MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, BASE STATION APPARATUS, USER APPARATUS AND METHOD

• US 20110032848A1
• Filed: 01/15/2009
• Published: 02/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshino, Hitoshi, Sagae, Yuta
• Granted Patent: US 8,345,582 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/278
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/08 Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery signalling during connection H04W76/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A base station apparatus used for a FDD mobile communications system which uses at least a predetermined frequency bandwidth is disclosed. The base station apparatus includes a control unit which provides an instruction signal which at least indicates a frequency band used in wireless communications; and a unit which wirelessly communicates with a user apparatus according to the instruction signal, wherein, if the base station apparatus belongs to a predetermined border area between mobile communications systems, an instruction signal which indicates that use of one part of the predetermined frequency band is permitted, but use of another part is prohibited is provided by the control unit, and, if the base station apparatus belongs to a predetermined non-border area, an instruction signal which indicates that use of one part and use of the other part are permitted.

Claims

1. A base station apparatus used for a frequency division duplex (FDD) mobile communications system which uses at least a predetermined frequency bandwidth, wherein the predetermined frequency bandwidth is also used in a different neighboring FDD mobile communications system, the base station apparatus comprising:

a control unit which, based on location information of the base station apparatus, provides an instruction signal which at least indicates a frequency band used in wireless communications; and

a unit which wirelessly communicates with a user apparatus according to the instruction signal, wherein, if the base station apparatus belongs to a predetermined border area between mobile communications systems, an instruction signal which indicates that use of one part of the predetermined frequency band is permitted, but use of another part is prohibited is provided by the control unit, and,

if the base station apparatus belongs to a predetermined non-border area, an instruction signal which indicates that use of one part of the predetermined frequency band and use of the other part are permitted.

2. The base station apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the predetermined frequency band is used in links of different directions between a mobile communications system which includes the base station apparatus and a different neighboring mobile communications, the different directions being uplink and downlink.

3. The base station apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein, if the base station apparatus belongs to a predetermined semi-border area between the mobile communications systems, an instruction signal which indicates that use of one part of the predetermined frequency band is permitted but use of another part is prohibited is provided by the control unit, and, wherein,

if the base station apparatus belongs to a predetermined border area between the mobile communications systems, an instruction signal which indicates that use of one part of the predetermined frequency band is permitted at a certain timing but is prohibited at a different timing, and use of another part of the predetermined frequency band is prohibited is provided by the control unit.

4. The base station apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein a band for uplink that belongs to the predetermined frequency band and a band for downlink that does not belong to the predetermined frequency band make up a pair of bands.

5. The base station apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein a band for downlink that belongs to the predetermined frequency band and a band for uplink that does not belong to the predetermined frequency band make up a pair of bands.

6. The base station apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the mobile communications system is an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) mobile communications system.

7. The base station apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a unit which receives and analyzes a signal from the different mobile communications system and determines a frequency bandwidth used by the base station apparatus according to results of the analyzing.

8. A user apparatus used for a frequency division duplex (FDD) mobile communications system which uses at least a predetermined frequency bandwidth, wherein the predetermined frequency bandwidth is also used in a different neighboring FDD mobile communications system, the user apparatus comprising:

a unit which receives a control signal from a base station apparatus and retrieves an instruction signal which at least indicates a frequency band used in communications; and

a unit which wirelessly communicates with the base station apparatus according to the instruction signal, wherein the instruction signal indicates that, if the base station apparatus belongs to a predetermined border area between mobile communications systems, use of one part of the predetermined frequency band is permitted, but use of another part is prohibited, and wherein

the instruction signal indicates that, if the base station apparatus belongs to a predetermined non-border area, use of the one part of the predetermined frequency band and use of the other part are permitted.

9. A frequency division duplex (FDD) mobile communications system which uses at least a predetermined frequency bandwidth, the mobile communications system having a base station apparatus and a user apparatus, wherein the predetermined frequency bandwidth is also used in a different neighboring FDD mobile communications system, the base station apparatus comprising:

a control unit which, based on location information of the base station apparatus, provides an instruction signal which at least indicates a frequency band used in wireless communications; and

a unit which wirelessly communicates with a user apparatus according to the instructional signal and the user apparatus, comprising;

a unit which receives a control signal from the base station apparatus and retrieves the instruction signal from the control signal; and

a unit which wirelessly communicates with the base station apparatus according to the instruction signal, wherein, if the base station apparatus belongs to a predetermined border area between mobile communications systems, an instruction signal which indicates that use of one part of the predetermined frequency band is permitted, but use of the other part is prohibited is provided by the control unit, and, wherein,

if the base station apparatus belongs to a predetermined non-border area, an instruction signal which indicates that use of one part of the predetermined frequency band and use of the other part are permitted.

10. A method used in a frequency division duplex (FDD) mobile communications system which uses at least a predetermined frequency bandwidth, the mobile communications system having a base station apparatus and a user apparatus, wherein the predetermined frequency bandwidth is also used in a different neighboring FDD mobile communications system, the method comprising:

based on location information of the base station apparatus, providing an instruction signal which at least indicates a frequency band used in wireless communications;

receiving, at the user apparatus, a control signal from the base station apparatus and retrieving the instruction signal from the control signal; and

wirelessly communicating between the user apparatus and the base station apparatus according to the instruction signal, wherein, if the base station apparatus belongs to a predetermined border area between mobile communications systems, an instruction signal which indicates that use of one part of the predetermined frequency band is permitted, but use of the other part is prohibited is provided by the control unit, and, wherein,

if the base station apparatus belongs to a predetermined non-border area, an instructional signal which indicates that use of one part of the predetermined frequency band and use of the other part are permitted.