Communication control device, communication control method, and communication device

• US 10,149,309 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2014
• Issued: 12/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kimura, Ryota, Sawai, Ryo, Uchiyama, Hiromasa, Furuichi, Sho
• Primary Examiner(s): Jaroenchonwanit, Bunjob
• Application Number:
  US14/909,125
• Publication Number:
  US 20160198482A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,624 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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: H04W 28/16 Central resource management; Negotiation of resources or communication parameters, e.g. negotiating bandwidth or QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/27 between access points
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/29 between an access point and the access point controlling device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality

Abstract

Provided is a communication control device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire quality-related information regarding quality of a backhaul line to be used for providing control-related information regarding control in a control scheme of radio communication to a communication node to which the control scheme is applied; and a control unit configured to control the application of the control scheme to the communication node based on the quality-related information.

Claims

1. A communication control device, comprising:

at least one processor configured to;

acquire quality-related information associated with a quality of a backhaul line;

transmit, via the backhaul line, control-related information associated with a control scheme of a radio communication to a communication node among a plurality of communication nodes;

classify the plurality of communication nodes into a plurality of groups based on information associated with the plurality of communication nodes included in each of the plurality of groups,

wherein the information associated with the plurality of communication nodes includes at least one of information of positions of the plurality of communication nodes or information of a radio resource utilized by the plurality of communication nodes; and

apply the control scheme to at least one communication node for each group from the plurality of groups, based on the quality-related information for the least one communication node included in each group from the plurality of groups.

2. The communication control device according to claim 1,

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to increase communication capacity of a communication system, by the application of the control scheme of the radio communication.

3. The communication control device according to claim 2,

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to suppress interference in the radio communication in which at least two communication nodes participate based on the control scheme of the radio communication.

4. The communication control device according to claim 2,

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to execute coordinated multi-point transmission and reception in the control scheme of the radio communication.

5. The communication control device according to claim 1,

wherein the information associated with the plurality of communication nodes further include the quality-related information that provide the control-related information to the plurality of communication nodes.

6. The communication control device according to claim 1,

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to generate the quality-related information through a measurement procedure for the quality of the backhaul line.

7. The communication control device according to claim 6,

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to measure the quality of the backhaul line bi-directionally in the measurement procedure.

8. The communication control device according to claim 6,

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to transmit and receive at least one message including a transmission time in the measurement procedure.

9. The communication control device according to claim 6,

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to measure the quality of the backhaul line a plurality of times in the measurement procedure.

10. The communication control device according to claim 9, wherein transmission and reception of a request message of a plurality of request messages, a first measurement based on the request message, transmission and reception of a response message and a second measurement based on the response message are repeated for the plurality of times.

11. The communication control device according to claim 6,

wherein the backhaul line is a combination of a plurality of individual backhaul lines, and

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to measure quality of at least one individual backhaul line among the plurality of individual backhaul lines in the measurement procedure.

12. The communication control device according to claim 1,

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to acquire the quality-related information from a device through a collection procedure for the quality-related information.

13. The communication control device according to claim 12,

wherein the backhaul line is a combination of a plurality of individual backhaul lines, and

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to collect information associated with a quality of at least one individual backhaul line among the plurality of individual backhaul lines in the collection procedure.

14. The communication control device according to claim 1,

wherein the quality of the backhaul line corresponds to a delay time on the backhaul line.

15. The communication control device according to claim 1,

wherein the communication node is one of a base station, a relay station, or a terminal device, and

wherein the communication node is configured to control radio communication on a localized network with a plurality of terminal devices.

16. A communication control method, comprising:

acquiring quality-related information associated with a quality of a backhaul line;

transmitting, via the backhaul line, control-related information associated with a control scheme of a radio communication to a communication node among a plurality of communication nodes;

classifying the plurality of communication nodes into a plurality of groups based on information associated with the plurality of communication nodes included in each of the plurality of groups,

wherein the information associated with the plurality of communication nodes includes at least one of information of positions of the plurality of communication nodes or information of a radio resource utilized by the plurality of communication nodes; and

applying the control scheme to at least one communication node for each group from the plurality of groups, based on the quality-related information for the least one communication node included in each group from the plurality of groups.

17. A communication device, comprising:

at least one processor configured to;

acquire at least a part of quality-related information associated with a quality of a backhaul line;

transmit, via the backhaul line, control-related information associated with a control scheme of a radio communication to a communication node;

generate at least the part of the quality-related information through a measurement procedure for the quality of the backhaul line,

wherein the measurement procedure include at least a measurement of the quality of the backhaul line for a plurality of times, and

wherein transmission and reception of a request message of a plurality of request messages, a first measurement based on the request message, transmission and reception of a response message and a second measurement based on the response message are repeated for the plurality of times;

provide at least the part of the quality-related information, wherein at least the part of the quality-related information is utilized in application of the control scheme of the radio communication to the communication node.

18. The communication device according to claim 17,

wherein the backhaul line is a combination of a plurality of individual backhaul lines, and

wherein at least the part of the quality-related information is information associated with a quality of at least one individual backhaul line among the plurality of individual backhaul lines.

19. The communication device according to claim 17, wherein

the request message includes a total number of the plurality of request messages and a current request index, and

the current request index indicates an order of the request message among the plurality of request messages.

20. The communication device according to claim 17, wherein

the response message includes a total number of the plurality of response messages, a current response index and a measurement result of the quality of the backhaul line.