Radio communication system, base station, relay station,mobile staion, and packet transmission control method

• US 20030125067A1
• Filed: 12/26/2002
• Published: 07/03/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshino, Hitoshi, Otsu, Toru, Takeda, Shinji, Fujiwara, Atsushi, Yamao, Yasushi
• Granted Patent: US 7,519,029 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/08 Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery signalling during connection H04W76/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/247 where the output power of a terminal is based on a path parameter sent by another terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/286 during data packet transmission, e.g. high speed packet access [HSPA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/46 in multi hop networks, e.g. wireless relay networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/10 between terminal device and access point, i.e. wireless air interface

Abstract

The object is to control interference in a permissible range by applying the CDMA system to signal collision in the conventional CSMA and TDMA base multihop systems and to relax the hidden terminal problem and others to enhance the throughput of the entire system by grouping of channel groups in multihop transmission and by control of transmission based on an interference level from another station. A multihop relay station calculates a desired signal level, for example, from an interference level at its own station of a packet sent from a mobile station, and notifies the mobile station of the desired signal level; and the mobile station calculates a transmission power amount of a packet from the desired signal level, determines whether the packet is transmissible to the station as a source of the desired signal level, on the basis of the transmission power amount, and transmits the packet by a power of the transmission power amount to the source station determined as a packet-transmissible station. On this occasion, an interference signal is weakened by assignment of channel groups 1, 2 for transmission of signals.

Claims

1. A radio communication system comprising a base station, a mobile station, and a relay station having a relaying function in multihop packet transmission, and configured to perform communication based on a wireless packet transmission system,

wherein a receiver station in the packet transmission comprises:

interference level measuring means for measuring an interference level at the time of receiving a packet;

desired signal level calculating means for calculating a desired signal level on the basis of the interference level obtained in the measurement; and

desired signal level notifying means for notifying a sender station of the desired signal level thus calculated; and

wherein the sender station comprises;

transmission power amount calculating means for calculating a transmission power amount of a packet on the basis of the desired signal level notified of by the receiver station; and

determining means for determining whether the packet is transmissible to the receiver station, on the basis of the transmission power amount calculated by the transmission power amount calculating means.

2. The radio communication system according to claim 1, wherein the receiver station further comprises:

destination deciding means for deciding a next receiver station as a destination of a packet on the basis of at least one of a reception level of a control signal, an interference level at its own station, and a hop count from a transmission-originating station to its own station.

3. The radio communication system according to claim 1, wherein the interference level measured by the interference level measuring means is an interference level at the receiver station of a channel group used in reception of the packet.

4. A radio communication system comprising a base station, a mobile station, and a relay station having a relaying function in multihop packet transmission, and configured to perform communication based on a wireless packet transmission system,

wherein a receiver station in the packet transmission comprises:

interference level measuring means for measuring an interference level at the time of receiving a packet;

desired signal level calculating means for calculating a desired signal level on the basis of the interference level obtained in the measurement;

determining means for determining whether a packet is transmissible from a sender station, on the basis of at least one of the interference level, the desired signal level, a reception level of a control signal, and a hop count from a transmission-originating station to its own station; and

notifying means for notifying the sender station of the desired signal level according to a result of the determination by the determining means.

5. The radio communication system according to claim 4, wherein the receiver station further comprises:

destination deciding means for deciding a next receiver station as a destination of a packet on the basis of at least one of the reception level of the control signal, an interference level at its own station, and the hop count from the transmission-originating station to its own station.

6. The radio communication system according to claim 4, wherein the interference level measured by the interference level measuring means is an interference level at the receiver station of a channel group used in reception of the packet.

7. A radio communication system comprising a base station, a mobile station, and a relay station having a relaying function in packet transmission, and applying CDMA to a radio multiplexing scheme of packet transmission,

wherein the base station or the relay station comprises:

interference level measuring means for measuring an interference level at its own station of a channel group used in reception, at the time of receiving a packet;

desired signal level calculating means for calculating a desired signal level on the basis of the interference level obtained in the measurement; and

desired signal level notifying means for notifying the mobile station of the desired signal level thus calculated; and

wherein the mobile station comprises;

transmission power amount calculating means for calculating a transmission power amount of a packet on the basis of the desired signal level notified of by the base station or the relay station; and

determining means for determining whether the packet is transmissible to the station as a source of the desired signal level, on the basis of the transmission power amount calculated by the transmission power amount calculating means.

8. The radio communication system according to claim 7, wherein the base station further comprises:

attribution information holding means which holds attribution information of each mobile station and each relay station capable of direct communication with its own station, and attribution information of each mobile station and each relay station incapable of direct communication with its own station but capable of direct communication with a relay station.

9. The radio communication system according to claim 7, wherein the base station further comprises:

channel group selecting means for selecting a channel group for transmission/reception on the basis of a transmitting direction of a packet; and

signal transmitting means for transmitting a signal to be transmitted, on a channel according to the selected channel group.

10. The radio communication system according to claim 7, wherein the mobile station further comprises:

destination deciding means for deciding a base station or a relay station as a destination to which the mobile station should transmit a packet, on the basis of a reception level of a control signal or a hop count from the base station to its own station.

11. The radio communication system according to claim 7, wherein the mobile station further comprises:

channel group selecting means for selecting a channel group for transmission/reception on the basis of both or one of a hop count from the base station'"'"'to its own station and a transmitting direction of a packet; and

signal transmitting means for transmitting a signal to be transmitted, on a channel according to the selected channel group.

12. The radio communication system according to claim 7, wherein the relay station further comprises:

destination deciding means for deciding a station as a destination to which the relay station should transmit a packet, on the basis of a reception level of a control signal or a hop count from the base station to its own station.

13. The radio communication system according to claim 7, wherein the relay station further comprises:

decoding means for despreading a signal received from the mobile station, the base station, and another relay station to decode the signal into an information sequence signal; and

spread signal generating means for spreading the decoded information sequence signal to generate a spread signal.

14. The radio communication system according to claim 13, wherein, when the relay station comprises at least the transmission power amount calculating means,

the transmission power calculated by the transmission power amount calculating means is assigned to the spread signal generated by the spread signal generating means, and the spread signal is transmitted.

15. The radio communication system according to claim 7, wherein the relay station further comprises:

channel group selecting means for selecting a channel group for transmission/reception on the basis of both or one of a hop count from the base station to its own station and a transmitting direction of a packet; and

signal transmitting means for transmitting a signal to be transmitted, on a channel according to the selected channel group.

16. The radio communication system according to claim 7, wherein the relay station is comprised of a station having a function of the mobile station, or a relaying device installed in a vehicle or in stationary facilities.

17. A radio communication system comprising a base station, a mobile station, and a relay station having a relaying function in packet transmission, and applying CDMA to a radio multiplexing scheme of packet transmission,

wherein each of the base station, the relay station, and the mobile station comprises:

interference level measuring means for measuring an interference level at its own station of a channel group used in reception, at the time of receiving a packet;

desired signal level calculating means for calculating a desired signal level on the basis of the interference level obtained in the measurement;

desired signal level notifying means for notifying a sender station of the packet, of the desired signal level thus calculated;

transmission power amount calculating means for calculating a transmission power amount of a packet on the basis of a desired signal level notified of by another station, at the time of transmitting or relaying a packet; and

determining means for determining whether the packet is transmissible to the station as a source of the desired signal level, on the basis of the transmission power amount calculated by the transmission power amount calculating means.

18. The radio communication system according to claim 17, wherein the base station further comprises:

attribution information holding means which holds attribution information of each mobile station and each relay station capable of direct communication with its own station, and attribution information of each mobile station and each relay station incapable of direct communication with its own station but capable of direct communication with a relay station.

19. The radio communication system according to claim 17, wherein the base station further comprises:

destination deciding means for deciding a mobile station or a relay station as a destination to which the base station should transmit a packet, on the basis of at least one of a reception level of a control signal, an interference level at its own station, and a hop count from a transmission-originating station to its own station.

20. The radio communication system according to claim 17, wherein the base station further comprises:

channel group selecting means for selecting a channel group for transmission/reception on the basis of a transmitting direction of a packet; and

signal transmitting means for transmitting a signal to be transmitted, on a channel according to the selected channel group.

21. The radio communication system according to claim 17, wherein the mobile station further comprises:

destination deciding means for deciding a base station or a relay station as a destination to which the mobile station should transmit a packet, on the basis of a reception level of a control signal or a hop count from the base station to its own station.

22. The radio communication system according to claim 17, wherein the mobile station further comprises:

channel group selecting means for selecting a channel group for transmission/reception on the basis of both or one of a hop count from the base station to its own station and a transmitting direction of a packet; and

signal transmitting means for transmitting a signal to be transmitted, on a channel according to the selected channel group.

23. The radio communication system according to claim 17, wherein the relay station further comprises:

destination deciding means for deciding a station as a destination to which the relay station should transmit a packet, on the basis of a reception level of a control signal or a hop count from the base station to its own station.

24. The radio communication system according to claim 17, wherein the relay station further comprises:

decoding means for despreading a signal received from the mobile station, the base station, and another relay station to decode the signal into an information sequence signal; and

spread signal generating means for spreading the decoded information sequence signal to generate a spread signal.

25. The radio communication system according to claim 24, wherein, when the relay station comprises at least the transmission power amount calculating means,

the transmission power calculated by the transmission power amount calculating means is assigned to the spread signal generated by the spread signal generating means, and the spread signal is transmitted.

26. The radio communication system according to claim 17, wherein the relay station further comprises:

channel group selecting means for selecting a channel group for transmission/reception on the basis of both or one of a hop count from the base station to its own station and a transmitting direction of a packet; and

signal transmitting means for transmitting a signal to be transmitted, on a channel according to the selected channel group.

27. The radio communication system according to claim 17, wherein the relay station is comprised of a station having a function of the mobile station, or a relaying device installed in a vehicle or in stationary facilities.

28. A base station constituting a radio communication system for communication based on a wireless packet transmission system, with a mobile station and a relay station having a relaying function in packet transmission, the base station comprising:

interference level measuring means for measuring an interference level at the time of receiving a packet;

desired signal level calculating means for calculating a desired signal level on the basis of the interference level obtained in the measurement; and

desired signal level notifying means for notifying a sender station of the packet, of the desired signal level thus calculated.

29. The base station according to claim 28, wherein the interference level measured by the interference level measuring means is an interference level at the base station of a channel group used in reception of the packet.

31. The base station according to claim 28, further comprising:

transmission power amount calculating means for calculating a transmission power amount of a packet on the basis of a desired signal level notified of by another station, at the time of transmitting a packet; and

determining means for determining whether the packet is transmissible to the station as a source of the desired signal level, on the basis of the transmission power amount calculated by the transmission power amount calculating means.

32. The base station according to claim 31, further comprising destination deciding means for deciding a mobile station or a relay station as a destination to which the base station should transmit a packet, on the basis of at least one of a reception level of a control signal, an interference level at its own station, and a hop count from a transmission-originating station to its own station.

33. The base station according to claim 28, further comprising attribution information holding means which holds attribution information of each mobile station and each relay station capable of direct communication with its own station, and attribution information of each mobile station and each relay station incapable of direct communication with its own station but capable of direct communication with a relay station.

34. The base station according to claim 28, further comprising:

channel group selecting means for selecting a channel group for transmission/reception on the basis of a transmitting direction of a packet; and

signal transmitting means for transmitting a signal to be transmitted, on a channel according to the selected channel group.

30. A base station constituting a radio communication system applying CDMA to a radio multiplexing scheme of packet transmission, with a mobile station and a relay station having a relaying function in packet transmission, the base station comprising:

interference level measuring means for measuring an interference level at its own station of a channel group used in reception, at the time of receiving a packet;

desired signal level calculating means for calculating a desired signal level on the basis of the interference level obtained in the measurement; and

desired signal level notifying means for notifying a sender station of the packet, of the desired signal level thus calculated.

35. A mobile station constituting a radio communication system for communication based on a wireless packet transmission system, with a base station and a relay station having a relaying function in packet transmission, the mobile station comprising:

transmission power amount calculating means for calculating a transmission power amount of a packet on the basis of a desired signal level notified of by a sender station of the packet; and

determining means for determining whether the packet is transmissible from the sender station, on the basis of the transmission power amount calculated by the transmission power amount calculating means.

36. The mobile station according to claim 35, further comprising:

interference level measuring means for measuring an interference level at the time of receiving a packet;

desired signal level calculating means for calculating a desired signal level on the basis of the interference level obtained in the measurement; and

desired signal level notifying means for notifying a sender station of the packet, of the desired signal level thus calculated.

37. The mobile station according to claim 36, wherein the interference level measured by the interference level measuring means is an interference level at the mobile station of a channel group used in reception of the packet.

39. The mobile station according to claim 35, further comprising destination deciding means for deciding a base station or a relay station as a destination to which the mobile station should transmit a packet, on the basis of at least one of a reception level of a control signal, an interference level at its own station, and a hop count from a transmission-originating station to its own station.

40. The mobile station according to claim 35, further comprising:

channel group selecting means for selecting a channel group for transmission/reception on the basis of both or one of a hop count from the base station to its own station and a transmitting direction of a packet; and

signal transmitting means for transmitting a signal to be transmitted, on a channel according to the selected channel group.

38. A mobile station constituting a radio communication system applying CDMA to a radio multiplexing scheme of packet transmission, with a base station and a relay station having a relaying function in packet transmission, the mobile station comprising:

transmission power amount calculating means for calculating a transmission power amount of a packet on the basis of a desired signal level notified of by the base station or the relay station; and

determining means for determining whether the packet is transmissible to the station as a source of the desired signal level, on the basis of the transmission power amount calculated by the transmission power amount calculating means.

41. A relay station constituting a radio communication system for communication based on a wireless packet transmission system, with a base station and a mobile station and having a relaying function in packet transmission, the relay station comprising:

interference level measuring means for measuring an interference level at the time of receiving a packet;

desired signal level calculating means for calculating a desired signal level on the basis of the interference level obtained in the measurement; and

desired signal level notifying means for notifying a sender station of the packet, of the desired signal level thus calculated.

42. The relay station according to claim 41, further comprising:

determining means for determining whether a packet is transmissible from the sender station, on the basis of at least one of the interference level, the desired signal level, a reception level of a control signal, and a hop count from the base station to its own station,

wherein the desired signal level notifying means notifies the sender station of the desired signal level according to a result of the determination by the determining means.

43. The relay station according to claim 41, wherein the interference level measured by the interference level measuring means is an interference level at the relay station of a channel group used in reception of the packet.

45. The relay station according to claim 41, further comprising:

transmission power amount calculating means for calculating a transmission power amount of a packet on the basis of a desired signal level notified of by another station, at the time of relaying a packet; and

determining means for determining whether the packet is transmissible to the station as a source of the desired signal level, on the basis of the transmission power amount calculated by the transmission power amount calculating means.

46. The relay station according to claim 41, further comprising destination deciding means for deciding a station as a destination to which the relay station should transmit a packet, on the basis of at least one of a reception level of a control signal, an interference level at its own station, and a hop count from a transmission-originating station to its own station.

47. The relay station according to claim 41, further comprising:

decoding means for despreading a signal received from the mobile station, the base station, and another relay station to decode the signal into an information sequence signal; and

spread signal generating means for spreading the decoded information sequence signal to generate a spread signal.

48. The relay station according to claim 47, wherein, when the relay station comprises at least the transmission power amount calculating means,

the transmission power calculated by the transmission power amount calculating means is assigned to the spread signal generated by the spread signal generating means and the spread signal is transmitted.

49. The relay station according to claim 41, further comprising:

channel group selecting means for selecting a channel group for transmission/reception on the basis of a hop count from a transmission-originating station to its own station; and

signal transmitting means for transmitting a signal to be transmitted, on a channel according to the selected channel group.

50. The relay station according to claim 41, the relay station being comprised of a station having a function of the mobile station, or a relaying device installed in a vehicle or in stationary facilities.

44. A relay station constituting a radio communication system applying CDMA to a radio multiplexing scheme of packet transmission, with a base station and a mobile station and having a relaying function in packet transmission, the relay station comprising:

interference level measuring means for measuring an interference level at its own station of a channel group used in reception, at the time of receiving a packet;

desired signal level calculating means for calculating a desired signal level on the basis of the interference level obtained in the measurement; and

desired signal level notifying means for notifying a sender station of the packet, of the desired signal level thus calculated.

51. A packet transmission control method in a radio communication system comprising a base station, a mobile station, and a relay station having a relaying function in multihop packet transmission and configured to perform communication based on a wireless packet transmission system, the packet transmission control method comprising:

an interference level measuring step wherein a receiver station in the packet transmission measures an interference level;

a desired signal level calculating step wherein the receiver station calculates a desired signal level on the basis of the interference level obtained in the measurement;

a desired signal level notifying step wherein the receiver station notifies a sender station of the desired signal level thus calculated;

a transmission power amount calculating step wherein the sender station calculates a transmission power amount of a packet on the basis of the desired signal level thus notified of;

a determining step wherein the sender station determines whether the packet is transmissible to the receiver station, on the basis of the transmission power amount thus calculated; and

a packet transmitting step wherein the sender station transmits the packet by a power according to the transmission power amount for the receiver station, to the receiver station determined as a packet-transmissible station.

53. The packet transmission control method according to claim 51, further comprising a mobile station destination deciding step wherein the mobile station defined as the receiver station decides a base station or a relay station as a destination to which the mobile station should transmit a packet, on the basis of at least one of a reception level of a control signal, an interference level at its own station, and a hop count from a transmission-originating station to its own station.

54. The packet transmission control method according to claim 51, further comprising a base station destination deciding step wherein the base station defined as the receiver station decides a mobile station or a relay station as a destination to which the base station should transmit a packet, on the basis of at least one of a reception level of a control signal, an interference level at its own station, and a hop count from a transmission-originating station to its own station.

55. The packet transmission control method according to claim 51, further comprising a relay station destination deciding step wherein the relay station defined as the receiver station decides a station as a destination to which the relay station should transmit a packet, on the basis of at least one of a reception level of a control signal, an interference level at its own station, and a hop count from a transmission-originating station to its own station.

56. The packet transmission control method according to claim 51, further comprising:

a decoding step wherein the relay station despreads a signal received from the mobile station, the base station, and another relay station to decode the signal into an information sequence signal; and

a spread signal generating step wherein the relay station spreads the decoded information sequence signal to generate a spread signal.

57. The packet transmission control method according to claim 51, further comprising:

a channel group selecting step wherein the mobile station and the relay station select a channel group for transmission/reception on the basis of both or one of a hop count from a transmission-originating station to its own station and a transmitting direction of a packet and wherein the base station selects a channel group for transmission/reception on the basis of a transmitting direction of a packet; and

a signal transmitting step wherein the mobile station, the relay station, and the base station transmit a signal to be transmitted, on a channel according to the selected channel group.

58. The packet transmission control method according to claim 57, wherein the channel group selecting step is to divide transmission channels for transmission of signals into two channel groups, and

wherein in a common manner in the base station, the relay station, and the mobile station, one channel group is assigned to an uplink signal a source of which is the mobile station, and the other channel group is assigned to a downlink signal a source of which is the base station.

59. The packet transmission control method according to claim 57, wherein the channel group selecting step is to divide transmission channels for transmission of signals into four channel groups,

wherein in a common manner is the base station, the relay station even-numbered from the base station, and the mobile station a hop count of which from the base station is an even number, a first channel group is assigned to a downlink signal a source of which is the base station, and a second channel group is assigned to an uplink signal a source of which is the mobile station, and

wherein in a common manner in the relay station odd-numbered from the base station, and the mobile station a hop count of which from the base station is an odd number, a third channel group is assigned to the downlink signal and a fourth channel group is assigned to the uplink signal.

60. The packet transmission control method according to claim 57, wherein the channel group selecting step is to divide transmission channels for transmission of signals into N channel groups (N is an integer not less than 3), and

wherein in each of the base station, the relay station, and the mobile station, the N channel groups are assigned so that an identical channel group is assigned to an uplink signal and a downlink signal transmitted from one station and so that different channel groups are assigned to an uplink signal and a downlink signal received thereby, respectively.

61. The packet transmission control method according to claim 57, wherein the channel group selecting step is to divide transmission channels for transmission of signals into two channel groups,

wherein transmission from the base station and from the relay station and the mobile station even-numbered from the base station is carried out by a first channel group and reception therein by a second channel group, and

wherein transmission from the relay station and the mobile station odd-numbered from the base station is carried out by the second channel group and reception therein by the first channel group.

62. The packet transmission control method according to claim 57, wherein the channel groups are comprised of channel groups divided by frequency.

63. The packet transmission control method according to claim 57, wherein the channel groups are comprised of channel groups divided by time.

64. The packet transmission control method according to claim 57, wherein the channel groups are comprised of channel groups divided by both frequency and time.

52. A packet transmission control method executed at the time of transmitting a packet from a mobile station via a relay station to a base station in a radio communication system comprising a base station, a mobile station, and a relay station having a relaying function in packet transmission and applying CDMA to a radio multiplexing scheme of packet transmission, the packet transmission control method comprising:

an interference level measuring step wherein a receiver station of a packet measures an interference level at its own station of the received packet;

a desired signal level calculating step wherein the receiver station calculates a desired signal level on the basis of the interference level obtained in the measurement;

a desired signal level notifying step wherein the receiver station notifies a sender station of the packet, of the desired signal level thus calculated;

a transmission power amount calculating step wherein the sender station calculates a transmission power amount of a packet on the basis of the desired signal level thus notified of;

a determining step wherein the sender station determines whether the packet is transmissible to the receiver station, on the basis of the transmission power amount thus calculated; and

a packet transmitting step wherein the sender station transmits the packet by a power according to the transmission power amount for the receiver station, to the receiver station determined as a packet-transmissible station.