Patent ID: 8792576

Claim:
A radio communication apparatus having a plurality of antennas to transmit signals in the form of multi-input and multi-output (MIMO), comprising: a reception signal processing unit adapted to process signals received from said plurality of antennas; a transmission signal processing unit adapted to process signals to be transmitted from said plurality of antennas; a control unit for controlling the entire apparatus; and a register for storing a transmission/reception signal processing program and an amount of transmission/reception signal processing, wherein said reception signal processing unit is configured to operate correspondingly to a plurality of kinds of reception signal processing schemes, and said control unit is configured to allot, with respect to a plurality of radio communication apparatus opposing through propagation paths, a first reception signal processing scheme for a bad propagation path condition in accordance with a ranking made using information on transmission power from each of the radio communication apparatus by determining conditions between each of the radio communication apparatus and the propagation paths, to store an amount of processing for the transmission/reception signal processing, and, in accordance with conditions of said transmission/reception signal processing unit, to allot another reception signal processing scheme than the first reception signal processing scheme in case that the first reception signal processing scheme is determined to be impossible for data processing; the first reception signal processing scheme is a maximum likelihood detection (MLD) method, and the another reception signal processing scheme is one of methods selected from a group including a minimum mean square error (MMSE) method and an MMSE-SIC (Successive Interference Canceller) with interference cancellation function; and wherein the MMSE-SIC is allotted as a reception signal processing method in the case of multi-code transmission.