Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method

1. A wireless communication system comprising:

a code book that stores beamforming information identical to that stored in a code book of a base station from which a plurality of beams of data using a plurality of antennas are received from on a mobile station side;

a precoder that reads the code book and performs processing to form a multi-beam pattern for data being beamformed and transmitted to the mobile station using the plurality of antennas on the base station side; and

a control unit that, based on feedback information for a compensation of a phase variation in each transmission circuit of a plurality of transmission circuits that each respectively corresponds to a channel, controls a retrieval of the beamforming information that compensates the phase variation and, when notified that a phase variation compensation is required by the base station, searches the beamforming information, based on a signal condition of each of the beams, for the beamforming information that enables optimal beamforming, and transmits the selected beamforming information to the base station as the feedback information, wherein

the control unit performs a complete search of the code book, entirely, for a beam number and a matrix number, and transmits the beam number and the matrix number to the base station as the feedback information, and

after the complete search is performed, the control unit performs a partial search of a portion of the code book and transmits, as the feedback information, an optimal beam number in a matrix indicated by the matrix number.

2. The wireless communication system according to claim 1 , wherein

the control unit retrieves the matrix number and the beam number from the code book.

3. The wireless communication system according to claim 1 , wherein

the transmission circuits modulate the data using a plurality of oscillators, each oscillator being respectively disposed for each channel.

4. The wireless communication system according to claim 1 , wherein

the transmission circuits modulate the data using a single oscillator.

5. The wireless communication system according to claim 1 , wherein

the beam number corresponding to a beam that has a high signal to interference plus noise ratio or a high signal power among the received beams.

6. The wireless communication system according to claim 1 , wherein

when a plurality of transmitting circuits disposed on the base station are configured to modulate data using a single oscillator, the control unit sets a longer cycle of the complete search corresponding to a period during which the transmitting circuits are affected by temperature shifts, the longer cycle relative to a cycle of the complete search when the transmitting circuits modulate data using a plurality of oscillators.

7. A wireless communication method comprising:

reading beamforming information stored in a code book, the beamforming information identical to that stored in a code book of a base station from which a plurality of beams of data using a plurality of antennas are received from on a mobile station side;

forming a multi-beam pattern for data being beamformed and transmitted to the mobile station using the plurality of antennas on the base station side;

retrieving, based on feedback information for a compensation of a phase variation in each transmission circuit of a plurality of transmission circuits that each respectively correspond to a channel, the beamforming information to compensate the phase variation;

when notified that a phase variation compensation is required by the base station, searching the beamforming information, based on a signal condition of each of the beams, for the beamforming information that enables optimal beamforming; and

transmitting the selected beamforming information to the base station as the feedback information,

wherein the searching and transmitting includes

performing a complete search of the code book, entirely, for a beam number and a matrix number, and transmitting the beam number and the matrix number to the base station as the feedback information, and

after the complete search is performed, the control unit performs a partial search of a portion of the code book and transmits, as the feedback information, an optimal beam number in a matrix indicated by the matrix number.

8. The wireless communication method according to claim 7 , further comprising:

modulating the data using a plurality of oscillators, each oscillator being respectively disposed for each channel.

9. The wireless communication method according to claim 7 , further comprising:

modulating the data using a single oscillator.