Transmitter, transmission method, and receiver based on time-domain windows
A transmitter using a channel aggregation in which available channels existing in various frequency bands are bound and transmitted and using an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), or a system similar to them as a modulation system. One or a plurality of transmission units are provided in parallel, and one or a plurality of transmission processing units are provided in parallel. The transmission processing unit has an inverse fast Fourier transforming circuit or a discrete inverse Fourier transforming circuit, a GI and overlap margin (OM) insertion circuit, and a time-domain windowing processing unit. The time-domain windowing processing unit multiplies a universal time-domain window function in accordance with a spectrum mask and transport electric power which are required in each channel, thereby suppressing out-of-band radiation electric power every channel. A kind and a window transition duration of the time-domain window function can be arbitrarily set every channel.
1. A transmitter using a channel aggregation in which available channels existing in various frequency bands are bound and transmitted and using an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), or a system similar to them as a modulation system, wherein:
one or a plurality of transmission units are provided in parallel at a post stage of a subcarrier mapping circuit in correspondence to one or a plurality of frequency bands;
one or a plurality of transmission processing units are provided in parallel for each of the transmission units in correspondence to one or a plurality of channels;
the transmission processing unit has an inverse fast Fourier transforming circuit or a discrete inverse Fourier transforming circuit, a guard interval (GI) and overlap margin (OM) insertion circuit, and a time-domain windowing processing unit;
the time-domain windowing processing unit multiplies a universal time-domain window function in accordance with a spectrum mask and transport electric power which are required in each channel, thereby suppressing out-of-band radiation electric power for every channel of the one or plurality of channels; and
a kind and a window transition duration of the universal time-domain window function can be arbitrarily set for every channel of the one or plurality of channels.
2. A transmitter according to claim 1 , wherein the time-domain windowing processing unit multiplies a universal signal amplitude standardization coefficient so that transport electric power control in a baseband can be made.
3. A transmitter according to claim 1 , further comprising a summing circuit for synthesizing a plurality of transmission processing units, and wherein an output of the summing circuit is transmitted in a wireless or wired manner.
4. A transmitter according to claim 1 , wherein a frequency shift can be arbitrarily set for every channel in accordance with channel requirements.
5. A transmission method using a channel aggregation in which available channels existing in various frequency bands are bound and transmitted and using an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), or a system similar to them as a modulation system, wherein:
one or a plurality of transmission units are provided in parallel at a post stage of a subcarrier mapping circuit in correspondence to one or a plurality of frequency bands;
one or a plurality of transmission processing units are provided in parallel for each of the transmission units in correspondence to one or a plurality of channels;
an inverse fast Fourier transforming process or a discrete inverse Fourier transforming process, a guard interval (GI) and OM inserting process, and a time-domain windowing process are sequentially executed by the transmission processing unit;
the time-domain windowing process is executed by multiplying a universal time-domain window function in accordance with a spectrum mask and transport electric power which are required in each channel, thereby suppressing out-of-band radiation electric power for every channel of the one or plurality of channels; and
a kind and a window transition duration of the universal time-domain window function can be arbitrarily set for every channel of the one or plurality of channels.
6. A receiver using a channel aggregation in which available channels existing in various frequency bands are bound and transmitted and using an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), or a system similar to them as a modulation system, wherein:
one or a plurality of reception units are provided in parallel in correspondence to one or a plurality of frequency bands;
one or a plurality of reception processing units are provided in parallel for each of the reception units in correspondence to one or a plurality of channels;
the reception processing unit has a guard interval (GI) removing unit, a time-domain windowing processing unit, and a fast Fourier transforming circuit;
the time-domain windowing processing unit multiplies a universal time-domain window function in accordance with a spectrum mask and transport electric power which are required in each channel, thereby suppressing out-of-band radiation electric power for every channel of the one or plurality of channels; and
a kind and a window transition duration of the universal time-domain window function can be set to the same kind and duration as those on a transmission side.