Base Station Device And Cell Forming Method

• US 20090186623A1
• Filed: 03/27/2009
• Published: 07/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: MATSUZAWA, Hiromu
• Granted Patent: US 8,180,355 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/447
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/02 Resource partitioning among network components, e.g. reuse partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/30 Special cell shapes, e.g. doughnuts or ring cells
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/16 Central resource management; Negotiation of resources or communication parameters, e.g. negotiating bandwidth or QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/00 Local resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A base station device includes a plurality of directional antennas, a power control unit and a frequency management unit. The cell is formed with layers of a base cell having a cell border with a cell formed by a neighboring base station device and including a plurality of sector cells and a small-cell having a cell radius smaller than a cell radius of the base cell and including at least four sector cells by the plurality of directional antennas and the power control unit. The frequency management unit manages frequency bands so that different frequency bands are allocated to the sector cells of the base cell, and a frequency band, which is different from the frequency bands allocated to the base cell and different between neighboring sector cells but the same between at least two sector cells, is allocated to each of the sector cells of the small-cell.

Claims

1. A base station device forming a cell, comprising:

a plurality of directional antennas;

a power control unit controlling respectively transmission power of signals transmitted from said directional antennas; and

a frequency management unit managing frequency bands used in the cell,

wherein the cell is formed with layers of a base cell having a cell border with a cell formed by a neighboring base station device and including a plurality of sector cells and a small-cell having a cell radius smaller than a cell radius of the base cell and including at least four sector cells, by said plurality of directional antennas and said power control unit, and

said frequency management unit manages frequency bands so that frequency bands different from each other are allocated to the sector cells of the base cell, and a frequency band, which is different from the frequency bands allocated to the base cell and different between neighboring sector cells but the same between at least two sector cells, is allocated to each of the sector cells of the small-cell.

2. A base station device according to claim 1, wherein said frequency management unit manages the frequency bands so that the two frequency bands are alternately allocated to the sector cells of the small-cell.

3. A base station device according to claim 1, wherein said frequency management unit manages the frequency bands so that the different frequency bands are allocated to face-to-face sector cells of the small-cell in a relationship with the neighboring base station device.

4. A base station device according to claim 1, wherein said power control unit controls the transmission power of each signal so that the cell radius of the small-cell becomes a half of the cell radius of the base cell.

5. A base station device according to claim 1, further comprising

a notifying unit notifying each of the sector cells of the base cell and the small-cell of HCS (Hierarchical Cell Structure) control information in which the priority of the small-cell is set higher than the priority of the base cell.

6. A cell forming method in a base station device forming a cell, comprising:

a cell forming step of forming the cell with layers of a base cell having a cell border with a cell formed by a neighboring base station device and including a plurality of sector cells and a small-cell having a cell radius smaller than a cell radius of the base cell and including at least four sector cells, and

a frequency allocating step of allocating frequency bands different from each other to the sector cells of the base cell, and allocating a frequency band, which is different from each of the frequency bands allocated to the base cell and different between neighboring sector cells but the same between at least two sector cells, to each of the sector cells of the small-cell.

7. A cell forming method according to claim 6, wherein said frequency allocating step includes alternately allocating the two frequency bands to the sector cells of the small-cell.

8. A cell forming method according to claim 6, wherein said frequency allocating step includes allocating the different frequency bands to face-to-face sector cells of the small-cell in a relationship with the neighboring base station device.

9. A cell forming method according to claim 6, wherein said cell forming step includes forming the cell so that a cell radius of the small-cell becomes a half of the cell radius of the base cell.

10. A cell forming method according to claim 6, further comprising

a notifying step of notifying each of the sector cells of the base cell and the small-cell of HCS (Hierarchical Cell Structure) control information in which the priority of the small-cell is set higher than the priority of the base cell.