BASE STATION, RELAY STATION, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD

• US 20120034865A1
• Filed: 10/14/2011
• Published: 02/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: SEKI, Hiroyuki
• Application Number:
  US13/273,660
• Publication Number:
  US 20120034865A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/7
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/155 Ground-based stations H04B7/204 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2606 Arrangements for base station coverage control, e.g. by using relays in tunnels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/26 Cell enhancers or enhancement, e.g. for tunnels, building shadow
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/27 between access points
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/047 using dedicated repeater stations

Abstract

A base station, by relay of a relay station provided in a cell of the base station, wirelessly communicates with a mobile station located in the cell and includes a receiver that receives from an adjacent-cell relay station provided in an adjacent cell, adjacent cell resource information related to wireless resources allocated to the adjacent-cell relay station; and a processor that preferentially allocates to a wireless path between the relay station and the mobile station, wireless resources that are different from the wireless resources indicated in the received adjacent cell resource information.

Claims

1. A base station that, by relay of a relay station provided in a cell of the base station, wirelessly communicates with a mobile station located in the cell, the base station comprising:

a receiver that receives from an adjacent-cell relay station provided in an adjacent cell, adjacent cell resource information related to wireless resources allocated to the adjacent-cell relay station; and

a processor that preferentially allocates to a wireless path between the relay station and the mobile station, wireless resources that are different from the wireless resources indicated in the received adjacent cell resource information.

2. The base station according to claim 1, wherein the processor, among wireless resources requested by the relay station, preferentially allocates to the wireless path between the relay station and the mobile station, wireless resources that are different from the wireless resources indicated in the adjacent cell resource information.

3. The base station according to claim 1, wherein the receiver receives, as the adjacent cell resource information, request information that the adjacent-cell relay station uses to request a base station of the adjacent cell to allocate wireless resources.

4. The base station according to claim 1, wherein the receiver receives, as the adjacent cell resource information, allocation information that indicates the wireless resources allocated to the adjacent-cell relay station by a base station of the adjacent cell.

5. A relay station that is provided in a given cell and relays wireless communication between a base station and a mobile station in the given cell, the relay station comprising:

a first receiver that receives from an adjacent-cell relay station provided in an adjacent cell, adjacent cell resource information related to wireless resources allocated to the adjacent-cell relay station; and

a first transmitter that preferentially use wireless resources that are different from the wireless resources indicated in the received adjacent cell resource information and wirelessly communicates with the mobile station.

6. The relay station according to claim 5, further comprising:

a processor that as request information requesting wireless resource allocation to a wireless path between the relay station and the mobile station, preferentially determines wireless resources that are different from the wireless resources indicated in the adjacent cell resource information;

a second transmitter that transmits to the base station, the request information determined by the processor; and

a second receiver that receives allocation information indicating the wireless resources allocated by the base station in response to the request information transmitted by the second transmitter, wherein

the first transmitter uses the wireless resources indicated in the allocation information received by the second receiver and wirelessly communicates with the mobile station.

7. The relay station according to claim 6, wherein the processor, from among wireless resources that are different from the wireless resources indicated in the adjacent cell resource information, determines the request information, based on a communication quality in the wireless path between the relay station and the mobile station.

8. The relay station according to any one of claim 5, wherein the receiver receives, as the adjacent cell resource information, request information that the adjacent-cell relay station uses to request a base station of the adjacent cell to allocate wireless resources.

9. The relay station according to any one of claim 5, wherein the receiver receives, as the adjacent cell resource information, allocation information that indicates the wireless resources allocated to the adjacent-cell relay station by the base station of the adjacent cell.

10. A base station communication method of wirelessly communicating with a mobile station located in a cell of the base station, by relay of a relay station provided in the cell, the method comprising:

receiving from an adjacent-cell relay station provided in an adjacent cell, adjacent cell resource information that indicates wireless resources allocated to the adjacent-cell relay station; and

allocating preferentially to a wireless path between the relay station and the mobile station, wireless resources that are difference from the wireless resources indicated in the received adjacent cell resource information.

11. A communication method of relaying, by a relay station provided in a given cell, wireless communication between a base station and a mobile station in the given cell, the method comprising:

receiving from an adjacent-cell relay station provided in an adjacent cell, adjacent cell resource information related to wireless resources allocated to the adjacent-cell relay station; and

communicating wirelessly with the mobile station, by preferentially using wireless resources that are different from the wireless resources indicated in the received adjacent cell resource information.