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- the present invention relates to a terminal device connectable to both a macro base station and a pico base station.
- Non-patent Document 1 a base station having a smaller communication area than the macro base station.
- LPN Low Power Node
- the area covered by each base station can be subdivided, and the communication capacity can be increased (also called cell splitting gain, area splitting gain, etc.) (hereinafter referred to as macro base station)
- Cell to be formed is called a macro cell, and a cell formed by a pico base station is called a small cell).
- the macro base station instructs the terminal device located in the small cell to connect to the pico base station. put out.
- the load of the macro base station can be offloaded to the pico base station, resulting in an increase in transmission opportunities for all the terminal devices in the macro cell. it can.
- a signal is transmitted to a distant base station, so that a high transmission power is required to satisfy the required reception power at the base station. Therefore, the performance of a power amplifier that can be possessed by a terminal device that is required to be reduced in size while requiring a high-performance power amplifier is limited, and a transmission signal is possible in order to maintain linearity during power amplification.
- An access method with a low peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) is required.
- LTE Long Termination Evolution, 3GPP (also known as The Third Third Generation Partnership Project) Release 8
- 3GPP Long Termination Evolution
- 3GPP also known as The Third Third Generation Partnership Project
- DFT-S-OFDM Discrete-Fourier-Transform-Spread-Orthogonal-Frequency-Division-Multiplexing: SC-FDMA (sometimes referred to as Single-Carrier-Frequency-Division-Multiple-Access)
- SC-FDMA Single-Carrier-Frequency-Division-Multiple-Access
- a terminal device that can be connected to both the macro base station and the pico base station needs to support both the previous access method and the new access method, and use the access method by switching the access method in accordance with instructions from the base station. .
- the base station needs to notify the terminal of the uplink access scheme, which increases overhead.
- the present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and when a terminal transmits a signal to a pico base station, the terminal does not increase the amount of control information that the base station sends to the terminal. It is an object of the present invention to provide a terminal device and a communication method that can use an access method different from that of a macro base station.
- the terminal device of the present invention is a terminal device that communicates with a macro base station that forms a first cell or a pico base station that forms a second cell having a narrower range than the first cell,
- a pico base station that forms a second cell having a narrower range than the first cell
- communication is performed with the pico base station using a second access method different from the access method used when communicating with the macro base station. It is characterized by that.
- the terminal device of the present invention is a terminal device that communicates with a macro base station that forms a first cell or a pico base station that forms a second cell having a narrower range than the first cell. Then, when communicating with the macro base station, the first access method is used for communication, and when the macro base station receives an instruction to switch to the pico base station for communication, the access method to be used. Is communicated with the pico base station as a second access method different from the first access method.
- the terminal device of the present invention is a terminal device that forms a first cell and communicates with a base station that forms a second cell having a narrower range than the first cell, When communicating with the base station in the first cell, communication is performed using the first access method. On the other hand, when an instruction to communicate in the second cell is received from the base station, the access method to be used Is communicated with the base station as a second access method different from the first access method.
- the terminal device of the present invention is characterized in that the first access method is a single carrier method and the second access method is a multicarrier method.
- the first access method is DFT-S-OFDM (DiscretecreFourier Transform Spread Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)
- the second access method is OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing).
- the communication method of this invention is a terminal apparatus which communicates with the macro base station which forms the 1st cell, or the pico base station which forms the 2nd cell whose range is narrower than the said 1st cell.
- the pico base station uses a second access method different from an access method used when communicating with the macro base station. It communicates with a base station.
- the communication method of the present invention is a communication method of a terminal apparatus that forms a first cell and communicates with a base station that forms a second cell having a narrower range than the first cell.
- communication is performed using the first access method, while when receiving an instruction from the base station to communicate in the second cell, It communicates with the base station as a second access method different from the first access method.
- the terminal when the terminal transmits a signal to the pico base station, the terminal does not increase the amount of control information sent to the terminal, and the access method is different from the case where the terminal uses the receiving station as a macro base station. As a result, throughput can be improved.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a wireless communication system configuration according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- the radio communication system according to the present embodiment is a mobile communication system including a macro base station 1, a pico base station 3, and a terminal device 5.
- the macro base station 1 forms a macro cell 10 that covers a wider communication area than the pico base station 3, and the pico base station 3 overlaps a part of the communication area of the macro base station 1.
- a pico cell 30 that covers a limited communication area is formed.
- the numbers of the macro base station 1, the pico base station 3, and the terminal device 5 are merely examples, and the present invention can be similarly applied to a system including a plurality of each.
- FIG. 2 is a sequence chart for explaining an operation example of each apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- the terminal device 5 makes a connection request to the macro base station 1 (step S1).
- the macro base station 1 that has received the request responds, and when the signal can be received by the own device, a control signal including a parameter when the terminal device 5 transmits a signal to the own device is sent to the terminal device 5.
- Transmit step S2.
- the terminal device 5 that has received the control signal generates a DFT-S-OFDM signal based on the control signal (step S3), and transmits the signal to the macro base station 1 (step S4).
- the macro base station 1 when the macro base station 1 satisfies an arbitrary condition (for example, when the number of terminal devices 5 connected to the macro base station 1 reaches a threshold value or more), the macro base station 1 It can instruct to connect to the pico base station 3 (step S5), and can instruct the pico base station 3 to connect to the terminal device 5 (step S6).
- the terminal device 5 sets to use OFDM instead of DFT-S-OFDM as an access method when transmitting to the pico base station 3 (step S7).
- the pico base station 3 that has received the connection instruction (step S6) transmits a control signal including parameters for transmitting a signal to the own apparatus (step S8).
- the terminal device 5 that has received the control signal from the pico base station 3 generates an OFDM signal based on the control signal (step S9), and transmits the signal to the pico base station 3 (step S10).
- step S1 the sequence chart of FIG. 2 describes the case where the macro base station 1 that has received a connection request (step S1) from the terminal device 5 communicates with the terminal device 5 once (step T1).
- step S1 transmits a connection instruction (step S5) to the pico base station 3, and the pico base station 3 communicates with the terminal device 5 from the beginning (step T2). Included.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram showing the configuration of the terminal device 5 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- the terminal device 5 includes a reception antenna 101, a reception station identification unit 103, a control signal identification unit 105, an uplink signal generation unit 107, and a transmission antenna 109.
- the receiving antenna 101 receives a signal from an arbitrary base station (macro base station 1 or pico base station 3).
- the receiving station identification unit 103 detects an instruction signal instructing that the macro base station 1 transmits a signal to the pico base station 3 from the macro base station 1 among the signals received by the receiving antenna 101.
- the control signal identifying unit 105 and the uplink signal generating unit 107 are notified that the receiving station for uplink transmission is the designated pico base station 3.
- the control signal identifying unit 105 designates the MCS used for the uplink signal and the allocated frequency among the signals transmitted from the macro base station 1 or the pico base station 3 and received by the receiving antenna 101.
- Control signal to be extracted is input to the uplink signal generation section 107.
- the control signal identifying unit 105 extracts the control signal transmitted from the macro base station 1.
- the control signal transmitted from the instructed pico base station 3 is extracted.
- Uplink signal generation section 107 processes the transmission data sequence to generate an uplink signal and transmits it from transmission antenna 109.
- MCS Modulation and Coding Schemes
- allocated frequency information used for processing are input from the control signal identifying unit 105 as control information, and information indicating whether the receiving station is the macro base station 1 or the pico base station 3 Is input from the receiving station identification unit 103.
- FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram showing an internal configuration of the uplink signal generation unit 107 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- Uplink signal generation section 107 includes encoding section 201, modulation section 203, access scheme switching section 205, mapping section 207, IDFT section 209, and radio transmission section 211.
- the encoding unit 201 receives a data sequence composed of information bits, and uses a turbo code or LDPC (Low ⁇ ⁇ Density Parity Check) according to the coding rate information indicated by the control information input from the control signal identification unit 105. After applying error correction coding such as a code, the coded bit sequence is input to the modulation unit 203. Note that interleaving may be performed to rearrange the order of bits in the encoding unit.
- LDPC Low ⁇ ⁇ Density Parity Check
- the modulation unit 203 performs modulation processing on QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying), 16QAM (16-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation), etc. according to the modulation scheme information indicated by the control information input from the control signal identification unit 105
- the obtained modulated signal is input to the access method switching unit 205.
- the access method switching unit 205 includes a DFT unit 213, and changes processing according to information on the receiving station input from the receiving station identification unit 103 in FIG. Specifically, when the receiving station is the macro base station 1, the access scheme switching unit 205 inputs the modulation signal input from the modulation unit 203 to the DFT unit 213, and the DFT unit 213 performs discrete Fourier transform (DFT: The time domain signal is converted into the frequency domain signal by applying Discrete (Fourier Transform), and then input to the mapping unit 207. On the other hand, when the receiving station is the pico base station 3, the access method switching unit 205 inputs the modulation signal input from the modulation unit 203 to the mapping unit 207 without performing processing.
- DFT discrete Fourier transform
- the mapping unit 207 arranges the signal output from the access method switching unit 205 in the frequency band used for transmission in accordance with the assigned frequency information indicated in the control information input from the control signal identification unit 105 in FIG. 209.
- the IDFT unit 209 converts the frequency domain signal input from the mapping unit 207 into a time domain signal by performing inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT: Inverse DFT), and then inputs the time domain signal to the wireless transmission unit 211.
- IDFT inverse discrete Fourier transform
- the wireless transmission unit 211 inserts a CP (Cyclic Prefix: a signal obtained by copying a part of the rear part of the symbol after IDFT) in front of the symbol after IDFT with respect to the input time domain signal, and D / A (Digital-to-Analog) After converting from a digital signal to an analog signal by conversion, up-conversion is performed. Further, the processed transmission signal is output to the transmission antenna 109.
- CP Cyclic Prefix: a signal obtained by copying a part of the rear part of the symbol after IDFT
- D / A Digital-to-Analog
- the processed transmission signal is output to the transmission antenna 109.
- the receiving antenna 101 and the transmitting antenna 109 are separate blocks, but these antennas may be used in common if they have the function of each block. good.
- the terminal device 5 confirms whether the instruction to connect to the pico base station 3 is notified from the macro base station 1, and sets the receiving station to the macro base station.
- station 1 data transmission using the DFT-S-OFDM method is performed, and when the receiving station is the pico base station 3, data transmission using the OFDM method can be performed.
- FIG. 5 is a schematic block diagram showing the configuration of the macro base station 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- the macro base station 1 includes a receiving station determination unit 301, a control signal generation unit 303, a buffer 305, an instruction signal generation unit 307, a transmission antenna 309, a reception antenna 311 and an uplink signal processing unit 313.
- the receiving station determination unit 301 sets the receiving station of the terminal device 5 existing in the communication area covered by the own station to either the own station (macro base station 1) or the pico base station 3 existing in the communication area. decide.
- the selection criteria for the receiving station are, for example, a terminal in the vicinity of the pico base station 3 when the communication traffic to the own station (macro base station 1) or the number of terminal devices 5 connected to the macro base station 1 exceeds a threshold value.
- the receiving station of the device 5 is designated as the pico base station 3.
- the selection criteria do not limit the present invention, and other criteria may be used.
- the terminal device 5 existing near the pico base station 3 may be instructed to always connect to the pico base station 3.
- the receiving station determination unit 301 inputs information of the terminal device 5 that has determined that the receiving station is the own station (macro base station 1) to the control signal generation unit 303, and the terminal station 5 that has determined that the receiving station is the pico base station 3 Information and information of the pico base station 3 to which the terminal device 5 is connected are input to the instruction signal generation unit 307.
- the receiving station determination unit 301 instructs the terminal device 5 to connect to the pico base station 3
- the receiving station determination unit 301 notifies the pico base station 3 of the presence of the terminal device 5.
- a notification method it may be notified by wire to the pico base station 3 or may be notified by wireless communication.
- the control signal generation unit 303 generates a control signal to be transmitted to the terminal device 5 that is determined by the reception station determination unit 301 to use the local station (macro base station 1) as the reception station, and outputs the control signal to the transmission antenna 309. To do.
- the control signal includes allocated frequency information and MCS, and these pieces of information are determined by scheduling for a terminal apparatus group having the local station as a receiving station. Allocated frequency information and MCS information are temporarily stored in the buffer 305 and input to the uplink signal processing unit 313 when an uplink signal transmitted from the terminal device 5 based on the information is received.
- the instruction signal generation unit 307 generates a signal that instructs the terminal device 5 indicated by the information input from the receiving station determination unit 301 to connect to the pico base station 3.
- the instruction signal may be 1-bit information for instructing connection to the pico base station 3, or may be an ID for identifying the connection destination pico base station 3.
- a control signal generated by the control signal generation unit 303 is generated for the terminal device 5 having its own station as the receiving station, and an instruction signal generation unit 307 is generated for the terminal device 5 having the pico base station 3 as the receiving station.
- the designated instruction signal is transmitted to each terminal device 5 via the transmission antenna 309.
- the receiving antenna 311 receives an uplink signal transmitted by the terminal device 5 shown in FIG. 3 or other similar terminal devices 5.
- Uplink signal processing section 313 extracts the signal transmitted to the own station from the signal received by receiving antenna 311 for each terminal device 5 that is a transmitting station, performs demodulation processing, and outputs each as a data series To do.
- FIG. 6 is a schematic block diagram showing an internal configuration of the uplink signal processing unit 313 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- Uplink signal processing section 313 includes radio reception section 401, DFT section 403, demapping section 405, equalization section 407, IDFT section 409, demodulation section 411, and decoding section 413.
- the radio reception unit 401 performs down-conversion on the reception signal received by the reception antenna 311 in FIG. 5, converts the analog signal into a digital signal by A / D (Analog-to-Digital) conversion, and then removes the CP. Do. Then, the processed signal is input to the DFT unit 403.
- a / D Analog-to-Digital
- the DFT unit 403 converts the signal input from the wireless reception unit 401 from a time domain signal to a frequency domain signal by DFT, and inputs the signal to the demapping unit 405.
- the demapping unit 405 receives, from the buffer 305 in FIG. 5, the assigned frequency information indicating the band used by the terminal device 5 that transmitted the signal, and the signal in the frequency band indicated by the information from the signal input from the DFT unit 403. Are extracted and input to the equalization unit 407.
- the equalization unit 407 performs equalization processing to compensate for distortion caused by the propagation path, and the IDFT unit 409 converts the frequency domain signal into a time domain signal by the IDFT and inputs it to the demodulation unit 411.
- the demodulator 411 receives information indicating the MCS used by the terminal device 5 that transmitted the signal from the buffer 305 in FIG. 5 and receives the signal input from the IDFT unit 409 based on the modulation scheme indicated by the MCS. Convert from to bit.
- the decoding unit 413 receives information indicating the MCS used by the terminal device 5 that transmitted the signal from the buffer 305 in FIG. 5, and performs error correction based on the coding rate indicated by the MCS with respect to the input from the demodulation unit 411.
- Decoding is applied to obtain a transmission data bit sequence.
- the processing of the demapping unit 405, the equalization unit 407, the IDFT unit 409, the demodulation unit 411, and the decoding unit 413 Can be processed in parallel for each terminal device 5.
- the macro base station 1 connects to the pico base station 3 as necessary for the terminal device 5 located in the area covered by the own station. Can be instructed to do.
- FIG. 7 is a schematic block diagram showing the configuration of the pico base station 3 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- the pico base station 3 includes a terminal confirmation unit 501, a control signal generation unit 503, a buffer 505, a transmission antenna 507, a reception antenna 509, and an uplink signal processing unit 511.
- the pico base station 3 includes a macro base station 1 having an area that overlaps the area covered by the own station, and is connected to the macro base station 1 by wire or wirelessly.
- the terminal confirmation unit 501 stores information of the terminal device 5 that is notified from the reception station determination unit 301 of the connected macro base station 1 and that uses the own station as a reception station.
- the information is input to the control signal generation unit 503 at the timing of generating control information.
- the control signal generation unit 503 generates a control signal to be transmitted to the terminal device 5 having its own station as a receiving station, and transmits the control signal to each terminal device 5 from the transmission antenna 507.
- the control information includes information such as allocation frequency information and MCS, and these pieces of information are determined by scheduling for a terminal apparatus group having the own station as a receiving station.
- Information such as allocated frequency information and MCS is temporarily stored in the buffer 505, and is input to the uplink signal processing unit 511 when an uplink signal transmitted from the terminal device 5 based on the information is received. .
- the receiving antenna 509 receives an uplink signal transmitted by the terminal device 5 shown in FIG. 3 or other similar terminal devices 5.
- Uplink signal processing section 511 extracts the signal transmitted to the local station from the signal received by reception antenna 509 for each terminal device 5 that is the transmission station, performs demodulation processing, and then outputs each as a data series To do.
- the pico base station 3 allocates a band to the terminal device 5 that is instructed to connect by the macro base station 1, and allocates the band from the terminal device 5. It is possible to receive the uplink signal transmitted by using it.
- the terminal device 5 that transmits an uplink signal to the macro base station 1 or the pico base station 3
- a signal is transmitted to the macro base station 1 using the DFT-S-OFDM scheme
- the terminal device 5 can appropriately switch the access method without receiving an instruction of the access method from the base station, so that the throughput can be improved.
- FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a wireless communication system configuration according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- the radio communication system according to the present embodiment is a mobile communication system including a base station 601 and a terminal device 603.
- the base station 601 includes two receiving antennas having different directivities, and manages a plurality of cells having different distances from the base station 601 such as a short-distance cell 605 and a long-distance cell 607, respectively.
- independent radio resource management is performed (this process is sometimes referred to as vertical sectorization or vertical cell splitting).
- each receiving antenna may be composed of a plurality of antennas, and directivity may be realized by combining received signals in consideration of the phase difference between the antennas.
- FIG. 9 is a sequence chart for explaining the operation of each device according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- the terminal device 603 makes a connection request to the base station 601 (step U1).
- the base station 601 that has received the request responds, and when instructing uplink transmission in the maximum cell covered by the own device, that is, the long-distance cell 607, when transmitting a signal to the own device to the terminal device 603
- a control signal including parameters is transmitted (step U2).
- the terminal device 603 receives the control signal, the terminal device 603 generates a DFT-S-OFDM signal based on the control signal (step U3), and transmits the signal to the base station 601 (step U4).
- the base station 601 when the base station 601 satisfies an arbitrary condition (for example, when the position of the terminal device 603 connected to the base station 601 is within the short-range cell 605), the base station 601 It can be instructed to connect at the short-range cell 605 (step U5).
- the terminal device 603 sets to use OFDM instead of DFT-S-OFDM as the access method when transmitting to the base station 601 (step U6).
- the base station 601 transmits a control signal including parameters for transmitting a signal to the own device (step U7).
- the terminal device 603 that has received the control signal from the base station 601 generates an OFDM signal based on the control signal (step U8), and transmits the signal to the base station 601 (step U9).
- the sequence chart of FIG. 9 describes the case where the base station 601 that has received a connection request (step U1) from the terminal device 603 receives a signal from the terminal device 603 using the long-distance cell 607 (step V1).
- the base station 601 that has received the connection request (step U1) transmits a connection instruction (step U5) in the short-range cell 605 and receives a signal from the terminal device 603 using the short-range cell 605 from the beginning.
- Step V2 is also included in the present invention.
- connection instruction (step U5) and the transmission of the control signal (step U7) in the short-distance cell are described as having a time difference. However, even if they are transmitted from the base station 601 to the terminal device 603 at the same time. good. In this case, switching to OFDM (step U6) is performed after steps U5 and U7.
- the terminal device 603 belonging to the short-distance cell 605 is closer to the base station 601 than when belonging to the long-distance cell 607. Therefore, transmission power in uplink transmission can be suppressed. Therefore, an access scheme such as the OFDM scheme can be applied as in the case of the terminal device 603 belonging to the small cell described as the background.
- the base station 601 notifies the terminal device 603 of a cell identifier that can be identified as belonging to the short-range cell 605 or the long-range cell 607, and the terminal device 603 uses the identifier according to the identifier. Change the access method.
- the terminal apparatus 603 performs uplink transmission using the OFDM scheme when belonging to the short-range cell 605 and using the DFT-S-OFDM scheme when belonging to the long-distance cell 607. The configuration is shown.
- FIG. 10 is a schematic block diagram of a terminal device 603 according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- the terminal device 603 includes a reception antenna 701, a cell identification unit 703, a control signal identification unit 705, an uplink signal generation unit 707, and a transmission antenna 709.
- the receiving antenna 701 receives a downlink signal transmitted from a base station 601 described later.
- the cell identification unit 703 extracts a cell identifier that can identify whether the cell to which the device belongs is a short-distance cell 605 or a long-distance cell 607 from the signal received by the reception antenna 701, and transmits the information to the uplink The signal is input to the signal generation unit 707.
- the control signal identifying unit 705 extracts a control signal for designating MCS and assigned frequency information used for uplink transmission from the signal received by the receiving antenna 701 to its own apparatus, and an uplink signal generating unit 707 is input.
- a cell identifier extracted by the cell identification unit 703 is input, and control is performed based on the identifier. Information extraction may be performed.
- the uplink signal generation unit 707 processes the transmission data sequence to generate an uplink signal and transmits it from the transmission antenna 709.
- MCS Modulation and Coding Schemes
- allocation frequency information used for processing are input from the control signal identifying unit 705 as control information, and a cell identifier is input from the cell identifying unit 703.
- FIG. 11 is a schematic block diagram showing an internal configuration of the uplink signal generation unit 707 according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- the uplink signal generation unit 707 has the same block configuration as the uplink signal generation unit 107 in FIG. 4 except that the access method switching unit 205 is the access method switching unit 801, and is input to the access method switching unit 801. The difference is that the information to be received is not the receiving station information but the cell identifier input from the cell identification unit 703.
- Other blocks with the same reference numerals have the same functions as those of the access method switching unit 205, and thus description thereof is omitted here.
- the access method switching unit 801 includes a DFT unit 213, and changes processing according to the contents of the cell identifier input from the cell identification unit 703 in FIG. Specifically, when the cell identifier indicates that the cell to which the terminal apparatus 603 belongs is the long-distance cell 607, the access method switching unit 801 sends the modulation signal input from the modulation unit 203 to the DFT unit 213. Then, the DFT unit 213 performs DFT to convert the time domain signal into the frequency domain signal, and then inputs it to the mapping unit 207.
- the access method switching unit 801 does not process the modulation signal input from the modulation unit 203 and performs the mapping unit. Input to 207.
- the terminal device 603 identifies whether the cell to which the terminal device belongs is the short-distance cell 605 or the long-distance cell 607.
- the cell 607 data transmission using the DFT-S-OFDM method is performed, and in the case of the short-range cell 605, data transmission using the OFDM method can be performed.
- FIG. 12 is a schematic block diagram of the base station 601 according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- the base station 601 includes a cell allocation unit 901, a control signal generation unit 903, a buffer 905, a cell identification signal generation unit 907, a transmission antenna 909, reception antennas 911-2 and 911, a long-distance cell signal processing unit 913, and a short-distance cell signal.
- the processing unit 915 is configured.
- the cell allocation unit 901 allocates one or more terminal devices 603 connected to the own station to the long-distance cell 607 or the short-distance cell 605.
- the assignment method is preferably determined based on the location information of the terminal, and a method such as reception power of a connection request signal transmitted from the terminal or location specification by GPS can be used.
- the cell allocation unit 901 inputs cell information (information indicating whether the short range cell 605 or the long range cell 607) of each terminal device 603 is input to the buffer 905 and is input to the cell identification signal generation unit 907.
- the control signal generation unit 903 generates a control signal to be transmitted to the terminal device 603 having the local station as a receiving station, and outputs the control signal to the transmission antenna 909.
- the control signal includes allocated frequency information and MCS, and these pieces of information are determined by scheduling for a terminal apparatus group having the local station as a receiving station. Allocated bandwidth information and MCS information are input to the buffer 905.
- the buffer 905 temporarily stores cell information input from the cell allocation unit 901 and control information input from the control signal generation unit 903.
- the control signal of the terminal device 603 whose cell information is the long-distance cell 607 is input to the long-distance cell signal processing unit 913, and the cell information
- the control signal of the terminal device 603 in which is a short range cell 605 is input to the short range cell signal processing unit 915.
- Cell identification signal generation section 907 generates a cell identification signal for notifying each terminal apparatus 603 of cell information of each terminal apparatus 603 input from cell allocation section 901.
- the control signal generated by the control signal generation unit 903 and the cell identification signal generated by the cell identification signal generation unit 907 are transmitted to each terminal device 603 via the transmission antenna 909, respectively.
- the receiving antennas 911-1 and 911-2 receive uplink signals transmitted by the terminal device 603 shown in FIG. 10 and other similar terminal devices 603. However, each receiving antenna has directivity, and an uplink signal received from the terminal device 603 belonging to the long-distance cell 607 is received by the receiving antenna 911-1 and input to the long-distance cell signal processing unit 913. Further, the uplink signal received from the terminal device 603 belonging to the short-range cell 605 is received by the reception antenna 911-2 and input to the short-range cell signal processing unit 915.
- the long-distance cell signal processing unit 913 extracts a signal transmitted to the own station from the signal received by the reception antenna 911-1 for each terminal device 603 serving as a transmission station, and receives the DFT-S-OFDM signal.
- the short-range cell signal processing unit 915 extracts a signal transmitted to the local station from the signal received by the reception antenna 911-2 for each terminal device 603 that is a transmission station, and performs a reception process of the OFDM signal , Each is output as a data series.
- a terminal device 603 that transmits an uplink signal to a base station 601 that manages a plurality of cells of a long-distance cell 607 and a short-distance cell 605
- DFT A signal is transmitted using the S-OFDM method
- a signal is transmitted using the OFDM method.
- the terminal apparatus 603 can use an appropriate transmission scheme for the distance to the base station 601 without specifying an access scheme from the base station 601, the throughput can be improved.
- the terminal device of the present embodiment is a terminal device that communicates with a macro base station that forms a first cell or a pico base station that forms a second cell having a narrower range than the first cell.
- the terminal device of the present embodiment is a terminal device that communicates with a macro base station that forms a first cell or a pico base station that forms a second cell having a narrower range than the first cell.
- communication with the pico base station is performed using a second access method different from the access method used when communicating with the macro base station. It is characterized by performing.
- the pico base station when receiving an instruction to communicate with the pico base station from the macro base station, the pico base station using a second access method different from the access method used when communicating with the macro base station. Therefore, the communication can be performed by switching from the macro base station to the pico base station by the second access method without increasing the amount of control information. As a result, the throughput can be improved.
- the terminal apparatus communicates with a macro base station that forms a first cell or a pico base station that forms a second cell having a narrower range than the first cell.
- the first access method is used for communication
- the macro base station receives an instruction to switch to the pico base station for communication
- the access to be used is used.
- Communication is performed with the pico base station as a second access method different from the first access method.
- the communication when communicating with the macro base station, the communication is performed using the first access method, and when the macro base station receives an instruction to communicate by switching to the pico base station, the access to be used is used. Since the communication is performed with the pico base station as a second access method different from the first access method, it is possible to implicitly switch the access base and switch the access method. As a result, since the amount of control information does not increase, the throughput can be improved.
- the terminal device of this embodiment is a terminal device that forms a first cell and communicates with a base station that forms a second cell having a narrower range than the first cell, When communicating with the base station in the first cell, communication is performed using the first access method, while access is used when receiving an instruction from the base station to communicate in the second cell. Communication is performed with the base station as a second access method different from the first access method.
- the second access method when communicating with the base station in the first cell, while communicating using the first access method, when receiving an instruction to communicate in the second cell from the base station Since the communication is performed with the base station as a second access method different from the first access method, the second access method can be used in the second cell without increasing the amount of control information. It is possible to communicate with the base station. As a result, the throughput can be improved.
- the terminal device is characterized in that the first access method is a single carrier method and the second access method is a multicarrier method.
- the first access method is a single carrier method, it is possible to perform communication with good PAPR characteristics, and since the second access method is a multicarrier method, a high transmission rate is achieved. It is possible to perform communication.
- the first access method is DFT-S-OFDM (Discrete Fourier Transform Spread Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)
- the second access method is OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division). Multiplexing).
- the first access method is DFT-S-OFDM
- communication with good PAPR characteristics can be performed
- the second access method is OFDM
- the transmission rate is high. It is possible to perform communication.
- the communication method of this embodiment is a terminal apparatus that communicates with a macro base station that forms a first cell or a pico base station that forms a second cell having a narrower range than the first cell.
- the pico base station when receiving an instruction to communicate with the pico base station from the macro base station, the pico base station using a second access method different from the access method used when communicating with the macro base station. Therefore, the communication can be performed by switching from the macro base station to the pico base station by the second access method without increasing the amount of control information. As a result, the throughput can be improved.
- the communication method of this embodiment is a communication method of the terminal device which communicates with the base station which forms the 1st cell and forms the 2nd cell whose range is narrower than the said 1st cell. And when communicating with the base station in the first cell, when communicating using the first access method, while receiving an instruction to communicate in the second cell from the base station, Communication is performed with the base station as a second access method different from the first access method.
- the second access method when communicating with the base station in the first cell, while communicating using the first access method, when receiving an instruction to communicate in the second cell from the base station Since the communication is performed with the base station as a second access method different from the first access method, the second access method can be used in the second cell without increasing the amount of control information. It is possible to communicate with the base station. As a result, the throughput can be improved.
- a program that operates in the terminal devices 5 and 603, the macro base station 1, and the LPN related to the present invention is a program that controls a CPU or the like (a program that causes a computer to function) so as to realize the functions of the above-described embodiments related to the present invention. It is. Information handled by these devices is temporarily stored in the RAM at the time of processing, then stored in various ROMs and HDDs, read out by the CPU, and corrected and written as necessary.
- a recording medium for storing the program a semiconductor medium (for example, ROM, nonvolatile memory card, etc.), an optical recording medium (for example, DVD, MO, MD, CD, BD, etc.), a magnetic recording medium (for example, magnetic tape, Any of a flexible disk etc. may be sufficient.
- the processing is performed in cooperation with the operating system or other application programs.
- the functions of the invention may be realized.
- the program can be stored and distributed in a portable recording medium, or transferred to a server computer connected via a network such as the Internet.
- the storage device of the server computer is also included in the present invention.
- some or all of the terminal devices 5 and 603, the macro base station 1 and the LPN in the above-described embodiment may be realized as an LSI that is typically an integrated circuit.
- Each functional block of the terminal devices 5, 603, the macro base station 1, and the LPN may be individually chipped, or a part or all of them may be integrated into a chip.
- the method of circuit integration is not limited to LSI, and may be realized by a dedicated circuit or a general-purpose processor.
- an integrated circuit based on the technology can also be used.
- the embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the specific configuration is not limited to this embodiment, and the design and the like within the scope not departing from the gist of the present invention are also claimed. Included in the range.
- the present invention is suitable for use in a mobile communication system in which a mobile phone device is a mobile station device, but is not limited thereto.
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図1は、本発明の第1の実施形態に係る無線通信システム構成の一例を示す図である。本実施形態に係る無線通信システムは、マクロ基地局1、ピコ基地局3、端末装置5を備える移動体通信システムである。ここで、マクロ基地局1は、ピコ基地局3より広い通信エリアをカバーするマクロセル10を形成しており、ピコ基地局3は、該マクロ基地局1の通信エリアの一部に重畳するように限られた通信エリアをカバーするピコセル30を形成している。ただし、マクロ基地局1、ピコ基地局3および端末装置5の数は一例であり、それぞれ複数備えるシステムであっても本発明を同様に適用可能である。
図3は、本発明の第1の実施形態に係る端末装置5の構成を示す概略ブロック図である。端末装置5は受信アンテナ101、受信局識別部103、制御信号識別部105、上り回線信号生成部107および送信アンテナ109からなる。受信アンテナ101は、任意の基地局(マクロ基地局1あるいはピコ基地局3)からの信号を受信する。受信局識別部103は、受信アンテナ101で受信された信号のうちマクロ基地局1から自装置に対しピコ基地局3へ信号を送信することを指示する指示信号を検出する。該指示信号を受信した場合には、制御信号識別部105および上り回線信号生成部107に上り伝送の受信局を指示されたピコ基地局3とすることを通知する。
図5は、本発明の第1の実施形態に係るマクロ基地局1の構成を示す概略ブロック図である。マクロ基地局1は受信局決定部301、制御信号生成部303、バッファ305、指示信号生成部307、送信アンテナ309、受信アンテナ311および上り回線信号処理部313とから構成される。
図7は、本発明の第1の実施形態に係るピコ基地局3の構成を示す概略ブロック図である。ピコ基地局3は端末確認部501、制御信号生成部503、バッファ505、送信アンテナ507、受信アンテナ509、および上り回線信号処理部511から構成される。ピコ基地局3は、自局がカバーするエリアに重畳するエリアを有するマクロ基地局1が存在し、該マクロ基地局1と有線あるいは無線により接続される。端末確認部501は、接続されているマクロ基地局1の受信局決定部301より通知される、自局を受信局とする端末装置5の情報を記憶する。該情報は制御情報を生成するタイミングにおいて制御信号生成部503に入力される。制御信号生成部503は、自局を受信局とする端末装置5に対し送信する制御信号を生成し、送信アンテナ507より各端末装置5に送信する。ここで制御情報は割当周波数情報やMCSなどの情報が含まれ、これらの情報は、自局を受信局とする端末装置群に対するスケジューリングにより決定される。また割当周波数情報やMCSなどの情報はバッファ505に一時的に記憶され、端末装置5からこれらの情報を基に送信された上り回線信号を受信した際に上り回線信号処理部511に入力される。
第1の実施形態では、端末装置5が、マクロ基地局1からピコ基地局3に接続するように指示された場合に、暗黙的に異なるアクセス方式を用いる形態を示した。第2の実施形態では、複数の通信エリア(セル、セクタ)を管理する基地局に対し、信号を送信する端末装置が、基地局から異なるセルに接続するよう指示を受けた際にアクセス方式を変更する形態を示す。
3 ピコ基地局
5 端末装置
10 マクロセル
30 ピコセル
101 受信アンテナ
103 受信局識別部
105 制御信号識別部
107 上り回線信号生成部
109 送信アンテナ
201 符号化部
203 変調部
205 アクセス方式切替部
207 マッピング部
209 IDFT部
211 無線送信部
213 DFT部
301 受信局決定部
303 制御信号生成部
305 バッファ
307 指示信号生成部
309 送信アンテナ
311 受信アンテナ
313 上り回線信号処理部
401 無線受信部
403 DFT部
405 デマッピング部
407 等化部
409 IDFT部
411 復調部
413 復号部
501 端末確認部
503 制御信号生成部
505 バッファ
507 送信アンテナ
509 受信アンテナ
511 上り回線信号処理部
601 基地局
603 端末装置
605 近距離セル
607 遠距離セル
701 受信アンテナ
703 セル識別部
705 制御信号識別部
707 上り回線信号生成部
709 送信アンテナ
801 アクセス方式切替部
901 セル割当部
903 制御信号生成部
905 バッファ
907 セル識別信号生成部
909 送信アンテナ
911-1、911-2 受信アンテナ
913 遠距離セル信号処理部
915 近距離セル信号処理部
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- 第1のセルを形成するマクロ基地局または第2のセルを形成するピコ基地局と通信を行なう端末装置であって、
前記マクロ基地局から、前記マクロ基地局へデータ信号を送信する指示を受けた場合と前記ピコ基地局へデータを送信する指示を受けた場合とで、前記データ信号の送信に異なるアクセス方式を用いることを特徴とする端末装置。 - 第1のセルを形成するマクロ基地局または第2のセルを形成するピコ基地局と通信を行なう端末装置であって、
前記マクロ基地局と通信を行なう場合、第1のアクセス方式を用いて通信を行ない、
前記マクロ基地局から、前記ピコ基地局に切り替えて通信する指示を受けた場合、使用するアクセス方式を前記第1のアクセス方式とは異なる第2のアクセス方式として前記ピコ基地局と通信を行なうことを特徴とする端末装置。 - 第1のセルを形成すると共に第2のセルを形成する基地局と通信を行なう端末装置であって、
前記第1のセルで前記基地局と通信を行なう場合、第1のアクセス方式を用いて通信を行ない、前記基地局から、前記第2のセルで通信する指示を受けた場合、使用するアクセス方式を前記第1のアクセス方式とは異なる第2のアクセス方式として前記基地局と通信を行なうことを特徴とする端末装置。 - 前記第1のアクセス方式はシングルキャリア方式であり、前記第2のアクセス方式はマルチキャリア方式であることを特徴とする請求項2または請求項3に記載の端末装置。
- 前記第1のアクセス方式はDFT-S-OFDM(Discrete Fourier Transform Spread Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)であり、前記第2のアクセス方式はOFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)であることを特徴とする請求項2から請求項4のいずれかに記載の端末装置。
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