Mobile communication system

• US 4,392,242 A
• Filed: 03/05/1981
• Issued: 07/05/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nippon Electric Company Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nippon Electric Company Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Kai, Tomokazu
• Primary Examiner(s): NG, JIN FAY
• Application Number:
  US06/240,937
• Time in Patent Office: 852 Days
• Field of Search: 455/31-34, 455/54, 455/56, 455/62, 455/89, 455/77, 455/76, 179/2 EB, 340/825.44
• US Class Current: 455/450
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2621 using frequency division multiple access [FDMA] H04B7/2615 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

There is provided a mobile transmission system wherein a plurality of radio zones, each including one radio base station, the base stations of all radio zones being controlled by a control center which controls a paging and an origination of a mobile, are arranged to form a service area, and each radio zone is provided with at least one mobile access channel and a single mobile paging channel assigned with radio frequency common to all radio zones, thus establishing speech channels for the mobiles. The frequency of the mobile access channel is made to be different for adjacent radio zones and one or more frequencies are allocated to each base station. The control center is provided with a system for controlling an origination signal of the mobile for selecting at least one channel among available channels allocated to a radio base station associated with the mobile, circuit switching system operatively connected to the origination control system, for establishing the mobile access channel, and a system for broadcasting a channel number of the established mobile access channel to all radio zones through the mobile paging channel. Each mobile is provided with a receiver for receiving the channel number of the mobile access channel, means for updating and storing the received channel number, and a system for sequentially receiving radio waves transmitted through the stored access channel and for comparing received field intensities from the radio zones with each other to select a mobile access channel adapted to send out an origination signal of the mobile.

Claims

1. In a mobile communication system wherein a plurality of radio zones, each including one radio base station, the base stations of all radio zones being controlled by a control center which controls a paging signal and an origination signal of a mobile unit, are arranged to form a service area, and each radio zone is provided with at least one mobile access channel and a single mobile paging channel assigned to a radio frequency common to all radio zones, thus establishing speech channels for the mobile units, the improvement wherein said at least one mobile access channel of one radio zone is assigned to a radio frequency which is different from that assigned to adjacent radio zones, said control center is provided with means for controlling an origination signal of said mobile unit for selecting at least one channel among available channels allocated to a radio base station associated with said mobile unit, circuit switching means operatively connected to said origination signal control means for establishing said mobile access channel and means for broadcasting a channel number of said established mobile access channel to all radio zones through said mobile paging channel;

and wherein each mobile is provided with a receiver for receiving said channel number on the mobile access channel, means for updating and storing said received channel number and means for sequentially receiving radio waves transmitted through said stored access channel and for comparing intensities of said received radio waves from each of said radio zones with each other to select a mobile access channel adapted to send out said origination signal of said mobile unit.

2. A mobile communication system according to claim 1 wherein said circuit switching means is controlled by said origination signal control means for said operative connection.

3. A mobile communication system according to claim 1 wherein

said means for broadcasting a channel number is said paging channel which broadcasts the number of all available access channels, and

said access channels may be randomly selected from said broadcast channels.