MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD

• US 20100110959A1
• Filed: 11/09/2007
• Published: 05/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Shimobayashi, Shinya
• Application Number:
  US12/524,413
• Publication Number:
  US 20100110959A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/312
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/42 Arrangements for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/72 of terrestrial networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/27 specially adapted for broadcast systems covered by groups H04H20/53 - H04H20/95
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/12 wherein another information is substituted for the portion of broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/30 Resource management for broadcast services

Abstract

A base station transmits multimedia broadcast/multicast service data on the resource block allocated to a multimedia broadcast/multicast service to a number of terminals. The terminal extracts multimedia broadcast/multicast service data from the resource block allocated to the multimedia broadcast/multicast service, which is contained in the signal received from the base station, and measures reception quality of the resource block. The base station transmits auxiliary data on another resource block when the reception quality of the resource block has deteriorated in any of the terminals. The terminal in which the quality of the received data is low to extracts auxiliary data contained in the received signal and synthesizes the data with the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system for performing data communication of multimedia broadcast/multicast service by using a resource block obtained by dividing a radio resource of a downlink, the mobile communication system comprising:

a plurality of terminals for selecting a resource block allocated to a multimedia broadcast/multicast service from among the resource blocks contained in a radio received signal, extracting multimedia broadcast/multicast service data from the selected resource block, measuring reception quality of the selected resource block, and extracting auxiliary data for enhancing the reception quality of the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data from another resource block contained in the radio received signal and synthesizing the extracted auxiliary data with the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data when the reception quality has deteriorated; and

a base station for selecting a resource block allocated to the multimedia broadcast/multicast service, transmitting the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data on the selected source block to the terminals via a radio transmitting system, and transmitting the auxiliary data on another resource block when the reception quality of the resource block allocated to the multimedia broadcast/multicast service has deteriorated in any of the terminals.

2. A mobile communication system of claim 1, wherein the terminals make a request for transmission of the auxiliary data to the base station when the reception quality of the resource block allocated to the multimedia broadcast/multicast service has deteriorated, and

the base station transmits, upon receipt of the request for transmission of auxiliary data from any of the terminals, the auxiliary data by using a resource block showing high reception quality at the terminal which has made the request for transmission of auxiliary data.

3. The mobile communication system of claim 1, wherein the terminal measures the reception quality of each of the resource blocks and periodically notifies reception quality information to the base station, and

the base station decides whether to transmit the auxiliary data on the basis of the reception quality information notified from the terminal.

4. The mobile communication system of claim 1, wherein the downlink uses an OFDM communication scheme, and

in the transmission of the auxiliary data,

the base station performs a rate match process and a modulation process respectively on each unit of the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data and the auxiliary data, maps the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data and the auxiliary data to the allocated resource blocks, respectively, and performs an IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) process collectively on the mapped data and transmits the data, and

the terminal performs an IFFT process on the signal received from the base station, performs a demodulation process on the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data and the auxiliary data mapped in the obtained data, and performs a rate de-match process and a synthesizing process on the data.

5. The mobile communication system of claim 1, wherein classes of terminals are defined into a plurality of levels, and each of the terminals belongs to any of the classes, and

the base station decides whether to transmit the auxiliary data on the basis of the class of the terminal in which the reception quality has deteriorated.

6. The mobile communication system of claim 5, wherein the classes of terminals are predetermined with point values, and

the base station adds up the point values of the terminals with low reception quality for every class of terminals, and transmits, if the sum of the point values exceeds a predetermined point threshold value, auxiliary data for the terminal of the class in which the sum of the point values exceeds the point threshold value.

7. The mobile communication system of claim 6, wherein the base station adaptively varies the point threshold value in accordance with the availability condition of a radio resource of the downlink.

8. A terminal for use in a mobile communication system, wherein the mobile communication system

uses a resource block obtained by dividing a radio resource of a downlink in a multimedia broadcast/multicast service,

allows a base station to transmit multimedia broadcast/multicast service data carried on the resource block allocated to multimedia broadcast/multicast service to a plurality of terminals through a radio transmitting system,

allows the terminals to extract the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data from the resource block allocated to the multimedia broadcast/multicast service from among the resource blocks contained in a radio received signal sent from the base station, and estimate reception quality of the resource block,

transmits auxiliary data carried on another resource block for improving the reception quality of the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data from the base station when the reception quality of the resource block allocated to the multimedia broadcast/multicast service has deteriorated in any of the terminals, and

allows the terminal with the deteriorated reception quality to extract the auxiliary data from another resource block contained in the received signal and synthesize the auxiliary data with the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data,

the terminal comprising:

first receiving unit that extracts multimedia broadcast/multicast service data from the resource block allocated to a multimedia broadcast/multimedia service from among resource blocked contained in a radio received signal sent from the base station;

quality estimation unit that measures reception quality of the resource block allocated to the multimedia broadcast/multicast service;

second receiving unit that extracts auxiliary data for improving reception quality of the multimedia broadcast/multicast service from another resource block contained in the received signal when the reception quality measured by the quality estimation unit has deteriorated; and

synthesizing unit that synthesizes the auxiliary data extracted by the second receiving unit with the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data extracted by the first receiving unit.

9. A base station for use in a mobile communication system, wherein the mobile communication system

uses a resource block obtained by dividing a radio resource of a downlink in a multimedia broadcast/multicast service,

allows a base station to transmit multimedia broadcast/multicast service data carried on the resource block allocated to multimedia broadcast/multicast service to a plurality of terminals through a radio transmitting system,

allows the terminals to extract the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data from the resource block allocated to the multimedia broadcast/multicast service from among the resource blocks contained in a radio received signal sent from the base station, and estimate the reception quality of the resource block,

transmits auxiliary data carried on another resource block for improving the reception quality of the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data from the base station when the reception quality of the resource block allocated to the multimedia broadcast/multicast service has deteriorated in any of the terminals, and

allows the terminal with the deteriorated reception quality to extract the auxiliary data from another resource block contained in the received signal and synthesize the auxiliary data with the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data,

the base station comprising:

transmission deciding unit that decides whether to transmit the auxiliary data for improving the reception quality of the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data, on the basis of the deterioration of the reception quality in any of terminals of the resource block allocated to the multimedia broadcast/multicast service; and

mapping unit that permits the resource block allocated to the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data to carry multimedia broadcast/multicast service data, and additionally permits the resource block allocated to the auxiliary data to carry the auxiliary data if it is decided, by the transmission deciding unit, to transmit the auxiliary data, and transmits the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data and the auxiliary data to a plurality of terminals via a radio transmission system.

10. A data communication method in a mobile communication system for performing a multimedia broadcast/multicast service by using a resource block obtained by dividing a radio resource of a downlink, the data communication method comprising:

allowing a base station to transmit multimedia broadcast/multicast service data carried on the resource block allocated to multimedia broadcast/multicast service to a plurality of terminals through a radio transmitting system,

allowing the terminals to extract the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data from the resource block allocated to the multimedia broadcast/multicast service from among the resource blocks contained in a radio received signal sent from the base station, and estimate reception quality of the resource block,

transmitting auxiliary data carried on another resource block for improving the reception quality of the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data from the base station when the reception quality of the resource block allocated to the multimedia broadcast/multicast service has deteriorated in any of the terminals, and

allowing the terminal with the deteriorated reception quality to extract the auxiliary data from another resource block contained in the received signal and synthesize the auxiliary data with the multimedia broadcast/multicast service data.