MOBILE STATION DEVICE, BASE STATION DEVICE, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20110065466A1
• Filed: 09/01/2010
• Published: 03/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: SAKODA, Kazuyuki, MORIOKA, Yuichi
• Application Number:
  US12/873,492
• Publication Number:
  US 20110065466A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/507
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/18 Network planning tools
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

There is provided a mobile station including a reception section which receives a radio signal from a base station, a communication information acquisition section which acquires, based on the radio signal received by the reception section, communication information which is information related to communication with the base station, a position information acquisition section which acquires position information indicating a position of the mobile station, and a transmission section which transmits the position information acquired by the position information acquisition section and the communication information acquired by the communication information acquisition section to the base station using a radio signal.

Claims

1. A mobile station device comprising:

a reception section which receives a radio signal from a base station device;

a communication information acquisition section which acquires, based on the radio signal received by the reception section, communication information which is information related to communication with the base station;

a position information acquisition section which acquires position information indicating a position of the mobile station device; and

a transmission section which transmits the position information acquired by the position information acquisition section and the communication information acquired by the communication information acquisition section to the base station device using a radio signal.

2. The mobile station device according to claim 1,

wherein the communication information acquisition section measures communication quality of communication with the base station using a radio signal, and acquires communication quality information indicating the measured communication quality as the communication information.

3. The mobile station device according to claim 2,

wherein, when it is determined that the communication quality information is higher than a threshold, the communication information acquisition section does not acquire the communication quality information as the communication information, and

wherein the transmission section does not transmit the position information and the communication information to the base station device.

4. The mobile station device according to claim 2,

wherein the communication information acquisition section measures, as the communication quality, a received power strength of a radio signal which is received from the base station device by the reception section or a signal-to-interference-noise ratio of the radio signal.

5. The mobile station device according to claim 2,

wherein the communication information acquisition section acquires a data amount contained in a radio signal received from the base station device by the reception section and a time at which the radio signal is received, calculates, based on the acquired data amount and the acquired time, a data amount every predetermined hour as a reception average throughput, and measures the calculated reception average throughput as the communication quality.

6. The mobile station device according to claim 1, further comprising

an input section which accepts input of communication quality information from a user,

wherein the communication information acquisition section acquires the communication quality information as the communication information, the input of the communication quality information from the user being accepted by the input section.

7. The mobile station device according to claim 2,

wherein the position information and the communication quality information transmitted to the base station device by the transmission section are transmitted to a data management device by the base station device, and are used for the data management device to specify a position at which the communication quality is poor based on pieces of the position information and pieces of the communication quality information transmitted from a plurality of the base station devices.

8. The mobile station device according to claim 7,

wherein, when the mobile station device adds mobile station identification information, which is information for identifying the mobile station, to at least one of the position information and the communication information and transmits the position information and the communication information to the base station device, the mobile station identification information is deleted by the base station device and then the position information and the communication information are transmitted to the data management device.

9. The mobile station device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storage section; and

a retransmission control section which causes the storage section to store the position information and the communication information when the transmission section is incapable of transmitting the position information and the communication information using a radio signal, and which acquires the position information and the communication information from the storage section when it is detected that communication with the base station device becomes possible,

wherein the transmission section transmits the position information and the communication information acquired by the retransmission control section to the base station device using a radio signal.

10. The mobile station device according to claim 1,

wherein, when the transmission section transmits the position information and the communication information to the base station device using a radio signal, a charge imposed on a user of the mobile station device for communication between the mobile station device and the base station device using a radio signal is reduced.

11. The mobile station device according to claim 1,

wherein the communication information acquisition section extracts frequency channel information indicating a frequency channel used for communication with the base station device from the radio signal received by the reception section, and acquires the extracted frequency channel information as the communication information.

12. The mobile station device according to claim 11,

wherein the communication information acquisition section measures, as communication quality, the received power strength of a radio signal which is received from the base station device by the reception section or the signal-to-interference-noise ratio of the radio signal, and further acquires communication quality information indicating the measured communication quality, and

wherein the transmission section further transmits the communication quality information to the base station device using a radio signal.

13. The mobile station device according to claim 11,

wherein the position information and the frequency channel information transmitted from the base station device by the transmission section are transmitted to a data management device by the base station device, and are used for the data management device to specify, based on pieces of the position information and pieces of the frequency channel information transmitted from a plurality of the base station devices, a position at which a radio signal transmitted from the base station device is received for each of the pieces of the frequency channel information.

14. A base station device comprising:

a transmission section which transmits a radio signal to a mobile station device; and

a reception section which, from a mobile station device including a reception section which receives the radio signal from the base station device, a communication information acquisition section which acquires, based on the radio signal received by the reception section, communication information which is information related to communication with the base station device, a position information acquisition section which acquires position information indicating a position of the mobile station device, and a transmission section which transmits the position information acquired by the position information acquisition section and the communication information acquired by the communication information acquisition section to the base station device using a radio signal, receives the position information and the communication information using the radio signal.

15. A radio communication system comprising:

a base station device; and

a mobile station device,

wherein the mobile station device includes

a reception section which receives a radio signal from the base station device,

a communication information acquisition section which acquires, based on the radio signal received by the reception section, communication information which is information related to communication with the base station device,

a position information acquisition section which acquires position information indicating a position of the mobile station device, and

a transmission section which transmits the position information acquired by the position information acquisition section and the communication information acquired by the communication information acquisition section to the base station device using a radio signal, and

wherein the base station device includes

a transmission section which transmits a radio signal to the mobile station device and

a reception section which receives the position information and the communication information from the mobile station device using a radio signal.