Method of assigning radio communication channels to each of a plurality of mobile stations

• US 5,203,008 A
• Filed: 11/27/1990
• Issued: 04/13/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
• Inventors: Nakajima, Yoshiaki, Tajima, Jun, Yasuda, Syuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Charouel, Lisa
• Application Number:
  US07/618,456
• Time in Patent Office: 868 Days
• Field of Search: 455/33.1, 455/33.2, 455/34, 455/54.1, 455/54.2, 455/56.1, 455/62, 455/67.3, 455/226.1, 455/226.2, 455/226.4, 379/59, 379/60, 379/63
• US Class Current: 455/452.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality

Abstract

In a method of assigning a mobile radio communication channel, a plurality of mobile stations and a plurality of base stations constituting communication zones are distributed in a service area. The mobile stations are connected to the base stations for communication. A radio communication channel which meets the following first and second conditions is selected and assigned. The first condition is that a reception electric field level of communication between the mobile station and the base station which are connected for communication belongs to a channel group which satisfies a lower limit value. The second condition is that when the radio communication channel is used for communication connection, the ratio (D/U) of desired wave power to interference wave power satisfies quality conditions.

Claims

1. A method of assigning mobile radio communication channels to a plurality of mobile stations and a plurality of base stations arranged in a service area, said base stations constituting a radio zone where the base stations are connected to the mobile stations for communication, wherein each of said base stations includes a plurality of radio communication channels used for communication between the base station and the mobile station, said radio communication channels being divided into a plurality of channel groups, each channel group having a predetermined lower limit value of a reception electric field level of a reception signal, the predetermined lower limit value being necessary for communication between the mobile station and the base station, and a radio control channel used for transmission of control information before the communication time, said method comprising:

a first step of determining whether or not the reception electric field level of the reception signal for communication, which is found from the reception electric field level of the reception signal of said radio control channel between the mobile station issuing a communication connection demand and the base station within the radio zone, belongs to one of the channel groups which meets the predetermined lower limit value of the reception electric field level of the reception signal, thereby finding a radio communication channel to be assigned in response to the communication connection demand issued within the radio zone;

a second step of determining whether or not said radio communication channel belongs to the channel group which meets the predetermined lower limit value of the reception electric field level of the reception signal for communication, and satisfies a threshold of the ratio of desired wave power to interference wave power (D/U) when the communication connection demand is generated; and

a third step of assigning the radio communication channel determined and selected in said first and second steps to the mobile station and the base station, the communication connection between which is requested.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said ratio of desired wave power to interference wave power (D/U) is obtained on the basis of a difference between a desired wave reception electric field level and an interference wave reception electric field level, said desired wave reception electric field level being estimated from the reception electric field level of the radio control channel, and said interference wave reception electric field level being obtained from the reception electric field level of the radio communication channel measured in a non-used state.