US 7,519,028 B2
Channel structure, method forming the same, radio base station, mobile station in mobile communication system
Masafumi Usuda, Yokosuka (Japan); Takehiro Nakamura, Yokosuka (Japan); and Sadayuki Abeta, Yokosuka (Japan)
Assigned to NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 05, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/378,912.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-059444 (JP), filed on Mar. 05, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2003/0169707 A1, Sep. 11, 2003
Int. Cl. H04Q 7/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 370—334 1 Claim
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A radio base station for transmitting downlink packet data to one of a plurality of mobile stations using a shared channel together with an associated dedicated channel used in association with the shared channel, said shared channel being shared by said plurality of mobile stations and allocated to each of said plurality of mobile station per predetermined unit transmission, comprising:
a first pilot channel setting unit configured to set a secondary common pilot channel as a first pilot channel used for channel estimation of said shared channel;
a second pilot channel setting unit configured to set a dedicated pilot in the associated dedicated channel as a second pilot channel used for channel estimation of said associated dedicated channel; and
a beam direction controlling unit configured to switch the beam direction per predetermined unit transmission of the shared channel and bring the beam direction to point at said one mobile station to which said secondary common pilot channel is allocated by the first pilot channel setting unit.