JP4398985B2 - Wireless transmission device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a wireless transmission device .

  Conventionally, in wireless communication, in order to improve reception quality, antenna diversity transmission for transmitting the same signal by switching antennas, or retransmission of a signal in response to a request from the receiving side when an error occurs in the signal An automatic retransmission request is made.

  However, in antenna diversity transmission, since it is necessary to prepare a plurality of antennas, the device scale on the transmission side becomes large. Further, in the automatic retransmission request, the larger the error rate, the more frequent the retransmission and the lower the transmission efficiency.

The present invention has been made in view of this point, and an object of the present invention is to provide a radio transmission apparatus capable of improving reception quality without performing transmission and retransmission by a plurality of antennas.

The multicarrier signal generation method according to the first aspect of the present invention includes a duplication step of duplicating a bit sequence to obtain a plurality of identical bits, and a modulation step of performing modulation that includes each of the plurality of identical bits in different symbols. Generating a multi-carrier signal by allocating each of the symbols obtained by the modulation to each of a plurality of subcarriers, and in the duplication step, N / M (where M is a reference modulation scheme) The number of bits of one symbol in N is obtained, and N is the number of bits of one symbol in the modulation scheme used in the modulation step).

  According to this method, diversity gain in the frequency axis direction can be obtained by one transmission, and reception quality can be improved without performing transmission or retransmission by a plurality of antennas. Further, since the number of identical bits included in the multicarrier signal increases as the modulation multilevel number increases, the diversity gain in the frequency axis direction can be further improved by increasing the modulation multilevel number.

A radio transmission apparatus according to a second aspect of the present invention includes a duplication unit that duplicates a bit sequence to obtain a plurality of identical bits, a modulation unit that performs modulation to include each of the plurality of identical bits in different symbols, And generating means for generating a multicarrier signal by assigning each symbol obtained by modulation to each of a plurality of subcarriers; and transmitting means for transmitting the multicarrier signal, wherein the duplicating means comprises N / M A configuration is adopted in which a plurality of the same bits are obtained (where M is the number of bits of one symbol in the reference modulation scheme and N is the number of bits of one symbol in the modulation scheme used in the modulation step).

  According to this configuration, since a multicarrier signal including a plurality of identical bits having different frequencies is transmitted, a diversity gain in the frequency axis direction is obtained by one transmission, and reception is performed without performing transmission or retransmission by a plurality of antennas. Quality can be improved. Further, since the number of identical bits included in the multicarrier signal increases as the modulation multilevel number increases, the diversity gain in the frequency axis direction can be further improved by increasing the modulation multilevel number.

The radio transmission apparatus according to the third aspect of the present invention employs a configuration further comprising symbol interleaving means for rearranging the order of symbol sequences output from the modulation means.

  According to this configuration, when fading fluctuation in the frequency axis direction has periodicity, the magnitude of the fading fluctuation that each of the plurality of identical bits receives in the transmission path can be made different. The gain can be further improved.

The radio transmitting apparatus according to the fourth aspect of the present invention employs a configuration further comprising bit interleaving means for rearranging the order of bit sequences output from the duplicating means.

  According to this configuration, when fading fluctuations in the frequency axis direction have periodicity, the variation in fading fluctuations received by each of the plurality of identical bits in the transmission path is increased, so that diversity gain in the frequency axis direction is further improved. Can be made.

The radio transmitting apparatus according to the fifth aspect of the present invention employs a configuration in which the modulation means performs the modulation by making the arrangement positions of the plurality of identical bits different in the different symbols.

  According to this configuration, by combining the likelihoods of a plurality of the same bits, the likelihoods of the plurality of the same bits can be increased and made equal, so that the reception quality can be further improved.

A radio communication terminal apparatus according to a sixth aspect of the present invention employs a configuration in which any one of the radio transmission apparatuses described above is mounted. A radio communication base station apparatus according to the seventh aspect of the present invention employs a configuration in which any one of the radio transmission apparatuses is mounted.

  According to these configurations, it is possible to provide a wireless communication terminal device and a wireless communication base station device having the same operations and effects as the wireless transmission device.

The radio reception apparatus according to the eighth aspect of the present invention provides N / M (where M is the number of bits of one symbol in the reference modulation scheme, and N is the modulation scheme used on the transmission side of the multicarrier signal). Receiving means for receiving the multi-carrier signal in which each of a plurality of identical bits (number of bits of one symbol) is assigned to each of a plurality of subcarriers; and a combining means for combining the likelihoods of the plurality of identical bits; The structure which comprises is taken.

  According to this configuration, since the likelihoods of a plurality of the same bits having different frequencies included in one multicarrier signal are combined, a diversity gain in the frequency axis direction can be obtained by one transmission. Further, since the number of identical bits included in the multicarrier signal increases as the modulation multilevel number increases, the diversity gain in the frequency axis direction can be further improved by increasing the modulation multilevel number.

A radio communication terminal apparatus according to the ninth aspect of the present invention employs a configuration in which the radio reception apparatus is mounted. Moreover, the radio | wireless communication base station apparatus which concerns on the 10th aspect of this invention takes the structure which mounts the said radio | wireless receiver.

  According to these configurations, it is possible to provide a wireless communication terminal device and a wireless communication base station device having the same operations and effects as the wireless reception device.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to improve reception quality without performing transmission or retransmission by a plurality of antennas.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a radio transmission apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. The radio transmission apparatus shown in FIG. 1 includes a duplication unit 11, a modulation unit 12 including a 16QAM unit 121 and a 16QAM unit 122, an S / P unit 13, an S / P unit 14, an IFFT unit 15, and a transmission. The multi-carrier signal is composed of an RF unit 16 and an antenna 17 and includes a plurality of identical bits having different frequencies.

  The duplication unit 11 duplicates the input bit sequence. Thereby, the same bit is duplicated to generate a plurality of the same bits. The duplication source bit sequence is input to the 16QAM unit 121, and the duplicated bit sequence is input to the 16QAM unit 122.

  The 16QAM unit 121 uses the 16QAM modulation scheme to modulate the duplication source bit sequence into symbols. In addition, the 16QAM unit 122 modulates the duplicated bit sequence using a 16QAM modulation scheme into symbols. Thereby, each of a plurality of the same bits is included in a different symbol.

  The S / P unit 13 converts the symbol series input in series from the 16QAM unit 121 into parallel and inputs the symbol sequence to the IFFT unit 15. Further, the S / P unit 14 converts the symbol series input in series from the 16QAM unit 122 into parallel and inputs the converted symbol sequence to the IFFT unit 15.

  The IFFT unit 15 performs IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) processing on the input symbol series. As a result, a multicarrier signal is generated in which each of the plurality of symbols input from the S / P unit 13 and the S / P unit 14 is assigned to each of a plurality of subcarriers having different frequencies. Since each of the plurality of identical bits duplicated by the duplication unit 11 is included in a different symbol, each of the plurality of identical bits is assigned to each of a plurality of subcarriers having different frequencies by this IFFT processing. As a result, a multicarrier signal including a plurality of identical bits having different frequencies is generated.

  Here, since the OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) method is used as the multicarrier method, IFFT processing is performed. The OFDM scheme is a type of multicarrier modulation scheme, in which a plurality of subcarriers constituting a multicarrier signal (a multicarrier signal generated by the OFDM scheme is particularly referred to as an OFDM signal) are orthogonal to each other. By using the OFDM scheme, the spectrum of each subcarrier can be overlapped, so that the frequency utilization efficiency can be improved.

  The transmission RF unit 16 performs predetermined radio processing (D / A conversion, up-conversion, etc.) on the multicarrier signal input from the IFFT unit 15 and then transmits the multicarrier signal to the FIG. To the wireless receiver shown.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the radio reception apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. The radio reception apparatus shown in FIG. 2 includes an antenna 21, a reception RF unit 22, an FFT unit 23, a P / S unit 24, a P / S unit 25, a 16QAM unit 261, and a 16QAM unit 262. Unit 26 and combining unit 27, which receives a multicarrier signal transmitted from the radio transmission apparatus shown in FIG. 1 and combines the likelihood of a plurality of identical bits included in the multicarrier signal. is there.

  The reception RF unit 22 performs predetermined radio processing (down-conversion, A / D conversion, etc.) on the multicarrier signal received via the antenna 21.

  The FFT unit 23 performs FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) processing on the multicarrier signal input from the reception RF unit 22. Thus, the multicarrier signal is divided into a plurality of symbols for each subcarrier. Half of the divided symbols are input to the P / S unit 24 in parallel, and the remaining half are input to the P / S unit 25 in parallel.

  The P / S unit 24 converts the symbol series input in parallel from the FFT unit 23 into serial data and inputs it to the 16QAM unit 261. In addition, the P / S unit 25 converts the symbol series input in parallel from the FFT unit 23 into a serial signal and inputs it to the 16QAM unit 262.

  The 16QAM unit 261 calculates a likelihood for each bit after demodulating the symbols using a 16QAM demodulation method. Also, the 16QAM unit 262 calculates the likelihood for each bit after demodulating the symbol using a 16QAM demodulation method. The demodulated bit sequence and the calculated likelihood are each input to the combining unit 27.

  Since the same bits as those included in the bit sequence input from the 16QAM unit 261 are also included in the bit sequence input from the 16QAM unit 262, the synthesis unit 27 determines the likelihood of the plurality of the same bits. Synthesize. By combining in this way, reception quality can be improved.

  Next, operations of the wireless transmission device and the wireless reception device having the above configuration will be described.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating mapping of each symbol in QPSK modulation. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing mapping of each symbol in 16QAM modulation. As shown in FIG. 3, in QPSK, there are four mapping positions (that is, the modulation multi-level number is 4), so it is possible to transmit 2 bits included in one symbol. On the other hand, in 16QAM, as shown in FIG. 4, there are 16 mapping positions (that is, the modulation multi-level number is 16), so it is possible to transmit 4 bits in one symbol. . Thus, by changing the modulation method from QPSK to 16QAM, the number of bits that can be transmitted in one symbol can be doubled. That is, as the modulation multi-level number is increased, the number of bits that can be transmitted in one symbol can be increased.

  In FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, b1, b2, b3, and b4 are bit numbers indicating positions where bits are arranged in symbols. For example, in FIG. 4, b4 indicates the most significant bit and b1 indicates the least significant bit.

  When the modulation method is QPSK, the correspondence between subcarriers and transmission bits is as shown in FIG. In FIG. 5, the multicarrier signal is composed of 16 subcarriers f1 to f16. Further, a case is shown in which a 32-bit bit sequence of bits 1 to 32 is QPSK modulated and transmitted by 16 subcarriers f1 to f16. Since the 32-bit bit sequence is QPSK-modulated, 16 symbols S1 to S16 are generated. Symbols S1 to S16 are assigned to subcarriers f1 to f16, respectively. Each symbol includes 2 bits.

  On the other hand, the radio transmission apparatus shown in FIG. 1 uses 16QAM as a modulation scheme. As described above, 16QAM can transmit twice as many bits with the same number of symbols as QPSK. That is, by setting QPSK to 16QAM, 64 bits can be transmitted with 16 symbols and 16 subcarriers. In other words, 32 bits transmitted using 16 subcarriers in QPSK can be transmitted using half of 8 subcarriers in 16QAM. That is, when QPSK is set to 16QAM, a margin is generated in 8 subcarriers. Therefore, in the wireless transmission device shown in FIG. 1, the duplicated identical bits 1 to 32 are transmitted using eight subcarriers in which the margin is generated. Specifically, it is as follows.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a correspondence relationship between subcarriers and transmission bits according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. In the wireless transmission device shown in FIG. 1, first, the bit sequence of bits 1 to 32 is duplicated. Then, the original bits 1 to 32 are 16QAM modulated to symbols S1 to S8, and the duplicated bits 1 to 32 are 16QAM modulated to symbols S9 to S16. Thereby, each of a plurality of the same bits is included in a different symbol. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, bits 1 to 4 are included in both symbols S1 and S9.

  Here, in this embodiment, the modulation method is changed from QPSK to 16QAM (that is, the modulation multi-value number is changed from 4 to 16), so the same bit is duplicated in two. However, the modulation method can be changed from QPSK to 64QAM or 256QAM. When 64QAM is used, that is, when the modulation multi-level number is 64, a bit number three times that of QPSK can be transmitted with the same number of symbols and subcarriers as QPSK. Therefore, in the case of 64QAM, the same bit is duplicated into three. In addition, when 256QAM is used, that is, when the modulation multilevel number is 256, the number of bits that is four times that of QPSK can be transmitted with the same number of symbols and subcarriers as QPSK. Therefore, when 256QAM is used, the same bit is duplicated into four. It is also possible to transmit twice the number of bits by changing the modulation method from BPSK to QPSK.

  The symbol series of symbols S1 to S8 and the symbol series of symbols S9 to S16 are each subjected to IFFT processing after being serial-parallel converted separately. By this IFFT process, as shown in FIG. 6, symbols S1 to S8 are assigned to subcarriers f1 to f8. Symbols S9 to S16 are assigned to subcarriers f9 to f16 where a margin is generated by changing the modulation scheme from QPSK to 16QAM. That is, the original bits 1 to 32 are assigned to the subcarriers f1 to f8, and the duplicated bits 1 to 32 are assigned to the subcarriers f9 to f16. As a result, the same bit is assigned to subcarriers having different frequencies. For example, bit 1 is assigned to both subcarriers f1 and f9. As a result, bit 1 is transmitted at two frequencies, frequency f1 and frequency f9. A multicarrier signal composed of subcarriers f1 to f16 is transmitted to the radio reception apparatus shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 7, in a multicarrier signal, fading fluctuation in the frequency axis direction becomes very large due to the influence of multipath. For this reason, the reception level varies for each subcarrier. Therefore, even if the reception level of bit 1 assigned to subcarrier f1 is low, the reception level of bit 1 assigned to subcarrier f9 may be high.

  Therefore, in the radio reception apparatus shown in FIG. 2 that has received the multicarrier signal, the likelihood of the same bit assigned to different subcarriers is synthesized. For example, the likelihood of bit 1 assigned to subcarrier f1 and the likelihood of bit 1 assigned to subcarrier f9 are combined. As a result, frequency diversity gain can be obtained, and the reception quality of bits 1 to 32 included in the bit sequence can be improved.

  If the modulation method is changed from QPSK to 16QAM, the error rate characteristic is considered to deteriorate as shown in FIG. In FIG. 8, 31 indicates the error rate characteristic of QPSK, and 32 indicates the error rate characteristic of 16QAM. However, in the present embodiment, since the likelihoods of a plurality of identical bits having different frequencies included in the multicarrier signal are combined, a frequency diversity gain is obtained. As a result, the error rate characteristic is QPSK as shown in FIG. It is thought that it will improve further.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, a multicarrier signal including a plurality of identical bits having different frequencies is transmitted, and the likelihoods of a plurality of identical bits having different frequencies included in one multicarrier signal are synthesized. . For this reason, the diversity gain in the frequency axis direction can be obtained by one transmission. That is, reception quality can be improved without performing transmission and retransmission by a plurality of antennas. Also, diversity gain can be obtained without changing the transmission rate to improve reception quality. Further, since the number of identical bits included in the multicarrier signal increases as the modulation multilevel number increases, the diversity gain in the frequency axis direction can be further improved by increasing the modulation multilevel number.

(Embodiment 2)
As shown in FIG. 9, the fading variation usually has periodicity in the frequency axis direction. For this reason, as shown in FIG. 6 described above, if symbols including the same bit are periodically arranged, the reception level for all of the plurality of the same bits drops significantly, and diversity gain may not be obtained. .

  Therefore, in the present embodiment, symbols including the same bit are not periodically arranged on the frequency axis. For example, in FIG. 6, the interval on the frequency axis between symbols S1 and S9 is made different from the interval on the frequency axis between symbols S2 and S10. This is achieved by the following configuration.

  FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a radio transmission apparatus according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention. However, the same parts as those in the configuration of the first embodiment (FIG. 1) are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted. The interleaving unit 18 rearranges the order of the symbol series output from the modulation unit 12. That is, symbol sequences are interleaved according to a predetermined interleave pattern.

  FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a radio reception apparatus according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention. However, the same parts as those in the configuration of the first embodiment (FIG. 2) are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted. The deinterleaving unit 28 rearranges the order of the symbol sequences output from the P / S unit 24 and the P / S unit 25 in reverse to the interleaving performed by the wireless transmission device, and sets the symbol sequence before the interleaving. That is, the symbol sequence is deinterleaved according to the interleaving performed by the wireless transmission device.

  Next, a symbol interleaving method will be described. In the present embodiment, any one of the following three methods shown in FIGS. 12 to 14 is performed as symbol interleaving.

  In the interleaving method shown in FIG. 12, the order of the symbol series including the duplication source bits is left as it is, and the order of the symbol series including the duplication bits is reversed from the order of the symbol series including the duplication source bits. . Therefore, symbol S9 assigned to subcarrier f9 in FIG. 6 is assigned to subcarrier f16 in FIG. Also, the symbol S16 assigned to the subcarrier f16 in FIG. 6 is assigned to the subcarrier f9 in FIG. Thereby, it is possible to prevent the interval of symbols including the same bits from matching the periodicity of the fading fluctuation. Thereby, compared with Embodiment 1, the frequency diversity effect can be enhanced.

  Further, in the interleaving method shown in FIG. 13, the order of the symbol series including the duplication source bits is left as it is, and the order of the symbol series including the duplicate bits is the order of the symbol series including the duplication source bits. Sort irrelevantly. For example, as shown in FIG. 13, only the symbols S9 to S16 are rearranged. As a result, as in FIG. 12, it is possible to prevent the interval between symbols including the same bit from matching with the periodicity of fading fluctuation. Further, compared to the interleaving method shown in FIG. 12, the variation in fading fluctuation received by the same bit is increased, so that the frequency diversity effect can be further enhanced.

  In the interleaving method shown in FIG. 14, the symbol series including the original bit and the symbol series including the duplicated bit are rearranged together. For example, as shown in FIG. 14, all symbols S1 to S16 are rearranged. As a result, as in FIG. 12, it is possible to prevent the interval between symbols including the same bit from matching with the periodicity of fading fluctuation. Further, compared to the interleaving method shown in FIG. 13, the variation in fading fluctuation received by the same bit is further increased, so that the frequency diversity effect can be further enhanced.

  Thus, according to this embodiment, according to this configuration, when fading fluctuation in the frequency axis direction has periodicity, the magnitude of fading fluctuation received by each of a plurality of the same bits in the transmission path differs. Therefore, the diversity gain in the frequency axis direction can be further improved.

(Embodiment 3)
In the present embodiment, a plurality of identical bits are not periodically arranged on the frequency axis. This is achieved by the following configuration.

  FIG. 15 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a radio transmission apparatus according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention. However, the same parts as those in the configuration of the first embodiment (FIG. 1) are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted. The interleaving unit 19 rearranges the order of the bit sequences output from the duplicating unit 11. That is, the bit sequence is interleaved according to a predetermined interleave pattern.

  The 16QAM unit 121 uses the 16QAM modulation scheme to modulate the upper 32 bits of the 64 bits into symbols. Also, the 16QAM unit 122 modulates a lower 32 bits bit sequence out of 64 bits into a symbol using a 16QAM modulation method.

  FIG. 16 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a radio reception apparatus according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention. However, the same parts as those in the configuration of the first embodiment (FIG. 2) are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted. The deinterleaving unit 29 rearranges the order of the bit sequences output from the demodulating unit 26 in reverse to the interleaving performed by the wireless transmission device, thereby obtaining a bit sequence before the interleaving. That is, the bit sequence is deinterleaved according to the interleaving performed by the wireless transmission device.

  Next, a bit interleaving method will be described. In the present embodiment, one of the following two methods shown in FIGS. 17 and 18 is performed as bit interleaving.

  In the interleaving method shown in FIG. 17, the order of the duplicating bit sequence is left as it is, and the order of the duplicating bit sequence is rearranged regardless of the order of the duplicating bit sequence. For example, as shown in FIG. 17, only the duplicated bits 1 to 32 are rearranged. Thereby, it is possible to prevent the intervals on the frequency axis of a plurality of identical bits from matching with the periodicity of fading fluctuation. In addition, since the variation in fading fluctuation received by the same bit is increased, the frequency diversity effect can be enhanced.

  In the interleaving method shown in FIG. 18, the duplication source bit sequence and the duplicated bit sequence are rearranged together. For example, as shown in FIG. 18, all of the duplication source bits 1 to 32 and the duplicated bits 1 to 32 are rearranged. As a result, as in FIG. 17, it is possible to prevent the interval between symbols including the same bits from matching the periodicity of fading fluctuation. Also, compared to the interleaving method shown in FIG. 17, the variation in fading fluctuation received by the same bit is further increased, so that the frequency diversity effect can be further enhanced.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, when fading fluctuation in the frequency axis direction has periodicity, variation in fading fluctuation that each of the plurality of identical bits receives in the transmission path becomes large. Diversity gain can be further improved.

(Embodiment 4)
In 16QAM, the likelihood of the upper 2 bits out of the 4 bits included in one symbol is larger than the likelihood of the lower 2 bits because of the mapping position of 16 points of the symbol. Utilizing this fact, in the present embodiment, modulation is performed so that a position where each of a plurality of identical bits is arranged is different between a symbol including a duplication source bit and a symbol including a duplicated bit. In other words, the symbols including the original bits and the symbols including the duplicated bits are modulated with different mapping. This is achieved by the following configuration.

  FIG. 19 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a radio transmission apparatus according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention. However, the same parts as those in the configuration of the first embodiment (FIG. 1) are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted. The 16QAM unit 123 uses the 16QAM modulation method to modulate the duplication source bit sequence into symbols according to the mapping pattern given by the mapping information 1 shown in FIG. Further, the 16QAM unit 124 uses the 16QAM modulation scheme to modulate the duplicated bit sequence into symbols according to the mapping pattern given by the mapping information 2 shown in FIG.

  For example, focusing on the mapping point 41 in FIGS. 20 and 21, the upper 2 bits are “00” and the lower 2 bits are “11” in FIG. 20, and the upper 2 bits are “11” and the lower 2 bits in FIG. Is “00”. Therefore, the same bits as those arranged in the upper 2 bits of the symbol by the 16QAM unit 123 are arranged in the lower 2 bits of the symbol by the 16QAM unit 124. Further, the same bits as those arranged in the lower 2 bits of the symbol by the 16QAM unit 123 are arranged in the upper 2 bits of the symbol by the 16QAM unit 124.

  Here, FIG. 22 shows the correspondence between subcarriers and transmission bits. For example, paying attention to symbols S1 and S9 including the same bit, bits 3 and 4 arranged in the upper 2 bits of symbol S1 are arranged in the lower 2 bits in symbol S9. Further, bits 1 and 2 arranged in the lower 2 bits of the symbol S1 are arranged in the upper 2 bits in the symbol S9. Therefore, in symbol S1, the likelihood of bits 3 and 4 is greater than the likelihood of bits 1 and 2, and conversely, in symbol S9, the likelihood of bits 1 and 2 is greater than that of bits 3 and 4. It becomes larger than the likelihood.

  Next, the wireless reception device will be described. FIG. 23 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a radio reception apparatus according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention. However, the same parts as those in the configuration of the first embodiment (FIG. 2) are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted. The 16QAM unit 263 uses a 16QAM demodulation method to demodulate the symbols into bit sequences according to the mapping pattern given by the mapping information 1 shown in FIG. Further, the 16QAM unit 264 uses a 16QAM demodulation method to demodulate the symbols into bit sequences according to the mapping pattern given by the mapping information 2 shown in FIG.

  The synthesizer 27 synthesizes the likelihoods of a plurality of identical bits as in the first embodiment. As described above, when attention is paid to the mapping point 41, the bit having the same likelihood “00” arranged in the upper 2 bits (b4, b3) in FIG. 20 is the lower 2 bits (b2, b1) in FIG. ) To reduce the likelihood. Also, the bit having the same likelihood “11” arranged in the lower 2 bits (b2, b1) in FIG. 20 is arranged in the upper 2 bits (b4, b3) in FIG. Therefore, the combining unit 27 combines the likelihoods of a plurality of identical bits as shown in FIG. That is, the likelihood of “0” arranged in b4 and the likelihood of “0” arranged in b2 are combined, and the likelihood of “0” arranged in b3 and “0” arranged in b1 are combined. And the likelihood of “1” arranged in b2 and the likelihood of “1” arranged in b4, and the likelihood of “1” arranged in b1 and b3 The placed likelihood of “1” is synthesized. Thereby, the likelihood of each bit is larger and equal than before the synthesis.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, since the likelihoods of a plurality of the same bits having different likelihoods can be combined to increase the likelihoods of the plurality of the same bits, the reception quality is further improved. be able to.

The present onset Ming are suitable for use in radio communication terminal apparatus and radio communication base station apparatus used in mobile communication systems. By mounting the above-described wireless transmission device and wireless reception device on a wireless communication terminal device or a wireless communication base station device, it is possible to provide a wireless communication terminal device and a wireless communication base station device that have the same operations and effects as described above. .

  Further, the present invention can be applied to multi-carrier CDMA (MC-CDMA) that performs spreading processing in the frequency axis direction. When applied, since the variation in likelihood increases for each spreading code due to the variation in interference between spreading codes due to the difference in fading fluctuation for each subcarrier, it can be expected that the diversity effect is further increased.

  Further, the present invention can be applied to multi-carrier CDMA (MC / DS-CDMA) that performs spreading processing in the time axis direction. When applied, it is possible to improve the performance by the diversity effect against the problem that the signal transmitted by a specific subcarrier is extremely deteriorated due to the difference in fading fluctuation for each subcarrier.

1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a wireless transmission device according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a radio reception apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. The figure which shows the mapping of each symbol in QPSK modulation The figure which shows the mapping of each symbol in 16QAM modulation The figure which shows the correspondence of the subcarrier and transmission bit in QPSK modulation The figure which shows the correspondence of the subcarrier which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention, and a transmission bit. Diagram showing fading fluctuation Figure showing error rate characteristics Diagram showing fading fluctuation The block diagram which shows the structure of the radio | wireless transmitter which concerns on Embodiment 2 of this invention. The block diagram which shows the structure of the radio | wireless receiver which concerns on Embodiment 2 of this invention. The figure which shows the correspondence of the subcarrier which concerns on Embodiment 2 of this invention, and a transmission bit. The figure which shows the correspondence of the subcarrier which concerns on Embodiment 2 of this invention, and a transmission bit. The figure which shows the correspondence of the subcarrier which concerns on Embodiment 2 of this invention, and a transmission bit. The block diagram which shows the structure of the radio | wireless transmitter which concerns on Embodiment 3 of this invention. The block diagram which shows the structure of the radio | wireless receiver which concerns on Embodiment 3 of this invention. The figure which shows the correspondence of the subcarrier which concerns on Embodiment 3 of this invention, and a transmission bit. The figure which shows the correspondence of the subcarrier which concerns on Embodiment 3 of this invention, and a transmission bit. The block diagram which shows the structure of the radio | wireless transmitter which concerns on Embodiment 4 of this invention. The figure which shows the mapping pattern which concerns on Embodiment 4 of this invention The figure which shows the mapping pattern which concerns on Embodiment 4 of this invention The figure which shows the correspondence of the subcarrier which concerns on Embodiment 4 of this invention, and a transmission bit. FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a radio reception apparatus according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention. The figure which shows the synthetic | combination method which concerns on Embodiment 4 of this invention.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 Duplication part 12 Modulation part 13 S / P part 14 S / P part 15 IFFT part 16 Transmission RF part 17 Antenna 21 Antenna 22 Reception RF part 23 FFT part 24 P / S part 25 P / S part 26 P / S part 26 Demodulation part 27 Synthesis | combination part

Claims (4)

A wireless transmission device for transmitting symbols,
Based on the correspondence relationship in which the first bit information is associated with the constellation position where the value can be determined only by the positive or negative of the power value in the I-axis direction or the Q-axis direction, the first bit information is modulated to Generate a symbol
Based on the correspondence relationship in which the first bit information is associated with the constellation position where the value cannot be determined only by the positive or negative power value in the I-axis direction or the Q-axis direction, the first bit information is modulated to the second Modulation means for generating a symbol of
Transmitting means for repetition transmitting the first symbol and the second symbol;
A wireless transmission device comprising: The modulating means includes
The first bit information is associated with a constellation position where the value can be determined only by the positive or negative power value in the I-axis direction or the Q-axis direction, and the value cannot be determined only by the positive or negative power value in the I-axis direction or the Q-axis direction. Based on the correspondence relationship in which the second bit information is associated with the constellation position, the first bit information and the second bit information are modulated to generate the first symbol,
The first bit information is associated with a constellation position where the value cannot be determined only by the positive or negative power value in the I-axis direction or the Q-axis direction, and the value can be determined only by the positive or negative power value in the I-axis direction or the Q-axis direction. Based on a correspondence relationship in which the second bit information is associated with a constellation position, the first bit information and the second bit information are modulated to generate the second symbol,
The wireless transmission device according to claim 1. Each of the first bit information and the second bit information includes information of 2 bits,
The modulation means generates one symbol from the first bit information and the second bit information using a 16QAM modulation method.
The wireless transmission device according to claim 2. Arrangement means for arranging the first symbol and the second symbol in a frequency direction;
The transmission means repeats the first symbol and the second symbol arranged by the arrangement means simultaneously,
The wireless transmission device according to claim 2.

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