Wireless base station apparatus and system to avoid preamble interference

1. A radio base-station apparatus for performing OFDMA multiple-access processing in a cell divided into a plurality of sectors, comprising:

a plurality of radio base-station devices, each radio base-station device associated with one of the sectors and including

a physical layer processing block that forms frames with logical subchannel numbers and OFDMA symbol numbers used for transmission and reception, and

a transmitter/receiver block that transmits the frames, wherein

each of the radio base-station devices operates on a same radio frequency with a frequency reuse factor of 1,

each of the frames includes a preamble and frame control information arranged sequentially at a beginning of the respective frame, and

when each of the radio base-station devices operates on the same radio frequency with the frequency reuse factor of 1, the radio base-station devices transmit the frames such that the preambles and frame control information of the frames do not interfere with each other between the frames and that beginnings of data regions of the frames on the OFDMA symbol numbers coincide with each other.

2. The radio base-station apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising

a reference clock source that generates a reference clock to synchronize the frames formed respectively by the radio base-station devices; and

a delay adder that adds an offset to the beginning of a given one of the frames synchronized on the basis of the reference clock, wherein

the offset is added to the beginning of the given one of the frames such that the preambles and frame control information arranged sequentially at the beginnings of the frames formed respectively by the radio base-station devices do not overlap on the OFDMA symbol numbers.

3. The radio base-station apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the reference clock source is a GPS receiver that receives a GPS signal from which the reference clock is extracted.

4. The radio base-station apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a reference clock source that generates a reference clock to synchronize the frames formed respectively by the radio base-station devices, wherein

the preambles and frame control information sequentially arranged at the beginnings of the frames formed respectively by the radio base-station devices are arranged such that the preambles are transmitted together, are made of different preamble patterns having no correlation with each other, and overlap on the OFDMA symbol numbers, and the respective frame control information does not overlap on the OFDMA symbol numbers.

5. The radio base-station apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the reference clock source is a GPS receiver that receives a GPS signal from which the reference clock is extracted.

6. The radio base-station apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising

a reference clock source that generates a reference clock to synchronize the frames formed respectively by the radio base-station devices, wherein

the preambles and frame control information sequentially arranged at the beginnings of the frames formed respectively by the radio base-station devices are arranged such that the preambles are transmitted together, are made of different preamble patterns having no correlation with each other, and overlap on the OFDMA symbol numbers, and the respective frame control information does not overlap on the logical subchannel numbers and does overlap on the OFDMA symbol numbers.

7. The radio base-station apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the reference clock source is a GPS receiver that receives a GPS signal from which the reference clock is extracted.

8. A radio communications system, comprising:

the radio base-station apparatus according to claim 2 and further including a network interface that connects to a network; and

a monitoring control apparatus that connects to the network and performs management, setting, and changing of

the preambles and frame control information arranged in the frames formed respectively by the radio base-station devices of the radio base-station apparatus, and

the offset added to the frame.

9. A radio communications system, comprising:

a plurality of radio base-station apparatuses according to claim 3 , each radio base-station apparatus associated with one of a plurality of cells, wherein

the GPS receivers of the radio base-station apparatuses respectively extract the respective reference clocks from the respective GPS signals, and

the radio base-station apparatuses are synchronized on the basis of the reference clocks.

10. A radio communications system, comprising:

a plurality of radio base-station apparatuses according to claim 5 , each radio base-station apparatus associated with one of a plurality of cells, wherein

the GPS receivers of the radio base-station apparatuses respectively extract the respective reference clocks from the respective GPS signals, and

the radio base-station apparatuses are synchronized on the basis of the reference clocks.

11. A radio communications system, comprising:

a plurality of radio base-station apparatuses according to claim 7 , each radio base-station apparatus associated with one of a plurality of cells, wherein

the GPS receivers of the radio base-station apparatuses respectively extract the respective reference clocks from the respective GPS signals, and

the radio base-station apparatuses are synchronized on the basis of the reference clocks.

12. The radio communications system according to claim 9 , wherein

the radio base-station apparatuses each include a network interface that connects to a network; and

a monitoring control apparatus that connects to the network and performs management, setting, and changing of

the preambles and the frame control information arranged in the frames formed respectively by the radio base-station devices of the radio base-station apparatuses, and

the offsets added to the frames.