BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD

• US 20160021676A1
• Filed: 02/18/2014
• Published: 01/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: YAMAZAKI, Chiharu, FUJISHIRO, Masato
• Application Number:
  US14/767,868
• Publication Number:
  US 20160021676A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/024 Co-operative use of antennas of several sites, e.g. in co-ordinated multipoint or co-operative multiple-input multiple-output [MIMO] systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1671 the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/56 based on priority criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/18 between terminal devices

Abstract

A base station configured to be used in a mobile communication system that supports cellular communication in which a data path passes through a core network, and D2D communication that is direct device-to-device communication in which a data path does not pass through the core network, comprises: a control unit configured to assign a dedicated radio resource not shared with the D2D communication or a shared radio resource shared with the D2D communication to each of a plurality of cellular terminals that perform the cellular communication. The control unit comprises: a scheduler configured to select a cellular terminal, to which the shared radio resource is assigned, from the plurality of cellular terminals according to assignment priority of the shared radio resource. The scheduler calculates the assignment priority for each of the plurality of cellular terminals such that influence of interference between the cellular communication and the D2D communication is alleviated.

Claims

1. A base station configured to be used in a mobile communication system that supports cellular communication in which a data path passes through a core network, and D2D communication that is direct device-to-device communication in which a data path does not pass through the core network, comprising:

a controller configured to assign a dedicated radio resource not shared with the D2D communication or a shared radio resource shared with the D2D communication to each of a plurality of cellular terminals that performs the cellular communication, wherein

the controller comprises;

a scheduler configured to select a cellular terminal, to which the shared radio resource is assigned, from the plurality of cellular terminals according to assignment priority of the shared radio resource, and

the scheduler calculates the assignment priority for each of the plurality of cellular terminals such that influence of interference between the cellular communication and the D2D communication is alleviated.

2. The base station according to claim 1, wherein

the scheduler calculates the assignment priority for each of the plurality of cellular terminals such that the shared radio resource is not continuously assigned to a same cellular terminal.

3. The base station according to claim 2, wherein the scheduler calculates the assignment priority for each of the plurality of cellular terminals so that the shared radio resource is not periodically continuously assigned to the same cellular terminal.

4. The base station according to claim 2, wherein

the scheduler calculates the assignment priority for each of the plurality of cellular terminals on the basis of a passage time after the shared radio resource is finally assigned, and

the assignment priority is lower as the passage time is shorter.

5. The base station according to claim 1, wherein

the scheduler calculates the assignment priority for each of the plurality of cellular terminals such that the shared radio resource is preferentially assigned to a cellular terminal in the vicinity of the base station among the plurality of cellular terminals.

6. The base station according to claim 5, wherein

the scheduler calculates the assignment priority for each of the plurality of cellular terminals on the basis of path loss between the base station and each of the plurality of cellular terminals, and

the assignment priority is higher as the path loss is smaller.

7. The base station according to claim 5, wherein

the scheduler calculates the assignment priority for each of the plurality of cellular terminals on the basis of path loss between the base station and each of the plurality of cellular terminals and pass loss between another base station located in the vicinity of the base station and each of the plurality of cellular terminals, and

the assignment priority is higher as either one of the path loss with respect to the base station or the path loss with respect to the another base station is smaller.

8. The base station according to claim 7, wherein

the assignment priority for a cellular terminal in which the base station and the another base station function as a CoMP cooperating set in an uplink, out of the plurality of cellular terminals, is higher as either one of the path loss with respect to the base station or the path loss with respect to the another base station is smaller.

9. The base station according to claim 7, wherein

the assignment priority for a cellular terminal in which transmission power is controlled according to the path loss with respect to the another base station, out of the plurality of cellular terminals, is higher as either one of the path loss with respect to the base station and the path loss with respect to the another base station is smaller.

10. The base station according to claim 5, wherein

the scheduler calculates the assignment priority for each of the plurality of cellular terminals on the basis of uplink transmission power, and

the assignment priority is higher as the uplink transmission power is smaller.

11. The base station according to claim 1, wherein

in order to calculate the assignment priority of the shared radio resource, a scheduling algorithm, which is different from a scheduling algorithm used in order to calculate assignment priority of the dedicated radio resource, is used.

12. A communication control method that is used in a mobile communication system that supports cellular communication in which a data path passes through a core network, and D2D communication that is direct device-to-device communication in which a data path does not pass through the core network, comprising:

selecting, by a base station, a cellular terminal, to which a shared radio resource is assigned, from a plurality of cellular terminals that perform the cellular communication, according to assignment priority of the shared radio resource, the base station assigning a dedicated radio resource not shared with the D2D communication or the shared radio resource shared with the D2D communication to each of the plurality of cellular terminals, wherein

the base station calculates the assignment priority for each of the plurality of cellular terminals such that influence of interference between the cellular communication and the D2D communication is alleviated.