IP Library Granted Patent US 8,018,898
Granted Patent B2
US 8,018,898 · App. 12/438,290 · Granted Sep 13, 2011

Base station and mobile station

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Patent No.
US 8,018,898
App. No.
12/438,290
Granted
Sep 13, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

One aspect of the present invention relates to a base station wherein either resource blocks resulting from division of a system bandwidth into blocks of consecutive frequency subcarriers or distributed type resource blocks consisting of frequency subcarriers discretely distributed within the system bandwidth and resulting from segmentation of the resource blocks into multiple resource blocks are assigned to mobile stations, the base station including: a scheduling unit configured to assign either the resource blocks or the distributed type resource blocks to the mobile stations at a predefined assignment cycle based on respective downlink reception channel states transmitted from the mobile stations.

Claims (15)

1. A base station wherein either resource blocks resulting from division of a system bandwidth into blocks of consecutive frequency subcarriers or distributed type resource blocks consisting of frequency subcarriers discretely distributed within the system bandwidth and resulting from segmentation of the resource blocks are assigned to mobile stations, the base station comprising:

a scheduling unit configured to assign either the resource blocks or the distributed type resource blocks to the mobile stations at a predefined first cycle based on respective downlink reception channel states transmitted from the mobile stations.

2. The base station as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the scheduling unit is configured to assign a predefined number of transmission slots at the first cycle.

3. The base station as claimed in claim 2 further comprising:

a modulation scheme and error correction coding rate determination unit configured to determine a combination of a modulation scheme and an error correction coding rate for transmission data for each of the mobile stations at a second cycle longer than the first cycle based on the downlink reception channel state; and

an encoding and modulation unit configured to perform encoding and modulation based on the determined combination of the modulation scheme and the error correction coding rate for the transmission data; and

a transmission power control unit configured to control transmission power at the first cycle.

4. The base station as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the scheduling unit is configured to, if no data is present for a mobile station to which a resource block or a distributed type resource block is assigned, assign the resource block or the distributed type block to another mobile station.

5. The base station as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the scheduling unit is configured to, if no data is present for a mobile station to which a resource block or a distributed type resource block is assigned, assign the resource block or the distributed type block to another mobile station.

6. The base station as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

a modulation scheme and error correction coding rate determination unit configured to determine a combination of a modulation scheme and an error correction coding rate for transmission data for each of the mobile stations at a second cycle longer than the first cycle based on the downlink reception channel state; and

an encoding and modulation unit configured to perform encoding and modulation based on the determined combination of the modulation scheme and the error correction coding rate for the transmission data; and

a transmission power control unit configured to control transmission power at the first cycle.

7. The base station as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the scheduling unit is configured to, if no data is present for a mobile station to which a resource block or a distributed type resource block is assigned, assign the resource block or the distributed type block to another mobile station.

8. The base station as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the scheduling unit is configured to, if no data is present for a mobile station to which a resource block or a distributed type resource block is assigned, assign the resource block or the distributed type block to another mobile station.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 2, 2017
From: GOOGLE INC.
To: GOOGLE LLC
Reel/Frame 044101/0405 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 31, 2016
From: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
To: GOOGLE INC
Reel/Frame 039885/0615 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 17, 2009
From: OFUJI, YOSHIAKI; HIGUCHI, KENICHI; SAWAHASHI, MAMORU
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 022563/0001 →