COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR DISCRETE-FOURIER-TRANSFORMING A TIME DOMAIN SYMBOL TO A FREQUENCY DOMAIN SIGNAL AND MAPPING THE TRANSFORMED SIGNAL ON FREQUENCY BANDS

摘要

Provided is a radio communication device which can reduce ISI caused by destruction of an orthogonal DFT matrix even when an SC-FDMA signal is divided into a plurality of clusters and the clusters are respectively mapped to discontinuous frequency bands. The radio communication device includes a DFT unit (110), a division unit (111), and a mapping unit (112). The DFT unit (110) uses the DFT matrix to execute a DFT process on a symbol sequence in a time region to generate a signal (SC-FDMA signal) of the frequency region. The division unit (111) generates a plurality of clusters by dividing the SC-FDMA signal with a partially orthogonal bandwidth corresponding to the vector length of some of the column vectors constituting the DFT matrix used in the DFT unit (110) and orthogonally intersecting at least partially. The mapping unit (112) maps the clusters to discontinuous frequency bands.

主权项

1. A communication apparatus comprising:
a receiver which, in operation, receives signals mapped on a plurality of frequency bands in a frequency domain, each frequency band including a plurality of subcarriers, each frequency band being located at a position separate from position(s) of other(s) of the plurality of frequency bands, and a size of at least one of the plurality of frequency bands being a multiple of a product of two or more powers of prime numbers, the prime numbers being integer numbers that are greater than 1 and are different from each other, an exponent for at least one of the prime numbers being an integer greater than 1; a combiner which, in operation, combines the received signals into a combined signal; and a transformer which, in operation, transforms the combined signal in the frequency domain into a symbol sequence in a time domain with an inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) having a size that is a product of powers of a plurality of values, the plurality of values being integer numbers that are greater than 1 and are different from each other, an exponent for at least one of the plurality of values being an integer greater than 1.