WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASE STATION APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MOBILE STATION APPARATUS AND PILOT SIGNAL SEQUENCE ALLOCATING METHOD IN MULTICARRIER COMMUNICATION

摘要

A wireless communication apparatus wherein even if the number of sectors or cells is increased in a multicarrier communication, the orthogonality between the pilot signal sequences between adjacent sectors or cells can be prevented from collapsing due to a frequency selectivity fading, thereby improving the reception characteristic. In this apparatus, modulating parts (102-1 to 102-m) modulate encoded data to generate data symbols, and a pilot symbol generating part (103) modulates a received pilot signal sequence to generate pilot symbols. A multiplexing part (104) time multiplexes the pilot symbols and the data symbols. OVSF sequences are used as the pilot signal sequences. The pilot symbol generating part (103) receives an OVSF sequence, among a plurality of OVSF sequences having the same sequence length but being orthogonal to each other, which is orthogonal to an OVSF sequence used as a pilot signal sequence in an adjacent sector and which is orthogonal to that OVSF sequence in a unit shorter than the sequence length.