Abstract: As a parameter control unit that controls video encoding parameters regarding video encoding in a video encoding unit and transmission channel parameters regarding error correction coding and modulation in a channel coding/modulation unit so as to be linked to each other, a cross layer rate control unit is provided. The cross layer rate control unit performs variable control of the GOP size according to propagation changes by reducing the GOP size when the amount of change in the predicted value of the PHY transmission rate is larger than a determined amount of change and increasing the GOP size when the amount of change in the predicted value of the PHY transmission rate is equal to or less than the determined amount of change.

Abstract: When controlling transmission channel parameters and video encoding parameters so as to be linked to each other in video transmission, the video quality on the receiving side is further improved. As a parameter control unit that controls video encoding parameters regarding video encoding in a video encoding unit and transmission channel parameters regarding error correction coding and modulation in a channel coding/modulation unit so as to be linked to each other, a cross layer rate control unit is provided. The cross layer rate control unit performs variable control of the GOP size according to propagation changes by reducing the GOP size when the predicted value of the PHY transmission rate is larger than a determined reference value and increasing the GOP size when the predicted value of the PHY transmission rate is equal to or less than the determined reference value.

Abstract: A wireless communications device that transmits a multiplexed signal of a plurality of data sets of different sizes to a communications terminal includes an empty resource block detection section, which detects empty resource blocks of the data sets each of which does not use any of a predetermined number of resource blocks, from among the plurality of data sets whereto the predetermined number of resource blocks are allocated in the time direction and the frequency direction; and a data redistribution section that redistributes a part of data that is distributed in resource blocks, with respect to the data sets whereto resource including empty resource blocks are allocated, in the vicinity of pilot symbols that are disposed within the empty resource blocks. It is possible to effectively utilize the function of all the pilot symbols and improve error rate characteristics.

Abstract: A high error correction capability is kept while reducing a processing delay in application of the ECC in a multi-radio. A wireless communication device for performing data transmission by using a plurality of radio systems RAT1 and RAT2 includes, in a GLL 100 that absorbs a difference in physical layer and MAC layer among RATs, an encoder 301 that encodes transmission data, a multiplexer 302 that distributes encoded data in correspondence with the RAT1 and the RAT2, interleavers 303 and 304 that interleave a plurality of coded data that has been encoded and multiplexed, and a resource controller 305 that sets an interleaving size for each interleaving processing in the interleavers 303 and 304 based on a transmission delay difference between the RAT1 and the RAT2.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods for transmitting and receiving a data bit stream in a communication system using 16-QAM constellations. Further, an apparatus for performing the methods is provided. To improve the bit-error rate performance of the communication using the 16-QAM constellations the invention suggests the use 16-QAM constellations with specially selected mapping rules together with a special constellation rearrangement for creating different versions of the 16-QAM constellations. Further, the data stream is transmitted according to a diversity scheme employing different versions of the 16-QAM constellations obtained adhering the mapping rules and rearrangement rules defined by the invention.

Abstract: A wireless transmission device enabled to improve an error rate performance at a receiver, by acquiring at least one of frequency diversity effect and a time diversity effect while keeping the interference resistance which is acquired by diffusion. In this transmission device, a modulation unit (101) modulates data to create a modulation symbol having in-phase components and quadrature components. An IQ individual spreading unit (102) arranges the diffusion chips, which are obtained by spreading the modulation symbol, of the in-phase components and the quadrature components, in areas extending in diffusion domains set individually for the in-phase components and the quadrature components. An IQ combining unit (103) combines the arranged spreading chips of the in-phase components and the quadrature components.

Abstract: A wireless communication device is provided to make it possible to detect errors with high accuracy while to suppress reduction in throughput in the case that an LDPC (Low-Density Parity-Check) code is used for an error correcting code. In the wireless communication device, a CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) coding unit (101) for carrying out a CRC coding of a part of a transmitting bit sequence in accordance with a row weight of an examination matrix of the LDPC code, an LDPC coding unit (102) for carrying out the LDPC coding and generating LDPC coding data by using the same examination matrix as used for the LDPC coding carried out in the CRC coding unit (101).

Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus and a response control method wherein in a case of applying Persistent Allocation (PA) to MU-MIMO, the increase in the resources to be used in the feedback can be precluded. In a terminal, a response control unit causes, based on the type of downstream allocation control information, on an error detection result obtained by an error detecting unit and on a response rule table, a response signal to be transmitted by use of an upstream response resource designated in the downstream allocation control information.

Abstract: A base station effectively transmits BCH data and includes an encoding unit for encoding the BCH data; a modulation unit for modulating the BCH data after being encoded; a transmission band setting unit for setting a BCH data transmission band in one of sub carriers constituting an OFDM symbol; encoding units for encoding user data, modulation units for modulating user data after being encoded; and an IFFT unit for mapping the BCH data and the user data to each of the sub carriers and performing IFFT to generate an OFDM symbol. Here, the IFFT unit maps the BCH data to the sub carrier existing in the transmission band set by the transmission band setting unit among the plurality of sub carriers.

Abstract: Disclosed are a terminal apparatus and a base station apparatus wherein the collision of the response signals of a plurality of terminals can be avoided. A response control unit (207) performs a control such that a data response resource, which is notified by downstream assignment control information, is used to transmit an ACK/NACK responsive to a downstream data error detection result. When a PA determining unit (204) determines that PA has terminated, the response control unit (207) performs a control such that the same resource as the data response resource is used to transmit an ACK as a response signal responsive to the downstream assignment control information. When having received the ACK responsive to the downstream assignment control information at the termination of PA, a retransmission control unit (106) determines that the termination of PA has completed.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods for transmitting and receiving a data bit stream in a communication system using a 16-QAM constellation. Further, an apparatus for performing the methods is provided. To provide a modulation and coding scheme using a signal space expansion and 16-QAM which improves the bit-error rate in comparison to QPSK modulated signals and still provides the possibility to implement coders and decoders with low complexity the invention suggests the use a 16-QAM constellation with specially selected mapping rules together with repetition coding (signal space expansion) and interleaving of the data stream to be transmitted.

Abstract: To improve the reliability of channel estimation, data symbols at determined positions of the transmitted data stream are replaced by quasi-pilot symbols. The quasi-pilot symbols carry data modulated onto the carrier with a different modulation scheme than the original symbols. The modulation scheme for the quasi-pilot symbols has a lower amplitude and/or phase ambiguity than the modulation scheme for the original data symbol.

Abstract: A method is provided which improves reliability of channel estimation in a digital communication system by reducing the ambiguity in the recognition of received symbols evaluated for the channel estimation. A first plurality of bits is mapped to a modulation state according to a given Gray mapping of binary numbers to modulation states and transmitted. The plurality of bits is re-transmitted at least once, with a sub-set of bits contained in the plurality of bits inverted, and mapped to further modulation states according to the same Gray mapping. The bits to be inverted are determined in a way that the number of different vector sum results obtainable, for all combinations of bit values within the first plurality of bits, by adding vectors representing complex values of the first and further modulation states in a complex plane, is lower than the number of different modulation states within the Gray mapping.

Abstract: To improve the frequency diversity effect by preventing the related bits in the encoded data from being biased to the specified carrier in the case of performing the multicarrier operation. A modulated symbol sequence is segmented in a data segmentation section (116), and the segmented modulated symbol blocks are mapped on a plurality of carriers in a segment mapping section (120). The data segmentation section (116) groups each of K parts in the modulated symbol sequence into the same number of N groups, cyclically shifts the N groups for the respective parts of any (K?1) parts with shift amounts which differ among the parts, and substitutes the cyclically-shifted groups of the plurality of parts in the modulated symbol sequence with one another among the parts to segment the groups into a plurality of blocks.

Abstract: To lessen a disparity in stream mapping of transmission data when modulation data are mapped into a plurality of streams and when the plurality of streams are transmitted and received. In a wireless communication device, a stream mapper (14) that performs mapping into a plurality of streams sequentially maps a modulation symbol sequence output from a modulator (13) into a plurality of streams for each block output from a channel interleaver (12) that performs channel interleaving, such as sub-block interleaving. On this occasion, a stream mapping method is changed in predetermined unit commensurate with a block size; for instance, at each position of a sub-block length where sub-block interleaving is performed or at each position of a half sub-block length.

Abstract: Disclosed are a base station, a mobile station, a pilot transmission method, and a channel estimation method, whereby excellent zone interference blocking characteristics can be obtained and high channel estimation precision is ensured even on a propagation path with low frequency correlation similar to when transmitting on an SFN of an MBS. A pilot symbol generating unit (110) divides a minimum resource unit, which is the minimum unit of resource allocation during MBS transmission, into a plurality of sub blocks on the basis of the correlation bandwidth corresponding to the delay spread of a propagation path in an MBS zone, and generates a pilot sequence by multiplying an orthogonal code sequence, which sets the length corresponding to the number of pilot symbols contained in each sub block as the orthogonal code length, by the pilot symbols contained in each sub block.

Abstract: Provided is a base station capable of effectively transmitting BCH data. The base station (100) includes: an encoding unit (101) for encoding the BCH data; a modulation unit (102) for modulating the BCH data after being encoded; a transmission band setting unit (103) for setting a BCH data transmission band in one of sub carriers constituting an OFDM symbol; encoding units (104-1 to 104-N) for encoding user data (#1 to #N), modulation units (105-1 to 105-N) for modulating user data (#1 to #N) after being encoded; and an IFFT unit (106) for mapping the BCH data and the user data (#1 to #N) to each of the sub carriers (#1 to #K) and performing IFFT to generate an OFDM symbol. Here, the IFFT unit (106) maps the BCH data to the sub carrier existing in the transmission band set by the transmission band setting unit (103) among the plurality of sub carriers (#1 to #K).

Abstract: A method is provided which improves reliability of channel estimation in a digital communication system by reducing the ambiguity in the recognition of received symbols evaluated for the channel estimation. A data word transmitted according to a first mapping of data word values to modulation states is re-transmitted at least once with a second, re-arranged mapping of data word values to modulation states. The second mapping and possible further mappings are generated from the first mapping in a way that the number of different results which can be obtained from combining the transmitted original data symbol and the re-transmitted counterpart data symbol(s) is lower than the number of original modulation states in the first mapping.

Abstract: A rate matching apparatus is capable of improving the bit error rate characteristic at a data receiving end. A rate matching part (106), which serves as a rate matching apparatus, generates, from a first encoded block corresponding to N symbols (where N is an integer equal to or greater than one), a second encoded block corresponding to N+K symbols (where K is an integer equal to or greater than one). In the rate matching part (106), a to-be-divided bit-group extracting part (122) extracts, from the first encoded block, a first bit group corresponding to any of the N symbols. A dividing part (124) divides the extracted first bit group into L divided bit groups corresponding to L symbols (where L is an integer equal to or greater than two but equal to or smaller than K+1), thereby providing the second encoded block.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed, for digital data transmission using higher order modulation schemes, wherein a plurality of bits is mapped to bit positions of a symbol and the transmission has different error probabilities for at least two out of the bit positions. Bits are selected from a data stream of original bits for repetition and repeated. Repeated and unrepeated bits are mapped to modulation symbols, wherein the mapping of bits to bit positions depends on the error probabilities of the bit positions and on the selection result.