Mobile station equipment and base station equipment and control method

• US 5,862,476 A
• Filed: 09/25/1995
• Issued: 01/19/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Hasegawa, Hajime
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, THANH C
• Application Number:
  US08/533,477
• Time in Patent Office: 1,212 Days
• Field of Search: 455/33.1, 455/34.1, 455/34.2, 455/53.1, 455/54.1, 455/54.2, 455/56.1, 455/62, 455/63, 455/67.1, 455/68, 455/69, 455/70, 455/89, 455/126, 455/422, 455/434, 455/435 , 455/436, 455/440, 455/450, 455/452, 455/455, 455/458, 455/507, 455/509, 455/515, 455/517, 455/524, 455/525, 455/575, 379/59
• US Class Current: 455/432.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0245 according to signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Mobile station equipment for a mobile communication system includes a decision section for deciding accuracy of data of a first signal transmitted from a base station, and a first signal strength measuring section for measuring a signal strength of the first signal. The mobile station equipment further includes an inquiring section for transmitting a permission request signal for a stand-by state process to the base station according to at least one of the decided accuracy and a comparison result of the measured signal strength of the first signal and a first given threshold value. And, in the mobile station equipment, a stand-by control section waits for permissible information to be transmitted from the base station equipment based on the permission request signal, and starts a stand-by state process upon receiving the permissible information.

Claims

1. Mobile station equipment for a mobile communication system comprising:

decision means for deciding accuracy of data of a first signal transmitted from a base station;

first signal strength measuring means for measuring a signal strength of said first signal;

inquiring means for transmitting a permission request signal for the mobile station equipment proceeding to a stand-by state process to the base station according to at least one of the decided accuracy and a comparison result of the measured signal strength of the first signal and a first given threshold value; and

stand-by control means for waiting for permissible information to be transmitted from the base station based on said permission request signal, and for starting the stand-by state process upon receiving the permissible information.

2. The mobile station equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein said stand-by control means further comprises control means for waiting for impermissible information transmitted from the base station based on said permission request signal, and for proceeding to an out-of-zone state upon receiving the impermissible information.

3. The mobile station equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein said inquiring means further comprises means for transmitting said permission request signal to the base station at a given time interval in a stand-by state.

4. The mobile station equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein said inquiring means further comprises means for transmitting said permission request signal to the base station according to said decided accuracy and said comparison result of the measured signal strength of the first signal and the first given threshold value when a communication is finished.

5. The mobile station equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein:

said equipment further comprises state detection means for detecting that a state of the mobile station equipment is an out-of-zone state; and

said inquiring means further comprises means for transmitting said permission request signal for said stand-by state process to the base station according to said decided accuracy and said comparison result of the measured signal strength of the first signal and the first given threshold value when said state detection means detects that the state of the mobile station equipment is the out-of-zone state.

6. The mobile station equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein said permission request signal transmitted by the inquiring means comprises a plurality of frames, a first frame having identification information which indicates that this frame is for the permission request signal and identification information of said mobile station equipment, and each of the following frames having the identification information of said mobile station equipment.

7. The mobile station equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein said permission request signal transmitted by the inquiring means comprises a plurality of frames, each of the frames having identification information which indicates that this frame is for the permission request signal and identification information of said mobile station equipment.

8. The mobile station equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein said equipment further comprises:

third signal strength measuring means for measuring a signal strength of a second signal from an adjacent base station in a stand-by state; and

zone-transfer detection means for comparing a difference between said measured signal strength of said first signal from the base station and the measured signal strength of said second signal from the adjacent base station with a third given value, and for determining whether the mobile station equipment is located in a radio zone defined by said adjacent base station according to the comparison result of the difference and the third given value;

wherein each of said decision means and said stand-by control means further comprises means for changing the base station to the adjacent base station recognized by the zone-transfer detection means, and for switching a radio channel suitable for the adjacent base station.

9. The mobile station equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein said inquiring means further comprises means for transmitting said permission request signal to the base station at a given time interval in a stand-by state.

10. The mobile station equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein said inquiring means further comprises means for transmitting said permission request signal to the base station according to said decided accuracy and said comparison result of the measured signal strength of the first signal and the first given threshold value when a communication is finished.

11. The mobile station equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said equipment further comprises state detection means for detecting that a state of the mobile station equipment is an out-of-zone state; and

said inquiring means further comprises means for transmitting said permission request signal for said stand-by state process to the base station according to said decided accuracy and said comparison result of the measured signal strength of the first signal and the first given threshold value when said state detection means detects that the state of the mobile station equipment is the out-of-zone state.

12. The mobile station equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein said permission request signal transmitted by the inquiring means comprises a plurality of frames, a first frame having identification information which indicates that this frame is for the permission request signal and identification information of said mobile station equipment, and each of the following frames having the identification information of said mobile station equipment.

13. The mobile station equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein said permission request signal transmitted by the inquiring means comprises a plurality of frames, each of the frames having identification information which indicates that this frame is for the permission request signal and identification information of said mobile station equipment.

15. The base station equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein said responding means comprises means for transmitting impermissible information for not permitting the mobile station to proceed to the stand-by state process to the mobile station when the signal strength of the permission request signal is smaller than the second given threshold value.

14. Base station equipment for a mobile communication system comprising:

second signal strength measuring means for measuring a signal strength of a permission request signal for proceeding to a stand-by state process, said permission request signal being transmitted from a mobile station when the mobile station receives a given signal from a base station and thus confirms that a quality of transmission from the base station to the mobile station reaches a level sufficient to provide communication services; and

responding means for transmitting permissible information for permitting the mobile station to proceed to the stand-by state process to the mobile station according to a comparison result of the signal strength of the permission request signal a second given threshold value.

16. The base station equipment as claimed in claim 14, wherein when said second given threshold value used in said responding means becomes higher than a signal strength in the base station equipment, it is determined that the mobile station in a radio zone defined by said base station equipment goes to an out-of-zone state.

17. The base station equipment as claimed in claim 14, wherein when said second given threshold value used in said responding means is smaller than a signal strength in the base station equipment, the mobile station is permitted to go to an inside-of-zone state for a radio zone defined by the base station equipment.

18. A control method for controlling a mobile station to proceed to a stand-by state in a mobile communication system, said control method comprising the steps of:

(a) deciding accuracy of data of a first signal transmitted from a base station in the mobile station;

(b) measuring a signal strength of said first signal in the mobile station;

(c) transmitting a permission request signal for the mobile station proceeding to a stand-by state process from the mobile station to the base station according to the decided accuracy in step (a) and a comparison result of the measured signal strength of the first signal in step (b) and a first given threshold value;

(d) measuring a signal strength of said permission request signal transmitted from the mobile station in the base station;

(e) transmitting permissible information for permitting the mobile station to proceed to the stand-by state process from the base station to the mobile station according to a comparison result of the signal strength of the permission request signal in step (d) and a second given threshold value; and

(f) waiting for permissible information to be transmitted from the base station equipment, and starting the stand-by state process when receiving the permissible information in the mobile station.

19. The control method as claimed in claim 18, wherein:

said step (e) further comprises a step of transmitting impermissible information for not permitting the mobile station to proceed to the stand-by state process from the base station to the mobile station when the signal strength of the permission request signal is smaller than the second given threshold value; and

said step (f) further comprises a step of waiting for impermissible information to be transmitted from the base station equipment, and proceeding to an out-of-zone state when receiving the impermissible information.