Wireless communication method and wireless communication system
A wireless communication method in a wireless communication system which includes a radio transmitting station apparatus having a plurality of antennas and a radio receiving station apparatus having an antenna and which performs transmission and reception of a radio signal with a single carrier. The wireless communication method includes: estimating a communication path matrix based on a training signal; transforming the estimated communication path matrix into a frequency domain, transforming a complex conjugate transposed matrix of each of a unitary matrix and an adjoint matrix obtained by performing singular value decomposition for each frequency with respect to the transformed frequency domain communication path matrix into a time domain, and adopting each as a reception weight matrix and a transmission weight matrix; performing transmission beam formation based on the transmission weight matrix; and performing reception beam formation based on the reception weight matrix.
1. A wireless communication method in a wireless communication system which includes a radio transmitting station apparatus having a plurality of antennas and a radio receiving station apparatus having an antenna and which performs transmission and reception of a radio signal with a single carrier, the wireless communication method comprising:
the radio receiving station apparatus or the radio transmitting station apparatus estimating a communication path matrix based on a training signal, the communication path matrix is represented by a transfer function matrix where the elements of the communication path matrix are transfer function; wherein the communication path matrix being an N×M matrix indicated by expression (2) below having, as an element of the matrix, expression (1) which approximates a transfer function of Channel Impulse Response (CIR) using a transfer function of Finite Impulse Response;
the radio receiving station apparatus or the radio transmitting station apparatus transforming the estimated communication path matrix into a frequency domain, transforming a complex conjugate transposed matrix of each of a unitary matrix and an adjoint matrix obtained by performing singular value decomposition for each frequency with respect to the transformed frequency domain communication path matrix into a time domain, and adopting each as a reception weight matrix and a transmission weight matrix, where the reception weight matrix and the transmission weight matrix are represented by a transfer function matrix and where the elements of the reception weight matrix and the transmission weight matrix are transfer function;
the radio transmitting station apparatus performing transmission beam formation based on the transmission weight matrix; and
the radio receiving station apparatus performing reception beam formation based on the reception weight matrix
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2. The wireless communication method according to claim 1 , wherein
the radio receiving station apparatus is either a single radio receiving station apparatus having a plurality of antennas or a plurality of radio receiving station apparatuses each having a single antenna or a plurality of antennas.
3. The wireless communication method according to claim 1 , wherein
the number of antennas of the radio transmitting station apparatus and the number of antennas of the radio receiving station apparatus differ from each other.
4. A wireless communication system which comprises a radio transmitting station apparatus having a plurality of antennas and a radio receiving station apparatus having an antenna and which performs transmission and reception of a radio signal with a single carrier, wherein:
the radio receiving station apparatus or the radio transmitting station apparatus includes
a communication path estimator configured to estimate a communication path matrix based on a training signal, the communicatoin path matrix is represented by a transfer function matrix where the elements of the communication path matrix are transfer function; wherein the communication path matrix being an N×M matrix indicated by expression (2) below having, as an element of the matrix, expression (1) which approximates a transfer function of Channel Impulse Response (CIR) using a transfer function of Finite Impulse Response;
the radio receiving station apparatus or the radio transmitting station apparatus includes
a transmission/reception weight calculator configured to transform the communication path matrix estimated by the communication path estimator into a frequency domain, which transforms a complex conjugate transposed matrix of each of a unitary matrix and an adjoint matrix obtained by performing singular value decomposition for each frequency with respect to the transformed frequency domain communication path matrix into a time domain, and which adopts each as a reception weight matrix and a transmission weight matrix, where the reception weight matrix and the transmission weight matrix are represented by a transfer function matrix and where the elements of the reception weight matrix and the transmission weight matrix are transfer function;
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a reception beam formation processor configured to perform reception beam formation based on the reception weight matrix; and
the radio transmitting station apparatus includes
a transmission beam formation processor configured to perform transmission beam formation based on the transmission weight matrix
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