User apparatus and uplink transmission power information transmission method

• US 10,064,142 B2
• Filed: 04/14/2015
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Uchino, Tooru, Takahashi, Hideaki, Takeda, Kazuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Trinh, Tan H
• Application Number:
  US15/303,594
• Publication Number:
  US 20170034788A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,232 Days
• Field of Search: 455 69, 455522, 455501, 455443, 455450, 455420, 455 134, 455512, 455464, 4555521, 455524, 455525, 4551274, 455135, 370252, 370329, 370338
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/024 Co-operative use of antennas of several sites, e.g. in co-ordinated multipoint or co-operative multiple-input multiple-output [MIMO] systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0001 Arrangements for dividing the transmission path duplexing H04L5/14; multiplexing of different sources on one path H04J
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/146 Uplink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/34 TPC management, i.e. sharing limited amount of power among users or channels or data types, e.g. cell loading
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/365 Power headroom reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/367 Power values between minimum and maximum limits, e.g. dynamic range
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/15 Setup of multiple wireless link connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/28 Discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX]

Abstract

A user apparatus in a mobile communication system including a first base station and a second base station that perform communication with the user apparatus by inter-base station carrier aggregation, including: a transmission trigger detection unit configured to detect a transmission trigger for transmitting uplink transmission power information in the user apparatus to the first base station or to the second base station; and an uplink transmission power information transmission unit configured to transmit the uplink transmission power information to the first base station or to the second base station based on a transmission trigger detected by the transmission trigger detection unit.

Claims

1. A user apparatus in a mobile communication system including a first base station and a second base station that perform communication with the user apparatus by inter-base station carrier aggregation, comprising:

a transmission trigger detection unit configured to detect a transmission trigger for transmitting uplink transmission power information in the user apparatus to the first base station or to the second base station; and

an uplink transmission power information transmission unit configured to transmit the uplink transmission power information to the first base station or to the second base station based on a transmission trigger detected by the transmission trigger detection unit,

wherein the transmission trigger detection unit detects, as the transmission trigger, that a first cell under the second base station is added in the user apparatus after a primary cell under the first base station is configured in the user apparatus.

2. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transmission trigger detection unit detects, as the transmission trigger, that a secondary cell under the first or the second base station is activated.

3. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein, when the transmission trigger detection unit detects, as the transmission trigger, that communication with the first base station changes to a discontinuous reception state, the uplink transmission power information transmission unit transmits the uplink transmission power information to the second base station, and

wherein, when the transmission trigger detection unit detects, as the transmission trigger, that communication with the second base station changes to a discontinuous reception state, the uplink transmission power information transmission unit transmits the uplink transmission power information to the first base station.

4. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the uplink transmission power information transmission unit checks configuration content of uplink transmission power information transmission in the user apparatus, and transmits the uplink transmission power information to the first base station or to the second base station in accordance with the configuration content.

5. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the transmission trigger detection unit detects, as the transmission trigger, that a predetermined period elapses after data of communication with the first base station runs out, or that a predetermined period elapses after data of communication with the second base station runs out.

6. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when the transmission trigger detection unit detects, as the transmission trigger, that communication with the first base station changes to a discontinuous reception state, the uplink transmission power information transmission unit transmits the uplink transmission power information to the second base station, and

wherein, when the transmission trigger detection unit detects, as the transmission trigger, that communication with the second base station changes to a discontinuous reception state, the uplink transmission power information transmission unit transmits the uplink transmission power information to the first base station.

7. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the uplink transmission power information transmission unit checks configuration content of uplink transmission power information transmission in the user apparatus, and transmits the uplink transmission power information to the first base station or to the second base station in accordance with the configuration content.

8. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transmission trigger detection unit detects, as the transmission trigger, that a predetermined period elapses after data of communication with the first base station runs out, or that a predetermined period elapses after data of communication with the second base station runs out.

9. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when the transmission trigger detection unit detects, as the transmission trigger, that radio quality between the user apparatus and the first base station changes, the uplink transmission power information transmission unit transmits the uplink transmission power information to the second base station, and

wherein, when the transmission trigger detection unit detects, as the transmission trigger, that radio quality between the user apparatus and the second base station changes, the uplink transmission power information transmission unit transmits the uplink transmission power information to the first base station.

10. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transmission trigger detection unit detects, as the transmission trigger, receiving an uplink transmission power information request from the first or the second base station.

11. The user apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the uplink transmission power information is a power headroom for each component carrier that the user apparatus uses.

12. An uplink transmission power information transmission method executed by a user apparatus in a mobile communication system including a first base station and a second base station that perform communication with the user apparatus by inter-base station carrier aggregation, comprising:

a transmission trigger detection step of detecting a transmission trigger for transmitting uplink transmission power information in the user apparatus to the first base station or to the second base station; and

an uplink transmission power information transmission step of transmitting the uplink transmission power information to the first base station or to the second base station based on a transmission trigger detected by the transmission trigger detection step,

wherein the transmission trigger detection step, further comprises detecting, as the transmission trigger, that a first cell under the second base station is added in the user apparatus after a primary cell under the first base station is configured in the user apparatus.