Transmission method, transmission device, reception method, and reception device
View Patent ↗Provided is a precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals to be transmitted over the same frequency bandwidth at the same time, including the steps of selecting a matrix F[i] from among N matrices, which define precoding performed on the plurality of baseband signals, while switching between the N matrices, i being an integer from 0 to N−1, and N being an integer at least two, generating a first precoded signal z 1 and a second precoded signal z 2 , generating a first encoded block and a second encoded block using a predetermined error correction block encoding method, generating a baseband signal with M symbols from the first encoded block and a baseband signal with M symbols the second encoded block, and precoding a combination of the generated baseband signals to generate a precoded signal having M slots.
1. A precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals to be transmitted over the same frequency bandwidth at the same time, comprising the steps of:
selecting a matrix F[i] from among N matrices while switching between the N matrices, the N matrices defining precoding performed on the plurality of baseband signals, i being an integer from 0 to N−1, and N being an integer at least two; and
generating a first precoded signal z 1 and a second precoded signal z 2 by precoding, in accordance with the selected matrix F[i], a first baseband signal s 1 generated from a first plurality of bits and a second baseband signal s 2 generated from a second plurality of bits, a first encoded block and a second encoded block being generated respectively as the first plurality of bits and the second plurality of bits using a predetermined error correction block encoding method, the first baseband signal s 1 and the second baseband signal s 2 being generated respectively from the first encoded block and the second encoded block to have M symbols each, the first precoded signal z 1 and the second precoded signal z 2 being generated to have M slots each by precoding a combination of the first baseband signal s 1 and the second baseband signal s 2 , M being an integer at least two,
the first precoded signal z 1 and the second precoded signal z 2 satisfying the equation (z 1 , z 2 ) T =F[i](s 1 , s 2 ) T ,
(z 1 , z 2 ) T being a transposed matrix of (z 1 , z 2 ), and
(s 1 , s 2 ) T being a transposed matrix of (s 1 , s 2 ).
2. A precoding apparatus for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals to be transmitted over the same frequency bandwidth at the same time, comprising:
a weighting information generation unit configured to select a matrix F[i] from among N matrices while switching between the N matrices, the N matrices defining precoding performed on the plurality of baseband signals, i being an integer from 0 to N−1, and N being an integer at least two;
a weighting unit configured to generate a first precoded signal z 1 and a second precoded signal z 2 by precoding, in accordance with the selected matrix F[i], a first baseband signal s 1 generated from a first plurality of bits and a second baseband signal s 2 generated from a second plurality of bits;
an error correction coding unit configured to generate a first encoded block as the first plurality of bits and a second encoded block as the second plurality of bits using a predetermined error correction block encoding method; and
a mapper configured to generate a baseband signal with M symbols from the first encoded block and a baseband signal with M symbols from the second encoded block, M being an integer at least two,
the first precoded signal z 1 and the second precoded signal z 2 satisfying the equation (z 1 , z 2 ) T =F[i](s 1 , s 2 ) T ,
(z 1 , z 2 ) T being a transposed matrix of (z 1 , z 2 ),
(s 1 , s 2 ) T being a transposed matrix of (s 1 , s 2 ), and
the weighting unit generating precoded signals with M slots by precoding a combination of the baseband signal generated from the first encoded block and the baseband signal generated from the second encoded block.