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Granted Patent B2
US 10,623,084 · App. 16/017,244 · Granted Apr 14, 2020

Relay method and relay device

Inventors: Yutaka Murakami (Kanagawa, JP); Tomohiro Kimura (Osaka, JP); Mikihiro Ouchi (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
H04B7/15542H04B7/0456H04B7/0604H04L5/0053H04L25/0391H04L25/03171H04L25/03949H04L27/2614H04L27/34H04W4/06H04W40/22H04B7/0413H04L5/0023
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Patent No.
US 10,623,084
App. No.
16/017,244
Granted
Apr 14, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a relay method including: receiving, as input, respective reception signals by two receive antennas, the reception signals each including a reception signal resulting from multiplexing respective transmission signals transmitted by two transmission antennas in a first frequency band; performing frequency conversion on the reception signal received by one of the receive antennas so as to obtain a signal of a third frequency band; and performing frequency multiplexing on the signal having the third frequency band and the reception signal received by the other of the receive antennas.

Claims (26)

1. A terminal apparatus comprising:

reception circuitry which, in operation, receives a control signal, the control signal including information on one of a first transmission scheme, a second transmission scheme, and a third transmission scheme for signal transmission by a base station apparatus; and

decoding circuitry which, in operation, decodes the control signal to obtain the information on the one of the first, second, and third transmission schemes, wherein

according to the first transmission scheme,

the base station apparatus generates a first transmission signal z 1 and a second transmission signal z 2 by performing precoding on a first modulation signal s 1 and a second modulation signal s 2 respectively using a precoding matrix, and transmitting the control signal, the first transmission signal z 1 , and the second transmission signal z 2 from two antennas, the precoding matrix being selected from among a plurality of precoding matrices by regularly hopping between the precoding matrices slot by slot,

according to the second transmission scheme,

the base station apparatus generates a third transmission signal z 3 and a fourth transmission signal z 4 by performing precoding on the first modulation signal s 1 and the second modulation signal s 2 respectively using a precoding matrix, and transmitting the control signal, the third transmission signal z 3 , and the fourth transmission signal z 4 from the two antennas, the precoding matrix being determined from among the plurality of precoding matrices, and

according to the third transmission scheme,

the base station apparatus transmits the third modulation signal s 3 as a fifth transmission signal z 5 from one or more antennas.

2. The terminal apparatus of claim 1 , wherein

the control signal includes:

one or more bits indicating information on use of the two antennas and the one or more antennas; and

one or more bits indicating information on the selected precoding matrix and the determined precoding matrix.

3. A communication method for use in a terminal apparatus, the communication method comprising:

receiving a control signal, the control signal including information on one of a first transmission scheme, a second transmission scheme, and a third transmission scheme for signal transmission by a base station apparatus; and

decoding the control signal to obtain the information on the one of the first, second, and third transmission schemes, wherein

according to the first transmission scheme,

the base station apparatus generates a first transmission signal z 1 and a second transmission signal z 2 by performing precoding on a first modulation signal s 1 and a second modulation signal s 2 respectively using a precoding matrix, and transmitting the control signal, the first transmission signal z 1 , and the second transmission signal z 2 from two antennas, the precoding matrix being selected from among a plurality of precoding matrices by regularly hopping between the precoding matrices slot by slot,

according to the second transmission scheme,

the base station apparatus generates a third transmission signal z 3 and a fourth transmission signal z 4 by performing precoding on the first modulation signal s 1 and the second modulation signal s 2 respectively using a precoding matrix, and transmitting the control signal, the third transmission signal z 3 , and the fourth transmission signal z 4 from the two antennas, the precoding matrix being determined from among the plurality of precoding matrices, and

according to the third transmission scheme,

the base station apparatus transmits the third modulation signal s 3 as a fifth transmission signal z 5 from one or more antennas.

4. The communication method of claim 3 , wherein

the control signal includes:

one or more bits indicating information on use of the two antennas and the one or more antennas; and

one or more bits indicating information on the selected precoding matrix and the determined precoding matrix.

Priority Claims (5)
JP 2011-093539 · Apr 19, 2011 · national
JP 2011-102099 · Apr 28, 2011 · national
JP 2011-118453 · May 26, 2011 · national
JP 2011-140747 · Jun 24, 2011 · national
JP 2011-192123 · Sep 2, 2011 · national
Continuity (5)
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