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Radio communication apparatus and radio communication method

US8224369B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 29, 2009
Grant dateJul 17, 2012
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Expiry dateMar 17, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W52/346
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A disclosed radio communication apparatus includes a precoding unit, a optimum transmit power calculation unit and a transmission unit. The optimum transmit power calculation unit receives the transmit weight related information from the precoding unit and calculates a transmit power level to optimize an objective function in accordance with an interior point method. The objective function results from addition of a barrier function adjusted with a barrier parameter to an original objective function associated with a constrained optimization problem. The original objective function includes a function of respective channel capacities for individual users derived from the transmit weight related information. The optimum transmit power calculation unit adaptively updates a logarithm of the barrier parameter and uses a gradient obtained through a high-order derivative with the logarithm of the barrier parameter to calculate the transmit power level to optimize the resulting objective function.

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