Methods for handling a transmitting process and communication apparatuses utilizing the same
View Patent ↗A communication apparatus is provided. A power amplifier is coupled to an antenna and switched on or off according to a control signal. A baseband processing module is coupled to the power amplifier and a radio transceiver module, receives a bit stream comprising information indicating corresponding transmitting time and sub-carrier frequencies of up-link messages via the radio transceiver module, processes the bit stream to obtain a map profiling allocations of the up-link messages, prepares the up-link messages to be transmitted according to the map, and generates the control signal according to the map. Within a data frame period, when there is no up-link message to be transmitted during a up-link time interval, the power amplifier is switched off in response to the control signal during the up-link time interval.
1. A communication apparatus in a communication system, comprising:
a power amplifier, coupled to an antenna, switching on or off according to a control signal;
a radio transceiver module; and
a baseband processing module, coupled to the power amplifier and the radio transceiver module, receiving a bit stream comprising information indicating corresponding transmitting time and sub-carrier frequencies of a plurality of up-link messages via the radio transceiver module, processing the bit stream to obtain a map profiling allocations of the up-link messages, preparing the up-link messages to be transmitted according to the map, and generating the control signal according to the map, wherein within a data frame period, when there is no up-link message to be transmitted during an up-link time interval, the power amplifier is switched off in response to the control signal during the up-link time interval.
2. The communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the communication system utilizes a multiple access scheme that allows scheduling more than one node to transmit the up-link message at the same time within the same data frame period.
3. The communication apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the multiple access scheme is an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) scheme.
4. The communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the corresponding up-link time interval for the power amplifier to be switched on or off is based on one symbol unit.
5. The communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the corresponding up-link time interval for the power amplifier to be switched on or off is based on one OFDMA symbol unit.
6. A communication apparatus in a communication system, comprising:
a power amplifier, coupled to an antenna, switching on or off according to a control signal;
a radio transceiver module;
a processor receiving a bit stream comprising information indicating corresponding transmitting time and sub-carrier frequencies of a plurality of up-link messages via the radio transceiver module, processing the bit stream to obtain a map profiling allocations of the up-link messages, and preparing the up-link messages to be transmitted according to the map; and
a baseband module coupled to the processor, the power amplifier and the radio transceiver module, processing the up-link messages and generating the control signal according to the map, wherein within a data frame period, when there is no up-link message to be transmitted during a up-link time interval, the power amplifier is switched off in response to the control signal during the up-link time interval.
7. The communication apparatus as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the communication system utilizes a multiple access scheme that allows scheduling more than one node to transmit the up-link message at the same time within the same data frame period.
8. The communication apparatus as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the multiple access scheme is an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) scheme.
9. The communication apparatus as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the corresponding up-link time interval for the power amplifier to be switched on or off is based on one symbol unit.
10. The communication apparatus as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the corresponding up-link time interval for the power amplifier to be switched on or off is based on one OFDMA symbol unit.
11. A method for handling a transmitting process of a communication apparatus in a communication system, wherein the communication apparatus comprises a power amplifier amplifying a plurality of up-link messages before the up-link messages are transmitted by an antenna, comprising:
receiving a bit stream comprising information indicating corresponding transmitting time and sub-carrier frequencies of the up-link messages;
preparing the up-link messages to be transmitted according to the information;
generating a control signal to the power amplifier according to the information; and
wherein the control signal indicates switching on the power amplifier during a first time interval of a data frame and switching off the power amplifier during a second time interval of the data frame, wherein during the second time interval of the data frame, there is no up-link message to be transmitted.
12. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the communication system utilizes a multiple access scheme that allows scheduling more than one node to transmit the up-link message at the same time in one data frame.
13. The method as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the multiple access scheme is the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) scheme, and wherein the data frame is an OFDMA data frame.
14. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the control signal indicating the on or off time of the power amplifier based on one symbol unit.
15. The method as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the control signal indicating the on or off time of the power amplifier based on one OFDM symbol unit.