Time slot allocating apparatus, time slot allocating method thereof, memories and programs, mobile communication system and operating method

• US 20020105918A1
• Filed: 02/05/2002
• Published: 08/08/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Futakata, Toshiyuki, Yamada, Mayu, Moon, Sung Uk
• Application Number:
  US10/062,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20020105918A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/294
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2643 using time-division multiple access [TDMA] H04B7/2615, H04B7/2618 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames

Abstract

Concerned is time slot allocation in the CDMA-TDD scheme. A time slot of an uplink (UL) is allocated to a mobile station MS1 in cell 1. At this time, a time slot of a downlink (DL) having the same time slot number as that of the foregoing time slot is allocated to a mobile station MS2 in an adjacent cell 2 without avoiding the allocation. If there can occur deterioration of communication quality a process of allocating another time slot or the like will be performed as in the case of a mobile station MS2-1.

Claims

1. A time slot allocating apparatus in a scheme applying a common frequency band to up/downlinks and using the frequency band in a first area and a second area, the time slot allocating apparatus being located in respective areas, the apparatus comprising:

means for, when in the first area and the second area either one link of the up/downlinks is allocated to a first mobile station in the first area, allocating the other link having a time slot number equal to that of a time slot allocated to the first mobile station and being different from the link of the first mobile station, to a second mobile station in the second area.

2. The time slot allocating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for accepting an allocation request to the second mobile station in the second area when either one of the up/downlinks is allocated to the first mobile station in the first area,

wherein allocating means to the second mobile station allocates a second time slot to the second mobile station, based on information of positions of the first mobile station and the second mobile station.

3. A time slot allocating method in a scheme applying a common frequency band to up/downlinks and using the frequency band in a first area and a second area, the time slot allocating method comprising:

a step of, when in the first area and the second area either one link of the up/downlinks is allocated to a first mobile station in the first area, allocating the other link having a time slot number equal to that of a time slot allocated to the first mobile station and being different from the link of the first mobile station, to a second mobile station in the second area.

4. The time slot allocating method according to claim 3, further comprising:

a step of accepting an allocation request to the second mobile station in the second area when either one of the up/downlinks is allocated to the first mobile station in the first area,

wherein allocating step to the second mobile station allocates a second time slot to the second mobile station, based on information of positions of the first mobile station and the second mobile station.

5. A computer-readable memory storing a program, the program is used in a computer of time slot allocating apparatus in a scheme applying a common frequency band to up/downlinks and using the frequency band in a first area and a second area, the time slot allocating apparatus being located in the first area and the second area,

the program being configured to make the computer function as means for, when in the first area and the second area either one link of the up/downlinks is allocated to a first mobile station in the first area, allocating the other link having a time slot number equal to that of a time slot allocated to the first mobile station and being different from the link of the first mobile station, to a second mobile station in the second area.

6. The computer-readable memory according to claim 5, wherein the program is further made to function as means for accepting an allocation request to the second mobile station in the second area when either one of the up/downlinks is allocated to the first mobile station in the first area,

wherein the computer is made to function so that allocating means to the second mobile station allocates a second time slot to the second mobile station, based on information of positions of the first mobile station and the second mobile station.

7. A program used in a computer of time slot allocating apparatus in a scheme applying a common frequency band to up/downlinks and using the frequency band in a first area and a second area, the time slot allocating apparatus being located in the first area and the second area,

the program being configured to make the computer function as means for, when in the first area and the second area either one link of the up/downlinks is allocated to a first mobile station in the first area, allocating the other link having a time slot number equal to that of a time slot allocated to the first mobile station and being different from the link of the first mobile station, to a second mobile station in the second area.

8. The program according to claim 7, wherein the computer is further made to function as means for accepting an allocation request to the second mobile station in the second area when either one of the up/downlinks is allocated to the first mobile station in the first area,

wherein the computer is made to function so that allocating means to the second mobile station allocates a second time slot to the second mobile station, based on information of positions of the first mobile station and the second mobile station.

9. A mobile communication system applying a common frequency band to up/downlinks and using the frequency band in a first area for a first mobile station to be located and a second area for a second mobile station to be located and which comprises:

a first time slot allocating unit for the first area; and

a second time slot allocating unit for the second area,

wherein the first time slot allocating unit comprises means for allocating a first time slot of either one of the up/downlinks to the first mobile station, and

wherein the second time slot allocating unit comprises means for allocating a second time slot of the other link having a time slot number equal to that of the first time slot and being different from the link allocated to the first mobile station, to the second mobile station.

10. The mobile communication system according to claim 9, wherein the second time slot allocating unit further comprises:

means for accepting an allocation request to the second mobile station in the second area when either one of the up/downlinks is allocated to the first mobile station in the first area,

wherein allocating means allocates the second time slot to the second mobile station, based on information of positions of the first mobile station and the second mobile station.

11. A computer-readable memory storing a program, the program is used in a computer of a mobile communication system applying a common frequency band to up/downlinks and using the frequency band in a first area for a first mobile station to be located and a second area for a second mobile station to be located and which comprises:

a first time slot allocating unit for the first area;

a second time slot allocating unit for the second area, and

wherein the first time slot allocating unit is made to function as means for allocating a first time slot of either one of the up/downlinks to the first mobile station, and

wherein the second time slot allocating unit is made to function as second time slot allocating means for allocating a second time slot of the other link having a time slot number equal to that of the first time slot and being different from the link allocated to the first mobile station, to the second mobile station.

12. The computer-readable memory according to claim 11, wherein the program is made to function as means for accepting an allocation request to the second mobile station in the second area when either one of the up/downlinks is allocated to the first mobile station in the first area,

wherein the second time slot allocating means is made to function to allocate the second time slot to the second mobile station, based on information of positions of the first mobile station and the second mobile station.

14. The program according to claim 13, wherein the second time slot allocating unit is made to function as means for accepting an allocation request to the second mobile station in the second area when either one of the up/downlinks is allocated to the first mobile station in the first area,

wherein the second time slot allocating means is made to function to allocate the second time slot to the second mobile station, based on information of positions of the first mobile station and the second mobile station.

16. The operating method according to claim 15, further comprising:

a step of accepting an allocation request to the second mobile station in the second area when either one of the up/downlinks is allocated to the first mobile station in the first area,

wherein allocating step to the second mobile station, a second time slot is allocated to the second mobile station, based on information of positions of the first mobile station and the second mobile station.

18. The time slot allocating apparatus according to claim 17, further comprising:

means for accepting an allocation request to the second mobile station when either one of the up/downlinks is allocated to the first mobile station,

wherein allocating means to the second mobile station allocates a second time slot to the second mobile station, based on information of positions of the first mobile station and the second mobile station.

13. A program used in a computer of a mobile communication system applying a common frequency band to up/downlinks and using the frequency band in the first area for a first mobile station to be located and a second area for a second mobile station to be located and which comprises:

a first time slot allocating unit for the first area;

a second time slot allocating unit for the second area, and

wherein the first time slot allocating unit is made to function as means for allocating a first time slot of either one of the up/downlinks to the first mobile station, and

wherein the second time slot allocating unit is made to function as second time slot allocating means for allocating a second time slot of the other link having a time slot number equal to that of the first time slot and being different from the link allocated to the first mobile station, to the second mobile station.

15. A method of operating a mobile communication system in a scheme applying a common frequency band to up/downlinks and using the frequency band in a first area and a second area, the method comprising:

a step of, when in the first area and the second area either one link of the up/downlinks is allocated to a first mobile station in the first area, allocating the other link having a time slot number equal to that of a time slot allocated to the first mobile station and being different from the link of the first mobile station, to a second mobile station in the second area.

17. A time slot allocating apparatus applying a common frequency band to up/downlinks, the apparatus comprising:

means for, when either one link of the up/downlinks is allocated to a first mobile station, allocating the other link having a time slot number equal to that of a time slot allocated to the first mobile station and being different from the link of the first mobile station, to a second mobile station.