Combined mobile radio communication system

• US 5,402,523 A
• Filed: 04/15/1994
• Issued: 03/28/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Berg, Jan-Erik
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): VO, NGUYEN THANH
• Application Number:
  US08/228,006
• Time in Patent Office: 347 Days
• Field of Search: 455/33.1, 455/33.4, 455/34.1, 455/34.2, 455/54.1, 455/56.1, 455/62, 455/63, 455/9, 455/67.1, 379/59, 379/60, 379/63
• US Class Current: 455/450
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2643 using time-division multiple access [TDMA] H04B7/2615, H04B7/2618 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks

Abstract

A combined mobile radio communication system comprises a first mobile radio communication system with a first geographic coverage area and with first base and mobile stations and allocated a first set of radio channels within a first frequency band for transmission from the first mobile stations to the first base stations and a second set of radio channels within a second frequency band for transmission from the first base stations to the first mobile stations. Included is also a second mobile radio communication system with a second geographic coverage area, which at least partially coincide with the first geographic coverage area, and with second base and mobile stations and allocated a third set of radio channels within a third frequency band, which at least partially coincides with the first frequency band, but is different from the second frequency band, for transmission both from the second mobile station to the second base stations and vice versa. A detector within the second geographic coverage area detects radio signals within the second frequency band and an estimator estimates the disturbance risk from the second mobile radio communication system at said first base stations with the aid of the signal strengths of the detected radio signals.

Claims

1. A combined mobile radio communication system, comprising:

(a) a first mobile radio communication system with a first geographic coverage area and with first base and mobile stations and allocated a first set of radio channels within a first frequency band for transmission from said first mobile stations to said first base stations and a second set of radio channels within a second frequency band for transmission from said first base stations to said first mobile stations,

(b) a second mobile radio communication system with a second geographic coverage area, which at least partially coincides with said first geographic coverage area, and with second base and mobile stations and allocated a third set of radio channels within a third frequency band, which at least partially coincides with said first frequency band for transmission both from said second mobile stations to said second base stations and vice versa,

(c) means within said second geographic coverage area for detecting radio signals within said second frequency band, and

(d) means within said second mobile radio communication system for estimating the disturbance risk from said second mobile radio communication system with the aid of signal strengths of said detected radio signals.

2. The mobile radio communication system of claim 1, wherein said second mobile radio communication system comprises means for preventing that a certain radio channel within the third frequency band is used in the second radio communication system if its disturbances are estimated to be unacceptable at at least one of said first base stations or said first mobile stations in said first mobile radio communication system.

3. The mobile radio communication system of claim 1, wherein said second mobile radio communication system comprises second means for estimating the disturbance risk on radio channels within said third frequency band irrespective of whether the disturbances originate from said first or said second mobile radio communication system, and in that the second mobile radio communication system comprises means for preventing that a base or mobile station in said second mobile radio communication system uses a radio channel within said third frequency band subjected to disturbances, which are estimated to be unacceptable from remaining base or mobile stations in said first or said second mobile radio communication system.

4. The mobile radio communication system of claim 1, wherein said means for detecting radio signals within said second frequency band are positioned in such a way that they have a lower propagation damping to surrounding first base stations and mobile stations in said first mobile radio communication system than said second base stations in said second mobile radio communication system.

5. The mobile radio communication system of claim 1, wherein said first coverage area is essentially larger than said second coverage area.

6. The mobile radio communication system of claim 5, wherein said second coverage area is included completely in said first coverage area.

7. A combined mobile radio communication system, comprising:

(a) a first mobile radio communication system with a first geographic coverage area and with first base and mobile stations and allocated a first set of radio channels within a first frequency band for transmission from said first mobile stations to said first base stations and a second set of radio channels within a second frequency band for transmission from said first base stations to said first mobile stations,

(b) a second mobile radio communication system with a second geographic coverage area, which at least partially coincides with said first geographic coverage area, and with second base and mobile stations and allocated a third set of radio channels within a third frequency band, which at least partially coincides with said second frequency band for transmission both from said second mobile stations to said second base stations and vice versa,

(c) means within said second geographic coverage area for detecting radio signals within said first frequency band, and

(d) means within said second mobile radio communication system for estimating the disturbance risk from said second mobile radio communication system with the aid of signal strengths of said detected radio signals.

8. The mobile radio communication system of claim 7, wherein said second mobile radio communication system comprises means for preventing that a certain radio channel within the third frequency band is used in the second radio communication system if its disturbances are estimated to be unacceptable at at least one of said first base stations or said first mobile stations in said first mobile radio communication system.

9. The mobile radio communication system of claim 7, wherein said second mobile radio communication system comprises second means for estimating the disturbance risk on radio channels within said third frequency band irrespective of whether the disturbances originate from said first or said second mobile radio communication system, and in that the second mobile radio communication system comprises means for preventing that a base or mobile station in said second mobile radio communication system uses a radio channel within said third frequency band subjected to disturbances, which are estimated to be unacceptable from remaining base or mobile stations in said first or said second mobile radio communication system.

10. The mobile radio communication system of claim 7, wherein said means for detecting radio signals within said first frequency band are positioned in such a way that they have a lower propagation damping to surrounding first base stations and mobile stations in said first mobile radio communication system than said second base stations in said second mobile radio communication system.

11. The mobile radio communication system of claim 7, wherein said first coverage area is essentially larger than said second coverage area.

12. The mobile radio communication system of claim 11, wherein said second coverage area is included completely in said first coverage area.