Patent ID: 9537632
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04J,H04L

Claim:
1. A receiving apparatus that receives a pilot signal from a base station, the receiving apparatus comprising: a receiver configured to receive a signal including pattern information indicating which pilot pattern among at least two pilot patterns is respectively assigned to each time slot of a plurality of time slots, each of the pilot patterns representing different densities of pilot signals arranged in mutually different patterns in at least one of the frequency domain and the time domain, the different densities of pilot signals corresponding to different proportions of pilot symbols, at least two of the time slots being assigned different pilot patterns from among the at least two pilot patterns; and an extractor configured to extract the pilot signal according to the pattern information indicating which pilot pattern among the at least two pilot patterns is respectively assigned to each time slot of the plurality of time slots.