RADIO BASE STATION APPARATUS AND TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL METHOD

• US 20130210431A1
• Filed: 08/01/2011
• Published: 08/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Abe, Tetsushi, Miki, Nobuhiko
• Application Number:
  US13/813,664
• Publication Number:
  US 20130210431A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/435.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/02 Access restriction performed under specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/241 taking into account channel quality metrics, e.g. SIR, SNR, CIR, Eb/lo
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/244 Interferences in heterogeneous networks, e.g. among macro and femto or pico cells or other sector / system interference [OSI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

With this transmission power control method, in a radio base station apparatus (10) of a macro cell, registration information as to whether or not a mobile terminal apparatus is a non-member mobile terminal apparatus, which is not a mobile terminal apparatus having registered access to a radio base station apparatus (20) of a femto cell, a received quality measurement result, and cell information, are received, whether or not a non-member mobile terminal apparatus has come near the femto cell is determined from the registration information, the received quality measurement result, and the cell information, and neighbor information, which indicates that a non-member mobile terminal apparatus has come near the femto cell, is reported to the radio base station apparatus (20) of the femto cell, by a backhaul link, and in the radio base station apparatus (20) of the femto cell, transmission power is reduced based on the neighbor information.

Claims

1. A radio base station apparatus of a macro cell in a heterogeneous network including the macro cell and a femto cell, the radio base station apparatus comprising:

a receiving section that receives registration information as to whether or not a mobile terminal apparatus is a non-member mobile terminal apparatus, which is not a mobile terminal apparatus having registered access to a radio base station apparatus of the femto cell, a received quality measurement result, and cell information;

a determining section that determines whether or not the non-member mobile terminal apparatus has come near the femto cell from the registration information, the received quality measurement result, and the cell information; and

a reporting section that reports neighbor information, which indicates that the non-member mobile terminal apparatus has come near the femto cell, to the radio base station apparatus of the femto cell, by a backhaul link.

2. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reporting section reports the received quality measurement result to the radio base station apparatus of the femto cell by the backhaul link.

3. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the determining section determines that the non-member mobile terminal apparatus has left the femto cell, from the received quality measurement result.

14. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the determining section determines that the non-member mobile terminal apparatus has left the femto cell, from the received quality measurement result.

4. A radio base station apparatus of a femto cell in a heterogeneous network including a macro cell and the femto cell, the radio base station apparatus comprising:

a transmission signal generating section that generates a transmission signal; and

a transmission power control section that, when receiving neighbor information which indicates that a non-member mobile terminal apparatus, which is not a mobile terminal apparatus having registered access to the radio base station apparatus of the femto cell, from a radio base station apparatus of the macro cell, reduces transmission power of the transmission signal based on the neighbor information.

5. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 4, wherein, the transmission power control section, when receiving the received quality measurement result of the mobile terminal apparatus from the radio base station apparatus of the macro cell by the backhaul link, reduces the transmission power of the transmission signal in accordance with the received quality measurement result.

6. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the transmission power control section reduces the transmission power of the transmission signal, and, after a predetermined period passes, increases the transmission power.

7. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 6, wherein, when the neighbor information is received after the transmission power is increased, the transmission power control section changes a length of the predetermined period.

15. The radio base station apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the transmission power control section reduces the transmission power of the transmission signal, and, after a predetermined period passes, increases the transmission power.

8. A transmission power control method in a heterogeneous network including a macro cell and a femto cell, the transmission power control method comprising the steps of:

in a radio base station apparatus of the macro cell;

receiving registration information as to whether or not a mobile terminal apparatus is a non-member mobile terminal apparatus, which is not a mobile terminal apparatus having registered access to a radio base station apparatus of the femto cell, a received quality measurement result, and cell information;

determining whether or not the non-member mobile terminal apparatus has come near the femto cell from the registration information, the received quality measurement result, and the cell information; and

reporting neighbor information, which indicates that the non-member mobile terminal apparatus has come near the femto cell, to the radio base station apparatus of the femto cell, by a backhaul link; and

in the radio base station apparatus of the femto cell;

generating a transmission signal; and

reducing transmission power of the transmission signal based on the neighbor information.

9. The transmission power control method according to claim 8, wherein the radio base station apparatus of the macro cell reports the received quality measurement result to the radio base station apparatus of the femto cell by the backhaul link.

10. The transmission power control method according to claim 8, wherein the radio base station apparatus of the macro cell determines that the non-member mobile terminal apparatus has left the femto cell from the received quality measurement result.

11. The transmission power control method according to claim 9, wherein the radio base station apparatus of the femto cell reduces the transmission power of the transmission signal in accordance with the received quality measurement result from the radio base station apparatus of the macro cell.

12. The transmission power control method according to claim 8, wherein the radio base station apparatus of the femto cell reduces the transmission power of the transmission signal, and, after a predetermined period passes, increases the transmission power.

13. The transmission power control method according to claim 12, wherein, when the neighbor information is received after the transmission power of the transmission signal is increased, the radio base station apparatus of the femto cell changes a length of the predetermined period.

16. The transmission power control method according to claim 9, wherein the radio base station apparatus of the macro cell determines that the non-member mobile terminal apparatus has left the femto cell from the received quality measurement result.