Patent ID: 8594224
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: H04L,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A transmission method for sending a modulated digital signal from a transmission device to a reception device, comprising: converting the modulated digital signal into a spectrum of a frequency band by a conversion unit in said transmission device; notifying the transmission device of a frequency band to be used from said reception device; deleting, by a deletion unit, a spectrum of a band other than the notified use frequency band; sending a digital signal for a spectrum obtained after deletion from said transmission device to said reception device; converting the sent digital signal into a spectrum of a frequency band by a reception side conversion unit; performing non-linear iterative equalization, by an equalization unit, on the converted spectrum; performing shaping, by a shaping unit, of the spectrum of each frequency band converted at said conversion unit, based on a communication status between the transmission device and the reception device; wherein: a use frequency band is selected, by a selection unit in said reception device, for each transmission device based on the energy of frequency bands sent from a plurality of transmission devices, a use frequency band is selected, by said selection unit, for each data series based on energy distribution of a propagation channel frequency characteristic through which a plurality of data series sent from the transmission device pass, each of corresponding transmission devices is notified of the use frequency band for each transmission device selected by said selection unit, and the use frequency band for each data series selected by said selection unit, the use frequency band for each transmission device is selected by said selection unit in the order of decreasing energy among the energy of frequency bands sent from a plurality of transmission devices, so as to avoid overlapping of a use frequency band to be selected among the transmission devices, the use frequency band for each data series is selected by said selection unit in the order of decreasing energy based on energy distribution of a propagation channel frequency characteristic, through which a plurality of data series sent from a transmission device pass, so as to avoid overlapping of a use frequency band to be selected among data series, the spectrum of a frequency band converted by said reception side conversion unit is separated, by a separation unit in said reception device, for each data series or for each transmission device, based on the use frequency band selected by said selection unit, said non-linear iterative equalization, performed by said equalization unit, is performed on the spectrum separated by said separation unit, said shaping is performed, by said shaping unit, using a water filling principal in which a larger energy of a spectrum of each frequency band converted at said conversion unit is distributed to a frequency band with better communication status between the transmission device and the reception device, and said transmission method further comprises changing, by a changing unit, a modulation scheme or a coding rate in accordance with a percentage of a use frequency band to be assigned to each data series or each transmission device, selected by said selection unit.