The total amount of power for communications transmitted over channels
susceptible to quality fluctuation is decreased to reduce interference
with other communications and increase the system's overall capacity.
When channel-encoded data is to be transmitted, the quality of a
transmission channel is judged. The data is transmitted when the judged
quality is higher than predefined. However, if the quality is lower than
predefined, the data transmission to a wireless section is suppressed to
avoid a signal transmission that cannot effectively be used at a
receiving station, decrease the average transmission power, and reduce
interference with other communications. Even if the channel quality is
lower than predefined at the time of assigning a code word created by
channel encoding, the same code word assignment operation as for a
transmission portion is performed with respect to a no-transmission
portion that a transmitting station does not send to a wireless section.