TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL METHOD FOR RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RADIO BASE STATION DEVICE

• US 20110212744A1
• Filed: 01/07/2011
• Published: 09/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Hayase, Shigenori, Tamaki, Satoshi, KATAYAMA, Rintaro, Ishii, Hirotake, Yamamoto, Tomonori
• Granted Patent: US 8,560,000 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/143 Downlink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/241 taking into account channel quality metrics, e.g. SIR, SNR, CIR, Eb/lo
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/245 taking into account received signal strength

Abstract

A communication device includes pilot signal sending part and transmit power control part and holds a criterion value indicating target channel quality for mobile stations within the area covered by the base station. It creates quality data from reports from one or plural mobile stations, stores the quality data, creates a first representative value indicating average channel quality for the mobile station(s) from the stored quality data, and changes the transmit power depending on the result of comparison between the first representative value and the criterion value. It creates a second representative value indicating distribution of low channel quality from the stored quality data and updates the criterion value depending on the result of comparison between the second representative value and the criterion value.

Claims

1. A base station device for making radio communications with one or a plurality of mobile stations, comprising:

a pilot signal transmitter module for transmitting a pilot signal;

a receiver module for receiving a response to the pilot signal from a mobile station;

a transmit power determination module for comparing received pilot signal quality data included in the responses from mobile stations and determining transmit power for each mobile station based on a result of the comparison; and

a mobile station signal transmitter module for transmitting a signal to the mobile station or mobile stations at the determined transmit power.

2. The base station device according to claim 1,

wherein the transmit power determination module:

holds a first criterion value indicating minimum channel quality for mobile stations within a communication range of the base station;

creates quality data based on reports from one or a plurality of mobile stations and stores the quality data;

creates a first index indicating channel quality difference between mobile stations from the stored quality data; and

determines transmit power depending on a result of comparison between the first index and the first criterion value.

3. The base station device according to claim 2, wherein the transmit power determination module changes transmit power when the first index is larger than the first criterion value.

4. The base station device according to claim 3, wherein the transmit power determination module holds a second criterion value indicating channel quality difference allowed between mobile stations within a communication range of the base station, selects a mobile station having the first index larger than the first criterion value and determines transmit power so as to make a channel quality value of the mobile station not larger than the second criterion value.

5. A base station device for making radio communications with one or a plurality of mobile stations, comprising:

a transmitter module for sending a pilot signal;

a holding module for holding a criterion value indicating a target channel quality value for mobile stations within a communication range of the base station;

a storage for creating quality data based on received power reports of the pilot signals received by the mobile station or mobile stations and storing the quality data;

a transmit power determination module for creating a first representative value indicating average channel quality for the mobile station or mobile stations from the stored quality data and determining transmit power depending on a result of comparison between the first representative value and the criterion value; and

a criterion value updating module for creating a second representative value indicating distribution of low channel quality and updating the criterion value depending on a result of comparison between the second representative value for mobile station quality data and the criterion value.

6. The base station device according to claim 5, wherein if the first representative value is smaller than the criterion value, the transmit power is increased.

7. The base station device according to claim 5, wherein if the first representative value is larger than the criterion value, the transmit power is decreased.

8. The base station device according to claim 5, wherein if the second representative value is smaller than a product of the criterion value and a coefficient, the criterion value is increased.

9. The base station device according to claim 5, wherein if the second representative value is larger than a product of the criterion value and a coefficient, the criterion value is decreased.

10. The base station device according to claim 5, wherein the quality data is a ratio between a value of received power of a pilot signal sent from the base station and a value of received power of a pilot signal sent from another base station.

11. The base station device according to claim 5, wherein the quality data is a value of received power of a pilot signal sent from the base station.

12. The base station device according to claim 5, wherein the first representative value is an average of quality data.

13. The base station device according to claim 5, wherein the first representative value is a quantile value of quality data.

14. The base station device according to claim 5, wherein the second representative value is a product of an average of quality data and a coefficient.

15. The base station device according to claim 5, wherein the second representative value is a quantile value of quality data.

16. The base station device according to claim 5, wherein the communication range is included in a communication range of another base station.