BASE STATION APPARATUS AND SYSTEM INFORMATION NOTIFICATION METHOD

• US 20120289286A1
• Filed: 01/13/2011
• Published: 11/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Miki, Nobuhiko
• Application Number:
  US13/519,171
• Publication Number:
  US 20120289286A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/552.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/00 Arrangements affording multiple use of the transmission path
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0096 Indication of changes in allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel

Abstract

The present invention provides a base station apparatus and system information notification method that, in the event a plurality of communication systems coexist, support each mobile communication system. A base station apparatus (20) that notifies system information to a mobile terminal apparatus (10), sets change information of system information in a system band formed with a plurality of component carriers, and notifies the change information to the mobile terminal apparatuses (10) corresponding to respective component carriers, using a plurality of component carriers. The mobile terminal apparatus (10) is configured to recognize change of system information in the system band via at least one component carrier, by means of this notification of the change information, and receive system information.

Claims

1. A base station apparatus comprising:

a change information generation section configured to generate change information of system information in a system band formed with a plurality of component carriers; and

a notification section configured to notify the change information, using the plurality of component carriers, to a mobile terminal apparatus corresponding to each component carrier,

wherein the change information allows the mobile terminal apparatus to recognize change of system information in the system band via at least one component carrier, and allows the mobile terminal apparatus to receive the system information.

2. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the change information allows the mobile terminal apparatus to recognize the change of the system information in the system band as change of the system information in all of the component carriers, and allows the mobile terminal apparatus to receive the system information of all of the component carriers.

3. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a group information generation section configured to generate group information for dividing the plurality of component carriers into groups and specifying component carriers belonging to each group, wherein:

the notification section notifies the group information to the mobile terminal apparatus and also notifies the change information to the mobile terminal apparatus using a component carrier where the system information is changed in the group; and

the change information allows the mobile terminal apparatus to recognize change of system information in one of the component carriers in the group as change of the system information in all of the component carriers in the group, and allows the mobile terminal apparatus to receive the system information of all of the component carriers in the group specified by the group information.

4. The base station apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a notification carrier specifying information generation section configured to generate notification carrier specifying information for allowing the mobile terminal apparatus to specify a component carrier for notification of the change information in each group,

wherein the notification section notifies the notification carrier specifying information to the mobile terminal apparatus, and also notifies the change information to the mobile terminal apparatus using the component carrier for notification of the change information.

5. The base station apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the change information represents change of system information in a specific component carrier in the group, allows the mobile terminal apparatus to recognize the component carrier where the system information is changed in the group, and allows the mobile terminal apparatus to receive the system information of the component carrier.

6. The base station apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a notification carrier specifying information generation section configured to generate notification carrier specifying information for allowing the mobile terminal apparatus to specify a component carrier for notification of the change information in each group,

wherein the notification section notifies the notification carrier specifying information to the mobile terminal apparatus, and also notifies the change information to the mobile terminal apparatus using the component carrier for notification of the change information.

7. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the change information represents change of system information in a specific component carrier in the system band, allows the mobile terminal apparatus to recognize the component carrier where the system information is changed in the system band, and allows the mobile terminal apparatus to receive the system information of the component carrier.

8. The base station apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a notification carrier specifying information generation section configured to generate notification carrier specifying information for allowing the mobile terminal apparatus to specify a component carrier for notification of the change information in the system band,

wherein the notification section notifies the notification carrier specifying information to the mobile terminal apparatus and also notifies the change information to the mobile terminal apparatus using the component carrier for notification of the change information.

9. The base station apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a subframe specifying information generation section configured to, when the system information is changed in the plurality of component carriers in a same period and the plurality of carriers to use for notification of the system information are switched in subframe units, generate subframe specifying information to allow the mobile terminal apparatus to specify a received subframe among the plurality of component carriers,

wherein the notification section notifies the subframe specifying information to the mobile terminal apparatus.

11. The base station apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a subframe specifying information generation section configured to, when the system information is changed in the plurality of component carriers in a same period and the plurality of carriers to use for notification of the system information are switched in subframe units, generate subframe specifying information to allow the mobile terminal apparatus to specify a received subframe among the plurality of component carriers,

wherein the notification section notifies the subframe specifying information to the mobile terminal apparatus.

12. The base station apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a subframe specifying information generation section configured to, when the system information is changed in the plurality of component carriers in a same period and the plurality of carriers to use for notification of the system information are switched in subframe units, generate subframe specifying information to allow the mobile terminal apparatus to specify a received subframe among the plurality of component carriers,

wherein the notification section notifies the subframe specifying information to the mobile terminal apparatus.

13. The base station apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a subframe specifying information generation section configured to, when the system information is changed in the plurality of component carriers in a same period and the plurality of carriers to use for notification of the system information are switched in subframe units, generate subframe specifying information to allow the mobile terminal apparatus to specify a received subframe among the plurality of component carriers,

wherein the notification section notifies the subframe specifying information to the mobile terminal apparatus.

14. The base station apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a subframe specifying information generation section configured to, when the system information is changed in the plurality of component carriers in a same period and the plurality of carriers to use for notification of the system information are switched in subframe units, generate subframe specifying information to allow the mobile terminal apparatus to specify a received subframe among the plurality of component carriers,

wherein the notification section notifies the subframe specifying information to the mobile terminal apparatus.

15. The base station apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a subframe specifying information generation section configured to, when the system information is changed in the plurality of component carriers in a same period and the plurality of carriers to use for notification of the system information are switched in subframe units, generate subframe specifying information to allow the mobile terminal apparatus to specify a received subframe among the plurality of component carriers,

wherein the notification section notifies the subframe specifying information to the mobile terminal apparatus.

16. The base station apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a subframe specifying information generation section configured to, when the system information is changed in the plurality of component carriers in a same period and the plurality of carriers to use for notification of the system information are switched in subframe units, generate subframe specifying information to allow the mobile terminal apparatus to specify a received subframe among the plurality of component carriers,

wherein the notification section notifies the subframe specifying information to the mobile terminal apparatus.

17. The base station apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising a subframe specifying information generation section configured to, when the system information is changed in the plurality of component carriers in a same period and the plurality of carriers to use for notification of the system information are switched in subframe units, generate subframe specifying information to allow the mobile terminal apparatus to specify a received subframe among the plurality of component carriers,

wherein the notification section notifies the subframe specifying information to the mobile terminal apparatus.

10. A system information notification method comprising the steps of:

at a base station apparatus that notifies system information to a mobile terminal apparatus, generating change information of the system information in a system band formed with a plurality of component carriers; and

at the base station apparatus, notifying the change information, using the plurality of component carriers, to a mobile terminal apparatus corresponding to each component carrier; and

at the mobile terminal apparatus, recognizing change of system information in the system band via at least one component carrier by notification of the change information, and receiving the system information.