RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20080119181A1
• Filed: 08/16/2007
• Published: 05/22/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Suzuki, Tomohito, Yoshida, Akihiko, Mazawa, Shiro, Saito, Toshiyuki
• Application Number:
  US11/839,587
• Publication Number:
  US 20080119181A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/422.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/1268 of uplink data flows
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A radio base station, a radio communication terminal, and a radio communication system that can efficiently utilize broadband resources even if many packets of different sizes and different QoS requirements are mixed when sent and received. When a data transmission request is sent from a radio terminal to a base station, at least one of a data transmission duration time, a transmission data transmission interval, and an expiration time is included in the data transmission request. The base station receives data transmission requests from multiple radio terminals, schedules the data transmission requests from multiple radio terminals, assigns bandwidths to the multiple radio terminals based on the duration time, transmission interval, and expiration time included in each of the data transmission requests and continues the assignment of bandwidths to the radio terminals during the duration time based on the received duration time.

Claims

1. A radio base station that receives data transmission requests from a plurality of radio terminals and, based on information included in the data transmission requests, schedules the data transmission requests from said plurality of radio terminals and assigns bandwidths to said plurality of radio terminals, comprising:

a device management unit that determines a duration time of bandwidth assignment to each of the radio terminals based on information on transmission data, which is included in the data transmission request from said radio terminal, and continues the bandwidth assignment to the radio terminal for the duration time.

2. The radio base station according to claim 1 wherein

the information on transmission data is information on a Quality of Service (QoS) for suppressing a delay in the transmission data, a correspondence between the QoS information and a time required for data transmission is stored in a storage area in said device management unit in advance, and the duration time of bandwidth assignment to said radio terminal is determined by referencing the stored time required for data transmission.

3. The radio base station according to claim 1 wherein said radio base station receives a data transmission request, including information on the duration time of bandwidth assignment requested by said radio terminal, from said radio terminal and determines the duration time of bandwidth assignment to the said radio terminal based on the information on the duration time of bandwidth assignment requested by said radio terminal.

4. The radio base station according to claim 1 wherein said radio base station receives a data transmission request, including information on an expiration time of transmission data, from said radio terminal and, based on the information on an expiration time of the data, schedules the data transmission requests from said plurality of radio terminals and assigns the bandwidths to said plurality of terminals.

5. A radio communication terminal comprising at least an antenna that sends and receives radio waves to and from a base station;

a transmission/reception signal processing unit that performs modulation/demodulation processing, framing processing, and encoding/decoding processing for high-frequency signals sent and received via said antenna;

an external interface that receives transmission data and outputs reception data;

a key entry unit;

a memory; and

a control unit that controls the units, wherein

when a data transmission request is sent to said base station, information on a transmission duration time of data to be sent is included in the data transmission request.

6. The radio communication terminal according to claim 5 wherein

when a data transmission request is sent to the base station, information on a transmission duration time of data to be sent or information on an expiration time of data to be sent is included in the data transmission request.

7. A radio communication system including a plurality of radio terminals and at least one base station wherein

each of said radio terminals comprises at least an antenna that sends and receives radio waves to and from a base station;

a transmission/reception signal processing unit that performs modulation/demodulation processing, framing processing, and encoding/decoding processing for high-frequency signals sent and received via said antenna;

an external interface that receives transmission data and outputs reception data;

a key entry unit;

a memory; and

a control unit that controls the units,

when each of the radio terminals sends a data transmission request to said base station, the radio terminal includes information on transmission data in the data transmission request and

a device management unit of said base station receives data transmission requests from said plurality of radio terminals, schedules the data transmission requests from said plurality of radio terminals, assigns bandwidths to said plurality of radio terminals based on the information on transmission data included in each of the data transmission requests and continues the assignment of bandwidths to said plurality of radio terminals based on the information on transmission data.

8. The radio communication system according to claim 7 wherein

each of said radio terminals includes information on a duration time of data transmission in the data transmission request, and

a device management unit of said base station receives data transmission requests from said plurality of radio terminals, schedules the data transmission requests from said plurality of radio terminals and assigns bandwidths to said plurality of radio terminals based on the information on a duration time included in each of the data transmission requests and, at the same time, continues the assignment of bandwidths to said plurality of radio terminals during the duration time.

9. The radio communication system according to claim 7 wherein

when each of the radio terminals sends a data transmission request to said base station, the radio terminal includes at least one of a transmission interval and an expiration time of transmission data, and

a device management unit of a main device of said base station receives data transmission requests from said plurality of radio terminals and schedules the data transmission requests from said plurality of radio terminals and assigns bandwidths to said plurality of radio terminals based on at least one of the transmission interval and the expiration time of transmission data included in each of the data transmission requests.