Mobile communication system, radio base station, radio mobile station and mobile communication method

• US 10,003,978 B2
• Filed: 12/10/2014
• Issued: 06/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Morihiro, Yoshifumi, Suyama, Satoshi, Shen, Jiyun, Okumura, Yukihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): ZEWDU, MELESS NMN
• Application Number:
  US15/102,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20160381568A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,287 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/24 Cell structures
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0009 for a plurality of users or terminals, e.g. group communication or moving wireless networks user group management H04W4/08; processing of subscriber group data H04W8/186
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/005 Moving wireless networks

Abstract

A mobile communication system that includes a first communication system, which features a user terminal that is present in a moving object, a first radio base station that forms a cell in the moving object, and a first core network that is connected with an external network, and a second communication system, which features a radio mobile station that is provided in the moving object, a second radio base station that forms a cell on the path of the movement of the moving object, and a second core network that is connected with the second radio base station. The first radio base station and the radio mobile station are connected via a user-plane interface and a control-plane interface between the radio base stations and the core networks.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system comprising:

a first communication system, which includes;

a user terminal that is present in a moving object;

a first radio base station connected to the user terminal via a first radio interface; and

a first core network that is connected to an external network; and

a second communication system, which includes;

a radio Group Mobility (GM) mobile station that is provided in the moving object;

a second radio base station connected to the GM mobile station via a second radio interface; and

a second core network that is connected to the second radio base station and the first core network,

wherein lower layer data of user data that is transmitted and received on a first user plane between the user terminal and the first core network, and lower layer data of control signals that are transmitted and received on a control plane between the user terminal and the first core network, are transmitted and received on a second user plane that is provided between the GM mobile station and the second core network.

2. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein:

the user terminal and the first radio base station transmit and receive the user data and the control signals via the first radio interface.

3. The mobile communication system according to claim 2, wherein:

the GM mobile station and the external radio base station transmit and receive the user data that is formed with the lower layer data of the user data and the control signals via the second radio interface.

4. The mobile communication system according to claim 2, wherein control signals in the second communication system are transmitted and received in the second control plane that is provided between the GM mobile station and the second core network.

5. The mobile communication system according to claim 2, wherein the lower layer data is L1 (layer 1) and L2 (layer 2) data.

6. The mobile communication system according to claim 1, wherein:

the first and second user-plane interfaces are S1-U interfaces; and

the first and second control-plane interfaces are S1-MME interfaces.

7. The mobile communication system according to claim 3, wherein control signals in the second communication system are transmitted and received in the second control plane that is provided between the GM mobile station and the second core network.

8. The mobile communication system according to claim 3, wherein the lower layer data is L1 (layer 1) and L2 (layer 2) data.

9. The mobile communication system according to claim 2, wherein:

the first and second user-plane interfaces are S1-U interfaces; and

the first and second control-plane interfaces are S1-MME interfaces.

10. The mobile communication system according to claim 3, wherein:

the first and second user-plane interfaces are is an S1-U interfaces; and

the first and second control-plane interfaces are S1-MME interfaces.

11. A first radio base station that forms a cell in a moving object, the first radio base station comprising:

a transceiver that;

transmits and receives user data and control signals with a user terminal that is present in the moving object via a radio interface; and

transmits and receives lower layer data of the user data with a Group Mobility (GM) mobile station provided in the moving object via a first user-plane interface and transmits and receives lower layer data of the control signals via a first control-plane interface; and

a processor that performs data processing between the first radio interface and the first user-plane interface and the first control-plane interface,

wherein the lower layer data of the user data and the lower layer data of the control signals are transmitted and received on a second user plane that is provided between the GM mobile station and a second core network connected to a first core network and the second radio base station connected to the GM mobile station via a second radio interface.

12. A Group Mobility (GM) mobile station that is provided in a moving object, the GM mobile station comprising:

a processor with a memory; and

a transceiver coupled to the processor,

wherein the processor causes the transceiver to;

transmit and receive, with a first radio base station, lower layer data of user data that is transmitted and received between the first radio base station that forms a cell in a moving object, and a user terminal that is present in the moving object, via a first user-plane interface between the radio base station and a core network, and transmits and receives lower layer data of control signals that are transmitted and received between the first radio base station and the user terminal via a first control-plane interface between the radio base station and the core network; and

transmit and receive user data that is formed with the lower layer data of the user data and the control signals, with a second radio base station connected to the GM mobile station via a second radio interface, via a second radio interface, and

wherein lower layer data of the user data and lower layer data of the control signals are transmitted and received on a second user plane that is provided between the GM mobile station and a second core network connected to the second radio base station and the first core network.

13. A mobile communication method in a mobile communication system comprising a first communication system, which includes a user terminal that is present in a moving object, a first radio base station connected to the user terminal via a first radio interface, and a first core network that is connected to an external network, and a second communication system, which includes a Group Mobility (GM) mobile station that is provided in the moving object, a second radio base station connected to the GM mobile station via a second radio interface, and a second core network that is connected to the second radio base station and the first core network, the mobile communication method comprising:

transmitting and receiving, by the user terminal and the first radio base station, user data and control signals via the first radio interface; and

transmitting and receiving, by the first radio base station and the GM mobile station, lower layer data of the user data via a first user-plane interface, and transmitting and receiving, by the first radio base station and the GM mobile station, lower layer data of the control signals via a control-plane interface

wherein lower layer data of the user data and lower layer data of the control signals are transmitted and received on a second user plane that is provided between the GM mobile station and the second core network.