Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10716028-B2
Application number	US-201615565379-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 25, 2016
Priority date	May 15, 2015
Publication date	Jul 14, 2020
Grant date	Jul 14, 2020

Abstract

Provided is a wireless communication apparatus capable of improving communication quality and reducing a communication time delay in a case of communicating data over a backhaul line. The wireless communication apparatus is a wireless communication apparatus which communicates with another wireless communication apparatus over a wireless backhaul line in which a plurality of wireless communication schemes are mixed and used, and includes a processor that determines whether or not to add redundant data to data, in accordance with an allowable delay time of the data, and an antenna that transmits the data by adding or not adding the redundant data to the data, in accordance with a result of the determination.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wireless communication apparatus which communicates with another wireless communication apparatus over a wireless backhaul line in which a plurality of wireless communication schemes are mixed and used, the wireless communication apparatus comprising:
a processor, and
MIMO (Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output) antennas coupled to the processor,
wherein the processor, in operation,
classifies data into first data in which allowable delay time is equal to or shorter than a predetermined time, and a second data in which the allowable delay time is longer than the predetermined time,
determines, with respect to the second data, whether or not a required number of packets for FEC (Forward Error Correction) coding is acquired,
in response to determining that the required number of packets for FEC coding is acquired for the second data, adds FEC redundant data to the second data to thereby reduce a retransmission rate of the second data, and determines not to add FEC redundant data to the first data; and
allocates the first data and the second data to MIMO antennas according to a defined MIMO transmission scheme; and
wherein the MIMO antennas, in operation, transmit the first data, to which FEC redundant data is not added, and the second data, to which FEC redundant data is added.

2. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein the processor, in response to determining that an amount of the data is equal to or larger than a line capacity of the wireless backhaul line, allocates radio resources to the first data in preference to the second data.

3. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 2 ,
wherein the processor, in response to determining that the amount of the data is equal to or larger than a line capacity of the wireless backhaul line, allocates radio resources to the second data within a capping range, in which a sum amount of the first data and the second data does not exceed the line capacity.

4. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein the first data to which FEC redundant data is not added includes abnormality detection data indicative of detection of an abnormality in an image taken by a surveillance camera coupled to a monitoring center apparatus in a surveillance system, and the second data to which FEC redundant data is added includes image data in which no abnormality is detected in the surveillance system.

5. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein the first data to which FEC redundant data is not added includes settlement input information and settlement confirmation information in a transaction processing system in which an automated teller machine and a central server are coupled, and the second data to which FEC redundant data is added includes book entry to record the settlement in the transaction processing system.

6. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the MIMO transmission scheme is defined by at least one of: a number of MIMO transmission streams allocated to the MIMO antennas, transmission powers of the MIMO antennas, and beamforming based on the MIMO antennas.

7. A wireless communication method of a wireless communication apparatus which communicates with another wireless communication apparatus over a wireless backhaul line in which a plurality of wireless communication schemes are mixed and used, the method comprising
classifying data into first data in which allowable delay time is equal to or shorter than a predetermined time, and a second data in which the allowable delay time is longer than the predetermined time,
determining, with respect to the second data, whether or not a required number of packets for FEC (Forward Error Correction) coding is acquired,
in response to determining that the required number of packets for FEC coding is acquired for the second data, adding FEC redundant data to the second data to thereby reduce a retransmission rate of the second data, and determining not to add FEC redundant data to the first data,
allocating the first data and the second data to MIMO (Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output) antennas according to a defined MIMO transmission scheme, and
transmitting, via the MIMO antennas, the first data, to which FEC redundant data is not added, and the second data, to which FEC redundant data is added.

8. The wireless communication method of claim 7 , comprising:
in response to determining that an amount of the data is equal to or larger than a line capacity of the wireless backhaul line, allocating radio resources to the first data in preference to the second data.

9. The wireless communication method of claim 8 , comprising:
in response to determining that the amount of the data is equal to or larger than a line capacity of the wireless backhaul line, allocating radio resources to the second data within a capping range, in which a sum amount of the first data and the second data does not exceed the line capacity.

10. The wireless communication method of claim 7 ,
wherein the first data to which FEC redundant data is not added includes abnormality detection data indicative of detection of an abnormality in an image taken by a surveillance camera coupled to a monitoring center apparatus in a surveillance system, and the second data to which FEC redundant data is added includes image data in which no abnormality is detected in the surveillance system.

11. The wireless communication method of claim 7 ,
wherein the first data to which FEC redundant data is not added includes settlement input information and settlement confirmation information in a transaction processing system in which an automated teller machine and a central server are coupled, and the second data to which FEC redundant data is added includes book entry to record the settlement in the transaction processing system.

12. The wireless communication method of claim 7 , wherein the MIMO transmission scheme is defined by at least one of: a number of MIMO transmission streams allocated to the MIMO antennas, transmission powers of the MIMO antennas, and beamforming based on the MIMO antennas.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kato Osamu

Classifications

• H04W72/54

  based on quality criteria · CPC title

• H03M13/353 Primary

  Adaptation to the channel · CPC title

• H04W28/0236

  radio quality, e.g. interference, losses or delay · CPC title

• H04W28/18

  Negotiating wireless communication parameters · CPC title

• H04W16/32

  Hierarchical cell structures · CPC title