Radio channel allocating system

• US 5,930,716 A
• Filed: 02/20/1996
• Issued: 07/27/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Sonetaka, Noriyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kincaid, Lester G.
• Application Number:
  US08/603,264
• Time in Patent Office: 1,253 Days
• Field of Search: 455/33.3, 455/33.4, 455/33.1, 455/34.1, 455/34.2, 455/56.1, 455/62, 455/63, 455/295, 455/446, 455/447, 455/448, 455/449, 455/450, 370/321, 370/324, 370/337, 370/347, 370/350
• US Class Current: 455/450
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/06 Hybrid resource partitioning, e.g. channel borrowing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/16 Central resource management; Negotiation of resources or communication parameters, e.g. negotiating bandwidth or QoS [Quality of Service]

Abstract

A base station 10 for an inner cell part and a base station 20 for an outer cell part are disposed at the center position of the outer cell part and the inner cell part, respectively. A service area is divided into a plurality of outer cell parts. Inside the outer cell parts, inner cell parts whose diameters are smaller than those of the outer cell parts and that have respective common centers are disposed. A channel controlling circuit 30 allocates optimum channels in such a manner that a third order intermodulation does in take place in the base stations 10 and 20. The base station for the inner cell part communicates radio waves with mobile stations in the inner cell part. The base station 20 for the outer cell part communicates radio waves with mobile stations in the outer cell part.

Claims

1. A radio channel allocating system, having a service area divided into a plurality of cells, for communicating radio waves among base stations disposed at center positions of each cell and a plurality of mobile stations,

wherein the service area is divided into a plurality of outer cell parts and inner cell parts, the inner cell parts being disposed at common positions that are almost center positions of the outer cell parts, the diameters of the inner cell parts being smaller than the diameters of the outer cell parts, the system comprising:

a channel controlling circuit disposed at the center position of each of the outer cell part and the inner cell part of each of the cells and adapted for selecting radio channels of the base station for the outer cell part that communicates waves with mobile stations present in the outer cell part and the base station for the inner cell part that communicates radio waves with mobile stations present in the inner cell part so that the following expressions are satisfied;

space="preserve" listing-type="equation">2Ni-Nj≠

Nj (where i, j, n=1 to m;

i≠

j)

space="preserve" listing-type="equation">Ni+Nj-Nk≠

Nn (where i, j, k, n=1 to m;

i≠

j, k, j≠

k)

where Ni, Nj, Nn and Nk are channel numbers that are an i-th frequency, a j-th frequency, an n-frequency and a K-frequency, respectively, with a predetermined interval against another adjacent channel; and

m is the number of channels for use, and wherein when a guard slot of a reference Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) slot overlaps one of the selected channels by more than an allowable value, the selected channels are changed to the satisfied channel allocation between the base station in the outer cell part and the base station in the inner cell part.

2. The radio channel allocating system as set forth in claim 1,

wherein said channel controlling circuit is adapted for selecting channels in consideration of timings of slots that accord with a selecting condition of the channel number Nn in the case that the difference in distance between the radius of the inner cell part and the radius of the outer cell part exceeds a guard slot defined between each slot corresponding to time division multiplex accessing system, to prevent interference.

3. The radio channel allocating system as set forth in claim 1,

wherein said channel controlling circuit is adapted for selecting radio channels of the base stations adjacently disposed so that the following expressions are satisfied:

space="preserve" listing-type="equation">2Ni-Nj≠

Nn (where i, j, n=1 to m;

i≠

j)

space="preserve" listing-type="equation">Ni+Nj-Nk≠

Nn (where i, j, k, n=1 to m;

i≠

j, k;

j≠

k)

where Ni, Nj, Nn and Nk are channel numbers that an i-th frequency, a j-th frequency, an n-frequency and a k-frequency, respectively at a predetermined interval against an adjacent channel.

4. The radio channel allocating system as set forth in claim 3,

wherein said channel controlling circuit is adapted for selecting channels in consideration of timings of slots that accord with a selecting condition of the channel number Nn in the case that the difference in distance between the radius of the inner cell part and the radius of the outer cell part exceeds a guard slot defined between each slot corresponding to time division multiplex accessing system, to prevent interference.

5. A radio channel allocating system having a repetitive cell pattern composed of p zones, each of the p zones having an outer cell part and an inner cell part, the system comprising:

a channel controlling circuit disposed at the center position of each of the outer cell part and the inner cell part in the same zone and adapted for selecting radio channels of the base station for the outer cell part that communicates radio waves with mobile stations present in the outer cell part and the base station for the inner cell part that communicates radio waves with mobile stations present in the outer cell part and the base station for the inner cell part that communicates radio waves with mobile stations present in the inner cell part so that the following expressions are satisfied;

space="preserve" listing-type="equation">2Ni-Nj≠

Nn (where i, j, n=1 to m;

i≠

j)

space="preserve" listing-type="equation">Ni+Nj-Nk≠

Nn (where i, j, k, n=1 to m;

i≠

j, k;

j≠

k)

Ni, Nj, Nn and Nk are channel numbers that are an i-th frequency, a j-th frequency, an n-frequency and a k-frequency, respectively, with a predetermined interval against another adjacent channel; and

m is the number of channels for use, and wherein when a guard slot of a reference Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) slot overlaps one of the selected channels by more than an allowable value, the selected channels are changed to the satisfied channel allocation between the base station in the outer cell part and the base station in the inner cell part.

6. The radio channel allocating system as set forth in claim 5,

wherein said channel controlling circuit is adapted for selecting channels in consideration of timings of slots that accord with a selecting condition of the channel number Nn in the case that the difference in distance between the radius of the inner cell part and the radius of the outer cell part exceeds a guard slot defined between each slot corresponding to time division multiplex accessing system, to prevent interference.