Base station device and communication terminal device

• US 20050220052A1
• Filed: 12/26/2003
• Published: 10/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hiramatsu, Katsuhiko, Nishio, Akihiko, Yoshii, Isamu, Iochi, Hitoshi, Uehara, Toshiyuki
• Application Number:
  US10/515,818
• Publication Number:
  US 20050220052A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/331
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/22 Negotiating communication rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/18 for allowing seamless reselection, e.g. soft reselection
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

A base station apparatus and communication terminal apparatus capable of estimating interference with other cells on an uplink and realizing optimum assignment. At a base station (100), a scheduling and transmission parameter determining section (113) receives soft handover information from a higher layer and does not perform individual assignment processing for a mobile station in the process of soft handover. In this way, the mobile station can perform continuous transmission at a constant transmission rate (e.g., coding rate, modulation scheme, spreading factor, transmit power, etc.).

Claims

1. A base station apparatus comprising:

an assignment section that determines scheduling and transmission parameters for communication terminal apparatuses in the own cell; and

a transmission section that transmits the assignment result of said assignment section,

wherein said assignment section does not perform individual assignment to a communication terminal apparatus in the process of soft handover among communication terminal apparatuses in the own cell.

2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said transmission parameter is an upper limit value of transmission rates selectable by the communication terminal apparatuses in the own cell.

3. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the soft handover information obtained by said assignment section is given from a higher layer.

4. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a decision section that decides whether or not to change a transmission rate of a communication terminal apparatus in the process of soft handover,

wherein said transmission section transmits the assignment result of said assignment section based on the decision result of said decision section.

5. The base station apparatus according to claim 4, wherein only one of a plurality of base stations with which the communication terminal apparatus in the process of soft handover is communicating transmits the assignment result of said assignment section based on the decision result of said decision section.

6. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a restriction section that places restrictions on a transmission rate assignable to the communication terminal apparatus in the process of soft handover,

wherein said assignment section determines transmission parameters for a communication terminal apparatus in the process of soft handover in the own cell within the restriction result of said restriction section.

7. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said assignment section estimates an amount of interference based on transmission of a communication terminal apparatus in the process of soft handover among communication terminal apparatuses in the own cell and determines transmission parameters to be assigned to other communication terminal apparatuses by also considering said estimation result.

8. An RNC apparatus connected to the base station apparatus according to claim 1 which supplies information on soft handover related to communication terminal apparatuses in the cell of said base station apparatus to said base station apparatus.

9. A communication terminal apparatus comprising:

an acquisition section that acquires an assignment result from the base station apparatus; and

a transmission section that performs transmission according to assigned scheduling and transmission rate according to the acquired assignment result,

wherein when the own communication terminal apparatus is in the process of soft handover, said transmission section performs continuous transmission at a predetermined transmission rate.

10. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 9, wherein when the own communication terminal apparatus is in the process of soft handover, said transmission section performs continuous transmission at the same transmission rate used for transmission before soft handover takes place instead of performing continuous transmission at a predetermined transmission rate.

11. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a determining section that determines, when a given transmission rate is an upper limit value, a transmission rate transmittable within a range equal to or lower than said upper limit value,

wherein said transmission section performs transmission at the transmission rate determined by said determining section.

12. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said acquisition section does not receive any assignment result from the base station apparatus when the own communication terminal apparatus is in the process of soft handover.

13. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said acquisition section does not use any assignment result received from the base station apparatus when the own communication terminal apparatus is in the process of soft handover.

14. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 9, wherein soft handover information used by said transmission section is given from a higher layer.

15. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a generation section that generates report information necessary for assignment by the base station apparatus,

wherein said transmission section does not transmit said report information when the own communication terminal apparatus is in the process of soft handover.

16. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a generation section that generates a signal indicating that the own communication terminal apparatus is in the process of soft handover,

wherein said transmission section transmits the signal generated by said generation section to the assignment section provided in said base station apparatus for determining scheduling and transmission parameters as the destination.

17. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said transmission section follows transmit power control during transmission.

18. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a reception section that receives an assignment result based on whether a transmission rate can be changed or not from the base station apparatus;

and

a change section that changes the transmission rate based on the assignment result based on the received information on whether the transmission rate can be changed or not.