RADIO BASE STATION, RADIO TERMINAL DEVICE, RADIO RELAY STATION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD, RADIO COMMUNICATION RELAY METHOD, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20110159802A1
• Filed: 02/18/2009
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Binti Harum, Norharyati, Kanazawa, Takeshi, Ishii, Yoshikazu
• Application Number:
  US12/920,882
• Publication Number:
  US 20110159802A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/7
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/15528 Control of operation parameters of a relay station to exploit the physical medium
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2606 Arrangements for base station coverage control, e.g. by using relays in tunnels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/46 in multi hop networks, e.g. wireless relay networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/50 at the moment of starting communication in a multiple access environment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/002 Transmission of channel access control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/047 using dedicated repeater stations

Abstract

A different resource is allocated to each of a terminal and a relay station as a resource for the communication with a base station. A radio base station device (1) provided in the base station includes: a determination unit (7) which determines whether or not relaying of a random access preamble is performed based on the resource information included in the random access preamble; and a response generating unit (10) which generates a random access response to which relay flag information is attached. When the random access response with the relay flag information attached is transmitted from the base station to the terminal, the control of the transmission power of an RRC connection request is performed at the terminal based on the relay flag information. This allows for the suppression of increase in the delay before the establishment of RRC connection, and thereby a radio base station device which improves the utilization effect of resources is provided.

Claims

1. A radio base station device used in a base station in a radio communication system in which a relay station for relaying radio communication between the base station and a terminal is disposed in a communication cell of the base station, wherein

a different resource is allocated to each of the terminal and the relay station as a resource for communication with the base station,

the radio base station device comprising:

a preamble receiving unit which receives a random access preamble transmitted from the terminal;

a relay determination unit which determines whether or not relaying of the random access preamble has been performed, based on resource information included in the random access preamble;

a response generating unit which generates a random access response with relay flag information attached that indicates whether or not relaying of the random access preamble has been performed, based on a determination result of the relay determination unit; and

a response transmitting unit which transmits the random access response to the terminal, wherein

relay flag information that indicates that relaying of the random access preamble has been performed is a power control request that instructs the terminal to control transmission power.

2. The radio base station according to claim 1, further comprising:

a scheduling information generating unit which generates scheduling information including relay information to be used for relaying a connection request message transmitted from the terminal, when it is determined by the relay determination unit that the relaying of the random access preamble has been performed; and

a scheduling information transmitting unit which transmits the scheduling information to the relay station.

3. The radio base station according to claim 1, wherein

the random access preamble transmitted from the terminal includes communication quality information that indicates a high/low level of communication quality between the terminal and the base station;

and

the relay determination unit determines that the relaying of the random access preamble has been performed when the communication quality is low.

4. A radio terminal device used in a terminal in a radio communication system in which a relay station for relaying radio communication between a base station and the terminal is disposed in a communication cell of the terminal, wherein

relay flag information that indicates whether or not relaying of a random access preamble has been performed is attached to a random access response which is transmitted from the base station to the terminal as a response to the random access preamble transmitted from the terminal to the base station,

the radio terminal device comprising:

a response receiving unit which receives a random access response transmitted from the base station;

a message transmitting unit which transmits a connection request message to the base station; and

a transmission power control unit which controls a transmission power of the connection request message based on relay flag information that indicates that relaying of the random access preamble has been performed.

5. The radio terminal device according to claim 4, wherein

the transmission power control unit controls the transmission power of the connection request message so as to be larger than a transmission power of the random access preamble based on relay flag information that indicates that relaying of the random access preamble has been performed.

6. The radio terminal device according to claim 4, wherein

the transmission power control unit controls the transmission power of the connection request message in accordance with received signal strength of the random access response.

7. A radio relay station device used in a relay station in a radio communication system in which the relay station for relaying radio communication between a base station and a terminal is disposed in a communication cell of the base station, wherein

relay information to be used for relaying a connection request message transmitted from the terminal is included in scheduling information which is transmitted from the base station when, relaying of a random access preamble transmitted from the terminal to the base station has been performed,

the radio relay station device comprising:

a scheduling information receiving unit which receives scheduling information transmitted from the base station;

a message receiving unit which receives a connection request message transmitted from the terminal; and

a message relaying unit which relays the connection request message to the base station based on the scheduling information.

8. A method of controlling transmission power, used in a base station in a radio communication system in which a relay station for relaying radio communication between a base station and a terminal is disposed in a communication cell of the base station, wherein

a different resource is allocated to each of the terminal and the relay station as a resource for communication with the base station,

the method comprising:

receiving a random access preamble transmitted from the base station;

determining whether or not relaying of the random access preamble has been performed, based on resource information included in the random access preamble;

generating a random access response with relay flag information attached that indicates whether or not relaying of the random access preamble has been performed, based on the determination result;

transmitting the random access response to the terminal; and

instructing the terminal to control transmission power by using the relay flag information that indicates that relaying of the random access preamble has been performed.

9. A method of controlling transmission power, used ire a terminal in a radio communication system in which a relay station for relaying radio communication between a base station and the terminal is disposed in a communication cell of the base station, wherein

relay flag information that indicates whether or not relaying of a random access preamble has been performed is attached to a random access response transmitted from the base station to the terminal as a response to the random access preamble transmitted from the terminal to the base station,

the method comprising:

receiving a random access response transmitted from the base station; and

controlling a transmission power of a connection request message based on relay flag information that indicates that relaying of the random access preamble has been performed, when transmitting the connection request message to the base station.

10. A method of relaying radio communication, used in a relay station in a radio communication system in which the relay station for relaying radio communication between a base station and a terminal is disposed in a communication cell of the base station, wherein

relay information to be used for relaying a connection request message transmitted from the terminal is included in scheduling information which is transmitted from the base station when relaying of a random access preamble transmitted from the terminal to the base station has been performed,

the method comprising:

receiving scheduling information transmitted from the base station;

receiving a connection request message transmitted from the terminal; and

relaying the connection request message to the base station based on the scheduling information.

11. A radio communication system in which a relay station for relaying radio communication between a base station and a terminal is disposed in a communication cell of the base station, wherein

a different resource is allocated to each of the terminal and the relay station as a resource for communication with the base station, wherein

the base station comprises:

a preamble receiving unit which receives a random access preamble transmitted from the terminal;

a relay determination unit which determines whether or not relaying of the random access preamble has been performed based on resource information included in the random access preamble;

a response generating unit which generates a random access response with relay flag information attached that indicates whether or not relaying of the random access preamble has been performed, based on a determination result of the relay determination unit; and

a response transmitting unit which transmits the random access response to the terminal, and wherein

the terminal comprises;

a response receiving unit which receives the random access response transmitted from the base station;

a message transmitting unit which transmits a connection request message to the base station; and

a transmission power control unit which controls a transmission power of the connection request message based on the relay flag information attached to the random access response.

12. The radio communication system according to claim 11, wherein

the base station comprises:

a scheduling information generating unit which generates scheduling information including relay information to be used for relaying a connection request message to be transmitted from the terminal when it is determined by the relay determination unit that relaying of the random access preamble has been performed; and

a scheduling information transmitting unit which transmits the scheduling information to the relay station, and wherein

the relay station comprises;

a scheduling information receiving unit which receives scheduling information transmitted from the base station;

a message receiving unit which receives a connection request message transmitted from the terminal; and

a message relaying unit which relays the connection request message to the base station based on the scheduling information.