Mobile communication system

• US 5,390,366 A
• Filed: 02/26/1992
• Issued: 02/14/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kasugai, Teruaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis
• Assistant Examiner(s): FAILE, ANDREW I
• Application Number:
  US07/841,708
• Time in Patent Office: 1,084 Days
• Field of Search: 455/33.1, 455/33.4, 455/53.1, 455/54.1, 455/56.1, 455/58.2, 455/62, 455/34.1, 455/34.2, 370/95.1, 370/95.3
• US Class Current: 455/524
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/26 Resource reservation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/54 based on quality criteria

Abstract

A mobile communication system comprises a plurality of base stations to which a single control channel and a plurality of communication channels are allocated, a single control station connected to this plurality of base stations and mobile stations each disposed within an area of the plurality of base stations which is allowed to communicate with the base station through the single control channel and the plurality of communication channels. The control channel and the plurality of communication channels are shared by the plurality of base stations.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system comprising a plurality of base stations to which a single control channel and a plurality of communication channels are allocated, a single control station interconnected to this plurality of base stations a plurality of mobile stations, each mobile station being disposed within an area of the plurality of base stations and allowed to communicate with a base station via the single control channel and the plurality of communication channels, means in each of said base stations for sequentially transmitting an idle signal to said mobile stations, said idle signal being allocated to a system time slot in said control channel, each of said mobile stations having means for selecting a base station whose idle signal exhibits the strongest radio field intensity based on the radio field intensity of the idle signal from each of said base stations, each of said mobile stations comprising means for transmitting a registration signal synchronized with the idle signal of the base station by said control channel, each of said base stations having means for sending back a signal indicating a completion of a registration into the assigned system time slot of said control channel based on said registration signal, each of said mobile stations having means for sending a call signal synchronized with the idle signal of said registered base station by said control channel, each of said base stations having means for assigning a vacant communication channel based on said call signal in order to send back an acknowledgement signal in the allocated system time slot of said control channel, said mobile station switching from said control channel to said assigned communication channel based on said acknowledgement signal, wherein said control channel and said plurality of communication channels are shared by said plurality of base stations.

2. Mobile communication system as set forth in claim 1 wherein said control station comprises means for determining a time slot of the control channel to be subsequently allocated to each base station in accordance with the ratio of the number of mobile stations registered to each base station at a given time.

3. A method of allocating time slots of a radio control channel to a plurality of base stations which may communicate with a plurality of mobile stations, respectively, over said time slots, comprising the steps of:

(a) transmitting an idle signal from each of said base stations to the mobile stations in an allocated one of said time slots;

(b) sending back a registration signal from a particular one of said mobile stations to a particular one of said base stations from which said particular mobile station receives an idle signal with the strongest field intensity;

(c) upon receipt of said registration signal, registering said particular mobile station to said particular base station;

(d) repeating said steps of (a) to (c) to register each of the remaining mobile stations to appropriate ones of said base stations; and

(e) allocating said time slots to said base stations based on the number of mobile stations registered to each of said base stations.