METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK RESOURCE RESERVATION BASED ON MOVING SPEED OF MOBILE TERMINAL, AND MOBILE TERMINAL THEREFOR

• US 20090047970A1
• Filed: 04/14/2008
• Published: 02/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kim, Won Tae, Kim, Do Hyung, Lee, Kyung Hee, Lee, Hwan Gu, Park, Seung Min
• Application Number:
  US12/102,450
• Publication Number:
  US 20090047970A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/450
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/26 Resource reservation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/006 with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method, apparatus and system for network resource reservation and a mobile terminal therefor. Provided are a method, apparatus and system for minimizing unnecessary network resource reservation by predicting an expected direction of a terminal. The method for network resource reservation based on a moving speed of a mobile terminal includes: receiving a request for network resource reservation from the mobile terminal; calculating an expected moving direction of the mobile terminal, based on a speed-based moving probability model represented by a probability density function for a movable direction dependent on the moving speed of the mobile terminal, a moving speed of the mobile terminal, and position information of the mobile terminal; and performing network resource reservation for wireless cells included in the calculated expected moving direction. Thus, unnecessary network resource reservation can be minimized by predicting the moving direction of the terminal.

Claims

1. A method for network resource reservation based on a moving speed of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

receiving a request for network resource reservation from the mobile terminal;

calculating an expected moving direction of the mobile terminal, based on a speed-based moving probability model represented by a probability density function for a movable direction dependent on the moving speed of the mobile terminal, the moving speed of the mobile terminal, and position information of the mobile terminal; and

performing network resource reservation for wireless cells included in the calculated expected moving direction.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising dividing the moving speed of the mobile terminal into speed sections, and building the speed-based moving probability model for a movable direction dependent on the moving speed of the mobile terminal in each speed section.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising periodically collecting the moving speed of the mobile terminal and position information of the mobile terminal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the calculating an expected moving direction of the mobile terminal comprises the step of calculating the expected moving direction of the mobile terminal satisfying a predetermined critical probability.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the performing network resource reservation comprises the step of performing the network resource reservation for cells adjacent to a wireless cell in which the mobile terminal is currently located, among the wireless cells included in the calculated expected moving direction.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the performing network resource reservation comprises the step of, when wireless cells belonging to different types of wireless networks are included in the calculated expected moving direction, performing network resource reservation for wireless cells belonging to a wireless network having the largest coverage area among the different types of wireless networks and included in the calculated expected moving direction.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the performing network resource reservation comprises:

obtaining an average moving distance by which the mobile terminal can move, in the wireless cell belonging to the wireless network having the largest coverage area, based on the probability density function;

calculating a time for which the mobile terminal can stay in the wireless cell belonging to the wireless network having the largest coverage area, based on the average moving distance of the mobile terminal and the moving speed of the mobile terminal; and

performing network resource reservation for wireless cells of all wireless networks included in the calculated expected moving direction, for the calculated time.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising, when a previously reserved network resource for the mobile terminal is not included in the calculated expected moving direction, canceling the reserved network resource.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting a network resource to be used by the mobile terminal from the reserved network resources, based on at least one of the signal strength of the reserved network resources, remaining battery lifetime of the mobile terminal, the moving speed of the mobile terminal, and a user'"'"'s preference.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising performing handover for use of the selected network resource.

11. A system for network resource reservation based on a moving speed of a mobile terminal, the system comprising a mobile terminal, a speed-based moving probability model represented by a probability density function for a movable direction dependent on the moving speed of the mobile terminal, a network resource local control device, and a network resource central control device, wherein:

the mobile terminal comprises a network resource reservation processing module for requesting the network resource central control device to reserve network resources,

the network resource central control device comprises a network resource reservation processing main-module for calculating an expected moving direction of the mobile terminal based on the speed-based moving probability model, the moving speed of the mobile terminal, and position information of the mobile terminal, and requesting the network resource local control device to reserve network resources for wireless cells included in the calculated expected moving direction of the mobile terminal, and

the network resource local control device comprises a network resource reservation processing submodule for performing network resource reservation in response to the request for the network resource reservation from the network resource central control device.

12. An apparatus for network resource reservation based on a moving speed of a mobile terminal, the apparatus comprising a network resource reservation managing unit for calculating an expected moving direction of the mobile terminal, based on a speed-based moving probability model represented by a probability density function for a movable direction dependent on the moving speed of the mobile terminal, the moving speed of the mobile terminal, and position information of the mobile terminal, and performing network resource reservation for wireless cells included in the calculated expected moving direction of the mobile terminal.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the speed-based moving probability model is represented by a probability density function for a movable direction dependent on the moving speed of the mobile terminal in each moving speed section of the mobile terminal.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising:

a terminal moving information managing unit for periodically collecting the moving speed of the mobile terminal and outputting the same to the network resource reservation managing unit; and

a topology information managing unit for periodically collecting position information of the mobile terminal and outputting the same to the network resource reservation managing unit.

15. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the network resource reservation managing unit calculates an expected moving direction of the mobile terminal satisfying a predetermined critical probability.

16. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the network resource reservation managing unit performs network resource reservation for wireless cells existing within a predetermined distance from a wireless cell in which the mobile terminal is currently located, among the wireless cells included in the calculated expected moving direction, based on the moving speed of the mobile terminal.

17. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the network resource reservation managing unit performs, when wireless cells belonging to different types of wireless networks are included in the calculated expected moving direction, network resource reservation for wireless cells belonging to a wireless network having the largest coverage area among the different types of wireless networks and included in the calculated expected moving direction.

18. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the network resource reservation managing unit cancels a previously reserved network resource for the mobile terminal when the previously reserved network resource is not included in the calculated expected moving direction.

19. A mobile terminal comprising:

a network resource reservation processing module for requesting to reserve network resources to be used by the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal deviates from a coverage area of a wireless cell in which the mobile terminal is currently located; and

a network selecting module for selecting a network resource to be used by the mobile terminal from the reserved network resources, based on at least one of signal strength of the network resources, remaining battery lifetime of the mobile terminal, a moving speed of the mobile terminal, and a user'"'"'s preference.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 19, further comprising a handover processing module for performing handover for use of the selected network resource.