Title of Invention	BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
Abstract	A base station carrying out communications with a mobile station with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method by using a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band is disclosed. The base station includes an allocation portion that allocates, for a mobile station performing peripheral cell search, a band that includes a center frequency on a raster of a first band and has a bandwidth equal to or greater than a bandwidth of a second band with which a synchronization channel is transmitted.

Title of Invention

BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION AND COMMUNICATION METHOD

Abstract

A base station carrying out communications with a mobile station with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method by using a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band is disclosed. The base station includes an allocation portion that allocates, for a mobile station performing peripheral cell search, a band that includes a center frequency on a raster of a first band and has a bandwidth equal to or greater than a bandwidth of a second band with which a synchronization channel is transmitted.

Full Text	DESCRIPTION BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION AND COMMUNICATIONS METHOD TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention generally relates to a technical field of radio communications, specifically to a base station, a mobile station, and a communications method that can be used in various bands. BACKGROUND ART In existing communications systems of Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), Global System for Mobile communications, and the like, a center frequency of frequency bands used for communications is determined to coincide with a predetermined frequency called a raster or a frequency raster. The frequency rasters are arranged, for example, every 200 kHz on a frequency axis. Therefore, a mobile station can identify the center frequency of an operator and thus connect to a downlink by searching for the frequency rasters by turns on the frequency axis (searching every 200 kHz) . Downlink cell search is described in Keiji TACHIKAWA, "W-CDMA mobile communications method", Maruzen, Inc., pp. 35-45. SUMMARY OF INVENTION PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED BY THE INVENTION A radio communications system based on an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method that uses plural wide or narrow bands has been in consideration. The OFDM method is employed because this method can provide advantages of efficiently suppressing multi-path propagation interference, inter-symbol interference, and the like. In such radio communications systems, a wideband of, for example, 20 MHz and a band (for example, 5 MHz), which is a part of the wideband, are used depending on an apparatus configuration of the mobile station, an apparatus configuration of the base station, applications, and the like, which allows various operators to provide service. For example, spectra in the OFDM method radio communications system having plural bands are shown in FIG. 1. Communications based on the OFDM method can be carried out in both the wide transmission band of 20 MHz and the narrow transmission band of 5 MHz in relation to the transmission bandwidth of 20 MHz. In such radio communications systems, there exist terminal devices having a receivable bandwidth that is narrower than the transmission bandwidth of the base station. For example, a terminal device having a receivable bandwidth of 5 MHz carries out communications using a frequency band including a center frequency of the wide bandwidth of 20 MHz. The objective of the present invention is to provide a base station, a mobile station and a transmission method that facilitate peripheral cell detection in a mobile transmission system where the OFDM method of communications is carried out in any one of two or more frequency bands. MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEM In order to eliminate the above disadvantage, a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention 1 carries out communications with a mobile station with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method by using a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band, the base station including an allocation portion that allocates for a mobile station performing peripheral cell search a band that includes a center frequency on a raster of a first band and has a bandwidth equal to or wider than a bandwidth of a second band with which a synchronization channel is transmitted. With such a configuration, the mobile station can carry out the peripheral cell search using the band including the center frequency. A communications method according to an embodiment of the present invention carries out communications with a mobile station with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method by using a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band, the method including steps of transmitting a synchronization channel with a second band including a center frequency on a raster of a first band, and allocating for a mobile station performing peripheral cell search a band that includes the center frequency on the raster of the first band and has a bandwidth equal to or greater than a bandwidth of a second band for transmitting the synchronization channel. With this, the mobile station can carry out the peripheral cell search using the center frequency. A mobile station according to an embodiment of the present invention carries out communications due to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method with a base station that carries out communications by using a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band, the mobile station including a reception portion that receives a downlink signal transmitted using the predetermined frequency band; a synchronization channel detection portion that detects a synchronization channel transmitted with a second band including a center frequency on a raster of a first band; a carrier frequency setting portion that sets a carrier frequency in a band having a bandwidth equal to or greater than the second band having the center frequency when carrying out peripheral cell search; and a control portion that carries out switching control of the carrier frequency. With such a configuration, the mobile station can carry out the peripheral cell search due to the synchronization channel transmitted with the second band including the center frequency on a raster of the first band. A communications method according to an embodiment of the present invention carries out communications due to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method with a base station that carries out communications by using a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band, the method including steps of receiving a downlink signal transmitted using a predetermined frequency band; detecting a synchronization channel transmitted with a second band including a center frequency on a raster of a first band; setting a carrier frequency in a band having a bandwidth equal to or wider than a second band including the center frequency when carrying out peripheral cell search; and switching the carrier frequency. With this, the mobile station can carry out the peripheral cell search due to the synchronization transmitted with the second band including the center frequency on the raster of the first band. ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to an embodiment of the present invention, there can be realized a base station, a mobile station, and a communications method that facilitate peripheral cell detection in a mobile communications system where the OFDM method of communications is carried out in any one of one or more frequency bands. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is an explanatory view illustrating the spectrum of an OFDM method radio communications system having plural bandwidths. FIG. 2 is an explanatory view illustrating a cell search method at the time of starting communications, according to one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating shifting to a band to be used after a cell search. FIG. 4 is an explanatory view of the cell search according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating a transmission apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6A is an explanatory view illustrating an SCH transmission bandwidth. FIG. 6B is an explanatory view illustrating an SCH transmission bandwidth. FIG. 7 is a block diagram illustrating a reception apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a reception apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 9 is an explanatory view illustrating a frequency block allocation method according to one embodiment of the present invention. LIST OF REFERENCE SYMBOLS 100: transmission apparatus 200: reception apparatus BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Based on the following embodiments, a best mode for carrying out the present invention is described with reference to the drawings. The same reference marks are used for elements having the same function in all the drawings for explaining the embodiments, and repeated explanations are omitted. A radio communications system according to one embodiment of the present invention is provided with a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus. The base station carries out communications based on the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method with the mobile station, using a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band. In this embodiment, the base station uses a bandwidth of 20 MHz and the mobile station uses a bandwidth of 5 MHz, as one example. However, this embodiment can be applied to a situation where a terminal device uses a certain part of the transmission band of the base station. First, a cell search method at the time of starting communications is explained with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3. The base station and the mobile station can carry out communications using any one of various wide or narrow frequency bands. In this embodiment, the mobile station has a receivable bandwidth narrower than the transmission bandwidth of the base station. In this embodiment, a first band indicates a transmission signal bandwidth of the base station, and a second band indicates the narrowest receivable bandwidth among all receivable bandwidths of all the mobile stations. Therefore, the bandwidth of the first band is equal to or greater than the bandwidth of the second bandwidth. The bandwidth of the second band is equal to transmission bandwidths of a synchronization channel, a broadcast channel, and a control channel in the base station (a bandwidth of a frequency block). In addition, the bandwidth of the second band is a bandwidth equal to or less than a receivable bandwidth of a terminal device that has the lowest performance among the plural terminal devices prepared in the system, the terminal devices having various receivable bandwidths, and determined in advance by the system. The mobile station uses the synchronization channel (SCH) to carry out cell search (step S302) . For example, the base station uses a predetermined frequency band out of the transmission band in order to transmit a downlink signal. For example, the base station transmits the synchronization channel using the second band including a center frequency on a raster of the first band. The mobile station receives the downlink signal. For example, the mobile station detects a band that includes the center frequency of the 20 MHz and has a bandwidth of 1.25 MHz or more, for example, 1.25 MHz or 5 MHz, out of the 20 MHz spectrum. When the base station uses a bandwidth of 20 MHz and the mobile station uses the same bandwidth of 20 MHz, the mobile station can easily find the center frequency of the 20 MHz band by the cell search. When the mobile station uses a bandwidth of 5 MHz whose center frequency is different from the center frequency of the 20 MHz band, the center frequency of the 20 MHz band is detected by carrying out correlation detection in accordance with a predetermined synchronization pattern. The correlation calculation makes it possible to detect the center of the band because a correlation value becomes smaller due to only one sub-carrier deviation. As the synchronization pattern, a PN code sequence, a Gold code sequence, and other various sequences may be used. For example, a 20 MHz band, a 10 MHz band, and a 5 MHz band are prepared in a cell where the mobile station exists, and the mobile station can use any one of the bands. Next, the mobile station receives the broadcast channel (BCH) transmitted from the base station and obtains frequency band information indicated by the base station by using the broadcast band (step S304). The base station maps the synchronization channel over all the sub-carriers and transmits the mapped signal. In addition, the base station transmits the synchronization channel to all the users using the 5 MHz band having the center frequency of the 20 MHz band at the center. The mobile station using the 5 MHz band can detect the center frequency of the broadcast channel and appropriately demodulate the broadcast channel transmitted in the 5 MHz band whose center corresponds to the center frequency. The broadcast channel includes center frequency information that makes it possible to identify a position of the center frequency of the 5 MHz band, which is used as a part of the 20 MHz band. Generally, the center frequency is not on a raster. The center frequency information may include information indicating how far the frequency is away from the frequency on the raster, for example. Next, the mobile station demodulates the broadcast channel, reads the center frequency information, and adjusts the frequency synthesizer in a radio portion in order to tune in the center of the 5 MHz band, which the mobile station uses, to the center frequency included in the center frequency information. Namely, the mobile station sets a carrier frequency to a band that includes the center frequency included in the center frequency information and has a bandwidth equal to or more than the bandwidth of the second band. Subsequently, the mobile station receives the control channel (CCH), using the designated band, for example, a rightmost band of 5 MHz out of the 20 MHz band, and starts communications (step S306). For example, the mobile station receives the CCH in the instructed band, refers to control information (paging information) that is included in the CCH and indicates the presence/absence of an incoming call to the mobile station, and starts communications when receiving the paging information to the mobile station. In addition, the mobile station updates the reception frequency band depending on instruction from the base station. Next, the mobile station carries out communications, using a data channel in the instructed band (step S308) . For example, the mobile station receives the CCH and the data channel in the instructed band in a predetermined period of time. In addition, the mobile station updates the reception frequency band depending on instruction from the base station. When the mobile station completes the communications using the data channel in the instructed band, the procedure returns to step S306. In step S306 and step S308, when the mobile station carries out the communications with the base station, using the rightmost band of 5 MHz, the mobile station once shifts the center frequency to the center of the transmission band and carries out peripheral cell search, in other words, detects an SCH and a BCH, in order to search peripheral cells during communications, as shown in FIG. 4. The mobile station swiftly returns the shifted center frequency to the original center frequency after the peripheral cell search, and resumes the communications. In this case, the base station allocates a band of 1.25 MHz or more that includes the center frequency on the raster of 20 MHz for the mobile station that carries out the peripheral cell search. Namely, when a mobile station carrying out communications using a frequency band, which is a part of the system bandwidth, for example, a mobile station carrying out communications using a frequency block that is not the frequency block including the center frequency of the system bandwidth carries out the peripheral cell search, frame timing (including symbol timing) is detected by using the SCH transmitted in the frequency block including the center frequency. In this case, a scramble code (cell ID) is sent through the control channel of the cell where the communications are carried out. According to this, the peripheral cell search using the SCH needs less time. As a result, high quality communications due to fast handover can be continued. In this case, the base station does not carry out allocation due to scheduling during which the mobile station may carry out the peripheral cell search. Alternatively, the base station sets up a time period when the allocation due to scheduling is not carried out in order to allow the mobile station to carry out the peripheral cell search, and the mobile station carries out the peripheral cell search during the time period. When the peripheral cell search is carried out, the SCH transmitted through a frequency block including the center frequency is required to be received in addition to the frequency block allocated for communications, as described above. By not carrying out the allocation due to the scheduling in a time period when the peripheral cell search is carried out, concurrent reception of different frequencies is not necessary in the mobile station, thereby simplifying a configuration of the reception apparatus. Next, a configuration of a transmission apparatus according to this embodiment is explained with reference to FIG. 5. The transmission apparatus is provided in, for example, the base station. A transmission apparatus 100 includes pilot channel signal generation portions 102i (1 L1/L2 control channel signal generation portions 104j_, paging channel signal generation portions 106i, and data channel signal generation portions 108i that are prepared depending on the number 2M (M: integer, 1 or greater) of frequency blocks; multiplexing portions 114i that are prepared depending on the number 2M of the frequency blocks and connected to the pilot channel signal generation portions 102i, the L1/L2 control channel signal generation portions 104i, the paging channel signal generation portions 106i, and the data channel signal generation portions 108j_; an IFFT 116 connected to the multiplexing portion 114i; a CP providing portion 118 connected to the IFFT 116i; and a synchronization channel (SCH) signal generation portion 110 and a broadcast channel signal generation portion 112 that are connected to the multiplexing portion 114M. The M-th frequency block includes the center frequency of the transmission bandwidth of the transmission apparatus 100. The pilot channel signal generation portions 102i generate pilot channel signals and output the pilot channel signals to the multiplexing portions 114i. The L1/L2 control channel signal generation portions 104i generate L1/L2 control channel signals and output the L1/L2 control channel signals to the multiplexing portions 114i. The paging channel signal generation portions 106i generate paging channel signals and output the paging channel signals to the multiplexing portions 114i. The data channel signal generation portions 108i generate data channel signals and output the data channel signals to the multiplexing portions 114i. The synchronization channel signal generation portion 110 generates a synchronization channel signal and outputs the synchronization channel signal to the multiplexing portion 114M. The broadcast channel signal generation portion 112 generates a broadcast channel signal and outputs the broadcast channel signal to the multiplexing portion 114M. The multiplexing portions 114i (i + M) corresponding to frequency blocks that are not the M-th frequency block multiplex the pilot channels that transmit the pilot channel signals, the L1/L2 control channels that transmit the L1/L2 control channel signals, the paging channels that transmit the paging channel signals, and the data channels that transmit the data channel signals, and output the multiplexed signal to the IFFT 116. In addition, the multiplexing portion 114M corresponding to the M-th frequency block multiplexes the pilot channel that transmits the pilot channel signal, the L1/L2 control channel that transmits the L1/L2 control channel signal, the paging channel that transmits the paging channel signal, the data channel that transmits the data channel signal, the synchronization channel that transmits the synchronization channel signal, and the broadcast channel that transmits the broadcast channel signal, and outputs the multiplexed signal to the IFFT 116. The IFFT 116 performs Inverse Fast Fourier Transformation on the multiplexed signal. The CP providing portion 118 provides a guard interval to the signal that has been modulated by the OFDM method after the Inverse Fast Fourier Transformation, and outputs symbols to be transmitted. Then, a signal form of the symbols to be transmitted is transformed into a signal form for transmitting in a radio frequency, and the transmission is carried out. In the transmission apparatus 100, the transmission bandwidth of the SCH may be 2n x a block bandwidth (n: integer, 1 or more). Because the SCH is transmitted by the center of the system bandwidth, the SCH may be mapped in only a part of the two frequency blocks in the center when the block bandwidth and the SCH bandwidth are identical, for example, when the block bandwidth is 1.25 MHz and the SCH bandwidth is 1.25 MHz, as shown in FIG. 6A. However, by setting the SCH transmission bandwidth to be 2n x the block bandwidth, the above problem, that is, a problem of the SCH being mapped in only a part of the central two frequency blocks can be solved, as shown in FIG. 6B. Next, a reception apparatus 200 according to this embodiment of the present invention is explained with reference to FIG. 7. The reception apparatus 200 is provided in, for example, a mobile station. The reception apparatus 200 includes a carrier frequency multiplication portion 202 to which a reception signal is input, a filtering portion 204 to which an output signal of the carrier frequency multiplication portion 202 is input, a switch 206 connected to the filtering portion 204, a peripheral cell search portion 218 and a communications portion 208 that are switchably connected to the switch 206, a handover determination portion 234 connected to the peripheral cell search portion 218, a peripheral cell search timing control portion 232 serving as a controller, and a carrier frequency setting portion 230 connected to the peripheral cell search timing control portion 232. Information indicating an allocation frequency block allocated to a connected cell is input to the carrier frequency setting portion 230, and information indicating a carrier frequency is input, to the carrier frequency multiplication portion 202. The peripheral cell search timing control portion 232 controls the switch 206. In addition, the communications portion 208 includes a synchronization detection portion 210 and a CP removal portion 212 that are connected to the switch 206, an FFT 214 connected to the CP removal portion 212, and a decoding portion 216 connected to the FFT 214. The synchronization detection portion 210 is connected to the CP removal portion 212. In addition, the peripheral cell search portion 218 includes a synchronization timing detection portion 220 that is connected to the switch 206 and serves as a synchronization channel detector, a CP removal portion 222 connected to the switch 206, an FFT 224 connected to the CP removal portion 222, and a cell ID detection portion 226 and a reception signal power measurement portion 228 that are connected to the FFT 224. The synchronization timing detection portion 220 is connected to the CP removal portion 222. The cell ID detection portion 226 and the reception signal power measurement portion 228 are connected to the handover determination portion 234. An output signal of the cell ID detection portion 226 is input to the reception signal power measurement portion 228. The reception signal is multiplied by a carrier frequency set by the carrier frequency setting portion 230 in the carrier frequency multiplication portion 202, and then filtered by the filtering portion 204 . The peripheral cell search timing control portion 232 controls the switch 206. The peripheral cell search timing control portion 232 switches the switch 206 so that communications or the peripheral cell search is carried out at an arbitrary timing. For example, the base station 100 informs the mobile station 200 of data allocation, for example, through the CCH, when data are allocated. The mobile station 200 determines whether there are data incoming to the same mobile station 200 in accordance with the received CCH. When it is determined in accordance with the paging information stored in the CCH as a result of the reception of the CCH that there are no data incoming to the mobile station 200, the mobile station 200 goes into a waiting state until reception of the next CCH. The peripheral cell search timing control portion 232 controls the switch 206 so that the peripheral cell search is carried out during the waiting state. Additionally, in this case, the peripheral cell search timing control portion 232 outputs to the carrier frequency setting portion 230 information indicating that the peripheral cell search is being carried out. When the carrier frequency setting portion 230 inputs the information, the carrier frequency setting portion 230 sets the frequency corresponding to the M-th frequency block including the center frequency of the transmission band of the connected cell, and outputs information indicating the frequency to the carrier frequency multiplication portion 202. In addition, when the peripheral cell search is being not carried out, the peripheral cell search timing control portion 232 outputs to the carrier frequency setting portion 230 information indicating that the communications are being carried out. When the carrier frequency setting portion 230 inputs the information, the carrier frequency setting portion 230 sets the frequency corresponding to the allocated frequency block in accordance with allocation frequency block information of the connected cell, and outputs information indicating the frequency to the carrier frequency multiplication portion 202. When the peripheral cell search is being carried out, the synchronization channel transmitted from a peripheral base station is used to detect a timing of the synchronization channel by the synchronization timing detection portion 220, and the CP is removed by the CP removal portion 222 in accordance with the detected timing. In addition, the signal after the CP removal undergoes the Fast Fourier Transformation in the FFT 224. The FFT 224 outputs plural sub-carrier signals. The cell ID detection portion 226 detects the cell ID (peripheral cell ID) from the signal that has undergone the Fast Fourier Transformation, and outputs information indicating the cell ID to the handover determination portion 234 and the reception signal power measurement portion 228. The reception signal power measurement portion 228 measures reception power of the signal that has undergone the Fast Fourier Transformation, corresponding to each of the cell IDs, and outputs information indicating the reception power (peripheral cell reception level) to the handover determination portion 234 . The handover determination portion 234 determines in accordance with the detected peripheral cell ID and the peripheral cell reception level corresponding to the detected peripheral cell whether the handover should be carried out. When it is determined that the handover should be carried out, the handover determination portion 234 feedbacks a handover request signal for requesting the handover to the base station. In addition, when the communications with the connected cell are being carried out, predetermined processes are carried out in the communications 208. The synchronization detection portion 210 carries out synchronization detection in accordance with the reception signal, and outputs information indicating the synchronization timing to the CP removal portion 212. The CP removal portion 212 removes the CP of the reception signal in accordance with the synchronization timing. The signal after the CP removal undergoes the Fast Fourier Transformation in the FFT 214, and is output to the decoding portion 216. The decoding portion 216 carries out a decoding process on the signal that has undergone the Fast Fourier Transformation, and outputs the decoding result. Specifically, the decoding portion 216 decodes the data channel, the paging channel, and the control channel of the allocated frequency band of the connected cell. As a result, the decoding result is output from the decoding portion 216. Next, the transmission apparatus 100 according to another embodiment of the present invention is explained. The transmission apparatus 100 according to this embodiment transmits the paging information through the frequency block including the center frequency of the entire band. As shown in FIG. 8, the transmission apparatus 100 is provided, for example, in a base station, and includes the pilot channel signal generation portions 102i (1 channel signal generation portions 104i, and the data channel signal generation portions 108i that are prepared depending on the number 2M (M: integer, 1 or greater) of frequency blocks; the multiplexing portions 114i that are prepared depending on the number 2M of the frequency blocks and connected to the pilot channel signal generation portions 102i, the L1/L2 control channel signal generation portions 104i, and the data channel signal generation portions 108i; the IFFT 116 connected to the multiplexing portion 114i; the CP providing portions 118 connected to the IFFT 116; and the synchronization channel (SCH) signal generation portion 110, the broadcast channel signal generation portion 112, and the paging channel signal generation portion 120 that are connected to the multiplexing portion 114M. The M-th frequency block includes the center frequency of the transmission bandwidth of the transmission apparatus 100. The pilot channel signal generation portions 102i generates the pilot channel signals and output the pilot channel signals to the multiplexing portions 114i. The L1/L2 control channel signal generation portions 104i generate the L1/L2 control channel signals and output the L1/L2 control channel signals to the multiplexing portion 114i. The data channel signal generation portions 108i generate the data channel signals and output the; data channel signals to the multiplexing portions 114i. The synchronization channel signal generation portion 110 generates the synchronization channel signal and outputs the synchronization channel signal to the multiplexing portion 114M. The broadcast channel signal generation portion 112 generates the broadcast channel and outputs the broadcast channel signal to the multiplexing portion 114M. The paging channel signal generation portion 120 generates the paging channel and outputs the paging channel to the multiplexing portion 114M. The multiplexing portions 114i (i ¥= M) corresponding to the frequency blocks that are not the M-th frequency block multiplex the pilot channels that transmit pilot channel signals, the L1/L2 control channels that transmit the L1/L2 control channel signals, and the data channels that transmit the data channel signals, and output the multiplexed signal to the IFFT 116. In addition, the multiplexing portion 114M corresponding to the M-th frequency block multiplexes the pilot channel that transmits the pilot channel signal, the L1/L2 control channel that transmits the L1/L2 control channel signal, the data channel that transmits the data channel signal, the synchronization channel that transmits the synchronization channel signal, the broadcast channel that transmits the broadcast channel signal and the paging channel that transmits the paging channel signal, and outputs the multiplexed signal to the IFFT 116. The IFFT 116 performs the Inverse Fast Fourier Transformation on the multiplexed signal. The CP providing portion 118 provides a guard interval to the signal that has been modulated by the OFDM method after the Inverse Fast Fourier Transformation, and outputs symbols to be transmitted. Then, a signal form of the symbols to be transmitted is transformed into a signal form for transmitting in a radio frequency, and the transmission is carried out. In the transmission apparatus 100, the transmission bandwidth of the SCH may be 2n x a block bandwidth (n: integer, 1 or more). Next, a reception apparatus 200 according to another embodiment of the present invention is explained. The reception apparatus 200 according to this embodiment has the same configuration as the reception apparatus explained with reference to FIG. 7. However, the switch 206 in the reception apparatus 200 in FIG. 7 is not necessary when the reception apparatus according to this embodiment is in a waiting state . The transmission apparatus 100 according to this embodiment transmits the paging information through the frequency block including the center frequency of the entire band. The mobile station 200 determines whether there are data incoming to the same mobile station 200 in accordance with the received CCH. When it is determined in accordance with the paging information stored in the CCH as a result of the reception of the CCH that there are no data incoming to the: mobile station 200, the mobile station 200 goes into a waiting state until reception of the next CCH. The peripheral cell search timing control portion 232 controls the switch 206 so that the peripheral cell search is carried out during the waiting state. According to the transmission apparatus 100 of this embodiment, because the paging information is transmitted through the frequency block including the center frequency of the entire band, the frequency band for the paging information can be made identical to the frequency band for the peripheral cell search. Therefore, when it is determined in accordance with the paging information that there are no data incoming to the mobile station 200, the peripheral cell search can be carried out without changing the carrier frequencies. In other words, time necessary for the frequency shifts from the frequency corresponding to the allocated frequency block of the connected cell to the frequency band including the center frequency of the transmission band of the base station and back to the frequency corresponding to the allocated frequency block of the connected cell can be saved. In addition, the peripheral cell search at the time of the waiting state can be simplified. Next, the transmission apparatus 100 according to yet another embodiment of the present invention is explained. Because the transmission apparatus 100 according to this embodiment has the same configuration as the transmission apparatus 100 explained with reference to FIG. 5, the explanation is omitted. Next, a reception apparatus 200 according to yet another embodiment of the present invention is explained. The reception apparatus 200 according to this embodiment has the same configuration as the reception apparatus explained with reference to FIG. 7. However, the switch 206 in the reception apparatus 200 in FIG. 7 is not necessary. The reception apparatus 100 allocates the frequency band including the center frequency of the transmission band of the base station for the mobile station at the timing of the cell search carried out by the mobile station. For the purpose of illustration, an example where the transmission band of the base station is divided into three frequency blocks is explained with reference to FIG. 9. However, the following explanation holds true when the transmission band of the base station is divided into two or four or more frequency blocks. Plural mobile stations are grouped, and the divided frequency blocks are allocated for the corresponding groups. The frequency blocks allocated for the corresponding groups are changed in a predetermined time cycle. For example, the base station divides all the users into plural groups, for example, three groups A, B, and C. A frequency block for the user group A is a frequency block 1, 2, 3, 1, ..., at the time t, t + 1, t + 2, t + 3, ..., respectively. In addition, a frequency block for the user group B is a frequency block 2, 3, 1, 2, ..., at the time t, t + 1, t + 2, t + 3, ..., respectively. A frequency block for the user group A is a frequency block 3, 1, 2, 3,..., at the time t, t + 1, t + 2, t + 3, ..., respectively. The base station changes the group to which the mobile station that requests execution of the peripheral cell search belongs, to the group for which the frequency block including the center frequency is allocated. For example, when the mobile station belonging to the user group A requests the execution of the peripheral cell search at the time t, the base station changes the user group to which the same mobile station belongs from the user group A to the user group B for which the frequency block including the center frequency of the transmission band of the connected cell is allocated at the time t, namely, the frequency block 2. In this case, the same mobile station continues to belong to the user group B after the cell seeirch is completed. In addition, the base station may temporarily allocate the frequency block including the center frequency for the mobile station requesting the execution of the peripheral cell search. For example, the base station exceptionally allocates the frequency block 2 for the same mobile station during a time period t, and returns the same mobile station to the user group A time t+1 to remain thereafter, This international patent application is based on Japanese Priority Application No. 2006-010498, filed on January 18, 2006 with the Japanese Patent Office, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated herein by reference. INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY A mobile station, a base station, and a transmission method according to the present invention are applicable to a radio communications system. 1. A base station carrying out communications with a mobile station with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method by using a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band, the base station comprising: an allocation portion that allocates for a mobile station performing peripheral cell search a band that includes a center frequency on a raster of a first band and has a bandwidth equal to or greater than a bandwidth of a second band with which a synchronization channel is transmitted. 2. The base station of claim 1, wherein a bandwidth of the first band is a bandwidth of a transmission signal band of the base station. 3. The base station of claim 1, wherein the bandwidth of the second band is transmission bandwidths of the synchronization channel, a broadcast channel, and a control channel in the base station. 4. The base station of claim 1, wherein a bandwidth of the first band is equal to or greater than the bandwidth of the second band. 5. The base station of claim 1, wherein the bandwidth of the second band is equal to or less than a receivable bandwidth of a terminal having a least performance among plural terminals that are prepared in a system and have various receivable bandwidths. 6. The base station of claim 1, further comprising a control information transmission portion that transmits control information indicating presence/absence of a call to the mobile station, using the second band including the center frequency on the raster of the first band. 7. The base station of claim 6, wherein the control information transmission portion transmits center frequency information identifying a center frequency of the second band by storing the center frequency information in the control information. 8. The base station of claim 1, wherein plural mobile stations are grouped; frequency blocks obtained by dividing the transmission band are allocated for each group' of the grouped plural mobile stations; and the allocation of the frequency blocks is changed in a predetermined time cycle, and wherein the allocation portion changes a group to which a mobile station that requests execution of peripheral cell search belongs, to a group for which a frequency block including the center frequency is allocated. 9. The base station of claim 1, wherein plural mobile stations are grouped; frequency blocks obtained by dividing the transmission band are allocated for each group of the grouped plural mobile stations; and the allocation of the frequency blocks are changed in a predetermined time cycle, and wherein the allocation portion temporarily allocates a frequency block including the center frequency for a mobile station that requests execution of the peripheral cell search. 10. A communications method of carrying out communications with a mobile station with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method by using a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band, the method comprising steps of: transmitting a synchronization channel with a second band including a center frequency on a raster of a first band; and allocating for a mobile station performing peripheral cell search a band that includes the center frequency on the raster of the first band and has a bandwidth equal to or greater than a bandwidth of a second band for transmitting the synchronization channel. 11. A mobile station that carries out communications with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method with a base station that carries out communications by using a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band, the mobile station comprising: a reception portion that receives a downlink signal transmitted using the predetermined frequency band; a synchronization channel detection portion that detects a synchronization channel transmitted with a second band including a center frequency on a raster of a first band; a carrier frequency setting portion that sets a carrier frequency in a band having a bandwidth equal to or greater than the second band having the center frequency when carrying out peripheral cell search; and a control portion that carries out switching control of the carrier frequency. 12 . The mobile station of claim 11, wherein the control portion switches the carrier frequency in a predetermined time cycle. 13 . The mobile station of claim 11, wherein the control portion switches the carrier frequency in accordance with control information indicating presence/absence of a call incoming to the mobile station. 14. A communications method of carrying out communications with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method with a base station that carries out communications by using a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band, the method comprising steps of: receiving a downlink signal transmitted using a predetermined frequency band; detecting a synchronization channel transmitted with a second band including a center frequency on a raster of a first band; setting a carrier frequency in a band having a bandwidth equal to or greater than a second band including the center frequency when carrying out peripheral cell search; and switching the carrier frequency. A base station carrying out communications with a mobile station with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method by using a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band is disclosed. The base station includes an allocation portion that allocates, for a mobile station performing peripheral cell search, a band that includes a center frequency on a raster of a first band and has a bandwidth equal to or greater than a bandwidth of a second band with which a synchronization channel is transmitted.

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DESCRIPTION
BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION AND
COMMUNICATIONS METHOD
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention generally relates to
a technical field of radio communications,
specifically to a base station, a mobile station, and
a communications method that can be used in various
bands.
BACKGROUND ART
In existing communications systems of
Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA),
Global System for Mobile communications, and the like,
a center frequency of frequency bands used for
communications is determined to coincide with a
predetermined frequency called a raster or a frequency
raster. The frequency rasters are arranged, for
example, every 200 kHz on a frequency axis.
Therefore, a mobile station can identify the
center frequency of an operator and thus connect to a
downlink by searching for the frequency rasters by turns
on the frequency axis (searching every 200 kHz) .
Downlink cell search is described in Keiji TACHIKAWA,
"W-CDMA mobile communications method", Maruzen, Inc.,
pp. 35-45.
SUMMARY OF INVENTION
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED BY THE INVENTION
A radio communications system based on an
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)

method that uses plural wide or narrow bands has been
in consideration. The OFDM method is employed because
this method can provide advantages of efficiently
suppressing multi-path propagation interference,
inter-symbol interference, and the like. In such radio
communications systems, a wideband of, for example, 20
MHz and a band (for example, 5 MHz), which is a part
of the wideband, are used depending on an apparatus
configuration of the mobile station, an apparatus
configuration of the base station, applications, and
the like, which allows various operators to provide
service.
For example, spectra in the OFDM method
radio communications system having plural bands are
shown in FIG. 1. Communications based on the OFDM
method can be carried out in both the wide transmission
band of 20 MHz and the narrow transmission band of 5
MHz in relation to the transmission bandwidth of 20 MHz.
In such radio communications systems, there
exist terminal devices having a receivable bandwidth
that is narrower than the transmission bandwidth of the
base station. For example, a terminal device having
a receivable bandwidth of 5 MHz carries out
communications using a frequency band including a
center frequency of the wide bandwidth of 20 MHz.
The objective of the present invention is
to provide a base station, a mobile station and a
transmission method that facilitate peripheral cell
detection in a mobile transmission system where the OFDM
method of communications is carried out in any one of
two or more frequency bands.
MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEM

In order to eliminate the above disadvantage,
a base station according to an embodiment of the present
invention 1 carries out communications with a mobile
station with an Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing (OFDM) method by using a predetermined
frequency band out of a transmission band, the base
station including an allocation portion that allocates
for a mobile station performing peripheral cell search
a band that includes a center frequency on a raster of
a first band and has a bandwidth equal to or wider than
a bandwidth of a second band with which a
synchronization channel is transmitted.
With such a configuration, the mobile
station can carry out the peripheral cell search using
the band including the center frequency.
A communications method according to an
embodiment of the present invention carries out
communications with a mobile station with an Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method by using
a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission
band, the method including steps of transmitting a
synchronization channel with a second band including
a center frequency on a raster of a first band, and
allocating for a mobile station performing peripheral
cell search a band that includes the center frequency
on the raster of the first band and has a bandwidth equal
to or greater than a bandwidth of a second band for
transmitting the synchronization channel.
With this, the mobile station can carry out
the peripheral cell search using the center frequency.
A mobile station according to an embodiment
of the present invention carries out communications due
to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

(OFDM) method with a base station that carries out
communications by using a predetermined frequency band
out of a transmission band, the mobile station including
a reception portion that receives a downlink signal
transmitted using the predetermined frequency band; a
synchronization channel detection portion that detects
a synchronization channel transmitted with a second
band including a center frequency on a raster of a first
band; a carrier frequency setting portion that sets a
carrier frequency in a band having a bandwidth equal
to or greater than the second band having the center
frequency when carrying out peripheral cell search; and
a control portion that carries out switching control
of the carrier frequency.
With such a configuration, the mobile
station can carry out the peripheral cell search due
to the synchronization channel transmitted with the
second band including the center frequency on a raster
of the first band.
A communications method according to an
embodiment of the present invention carries out
communications due to an Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing (OFDM) method with a base station that
carries out communications by using a predetermined
frequency band out of a transmission band, the method
including steps of receiving a downlink signal
transmitted using a predetermined frequency band;
detecting a synchronization channel transmitted with
a second band including a center frequency on a raster
of a first band; setting a carrier frequency in a band
having a bandwidth equal to or wider than a second band
including the center frequency when carrying out
peripheral cell search; and switching the carrier

frequency.
With this, the mobile station can carry out
the peripheral cell search due to the synchronization
transmitted with the second band including the center
frequency on the raster of the first band.
ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION
According to an embodiment of the present
invention, there can be realized a base station, a
mobile station, and a communications method that
facilitate peripheral cell detection in a mobile
communications system where the OFDM method of
communications is carried out in any one of one or more
frequency bands.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is an explanatory view illustrating the
spectrum of an OFDM method radio communications system
having plural bandwidths.
FIG. 2 is an explanatory view illustrating a cell
search method at the time of starting communications,
according to one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating shifting to a
band to be used after a cell search.
FIG. 4 is an explanatory view of the cell search
according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating a
transmission apparatus according to the embodiment of
the present invention.
FIG. 6A is an explanatory view illustrating an SCH
transmission bandwidth.
FIG. 6B is an explanatory view illustrating an SCH
transmission bandwidth.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram illustrating a reception
apparatus according to one embodiment of the present
invention.
FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a reception
apparatus according to one embodiment of the present
invention.
FIG. 9 is an explanatory view illustrating a
frequency block allocation method according to one
embodiment of the present invention.
LIST OF REFERENCE SYMBOLS
100: transmission apparatus
200: reception apparatus
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Based on the following embodiments, a best
mode for carrying out the present invention is described
with reference to the drawings.
The same reference marks are used for
elements having the same function in all the drawings
for explaining the embodiments, and repeated
explanations are omitted.
A radio communications system according to
one embodiment of the present invention is provided with
a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus.
The base station carries out communications
based on the Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing (OFDM) method with the mobile station,
using a predetermined frequency band out of a
transmission band.
In this embodiment, the base station uses
a bandwidth of 20 MHz and the mobile station uses a
bandwidth of 5 MHz, as one example. However, this

embodiment can be applied to a situation where a
terminal device uses a certain part of the transmission
band of the base station.
First, a cell search method at the time of
starting communications is explained with reference to
FIGS. 2 and 3.
The base station and the mobile station can
carry out communications using any one of various wide
or narrow frequency bands. In this embodiment, the
mobile station has a receivable bandwidth narrower than
the transmission bandwidth of the base station. In
this embodiment, a first band indicates a transmission
signal bandwidth of the base station, and a second band
indicates the narrowest receivable bandwidth among all
receivable bandwidths of all the mobile stations.
Therefore, the bandwidth of the first band is equal to
or greater than the bandwidth of the second bandwidth.
The bandwidth of the second band is equal to
transmission bandwidths of a synchronization channel,
a broadcast channel, and a control channel in the base
station (a bandwidth of a frequency block). In
addition, the bandwidth of the second band is a
bandwidth equal to or less than a receivable bandwidth
of a terminal device that has the lowest performance
among the plural terminal devices prepared in the system,
the terminal devices having various receivable
bandwidths, and determined in advance by the system.
The mobile station uses the synchronization
channel (SCH) to carry out cell search (step S302) . For
example, the base station uses a predetermined
frequency band out of the transmission band in order
to transmit a downlink signal. For example, the base
station transmits the synchronization channel using

the second band including a center frequency on a raster
of the first band. The mobile station receives the
downlink signal.
For example, the mobile station detects a
band that includes the center frequency of the 20 MHz
and has a bandwidth of 1.25 MHz or more, for example,
1.25 MHz or 5 MHz, out of the 20 MHz spectrum. When
the base station uses a bandwidth of 20 MHz and the
mobile station uses the same bandwidth of 20 MHz, the
mobile station can easily find the center frequency of
the 20 MHz band by the cell search.
When the mobile station uses a bandwidth of
5 MHz whose center frequency is different from the
center frequency of the 20 MHz band, the center
frequency of the 20 MHz band is detected by carrying
out correlation detection in accordance with a
predetermined synchronization pattern. The
correlation calculation makes it possible to detect the
center of the band because a correlation value becomes
smaller due to only one sub-carrier deviation. As the
synchronization pattern, a PN code sequence, a Gold code
sequence, and other various sequences may be used.
For example, a 20 MHz band, a 10 MHz band,
and a 5 MHz band are prepared in a cell where the mobile
station exists, and the mobile station can use any one
of the bands.
Next, the mobile station receives the
broadcast channel (BCH) transmitted from the base
station and obtains frequency band information
indicated by the base station by using the broadcast
band (step S304). The base station maps the
synchronization channel over all the sub-carriers and
transmits the mapped signal. In addition, the base

station transmits the synchronization channel to all
the users using the 5 MHz band having the center
frequency of the 20 MHz band at the center. The mobile
station using the 5 MHz band can detect the center
frequency of the broadcast channel and appropriately
demodulate the broadcast channel transmitted in the 5
MHz band whose center corresponds to the center
frequency. The broadcast channel includes center
frequency information that makes it possible to
identify a position of the center frequency of the 5
MHz band, which is used as a part of the 20 MHz band.
Generally, the center frequency is not on a raster. The
center frequency information may include information
indicating how far the frequency is away from the
frequency on the raster, for example.
Next, the mobile station demodulates the
broadcast channel, reads the center frequency
information, and adjusts the frequency synthesizer in
a radio portion in order to tune in the center of the
5 MHz band, which the mobile station uses, to the center
frequency included in the center frequency information.
Namely, the mobile station sets a carrier frequency to
a band that includes the center frequency included in
the center frequency information and has a bandwidth
equal to or more than the bandwidth of the second band.
Subsequently, the mobile station receives
the control channel (CCH), using the designated band,
for example, a rightmost band of 5 MHz out of the 20
MHz band, and starts communications (step S306). For
example, the mobile station receives the CCH in the
instructed band, refers to control information (paging
information) that is included in the CCH and indicates
the presence/absence of an incoming call to the mobile

station, and starts communications when receiving the
paging information to the mobile station. In addition,
the mobile station updates the reception frequency band
depending on instruction from the base station.
Next, the mobile station carries out
communications, using a data channel in the instructed
band (step S308) . For example, the mobile station
receives the CCH and the data channel in the instructed
band in a predetermined period of time. In addition,
the mobile station updates the reception frequency band
depending on instruction from the base station. When
the mobile station completes the communications using
the data channel in the instructed band, the procedure
returns to step S306.
In step S306 and step S308, when the mobile
station carries out the communications with the base
station, using the rightmost band of 5 MHz, the mobile
station once shifts the center frequency to the center
of the transmission band and carries out peripheral cell
search, in other words, detects an SCH and a BCH, in
order to search peripheral cells during communications,
as shown in FIG. 4. The mobile station swiftly returns
the shifted center frequency to the original center
frequency after the peripheral cell search, and resumes
the communications. In this case, the base station
allocates a band of 1.25 MHz or more that includes the
center frequency on the raster of 20 MHz for the mobile
station that carries out the peripheral cell search.
Namely, when a mobile station carrying out
communications using a frequency band, which is a part
of the system bandwidth, for example, a mobile station
carrying out communications using a frequency block
that is not the frequency block including the center

frequency of the system bandwidth carries out the
peripheral cell search, frame timing (including symbol
timing) is detected by using the SCH transmitted in the
frequency block including the center frequency. In
this case, a scramble code (cell ID) is sent through
the control channel of the cell where the communications
are carried out.
According to this, the peripheral cell
search using the SCH needs less time. As a result, high
quality communications due to fast handover can be
continued.
In this case, the base station does not carry
out allocation due to scheduling during which the mobile
station may carry out the peripheral cell search.
Alternatively, the base station sets up a time period
when the allocation due to scheduling is not carried
out in order to allow the mobile station to carry out
the peripheral cell search, and the mobile station
carries out the peripheral cell search during the time
period.
When the peripheral cell search is carried
out, the SCH transmitted through a frequency block
including the center frequency is required to be
received in addition to the frequency block allocated
for communications, as described above. By not
carrying out the allocation due to the scheduling in
a time period when the peripheral cell search is carried
out, concurrent reception of different frequencies is
not necessary in the mobile station, thereby
simplifying a configuration of the reception
apparatus.
Next, a configuration of a transmission
apparatus according to this embodiment is explained

with reference to FIG. 5. The transmission apparatus
is provided in, for example, the base station.
A transmission apparatus 100 includes pilot
channel signal generation portions 102i (1 L1/L2 control channel signal generation portions 104j_,
paging channel signal generation portions 106i, and
data channel signal generation portions 108i that are
prepared depending on the number 2M (M: integer, 1 or
greater) of frequency blocks; multiplexing portions
114i that are prepared depending on the number 2M of
the frequency blocks and connected to the pilot channel
signal generation portions 102i, the L1/L2 control
channel signal generation portions 104i, the paging
channel signal generation portions 106i, and the data
channel signal generation portions 108j_; an IFFT 116
connected to the multiplexing portion 114i; a CP
providing portion 118 connected to the IFFT 116i; and
a synchronization channel (SCH) signal generation
portion 110 and a broadcast channel signal generation
portion 112 that are connected to the multiplexing
portion 114M.
The M-th frequency block includes the center
frequency of the transmission bandwidth of the
transmission apparatus 100.
The pilot channel signal generation
portions 102i generate pilot channel signals and output
the pilot channel signals to the multiplexing portions
114i. The L1/L2 control channel signal generation
portions 104i generate L1/L2 control channel signals
and output the L1/L2 control channel signals to the
multiplexing portions 114i. The paging channel signal
generation portions 106i generate paging channel
signals and output the paging channel signals to the

multiplexing portions 114i. The data channel signal
generation portions 108i generate data channel signals
and output the data channel signals to the multiplexing
portions 114i. The synchronization channel signal
generation portion 110 generates a synchronization
channel signal and outputs the synchronization channel
signal to the multiplexing portion 114M. The broadcast
channel signal generation portion 112 generates a
broadcast channel signal and outputs the broadcast
channel signal to the multiplexing portion 114M.
The multiplexing portions 114i (i + M)
corresponding to frequency blocks that are not the M-th
frequency block multiplex the pilot channels that
transmit the pilot channel signals, the L1/L2 control
channels that transmit the L1/L2 control channel
signals, the paging channels that transmit the paging
channel signals, and the data channels that transmit
the data channel signals, and output the multiplexed
signal to the IFFT 116.
In addition, the multiplexing portion 114M
corresponding to the M-th frequency block multiplexes
the pilot channel that transmits the pilot channel
signal, the L1/L2 control channel that transmits the
L1/L2 control channel signal, the paging channel that
transmits the paging channel signal, the data channel
that transmits the data channel signal, the
synchronization channel that transmits the
synchronization channel signal, and the broadcast
channel that transmits the broadcast channel signal,
and outputs the multiplexed signal to the IFFT 116.
The IFFT 116 performs Inverse Fast Fourier
Transformation on the multiplexed signal.
The CP providing portion 118 provides a

guard interval to the signal that has been modulated
by the OFDM method after the Inverse Fast Fourier
Transformation, and outputs symbols to be transmitted.
Then, a signal form of the symbols to be transmitted
is transformed into a signal form for transmitting in
a radio frequency, and the transmission is carried out.
In the transmission apparatus 100, the
transmission bandwidth of the SCH may be 2n x a block
bandwidth (n: integer, 1 or more).
Because the SCH is transmitted by the center
of the system bandwidth, the SCH may be mapped in only
a part of the two frequency blocks in the center when
the block bandwidth and the SCH bandwidth are identical,
for example, when the block bandwidth is 1.25 MHz and
the SCH bandwidth is 1.25 MHz, as shown in FIG. 6A.
However, by setting the SCH transmission
bandwidth to be 2n x the block bandwidth, the above
problem, that is, a problem of the SCH being mapped in
only a part of the central two frequency blocks can be
solved, as shown in FIG. 6B.
Next, a reception apparatus 200 according
to this embodiment of the present invention is explained
with reference to FIG. 7. The reception apparatus 200
is provided in, for example, a mobile station.
The reception apparatus 200 includes a
carrier frequency multiplication portion 202 to which
a reception signal is input, a filtering portion 204
to which an output signal of the carrier frequency
multiplication portion 202 is input, a switch 206
connected to the filtering portion 204, a peripheral
cell search portion 218 and a communications portion
208 that are switchably connected to the switch 206,
a handover determination portion 234 connected to the

peripheral cell search portion 218, a peripheral cell
search timing control portion 232 serving as a
controller, and a carrier frequency setting portion 230
connected to the peripheral cell search timing control
portion 232. Information indicating an allocation
frequency block allocated to a connected cell is input
to the carrier frequency setting portion 230, and
information indicating a carrier frequency is input, to
the carrier frequency multiplication portion 202. The
peripheral cell search timing control portion 232
controls the switch 206.
In addition, the communications portion 208
includes a synchronization detection portion 210 and
a CP removal portion 212 that are connected to the switch
206, an FFT 214 connected to the CP removal portion 212,
and a decoding portion 216 connected to the FFT 214.
The synchronization detection portion 210 is connected
to the CP removal portion 212.
In addition, the peripheral cell search
portion 218 includes a synchronization timing
detection portion 220 that is connected to the switch
206 and serves as a synchronization channel detector,
a CP removal portion 222 connected to the switch 206,
an FFT 224 connected to the CP removal portion 222, and
a cell ID detection portion 226 and a reception signal
power measurement portion 228 that are connected to the
FFT 224. The synchronization timing detection portion
220 is connected to the CP removal portion 222. The
cell ID detection portion 226 and the reception signal
power measurement portion 228 are connected to the
handover determination portion 234. An output signal
of the cell ID detection portion 226 is input to the
reception signal power measurement portion 228.

The reception signal is multiplied by a
carrier frequency set by the carrier frequency setting
portion 230 in the carrier frequency multiplication
portion 202, and then filtered by the filtering portion
204 .
The peripheral cell search timing control
portion 232 controls the switch 206. The peripheral
cell search timing control portion 232 switches the
switch 206 so that communications or the peripheral cell
search is carried out at an arbitrary timing. For
example, the base station 100 informs the mobile station
200 of data allocation, for example, through the CCH,
when data are allocated. The mobile station 200
determines whether there are data incoming to the same
mobile station 200 in accordance with the received CCH.
When it is determined in accordance with the paging
information stored in the CCH as a result of the
reception of the CCH that there are no data incoming
to the mobile station 200, the mobile station 200 goes
into a waiting state until reception of the next CCH.
The peripheral cell search timing control portion 232
controls the switch 206 so that the peripheral cell
search is carried out during the waiting state.
Additionally, in this case, the peripheral
cell search timing control portion 232 outputs to the
carrier frequency setting portion 230 information
indicating that the peripheral cell search is being
carried out. When the carrier frequency setting
portion 230 inputs the information, the carrier
frequency setting portion 230 sets the frequency
corresponding to the M-th frequency block including the
center frequency of the transmission band of the
connected cell, and outputs information indicating the

frequency to the carrier frequency multiplication
portion 202.
In addition, when the peripheral cell search
is being not carried out, the peripheral cell search
timing control portion 232 outputs to the carrier
frequency setting portion 230 information indicating
that the communications are being carried out. When
the carrier frequency setting portion 230 inputs the
information, the carrier frequency setting portion 230
sets the frequency corresponding to the allocated
frequency block in accordance with allocation
frequency block information of the connected cell, and
outputs information indicating the frequency to the
carrier frequency multiplication portion 202.
When the peripheral cell search is being
carried out, the synchronization channel transmitted
from a peripheral base station is used to detect a timing
of the synchronization channel by the synchronization
timing detection portion 220, and the CP is removed by
the CP removal portion 222 in accordance with the
detected timing. In addition, the signal after the CP
removal undergoes the Fast Fourier Transformation in
the FFT 224. The FFT 224 outputs plural sub-carrier
signals.
The cell ID detection portion 226 detects
the cell ID (peripheral cell ID) from the signal that
has undergone the Fast Fourier Transformation, and
outputs information indicating the cell ID to the
handover determination portion 234 and the reception
signal power measurement portion 228.
The reception signal power measurement
portion 228 measures reception power of the signal that
has undergone the Fast Fourier Transformation,

corresponding to each of the cell IDs, and outputs
information indicating the reception power (peripheral
cell reception level) to the handover determination
portion 234 .
The handover determination portion 234
determines in accordance with the detected peripheral
cell ID and the peripheral cell reception level
corresponding to the detected peripheral cell whether
the handover should be carried out. When it is
determined that the handover should be carried out, the
handover determination portion 234 feedbacks a
handover request signal for requesting the handover to
the base station.
In addition, when the communications with
the connected cell are being carried out, predetermined
processes are carried out in the communications 208.
The synchronization detection portion 210
carries out synchronization detection in accordance
with the reception signal, and outputs information
indicating the synchronization timing to the CP removal
portion 212. The CP removal portion 212 removes the
CP of the reception signal in accordance with the
synchronization timing. The signal after the CP
removal undergoes the Fast Fourier Transformation in
the FFT 214, and is output to the decoding portion 216.
The decoding portion 216 carries out a decoding process
on the signal that has undergone the Fast Fourier
Transformation, and outputs the decoding result.
Specifically, the decoding portion 216 decodes the data
channel, the paging channel, and the control channel
of the allocated frequency band of the connected cell.
As a result, the decoding result is output from the
decoding portion 216.

Next, the transmission apparatus 100
according to another embodiment of the present
invention is explained.
The transmission apparatus 100 according to
this embodiment transmits the paging information
through the frequency block including the center
frequency of the entire band.
As shown in FIG. 8, the transmission
apparatus 100 is provided, for example, in a base
station, and includes the pilot channel signal
generation portions 102i (1 channel signal generation portions 104i, and the data
channel signal generation portions 108i that are
prepared depending on the number 2M (M: integer, 1 or
greater) of frequency blocks; the multiplexing
portions 114i that are prepared depending on the number
2M of the frequency blocks and connected to the pilot
channel signal generation portions 102i, the L1/L2
control channel signal generation portions 104i, and
the data channel signal generation portions 108i; the
IFFT 116 connected to the multiplexing portion 114i;
the CP providing portions 118 connected to the IFFT 116;
and the synchronization channel (SCH) signal
generation portion 110, the broadcast channel signal
generation portion 112, and the paging channel signal
generation portion 120 that are connected to the
multiplexing portion 114M.
The M-th frequency block includes the center
frequency of the transmission bandwidth of the
transmission apparatus 100.
The pilot channel signal generation
portions 102i generates the pilot channel signals and
output the pilot channel signals to the multiplexing

portions 114i. The L1/L2 control channel signal
generation portions 104i generate the L1/L2 control
channel signals and output the L1/L2 control channel
signals to the multiplexing portion 114i. The data
channel signal generation portions 108i generate the
data channel signals and output the; data channel signals
to the multiplexing portions 114i.
The synchronization channel signal
generation portion 110 generates the synchronization
channel signal and outputs the synchronization channel
signal to the multiplexing portion 114M. The broadcast
channel signal generation portion 112 generates the
broadcast channel and outputs the broadcast channel
signal to the multiplexing portion 114M. The paging
channel signal generation portion 120 generates the
paging channel and outputs the paging channel to the
multiplexing portion 114M.
The multiplexing portions 114i (i ¥= M)
corresponding to the frequency blocks that are not the
M-th frequency block multiplex the pilot channels that
transmit pilot channel signals, the L1/L2 control
channels that transmit the L1/L2 control channel
signals, and the data channels that transmit the data
channel signals, and output the multiplexed signal to
the IFFT 116.
In addition, the multiplexing portion 114M
corresponding to the M-th frequency block multiplexes
the pilot channel that transmits the pilot channel
signal, the L1/L2 control channel that transmits the
L1/L2 control channel signal, the data channel that
transmits the data channel signal, the synchronization
channel that transmits the synchronization channel
signal, the broadcast channel that transmits the

broadcast channel signal and the paging channel that
transmits the paging channel signal, and outputs the
multiplexed signal to the IFFT 116.
The IFFT 116 performs the Inverse Fast
Fourier Transformation on the multiplexed signal.
The CP providing portion 118 provides a
guard interval to the signal that has been modulated
by the OFDM method after the Inverse Fast Fourier
Transformation, and outputs symbols to be transmitted.
Then, a signal form of the symbols to be transmitted
is transformed into a signal form for transmitting in
a radio frequency, and the transmission is carried out.
In the transmission apparatus 100, the
transmission bandwidth of the SCH may be 2n x a block
bandwidth (n: integer, 1 or more).
Next, a reception apparatus 200 according
to another embodiment of the present invention is
explained. The reception apparatus 200 according to
this embodiment has the same configuration as the
reception apparatus explained with reference to FIG.
7. However, the switch 206 in the reception apparatus
200 in FIG. 7 is not necessary when the reception
apparatus according to this embodiment is in a waiting
state .
The transmission apparatus 100 according to
this embodiment transmits the paging information
through the frequency block including the center
frequency of the entire band. The mobile station 200
determines whether there are data incoming to the same
mobile station 200 in accordance with the received CCH.
When it is determined in accordance with the paging
information stored in the CCH as a result of the
reception of the CCH that there are no data incoming

to the: mobile station 200, the mobile station 200 goes
into a waiting state until reception of the next CCH.
The peripheral cell search timing control portion 232
controls the switch 206 so that the peripheral cell
search is carried out during the waiting state.
According to the transmission apparatus 100
of this embodiment, because the paging information is
transmitted through the frequency block including the
center frequency of the entire band, the frequency band
for the paging information can be made identical to the
frequency band for the peripheral cell search.
Therefore, when it is determined in accordance with the
paging information that there are no data incoming to
the mobile station 200, the peripheral cell search can
be carried out without changing the carrier frequencies.
In other words, time necessary for the frequency shifts
from the frequency corresponding to the allocated
frequency block of the connected cell to the frequency
band including the center frequency of the transmission
band of the base station and back to the frequency
corresponding to the allocated frequency block of the
connected cell can be saved. In addition, the
peripheral cell search at the time of the waiting state
can be simplified.
Next, the transmission apparatus 100
according to yet another embodiment of the present
invention is explained.
Because the transmission apparatus 100
according to this embodiment has the same configuration
as the transmission apparatus 100 explained with
reference to FIG. 5, the explanation is omitted.
Next, a reception apparatus 200 according
to yet another embodiment of the present invention is

explained. The reception apparatus 200 according to
this embodiment has the same configuration as the
reception apparatus explained with reference to FIG.
7. However, the switch 206 in the reception apparatus
200 in FIG. 7 is not necessary.
The reception apparatus 100 allocates the
frequency band including the center frequency of the
transmission band of the base station for the mobile
station at the timing of the cell search carried out
by the mobile station.
For the purpose of illustration, an example
where the transmission band of the base station is
divided into three frequency blocks is explained with
reference to FIG. 9. However, the following
explanation holds true when the transmission band of
the base station is divided into two or four or more
frequency blocks.
Plural mobile stations are grouped, and the
divided frequency blocks are allocated for the
corresponding groups. The frequency blocks allocated
for the corresponding groups are changed in a
predetermined time cycle.
For example, the base station divides all
the users into plural groups, for example, three groups
A, B, and C.
A frequency block for the user group A is
a frequency block 1, 2, 3, 1, ..., at the time t, t + 1,
t + 2, t + 3, ..., respectively. In addition, a frequency
block for the user group B is a frequency block 2, 3,
1, 2, ..., at the time t, t + 1, t + 2, t + 3, ..., respectively.
A frequency block for the user group A is a frequency
block 3, 1, 2, 3,..., at the time t, t + 1, t + 2, t + 3, ...,
respectively.

The base station changes the group to which
the mobile station that requests execution of the
peripheral cell search belongs, to the group for which
the frequency block including the center frequency is
allocated. For example, when the mobile station
belonging to the user group A requests the execution
of the peripheral cell search at the time t, the base
station changes the user group to which the same mobile
station belongs from the user group A to the user group
B for which the frequency block including the center
frequency of the transmission band of the connected cell
is allocated at the time t, namely, the frequency block
2. In this case, the same mobile station continues to
belong to the user group B after the cell seeirch is
completed.
In addition, the base station may
temporarily allocate the frequency block including the
center frequency for the mobile station requesting the
execution of the peripheral cell search. For example,
the base station exceptionally allocates the frequency
block 2 for the same mobile station during a time period
t, and returns the same mobile station to the user group
A time t+1 to remain thereafter,
This international patent application is
based on Japanese Priority Application No. 2006-010498,
filed on January 18, 2006 with the Japanese Patent
Office, the entire contents of which are hereby
incorporated herein by reference.
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY
A mobile station, a base station, and a
transmission method according to the present invention
are applicable to a radio communications system.

1. A base station carrying out communications with a
mobile station with an Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing (OFDM) method by using a predetermined
frequency band out of a transmission band, the base
station comprising:
an allocation portion that allocates for a mobile
station performing peripheral cell search a band that
includes a center frequency on a raster of a first band
and has a bandwidth equal to or greater than a bandwidth
of a second band with which a synchronization channel
is transmitted.
2. The base station of claim 1, wherein a bandwidth
of the first band is a bandwidth of a transmission signal
band of the base station. 3. The base station of claim 1, wherein the bandwidth
of the second band is transmission bandwidths of the
synchronization channel, a broadcast channel, and a
control channel in the base station.
4. The base station of claim 1, wherein a bandwidth
of the first band is equal to or greater than the
bandwidth of the second band.
5. The base station of claim 1, wherein the bandwidth
of the second band is equal to or less than a receivable

bandwidth of a terminal having a least performance among
plural terminals that are prepared in a system and have
various receivable bandwidths.
6. The base station of claim 1, further comprising a
control information transmission portion that
transmits control information indicating
presence/absence of a call to the mobile station, using
the second band including the center frequency on the
raster of the first band.
7. The base station of claim 6, wherein the control
information transmission portion transmits center
frequency information identifying a center frequency
of the second band by storing the center frequency
information in the control information.
8. The base station of claim 1, wherein plural mobile
stations are grouped; frequency blocks obtained by
dividing the transmission band are allocated for each
group' of the grouped plural mobile stations; and the
allocation of the frequency blocks is changed in a
predetermined time cycle, and
wherein the allocation portion changes a group to
which a mobile station that requests execution of
peripheral cell search belongs, to a group for which
a frequency block including the center frequency is
allocated.

9. The base station of claim 1, wherein plural mobile
stations are grouped; frequency blocks obtained by
dividing the transmission band are allocated for each
group of the grouped plural mobile stations; and the
allocation of the frequency blocks are changed in a
predetermined time cycle, and
wherein the allocation portion temporarily
allocates a frequency block including the center
frequency for a mobile station that requests execution
of the peripheral cell search.
10. A communications method of carrying out
communications with a mobile station with an Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method by using
a predetermined frequency band out of a transmission
band, the method comprising steps of:
transmitting a synchronization channel with a
second band including a center frequency on a raster
of a first band; and
allocating for a mobile station performing
peripheral cell search a band that includes the center
frequency on the raster of the first band and has a
bandwidth equal to or greater than a bandwidth of a
second band for transmitting the synchronization
channel.
11. A mobile station that carries out communications
with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
(OFDM) method with a base station that carries out
communications by using a predetermined frequency band
out of a transmission band, the mobile station

comprising:
a reception portion that receives a downlink
signal transmitted using the predetermined frequency
band;
a synchronization channel detection portion that
detects a synchronization channel transmitted with a
second band including a center frequency on a raster
of a first band;
a carrier frequency setting portion that sets a
carrier frequency in a band having a bandwidth equal
to or greater than the second band having the center
frequency when carrying out peripheral cell search; and
a control portion that carries out switching
control of the carrier frequency.
12 . The mobile station of claim 11, wherein the control
portion switches the carrier frequency in a
predetermined time cycle.
13 . The mobile station of claim 11, wherein the control
portion switches the carrier frequency in accordance
with control information indicating presence/absence
of a call incoming to the mobile station.
14. A communications method of carrying out
communications with an Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing (OFDM) method with a base station that
carries out communications by using a predetermined
frequency band out of a transmission band, the method
comprising steps of:

receiving a downlink signal transmitted using a
predetermined frequency band;
detecting a synchronization channel transmitted
with a second band including a center frequency on a
raster of a first band;
setting a carrier frequency in a band having a
bandwidth equal to or greater than a second band
including the center frequency when carrying out
peripheral cell search; and
switching the carrier frequency.

A base station carrying out communications
with a mobile station with an Orthogonal Frequency
Division Multiplexing (OFDM) method by using a
predetermined frequency band out of a transmission band
is disclosed. The base station includes an allocation
portion that allocates, for a mobile station performing
peripheral cell search, a band that includes a center
frequency on a raster of a first band and has a bandwidth
equal to or greater than a bandwidth of a second band
with which a synchronization channel is transmitted.

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Patent Number

268390

Indian Patent Application Number

2604/KOLNP/2008

PG Journal Number

36/2015

Publication Date

04-Sep-2015

Grant Date

27-Aug-2015

Date of Filing

26-Jun-2008

Name of Patentee

NTT DOCOMO, INC.

Applicant Address

11-1, NAGATACHO 2-CHOME CHIYODA-KU, TOKYO 100-6150,

Inventors:

#	Inventor's Name	Inventor's Address
1	HIGUCHI KENICHI	C/O INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DEPARTMENT, NTT DOCOMO, INC. SANNO PARK TOWER, 11-1 NAGATACHO 2-CHOME,, CHIYODA-KU, TOKYO 100-6150
2	SAWAHASHI MAMORU	C/O INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DEPARTMENT, NTT DOCOMO, INC. SANNO PARK TOWER, 11-1 NAGATACHO 2-CHOME,, CHIYODA-KU, TOKYO 100-6150

PCT International Classification Number

H04J 11/00,H04B 7/26

PCT International Application Number

PCT/JP2007/050260

PCT International Filing date

2007-01-11

PCT Conventions:

#	PCT Application Number	Date of Convention	Priority Country
1	2006-010498	2006-01-18	Japan