Pilot arrangement method in mobile radio communication system and transmitter/receiver adopting same
A pilot arrangement method in a mobile radio communication system by which, in order to avoid a problem that poor CQI accuracy affects the scheduling of channel arrangement to cause the throughput to be deteriorated, a working frequency band is divided into a plurality of predetermined bands and time division multiplexing is performed. A known pilot symbol is inserted into the predetermined frequency bands at predetermined reference intervals. Furthermore, the known pilot symbol is inserted into at least one of the predetermined frequency bands at smaller intervals than the predetermined reference intervals and arranged.
1. A pilot arrangement method for inserting a pilot symbol into predetermined frequency bands at a predetermined reference frequency interval, in a mobile communication system in which a working frequency band is divided into a plurality of predetermined bands, and time division multiplexing is performed, the method comprising:
inserting the pilot symbol into at least one of the plurality of predetermined frequency bands at a smaller frequency interval than the predetermined reference frequency interval; and
changing cyclically in time the at least one frequency band in which the pilot symbol is inserted at the smaller frequency interval than the predetermined reference frequency interval.
2. The pilot arrangement method according to claim 1 , wherein the insertion of the pilot symbol at the smaller frequency interval than the predetermined reference frequency interval into at least the one frequency band out of the plurality of predetermined frequency bands is performed, based on the signal-to-interference ratio measurement information at a reception side.
3. The pilot arrangement method according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one frequency band in which the pilot symbol is inserted at the smaller frequency interval than the predetermined reference frequency interval is notified through a control channel to a reception side.
4. The pilot arrangement method according to claim 1 , wherein a number of frequency bands in each of which the pilot symbol is inserted at the smaller frequency interval than the predetermined reference frequency interval is determined based on a transmission rate, cell throughput or delay dispersion.
5. A base station device inserting a pilot symbol into predetermined frequency bands at a predetermined reference frequency interval, in a mobile communication system in which a working frequency band is divided into a plurality of predetermined bands and time division multiplexing is performed, comprising:
an arrangement information generation unit to generate pilot arrangement information for inserting and arranging a pilot symbol into the plurality of predetermined frequency bands;
a pilot channel generation unit to output the pilot symbol at a timing based on the pilot arrangement information that is output from the pilot arrangement information generation unit;
a data and control channel generation unit to generate data and control channels;
a multiplexing circuit to multiplex the pilot symbol that is output from the pilot channel generation unit, and data and control channels that are output from the data and control channel generation unit; and
a transmission unit to multiplex the output of the multiplexing circuit in frequency and time and to generate a transmission output, wherein
the arrangement information generation unit inserts the pilot symbol at a smaller frequency interval than the predetermined reference frequency interval into at least one frequency band out of the plurality of predetermined frequency bands, and wherein
the arrangement information generation unit changes cyclically in time, the at least one frequency band in which the pilot symbol is inserted at the smaller frequency interval than the predetermined reference frequency interval.
6. The base station device according to claim 5 , wherein
the arrangement information generation unit generates arrangement information for inserting the pilot symbol at the smaller frequency interval than the predetermined reference frequency interval into at least one frequency band out of the plurality of predetermined frequency bands based on signal-to-interference ratio measurement information in a mobile terminal at a reception side.
7. A mobile communication system in which a working frequency band is divided into a plurality of predetermined bands, and time division multiplexing is performed, the mobile communication system comprising: a base station to insert pilot symbol into at least one of a plurality of predetermined frequency bands at a smaller frequency interval than a predetermined reference frequency interval, wherein the base station changes cyclically in time a frequency band in which the pilot symbol is inserted at the smaller frequency interval than the predetermined reference frequency interval and a mobile terminal to receive signals transmitted from the base station and to extract and detect the pilot symbol from the received signals according to pilot channel arrangement information.
8. A mobile terminal, which communicates with a base station, in a mobile communication system, the mobile terminal comprising: a receiving unit to receive signals transmitted from the base station; and a pilot extracting unit to extract and detect from the received signals, a pilot symbol, which is inserted at the base station, into at least the one of a plurality of predetermined frequency bands at a smaller frequency interval than a predetermined reference frequency interval, wherein the at least one of the plurality of predetermined frequency bands in which the pilot symbol is inserted at the smaller frequency interval than the predetermined reference frequency interval is changed cyclically in time.