Patent ID: 8005063

Claim:
A receiving apparatus for receiving in an uplink one or a plurality of control channels, one or a plurality of pilot channels, and one or a plurality of data channels, comprising: a pilot-channel receiving unit for receiving the pilot channel in an antenna-gain pattern of a multi-beam including multiple fixed directional beams having respectively different fixed directional directions or of a variable directional beam having a directional direction varying in accordance with the position of a mobile terminal; and a data-channel receiving unit for receiving the data channel in the antenna-gain pattern of the multi-beam or the variable directional beam, wherein time-multiplexed pilot channels and data channels are separated into respective time periods, wherein time-multiplexed control channels and data channels are also separated into respective time periods, and wherein one of the time-multiplexed pilot channels and control channels, and the time-multiplexed data channels are separated into respective time periods, the other channels are frequency-multiplexed, and frequency-multiplexed data channels are separated into respective frequencies.