Patent ID: 8996023
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A base station among a plurality of base stations in a communication system, the base station comprising: a communication unit that makes communication using a plurality of antennas, and for downlink communication, controls the transmission directivity of the antennas based on a known signal transmitted from a communication terminal, and a radio resource allocating unit that allocates a downlink radio resource to a communication terminal to be used for downlink communication between said communication unit and this communication terminal, wherein said known signal includes a first known signal and a second known signal transmitted from a communication terminal using different uplink radio resources, in said communication system, a downlink radio resource and an uplink radio resource to be used for transmission of said first known signal from a communication terminal are associated for beamforming and null steering to be performed based on said first known signal, for downlink communication with a communication terminal using a downlink radio resource allocated to this communication terminal by said radio resource allocating unit, if this communication terminal does not transmit said first known signal using an associated uplink radio resource associated with this downlink radio resource but it transmits said first known signal using a non-associated uplink radio resource which is not associated with this downlink radio resource and which includes a frequency band of this downlink radio resource in a frequency direction, said communication unit controls the transmission directivity of said antennas based on said second known signal if the aforementioned communication terminal transmits said second known signal in the frequency band of the aforementioned downlink radio resource in an interval between a time period of this downlink radio resource and a time period of the aforementioned non-associated uplink radio resource.