US Patent 7912030 Base station and communication system

A base station includes: a first reception timing detecting unit configured to detect a reception timing of a packet received from a first mobile station of multiple mobile stations which is situated in a first sector; a second reception timing detecting unit configured to detect a reception timing of a packet received from a second mobile station of the multiple mobile stations which is situated in a second sector; a transmission timing determining unit configured to determine transmission timings of signals transmitted from the first mobile station and the second mobile station based on the reception timings detected by the first reception timing detecting unit and the second reception timing detecting unit; a control information generating unit configured to generate transmission timing control information for the first mobile station and the second mobile station based on the transmission timings; and a radio resource allocating unit configured to allocate orthogonal radio resources to the first mobile station and the second mobile station.