Base station coverage area control system

• US 5,404,576 A
• Filed: 12/11/1992
• Issued: 04/04/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Yahagi, Masahiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Urban, Edward F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): VO, NGUYEN THANH
• Application Number:
  US07/987,963
• Time in Patent Office: 844 Days
• Field of Search: 455/33.1, 455/33.2, 455/33.3, 455/33.4, 455/54.1, 455/56.1, 455/62, 455/63, 455/34.1, 455/75, 455/64, 455/49.1, 455/50.1, 455/67.1, 455/67.3, 455/68, 455/70, 455/88, 379/59, 379/60, 379/63
• US Class Current: 455/524
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/24 Cell structures

Abstract

In a mobile radio communication system in which a plurality of base stations, each having at least one communication channel, are arranged in a service area, and communication between mobile stations and the base stations is performed by using the communication channels, a base station coverage area control system includes noise sources. The noise sources are either arranged inside base stations or inside the service area to be located around the respective base stations. The noise sources generate noise having the same frequency as that of a communication signal from each of the base stations or at the selected frequency of one of the base stations. The coverage areas of the base stations are controlled by transmitting the controlled noise from the noise sources.

Claims

1. A base station coverage control system in a mobile radio communication system in which a plurality of base stations, each having a coverage area corresponding to at least one of a plurality of communication channels, are arranged in a service area, and communication between mobile stations and said base stations being performed by using a communication frequency for each of the communication channels, said base station control system comprising:

noise sources arranged inside the service area, said noise sources generating noise having a same frequency as that of at least one of said plurality of communication channels,

wherein the coverage area of a corresponding communication channel of a base station is controlled by selectively transmitting noise from at least one of said noise sources at a frequency corresponding to said corresponding communication channel of said base station.

2. A base station coverage area control system according to claim 1, wherein said noise sources are arranged around and spaced apart from said base stations and at least one of said noise sources selectively generates noise at a communication frequency corresponding to a communication channel corresponding to one of said base stations to reduce the coverage areas of said one of said base stations.

3. A base station coverage area control system in a mobile radio communication system in which a plurality of base stations, each having a coverage area using at least one of a plurality of communication channels, are arranged in a service area, and communication between mobile stations and said base stations is performed by using the communication channels, said base station coverage area control system comprising:

noise sources, arranged inside the base stations, wherein each noise source transmits noise at a frequency different from a frequency corresponding to any communication channel used by the base station in which the noise source is located, the transmitted noise from each noise source changing a coverage area of a base station having a coverage area adjacent to a coverage area of the base station in which the noise source is located.

4. A method of increasing the density of base stations having a specified frequency in a mobile communication system, said method comprising the steps of:

arranging a plurality of base stations in a service area, each of said base stations having a coverage area within which said base station communicates with one or more mobile stations;

assigning each of said base stations at least one of a plurality of communications channels, wherein each of said plurality of communication channels is assigned with a corresponding frequency; and

generating noise signals at a selected communication frequency for reducing the size of the coverage area of at least one of said base stations corresponding to said selected communication frequency.

5. A method of increasing the density of base stations having a specified frequency in a mobile communication system according to claim 4, wherein said generating step includes the step of adjusting at least one of a noise intensity of said noise signals and a radiating direction of said noise signals corresponding to said selected communication frequency.