MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, MOBILE STATION, RADIO BASE STATION, AND UPPER NODE

• US 20130095860A1
• Filed: 04/05/2011
• Published: 04/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Hapsari, Wuri Andarmawanti, Umesh, Anil, Iwamura, Mikio, Takahashi, Hideaki, Ishii, Minami
• Application Number:
  US13/639,558
• Publication Number:
  US 20130095860A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.5
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of instructing a target mobile station UE, by a radio base station eNB, to perform “MDT” based on an “MDT policy”, a step of acquiring, by the target mobile station UE, from a positioning server E-SMLC, the location information of the target mobile station UE, and a step of transmitting, by the target mobile station UE, to the radio base station eNB, the measurement result of the desired radio quality and the location information of the target mobile station UE.

Claims

1. A mobile communication method in which a target mobile station is caused to measure and report a desired radio quality, the method comprising:

a step of instructing the target mobile station, by a radio base station, to measure and report the desired radio quality based on a method of measuring and reporting the desired radio quality;

a step of acquiring, by the target mobile station, from a positioning server, the location information of the target mobile station; and

a step of transmitting, by the target mobile station, to the radio base station, the measurement result of the desired radio quality and the location information of the target mobile station.

2. A mobile station capable of functioning as a target mobile station in a mobile communication method in which the target mobile station is caused to measure and report a desired radio quality, the mobile station comprising:

a location information acquisition unit configured to acquire the location information of the target mobile station, from a positioning server, when instructed to measure and report the desired radio quality based on a method of measuring and reporting the desired radio quality; and

a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a radio base station, the measurement result of the desired radio quality and the location information of the target mobile station.

3. A mobile communication method in which a target mobile station is caused to measure and report a desired radio quality, the method comprising:

a step of acquiring, from a positioning server, the location information of the target mobile station, when a radio base station instructs the target mobile station to measure and report the desired radio quality based on a method of measuring and reporting the desired radio quality;

a step of transmitting, by the target mobile station, to the radio base station, the measurement result of the desired radio quality; and

a step of transmitting, by the radio base station, to an upper node, the measurement result of the desired radio quality received from the target mobile station, and the location information of the target mobile station acquired from the positioning server.

4. A radio base station used in a mobile communication method in which a target mobile station is caused to measure and report a desired radio quality, comprising:

a location information acquisition unit configured to acquire the location information of the target mobile station, from a positioning server, when the target mobile station is instructed to measure and report the desired radio quality based on a method of measuring and reporting the desired radio quality; and

a transmission unit configured to transmit, to an upper node, the measurement result of the desired radio quality received from the target mobile station, and the location information of the target mobile station acquired from the positioning server.

5. A mobile communication method in which a target mobile station is caused to measure and report a desired radio quality, the method comprising:

a step of acquiring, from a positioning server, the location information of the target mobile station, when an upper node notifies a radio base station of a method of measuring and reporting the desired radio quality;

a step of instructing the target mobile station, by the radio base station, to measure and report the desired radio quality based on the method of measuring and reporting the desired radio quality;

a step of transmitting, by the target mobile station, to the radio base station, the measurement result of the desired radio quality; and

a step of transmitting, by the radio base station, to the upper node, the measurement result of the desired radio quality received from the target mobile station.

6. An upper node used in a mobile communication method in which a target mobile station is caused to measure and report a desired radio quality, comprising:

a location information acquisition unit configured to acquire the location information of the target mobile station, from a positioning server, when the radio base station is notified of a method of measuring and reporting the desired radio quality; and

a reception unit configured to receive the measurement result of the desired radio quality from the target mobile station via the radio base station.