MOBILE RADIO STATION AND COMMUNICATION PARAMETER CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20070019587A1
• Filed: 07/10/2006
• Published: 01/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Okamoto, Etsuhiro, Okumura, Yukihiko, Iwanaga, Mitsuo
• Application Number:
  US11/456,547
• Publication Number:
  US 20070019587A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/335
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 11/02 using radio waves G01S19/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0232 according to average transmission signal activity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0254 detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

There is provided a mobile radio station and a communication parameter control method thereof capable of shortening a time period required for speed detection and thereby controlling a communication parameter quickly and with little power. A mobile radio station performing communication based on a communication parameter preliminarily set includes a positioning unit measuring a position of the own apparatus based on information acquired via GPS and/or information acquired from at least one base station, a speed detection unit detecting a moving speed of the own apparatus based on positions measured at different times, and a parameter selection function unit varying the communication parameter according to the moving speed detected. The positioning unit may calculate a distance from the base station to the mobile radio station based on a time period from when a signal is sent from the base station to when the signal reached the mobile radio station.

Claims

1. A mobile radio station communicating with an opposite radio station based on a communication parameter preliminarily set, the mobile radio station comprising:

speed detection means for detecting a moving speed of the own apparatus based on information acquired via a satellite navigation system and/or information acquired from at least one base station; and

control means for varying the communication parameter according to the moving speed detected by the speed detection means.

2. The mobile radio station according to claim 1, wherein the speed detection means includes positioning means for measuring a position of the own apparatus based on information acquired via the satellite navigation system and/or information acquired from at least one base station, and wherein the moving speed of the own apparatus is detected based on positions measured at different times by the positioning means.

3. The mobile radio station according to claim 2, wherein the positioning means calculates a distance from the base station to the mobile radio station based on a time period from when a signal is sent from the base station to when the signal reaches the mobile radio station.

4. The mobile radio station according to claim 1, further comprising a sensor detecting a moving speed of the own apparatus,

wherein when moving speed detection by the speed detection means is not possible, the control means varies the communication parameter according to the moving speed of the own apparatus determined by using the sensor.

5. The mobile radio station according to claim 1, further comprising:

a sensor detecting the moving speed of the own apparatus; and

determination means for determining by using the sensor whether the mobile radio station is in a stationary state, wherein when the determination means determined that the mobile radio station is in the stationary state, the speed detection means terminates moving speed detection.

6. The mobile radio station according to claim 5, wherein when the moving speed detection by the speed detection means is not possible, the control means varies the communication parameter according to the moving speed of the own apparatus determined by using the sensor.

7. The mobile radio station according to claim 6, wherein the moving speed detection by the speed detection means is performed at a predetermined interval, and the control means varies the communication parameter when a variation in the moving speed detected by the speed detection means is a predetermined value or more.

8. A communication parameter control method executed by a mobile radio station communicating with an opposite radio station based on a communication parameter preliminarily set, the communication parameter control method comprising the steps of:

detecting a moving speed of the own apparatus based on information acquired via a satellite navigation system and/or information acquired from at least one base station; and

varying the communication parameter according to the moving speed detected.