BASE STATION AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD

• US 20070202913A1
• Filed: 02/22/2007
• Published: 08/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: BAN, Koichiro
• Application Number:
  US11/677,784
• Publication Number:
  US 20070202913A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/245 taking into account received signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/325 Power control of control or pilot channels

Abstract

There is provided with a base station which carries out radio communication with mobile stations, including: a frame generation section configured to successively generate time frames to be transmitted to the mobile stations; a storage configured to store transmit power information specifying transmission power to be applied for each of a predetermined number of time frames being successive as one of first transmit power covering a whole of the communication area, second to nth (n is an integer equal to or greater than 2) transmit power covering areas smaller than the whole of the communication area; a transmit power control section configured to control transmit power of time frames successively generated by the frame generation section according to the transmit power information in units of the predetermined number of time frames; and a transmission section configured to transmit time frames power-controlled by the transmit power control section.

Claims

1. A base station which carries out radio communication with mobile stations, a communication area of which partially overlaps with a communication area of one or more other base station, comprising:

a frame generation section configured to successively generate time frames to be transmitted to the mobile stations;

a storage configured to store transmit power information specifying transmission power to be applied for each of a predetermined number of time frames being successive as one of first transmit power covering a whole of the communication area, second to nth (n is an integer equal to or greater than

     2) transmit power covering areas smaller than the whole of the communication area;

a transmit power control section configured to control transmit power of time frames successively generated by the frame generation section according to the transmit power information in units of the predetermined number of time frames; and

a transmission section configured to transmit time frames power-controlled by the transmit power control section.

2. The base station according to claim 1,

wherein the transmission section has a sector antenna which forms a plurality of sectors in the communication area,

the storage section stores the transmit power information on respective sectors,

the frame generation section successively generates the time frames of each sector to be transmitted to the mobile stations,

the transmit power control section controls transmit power of the time frames of each sector generated by the frame generation section, and

the transmission section transmits the time frames of each sector power-controlled by the transmit power control section.

3. The base station according to claim 1, wherein the frame generation section generates the time frames according to timing information which specifies timing of generating time frames such that time frames having the first transmit power transmitted by the transmission section and time frames having the first transmit power transmitted by the other base station do not overlap each other.

4. The base station according to claim 1,

wherein the time frame has a plurality of subframes,

the frame generation section decreases or increases subframes of a certain time frame and increases or decreases subframes of another time frame neighboring the certain time frame by a number of subframes decreased or increased from the certain time frame.

5. The base station according to claim 4, wherein the certain time frame is time frame to be power-controlled to the first transmit power.

6. The base station according to claim 1, wherein the frame generation section allocates broadcast data or multicast data to time frames power-controlled to the first transmit power.

7. The base station according to claim 1, wherein the frame generation section generates the time frames according to timing information which specifies timing of generating time frames such that time frames having the first transmit power transmitted by the transmission section and time frames having the first transmit power transmitted by the other base station partially overlap each other and maps broadcast or multicast data to parts which overlap each other in the time frames having the first transmit power transmitted by the transmission section and the other base station.

8. The base station according to claim 1, wherein the transmit power control section controls transmit power on some subcarriers in each time frame according to the transmit power information and controls transmit power of remaining subcarriers in each time frame to the first transmit power.

9. The base station according to claim 1, further comprising:

a mapping section configured to map n types of known signals associated with the first to nth transmit power to time frames to be power-controlled to the first to nth transmit power;

a reception section configured to receive information for identifying the type of the known signal and information indicating reception level of the known signal as feedback information from the mobile station; and

a selection section configured to select time frame to be used for data transmission to the mobile station from among the predetermined number of time frames based on the feedback information and the transmit power information.

10. The base station according to claim 1, further comprising:

a mapping section configured to map n types of known signals associated with the first to nth transmit power to time frames to be power-controlled to the first to nth transmit power; and

a reception section configured to receive feedback information indicating which of the first to nth transmit power should be applied for data transmission to the mobile station, from the mobile station.

11. A radio communication method performed by a base station which carries out radio communication with mobile stations, a communication area of which partially overlaps with a communication area of one or more other base station, comprising:

successively generating time frames to be transmitted to the mobile stations;

controlling transmit power of successively generated time frames in units of a predetermined number of time frames based on transmit power information specifying transmit power to be applied for each of the predetermined number of time frames as one of first transmit power covering the whole communication area, second to nth (n is an integer equal to or greater than

     2) transmit power covering areas smaller than the whole communication area; and

transmitting time frames power-controlled.

12. A base station which carries out radio communication with mobile stations, a communication area of which partially overlaps with a communication area of one or more other base station, comprising:

a frame generation section configured to successively generate time frames to be transmitted to the mobile stations;

a storage configured to store transmit power information specifying transmission power to be applied for each of a predetermined number of time frames being successive as one of first transmit power covering a whole of the communication area, second to nth (n is an integer equal to or greater than

     2) transmit power covering areas smaller than the whole of the communication area, wherein the transmit power information is repeatedly used in units of the predetermined number of time frames;

a transmit power control section configured to control transmit power of time frames successively generated by the frame generation section according to the transmit power information; and

a transmission section configured to transmit time frames power-controlled by the transmit power control section.