BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD

• US 20130286829A1
• Filed: 03/27/2012
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Ishii, Minami, Uchiyama, Tadashi, Sekikawa, Toshihisa
• Application Number:
  US13/980,066
• Publication Number:
  US 20130286829A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/230
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0205 at the air interface dynamic wireless traffic scheduling H04W72/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/06 based on traffic conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A base station includes a congestion state determination unit that determines whether the base station is in a congestion state; a barring target setting unit that sequentially sets targets of barring among a plurality of the targets of the barring when a determination is made that it is the congestion state; a barring time interval setting unit that sets a time interval of the barring based on the congestion state when the determination is made that it is the congestion state; and a transmitter that transmits information representing the targets of the barring and information representing the time interval of the barring to the user equipment.

Claims

1. A base station that performs radio communication with user equipment, the base station comprising:

a congestion state determination unit that determines whether the base station is in a congestion state;

a barring target setting unit that sequentially sets targets of barring among a plurality of the targets of the barring when the congestion state determination unit determines that the base station is in the congestion state;

a barring time interval setting unit that sets a time interval of the barring based on the congestion state when the congestion state determination unit determines that the base station is in the congestion state;

a notification information generating unit that generates information for transmitting information which represents the targets of the barring and information which represents the time interval of the barring, wherein the targets of the barring are to be set by the barring target setting unit, and the time interval of the barring is to be set by the barring time interval setting unit; and

a transmitter that transmits the information generated by the notification information generating unit to the user equipment.

2. The base station according to claim 1,

wherein the barring target setting unit selects the targets of the barring among a cell, a type of a call, and a type of the user equipment.

3. The base station according to claim 2,

wherein, when the barring target setting unit selects the cell as the target of the barring, the barring target setting unit specifies the cell by at least one of a frequency and an identifier of the cell, wherein the cell is to be barred.

4. The base station according to claim 2,

wherein, when the barring target setting unit selects the type of the call as the target of the barring, the barring target setting unit specifies the type of the call by at least one of a mobile originated call from the user equipment, mobile originated signaling from the user equipment, and a circuit switch service, wherein the type of the call is to be barred.

5. The base station according to claim 2,

wherein, when the barring target setting unit selects the type of the user equipment as the target of the barring, the barring target setting unit specifies the user equipment by at least one of the user equipment of a general user, the user equipment of a user who is preferentially connected, and the user equipment of a person who performs maintenance, wherein the type of the user equipment is to be barred.

6. The base station according to claim 1,

wherein the notification information generating unit generates system information including information for transmitting a paging message which includes information indicating that broadcast information is modified;

information which represents the targets to be barred, wherein the targets to be barred are to be set by the barring target setting unit; and

information representing the time interval of the barring, wherein the time interval of the barring is to be set by the barring time interval setting unit.

7. A communication control method of a base station that performs radio communication with user equipment, the communication control method comprising:

a congestion state determination step of determining whether the base station is in a congestion state;

a barring target setting step of sequentially setting targets of barring among a plurality of the targets of the barring when the congestion state determination step determines that the base station is in the congestion state;

a barring time interval setting step of setting a time interval of the barring based on the congestion state when the congestion state determination step determines that the base station is in the congestion state;

a notification information generating step of generating information for transmitting information which represents the targets of the barring and information which represents the time interval of the barring, wherein the targets of the barring are to be set by the barring target setting step, and the time interval of the barring is to be set by the barring time interval setting step; and

a transmission step of transmitting the information generated by the notification information generating step to the user equipment.