Communication apparatus and base station apparatus

1. A communication apparatus comprising a weight calculating unit that calculates weights of a respective plurality of known signals included in a received signal, by a calculation method where a sequential update is performed on a per known signal basis, the weights being adaptive array antenna weights for combining a plurality of received signals received by a plurality of antennas, wherein

the weight calculating unit comprises:

a calculating unit that calculates a plurality of weights including at least a first adaptive array antenna weight and a second adaptive array antenna weight of a target known signal being an update target, the first adaptive array antenna weight being obtained by updating, using the target known signal and a first estimation error, an adaptive array antenna weight of a first another known signal updated immediately before performing an update using the target known signal, the second adaptive array antenna weight being obtained by updating, using the target known signal and a second estimation error, an adaptive array antenna weight of a second another known signal different than the first another known signal, the first estimation error being an error of a signal obtained by combining a plurality of received target known signals received by a plurality of antennas using the adaptive array antenna weight of the first another known signal, and the second estimation error being an error of a signal obtained by combining a plurality of received target known signals received by a plurality of antennas using the adaptive array antenna weight of the second another known signal; and

a selecting unit that selects one of the plurality of adaptive array antenna weights of the target known signal having a lower estimation error which was used for updating, as an adaptive array antenna weight of the target known signal.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the calculating unit:

selects a plurality of predetermined regions in a plurality of orders including at least a first order and a second order different than the first order, each of the plurality of predetermined regions consisting of one or a plurality of minimum units of radio allocation; and

at least calculates, every time a predetermined region is selected in the first order, a first weight using a known signal included in the selected predetermined region, and calculates, every time a predetermined region is selected in the second order, a second weight using a known signal included in the selected predetermined region.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the second order is reverse order to the first order.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein each of the predetermined regions is a region that can be identified as being allocated to a same user, without referring to user allocation information.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein each of the minimum units of radio allocation is a resource block.

6. The communication apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the first and second orders are orders in which the predetermined regions are arranged along at least one of a frequency direction and a time direction.

7. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the target known signal, the first another known signal, and the second another known signal are arranged along at least one of a frequency direction and a time direction.

8. The communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the received signal is a signal to be transmitted by a scheme for allocating a plurality of consecutively arranged minimum units to a single user.

9. The communication apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the scheme for allocating a plurality of consecutively arranged minimum units to a single user is an SC-FDMA scheme.