WO2007135919A1 - 伝送装置、伝送方法、システムlsi、及びプログラム - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a technique for determining a PHY rate when transmitting data.
- a transmission apparatus for example, a wireless communication apparatus
- determines a PHY rate at the time of transmitting a packet using the received power value of the packet is known.
- the transmission device receives the wireless network power packet via the antenna
- the transmission device detects the received power value of the received packet, stores it in advance, and based on the correspondence table that associates the received power value with the PHY rate.
- the detected received power value also determines the PHY rate and transmits / receives data at the determined PHY rate (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
- the communication rate at the time of data transmission can be optimized, and the efficiency of data transmission / reception can be improved.
- Patent Document 1 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-186027
- the packet error rate may be different even if the received power value is the same. For example, when there is an obstacle between transmission devices but the distance between the transmission devices is short, and when there is no obstacle between transmission devices but the distance is long, the received power value of the packet Even if they are the same, the direct wave is stronger in the latter case because it is not affected by frequency interference. If the direct wave is strong, the packet error rate is small, and as a result, the effective rate is high. On the other hand, since the former case is affected by frequency interference, the direct wave is weaker than the latter case. If the direct wave is weak, the packet error rate increases and, as a result, the effective rate decreases.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a transmission device that can improve the efficiency of data transmission / reception regardless of the environment.
- the present invention comprises control means for selecting one PHY rate from a plurality of PHY rates, and communication means for performing transmission between physical layers in the protocol stack at the selected PHY rate.
- selecting a rate the effective value of the transmission rate in the upper layer of the protocol stack is compared when transmission between the physical layers is performed at each of at least one PHY rate among the plurality of PHY rates.
- the effective value of each transmission rate is a value obtained based on the retransmission ratio between the physical layers corresponding to the received power value on the receiving side and the ideal value of each transmission rate.
- the transmission apparatus does not immediately select the PHY rate, but instead selects the PHY rate.
- the transmission apparatus supports the reception power value on the reception side. The effective value of the transmission rate obtained based on the retransmission ratio between the physical layers and the ideal value of each transmission rate is compared.
- the PHY rate is selected after comparing the effective value of the transmission rate.
- the optimal PHY rate can be selected. Transmission at the optimal PHY rate can improve the efficiency of data transmission / reception. For example, when a transmission device transmits content such as video and audio, the video and audio are disturbed. The content can be transmitted in a shorter time than before.
- control unit uses any two of the plurality of PHY rates for transmission between the physical layers, a transmission rate in an upper layer of the protocol stack. Is calculated for each of the two PHY rates, and the effective values of the calculated transmission rates are compared with each other. You can select the appropriate PHY rate.
- the control means assumes that one of the plurality of PHY rates is used for transmission between the physical layers, the effective value of the transmission rate in the upper layer of the protocol stack is determined. And the effective value of the calculated transmission rate is compared with a pre-stored threshold value. If it is larger than the threshold value, the PH rate corresponding to the effective value is selected, and the value less than the threshold value is selected. In this case, if any PHY rate other than the one PHY rate is used, calculate the force that makes the effective value of the transmission rate in the upper layer of the protocol stack, and calculate the effective value of the calculated transmission rate. It may be compared with the threshold value stored in advance.
- control means calculates, for each PHY rate, how much the effective value of the transmission rate in the upper layer of the protocol stack is when each PHY rate is used for transmission between the physical layers. Then, the calculated effective values of the transmission rates may be sequentially compared, and the PHY rate corresponding to the maximum effective value among the calculated effective values of the transmission rates may be selected.
- the PHY rate corresponding to the maximum effective rate can be determined. Since data is transmitted at the PHY rate corresponding to the maximum effective rate, the efficiency of data transmission / reception can be improved.
- a method of determining the PHY rate based on the actually measured packet error rate is also considered. Measurement of the packet error rate requires a reception or transmission history for a certain period. Therefore, the packet error rate cannot be measured instantaneously, and the PHY rate cannot be determined quickly according to changes in the propagation state.
- the transmission apparatus includes first information indicating a plurality of values that can be taken by received power and packet error rates for each value that can be taken by the received power, and a plurality of values that can be taken by the packet error rate.
- Storage means for storing, for each PHY rate, second information indicating the value of the packet and the retransmission ratio for each value that the packet error rate can take, and the control means includes the first information and the second information It is desirable to provide retransmission ratio acquisition means for acquiring the retransmission ratio between the physical layers for each PHY rate from the received power value on the receiving side based on the information.
- the retransmission ratio is acquired based on the information stored in advance, the optimum PHY rate can be quickly selected. Also, since the received power value does not depend on the PHY rate and the received power value of a packet that has been successfully received is stable, a history of received power values of about several tens is sufficient. Therefore, since the retransmission ratio is acquired from the received power value using the first information and the second information, it is possible to quickly select the PHY rate that follows the propagation state and to efficiently use the radio band.
- transmission by the communication unit is performed in units of packets, and the control unit further uses the number of retransmissions for each packet in the transmitted packet and the number of packets that have been transmitted,
- a correction unit that corrects the first information when there is a deviation greater than or equal to a predetermined value may be provided.
- the transmission apparatus further includes storage means for acquiring the received power value at the receiving side as needed, and storing the acquired received power value, and the correcting means includes the calculated packet error rate. Based on the packet error rate based on the first information and the accumulated received power value, a corrected first indicating a plurality of values that the received power can take and a packet error rate for each value that the received power can take are associated with each other.
- a generating means for generating information and a changing means for changing the stored first information to the generated corrected first information may be provided.
- transmission by the communication unit is performed in units of packets, and the control unit further includes the number of retransmissions for each packet in the transmitted packet and the number of packets for which transmission has been completed.
- a packet error rate calculating means for calculating a predetermined number of packet error rates using the number, a standard deviation of the predetermined number of packet error rates calculated by the packet error rate calculating means, and the predetermined number of packet errors. Comparing means for comparing the rate and the standard deviation based on the third information, and a correcting means for correcting the third information when there is a deviation of a predetermined value or more as a result of the comparison may be provided.
- the transmission device further includes storage means for acquiring the received power value at the receiving side as needed and storing the acquired received power value, and the correction means includes a plurality of packet error rates. Of the predetermined number of packet error rates and the standard error based on the predetermined number of packet error rates and the third information and a plurality of possible packet error rates and packet error rates. Generating means for generating corrected third information indicating the standard deviation in association with each other, and a changing means for changing the stored third information to the generated corrected third information. .
- the storage means further stores third information indicating a plurality of values that the packet error rate can take and standard deviations for each value that the packet error rate can take, and the control means Further, based on the first information and the third information, a standard deviation of the packet error rate in the received power value on the receiving side is acquired, and a value obtained by multiplying the acquired standard deviation by N (N: positive number) is obtained.
- a standard deviation acquisition means for adding to the packet error rate, and a bandwidth calculation means for calculating a bandwidth required for transmission using the value after addition and the packet rate of the packet to be transmitted, and transmission by the communication means May be performed in the calculated bandwidth.
- the maximum packet error rate can be calculated by adding the standard deviation multiplied by N (N: positive number) to the packet error rate, and the required bandwidth is calculated using the calculated maximum packet error rate. Therefore, stable transmission can be realized.
- the bandwidth calculating means further compares the calculated bandwidth with the allocatable bandwidth, and when the calculated bandwidth is larger than the allocatable bandwidth, the packet rate changing means for changing the packet rate. Calculate the bandwidth to be secured based on the changed packet rate Secured bandwidth calculation means may be provided.
- the standard deviation acquisition unit calculates a ratio value of a packet error rate existing within the standard deviation among a plurality of packet error rates used for the standard deviation.
- a calculating means and a determining means for determining a multiplication value N of the standard deviation based on whether or not the calculated ratio value exceeds a preset threshold value may be provided.
- transmission by the communication means is performed in units of packets, and the control means, as needed, receives power value acquisition means for acquiring a received power value, the number of retransmissions for each packet in the transmitted packet, and transmission is performed.
- the packet error rate calculation means for calculating a predetermined number of packet error rates using the number of completed packets, and the interval between adjacent packet error rates for each of the calculated packet error rates is more than a certain distance.
- the variation determination means for determining whether or not the power is present corresponds to a plurality of values that the received power can take and a packet error rate for each value that the received power can take based on the packet error rate and the received power value. It is good also as a production
- the control means further includes a standard deviation calculating means for calculating a standard deviation of the predetermined number of packet error rates, and a plurality of values that the packet error rate can take based on the packet error rate and the standard deviation.
- Generation means for generating third information indicating the standard deviation for each possible value of the packet error rate in association with each other may be provided.
- the transmission apparatus may further include a measurement unit that measures a reception power value on the reception side.
- the reception power value is measured at the reception side, and the reception power value is notified to the transmission side. Is no longer necessary.
- the storage means may be a nonvolatile memory.
- FIG. 1 is a system diagram.
- FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of transmitter 10 in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of receiver 100 according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram of a packet error rate estimation unit 15.
- FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a functional expression of received power value and PER.
- FIG. 6 is a functional block diagram of the correction information creation unit 18.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a functional expression of PER and standard deviation of PER.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a specific example of the effective rate of each PHY rate calculated by the PHY rate determining unit 16.
- FIG. 9 shows a flowchart of PHY rate setting.
- FIG. 10 is a flowchart related to correction processing.
- FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a method of correcting the relational expression.
- FIG. 12 is a functional block diagram of a transmitter 20 according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 13 is a functional block diagram of standard deviation estimation unit 21.
- FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a functional expression of PER and standard deviation of PER.
- FIG. 15 is a functional block diagram of the correction information creation unit 25.
- FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a flowchart for setting PHY rate and bandwidth reservation at the start of data transmission.
- FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a flowchart for setting PHY rate and bandwidth reservation during data transmission.
- FIG. 18 is a diagram showing a flowchart regarding correction processing.
- FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a method of correcting the relational expression.
- FIG. 20 is a functional block diagram of the transmitter 30 according to the third embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 21 is a functional block diagram of necessary bandwidth determination unit 32.
- FIG. 22 is a flowchart of PHY rate determination, bandwidth allocation, and content rate setting processing at the start of data transmission.
- FIG. 23 is a diagram showing a flowchart of PHY rate determination, band allocation, and content rate setting processing during data transmission.
- FIG. 24 is a functional block diagram of the transmitter 40 according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 25 is a functional block diagram of the correction information creation unit 41.
- FIG. 26 is a functional block diagram of the standard deviation estimation unit 42.
- FIG. 27 is a functional block diagram of a transmitter according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 28 is a functional block diagram of a packet error rate estimation unit 51.
- FIG. 30 is a flowchart of a relational expression generation process.
- FIG. 31 is a functional block diagram of the transmitter 60 according to the sixth embodiment of the present invention.
- ⁇ 32 It is a functional block diagram of receiver 200 according to the seventh embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 33 is a diagram showing a flowchart for setting PHY rate and bandwidth reservation during data transmission.
- FIG. 34 is a diagram showing a flowchart of PHY rate determination, band allocation, and content rate setting processing during data transmission. Explanation of symbols
- the transmission apparatus according to the present invention is used in a system as shown in FIG.
- the system shown in FIG. 1 includes a server device 1 and a client device 2, and the server device 1 and the client device 2 are connected by radio (for example, IEEE802.11a).
- IEEE802.11a defines a slower PHY rate of 48 Mb Zs, 36 MbZs, 24 MbZs, 18 Mb / s, 12 Mb / s, 9 Mb / s, and 6 MbZs in addition to a maximum PHY rate of 54 Mb / s (Megabit Z seconds) To do.
- Server device 1 and client device 2 are connected to transmission devices 10 and 100 by Ethernet (registered trademark), respectively.
- the transmission device 10 transmits a packet for measuring the received power value to the transmission device 100.
- the effective rate is calculated for each PHY rate based on the reception power value, and the PHY rate corresponding to the maximum effective rate is determined.
- the content supplied from the server device 1 is transmitted to the transmission device 100 in packet units.
- transmission apparatus 100 measures the received power value of the packet and transmits the measured received power value to transmission apparatus 10.
- the transmission device 100 supplies the received content to the client device 2.
- the transmission apparatus 10 calculates the effective rate based on the received power value, and determines the PHY rate corresponding to the maximum effective rate. By transmitting content at the determined PHY rate, data transmission efficiency can be improved regardless of the environment.
- FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of transmission device 10 (hereinafter referred to as “transmitter 10” t) on the data transmission side in Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
- the transmitter 10 is a computer system composed of an antenna, a microprocessor, a ROM, a RAM, and the like.
- a computer program is stored in the ROM.
- the microprocessor 10 achieves its function by operating according to the computer program.
- the transmitter 10 includes a wireless transmission / reception unit 11, a packet identification unit 12, a received power value notification packet analysis unit 13, a received power value management unit 14, a packet error rate estimation unit 15, a PHY rate determination unit 16, and a packet error rate measurement unit 17 And a correction information creation unit 18.
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 is configured to include a transmission / reception circuit including a modulation circuit, a demodulation circuit, and the like. Receives and demodulates, and identifies the demodulated packet as a packet identification unit 1
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 modulates the packet output to the wireless network, and transmits the modulated packet via the antenna or the like.
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 sets the instructed PHY rate and transmits a packet.
- the packet identification unit 12 identifies a packet input from the wireless transmission / reception unit 11. If the received packet is a received power value notification packet as a result of identification, the received packet is received. Transmit to the power value notification packet analysis unit 13.
- the received power value notification packet analysis unit 13 analyzes the received power value notification packet input from the packet identification unit 12. Specifically, the received power value notification packet analysis unit 13 extracts the received power value from the received power value notification packet, and transmits the extracted received power value to the received power value management unit 14.
- the received power value management unit 14 is configured to include a memory such as a RAM, accumulates the received power value input from the received power value notification packet analysis unit 13, and sets the received power value to a packet error.
- the data is transmitted to the rate estimating unit 15 and the correction information creating unit 18.
- the packet error rate estimator 15 estimates the packet error rate (hereinafter referred to as “PER”) in the radio section from the received power value input from the received power value manager 14. The method for estimating PER will be described in ⁇ Configuration of packet error rate estimator 15>.
- the packet error rate estimation unit 15 transmits the estimated PER at each PHY rate to the PHY rate determination unit 16.
- the PHY rate determination unit 16 includes a memory such as a Flash ROM, and determines a PHY rate that maximizes the effective rate from the PER value at each PHY rate input from the packet error rate estimation unit 15. .
- the PHY rate determination unit 16 determines the PHY rate
- the PHY rate determination unit 16 instructs the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 to transmit data at the determined PHY rate.
- the packet error rate measuring unit 17 is configured to include a memory such as a RAM, and measures the number of retransmissions for each packet and the number of packets that have been transmitted, stores them in the memory, and is set in advance. When transmission of a certain number of packets is completed, the total number of retransmissions, the number of packets for which transmission has been completed, and the value of the PHY rate used for transmission are transmitted to the correction information creation unit 18.
- a memory such as a RAM
- the correction information creation unit 18 also calculates the packet error rate estimation unit 15 based on the total number of retransmissions and the number of packets input from the packet error rate measurement unit 17 and the received power value input from the reception power value management unit 14. This information is used to correct the relational expression stored in the memory.
- FIG. 3 shows a data receiving-side transmission apparatus 100 (hereinafter referred to as “reception” in Embodiment 1 of the present invention). It is a functional block diagram of machine 100 ”t).
- the receiver 100 is a computer system including an antenna, a microprocessor, a ROM, a RAM, and the like.
- a computer program is stored in the ROM.
- Microprocessor power The receiver achieves its functions by operating according to the computer program.
- the receiver 100 includes a wireless transmission / reception unit 110, a packet identification unit 120, a reception power measurement unit 130, and a reception power value notification packet creation unit 140.
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 110 is specifically configured to include a transmission / reception circuit including a modulation circuit, a demodulation circuit, and the like, and a packet transmitted from the transmitter 10 via an antenna or the like that transmits and receives a wireless signal. Are received and demodulated, and the demodulated packet is transmitted to the packet identification unit 120.
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 110 modulates the received power value notification packet input from the received power value notification packet creation unit 140, and transmits the modulated received power value notification packet to the transmitter 10 via the antenna or the like. Send to.
- the packet identification unit 120 identifies a packet input from the wireless transmission / reception unit 110.
- Received power measurement section 130 is configured to include an RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) measurement circuit, measures the received power value of the packet transmitted from transmitter 10, and uses the measured received power value as a received power value notification packet creation section. Send to 140.
- RSSI Received Signal Strength Indicator
- Received power value notification packet creation section 140 creates a received power value notification packet including the received power value of the packet input from received power measurement section 130, and transmits the created packet to radio transmission / reception section 110.
- FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram of the packet error rate estimator 15.
- the packet error rate estimation unit 15 includes a packet error rate request unit 15A, a relational expression management unit 15B, a read processing unit 15C, a relational expression change determination unit 15D, a relational expression generation unit 15E, and a write processing unit 15F. It is comprised including.
- the relational expression management unit 15B is configured to include a memory such as a Flash ROM, and the received power value and the PE The function expression with R is managed for each PHY rate.
- Figure 5 shows the solid line derived from the relational expression.
- the relational expression management unit 15B manages relational expressions capable of obtaining a solid line as shown in FIG. 5 in advance for each PHY rate.
- FIG. 5 shows the result of content transmission (approximately 300,000 packets) for 5 minutes at an IEEE802.11a PHY rate of 36 Mbps, and an approximate expression obtained from this result.
- the horizontal axis shows the average received power value of packets successfully received in 5 minutes, and the vertical axis shows the PER calculated from the number of retransmissions of packets sent in 5 minutes.
- the result of eight times of content transmission with different transmission power black circle in the figure
- the packet error rate request unit 15A can use this approximate expression as a relational expression V, and can also obtain the received power value PER.
- the packet error rate request unit 15A receives the received power value input from the received power value management unit 14
- the relational expression managed in advance by the relational expression management unit 15B is read for each PHY rate via the read processing unit 15C. Read in order.
- the PER at each PHY rate is obtained from the read relational expression and the received received power value, and the calculated PER is transmitted to the PHY rate determination unit 16 as the estimated PER.
- the read processing unit 15C reads the relational expression managed by the relational expression management unit 15B.
- the relational expression change determination unit 15D includes a memory such as a RAM, and determines whether there is a change in the relational expression managed by the relational expression management unit 15B.
- the relational expression generation unit 15E generates a relational expression between the received power value and the PER value using the relational expression managed by the relational expression management unit 15B and the information from the relational expression change determination unit 15D.
- the write processing unit 15F writes the relational expression generated by the relational expression generation unit 15E into the relational expression management unit 15B.
- relational expression change determination unit 15D Details of the relational expression change determination unit 15D, the relational expression generation unit 15E, and the writing processing unit 15F will be described in ⁇ Operation relating to correction method>.
- FIG. 6 is a functional block diagram of the correction information creation unit 18.
- the correction information creation unit 18 includes a packet error rate calculation unit 18A and a relational expression generation information creation unit 18B.
- the packet error rate calculation unit 18A also obtains PER from the information power received from the packet error rate measurement unit 17. More specifically, PER is obtained using the total number of retransmissions received from the packet error rate measurement unit 17 and the number of packets that have been transmitted, and the relationship between the obtained PER and the value of the PHY rate used for content transmission is related. It is transmitted to the formula generation information creation unit 18B.
- the relational expression generation information creation unit 18B receives the PER and the PHY rate value from the packet error calculation unit 18A. Also, a plurality of received power values stored by the received power value management unit 14 are acquired, and an average value of the received power values is calculated. The calculated average value, PER value, and PHY rate value are transmitted to the packet error rate estimator 15.
- the PHY rate determining unit 16 calculates the effective rate of each PHY rate using (Equation 1) stored in advance, and determines the PHY rate corresponding to the maximum effective rate. To do.
- the effective rate is the unit amount of data that takes PER into account.
- Equation 1 is a relational expression that determines the number S of redundant packets considering retransmission when 100 packets are transmitted.
- Figure 7 shows the results of calculating the number of redundant packets S using (Equation 1) to reduce the packet loss rate to 1.0E-8 or less at each PER.
- the horizontal axis is PER
- the vertical axis is retransmission. It represents the ratio ((ioo + s) Zioo).
- the black circles in the figure are the values obtained using (Equation 1).
- the packet loss rate is the highest for the expected data! When viewing a video of about 2 hours at 28Mbps of BS digital broadcasting full TS transmission (the number of packets to be transmitted is about 1.65E + 7) It is fixed at 1.0E-8 so that no single packet is lost.
- the PHY rate determination unit 16 substitutes the value of PER received from the packet error rate estimation unit 15 into p in (Equation 1), and performs redundancy so that the packet loss rate P is 1. OE—8 or less. Number of packets S
- the propagation state means a state in which the effective rate changes according to the change in the received power value.
- the PHY rate determination unit 16 compares the obtained effective rates, determines a PHY rate value corresponding to the maximum effective rate, and transmits the value to the radio transmission / reception unit 11.
- Figure 8 shows the ideal rate, PER, retransmission ratio, and effective rate at each PHY rate (here, 24 Mbps, 36 Mbps, and 48 Mbps) when the received power value is 30.
- the PHY rate determination unit 16 selects the PHY rate (36 Mbps) corresponding to the maximum effective rate (17.48 Mbps) among the calculated effective rates (17.36 Mbps, 17.48 Mbps, 0.02 Mbps).
- the determined PHY rate value (36 Mbps) is transmitted to the wireless transceiver 11.
- FIG. 9 is a flowchart of PHY rate setting in Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
- n is a variable indicating one PHY rate.
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 modulates a packet to be transmitted to the receiver 100, and outputs the modulated packet to the wireless network via the antenna (step Sl).
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 110 and the reception power measurement unit 130 in the receiver 100 also receive the packet of the wireless network power via the antenna (step S1001).
- the received power measurement unit 1 30 measures the received power value and transmits it to the received power value notification packet creation unit 32 (step S 1002).
- Received power value notification packet creation section 140 creates a received power value notification packet including the received power value of the packet, and wireless transmission / reception section 110 modulates the created received power value notification packet and wirelessly transmits it via the antenna. Output the modulated packet to the network (step S 1003).
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 of the transmitter 10 receives the wireless network power received power value notification packet via the antenna (step S2).
- the received power value notification packet analyzer 13 extracts the received power value from the received received power value notification packet, and the packet error rate estimator 15 also determines the PER at each PHY rate for the extracted received power value (step S3). ).
- the PHY rate determination unit 16 determines the PHY rate that maximizes the effective rate among the PHY rates. Specifically, first, n is initialized (step S4), and the effective rate of the PHY rate corresponding to n is calculated (step S5). Then, it is determined whether or not there is a force that has an effective rate that is already stored and V (step S6).
- step S6 If the effective rate is not stored (NO in step S6), the calculated effective rate is stored (step S7), and it is determined whether n is the final force (step S8). If n is not the last (NO in step S8), n is counted by 1 (step S9), and the process proceeds to step S5. If the effective rate is already stored (YES in step S6), it is determined whether or not the calculated effective rate is greater than the stored effective rate (step S10). If the calculated effective rate is larger than the stored effective rate (YES in step S10), the calculated effective rate is stored (overwritten) (step S7).
- step S10 If the calculated effective rate is less than or equal to the stored effective rate (YES in step S10), it is determined whether n is the last (step S8), and if n is the last (step S8 YES), and select the PHY rate that corresponds to the effective rate stored (step S9).
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 performs setting to transmit subsequent data at the selected PHY rate.
- i is a variable indicating one packet to be transmitted
- n is a preset number indicating the number of packets to be transmitted
- j is a PER and correction information creation unit 18 for which the relational expression force is also obtained.
- Is a variable that indicates the number of differences greater than or equal to a predetermined value when compared with the PER value received from m.
- M indicates the preset allowable number of differences greater than or equal to a predetermined value.
- the relational expression change determination unit 15D initializes the number j (step S20), and the packet error rate measurement unit 17 initializes the packet i (step S21).
- the packet error rate measurement unit 17 determines whether or not the transmission of the packet i by the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 is complete (step S22), and if it determines that the transmission is complete (YES in step S22), the packet error rate measurement unit 17 Is memorized (step S23).
- the packet error rate measurement unit 17 determines whether or not the number of transmitted packets has reached n (step S 24), and if it has reached! / ⁇ (NO in step S 24), the packet i 1 is counted (step S25), and the process proceeds to step S22. If it is determined that the packet has been reached (YES in step S24), the packet error rate calculation unit 18A calculates PER using the total number of retransmissions and the number of packets that have been transmitted (step S26).
- the relational expression generation information creation unit 18B acquires a plurality of reception power values stored by the reception power value management unit 14, and calculates an average value of the reception power values (step S27).
- the relational expression change determination unit 15D reads the relational expression corresponding to the PHY rate used for the packet error rate measurement via the reading processing part 15C, and uses the calculated average value of the received power values to determine the relational expression.
- the power is also determined as PER, and the determined PER is compared with the PER calculated by the packet error rate calculation unit 18A (step S29).
- step S30 it is determined whether there is a force with a difference greater than or equal to a predetermined value. If it is determined that there is no difference greater than a predetermined value (NO in step S30) Move on to step S21. If it is determined that there is a difference greater than or equal to the predetermined value (YES in step S30), the relational expression change determination unit 15D counts the number of times j by 1 (step S31), and the number of times j has reached the allowable number of times m. It is determined whether or not there is power (step S32). If it is determined that it has not been reached (NO in step S32), the process proceeds to step S21.
- the relational expression change determination unit 15D determines that the relational expression needs to be corrected. [0056] Then, the relational expression generation unit 15E determines a value necessary for correcting the relational expression according to the procedures of FIGS. 11 (a) and 11 (b). First, the relational expression generation unit 15E reads the relational expression corresponding to the PHY rate used for the packet error rate measurement via the read processing part 15C, and the relational expression management part 15B also reads the relational expression. Each time, the value of the relational expression is obtained and sampling (the value of the black triangle in FIG. 11) is performed (step S33).
- the relational expression generating unit 15E sets the value of the relational expression (the triangular value in FIG. 11) within the range of the value (the black circle value in FIG. 11) force received from the correction information creation unit 18 in advance. ) Is excluded from sampling, and the values of black circles and black triangles in Fig. 11 (b) are determined as values used to generate the relational expression (step S34). Then, the relational expression generating unit 15E generates a relational expression using the determined value (step S35).
- the relational expression to be generated is an approximate expression of a quadratic function generated using the least square method V.
- the relational expression generation unit 15E displays the relational expression corresponding to the corresponding PHY rate, which is held in advance by the relational expression management unit 15B via the write processing unit 15F, as shown in FIG. Change to the relational expression shown in (Step S36).
- the write processing unit 15F sends a read stop instruction to the relational expression management unit 15B to the read processing part 15C before performing the write process to the relational expression management part 15B, and then performs the write process. After the completion, a cancel command for the read stop command is sent to the read processing unit 15C.
- the relational expression stored in the packet error rate estimation unit 15 is corrected by the above procedure.
- the transmitter 10 estimates the PER of each PHY rate from the received power value, and calculates the effective rate of each PHY rate using the estimated PER.
- data transmission at the PHY rate corresponding to the maximum effective rate becomes possible. Therefore, the radio band can always be used efficiently.
- PER is estimated based on the received power value, and the received power value depends on the PHY rate. Since the received power value of a packet that has not been successfully received is stable, several tens of histories are sufficient. [0060] Therefore, in the present embodiment in which the PHY rate setting is performed using the estimated PER of the received power value power, the setting that quickly follows the propagation state can be made, and the radio band can be used efficiently.
- relational expression management unit 15B holds the once corrected relational expression in the Flash ROM, and performs estimation using the relational expression held in the Flash ROM for subsequent use. Therefore, even if the power is turned off, the corrected relational expression remains stored.When the power is turned on again, the corrected relational expression can be used, and the PH Y rate setting suitable for the propagation environment can be set. It becomes possible.
- the first embodiment is configured to determine the PHY rate at which the effective rate is maximized. However, this embodiment further implements a case where a transmitter secures a band necessary for data transmission according to the propagation state. It is a form.
- FIG. 12 is a functional block diagram of transmitter 20 according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- the same components as those in FIG. 12 are identical to FIG. 12, the same components as those in FIG. 12, the same components as those in FIG. 12, the same components as those in FIG. 12, the same components as those in FIG. 12, the same components as those in FIG. 12, the same components as those in FIG. 12, the same components as those in FIG. 12, the same components as those in FIG. 12, the same components as those in FIG.
- the transmitter 20 includes a standard deviation estimation unit 21, a necessary bandwidth determination unit 22, an application unit 23, and a test packet creation unit 24 in addition to the components of the transmitter 10 of the first embodiment. Consists of including. Also, the transmitter 20 is a correction information creation unit in the transmitter 10.
- a correction information creation unit 25 is provided.
- the standard deviation estimating unit 21 transmits the determined MAXPER to the necessary band determining unit 22.
- the necessary bandwidth determining unit 22 includes a memory such as a Flash ROM, and obtains a bandwidth necessary for MAXPER value data transmission transmitted from the standard deviation estimating unit 21.
- the necessary band determination unit 22 instructs the radio transmission / reception unit 11 to perform data transmission in the obtained band.
- the application unit 23 receives a data transmission request from the user and instructs the test packet creation unit 24 to create a test packet. Also, the content rate is received by user input and transmitted to the necessary bandwidth determination unit 22.
- the test packet creation unit 24 creates a test packet for measuring the propagation state in response to an instruction from the application unit 23, and transmits the created test packet to the wireless transmission / reception unit 11.
- the correction information generation unit 25 has a function of generating information that is stored in the standard deviation estimation unit 21 and used for correcting the relational expression. Note that the receiver in the present embodiment is the same as the receiver 100 in the first embodiment.
- the standard deviation estimation unit 21 includes a standard deviation request unit 21A, a relational expression management unit 21B, a read processing unit 21C, a relational expression change determination unit 21D, a relational expression generation unit 21E, and a write processing unit 21F. Consists of.
- the relational expression management unit 21B is configured to include a memory such as Flash ROM, and manages a functional expression of PER and the standard deviation of PER.
- Figure 14 shows a solid line derived from the relational expression.
- the relational expression management unit 21B manages relational expressions that can obtain a solid line as shown in FIG. 14 in advance for each P HY rate.
- FIG. 14 will be described in further detail.
- Figure 14 shows the result of performing content transmission (approximately 300,000 packets) for 5 minutes at an IEE E802.11a PHY rate of 36 Mbps, and the approximate expression obtained from this result.
- the horizontal axis shows the number of retransmissions of packets sent in 5 minutes.
- the vertical axis shows the calculated PER value, and the vertical axis shows the value calculated for every 1000 packets.
- the calculated multiple PER forces also represent the standard deviation of the calculated PER.
- the result of performing content transmission eight times with different transmission power black circles in the figure
- the standard deviation request unit 21A can obtain the standard deviation of PER from PER using this approximate expression as a function expression.
- the standard deviation requesting unit 21A uses the P HY rate determining unit. 16 may receive PER at each PHY rate. After each PER is received, the relational expressions of each PHY rate are read in order, and the standard deviation at each PHY rate is obtained from the read relational expressions and PER at each PHY rate. MAXPER may be obtained, and each obtained MAXPER may be transmitted to the necessary bandwidth determining unit 22.
- the read processing unit 21C reads a relational expression managed by the relational expression management unit 21B.
- the relational expression change determination unit 21D includes a memory such as a RAM, and determines whether the relational expression managed by the relational expression management unit 21B has been changed.
- the relational expression generation unit 21E uses the relational expression managed by the relational expression management part 21B and the information from the relational expression change determination part 21 1D to generate a relational expression between the standard deviation values of PER and PER.
- the write processing unit 21F writes the relational expression generated by the relational expression generation unit 21E into the relational expression management unit 21B.
- the correction information creation unit 25 further includes a packet error rate management unit 25C, a standard deviation calculation unit 25D, and a relational expression generation information generation unit 25E.
- the packet error rate management unit 25C includes a memory such as a RAM, receives the PER value and the PHY rate value used for transmission from the packet error rate calculation unit 18A.
- the packet error rate management unit 25C stores and presets the number of PERs. When the number of PERs is reached, it stores and calculates the standard deviation of the multiple PER values and the received PHY rate values. Send to Part 25D.
- the standard deviation calculation unit 25D calculates the standard deviation of the PER using the PER to which the packet error rate management unit 25C is also input, and calculates the standard deviation value and the plurality of PERs used to calculate the standard deviation. And the PHY rate value are transmitted to the relational expression generation information creation unit 25E.
- the relational expression generation information creation unit 25E obtains the average of the plurality of PER values input from the standard deviation calculation unit 25D, and calculates the average PER and the standard deviation calculation unit 25D force of the standard deviation value and the PHY rate input. The value is transmitted to the standard deviation estimation unit 21.
- FIG. 16 is a flowchart for setting the PHY rate and bandwidth reservation at the start of data transmission in Embodiment 2 of the present invention.
- the application unit 23 determines whether or not there is a request for data transmission from the user (step S41). If it is determined that there is a data transmission request (YES in step S41), the address of the receiver 100 is transmitted to the test packet creation unit 24.
- the test packet creation unit 24 receives an address from the application unit 23, the test packet creation unit 24 creates a test packet to be transmitted to the receiver 100 of the address (step S42), and transmits the created packet to the wireless transmission / reception unit 11.
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 modulates the received test packet and outputs the modulated packet to the wireless network via the antenna (step S43).
- transmitter 20 and receiver 100 from when transmitter 20 transmits a test packet to when PHY rate determination unit 16 of transmitter 20 determines the PHY rate are the same as those in the first embodiment. Since the operation is equivalent, the description is omitted.
- the PHY rate determination unit 16 determines the PHY rate value at which the effective rate is the highest (step S46)
- the PHY rate determination unit 16 transmits the determined PHY rate value to the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 and the standard deviation estimation unit 21 determines the PHY rate value.
- the necessary bandwidth determination unit 22 Upon receiving the MAXPER value and the PHY rate value determined by the PHY rate determination unit 16 from the standard deviation estimation unit 21, the necessary bandwidth determination unit 22 receives the content rate value of the corresponding content from the application unit 23.
- the determination unit 22 sends an instruction to the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 to ensure the calculated necessary bandwidth, and notifies the application unit 23 of a response to the content transmission request.
- application unit 23 When receiving a response to the content transmission request, application unit 23 inputs the content to wireless transmission / reception unit 11.
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 When the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 receives a bandwidth reservation instruction from the required bandwidth determination unit 22, the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 secures the bandwidth of the wireless network.
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 packetizes the content (hereinafter referred to as “content packet”) and transmits it at the PHY rate determined by the PHY rate determination unit 16. Further, the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 transmits the content packet in the band secured by the instruction from the necessary band determination unit 22.
- steps S51 to S55 in this figure are the same as steps S44 to S48 in FIG.
- the required bandwidth determination unit 22 compares the bandwidth currently allocated to the content (hereinafter referred to as “current bandwidth allocation”) with the calculated required bandwidth (step S56). ratio If it is determined that the required bandwidth is smaller than the current bandwidth allocation (NO in step S56), the wireless transceiver 11 is instructed to change the current bandwidth allocation to the required bandwidth size (step S57). ). When the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 receives a band change instruction from the necessary band determination unit 22, it changes the band of the wireless network.
- the necessary bandwidth determining unit 22 compares the allocatable bandwidth with the necessary bandwidth (step S58). As a result of the comparison, if it is determined that the required bandwidth is smaller than the assignable bandwidth (YES in step S58), the wireless transceiver 11 is instructed to change the current bandwidth allocation to the required bandwidth size ( Step S57). If it is determined that the required bandwidth is larger than the allocatable bandwidth (NO in step S58), the radio transceiver unit 11 is instructed to ensure only the allocatable bandwidth (step S59).
- i is a variable indicating the first packet to be transmitted
- n is a preset number indicating the number of packets to be transmitted
- j is the standard deviation and standard deviation of PER for which the relational force is also obtained.
- This is a variable indicating the number of differences greater than or equal to a predetermined value when compared with the standard deviation of PER calculated by the calculation unit 25D
- m indicates a preset allowable number of differences greater than or equal to a predetermined value.
- the packet error rate management unit 25C stores, and stores the number of PERs when the number of PERs is set in advance. ! / Sends the PER value and the corresponding PHY rate value used for transmission to the standard deviation calculator 25D.
- the standard deviation calculation unit 25D calculates the standard deviation of the PER using the plurality of PERs also received by the packet error rate management unit 25C (step S77), and uses the calculated standard deviation value and the standard deviation. Create relational expression information between the PER value and the PHY rate value Send to part 25E.
- the relational expression generation information creation unit 25E obtains an average of a plurality of PER values received from the standard deviation calculation unit 25D, and calculates the average PER and the standard deviation calculation unit 25D and also receives the standard deviation value received by the PHY.
- the rate value and the standard deviation estimation unit 21 are transmitted.
- the relational expression change determination unit 21D When the relational expression change determination unit 21D receives the PER, standard deviation, and PH Y rate values from the relational expression generation information creation part 25E, it supports the PHY rate from the relational expression management part 21B via the read processing part 21C.
- the standard deviation is calculated from the relational expression using the received PER value, and the calculated standard deviation is compared with the standard deviation calculated by the standard deviation calculating unit 25D (step S79).
- step S80 it is determined whether there is a force with a difference greater than or equal to a predetermined value. If it is determined that there is no difference greater than the predetermined value (NO in step S80), the process proceeds to step S71. Transition. If it is determined that there is a difference greater than the predetermined value (YES in step S80), the relational expression change determination unit 21D counts the number of times j by 1 (step S81), and then the number of times j reaches the allowable number of times m. It is determined whether or not (step S82). If it is determined that it has been reached (NO in step S82), the process proceeds to step S71. If it is determined that it has been reached (YES in step S82), the relational expression change determination unit 21D determines that correction of the relational expression is necessary.
- the relational expression change determination unit 21D transmits the PER, standard deviation, and PHY rate value received from the correction information creation part 25 to the relational expression generation unit 21E.
- the relational expression generation unit 21E When the relational expression generation unit 21E receives the relational expression change determination part 21D force PER and the value of the standard deviation, the relational expression generation unit 21E determines a value necessary for correcting the relational expression according to the procedure of FIGS. 19 (a) and 19 (b). First, the relational expression generation unit 21E reads the relational expression corresponding to the PHY rate used for content transmission from the relational expression management unit 21B via the read processing unit 21C, and the relational expression is generated for each preset interval. A value is obtained and sampling (the value of the black triangle in FIG. 19) is performed (step S83).
- the relational expression generation unit 21E determines the value of the relational expression (the triangular value in FIG. 19) within a preset range from the value received from the correction information creation part 25 (the black circle value in FIG. 19). ) Is excluded from the sampling, and the black circle and black triangle values in Fig. 19 (b) are determined as the values used to generate the relational expression (step S84).
- the relational expression generating unit 21E generates a relational expression using the determined value (step S85). Living The relational expression to be formed is an approximate expression of a quadratic function generated using the least square method.
- relational expression generation unit 21E changes the relational expression of the corresponding PHY rate to the relational expression shown in FIG. 19 (c) via the write processing unit 21F (step S86).
- the write processing unit 21F sends a read stop instruction to the relational expression management unit 21B to the read processing part 21C before performing the write process to the relational expression management part 21B, and then performs the write process. After the completion, a cancel command for the read stop command is sent to the read processing unit 21C.
- the PER of each received power value PHY rate is estimated, and the standard deviation of PER is estimated from the estimated PER. Then, PER, standard deviation, and MAXPER (PER + standard deviation X 2) are calculated, and the calculated MAXPER is used to secure the necessary bandwidth for content transmission at the PHY rate that maximizes the effective rate. Therefore, stable content transmission can be performed.
- the actual measurement of PER requires a certain number (at least 100 or more) of packet retransmissions and error history. Furthermore, since it is necessary to measure PER for each PHY rate, it takes time on the order of seconds. In this embodiment, PERR is estimated based on the received power value, and the received power value is calculated based on the PHY rate. Since the received power value of a packet that is not dependent and has been successfully received is stable, several tens of histories are sufficient.
- the setting according to the propagation state can be performed quickly, and the waiting time of the user is reduced. Is obtained.
- the standard deviation is estimated from the estimated PER of the received power value. Since MAXPER is obtained, it is possible to quickly determine the PHY rate and set the bandwidth following the change in the propagation environment.
- MAXPER average PER + PER standard deviation value X 2
- MAXPER average PER + PER standard deviation value X 2
- Bandwidth can be secured, and stable content transmission can be realized.
- by correcting the relational expressions stored in the bucket error rate estimator 15 and the standard deviation estimator 21 during content transmission it becomes possible to set the PHY rate and bandwidth more suitable for the actual environment.
- relational expression management unit 21B holds the corrected relational expression in the Flash ROM, and performs estimation using the relational expression held in the Flash ROM for subsequent use. Therefore, even if the power is turned off, the corrected relational expression remains stored, so when the power is turned on again, the corrected relational expression can be used, and the PH Y rate setting suitable for the propagation environment and Bandwidth setting is possible.
- the content is allocated according to the allocatable bandwidth. It is embodiment which changes a rate.
- FIG. 20 is a functional block diagram of transmitter 30 according to the third embodiment of the present invention.
- the same components as those in FIGS. 1 and 12 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted.
- the transmitter 30 includes a content rate changing unit 31 in addition to the configuration of the transmitter 20 in the second embodiment.
- the transmitter 30 includes a necessary band determining unit 32 instead of the necessary band determining unit 22 in the transmitter 20.
- the content rate changing unit 31 changes the content rate according to the instruction of the necessary bandwidth determining unit 32.
- the necessary band determining unit 32 has a function of determining the rate of content to be transmitted according to the band that can be allocated, in addition to the function of the necessary band determining unit 22.
- the required bandwidth determination unit 32 includes a required bandwidth calculation unit 32A, a reserved bandwidth determination unit 32B, an allocatable bandwidth information acquisition unit 32C, a content rate calculation unit 32D, and a content rate change instruction unit. 32E and a transmission content rate storage unit 32F.
- the required bandwidth calculation unit 32A calculates a bandwidth necessary for content transmission at the PHY rate determined by the PHY rate determination unit 16.
- the required bandwidth calculation unit 32A transmits the calculated bandwidth to the reserved bandwidth determination unit 32B.
- the reserved bandwidth determination unit 32B determines a bandwidth to be secured based on the required bandwidth input from the required bandwidth calculation unit 32A and the allocatable bandwidth input from the allocatable bandwidth information acquisition unit 32C.
- the allocatable bandwidth information acquisition unit 32C acquires the information on the allocatable bandwidth, and transmits the acquired information to the reserved bandwidth determination unit 32B.
- the content rate calculation unit 32D determines the rate of the content to be transmitted, and transmits the determined content rate to the content rate change instruction unit 32E and the transmission content rate storage unit 32F.
- Content rate change instructing section 32E instructs content rate changing section 31 to transmit at the content rate input from content rate calculating section 32D.
- the transmission content rate storage unit 32F includes a memory such as a RAM, and stores the value of the content rate input from the content rate calculation unit 32D.
- FIG. 22 is a flowchart showing processing relating to PHY rate determination, bandwidth reservation, and content rate setting at the start of data transmission according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention.
- Steps S91 to 97 in this figure are the same as steps S41 to 47 in FIG.
- the necessary bandwidth calculation unit 32 A calculates the content rate of the corresponding content from the application unit 23. get. Then, (Equation 1), the received MAXPER value and force, determine the bandwidth required for transmission of the relevant content, and obtain the required bandwidth and the retransmission ratio calculated from (Equation 1) to the secured bandwidth determination unit 32B. Send P98).
- the band securing determination unit 32B Upon receiving the band necessary for content transmission and the retransmission ratio, the band securing determination unit 32B acquires and acquires information on the band that can be allocated by the allocatable band information acquisition unit 32C. The allocated allocatable bandwidth is compared with the necessary bandwidth (step S99). If the required bandwidth is smaller than the allocatable bandwidth (YES in S99), the bandwidth reservation determination unit 32B notifies the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 of an instruction to secure the required bandwidth and the response to the content transmission request to the application unit 23 (step S100).
- bandwidth securing determining unit 32B transmits the allocatable bandwidth and the retransmission ratio to content rate calculating unit 32D.
- the content rate calculation unit 32D receives the allocatable bandwidth and the retransmission ratio value from the bandwidth securing determination unit 32B, it calculates the content rate that can be transmitted in the allocatable bandwidth using (Equation 3).
- the content that can be transmitted is about 7 Mbps (10 X (10/14)).
- the content rate calculation unit 32D transmits the calculated transmittable content rate value to the content rate change instruction unit 32E and the transmission content storage unit 32F, and requests the secured bandwidth determination unit 32B to secure the allocatable bandwidth. To do.
- Content rate change instruction unit 32E sends a content rate change instruction to content rate changer 31 so that content rate calculation unit 32D also changes the content rate to the input value.
- the content rate changing unit 31 When the content rate changing unit 31 receives an instruction to change the content rate from the necessary bandwidth determining unit 32, the content rate changing unit 31 sets the rate of the corresponding content to the specified rate value
- the secure bandwidth determining unit 32B responds to the content transmission request to the radio transmission / reception unit 11 and the application unit 23 in response to the content transmission request. Notify the response.
- application unit 23 Upon receiving the response to the content transmission request, application unit 23 inputs the content to content rate changing unit 31.
- the content rate changing unit 31 inputs the input content to the wireless transmission / reception unit 11.
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 packetizes the content and transmits it at the PHY rate determined by the PHY rate determination unit 16.
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 transmits the content packet in the band secured by the instruction from the necessary band determination unit 41.
- FIG. 23 is a flowchart showing processing related to PHY rate determination, bandwidth reservation, and content rate setting during data transmission. This figure differs from FIG. 17 of the second embodiment in that the process of changing the content rate is performed in step S119 in the figure when the necessary band is larger than the allocatable band. Note that steps Sl 111 to 114 in this figure are the same as steps S 51 to 54 in FIG.
- step S 114 When standard deviation estimating unit 21 calculates MAXPER of the PHY rate that maximizes the effective rate (step S 114), it transmits the calculated MAXPER to necessary band determining unit 32.
- the necessary bandwidth calculation unit 32A receives the MAXPER of the PHY rate with the maximum effective rate from the standard deviation estimation unit 21, it acquires the content rate stored in the transmission content rate storage unit 32F and receives (Equation 1)
- the retransmission ratio is calculated from the calculated MAXPER value, and the band necessary for transmission of the corresponding content is calculated from the calculated retransmission ratio and the acquired content rate (step S115). Then, the obtained necessary bandwidth and retransmission ratio are transmitted to the reserved bandwidth determination unit 32B.
- the reserved bandwidth determination unit 32B compares the bandwidth allocated to the current content (hereinafter referred to as “current bandwidth allocation”) with the necessary bandwidth (step S 116).
- the content rate It is determined whether or not has already been changed (lowering force) (step SI 17). If it has not been changed (NO in step S117), the reserved bandwidth determination unit 32B sends an instruction to the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 to change the current bandwidth allocation to the required bandwidth size (step S118). If yes (YES in step S117), the current bandwidth allocation and retransmission margin are transmitted to the content rate calculation unit 41D.
- the content rate calculation unit 41D uses (Equation 3) to obtain the rate of content that can be transmitted using the current bandwidth allocation as an allocatable bandwidth, and changes the content rate thus obtained to the content rate change instruction unit 41E and the transmission content rate.
- a request for securing an allocatable bandwidth is transmitted to the storage unit 1F and transmitted to the secured bandwidth determination unit 41B.
- the content rate change instruction unit 41E sends an instruction to change the content rate to the content rate changer 31 so that the content rate calculation unit 32D also changes the content rate to the input value.
- the content rate change unit 31 Send an instruction to cancel the rate change.
- the content rate changing unit 31 When the content rate changing unit 31 receives an instruction to change the content rate or cancel the rate change from the content rate change instructing unit 32E, the content rate changing unit 31 sets the change or cancellation of the rate of the content being transmitted based on the instruction. Perform (step S119).
- the transmission content rate storage unit 32F stores the rate value of the content that can be transmitted, which is also received by the content rate calculation unit 32D, and stores the value of the original rate when the rate value is larger than the original rate of the content To do.
- the reserved bandwidth determination unit 32B when the content rate calculation unit 32D also receives a request for securing the allocatable bandwidth, sends an instruction to secure the allocatable bandwidth to the radio transmission / reception unit 11.
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 secures the bandwidth of the wireless network (step S120).
- the reserved bandwidth determination unit 32B acquires the allocatable bandwidth from the allocatable bandwidth information acquisition unit 32C and acquires the allocated allocation. The possible bandwidth is compared with the necessary bandwidth (step S121).
- the reserved bandwidth determination unit 32B sends an instruction to change the current bandwidth allocation to the required bandwidth size to the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 (step S 118).
- the reserved bandwidth determining unit 32B transmits the allocatable bandwidth and the retransmission ratio value to the content rate calculating unit 32D.
- the content rate calculating unit 32D uses (Equation 3) to obtain the content rate that can be transmitted in the allocatable bandwidth. Then, the determined value of the transmittable content rate is transmitted to the content rate change instructing unit 32E and the transmission content rate storage unit 32F, and a request for securing the allocatable bandwidth is sent to the secured bandwidth determining unit 32B.
- the content rate change instruction unit 32E sends a content rate change instruction to the content rate changer 31 so that the content rate calculation unit 32D also changes the content rate to the input value.
- the content rate changing unit 31 When the content rate changing unit 31 receives an instruction to change the content rate from the content rate changing instruction unit 32E, the content rate changing unit 31 sets a change in the rate of the content being transmitted based on the instruction (step S122).
- the reserved bandwidth determining unit 32B sends an instruction to secure the allocatable bandwidth to the radio transmission / reception unit 11.
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 Upon receiving the instruction for securing the bandwidth of the content rate calculation unit 32D, the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 secures the bandwidth of the wireless network (step S123).
- the content rate is changed to a rate that can be transmitted in the allocatable band. Therefore, stable content transmission can be realized.
- MAXPER was set to (PER + standard deviation X 2)
- the value of MAX PER was changed according to the occurrence distribution of multiple PERs used to calculate the standard deviation. This is an embodiment.
- FIG. 24 is a functional block diagram of transmitter 40 according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention.
- the same components as those in FIG. 24 are identical to FIG. 24.
- the transmitter 40 obtains a standard deviation in addition to the function of the correction information creation unit 18 instead of the correction information creation unit 18 and the standard deviation estimation unit 21 in the transmitter 20 of the second embodiment.
- the function to change the MAX PER value according to the state of the standard deviation And a standard deviation estimating unit 42.
- Other components are the same as those of the transmitter 20 of the second embodiment.
- the receiver 100 of the first embodiment uses the receiver 100 of the first embodiment.
- correction information creation unit 41 The function of the correction information creation unit 41 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. In FIG. 25, the same components as those in FIG. 15 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted. As shown in FIG. 25, the correction information creation unit 41 is obtained by the standard deviation calculation unit 25D in addition to the function of the relational expression generation information creation unit 25E instead of the relational expression generation information creation unit 25E of the second embodiment. In addition, a relational expression generation information creation unit 41E having a function of obtaining a ratio within a standard deviation of a plurality of PERs used for the standard deviation is configured. Other components are the same as those of the correction information creation unit 25 of the second embodiment.
- Relational expression generation information creation unit 41E obtains the average of multiple PER values input from standard deviation calculation unit 25D, and calculates the distribution (percentage) of multiple PERs within the range of average PER standard deviation Ask. The relational expression generation information creation unit 41E transmits the obtained distribution value and average PER value to the standard deviation estimation unit 42. ⁇ Functions of standard deviation estimation unit 42>
- the standard deviation estimation unit 42 includes a maximum packet error rate changing unit 42G in addition to the configuration of the standard deviation estimation unit 21 of the second embodiment.
- the ratio of the standard deviation of PER used to obtain the standard deviation during content transmission is obtained and the standard deviation is multiplied to obtain MAXPER. Since the value N is determined, the bandwidth allocated to the content can be minimized.
- Embodiments 1 to 4 the force used to estimate the standard deviation of PER and PER in advance was stored beforehand.
- the relationship used to estimate the standard deviation of PER and PER is It is embodiment which produces
- the PHY rate and transmission power value set by the wireless transceiver 11 when the power is turned on are the maximum settable values.
- FIG. 27 is a functional block diagram of the transmitter according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention.
- the same components as those of FIG. 27 are identical.
- the transmitter 60 in FIG. 27 uses correction information instead of the packet error rate estimation unit 15, the standard deviation estimation unit 21, the PHY rate determination unit 16, and the test packet creation unit 24 of the transmitter of the second embodiment.
- Packet error rate estimator 51 that generates a relational expression between the received power value and the PER value from the information input from the information generator 25, and the information power PER input from the correction information generator 25 and the standard deviation of PER
- the propagation state is determined by an instruction from the standard deviation estimation unit 52 that generates the relational expression, the PHY rate change unit 53 that instructs the wireless transceiver 11 to change the PHY rate of the packet output to the wireless network, and the parameter determination unit 55.
- a test packet creating unit 56 for creating a test packet for measurement is provided, and a transmission power changing unit 54 and a parameter determining unit 55 are further included.
- the transmission power changing unit 54 When the transmission power changing unit 54 receives the transmission power value input from the parameter determining unit 55, the transmission power changing unit 54 instructs the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 to change the transmission power value of the packet output to the wireless network.
- the parameter determination unit 55 acquires the address of the device connected to the own device via the wireless network (here, the receiver 100), and The address of the receiver 100 is transmitted to the test packet creation unit 56 in order to measure the propagation state between them.
- the parameter determination unit 55 determines and determines the PHY rate and transmission power value of the packet output to the information power wireless network input from the packet error rate estimation unit 51 and the standard deviation estimation unit 52.
- the PHY rate is transmitted to the PHY rate changing unit 53, and the determined transmission power value is transmitted to the signal power changing unit 54.
- test packet creation unit 56 When receiving an address from the parameter determination unit 55, the test packet creation unit 56 creates a test packet to be transmitted to the receiver 100 and transmits the test packet to the wireless transmission / reception unit 11. Note that the test packet generation unit 66 generates test packets continuously until an instruction is received from the meter determination unit 55 or if the number of packets stored in the transmission buffer is within a preset threshold, and the radio transmission / reception unit Send to 11.
- the packet error rate estimation unit 51 generates a relational expression managed by the relational expression management unit 15B instead of the packet error requesting part 15A and the relational expression change determination part 15D.
- the relational expression generation information management unit 51A that manages the information used for the information, the correction information generation part 25, the information input from the received power value managed by the relational expression generation information management part 51A and the value of PER
- a relational expression generating unit 51E that generates a relational expression between the received power value and the PER value.
- the relational expression generating unit 51E receives the received power value, the PER value, and the PHY rate value from the correction information generating unit 25, the received power of the packet transmitted at the same PHY rate as the received PHY rate.
- a plurality of values and PER values are acquired from the relational expression generation information management unit 51A, and a relational expression is generated using the acquired value, the received power value received from the correction information generation unit 25, and PER.
- the relational expression to be generated is an approximate expression of a quadratic function generated using the least square method. Then, the relational expression generation unit 51E writes the generated relational expression in the relational expression management unit 15B via the write processing unit 15F.
- relational expression generation unit 51E transmits the received power value and PER input from the correction information creation part 25 to the relational expression generation information management unit 51A as needed.
- the relational expression generation information management unit 51A includes a memory such as a RAM, and stores the received power value and the PER value input from the relational expression generation unit 51E.
- the relational expression generation information management unit 51 A determines whether or not the number of stored PERs has reached a preset threshold, and if it determines that it has reached, the stored value of each PER is stored. Determine the degree of variation. Specifically, it is determined whether or not adjacent PER values are separated by a predetermined interval or more, and success / failure information indicating the determination result is sent to the parameter determination unit 55.
- success / failure information indicating “No” is transmitted, and all two adjacent PERs are separated by a certain interval or more. If successful, send success / failure information indicating “success”.
- the standard deviation estimation unit 52 is managed by the relational expression management unit 21B instead of the standard deviation requesting part 21A and the relational expression generation part 21E, and is used to generate the relational expression.
- Input from the relational expression generation information management unit 52A and the correction information creation unit 25 A relational expression generation unit 52E that generates a relational expression of PER and standard deviation from the received information and the PER and PER standard deviation managed by the relational expression generation information management unit 52A. .
- the relational expression generating unit 52E When the relational expression generating unit 52E receives from the correction information generating unit 25 a plurality of PERs used for calculating the PER standard deviation and the standard deviation, and the PHY rate value, the relational expression generating unit 52E has the same PHY rate as the received PHY rate. Obtains multiple PER and PER standard deviation values of packets transmitted at the rate from the relational expression generation information management unit 52A, and acquires the acquired values and the PER standard deviation values input from the correction information creation unit 18 A relational expression is generated using PER. The relational expression to be generated is an approximate expression of a quadratic function generated using the method of least squares. Then, the relational expression generation unit 52E writes the generated relational expression in the relational expression management unit 21B via the write processing unit 21F.
- relational expression generation unit 52E transmits the PER and the standard deviation value of PER input from the correction information creation part 25 to the relational expression generation information management unit 52A as needed.
- the relational expression generation information management unit 52A includes a memory such as a RAM, and stores the PER and the standard deviation value of PER to which the relational expression generation unit 52E is also input.
- the relational expression generation information management unit 52A determines whether or not the number of stored PERs has reached a preset threshold value. If it is determined that the number of stored PERs has reached, the degree of variation of each stored PER value is determined. Is determined. Specifically, it is determined whether or not adjacent PER values are not less than a predetermined interval, and success / failure information indicating the determination result is sent to the parameter determination unit 55. (Explanation of relational expression generation process)
- FIG. 30 is a flowchart showing the relational expression generation process.
- the PHY rate changing unit 53 sets the PHY rate to the maximum value
- the transmission power changing unit 54 sets the transmission power to the maximum value (step S142).
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 transmits the test packet created by the test packet creation unit 56 to the receiver 100 (step S143).
- Radio transceiver 11 receives the received power notification packet from receiver 100 (YES in step S144).
- the packet error rate measurement unit 17 calculates PER (step S145).
- the relational expression generation unit 51E stores PER in the relational expression generation information management part 51A, and the relational expression generation information management part 51A determines whether or not the number of stored PERs has reached the threshold (step S 146). [0132] If it is determined that the threshold value has been reached (NO in step S146), the relational expression generation information management unit 51A uses a parameter to instruct the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 to lower the transmission power by one step. The data determination unit 55 is requested. When the transmission power changing unit 54 receives a request for changing the transmission power from the parameter determining unit 55, the transmission power changing unit 54 instructs the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 to reduce the transmission power by one level (step S147), and proceeds to step S143.
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 Upon receiving the transmission power value change instruction from the transmission power changing unit 54, the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 sets the change of the transmission power value for transmitting the test packet. Send.
- the relational expression generation information management unit 51A and the relational expression generation information management part 52A determine the degree of variation of each PER, and determine the determination result as a parameter.
- the data is transmitted to section 55 (step S 148).
- the relational expression generating unit 51E generates a relational expression from the received power value and PER and stores it (step S149).
- the relational expression generation unit 52E generates and stores a relational expression from PER and the standard deviation of PER (step S150).
- Parameter determining unit 55 determines success / failure information of the relational expression input from packet error rate estimating unit 51 and standard deviation estimating unit 52. If at least one success / failure information indicates “NO” (NO in step S 151), a request to lower the transmission power value by one step is sent to the transmission power changing unit 54, and the process proceeds to step S 147.
- step S151 If both success / failure information indicates “success” (YES in step S151), the parameter determination unit 55 determines whether or not the generation of the relational expressions at all configurable PHY rates has been completed. (Step S152).
- parameter determination unit 55 requests PHY rate changing unit 53 to lower the PHY rate by one level, and transmission power changing unit 54 sets the transmission power to the maximum that can be set. Send a request to
- the PHY rate changing unit 53 When the PHY rate changing unit 53 receives a request for changing the PHY rate from the parameter determining unit 55, the PHY rate changing unit 53 instructs the radio transmitting / receiving unit 11 to change to the requested PHY rate.
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 Upon receiving the PHY rate information from the PHY rate change unit 53, the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 sets the change of the PHY rate at which the test packet is transmitted. To send.
- parameter determination unit 55 instructs test packet creation unit 56 to stop test packet creation (step S154).
- receiver of the present embodiment is the same as the receiver 100 of the first embodiment.
- the parameter determination unit 55 adjusts the transmission power value and the PHY rate at the time of power activation, and is managed by the relational expression management unit 15B and the relational expression management unit 21B. Generate an expression. Therefore, it is not necessary to store the relational expression in advance.
- the receiver measures the received power value of the packet, but in this embodiment, the transmitter measures the received power value of the packet and estimates the measured received power value PER. It is a form.
- FIG. 31 is a functional block diagram of transmitter 60 according to Embodiment 6 of the present invention.
- the same components as those of FIG. 12 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted.
- the received power value measuring unit that measures the received power value of the packet input to the wireless network power
- Consists of 61 Other components in transmitter 60 are the same as transmitter 20 in the second embodiment.
- the radio transmission / reception unit 11 demodulates the Ack of the test packet input via the antenna via the antenna, and transmits the demodulated Ack to the packet identification unit 12.
- the packet identification unit 12 When receiving the Ack of the test packet, the packet identification unit 12 sends an Ac to the received power value measurement unit 61. Notify receipt of k.
- the received power measuring unit 61 measures the received power value of the Ack of the packet and transmits the measured received power value to the received power value managing unit 14
- Reception power value management section 14 stores the reception power value and passes it to packet error rate estimation section 15.
- transmitter 60 can measure the Ack received power value of the test packet and estimate the PER using the measured received power value.
- the receiver side does not need to measure the received power and notify the transmitter of the received power value.
- the receiver calculates PER more than just measuring the received power value of the packet. Also, the measured received power value is estimated by PER, and the PHY rate and necessary bandwidth are determined based on the estimated PER, and information used for correction is created from the calculated PER. The relational expression held by the deviation estimation unit 210 is corrected.
- FIG. 32 is a functional block diagram of receiver 200 according to Embodiment 7 of the present invention.
- Receiver 200 includes reception power value management section 260 instead of reception power value notification packet creation section 140 in receiver 100, and further includes packet error rate estimation section 150, PHY rate determination section 160, standard deviation estimation section 210. , Required bandwidth determination unit 220, correction information creation unit 250, packet error rate measurement It is configured to include a fixed unit 260 and a content rate measuring unit 270 that measures an ideal rate of input content of packets.
- the packet error rate measurement unit 260 has a function of measuring the number of retransmissions of a received packet.
- Other components in the receiver 200 in FIG. 32 have functions equivalent to those in the transmitter 60 in the sixth embodiment.
- Radio transmitting / receiving section 110 of receiver 200 demodulates the input content packet, and transmits the demodulated packet to packet identifying section 120 and content rate measuring section 270.
- the packet identification unit 120 identifies the input packet, and when the packet is an Ack of the test packet as a result of the identification, notifies the reception power value measurement unit 130 of the packet.
- the received power value measuring unit 130 measures the received power value of the input packet and transmits the measured received power value to the received power value management unit 260.
- Reception power value management section 260 stores the reception power value input from reception power measurement section 130 and transmits the reception power value to packet error rate estimation section 150.
- the content rate measuring unit 270 stores the input time, obtains the ideal rate for each set fixed time, and stores the obtained ideal rate.
- the necessary bandwidth determination unit 220 Upon receiving the MAXPER value of each PHY rate and the PHY rate value determined by the PHY rate determination unit 160 from the standard deviation estimation unit 210, the necessary bandwidth determination unit 220 receives the corresponding content from the content rate measurement unit 270.
- the retransmission rate is calculated from (Equation 1) and the MAX PER value, and the bandwidth required for transmission of the corresponding content is also calculated using the calculated retransmission rate and the acquired content rate and power. Then, the wireless transmission / reception unit 110 is instructed to secure the required bandwidth.
- the radio transmission / reception unit 110 Upon receiving an instruction for securing a band from the necessary band determination unit 220, the radio transmission / reception unit 110 receives no request. Secure the bandwidth of the line network.
- the packet error rate measurement unit 260 stores, for each content packet, the number of retransmissions due to a content packet reception error (for example, error detection by CRC). When reception of a preset number of packets is completed, the total number of retransmissions, the number of packets that have been received, and the value of the PHY rate used for transmission are transmitted to correction information creation section 250.
- Correction information creation section 250 obtains a packet error rate from the total number of retransmissions input from packet error rate measurement section 260 and the number of received packets.
- the measured received power value PER is estimated, the PHY rate and necessary bandwidth are determined based on the estimated PER, and the packet from the reception error of the content packet is determined.
- the error rate By obtaining the error rate, the relational expressions held by the packet error rate estimation unit 150 and the standard deviation estimation unit 210 are corrected. Therefore, the optimum PHY rate and necessary bandwidth for content transmission can be determined only by processing on the receiver side, and processing on the transmitter side is not necessary.
- the power for calculating the effective rate for all PHY rates and determining the PHY rate corresponding to the maximum effective rate is not limited to this.
- the force that makes the effective rate is calculated, and the calculated effective rate is compared with a pre-stored threshold (for example, 20 Mbps).
- a pre-stored threshold for example, 20 Mbps.
- a PHY rate corresponding to the effective rate may be selected without calculating an effective rate at another PHY rate.
- the actual value above the threshold The effective rate is guaranteed, and the load for calculating the effective rate can be reduced.
- the number of packets is calculated as 100, but it may be changed according to the size of the transmission buffer of the transmitter 10 or the reception buffer of the receiver 100.
- the PHY rate determination unit 16 calculates the retransmission ratio using (Equation 1), but the approximate expression of the quadratic function obtained using the black circle value in FIG. 7 (Equation 2) May be stored, and the retransmission ratio may be determined using an approximate expression, or the values obtained using (Equation 1) or (Equation 2) may be managed as a table.
- the following (Equation 2) is a quadratic function showing the solid line in Fig. 7.
- calculation processing based on mathematical formulas, such as calculating the retransmission ratio using (Equation 1) or calculating the effective rate by multiplying the ideal rate by the reciprocal of the retransmission ratio, is performed.
- equation 1 calculating the retransmission ratio using (Equation 1)
- Equation 2 calculating the effective rate by multiplying the ideal rate by the reciprocal of the retransmission ratio
- a system call (API) or library function may be created that accepts an operand as an argument, executes a predetermined operation, and returns the operation result as a return value.
- the above formula does not mean a mathematical concept, but it means a numerical operation executed on a computer, so of course, the necessary modifications to be realized by a computer are added. Needless to say. For example, it goes without saying that a saturation operation or a positive value ⁇ operation may be applied to handle a numerical value in an integer type or a floating point type.
- multiplication with a constant can be realized by a ROM multiplier using a constant ROM.
- the constant ROM the product value of the multiplicand and the constant is calculated and stored in advance. For example, if the multiplicand is 16 bits long, the multiplicand is divided into four every 4 bits, and the product of this 4-bit part and a constant, that is, a multiple of 0 to 15 of the constant is the above constant ROM. Stored in!
- the “arithmetic processing” in this specification is stored in a recording medium such as a ROM, which does not mean only pure arithmetic operations. It also includes reading of the recording medium in which the calculation result is read according to the value of the operand.
- the function for calculating the effective rate depends on the implementation.
- the effective rate may be calculated by a function of the ideal rate and the packet error rate, or may be another function.
- the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 upon receiving the value of the PHY rate from the PHY rate determination unit 16, sets the PHY rate so as to transmit subsequent data at the PHY rate. Sometimes, the same operation is repeated, and the PHY rate may be set in units of packets, or may be set at regular intervals. [0160] In the above embodiment, the transmission data is not limited to video or audio content.
- the reception power value notification packet creation unit 140 of the receiver 100 creates a reception power value notification packet for each bucket, but the reception power value notification packet creation unit 140 includes a memory such as a RAM.
- the received power value is stored in the memory and compared with the previous received power value stored when the received power value of the next packet is measured.
- a reception power value notification packet may be created.
- Received power value notification packet creation section 140 obtains an average of the stored received power values when the stored received power values reach a preset number, and a received power value notification packet including the obtained values.
- the average received power value obtained may be stored, and when the next average received power value is calculated, it is compared with the previous average received power value stored in advance. If it is equal to or greater than the set value, a received power value notification packet including the obtained average received power value may be created.
- the packet error rate measurement unit 17 transmits information to the correction information creation unit 18 when the number of stored packets reaches a preset number. Even if you send information.
- the packet error estimation information changing unit 15D stores the number of times that a difference greater than or equal to the predetermined value exists, but is stored in the transmission buffer during the transmission period of the packet used to obtain the PER.
- the maximum number of packets may be stored, and the number of times that the maximum number of packets is less than or equal to a preset value may be stored.
- the relational expression management unit 15B and the relational expression management part 21B preliminarily manage the relational expression.
- the value obtained for the relational expression force may be managed in advance as a table, or a function. Manage with a combination of formulas and tables.
- relational expression management unit 15B and the relational expression management part 21B may store a plurality of function expressions that store one function expression for each PHY rate.
- relational expression A may be used when PER is 5% or more
- functional expression B may be used when PER is less than 5%.
- relational expression management unit 15B and the relational expression management unit 21B fix the wireless RF module characteristics.
- different relational expressions may be managed for each receiver, or may be managed for each packet length to be transmitted. Further, different relational expressions may be managed for each of the long distance and the short distance, and the user may select them.
- relational expression management unit 15B and the relational expression management part 21B manage the relational expressions using quadratic functions, they may be managed using other approximate expressions such as linear functions and exponential functions.
- the relational expression generated by the relational expression generation unit 15E and the relational expression generation unit 21E is an approximate expression of a quadratic function generated using the least square method.
- it may be an approximate expression of a linear function or may be generated using Lagrange interpolation.
- relational expression generation unit 15E and the relational expression generation part 21E are not limited to the force obtained by correcting the relational expression in the procedure shown in FIGS.
- a value obtained by adding a random number to the sampled value may be used.
- the size of the random number may be determined by using the difference between the value input from the correction information creation units 18 and 25 and the value obtained from the relational expression.
- the above embodiment is not limited to the power described using the wireless LAN standard IEEE802.11a.
- IEEE802.ib or IEEE802.lg may be used.
- a plurality of wireless LAN standards may be provided, and a PHY rate that maximizes the effective rate may be selected from the plurality of wireless LAN standards.
- the receiver 100 measures the received power value of the data packet transmitted from the transmitter 10.
- the received power of other packets transmitted from the transmitter 10 is not limited to this.
- the value may be measured.
- the transmitter 10 is a wireless master device (access point) that manages the bandwidth of the wireless network
- a beacon (synchronization signal) received intermittently from the transmitter 10 may be used.
- a test packet may be transmitted during data transmission, or another packet (for example, a content packet) may be transmitted.
- the transmitter 10 includes the packet error rate estimator 15.
- the receiver 100 includes the packet error rate estimator 15.
- the receiver 100 transmits each PHY rate to the transmitter 10. You may want to be notified of the value of PERR.
- the medium for transmitting data is wireless.
- the present invention is not limited to this, and any medium can be used for selecting and transmitting data from a plurality of PHY rates. It is possible to adapt to the deviation. For example, it is possible to adapt to control of power line communication by detecting home appliance noise.
- the power for controlling the PHY rate and bandwidth allocation for transmitting packets according to the propagation state is not limited to this.
- Embodiment 1 only the relational expression corresponding to the PHY rate used for the packet error rate measurement is corrected, but other relational expressions may also be corrected.
- the magnitude of deviation between the relational expression after correction and the relational expression before correction may be obtained, and the relational expression for other PHY rates may be corrected by the amount of the obtained deviation.
- the application unit 23 receives a content transmission request from the user.
- the user passes through a wired network (not shown) of the transmitter 20 or the receiver 100.
- a content transmission request may be made from a connected external device via a wired network. It is also possible to make a request from the application section of receiver 100 (V, not shown).
- the transmitter 20 is configured to notify the user of the value of the content rate.
- the output of the content bucket is performed. It is also possible to set the bandwidth by obtaining the content rate for the interval equality.
- the transmitter 20 determines the content rate of the input content packet interval and sets the bandwidth. Good thing.
- the relational expression change determination unit 15D receives the preset power value used for the determination, the received power value received from the correction information creation unit 18, the relational expression management unit 15B, and the relation It may be the MAXPER value calculated from the relational expression managed by the expression management unit 21B. For example, if the measured PER is less than the MAXPER value, the relational expression can be corrected once, and if it is greater than the MAXPER value, the relational expression can be corrected if it continues for 5 consecutive times!
- the relational expression change determination unit 15D stores a force PER that stores the number of times of a difference greater than or equal to a predetermined value when the PER obtained from the relational expression force is compared with the PER value received from the correction information creation unit 18. It is also possible to store the maximum number of buckets accumulated in the transmission buffer during the transmission period of the packet used to determine the number of times, and store the number of times that the maximum number of packets falls below a preset value.
- the relational expression change determination unit 21D stores the number of times that the difference between the standard deviation obtained from the relational expression and the standard deviation value received from the correction information creation unit 18 is preset, and the stored number of times is stored. When the number of preset times is reached, it is determined that the relational expression needs to be corrected and the PER, standard deviation, and PHY rate values received from the correction information creation section 18 are sent to the relational expression generation section 21E.
- the correction information creation unit 18 obtains a plurality of PER values for calculating the standard deviation, calculates the ratio of the PER within the standard deviation of the PER, and generates a relational expression if the calculated ratio is equal to or greater than a preset value. It is also possible to send the value of PER, standard deviation, and PH rate received by the correction information generation unit 18 to the unit 21E.
- the transmitter 20 includes the standard deviation estimation unit 21.
- the receiver 100 includes the standard deviation estimation unit 21, and the receiver 100 transmits the MAXPE R of each PHY rate to the transmitter 20. You may be notified of the value of.
- the radio transmission / reception unit 11 may negotiate with other devices to secure a band necessary for content transmission.
- the transmitter 20 and the receiver 100, the wireless master unit (access point) that manages the bandwidth of the wireless network, and the HCCA function of power EEE802.1 le the transmitter 20 is a wireless slave unit that belongs to the wireless master unit ( In the case of a station), an ADD TS request of a radio management frame that is a request for bandwidth allocation may be transmitted to the radio base unit. If the transmitter 20 is a wireless master device, a transmission request for an ADD TS request is transmitted to the receiver 100 which is a wireless slave device, and the receiver 100 transmits an ADD TS request to the transmitter 20 (wireless master device). ).
- the content data rate for the TSPEC parameter Mean Data Rate of the ADD TS reque st, the required bandwidth determined by the required bandwidth determination unit 22 for Surplus Bandwidth Allowance, and the PHY rate determined by the PH Y rate determination unit 16 for the Minimum PHY Rate Information may be included.
- FIG. 33 is a flowchart showing the PHY rate determination and necessary bandwidth calculation processing during data transmission in that case. Steps S161 and 162 are the same as steps S51 and 52 in FIG. In this flowchart, after step S162, the standard deviation request unit 21A, which does not determine the PHY rate with the maximum effective rate, also receives the PHY rate, PER value, and current PHY rate.
- the necessary bandwidth determination unit 22 uses the content rate value acquired from the application unit 23 and the transmission of the corresponding content.
- the bandwidth required for content transmission is determined from the MAXPER value corresponding to the current PHY rate (step S164). Steps S165 to S167 are the same as steps S56 to S58 in FIG.
- the required bandwidth determination unit 22 determines whether the current PHY rate is the PHY rate with the highest effective rate (Ste S168).
- step S168 If the current PHY rate has the highest effective rate (YES in step S168), an allocatable bandwidth is secured (step S172), and if the effective rate is high and a PHY rate exists (step S168). NO), change to the PHY rate corresponding to the maximum effective rate (step S169), and calculate the required bandwidth at the changed PHY rate (step S170).
- the necessary bandwidth determining unit 22 compares the allocatable bandwidth with the necessary bandwidth (step S171). As a result of the comparison, if it is determined that the required bandwidth is smaller than the allocatable bandwidth (YES in step S171), the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 is instructed to change the current bandwidth allocation to the required bandwidth size (step S171). S166). If it is determined that the necessary bandwidth is larger than the allocatable bandwidth (NO in step S171), the radio transmission / reception unit 11 is instructed to secure only the allocatable bandwidth (step S172). [0178] Note that the relational expression managed by the relational expression management unit 15B and the relational expression management unit 21B may be a relational expression generated only with a PER value that needs to be reserved in advance.
- relational expression change determination unit 15D and the relational expression change determination part 15D are PER values obtained from the correction information creation unit 18 that are preset values of PER that need to be secured. If the force is different from the calculated value, it may be determined that a change is necessary.
- the test packet creation unit 24 in the above embodiment may make the packet length of the test packet the same as the packet length of the content.
- the standard deviation estimation unit 21 sets MAXPER to (PER + standard deviation X 2), but is not limited to this.
- MAXPER may be (PER + standard deviation X 3) or (PER + standard deviation X 2.5).
- the standard deviation of the packet error rate is obtained.
- the necessary bandwidth determining unit 32 if the allocatable bandwidth is increased during content transmission, for example, when content transmission of another user is terminated!]
- the content rate or the current bandwidth allocation may be changed.
- the necessary bandwidth is determined.
- Unit 32 can also assign the AC (access category) power of the corresponding content.
- the ideal rate within the band is obtained, and if the ideal rate is smaller than the content rate, the content rate changing unit 31 sets the content rate to the ideal rate value. Send instructions to change.
- the content rate changing unit 31 is installed in the transmitter 30.
- the transmitter 30 For example, when content is input to the transmitter 30 via a wired network (not shown), On the network between the external device that outputs the content and the transmitter 30
- the installation location is not limited.
- FIG. 34 is a flowchart showing PHY rate determination, bandwidth allocation, and content rate setting processing during data transmission in that case.
- step S182 the necessary bandwidth for transmitting content at the currently used PHY rate is allocated in step S186, rather than determining the PHY rate that maximizes the effective rate. If it is determined that the bandwidth is larger than the possible bandwidth, it is determined whether or not the PHY rate currently used for content transmission is the PHY rate with the highest effective rate (step S188).
- the reserved bandwidth determination unit 32B transmits the allocatable bandwidth and the retransmission ratio to the content rate calculation unit 32D. Then, the content rate calculation unit 32D obtains a content rate that can be transmitted in an allocatable band (step S192).
- the reserved bandwidth determination unit 32B sets the PHY rate corresponding to the maximum effective rate.
- An instruction is sent to the wireless transmission / reception unit 11 to switch (step S189).
- the required bandwidth calculation unit 32A calculates the required bandwidth at the changed PHY rate (step S190). The other steps are described in Figs. 23 and 33, so they are omitted here.
- the multiplication value N is determined in order to obtain MAXPER according to the ratio of the PERR used to obtain the standard deviation during content transmission in the standard deviation.
- the deviation estimation unit 42 associates the value of PER input from the packet error rate estimation unit 51 with the multiplication value N in advance, and when the value of PER is input from the packet error rate estimation unit 51, it corresponds to the PER. You can calculate MAXPER using the multiplication value N.
- the packet error rate estimator 51 and the standard deviation estimator 52 generate The relational expressions are managed in advance, but a plurality of different relational expressions are held in advance at each PHY rate, the closest relational expression is selected from the measurement results, and the selected relational expression is connected to the relational expression management unit 15B and the relational expression management unit. You can manage it with 21 B ⁇ .
- the relational expression generated in the fifth embodiment is a force that is an approximate expression of a quadratic function generated using the least square method, but is not limited to this.
- an approximate expression of a linear function may be used. It can be generated using Lagrange completion.
- the force for generating the relational expression at the time of power-on is not limited to this.
- it may be performed by a user instruction or during a period when data is not transmitted.
- radio transmission / reception section 110 may negotiate with other devices in order to ensure the bandwidth necessary for content transmission.
- a receiver 200, a wireless master device (access point) that manages the bandwidth of the wireless network, and a transmitter that transmits content have an IEEE802.l HCCA function, and the receiver 200 belongs to the wireless master device.
- an ADD TS request of a wireless management frame that is a request for bandwidth allocation may be transmitted to the wireless base station.
- the ADD TS request TSPEC parameter Mean Data Rate is the content rate
- Surplus Bandwidth Allowance is the required bandwidth determined by the required bandwidth determination unit 220
- the Minimum PHY Rate is the PHY rate information determined by the PH Y rate determination unit 160. May be included.
- the packet error rate measurement unit 260 transmits information to the correction information creation unit 250 when the accumulated number of packets reaches a preset number. You may send information when it is time to speak.
- the present invention may be a method including the steps shown in the flowchart and a program including a program code for causing a computer to execute the steps shown in the flowchart. It can be a recording medium that stores the program!
- each of the above-described embodiments may be typically realized by an LSI (Large Scale Integration) that is an integrated circuit. These may be individually integrated into one chip, or may be integrated into one chip to include all or part of the configuration. Integrated circuits are sometimes called ICs, system LSIs, super LSIs, ultra LSIs, etc., depending on the degree of integration. Further, the integrated circuit method may be realized by using a dedicated circuit or a general-purpose processor, not limited to the LSI. You can also use FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) and reconfigurable processors that can reconfigure the connection and settings of circuit cells inside the LSI.
- FPGAs Field Programmable Gate Arrays
- integrated circuit technology that replaces current semiconductor technology appears due to advancement of semiconductor technology or other derived technology, naturally, even if functional block integration is performed using that technology, Good. For example, biotechnology can be applied. Further, it may be built in the server device 1 or the client device 2, or may be built in a mobile terminal.
- the function of the seventh embodiment may be combined with another embodiment, and the function of the seventh embodiment may be switched to when the test packet is not received from the transmitter.
- the function may be switched to the function of the first embodiment.
- the present invention is useful when the packet error rate changes, such as when an obstacle exists between transmission apparatuses.
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