COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE

• US 20160198482A1
• Filed: 06/24/2014
• Published: 07/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kimura, Ryota, Sawai, Ryo, Uchiyama, Hiromasa, Furuichi, Sho
• Granted Patent: US 10,149,309 B2
• 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: H04W 28/16 Central resource management; Negotiation of resources or communication parameters, e.g. negotiating bandwidth or QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/27 between access points
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/29 between an access point and the access point controlling device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality

Abstract

[Object] To be able to perform control over a plurality of communication nodes to be performed more properly.

[Solution] Provided is a communication control device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire quality-related information regarding quality of a backhaul line to be used for providing control-related information regarding control in a control scheme of radio communication to a communication node to which the control scheme is applied; and a control unit configured to control the application of the control scheme to the communication node based on the quality-related information.

Claims

1. A communication control device comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire quality-related information regarding quality of a backhaul line to be used for providing control-related information regarding control in a control scheme of radio communication to a communication node to which the control scheme is applied; and

a control unit configured to control the application of the control scheme to the communication node based on the quality-related information.

2. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls application of the control scheme to two or more communication nodes including the communication node based on the quality-related information.

3. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein the control scheme is a scheme for improving a communication capacity of a communication system which includes the communication node.

4. The communication control device according to claim 3, wherein the control scheme includes a scheme for suppressing interference in radio communication in which two or more communication nodes respectively participate.

5. The communication control device according to claim 3, wherein the control scheme includes coordinated multi-point transmission and reception.

6. The communication control device according to claim 2,

wherein a plurality of communication nodes to which the control scheme is applied are classified into one or more groups based on information regarding the plurality of communication nodes, and

wherein the control unit controls, for each group which is included in the one or more groups, application of the control scheme to one or more communication nodes based on the quality-related information for the one or more communication nodes included in a group.

7. The communication control device according to claim 6, wherein the information regarding the plurality of communication nodes includes at least one of information of positions of the plurality of communication nodes, information of a radio resource to be used by the plurality of communication nodes, and quality-related information regarding quality of a backhaul line to be used for providing the control-related information to the plurality of communication nodes.

8. The communication control device according to claim 1,

wherein the quality-related information is generated through a measurement procedure for the quality of the backhaul line, and

wherein the acquisition unit acquires the generated quality-related information.

9. The communication control device according to claim 8, wherein the measurement procedure includes measuring the quality of the backhaul line bi-directionally.

10. The communication control device according to claim 8, wherein the measurement procedure includes transmitting and receiving one or more messages including a transmission time.

11. The communication control device according to claim 8, wherein the measurement procedure includes measuring the quality of the backhaul line a plurality of times.

12. The communication control device according to claim 8,

wherein the backhaul line is a combination of a plurality of individual backhaul lines, and

wherein the measurement procedure includes measuring quality of at least one individual backhaul line among the plurality of individual backhaul lines.

13. The communication control device according to claim 1,

wherein the quality-related information is collected from another device through a collection procedure for the quality-related information, and

wherein the acquisition unit acquires the collected quality-related information.

14. The communication control device according to claim 13,

wherein the backhaul line is a combination of a plurality of individual backhaul lines, and

wherein the collection procedure includes collecting information regarding quality of at least one individual backhaul line among the plurality of individual backhaul lines.

15. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein the quality of the backhaul line is delay time on the backhaul line.

16. The communication control device according to claim 1, wherein the communication node is a base station, a relay station, or a terminal device which controls radio communication on a localized network which is formed by a plurality of terminal devices.

17. A communication control method executed by a communication control device, the communication control method comprising:

acquiring quality-related information regarding quality of a backhaul line to be used for providing control-related information regarding control in a control scheme of radio communication to a communication node to which the control scheme is applied; and

controlling the application of the control scheme to the communication node based on the quality-related information.

18. A communication device comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire at least a part of quality-related information regarding quality of a backhaul line to be used for providing control-related information regarding control in a control scheme of radio communication to a communication node to which the control scheme is applied; and

a providing unit configured to provide the at least a part of the quality-related information,

wherein the quality-related information is information to be used in controlling the application of the control scheme to the communication node.

19. The communication device according to claim 18,

wherein the at least a part of the quality-related information is generated through a measurement procedure for the quality of the backhaul line, and

wherein the acquisition unit acquires the generated at least a part of the quality-related information.

20. The communication device according to claim 18,

wherein the backhaul line is a combination of a plurality of individual backhaul lines, and

wherein the at least a part of the quality-related information is information regarding quality of at least one individual backhaul line among the plurality of individual backhaul lines.