Patent ID: 8737283
Filing Date: 2014-05-27
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A transmission device, comprising: a generating unit configured to generate a subframe including multiple OFDM symbols; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the subframe generated by the generating unit, wherein the generating unit is configured to scramble data contained in the respective OFDM symbols in the subframe, scramble data for a unicast channel by a scramble code defined for each cell, and scramble data for a multicast channel by a scramble code defined for each area composed of plural cells where the same multicast channel is transmitted, wherein a unicast channel guard interval length for the unicast channel and a multicast channel guard interval length for the multicast channel which is longer than the unicast channel guard interval length are defined in the generating unit; and wherein the transmission device comprises the following three manners, and the generating unit is configured to select one of the following three manners, to add guard intervals to the OFDM symbols in the subframe: (1) adding guard intervals with the unicast channel guard interval length to all the OFDM symbols in the subframe, (2) adding guard intervals with the multicast channel guard interval length to all the OFDM symbols in the subframe, and (3) adding guard intervals with the unicast channel guard interval length to a subset of the OFDM symbols, adding guard intervals with the multicast channel guard interval length to another subset of the OFDM symbols, and time-division multiplexing the subsets of the OFDM symbols in the subframe, wherein when adding the guard intervals to the OFDM symbols in the subframe in the manner (3), the generating unit is configured to map a control channel including scheduling information for the unicast channel only to the subset of the OFDM symbols to which the guard intervals with the unicast channel guard interval length are added.