Wireless communication system, mobile station, base station, and wireless communication system control method for reducing power consumption

• US 10,075,913 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2014
• Issued: 09/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Ohta, Yoshiaki, Kawasaki, Yoshihiro, Tajima, Yoshiharu
• Primary Examiner(s): Moore, Ian N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Van Roie, Justin T
• Application Number:
  US14/226,306
• Publication Number:
  US 20140204819A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,630 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0038 Blind format detection for detection of modulation format H04L27/0012
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0212 managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is master and terminal is slave
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A wireless communication system includes a mobile station and a base station. The base station includes a blind decoding control unit that transmits a signal including a control signal serving as a trigger to change a decoding process to the mobile station based on a result of measurement of the amount of data of the mobile station. The mobile station includes a blind decoding control unit that selects a signal format to be decoded upon reception of the control signal from the base station, and detects a control signal directed to the mobile station by decoding the signal having the selected format among signals received from the base station.

Claims

1. A reducing power consumption wireless communication system comprising a mobile station and a base station, wherein:

the base station includes a controller configured to;

control transmission of a signal including a first Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) to the mobile station based on a data amount in the base station to be transmitted to the mobile station; and

notify the mobile station of timer activation, and

the mobile station includes a decoder configured to;

perform intermittent reception at predetermined intervals without performing selection on signals to be transmitted by the base station, and activate a timer upon reception of a notification of the timer activation from the controller;

when the timer has counted a first predetermined period and upon reception of the first PDCCH from the base station, select a predetermined format to be decoded from among formats to be used for the signals to be transmitted by the base station, and detect a second PDCCH directed to the mobile station by decoding a received signal having the predetermined format among the signals received from the base stations;

when the timer has counted a second predetermined period, a downlink data communication is performed, and an intermittent reception period has not come, immediately start the intermittent reception and repeat the intermittent reception at the predetermined intervals; and

when the intermittent reception period has come before the timer has counted the second predetermined period, start the intermittent reception after the timer has counted the second predetermined period and repeat the intermittent reception at the predetermined intervals.

2. The reducing power consumption wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein the base station further includes:

a buffer controller configured to measure a data amount to be transmitted to the mobile station,

a signal transmitter configured to transmit the signal including the first PDCCH directed to the mobile station,

the controller transmits the signals to the mobile station via the signal transmitter, using the result of the measurement carried out by the buffer controller as the result of the measurement of the data amount to be transmitted to the mobile station.

3. The reducing power consumption wireless communication system according to claim 2, wherein:

the controller determines whether the data amount to be transmitted to the mobile station measured by the buffer controller is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, and notifies the mobile station of a transition to a power consumption reducing mode when the result of the determination indicates that the data amount to be transmitted to the mobile station is equal to or smaller than the predetermined value, and

upon reception of the notification from the controller, the decoder selects a second predetermined format from among the signal formats to be used for the signals to be transmitted by the signal transmitter.

4. The reducing power consumption wireless communication system according to claim 2, wherein:

the controller notifies the mobile station of a data increase, using a third PDCCH, and,

upon reception of the third PDCCH from the controller, the decoder does not perform selection on the signals to be transmitted by the signal transmitter.

5. The reducing power consumption wireless communication system according to claim 2, wherein:

the controller determines whether the data amount to be transmitted to the mobile station measured by the buffer controller is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value,

when the result of the determination indicates that the data amount to be transmitted to the mobile station is equal to or smaller than the predetermined value, the controller notifies the mobile station that the data amount to be transmitted to the mobile station is equal to or smaller than the predetermined value,

when a data increase is measured by the buffer controller, the controller notifies the mobile station of arrival of data,

the decoder receives the signals transmitted by the signal transmitter without performing selection on the signals transmitted by the signal transmitter during a predetermined time in a third predetermined period,

when the notification that the data amount to be transmitted to the mobile station by the base station is equal to or smaller than the predetermined value is received from the controller and the predetermined time expires, the decoder selects a second predetermined format from among the signal formats to be used for decoding the signals to be transmitted by the signal transmitter,

when the notification of data arrival is received from the controller and the predetermined time in the third predetermined period has come, the decoder does not perform selection on the signals to be transmitted by the signal transmitter.

6. A mobile station comprising:

a decoder configured to;

perform intermittent reception at predetermined intervals without performing selection on signals to be transmitted by a base station which transmits the first PDCCH to the mobile station based on a data amount to be transmitted to the mobile station, and notify the mobile station of timer activation;

when the timer has counted a first predetermined period and upon reception of the first PDCCH received from the base station, select a predetermined format to be decoded from among formats to be used for the signals to be transmitted by the base station, and detect a second PDCCH directed to the mobile station by decoding a received signal having the predetermined format among the signals received from the base station;

when the timer has counted a second predetermined period, a downlink data communication is performed, and an intermittent reception period has not come, immediately start the intermittent reception and repeat the intermittent reception at the predetermined intervals; and

when the intermittent reception period has come before the timer has counted the second predetermined period, start the intermittent reception after the timer has counted the second predetermined period and repeat the intermittent reception at the predetermined intervals; and

a signal processer configured to process the signal received from the base station based on the second PDCCH directed to the mobile station when the decoder detects the second PDCCH.

7. A base station comprising:

a signal transmitter configured to transmit a signal including a first PDCCH directed to a mobile station;

a buffer controller configured to measure a data amount in the base station to be transmitted to the mobile station; and

a controller configured to control transmission of the signal including the first PDCCH to the mobile station via the signal transmitter based on the data amount to be transmitted to the mobile station, the mobile station performing intermittent reception at predetermined intervals without performing selection on the signals to be transmitted by the signal transmitter, and activating a timer upon reception of a notification of the timer activation from the controller, when the timer has counted a first predetermined period and upon reception of the first PDCCH from the base station, selecting a predetermined format to be decoded from among formats to be used for the signals to be transmitted by the signal transmitter, and detecting a second PDCCH directed to the mobile station by decoding a received signal having the predetermined format among the signals received from the base station, when the timer has counted a second predetermined period, a downlink data communication is performed, and an intermittent reception period has not come, immediately starting the intermittent reception and repeating the intermittent reception at the predetermined intervals, and when the intermittent reception period has come before the timer has counted the second predetermined period, starting the intermittent reception after the timer has counted the second predetermined period and repeating the intermittent reception at the predetermined intervals, wherein

the first PDCCH reduces a number of signal format used for decoding by the mobile station.

8. A method of controlling a reducing power consumption wireless communication system that includes a mobile station and a base station, the method comprising:

causing the base station to;

measure data amount in the base station to be transmitted to the mobile station;

transmit a signal including a first PDCCH serving as a trigger to change a decoding process to the mobile station based on the data amount; and

notify the mobile station of timer activation; and

causing the mobile station to;

perform intermittent reception at predetermined intervals without performing selection on signals to be transmitted by the base station, and activate a timer upon reception of a notification of the timer activation from the controller;

when the timer has counted a first predetermined period and upon reception of the first PDCCH received from the base station, select a predetermined format to be decoded from among formats to be used for the signals to be transmitted by the base station, and detect a second PDCCH directed to the mobile station by decoding a received signal having the predetermined format among the signals received from the base station;

when the timer has counted a second predetermined period, a downlink data communication is performed, and an intermittent reception period has not come, immediately start the intermittent reception and repeat the intermittent reception at the predetermined intervals; and

when the intermittent reception period has come before the timer has counted the second predetermined period, start the intermittent reception after the timer has counted the second predetermined period and repeat the intermittent reception at the predetermined intervals.

9. A method of controlling a reducing power consumption wireless communication system that includes a mobile station and a base station, the method comprising:

causing the base station to;

measure data amount in the base station to be transmitted to the mobile station;

transmit a signal including a first PDCCH serving as a trigger to reduce a number of signal formats to be decoded by the mobile station based on the data amount; and

notify the mobile station of timer activation; and

causing the mobile station to;

perform intermittent reception at predetermined intervals without performing selection on signals to be transmitted by the base station, and activate a timer upon reception of a notification of the timer activation from the controller,

when the timer has counted a first predetermined period and upon reception of the first PDCCH received from the base station, detect a second PDCCH directed to the mobile station by decoding the signals received from the base station;

when the timer has counted a second predetermined period, a downlink data communication is performed, and an intermittent reception period has not come, immediately start the intermittent reception and repeat the intermittent reception at the predetermined intervals; and

when the intermittent reception period has come before the timer has counted the second predetermined period, start the intermittent reception after the timer has counted the second predetermined period and repeat the intermittent reception at the predetermined intervals.