IP Library Granted Patent US 8,737,288
Granted Patent B2
US 8,737,288 · App. 13/496,738 · Granted May 27, 2014

Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method

Inventors: Ayako Horiuchi (Kanagawa, JP); Seigo Nakao (Kanagawa, JP); Akihiko Nishio (Kanagawa, JP); Yasuaki Yuda (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,737,288
App. No.
13/496,738
Granted
May 27, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

To effectively use transmission power by changing the arrangement of unused REGs. A wireless communication apparatus according to the invention corresponds to a wireless communication apparatus for performing wireless communication with a terminal equipment via a relay station, which includes an allocator which allocates CCEs in which control signals for the relay station are arranged to a plurality of REGs so that unused REGs not allocated with the CCEs differ among respective resource blocks each having the plurality of REGs, and a transmitter which transmits the control signals arranged in the CCEs allocated to the REGs to the relay station in accordance with an allocation by the allocation section.

Claims (6)

1. A wireless communication apparatus which performs wireless communication with a terminal equipment via a relay station, the wireless communication apparatus comprising: an allocator which is adapted to allocate CCEs in which control signals for the relay station are arranged to a plurality of REGs so that unused REGs not allocated with the CCEs differ among respective resource blocks each having the plurality of REGs, and so that an index of REG for starting an allocation of the CCEs is cyclically shifted at each of the resource blocks, wherein an amount of shift for cyclically shifting the unused REGs is determined in the allocator so as to be a numerical value which is obtained by multiplying a number of the unused REGs by a remainder that is obtained by dividing a No. of the resource block by the number of the REGs of one resource block; and a transmitter which is adapted to transmit the control signal arranged in the CCEs allocated to the REGs to the relay station in accordance with the allocation by the allocator.

2. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the allocator is adapted to cyclically shift the unused REGs at each of resource block sets when the CCEs are allocated to the resource block sets each configured by at least a part of the resource blocks.

3. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the allocator is adapted to cyclically shift the unused REGs at each of the resource blocks when the CCEs are allocated to resource block sets each configured by at least a part of the resource blocks.

4. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the allocator is adapted to cyclically shift REG containing a determined subcarrier as the unused REGs at each of the resource blocks.

5. A wireless communication method for performing wireless communication with a terminal equipment via a relay station, the wireless communication method comprising the steps of.” allocating CCEs in which control signals for the relay station are arranged to a plurality of REGs so that unused REGs not allocated with the CCEs differ among respective resource blocks each having the plurality of REGs, and so that an index of REG for starting an allocation of the CCEs is cyclically shifted at each of the resource blocks, wherein an amount of shift for cyclically shifting the unused REGs is determined in the allocator so as to be a numerical value which is obtained by multiplying a number of the unused REGs by a remainder that is obtained by dividing a No. of the resource block by the number of the REGs of one resource block; and transmitting the control signal arranged in the CCEs allocated to the REGs to the relay station in accordance with the allocation.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 31, 2018
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
To: SOVEREIGN PEAK VENTURES, LLC
Reel/Frame 047914/0784 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 27, 2014
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Reel/Frame 033033/0163 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 17, 2012
From: HORIUCHI, AYAKO; NAKAO, SEIGO; NISHIO, AKIHIKO; YUDA, YASUAKI
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 028560/0600 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-230958 · Oct 2, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
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