Abstract: A radio communication system includes a macrocell base station, and a femtocell base station provided in a macrocell. The femtocell base station includes: a measuring part which measures an uplink total received power from a radio terminal; a detecting part which detects a visitor macrocell radio terminal located in a vicinity of the femtocell base station operated by the access limited mode in accordance with the uplink total received power or an uplink interference signal power which can be derived from the uplink received power; and a control part which switches the femtocell base station from the access limited mode to the hybrid mode when the detecting part detects the visitor macrocell radio terminal. Accordingly, it is possible to improve the throughput for the visitor macrocell user.

Abstract: Provided are a base station device and a mobile station device, which can lighten a cell-search processing. The base station device (100) includes a frame constitution unit (130) for forming a frame, in which a pilot symbol multiplied by a base station scrambling code assigned to that device and a plurality of sequences contained in the corresponding sequence set is arranged in at least the head or tail, and a radio transmission unit (155) for sending the formed frame. On the receiving side of the frame, the frame timing can be detected from the position of a pilot symbol contained in that frame. Since the base station scrambling code and the sequence set containing the sequences are made to correspond to each other, candidates can be narrowed to at most the base station scrambling codes of the number of the combinations of the sequences contained in the sequence set, by detecting the sequences multiplied by the pilot symbol, so that the cell search processing can be lightened.

Abstract: A wireless terminal transmits a result of measuring received power of a downlink wireless signal from a femtocell base station to a macrocell base station. The macrocell base station transmits an interference control request including identification information of the wireless terminal to a femtocell base station group of which received power of a downlink signal included in a measurement result transmitted from the wireless terminal is a predetermined value or more. The femtocell base station has an adjacent wireless terminal list in which identification information of a wireless terminal, which is capable of being connected to an adjacent femtocell base station but is not capable of being connected to the femtocell base station, is recorded, and downlink transmission power of the femtocell base station is reduced when the identification information included in the interference control request is included in this list.

Abstract: A wireless communication method by which unnecessary retransmission request is suppressed and feedback information is reduced at the same time in a MIMO communication system. The wireless communication method is provided for transmitting signals by using a plurality of antennas, and has a step of applicably selecting the group configuration of the antennas, and a step of adding data to be used for error detection to a signal to be transmitted by using the antennas, by following the results of the selection.

Abstract: A wireless communication method by which unnecessary retransmission request is suppressed and feedback information is reduced at the same time in a MIMO communication system. The wireless communication method is provided for transmitting signals by using a plurality of antennas (314), and has a step of applicably selecting the group configuration of the antennas (314), and a step of adding data to be used for error detection to a signal to be transmitted by using the antennas (314), by following the results of the selection.

Abstract: Disclosed are a wireless communication base station and a total transmission power regulating method that reduce interference to macrocell users near a femtocell and interference to neighboring femtocell users near the femtocell in a balanced manner, while ensuring throughput of the femtocell users. A reception power measuring unit (214) measures the reception power of a CPICH. A cell type discriminating unit (216) judges whether the received signal is a signal from a macro base station or a signal from a femto base station. When a signal from a macro base station is received, a total downlink transmission power setting unit (217) executes a first-stage interference regulation based on the strongest CPICH reception power value and calculates a tentative value for the total downlink transmission power of a femto base station (110).

Abstract: Provided are a base station device and a mobile station device, which can lighten a cell-search processing. The base station device (100) includes a frame constitution unit (130) for forming a frame, in which a pilot symbol multiplied by a base station scrambling code assigned to that device and a plurality of sequences contained in the corresponding sequence set is arranged in at least the head or tail, and a radio transmission unit (155) for sending the formed frame. On the receiving side of the frame, the frame timing can be detected from the position of a pilot symbol contained in that frame. Since the base station scrambling code and the sequence set containing the sequences are made to correspond to each other, candidates can be narrowed to at most the base station scrambling codes of the number of the combinations of the sequences contained in the sequence set, by detecting the sequences multiplied by the pilot symbol, so that the cell search processing can be lightened.

Abstract: An interleave apparatus and an interleave method for preventing an increase in the number of retransmissions to improve the throughput. In a wireless communication apparatus having the interleave apparatus, a data holding part (1021) two-dimensionally arranges and holds bit sequences. A first index calculating part (1022) sequentially calculates first indexes to be used for reading, in a column direction, the bit sequences arranged in a row direction. A second index calculating part (1023) sequentially calculates second indexes to be used for reversing the order of the upper-order and lower-order bits to be read from the even-numbered columns when the bit sequences are read in accordance with the first indexes. A third index calculating part (1024) sequentially calculates third indexes to be used for reading the bit sequences from a different start position in accordance with the number of retransmissions. A reading part (1025) reads the bit sequences in the order that is in accordance with the third indexes.

Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus wherein the throughput is improved. In a wireless communication apparatus (100), a frame generating part (120) adds a header to a data portion to form a transport frame. A control part (190) acquires a variation index in a propagation path and decides the length of the data portion of the transport frame in accordance with the propagation path variation index. In this way, when the propagation path variation index is large, that is, the degree of propagation path variation is high, the data portion can be shortened. Contrarily, when the propagation path variation index is small, that is, the degree of propagation path variation is low, the data portion can be elongated. Thus, when the degree of propagation path variation is high and hence the probability of reception of a retransmission request from a receiving end is high, the data portion can be shortened to prevent a degradation of the throughput that would occur due to a transmission of long data.

Abstract: A communication system which can control a data transmission properly and to which a Delayed Block ACK mode is applied, and a communication device constituting the communication system. A radio LAN base station (100) as the communication device comprises a transmission control unit (115) for transmitting a block ACK request, a pilot generation unit (104) for generating a pilot signal to measure a reception quality, and the transmission control unit (115) for transmitting the pilot signal before the block ACK having the reception quality information of the pilot signal added thereto is returned from a reception side in response to the block ACK request.

Abstract: The invention includes methods for achieving efficient channel access in a wireless communications system. The invention is embodied in a wireless network adapter that is present in all stations belonging to the network. The invention describes methods by which access overheads may be reduced by introducing the concept of context sensitive frame timing—using which stations redefine and interpret frame timing depending on context and signaling. The result of realizing the invention is an improvement in medium utilization efficiency and consequently, an overall improvement in network throughput.

Abstract: A base station device and a mobile station device both enabling improvement of the reception quality of transmission data at a mobile station by preventing a sequence for establishing synchronism and the transmission data from interfering with each other. In the base station device (100), a frame creating section (120) creates a frame in such a way that the transmission data and the sequence used for identifying the frame timing and the code group to which the base station scrambling code belongs are so arranged that they are not superposed on one the other at the same symbol specified by the sub-carrier and time, and an RF transmitting section (150) transmits the frame.

Abstract: A scalable bandwidth system wherein even when various terminals having different bandwidth capabilities are existent in a cell, the unbalance of traffic in the maximum bandwidth can be reduced. Terminals (200) transmit their respective bandwidth capability information. A base station (100) assigns, based on the bandwidth capability information and identification signals transmitted from the terminals (200), communication bands to the respective terminals, and transmits, by use of a shared channel, information of the communication bands assigned to the terminals. In this way, the base station (100) can assign the bands to the terminals with the bandwidth capabilities of the respective terminals in the cell taken into account, whereby the unbalance of traffic in the maximum bandwidth can be reduced.

Abstract: A communication terminal apparatus capable of suppressing communication delay independently of the packet size, efficiently performing communication, and further solving the problem of hidden terminals. In this apparatus, a number-of-STAs holding part (107) counts, based on a received signal inputted from an STA determining part (105), the other STAs in the same cell. A back-off establishing part (108), which stores a table or a back-off value calculation formula in accordance with the number of the STAs in the cell, uses the number of the STAs in the information about the number of registered terminals in the cell to select or calculate the corresponding back-off value, thereby establishing the back-off value. A packet generating part (109) generates a packet including both number-of-terminals information and transport data. A transmission standby part (112) establishes a transmission standby time such that only the back-off value is on transmission-standby.

Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus wherein the throughput is improved. In a wireless communication apparatus (100), a frame generating part (120) adds a header to a data portion to form a transport frame. A control part (190) acquires a variation index in a propagation path and decides the length of the data portion of the transport frame in accordance with the propagation path variation index. In this way, when the propagation path variation index is large, that is, the degree of propagation path variation is high, the data portion can be shortened. Contrarily, when the propagation path variation index is small, that is, the degree of propagation path variation is low, the data portion can be elongated. Thus, when the degree of propagation path variation is high and hence the probability of reception of a retransmission request from a receiving end is high, the data portion can be shortened to prevent a degradation of the throughput that would occur due to a transmission of long data.

Abstract: A wireless communication method by which unnecessary retransmission request is suppressed and feedback information is reduced at the same time in a MIMO communication system. The wireless communication method is provided for transmitting signals by using a plurality of antennas (314), and has a step of applicably selecting the group configuration of the antennas (314), and a step of adding data to be used for error detection to a signal to be transmitted by using the antennas (314), by following the results of the selection.

Abstract: A radio base station apparatus having an improved cell search performance in a scalable bandwidth system. A base station (100) can assign communication bandwidths of terminals (200) from support bandwidths included in cell bandwidths that are the greatest ones, which are used by the base stations, of support bandwidths supported by the system. The base station (100) comprises a frame forming part (160) that forms a frame in which a frame synchronization sequence (P-SCH) is placed in which when one, to which the local apparatus (base station 100) belongs, of cell bandwidth groups as classified according to cell bandwidths is not a group having the shortest bandwidth (e.g., 1.25 MHz), a pattern, which is orthogonal to the pattern of the frame synchronization sequence (reference pattern of P-SCH) used in the group having the shortest bandwidth is repeated; an IFFT part (170) that serves as a transmitting means for transmitting the frame; a GI inserting part (180); and a radio transmitting part (190).

Abstract: A radio base station apparatus having an improved cell search performance in a scalable bandwidth system. A base station (100) can flexibly assign communication bandwidths of terminals from support bandwidths included in cell bandwidths that are the greatest ones, which are used by the base stations, of support bandwidths supported by a scalable bandwidth system. The base station (100) comprises a frame forming part (160) that forms a frame in which the pattern of a frame synchronization sequence (P-SCH), which is placed in a predetermined one, having a smallest support bandwidth, of bands of cell bandwidths, differs according to the cell bandwidths; an IFFT part (170) that serves as a frame transmitting means for transmitting the foregoing frame; a GI inserting part (180); and a radio transmitting part (190).

Abstract: In order to appropriately control transmit power of a common channel for an MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service) so as not to become excessive, a mobile station 1 transmits a TPC command for an S-CCPCH to a base station through an uplink DPCH1 and a mobile station 2 transmits a TPC command for an S-CCPCH to the base station through an uplink DPCH2. When either one of the TPC command for the S-CCPCH transmitted from the mobile station 1 and the TPC command for the S-CCPCH transmitted from the mobile station 2 is a TPC command instructing “Up”, the base station increases transmit power of the downlink S-CCPCH and decreases transmit power of the downlink S-CCPCH when both TPC commands instruct “Down”.

Abstract: A communication system which can control a data transmission properly and to which a Delayed Block ACK mode is applied, and a communication device constituting the communication system. A radio LAN base station (100) as the communication device comprises a transmission control unit (115) for transmitting a block ACK request, a pilot generation unit (104) for generating a pilot signal to measure a reception quality, and the transmission control unit (115) for transmitting the pilot signal before the block ACK having the reception quality information of the pilot signal added thereto is returned from a reception side in response to the block ACK request.