Base Station and Communication Method
AssigneeKYOCERA Corporation
InventorsHironobu Tanigawa, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Nobuaki Takamatsu
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Abstract
Improvement in utilization efficiency of traffic channels and voice quality in an OFDMA scheme is accomplished. A base station communicating which mobile stations by an OFDMA scheme using subchannels includes: a channel assigning unit 109a which assigns subchannels for communication to the mobile stations; and a call type acquiring unit 109b which acquires a type of a call as a communication object, wherein the channel assigning unit 109a changes a subchannel assignment procedure for assigning the subchannels to the mobile stations according to the acquired type of the call.
Claims8
A base station which communicates with mobile stations by an OFDMA scheme using subchannels, the base station comprising:
- a channel assigning unit which assigns subchannels for communication to the mobile stations;
- and
- a type acquiring unit which acquires a type of a call as a communication object,
- wherein the channel assigning unit changes a subchannel assignment procedure for assigning the subchannels to the mobile stations according to the acquired type of the call.
A communication method for performing a communication between mobile stations and a base station by an OFDMA scheme using subchannels, the method comprising:
- a step of acquiring a type of a call as a communication object;
- and
- a channel assigning step of changing a subchannel assignment procedure for assigning the subchannels to the mobile stations according to the acquired type of the call.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.