Method and system of location information based communication control

• US 10,064,061 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2015
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Tseng, Yung-Lan, Lin, Tzu-Ming
• Primary Examiner(s): Mapa, Michael
• Application Number:
  US14/788,674
• Publication Number:
  US 20160112877A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• Field of Search: 4554042, 4554142, 4554141, 455418-420, 4554351, 4554561-457, 455450-453, 370332, 3703954
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/63 Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/006 in the downlink, i.e. towards the terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup

Abstract

A method and system of location information based communication control is provided. The method includes step of performing an access control to one or more resources by a master base station (MBS) generating one or more access control parameters of the resource based on one or more feedback information provided by one or more communication devices (CDs), and the CDs includes one or more user equipments (UEs) and/or one or more small base stations (SBSs). The method of further includes step of recognizing a control area (CA) by the MBS based on a location information included in the feedback information, and step of delivering out by the MBS the one or more access control parameters for having a group of user equipments located in the CA to access the resources based on the access control parameters.

Claims

1. A method of location information based communication control, comprising:

performing an access control to one or more resources by a master base station (MBS) generating one or more access control parameters of the resources based on one or more feedback information provided by one or more communication devices (CDs), wherein the CDs include one or more user equipments (UEs) and/or one or more small base stations (SBSs), and each of the feedback information is associated with an overload or under-load status of a resource applied for the user equipments to transmit;

recognizing a control area (CA) by the MBS based on a location information included in the feedback information, wherein the location information comprises one or more reference signal received power (RSRP) values and the MBS recognizes the CA based on a comparison of one or more RSRP threshold-pairs with the RSRP values; and

delivering out by the MBS the one or more access control parameters for having a group of user equipments located in the CA to access the resources based on the access control parameters.

2. The method of location information based communication control of claim 1, wherein the access control parameters comprise at least one of one or more back-off parameters of message delivery time, one or more resource allocation parameters, or both of said parameters.

3. The method of location information based communication control of claim 1, wherein the feedback information further comprise an overload or under-load indication of the resource applied for the user equipments to deliver,

wherein the MBS performs the access control based on a comparison of an overload threshold-O or under-load threshold-U respectively with an aggregating number of the overload or under-load indications within an observation period.

4. The method of location information based communication control of claim 1, wherein the group of user equipments comprises one or more device-to-device (D2D) user equipments and the CDs are D2D user equipments,

wherein the MBS reuses the resources based on the feedback information.

5. The method of location information based communication control of claim 1, further comprising:

delivering by the MBS a control area information (CAI) of the recognized CA for having one or more UEs served by the MBS verify whether the UEs served by the MBS is located in the CA based on a comparison of the CAI with its own detected location information of the UEs served by the MBS,

wherein the MBS delivering the CAI and the access control parameters to the UEs served by the MBS.

6. The method of location information based communication control of claim 5, further comprises:

deciding by the MBS whether one of one or more small cells correspond to one or more small cell identifications (IDs) which are located in the CA and the CAI includes a small cell ID list that includes the small cell IDs to which the small cells located in the CA correspond, wherein the location information includes the small cell IDs detected by the CDs.

7. The method of location information based communication control of claim 5, wherein the location information comprises one or more global position system (GPS) coordinates and the CAI includes a GPS information of the CA,

wherein the GPS information comprises at least one of a radius with one of the GPS coordinates as origin to represent a circular area, or a plurality of the GPS coordinates as vertices to represent a polygon.

8. The method of location information based communication control of claim 5, wherein the location information comprises one or more reference signal received power (RSRP) values and the MBS recognizes the CA based on a comparison of one or more RSRP-threshold-pairs with the RSRP values,

wherein the CAI comprises one or more RSRP-threshold-pairs, and each of the RSRP-threshold-pairs ranges a RSRP value.

9. The method of location information based communication control of claim 5, wherein the location information comprises one or more resource index and the MBS recognizes the CA based on the resource index, wherein the CAI comprises the resource index.

10. The method of location information based communication control of claim 1, further comprises:

deciding by the MBS whether one of one or more cells correspond to one or more small cell identifications (IDs) which are located in the CA, wherein the location information includes the small cell IDs detected by the CDs,

wherein the MBS decides whether the one of the small cells are located in the CA based on a comparison of a threshold-R with an aggregating number of the one of the small cell IDs provided within a time period, to recognize the CA.

11. The method of location information based communication control of claim 1, wherein the location information comprises one or more global position system (GPS) coordinates and the MBS recognizes the CA based on the GPS coordinates.

12. The method of location information based communication control of claim 1, wherein the location information comprises one or more resource index and the MBS recognizes the CA based on the resource index.

13. The method of location information based communication control of claim 1, wherein the feedback information further comprise an overload or under-load indication of the resource applied for the user equipments to deliver, and the feedback information are provided by the UEs served by the MBS.

14. The method of location information based communication control of claim 1, further comprises:

deciding by the MBS whether one of one or more small cells correspond to one or more small cell identifications (IDs) which are located in the CA,

wherein the MBS delivering the access control parameters to one or more SBSs located in the CA, for having one or more SBSs located in the CA deliver the access control parameters to one or more UEs served by the SBSs located in the CA for having the UEs served by the SBSs located in the CA to access the resources based on the access control parameters.

15. The method location information based of communication control of claim 14, wherein the feedback information further comprise an overload or under-load indication of the resource applied for the user equipments to deliver, and the feedback information are provided by one or more UEs served by the MBS.

16. The method of location information based communication control of claim 14, wherein the feedback information further comprise an overload or under-load indication of the resource applied for the user equipments to deliver, and the overload or under-load indication reports from one or more UEs served by a SBS respectively, and the location information includes own small cell ID of the SBS served said UEs, wherein the SBSs serving said UEs provide the feedback information to the MBS.

17. The method of location information based communication control of claim 14, wherein the feedback information further comprise an overload or under-load indication of the resource applied for the user equipments to deliver, and the feedback information are provided by the SBSs and the location information comprises the SBSs'"'"' own small cell ID respectively.

18. A system of location information based communication control comprising:

a master base station (MBS) comprising;

a receiving unit receiving one or more feedback information provided by one or more communication devices (CDs), wherein the CDs include one or more user equipment (UEs) and/or one or more small base stations (SBSs), and each of the feedback information is associated with an overload or under-load status of a resource applied for the user equipments to transmit;

a processing unit performing an access control to one or more resources by generating one or more access control parameters of the resources based on the feedback information and recognizing a control area (CA) based on a location information included in the feedback information, wherein the location information comprises one or more reference signal received power (RSRP) values and the processing unit of the MBS recognizes the CA based on a comparison of one or more RSRP-threshold-pairs with the RSRP values; and

a transmitting unit delivering out the one or more access control parameters for having a group of user equipments located in the CA to access the resources based on the access control parameters.

19. The system of location information based communication control of claim 18, wherein the access control parameters comprise at least one of one or more back-off parameters of message delivery time, one or more resource allocation parameters, or both of said parameters.

20. The system of location information based communication control of claim 18, wherein the feedback information comprise an overload or under-load indication of the resource applied for user equipments to deliver,

wherein the processing unit of the MBS performs the access control based on a comparison of an overload threshold-O or under-load threshold-U respectively with an aggregating number of the overload or under-load indications within an observation period.

21. The system of location information based communication control of claim 18, wherein the group of user equipments comprises one or more device-to-device (D2D) user equipments and the CDs are D2D user equipments, wherein the MBS reuses the resources based on the feedback information.

22. The system of location information based communication control of claim 18, wherein the transmitting unit of the MBS further delivering a control area information (CAI) of the recognized CA for having one or more UEs served by the MBS verify whether the UEs served by the MBS which is located in the CA based on a comparison of the CAI with own detected location information of the UEs serving by the MBS,

wherein the transmitting unit of the MBS delivers the CAI and the access control parameters to the UEs served by the MBS.

23. The system of location information based communication control of claim 22, wherein the location information includes one or more small cell identifications (IDs) detected by the CDs and the processing unit of the MBS further deciding whether one of the small cell IDs which is located in the CA,

wherein the CAI comprises a small cell ID list that includes the small cell IDs to which one or more small cells located in the CA correspond.

24. The system of location information based communication control of claim 22, wherein the location information comprises one or more global position system (GPS) coordinates and the CAI includes a GPS information of the CA,

wherein the GPS information of the CA comprises at least one of a radius with one of the GPS coordinates as origin to represent a circular area, or a plurality of the GPS coordinates as vertices to represent a polygon.

25. The system of location information based communication control of claim 22, wherein the location information comprises one or more reference signal received power (RSRP) values,

wherein the MBS recognizes the CA based on a comparison of one or more RSRP-threshold-pairs with the RSRP values, the CAI comprises one or more RSRP-threshold-pairs, and each of the RSRP-threshold-pairs ranges a RSRP value.

26. The system of location information based communication control of claim 22, wherein the location information comprises one or more resource index,

wherein the processing unit of the MBS recognizes the CA based on the resource index and the CAI comprises the resource index.

27. The system of location information based communication control of claim 18, wherein the location information includes one or more small cell identifications (IDs) detected by the CDs and the processing unit of the MBS further deciding whether a small cell corresponds to one of the small cell IDs which is located in the CA,

wherein the processing unit of the MBS decides whether one of one or more small cells correspond to the one or more small cell IDs which are located in the CA, based on a comparison of a threshold-R with an aggregating number of the one of the small cell IDs provided within a time period, to recognize the CA.

28. The system of location information based communication control of claim 18, wherein the location information comprises one or more global position system (GPS) coordinates and the MBS recognizes the CA based on the GPS coordinates.

29. The system of location information based communication control of claim 18, wherein the location information comprises one or more resource index and the processing unit of MBS recognizes the CA based on the resource index.

30. The system of location information based communication control of claim 18, wherein the feedback information further comprise an overload or under-load indication of the resource applied for user equipments to deliver, and the feedback information are provided by the UEs served by the MBS.

31. The system of location information based communication control of claim 18, wherein the processing unit of the MBS further deciding whether one of one or more small cells correspond to one or more small cell identifications (IDs) which are located in the CA,

wherein the transmitting unit of the MBS further delivering the access control parameters to one or more SBSs located in the CA, for having the SBSs located in the CA deliver the access control parameters to one or more UEs served by the SBSs located in the CA for having the UEs served by the SBSs located in the CA to access the resources based on the access control parameters.

32. The system of location information based communication control of claim 31, wherein the feedback information further comprise an overload or under-load indication of the resource applied for user equipments to deliver, and the feedback information are provided by one or more UEs served by the MBS.

33. The system of location information based communication control of claim 31, wherein the feedback information further comprise an overload or under-load indication of the resource applied for user equipments to deliver, and the overload or under-load indication reports from one or more UEs serving by a SBS respectively, and the location information includes own small cell ID of the SBS served said UEs,

wherein the SBS served said UEs provide the feedback information to the MBS.

34. The system of location information based communication control of claim 31, wherein the feedback information further comprise an overload or under-load indication of the resource applied for user equipments to deliver, and the feedback information are provided by the SBSs and the location information comprises the SBSs'"'"' own small cell ID respectively.

35. A system of location information based communication control comprising:

a communication device (CD) comprising;

a processing unit generating one or more feedback information, wherein the feedback information comprise a location information comprising a reference signal received power (RSRP) value for having a master base station (MBS) recognizes a control area (CA) based on a comparison of one or more RSRP-threshold-pairs with the RSRP values, wherein each of the feedback information is associated with an overload or under-load status of a resource applied for user equipments to transmit;

a transmitting unit delivering out the feedback information for having the MBS provides one or more access control parameters of one or more resources; and

a receiving unit receiving message, or the access control parameters provided by the MBS for having a group of user equipments located in the CA to access the resources based on the access control parameters in response to delivering out the feedback information.

36. The system of location information based communication control of claim 35, wherein the access control parameters comprise at least one of one or more back-off parameters of message delivery time, one or more resource allocation parameters, or both of said parameters.

37. The system of location information based communication control of claim 36, wherein the processing unit of the CD detecting the overload or under-load indication by a comparison of a loading or a decoding error rate of the resource applied for user equipments to deliver with a loading threshold-L or decoding error rate threshold-E respectively within an observation period.

38. The system of location information based communication control of claim 35, wherein the CD is a device-to-device (D2D) user equipment served by the MBS,

wherein the MBS reuses the resources based on the feedback information.

39. The system of location information based communication control of claim 38, wherein the group of user equipments comprises one or more D2D user equipments.

40. The system of location information based communication control of claim 35, wherein the location information comprises one or more small cell identifications detected by the processing unit of the CE, or one or more global position system (GPS) coordinates, or one or more reference signal received power (RSRP), or one or more resource index.

41. The system of location information based communication control of claim 35, wherein the CD is a user equipment (UE) served by the MBS, and the receiving unit of the UE receiving the access control parameters with a control area information (CAI) of the CA, wherein the CAI is provided by the MBS to one or more served user equipments (UEs),

wherein the processing unit of the UE verifying whether the UE is located in the CA based on a comparison of the CAI with the UE'"'"'s own detected location information, and accessing the resources based on the access control parameters when located in the CA.

42. The system of location information based communication control of claim 35, wherein the CD is a user equipment (UE) served by a small base station (SBS) and the UE served by the SBS provides the overload or under-load indication to the SBS serving the UE,

wherein the location information comprises own small cell ID of the SBS serving the UE and the SBS serving the UE provides the feedback information to the MBS.

43. The system of location information based communication control of claim 35, wherein the CD is a user equipment (UE) served by a small base station (SBS) and the receiving unit of the UE served by the SBS receiving the access control parameters from one or more SBSs located in the CA and following the access control parameters to access the resource.

44. The system of location information based communication control of claim 43, wherein the transmitting unit of the SBS that located in the CA delivering the access control parameters to one or more UEs served by the SBS located in the CA for having the UEs follows the access control parameters to access the resource.

45. The system of location information based communication control of claim 35, wherein the CD is a small base station (SBS) and the location information includes the SBSs'"'"' own small cell ID and the receiving unit of the SBS that located in the CA receiving the access control parameters from the MBS.

46. A method of location information based communication control, comprising:

performing an access control to one or more resources by a master base station (MBS) generating one or more access control parameters of the resources based on one or more feedback information provided by one or more communication devices (CDs), wherein the CDs include one or more user equipments (UEs) and/or one or more small base stations (SBSs), and each of the feedback information s associated with an overload or under-load status of a resource applied for the user equipments to transmit;

recognizing a control area (CA) by the MBS based on a location information included in the feedback information, wherein the location information comprises one or more global position system (GPS) coordinates and the MBS recognizes the CA based on a comparison of a threshold-D with density of the CDs in a GPS area defined by the GPS coordinates; and

delivering out by the MBS the one or more access control parameters for having a group of user equipments located in the CA to access the resources based on the access control parameters.

47. A system of location information based communication control comprising:

a master base station (MBS) comprising;

a receiving unit receiving one or more feedback information provided by one or more communication devices (CDs), wherein the CDs include one or more user equipment (UEs) and/or one or more small base stations (SBSs), and each of the feedback information is associated with an overload or under-load status of a resource applied for the user equipments to transmit;

a processing unit performing an access control to one or more resources by generating one or more access control parameters of the resources based on the feedback information and recognizing a control area (CA) based on a location information included in the feedback information, wherein the location formation comprises one or more global position system (GPS) coordinates and the MBS recognizes the CA based on a comparison of a threshold-D with density of the CDs in a GPS area defined by the GPS coordinates;

and a transmitting unit delivering out the one or more access control parameters for having a group of user equipments located in the CA to access the resources based on the access control parameters.

48. A system of location information based communication control comprising:

a communication device (CD) comprising;

a processing unit generating one or more feedback information, wherein the feedback information comprise a location information which comprising a global position system (GPS) coordinate for having a master base station (MBS) recognizes a control area (CA) based on a threshold-D with density of a plurality of communication devices (CDs) in a GPS area defined by the GPS coordinate, wherein each of the feedback information is associated with an overload or under-load status of a resource applied for user equipments to transmit;

a transmitting unit delivering out the feedback information for having the MBS provides one or more access control parameters of one or more resources; and

a receiving unit receiving message, or the access control parameters provided by the MBS for having a group of user equipments located in the CA to access the resources based on the access control parameters in response to deliver out the feedback information.