Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Adrian.uchida Company Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Fujitsu General Limited

Shigeru Uchida

Akinori Taira

Hiroki Iura

Fumihiro Hasegawa

Akihiro Okazaki

Noriyuki Fukui

Wataru Matsumoto

Haruyoshi Takagishi

Yasutaka Yamashita

Hirokazu Shimatake

Shuichi Ogawa

Ryuichi Nara

Mitsuru Mochizuki

Hiroshi Nishimoto

Hideo Yoshida

Shigenori Tani

Takeshi Kojima

Tadahiro Shimoda

Katsuyuki Motoyoshi

Seiji Ito

Tsuyoshi Inoue

Akira Otsuka

Yasunori Noda

Toshiyuki Kuze

Kazuma Kaneko

Shunsuke Uehashi

Akira Ootsuka

Kenzo Natsume

A filter device includes: delay units serially connected to delay an input signal and output a delayed signal; multiplication units multiplying the delayed signal by a filter coefficient based on a predetermined value and a multiplying factor adjustment value; a coefficient adjustment unit that, when a multiplication result obtained by multiplying the predetermined value by the multiplying factor adjustment value exceeds a maximum value of a filter-coefficient representation range, divides the multiplication result exceeding the maximum value by the maximum value, and outputs a quotient of division as a coefficient adjustment value; a signal conversion unit outputting a signal obtained by adding after-filter-coefficient-multiplication signals outputted by the multiplication units and an adjusted signal obtained by adjusting a corresponding delayed signal using the coefficient adjustment value; and a division unit generating an output signal by dividing the signal outputted by the signal conversion unit by the multiplying factor adjustment value.

Filter device

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 signal specification identification apparatus includes processing circuitry that estimates the transmission rate of a received signal, performs sampling frequency conversion on the received signal, calculates a probability corresponding to each of a plurality of candidates for a specification of the received signal, selects a candidate using the respective probabilities, and calculates reliability corresponding to a selected candidate, determines whether to output the selected candidate as an identification result or perform the sampling frequency conversion again, based on the reliability, and changes a parameter indicating the ratio of the sampling frequency conversion when it is determined that the sampling frequency conversion is to be performed again. Processing is repeated until the processing circuitry determines that the selected candidate as the identification result is to be output.

Signal specification identification apparatus, control circuit, and program storage medium

The base station allocates, to one terminal, at least one transmission layer and allocates at least one resource block that is a minimum allocation unit of a communication resource in each transmission layer, to transmit a signal to the terminal, and includes processing units each associated with one of the transmission layers, the processing units being equal in number to the transmission layers. Each processing unit includes a reference signal generation unit to generate a reference signal to be used by the terminal in demodulation processing on a received signal, and an information processing unit to determine an arrangement of the resource block in which to transmit the reference signal to the terminal, based on at least one of a state of a channel between the base station and the terminal or information on the resource block to be used in transmission of the reference signal in an adjacent cell.

Transmitting apparatus and receiving apparatus

A reception device includes an equalization processing unit including a linear filter unit and a nonlinear filter unit and performing equalization process on a reception signal; a linear propagation channel estimation unit making propagation channel estimation using a known signal included in a reception signal to calculate a filter coefficient of the linear filter unit; and a synchronization processing unit performing synchronization process of correcting frequency deviation based on a signal output by the equalization processing unit, and when a predetermined condition is satisfied after executing first equalization process of outputting a reception signal filtered by the linear filter unit to the synchronization processing unit, the equalization processing unit starts second equalization process that is an adaptive equalization process of outputting a result of addition of a reception signal filtered by the linear filter unit and a reception signal filtered by the nonlinear filter unit to the synchronization processing unit.

Reception device, reception signal processing method, control circuit, and recording medium

A lower base station according to the present invention includes: a CSI acquisition unit that acquires channel information indicating a channel state between the lower base station and one or more mobile terminals; a lower scheduler unit that transmits the channel information to a higher base station, and determines the number of signal streams and a modulation and coding scheme for a destination terminal that is a mobile terminal selected from among the one or more mobile terminals, based on the destination terminal and a data transmission rate for the destination terminal, sent for notification by the higher base station; and an MU-MIMO signal processing unit that performs Multi User-Multiple Input Multiple Output precoding for the mobile terminal.

Lower radio base station, higher radio base station, and radio base station system

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

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A wireless communication apparatus includes a primary selection unit that selects a plurality of candidate terminals from among a plurality of terminals, based on signal-to-interference noise ratios of signals received from the plurality of terminals, a secondary selection unit that selects a plurality of transmission destination terminals from among the plurality of candidate terminals, based on channel estimate values of the candidate terminals, and a transmission processing unit that spatially multiplexes signals to be transmitted to the plurality of transmission destination terminals selected by the secondary selection unit, simultaneously on the same frequency.

Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method

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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

A radio transmission apparatus includes a plurality of antennas each having an amplifier, a transmission signal generation unit (modulation units, S/P units, and FFT units) which generates a signal to be transmitted to a terminal via the antennas, and a weighting processing unit (a precoder unit, a maximum power calculation unit, and multipliers) which executes a weighting process on a signal to be transmitted to the terminal, which has been generated by the transmission signal generation unit, based on channel state information between the radio transmission apparatus and the terminal and an output limit value of the amplifier.

Radio transmission apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Shigeru Uchida