Radio communication device and constellation control method
View Patent ↗Provided is a radio communication device which can make Acknowledgement (ACK) reception quality and Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit ( 214 ) which multiplies a response signal after modulated, by a scrambling code “1” or “e −j(π/2) ” so as to rotate a constellation for each of response signals on a cyclic shift axis; a spread unit ( 215 ) which performs a primary spread of the response signal by using a Zero Auto Correlation (ZAC) sequence set by a control unit ( 209 ); and a spread unit ( 218 ) which performs a secondary spread of the response signal after subjected to the primary spread, by using a block-wise spread code sequence set by the control unit ( 209 ).
1. A base station apparatus comprising:
a transmitting unit configured to transmit data to a mobile station apparatus and transmit, to the mobile station, control information related to the data on a control channel element (CCE), wherein an index of a resource used for transmission of a response signal, which is multiplied by 1 or e j(π/2) depending on whether the index of the resource is odd or even, is associated with a CCE number; and
a receiving unit configured to receive, from the mobile station apparatus, the response signal, which is a response signal corresponding to the data and which is spread with a sequence defined by a cyclic shift value and multiplied by 1 or e j(π/2) depending on whether the index of the resource is odd or even, wherein the cyclic shift value is determined from the index of the resource associated with the CCE number.
2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the index of the resource is associated one-to-one with the CCE number.
3. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the control information includes resource assignment information of the data.
4. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said transmitting unit transmits the control information on one or a plurality of the CCEs with consecutive CCE number(s), and the index of the resource is associated with the smallest CCE number of the CCEs used for transmission of the control information.
5. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a despreading unit configured to despread the received response signal.
6. The base station apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein said despreading unit despreads depending on the resource.
7. The base station apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein said despreading unit despreads depending on the CCE used for transmission of the control information.
8. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a descrambling unit configured to descramble the received response signal.
9. The base station apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein said descrambling unit descrambles depending on the resource.
10. The base station apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein said descrambling unit descrambles depending on the CCE used for transmission of the control information.
11. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the response signal is multiplied by 1 or e j(π/2) depending on the cyclic shift value.
12. The base station apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the response signal is secondarily spread using one of a plurality of orthogonal sequences, wherein the one of the plurality of orthogonal sequences is determined from the index of the resource.
13. The base station apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein a plurality of the resources, from which the same orthogonal sequence is determined, are indexed by the indices that are consecutive in the direction in which the cyclic shift value is shifted.
14. The base station apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the response signal is multiplied by 1 or e j(π/2) , which is selected depending on the cyclic shift value in a plurality of the resources, from which the same orthogonal sequence is determined.
15. The base station apparatus according to claim 12 , the response signal is multiplied by 1 or e j(π/2) , which is selected alternately each time the cyclic shift value is shifted by a predefined amount in a plurality of the resources, from which the same orthogonal sequence is determined.
16. The base station apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the response signal is multiplied by 1, which is selected in one of two resources, or by e j(π/2) , which is selected in the other of the two resources, wherein the same orthogonal sequence is determined from the two resources and two cyclic shift values that are closest to each other are respectively determined from the two resources.
17. The radio transmission apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a constellation for the response signal is rotated by 90 degrees by multiplying the response signal by e j(π/2) .
18. A radio communication method comprising:
transmitting data to a mobile station apparatus and transmitting, to the mobile station, control information related to the data on a control channel element (CCE), wherein an index of a resource used for transmission of a response signal, which is multiplied by 1 or e j(π/2) depending on whether the index of the resource is odd or even, is associated with a CCE number; and
receiving, from the mobile station apparatus, the response signal, which is a response signal corresponding to the data and which is spread with a sequence defined by a cyclic shift value and multiplied by 1 or e j(π/2) depending on whether the index of the resource is odd or even, wherein the cyclic shift value is determined from the index of the resource associated with the CCE number.