Radio communication apparatus, radio communication system, and radio communication method

1. A radio communication apparatus for performing data transmission using a multiple codeword, the radio communication apparatus comprising:

a retransmission control section that performs retransmission control of data transmitted with the multiple codeword; and

a resource distribution section that distributes resources of control information concerning the retransmission control based on the quality rank order of respective codewords in the multiple codeword,

wherein the resource distribution section allocates less resource to a codeword having a lower quality.

2. A radio communication apparatus which receives data transmitted from the radio communication apparatus according to claim 1 , comprising:

a demodulation section that demodulates the data transmitted with the multiple codeword; and

a response signal generation section that generates a response signal corresponding to a demodulation result of demodulated data of the respective codewords as the control information concerning the retransmission control,

wherein the resource distribution section allocates less resource to the response signal for a codeword having a lower quality.

3. The radio communication apparatus according to claim 1 , comprising:

a transmission section that transmits data with the multiple codeword; and

a control signal setting section that sets a control signal containing retransmission control parameters corresponding to the respective transmitted codewords as the control information concerning the retransmission control,

wherein the resource distribution section allocates less resource to the control signal for a codeword having a lower quality.

4. A radio communication apparatus for performing data transmission using a multiple codeword, the radio communication apparatus comprising:

a demodulation section that demodulates the data transmitted with the multiple codeword; and

a response signal generation section that generates a response signal corresponding to a demodulation result of the demodulated data of respective codewords,

wherein the response signal generation section allocates less resource to a codeword having a lower quality.

5. The radio communication apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the response signal generation section generates an ACK/NACK signal as the response signal, and allocates resources to the respective codewords, the resources containing at least one of the number of symbols, the number of subcarriers, the number of bits, and a power control value; and

wherein the ACK/NACK signal indicates whether data for the respective code words can be normally demodulated or not.

6. The radio communication apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the response signal generation section generates the response signal so as to allocate more resource to a high-order codeword having a higher quality and allocate less resource to a codeword having a lower quality.

7. A radio communication apparatus for performing data transmission using a multiple codeword, the radio communication apparatus comprising:

a transmission section that transmits data with the multiple codeword; and

a response signal demodulation section that demodulates a response signal of the transmitted data, the response signal fed back from a remote station,

wherein the response signal demodulation section demodulates the response signal based on the quality rank order of the transmitted codewords and resource amounts allocated to the codewords.

8. A radio communication apparatus for performing data transmission using a multiple codeword, the radio communication apparatus comprising:

a transmission section that transmits data with the multiple codeword; and

a control signal setting section that sets a control signal containing retransmission control parameters corresponding to respective codewords to be transmitted,

wherein the control signal setting section sets the control signal so as to allocate less resource to the control signal for a codeword having a lower quality.

9. The radio communication apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the control signal setting section sets a control signal containing RV(redundancy version) parameters as the retransmission control parameters and allocates resources to the respective codewords, each of the resources containing at least one of a content and the number of bits of an RV parameter.

10. The radio communication apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the control signal setting section sets the control signal in accordance with the quality rank order so as to allocate more resource to the RV parameter corresponding to a high-order codeword having a higher quality and reduces at least one of the content and the number of bits of the RV parameter corresponding to a codeword having a lower quality more than others.

11. A radio communication apparatus for performing data transmission using a multiple codeword, the radio communication apparatus comprising:

a demodulation section that demodulates the data transmitted with the multiple codeword; and

a synthesizing section that synthesizes a retransmission packet when the data is retransmitted,

wherein the synthesizing section synthesizes the retransmission packet based on a content of the control signal set according to the quality rank order of respective codewords and transmitted from a remote station.

12. A radio communication base station apparatus equipped with the radio communication apparatus according to claim 1 .

13. A radio communication mobile station apparatus equipped with the radio communication apparatus according to claim 4 .

14. A radio communication system for performing data transmission using a multiple codeword, the radio communication system comprising:

a reception apparatus including:

a demodulation section that demodulates data transmitted from a transmission apparatus with the multiple codeword; and

a response signal generation section that, when generating a response signal corresponding to a demodulation result of the demodulated data of respective codewords, generates the response signal so as to allocate less resource to a codeword having a lower quality, and

the transmission apparatus including:

a transmission section that transmit the data to the reception apparatus with the multiple codeword; and

a response signal demodulation section that, when demodulating the response signal of the transmitted data, the response signal fed back from the reception apparatus, demodulates the response signal based on the quality rank order of the transmitted codewords and resource amounts allocated to the respective codewords.

15. A radio communication system for performing data transmission using a multiple codeword, the radio communication system comprising:

a transmission apparatus including:

a transmission section that transmits data to a reception apparatus with the multiple codeword; and

a control signal setting section that, when setting a control signal containing retransmission control parameters corresponding to the transmitted respective codewords, set the control signal so as to allocate less resource to the control signal for a codeword having a lower quality, and

the reception apparatus including:

a demodulation section that demodulates the data transmitted from the transmission apparatus with the multiple codeword; and

a synthesizing section that, when synthesizing a retransmission packet when the data is retransmitted, synthesizes the retransmission packet based on a content of the control signal set according to the quality rank order of the respective codewords and transmitted from the transmission apparatus.

16. A radio communication method for performing data transmission using a multiple codeword, the radio communication method comprising:

in a reception apparatus,

a demodulation step of demodulating data transmitted from a transmission apparatus with the multiple codeword; and

a response signal generation step, when generating a response signal corresponding to a demodulation result of the demodulated data of respective codewords, the step of generating the response signal so as to allocate less resource to a codeword having a lower quality, and

in the transmission apparatus,

a transmission step of transmitting the data to the reception apparatus with the multiple codeword; and

a response signal demodulation step, when demodulating the response signal of the transmitted data, the response signal fed back from the reception apparatus, the step of demodulating the response signal based on the quality rank order of the transmitted codewords and resource amounts allocated to the respective codewords.

17. A radio communication method for performing data transmission using a multiple codeword, the radio communication method comprising:

in a transmission apparatus,

a transmission step of transmitting data to a reception apparatus with the multiple codeword; and

a control signal setting step, when setting a control signal containing retransmission control parameters corresponding to the transmitted respective codewords, the step of setting the control signal so as to allocate less resource to the control signal for a codeword having a lower quality rank order, and

in a reception apparatus,

a demodulation step of demodulating the data transmitted from the transmission apparatus with the multiple codeword; and

a synthesizing step, when synthesizing a retransmission packet when the data is retransmitted, the step of synthesizing the retransmission packet based on a content of the control signal set according to the quality rank order of the respective codewords and transmitted from the transmission apparatus.