Method for managing radio resource in mobile communication system

• US 20030031201A1
• Filed: 07/16/2002
• Published: 02/13/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG-Ericsson Company Limited (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Choi, Sang-Yoon
• Granted Patent: US 7,190,700 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/468
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/24 Negotiating SLA [Service Level Agreement]; Negotiating QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for assigning a radio resource to a mobile station that requests a data service by collecting radio resources at a constant rate from mobile stations being served by a base station apparatus with a 1×EV-DO system. Especially, the present invention is appropriate for managing radio resources more efficiently and for improving the quality of service, by collecting part of the radio resource assigned to a mobile station having a lower service grade, among other mobile stations in service, assigning the collected radio resource to a mobile station that requested a data service, and providing the data service to the mobile station based on the assigned radio resource.

Claims

1. A method for managing a radio resource in a mobile communication system, comprising:

determining a service grade of a requesting mobile station that requests a data service;

collecting a portion of a first radio resource, which is assigned to a mobile station corresponding to a lower service grade among other mobile stations in service, at a constant rate, based on a second radio resource required for the service grade; and

assigning the second radio resource to the requesting mobile station using the collected portion of the first radio resource, wherein

the collected portion of the first radio resource is less than the entire first radio resource.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the service grade is determined in accordance with a priority of the requesting mobile station.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the service grade is determined in accordance with a data service priority requested from the requesting mobile station.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting a response message to the requesting mobile station, in reply to the data service request; and

providing the data service based on the assigned second radio resource.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

reassigning radio resources of mobile stations in service based on the collected portion of the first radio resource;

reestablishing priorities in accordance with service grades of the mobiles stations in service; and

providing data services to the mobile stations in service in accordance with the reestablished priorities.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the radio resources of the mobile stations in service are reassigned based on a data transmission rate of the mobile station that requests the data service.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the radio resources of the mobile stations in service are reassigned based on a maximum transmission rate within a cell.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein collecting the portion of the first radio resource comprises:

determining an available resource of a base station;

deciding whether the available resource of the base station satisfies the second radio resource;

determining service grades of the other mobile stations, if the available resource is less than the second radio resource; and

determining a collection rate of the first radio resource, which is assigned to a lowest service grade among other service grades of the other mobile stations.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the service grades of the other mobile stations are predetermined and stored.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the collection rate of the first radio resource is determined in accordance with a data transmission rate of a mobile station corresponding to the lowest service grade in service.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the collection rate of the first radio resource is increased as a data transmission rate of the mobile station corresponding to the lowest service grade is decreased.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the collection rate of the first radio resource is determined in accordance with a data transmission rate of the mobile station that requests the data service.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the collection tate of the first radio resource is increased as the data transmission rate of the mobile station that requests the data service is increased.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the collection rate of the first radio resource is determined in accordance with a quality of service of the mobile station that requests the data service.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the quality of service of the requesting mobile station is based on a kind of service that the requesting mobile station provides.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the quality of service of the requesting mobile station is the service grade of the requesting mobile station.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the collection rate of the first radio resource is increased as the quality of service of the mobile station that requests the data service improves.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the collection rate of the first radio resource is determined in accordance with a quality of service of the mobile station corresponding to the lowest service grade.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the collection rate of the first radio resource is increased as the quality of service of the mobile station corresponding to the lowest service grade degrades.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein a collection rate of the first radio resource is determined in accordance with a following mathematical formula:

R(t)=1−

[DRC<sub>low—

Qos</sub>(t)/DRC_total(t)]*[QoS<sub>low—

QoS</sub>(t)/QOS_total(t)],

wherein

DRC<sub>low—

QoS</sub>(t) is a data transmission rate of the mobile station corresponding to the lower service grade;

QoS<sub>low—

Qos</sub>(t) indicates a quality of service of the mobile station corresponding to the lower service grade;

DRC_total(t) is the sum of the data transmission rate of the mobile station having the lower service grade (DRC<sub>low—

QoS</sub>(t)) and a data transmission rate of the mobile station requesting the data service (DRC<sub>high—

QoS</sub>(t)); and

QoS_total(t) is the sum of the quality of service (QoS) belonging to the mobile station corresponding to the lower service grade and a QoS (QoS<sub>high—

QoS</sub>(t)) of the mobile station requesting the data service.

21. A method for providing data services of a mobile communication system, comprising:

collecting a portion of a first radio resource at a constant rate, the first radio resource assigned to a mobile station corresponding to a lower service grade among other mobile stations in service at present, in case a second radio resource of a mobile station requesting a new data service exceeds an available resource;

assigning the second radio resource to the requesting mobile station using the collected portion of the first radio resource; and

providing the new data service to the requesting mobile station based on the assigned second radio resource.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

reassigning radio resources of the other mobile stations based on the collected portion of the first radio resource;

reestablishing priorities in accordance with service grades of the other mobile stations; and

providing data services to the other mobile stations in accordance with the reestablished priorities.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein a collection rate of the first radio resource is determined in accordance with a data transmission rate of the mobile station corresponding to the lower service grade among the other mobile stations, a quality of service of the mobile station corresponding to the lower service grade, a data transmission rate of the requesting mobile station, and a service quality of the requesting mobile station.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the collection rate of the first radio resource is increased as the data transmission rate of the mobile station corresponding to the lower service grade decreases.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the collection rate of the first radio resource is increased as the quality of service of the mobile station corresponding to the lower service grade degrades.

26. The method of claim 24, wherein the collection rate of the first radio resource is increased as the data transmission rate of the requesting mobile station increases.

27. The method of claim 24, wherein the collection rate of the first radio resource is increased as the service quality of the requesting mobile station improves.

28. A method of allocating communication resources, comprising:

collecting less than all of a first resource that is allocated to a first communication device, which is assigned a lower service priority than a service priority assigned to a second communication device;

deallocating the collected first resource from the first communication device; and

allocating the collected first resource to the second communication device.

29. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

(a) collecting less than all of an i^th resource that is allocated to an i^th communication device, which is assigned a lower service priority than the service priority assigned to the second communication device;

(b) deallocating the collected i^th resource from the i^th communication device; and

(c) allocating the collected i^th resource to the second communication device, wherein

(a), (b), and (c) are performed for every i^th resource needed to satisfy a prescribed condition.

30. The method of claim 29, wherein resources are deallocated from each i^th communication device in an order corresponding to the respective service priorities assigned to the communication devices.

31. The method of claim 28, wherein a collection rate of the first resource is determined in accordance with a data transmission rate of the first communication device, a quality of service of the first communication device, a data transmission rate of the second communication device, and a quality of service of the second communication device.

32. A method of allocating a resource among a plurality of subscriber units, comprising:

determining an amount of the resource required to meet a first prescribed condition; and

apportioning the determined amount of the resource among the plurality of subscriber units according to a prioritization scheme, wherein

each of the plurality of subscriber units is apportioned some of the resource.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein the resource comprises time division multiple access (DMA) time slots and each of the plurality of subscriber units is apportioned at least one time slot.