Patent ID: 7761116

Claim:
A radio device comprising: an array antenna including a plurality of antennas; a reception signal processing unit multiplying signals provided from said respective antennas of said array antenna by reception weights, and thereby extracting a signal received from desired another radio device; a first switch provided corresponding to at least one of said plurality of antennas for providing the signal received from the corresponding antenna to said reception signal processing unit in a receive operation; a transmission signal processing unit modulating and providing a transmission signal to said first switch corresponding to the one antenna of said plurality of antennas; a reception level measuring unit for measuring a reception level of the signal received by said plurality of antennas from the desired another radio device to be communicated with said radio device; a storage unit for storing a result of the measurement by said reception level measuring unit and a transmission power level required in accordance with said reception level such that the transmission power level is suppressed within a level allowing communication of the desired another radio device in an own cell of said radio device so that interference with a peripheral cell is reduced; and a transmission power calculating unit for controlling an output level of said transmission signal processing unit in accordance with the transmission power level determined based on the information stored in said storage unit, wherein said first switch provides the signal received from said transmission signal processing unit to said corresponding antenna in a transmission operation.