In an upper-airspace staying type communication
relay apparatus that performs an MU-
MIMO radio communication with plural terminal apparatuses located in a
cell, it is intended to improve the
communication quality of the
entire cell and enhance the
system capacity, while suppressing an increase in overhead in the terminal apparatus and the communication
relay apparatus even if the number of terminal apparatuses located in the
cell increases. The communication
relay apparatus receives an uplink
signal from each of plural terminal apparatuses via an array antenna, estimates angle information indicating a direction of the terminal apparatus for each of the plural terminal apparatuses, selects a terminal apparatus to be assigned to each of plural radio resources used for a downlink based on the
estimation result of the angle information, calculates a
downlink beamforming weight based on the
estimation result of the angle information, and transmits a downlink
signal to the terminal apparatus via the array antenna based on the
beamforming weight corresponding to the terminal apparatus and the radio resources assigned to the terminal apparatus.