Radio tele-communication system using multichannel access scheme

• US 5,210,752 A
• Filed: 07/12/1991
• Issued: 05/11/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Masayuki, Ito, Koichi, Umemoto, Yuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Olms, Douglas W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jung, Min
• Application Number:
  US07/729,203
• Time in Patent Office: 669 Days
• Field of Search: 370/95.1, 370/95.3, 370/110.1, 370/85.7, 379/59, 379/60, 455/33.1, 455/33.4
• US Class Current: 370/337
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/12 Arrangements providing for calling or supervisory signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 4/00 Combined time-division and frequency-division multiplex systems H04J13/00 takes precedence ; data transmission H04L5/26; telemetry G08C15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/02 Selection of wireless resources by user or terminal

Abstract

In a radio tele-communication system of this invention, each mobile station is designed to determine whether a control radio frequency can be used and to determine whether any free time slots are included in the time slots of a plurality of speech radio frequencies. A calling operation is performed by selecting a radio channel for the calling operation from the free time slots of the plurality of speech radio frequencies and the control radio frequency on the basis of the determination results.

Claims

1. A radio tele-communication system comprising:

a plurality of base stations connected to a network through wire lines, respectively;

a plurality of mobile stations connected to said base stations through radio channels;

a plurality of speech radio frequencies and at least one control radio frequency being shared by said base and mobile stations;

a signal transmitted at the speech radio frequencies being formatted such that each time frame is constituted by a plurality of time-divisionally multiplexed time slots; and

each of said mobile stations including;

first free state determining means for checking whether the control radio frequency can be used;

second free state determining means for checking whether each time slot of the plurality of speech radio frequencies is free; and

calling control means for performing a calling operation by selecting a radio channel used for the calling operation from free time slots of the plurality of speech radio frequencies and the control radio frequency on the basis of determination results from said first and second free state determining means.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein if said second free state determining means determines that a free time slot is present, said calling control means performs a calling operation by selecting the free time slot, and if said second free state determining means determines that no free time slot is present, said calling control means performs a calling operation by selecting the control radio frequency.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein if said first free state determining means determines that the control radio frequency can be used, said calling control means performs a calling operation by selecting the control radio frequency, and if said first free state determining means determines that the control radio frequency cannot be used, said calling control means performs a calling operation by selecting a free time slot determined by said second free state determining means.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein said second free state determining means selects a speech radio frequency having a currently used time slot with a reception field strength not less than a preset first determination level from the plurality of speech radio frequencies, and selects a time slot having a reception field strength less than a second determination level below the first determination level, as a free time slot, from time slots of the selected speech radio frequency.

5. A system according to claim 4, wherein if said second free state determining means detects a plurality of speech radio frequencies having currently used time slots whose reception field strengths are not less than the first determination level and free time slots whose reception field strengths are less than the second determination level, said calling control means performs a calling operation by selecting a free time slot of a speech radio frequency having the highest reception field strength from the detected speech radio frequencies.

6. A system according to claim 1, wherein if a calling operation is performed by using a free time slot of a selected speech radio frequency or the control radio frequency, said calling control means transmits part or all of free state determination results obtained by said first and second free state determining means to said base station.

7. A mobile station apparatus used in a radio tele-communication system including a plurality of base stations connected to a network through wire lines, respectively, and a plurality of mobile stations connected to said base stations through radio channels, a plurality of speech radio frequencies and at least one control radio frequency being shared by said base and mobile stations, and a signal transmitted at the speech radio frequencies being formatted such that each time frame is constituted by a plurality of time-divisionally multiplexed time slots, comprising:

first free state determining means for checking whether the control radio frequency can be used;

second free state determining means for checking whether each time slot of the plurality of speech radio frequencies is free; and

calling control means for performing a calling operation by selecting a radio channel used for the calling operation from free time slots of the plurality of speech radio frequencies and the control radio frequency on the basis of determination results from said first and second free state determining means.

8. An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein if said second free state determining means determines that a free time slot is present, said calling control means performs a calling operation by selecting the free time slot, and if said second free state determining means determines that no free time slot is present, said calling control means performs a calling operation by selecting the control radio frequency.

9. An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein if said first free state determining means determines that the control radio frequency can be used, said calling control means performs a calling operation by selecting the control radio frequency, and if said first free state determining means determines that the control radio frequency cannot be used, said calling control means performs a calling operation by selecting a free time slot determined by said second free state determining means.

10. An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said second free state determining means selects a speech radio frequency having a currently used time slot with a reception field strength not less than a preset first determination level from the plurality of speech radio frequencies, and selects a time slot having a reception field strength less than a second determination level below the first determination level, as a free time slot, from time slots of the selected speech radio frequency.

11. An apparatus according to claim 10, wherein if said second free state determining means detects a plurality of speech radio frequencies having currently used time slots whose reception field strengths are not less than the first determination level and free time slots whose reception field strengths are less than the second determination level, said calling control means performs a calling operation by selecting a free time slot of a speech radio frequency having the highest reception field strength from the detected speech radio frequencies.

12. A radio tele-communication system comprising:

a plurality of base stations connected to a network through wire lines, respectively;

a plurality of mobile stations connected to said base stations through radio channels;

a plurality of speech radio channels and at least one control radio channel being shared by said base and mobile stations; and

each of said mobile stations including;

first free state determining means for checking whether the control radio frequency can be used;

second free state determining means for checking whether a free channel is present in the plurality of speech radio channels; and

calling control means for performing a calling operation by selecting a radio channel used for the calling operation on the basis of determination results from said first and second free state determining means.