ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD USED FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

• US 20200137650A1
• Filed: 06/14/2018
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: LU, Penshun, SUN, Chen, GUO, Xin, CAO, Jianfei, CUI, Tao
• Granted Patent: US 10,813,025 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/00 Hand-off or reselection arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0016 Hand-off preparation specially adapted for end-to-end data sessions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0055 Transmission or use of information for re-establishing the radio link
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0061 of neighbour cell information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0072 of resource information of target access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/00835 Determination of neighbour cell lists
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/04 Reselecting a cell layer in multi-layered cells
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/08 Reselecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/34 Reselection control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/38 by fixed network equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

Provided are an electronic device and method used for wireless communication. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: acquire a first candidate list of a first mobile base station, wherein the first candidate list comprises at least some neighbour nodes of the first mobile base station; determine a neighbour node as a second mobile base station from the first candidate list, wherein the second mobile base station is capable of replacing the first mobile base station as a successor base station of the first mobile base station for continuing to provide a service for a current user; and acquiring a second candidate list of the second mobile base station, wherein the second candidate list comprises at least some neighbour nodes of the second mobile base station.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

processing circuitry, configured to;

acquire a first candidate list for a first mobile base station, the first candidate list comprising at least a part of neighbor nodes of the first mobile base station;

determine a neighbor node from among the first candidate list as a second mobile base station, which is capable of serving as a successive base station of the first mobile base station, to replace the first mobile base station to continue providing service for current users; and

acquire a second candidate list for the second mobile base station, the second candidate list comprising at least a part of neighbor nodes of the second mobile base station.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine the neighbor node serving as the second mobile base station based on one or more of the following factors:

quantity of electricity of the neighbor node, capability of the neighbor node, current service status of the neighbor node, and movement trace of the neighbor node.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first candidate list and the second candidate list are created and provided by the first mobile base station and the second mobile base station via a broadcasting manner, respectively.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to determine a scheduling manner of the mobile base station based on the first candidate list and/or the second candidate list.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to update the second candidate list every predetermined time interval.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to, in response to an indication that the first mobile base station cannot continue providing service for the current users, determine the successive base station replacing the first mobile base station according to the first candidate list and/or the second candidate list.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to, in the case that the second mobile base station is capable of replacing the first mobile base station to provide service for the current users, determine the second mobile base station as the successive base station.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine, at least based on a fact that the second candidate list is at least partially the same as the second candidate list before updating, that the second mobile base station is capable of replacing the first mobile base station to provide service for the current users.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to, in the case that the second mobile base station is not capable of replacing the first mobile base station to provide service for the current users, determine a neighbor node different from the second mobile base station from among the first candidate list as the successive base station, or determine a neighbor node from among the second candidate list before updating as the successive base station.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the first candidate list and the second candidate list each further comprises geographical location information of each neighbor node, and the processing circuitry is configured to determine the successive base station at least based on the geographical location information.

11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, the processing circuitry is further configured to update the first candidate list every predetermined time interval, and determine a scheduling manner by comparing the first candidate list before updating with the first candidate list after updating and by comparing the second candidate list before updating and with second candidate list after updating.

12. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein, the processing circuitry is configured to determine that the first mobile base station is capable of continue providing service for the current users when the first candidate list before updating is at least partially the same as the first candidate list after updating, and determine that the second mobile base station is capable of replacing the first mobile base station to provide service for the current users when the second candidate list before updating is at least partially the same as the second candidate list after updating.

13. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein, the processing circuitry is configured to determine that the first mobile base station is capable of continue providing service for the current users when the first candidate list before updating is at least partially the same as the first candidate list after updating, and determine that the second mobile base station is not capable of replacing the first mobile base station to provide service for the current users due to movement when the second candidate list before updating is completely different from the second candidate list after updating, wherein, the processing circuitry is configured to determine a new second mobile base station from among the current first candidate list and acquire the second candidate list of the new second mobile base station.

14. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein, the processing circuitry is configured to determine that the first mobile base station is not capable of continue providing service for the current users due to movement when the first candidate list before updating is completely different from the first candidate list after updating, and determine that the second mobile base station is capable of replacing the first mobile base station to provide service for the current users when the second candidate list before updating is at least partially the same as the second candidate list after updating, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine the second mobile base station as the successive base station.

15. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein, the processing circuitry is configured to determine that the first mobile base station is not capable of continue providing service for the current users due to movement when the first candidate list before updating is completely different from the first candidate list after updating, and determine that the second mobile base station is not capable of replacing the first mobile base station to provide service for the current users due to movement when the second candidate list before updating is completely different from the second candidate list after updating.

16. The electronic apparatus according to claim 15, wherein, the processing circuitry is configured to determine a neighbor node different from the second mobile base station from among the first candidate list before updating as the successive base station, or determine a neighbor node from among the second candidate list before updating as the successive base station.

17. The electronic apparatus according to claim 15, wherein, the processing circuitry is further configured to schedule mobile base stations to a region where the first mobile base station is previously located and determine the successive base station from among the scheduled mobile base stations.

18. The electronic apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, the processing circuitry is configured to adjust the predetermined time interval according to a frequency of emergency occurrence.

19. A method for wireless communications, comprising:

acquiring a first candidate list for a first mobile base station, the first candidate list comprising at least a part of neighbor nodes of the first mobile base station;

determining a neighbor node from among the first candidate list as a second mobile base station, which is capable of serving as a successive base station of the first mobile base station, to replace the first mobile base station to continue providing service for current users; and

acquiring a second candidate list for the second mobile base station, the second candidate list comprising at least a part of neighbor nodes of the second mobile base station.