Patent ID: 8467471

Claim:
A radio communication apparatus that makes communications by selecting a proper one of a plurality of encoding systems and a proper one of a plurality of modulating systems, respectively, the apparatus comprising: a radio frequency circuit; a demodulating/decoding section that demodulates/decodes a signal received by the radio frequency circuit; an encoding/modulating section that encodes/modulates transmission data and outputs the result to the radio frequency circuit; and a processing section that selects the encoding and modulating systems used in the encoding/modulating section according to a CQI (Channel Quality Information) value extracted from the received signal by the demodulating/decoding section and controls so that the encoding/modulating section encodes/modulates the transmission data according to the selected encoding and modulating systems, wherein the processing section includes: a measured rate table that stores a mean rate of each of a plurality of communication modes in accordance with the CQI value; a communication mode deciding section that decides the communication mode so as to transmit the transmission data with reference to the measured rate table; and an AMC table controlling section that refers to an AMC table that stores an MCS value for denoting each of the encoding and modulating systems in each of the plurality of communication modes in accordance with the CQI value to select proper encoding and modulating systems so as to transmit the transmission data according to the communication mode decided by the communication mode deciding section, wherein the processing section updates the mean rate stored in the measured rate table and the MCS value stored in the AMC table corresponding to the current CQI value and CQI values in the neighborhood of the current CQI value, according to the result (success/failure) of the transmission and the transmission count of the transmission data, respectively.