Mobile communication system and its multiple connection method enabling to perform concise and high quality multiplex communication

• US 5,566,356 A
• Filed: 12/15/1994
• Issued: 10/15/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Taketsugu, Masanori
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Chi H.
• Application Number:
  US08/356,720
• Time in Patent Office: 670 Days
• Field of Search: 455/33.1-33.4, 455/54.1, 455/54.2, 455/56.1, 379/59, 379/60
• US Class Current: 455/436
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0072 of resource information of target access point

Abstract

A mobile communication system and its multiple connection method enabling to perform concise and high quality multiplex communication, in which a mobile exchange station stores identifiers of a plurality of radio base stations and transmits a communication signal directed to a mobile station to all the radio base stations. The mobile exchange station stores the identifier of the radio base station which started the communication with the mobile station within the plurality of radio base stations. When the radio base station has opened a radio line with the mobile station, the radio base station which received the communication signal transmits the communication signal to a radio zone, and when the radio base station does not open the radio line with the mobile station, the radio base station disuses the received communication signal. When receiving a communication channel handover request, the radio base station which received the communication signal directed to the mobile station from the mobile exchange station executes a handover processing directly, and when not having received the communication signal, the radio base station requests the mobile exchange station to transmit the communication signal to carry out a multiple connection processing.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system including a plurality of radio base stations, a mobile station communicating with the radio base stations using a radio channel in a plurality of radio zones composed of the radio base stations, and a mobile exchange station for controlling predetermined radio base stations communicating with the mobile station, comprising:

first storage means for storing multiple connection start information relating to the radio base station which started a communication with the mobile station; and

second storage means for storing multiple connection information of identifiers of at least two radio base stations to which a communication signal directed to the mobile station which started the communication is simultaneously transmitted, wherein

only one of the at least two radio base stations which received the communication signal transmitting the communication signal to the radio zone, the radio base stations corresponding to the identifiers as the multiple connection information stored in the second storage means being selectively handed over to execute the communication.

2. The mobile communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first and second storage means are provided in the mobile exchange station.

3. The mobile communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a handover processing in transmitting the communication signal to the radio zone by the selective handover is carried out by a time division multiple access method.

4. The mobile communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the handover processing, the mobile station requests a handover of the radio base stations to start a new communication with another one of the radio base stations corresponding to the identifiers as the multiple connection information stored in the second storage means.

5. The mobile communication system as claimed in claim 4, wherein, when the radio base station to meet the request of the mobile station is not contained in the multiple connection information, the mobile exchange station renews the content of the multiple connection information so as to contain the radio base station to meet the request in the multiple connection information to execute the handover processing.

6. A multiple connection method of a mobile communication system including a plurality of radio base stations, a mobile station communicating with the radio base stations using a radio channel in a plurality of radio zones composed of the radio base stations, and a mobile exchange station for controlling predetermined radio base stations communicating with the mobile station, comprising the steps of:

first storage step for storing multiple connection start information relating to the radio base station which started a communication with the mobile station; and

second storage step for storing multiple connection information of identifiers of at least two radio base stations to which a communication signal directed to the mobile station which started the communication is simultaneously transmitted, wherein

only one of the at least two radio base stations which received the communication signal transmitting the communication signal to the radio zone, the radio base stations corresponding to the identifiers as the multiple connection information stored in the second storage step being selectively handed over to execute the communication.

7. The multiple connection method as claimed in claim 6, wherein a handover processing in transmitting the communication signal to the radio zone by the selective handover is carried out by a time division multiple access method.

8. The multiple connection method as claimed in claim 6, wherein in the handover processing, the mobile station requests a handover of the radio base stations to start a new communication with another one of the radio base stations corresponding to the identifiers as the multiple connection information stored in the second storage step.

9. The multiple connection method as claimed in claim 8, wherein, when the radio base station to meet the request of the mobile station is not contained in the multiple connection information, the mobile exchange station renews the content of the multiple connection information so as to contain the radio base station to meet the request in the multiple connection information to execute the handover processing.

10. A multiple connection method of a mobile communication system including a plurality of radio base stations, a mobile station communicating with the radio base stations using a radio channel in a plurality of radio zones composed of the radio base stations, and a mobile exchange station for controlling predetermined radio base stations communicating with the mobile station, comprising the steps of:

a first storage step for storing an identifier of the radio base station which started a communication with the mobile station as multiple connection start information by the mobile exchange station;

a transmitting step for transmitting a communication signal including the identifier of the radio base station which started the communication to all the radio base stations controlled by the mobile exchange station;

a second storage step for storing the identifiers of a plurality of radio base stations including each radio base station itself as multiple connection information by each radio base station;

a selective receiving step for receiving only the communication signal including the identifier stored in the second storage step by the radio base stations;

a checking step for checking whether or not the radio base station which received the communication signal in the receiving step opens a radio line with the mobile station; and

a signal processing step for transmitting the received communication signal to the radio zone by the radio base station when the radio base station opens the radio line with the mobile station, and for not using the received communication signal when the radio base station does not open the radio line with the mobile station as a result in the checking step.

11. The multiple connection method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the radio base station executes the handover processing in response to a radio channel handover request of the mobile station.

12. The multiple connection method as claimed in claim 10, wherein, when the radio base station receives the communication signal in the selective receiving step, the handover processing is directly executed and, when the radio base station does not receive the communication signal in the selective receiving step, after the radio base station allows the mobile exchange station to change the identifier of the radio base station which started the communication with the mobile station in the multiple connection information stored in the mobile exchange station to its own identifier and transmits the communication signal directed to the mobile station to the radio base stations contained in the multiple connection information assigned to the radio base station itself to execute a multiple connection processing, the handover processing is executed.