Radio communication system

• US 20020128032A1
• Filed: 02/12/2002
• Published: 09/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Fukui, Akito
• Application Number:
  US10/049,439
• Publication Number:
  US 20020128032A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/524
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/18 for allowing seamless reselection, e.g. soft reselection

Abstract

In order to select a base station with the high possibility of being requested from a communication terminal to transmit data, using a downlink state report transmitted from the communication terminal to a base station, each base station determines whether the base station is a base station with the high possibility of being requested from the communication terminal to transmit data, and transmits the determination result to a control station as control information of flow between the control station and base station, and the control station transmits data to the base station.

Claims

1. A wireless communication system in site selection diversity transmit power control, wherein each base station determines whether the base station is a base station with a high possibility of being requested from a communication terminal to transmit data, based on a downlink state, in the communication terminal, of a downlink signal from the base station to the communication terminal, and transmits the determination result to a control station, and the control station transmits data for a downlink signal to the determined base station.

2. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein the base station determines whether to request data to the communication terminal to the control station corresponding to a buffer usage amount in the base station, in addition to the downlink state, in the communication terminal, of the downlink signal from the base station to the communication terminal.

3. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein the base station determines whether to request data to the communication terminal to the control station corresponding to required quality of the data to the communication terminal, in addition to the downlink state, in the communication terminal, of the downlink signal from the base station to the communication terminal.

5. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein the control station determines transmission priorities corresponding to required quality of data for a downlink signal.

4. A wireless communication system in site selection diversity transmit power control, wherein each base station reports to a control station a downlink state, in a communication terminal, of a downlink signal from the base station to the communication terminal, and based on the downlink state, the control station determines a base station with a high possibility of being requested from the communication terminal to transmit data, and transmits data for a downlink signal to the determined base station.

6. A control station apparatus, in site selection diversity transmit power control, comprising:

receiving means for receiving information on a base station with a high possibility of being requested from a communication terminal to transmit data, the base station determined based on a downlink state, in the communication terminal, of a downlink signal from the base station to the communication terminal and;

transmitting means for transmitting data for a downlink signal according to the information.

8. The control station apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

determining means for determining transmission priorities corresponding to required quality of data for a downlink signal.

7. A control station apparatus, in site selection diversity transmit power control, comprising:

determining means for determining a base station with a high possibility of being requested from a communication terminal to transmit data, based on respective downlink states, in the communication terminal, of downlink signals from base stations to the communication terminal; and

transmitting means for transmitting data for a downlink signal to the determined base station.

9. A site selection diversity transmit power control method, comprising the steps of:

in each base station,

determining whether the base station is a base station with a high possibility of being requested from a communication terminal to transmit data, based on a downlink state, in the communication terminal, of a downlink signal from the base station to the communication terminal; and

transmitting the determination result to a control station, and

in the control station,

transmitting data for a downlink signal to the determined base station.

10. A site selection diversity transmit power control method, comprising the steps of:

in each base station,

determining whether to request data to the communication terminal to the control station corresponding to a buffer usage amount in the base station, in addition to the downlink state, in the communication terminal, of the downlink signal from the base station to the communication terminal; and

transmitting the determination result to a control station, and

in the control station,

transmitting data for a downlink signal to the determined base station.

11. A site selection diversity transmit power control method, comprising the steps of:

in each base station,

reporting to a control station a downlink state, in a communication terminal, of a downlink signal from the base station to the communication terminal, and

in the control station,

determining a base station with a high possibility of being requested from the communication terminal to transmit data, based on the downlink state; and

transmitting data for a downlink signal to the determined base station.