Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Electric R&d Centre Europe B.v.

Akihiro Okazaki

Fumihiro Hasegawa

Hiroshi Nishimoto

Masatsugu Higashinaka

Akinori Taira

Hiroshi Kubo

Shigeru Uchida

Noriyuki Fukui

Shigenori Tani

Cristina Ciochina

Shusaku Umeda

Yusuke Kinoshita

Hiroki Iura

Kaoru Tsukamoto

Koji Tomitsuka

Yasunori Kato

Kazuo Tanada

Keisuke Ozaki

Cristina Ciochina-Duchesne

Koichi Natsume

Kazuyoshi Tsuji

A terminal to be installed in a machine having rotor blades in a communication system in which the terminal and a base station transmit and receive data via a relay station to and from each other, includes a rotor blade state monitoring unit that monitors a rotor blade state by measuring the timing at which the rotor blades block a communication path in midair between the relay station and the terminal, and a transceiver that transmits the rotor blade state to the base station and transmit the data using radio resources allocated by the base station.

Terminal and base station

A base station includes: a control unit that allocates one or more layers per terminal for transmission to one or more terminals, and configures positions in a frequency domain and a time domain of reference signals of each of the layers on the basis of at least one of information indicating a position of each of the terminals and information indicating condition of each of channel between the transmission device and the one or more terminals; a processing unit that arranges the reference signals of each of the layers in the frequency domain and the time domain on the basis of the positions in the frequency domain and the time domain configured by the control unit; and a precoding unit and a transmitting unit that perform space-division multiplexing on signals of one or more layers arranged by the processing unit, and transmit the multiplexed signals.

Transmission device, communication system, and transmission method

A transmission apparatus that transmits a block signal including a plurality of data symbols, includes: a data-symbol generation unit that generates a data symbol; a symbol arrangement unit that arranges the data symbol and a same-quadrant symbol such that one same-quadrant symbol that becomes a signal point in a same quadrant in a complex plane is inserted per block at a predetermined position in each block signal to generate a block symbol; a CP insertion unit that inserts a Cyclic Prefix into the block symbol; and an interpolation unit that performs interpolation processing on the block symbol on which CP insertion has been performed.

Transmission apparatus that transmits a block signal

The present invention relates to a method implemented by computer means of a communicating entity, for inserting a reference signal for phase tracking, said communicating entity using a discrete Fourier transformation spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing modulator, characterized in that the method comprises: 

Reference signal for phase tracking insertion

A base station () according to the present invention includes: a control unit () that allocates one or more layers per terminal for transmission to one or more terminals, and configures positions in a frequency domain and a time domain of reference signals of each of the layers on the basis of at least one of information indicating a position of each of the terminals and information indicating condition of each of channel between the transmission device and the one or more terminals; a processing unit (-to-N) that arranges the reference signals of each of the layers in the frequency domain and the time domain on the basis of the positions in the frequency domain and the time domain configured by the control unit (); and a precoding unit () and a transmitting unit () that perform space-division multiplexing on signals of one or more layers arranged by the processing unit (-to-N), and transmit the multiplexed signals.

Transmission device, communication system, and transmission method that configure positions of reference signals in frequency and time domains for each of a plurality of layers

The present invention is a transmitter compatible with a multicarrier block transmission scheme. The transmitter includes: a fixed sequence generation unit that generates a fixed sequence; a data sequence generation unit that converts data symbols into a time domain signal to generate a data signal; a multiplexing unit that divides the fixed sequence into two divisions, places one of the two divisions at the head and another one of the two divisions at the tail of a block, and places a data sequence that is an output signal from the data sequence generation unit between the two divisions to generate a block signal; and an interpolation unit that performs interpolation processing on the block signal.

Transmitter, receiver, communication system, and transmission method

Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, and communication system

A wireless communication apparatus, for example a wireless base station that spatially multiplexes data for transmission, includes plural array antennas and a beam shape controller that controls the array antennas to form beams of different shapes and each transmit signals for communication quality measurement in an area to be covered by the apparatus, and determines an initial value of a beam shape to be used in data transmission to a counterpart device that has received the signal for communication quality measurement, and after the initial value is determined, repeatedly executes processing to control the array antennas to tentatively change a beam shape in use in data transmission to the counterpart device, and redetermine a beam shape to be used in data transmission to the counterpart device, based on communication quality measured when the post-tentative-change beam shape is used and communication quality measured when the pre-tentative-change beam shape is used.

Wireless communication apparatus

Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, and communication system to insert symbols and cyclic prefix into a block signal

A transmission apparatus that transmits a block signal including a plurality of data symbols, includes a data-symbol generation unit that generates data symbols; a fixed-symbol arrangement unit that arranges a data symbol and a fixed symbol such that the fixed symbol is inserted at a predetermined position in the block signal to generate a block symbol; an interpolation unit that performs interpolation processing on the block symbol; and a CP insertion unit that inserts a Cyclic Prefix into a signal on which the interpolation processing has been performed to generate the block signal.

A radio transmission apparatus includes a plurality of transmission antennas, a start symbol generating unit that generates a start symbol as a reference signal during the start of differential coding, a differential coding unit (a differential coding unit, a transmission-signal-power calculating unit, and a 1/square root operation unit) that subjects a transmission symbol, to which information bits are mapped, to differential coding and generates a symbol after differentiation, and a space-time coding unit that subjects the start symbol or the symbol after differentiation to space-time coding and generates signals to be transmitted from transmission antennas. The differential coding unit determines, on the basis of electric power of the start symbol or electric power of the symbol after differentiation generated last time, electric power of the symbol after differentiation generated in the current differential coding processing.

Radio transmission apparatus, radio reception apparatus, and data transmission method

A transmitter is capable of suppressing a PAPR to be low and efficiently amplifying transmit power. The transmitter generates a transmission signal by oversampling a modulated signal, and includes a modulation unit that performs a modulation process on an information sequence and that generates a constant envelope signal and a phase interpolation unit that inserts a predetermined number of signals identical in amplitude to signal points of the constant envelope signal between the signal points so that signal points including original signal points are located equidistantly.

Transmitter and transmission method

A data-transmission-side communication apparatus includes a mapping unit that executes a mapping for a data sub-carrier based on a multipath delay time in a transmission path and a guard-band adding unit that changes an amount of a guard band to be added to a signal on the data sub-carrier depending on information on the guard band obtained based on the multipath delay time. A data-reception-side communication apparatus includes an equalizing unit that suppresses a multipath exceeding a guard interval based on the information on the guard band and a demapping unit that executes a demapping for an equalized signal based on the multipath delay time.

Wireless communication system and communication apparatus

A receiving station apparatus controls a number of null carriers included in a transmission signal transmitted by a transmitting station apparatus in a communication system adopting a multicarrier modulation system to suppress inter-carrier interference by using the null carrier. For example, a reception-quality measuring unit measures a reception quality of a subcarrier group forming the transmission signal, and a number-of-null carriers determining unit determines the number of null carriers included in a next transmission signal based on the reception quality.

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Akihiro Okazaki