing unit 39 other channel generation unit 40 inverse fast Fourier transform unit 50 cyclic prefix addition unit 41 unspecified control channel generation unit 42 specific control channel generation unit 43 multiplexing unit 81 Carrier frequency tuning unit 82 Filtering unit 83 Cyclic prefix removal unit 84 Fast Fourier transform unit (FFT)
85 CQI measurement unit 86 Broadcast channel decoding unit 87 Unspecified control channel decoding unit 88 Specific control channel decoding unit 89 Data channel decoding unit

Claims (12)

  A frequency scheduling unit in which a frequency band given to the communication system includes a plurality of frequency blocks, each frequency block includes a plurality of resource blocks, and allocates at least one resource block to each communication terminal;
  A first generation unit that generates a data channel for a communication terminal to which at least one resource block is allocated in the frequency scheduling unit;
  A second generation unit that generates a specific control channel for each communication terminal assigned at least one resource block in the frequency scheduling unit;
  A third generation unit that generates an unspecified control channel common to communication terminals to which at least one resource block is allocated in the frequency scheduling unit;
  A fourth generation unit for generating a broadcast channel including broadcast information for notifying a communication terminal;
  Among the plurality of frequency blocks included in the frequency band given to the communication system, the broadcast channel generated in the fourth generation unit is arranged in the frequency block including the center frequency, and the frequency band given to the communication system The unspecified control channel generated by the third generation unit, at least one specific control channel generated by the second generation unit, and at least one generated by the first generation unit over a plurality of frequency blocks included in A multiplexing unit for arranging the data channels of
  A transmission unit for transmitting an output signal of the multiplexing unit;
  A transmission device comprising:   The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specific control channel generated in the second generation unit includes information on a data modulation scheme.   The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specific control channel generated in the second generation unit includes information related to an encoding scheme.   The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specific control channel generated by the second generation unit includes information on hybrid retransmission control.   The multiplexing unit includes at least one data channel generated in the first generation unit with respect to an unspecified control channel generated in the third generation unit and at least one specific control channel generated in the second generation unit. 5. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission apparatus is time-multiplexed.   6. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the multiplexing unit arranges a paging channel similarly to the data channel.   A frequency band given to the communication system includes a plurality of frequency blocks, each frequency block includes a plurality of resource blocks, and assigns at least one resource block to each communication terminal;
  Generating a data channel for a communication terminal assigned with at least one resource block;
  Generating a specific control channel for each communication terminal assigned with at least one resource block;
  Generating an unspecified control channel common to communication terminals assigned with at least one resource block;
  Generating a broadcast channel including broadcast information for notifying a communication terminal;
  Among the plurality of frequency blocks included in the frequency band given to the communication system, the broadcast channel is arranged in the frequency block including the center frequency, and the plurality of frequency blocks included in the frequency band given to the communication system A non-specific control channel, at least one specific control channel, and at least one data channel,
  Transmitting an output signal from the placing step;
  A transmission method comprising:   The transmission method according to claim 7, wherein the specific control channel generated in the step of generating the specific control channel includes information on a data modulation scheme.   The transmission method according to claim 7, wherein the specific control channel generated in the step of generating the specific control channel includes information related to an encoding scheme.   The transmission method according to claim 7, wherein the specific control channel generated in the step of generating the specific control channel includes information on hybrid retransmission control.   The transmission method according to any one of claims 7 to 10, wherein in the step of arranging, at least one data channel is time-multiplexed with respect to an unspecified control channel and at least one specific control channel.   The transmission method according to any one of claims 7 to 11, wherein in the arranging step, a paging channel is arranged similarly to the data channel.

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