Radio base station receiving data transmission system for uplink site diversity of mobile communication system

• US 6,181,948 B1
• Filed: 06/26/1998
• Issued: 01/30/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kondo, Takayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Thanh Cong
• Assistant Examiner(s): Woldetatios, Yemane
• Application Number:
  US09/104,998
• Time in Patent Office: 949 Days
• Field of Search: 455/524, 455/525, 455/560, 455/561, 455/445, 455/442, 455/11.1, 455/132, 455/133, 455/134, 455/135, 455/422
• US Class Current: 455/517
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/022 Site diversity; Macro-diversity using two or more spaced independent antennas H04B7/04

Abstract

A radio base station receiving data transmission system is provided for uplink site diversity of a mobile communication system that is configured by a mobile station, radio base stations, a base station control device and a mobile communication exchange. Herein, the mobile station establishes the uplink site diversity using the radio base stations under control of the base station control device. Now, each of the radio base stations that are connected to the mobile station to receive its signals performs error detection on receiving data thereof so as to produce error information with respect to each frame. The error information contains error detection information representing occurrence of error in the receiving data and an error frequency representing a degree of error contained in the receiving data. Firstly, the base station control device receives the error information from each of the radio base stations regarding the uplink site diversity. On the basis of the error information, the device detects a radio base station that firstly reports non-error detection result within the radio base stations, or the device selects a radio base station whose amount of error in receiving data is the smallest within the radio base stations. Thus, the device requests such a radio base station to transmit its receiving data thereto. So, the receiving data are further transmitted from the base station control device to the mobile communication exchange.

Claims

1. A radio base station receiving data transmission system for uplink site diversity of a mobile communication system comprising:

a mobile station;

a plurality of radio base stations used for site diversity, wherein each of the plurality of radio base stations is capable of receiving signals communicated from the mobile station so as to provide receiving data;

a base station control device for controlling communications of the plurality of radio base stations; and

a mobile communication exchange which receives the receiving data of the radio base station and transmits the receiving data to a desired network,

wherein the radio base station comprises;

receiving means for receiving the signals from the mobile station;

decoding means for decoding the signals to produce the receiving data;

detection means for detecting errors in the receiving data to produce error information;

transmission control means for controlling transmission of the receiving data to the base station control device;

storing means for storing the receiving data to be transmitted to the base station control device; and

first means for transmitting or receiving control information and the receiving data with respect to the base station control device,

and wherein the base station control device comprises second means for transmitting or receiving the control information and the receiving data with respect to the radio base station;

transmission request means for requesting the radio base station to transmit the receiving data thereto on the basis of the error information; and

transmission means for transmitting the receiving data, transmitted thereto from the radio base station, to the mobile communication exchange,

wherein the decoding means comprises error frequency obtaining means to obtain an error frequency based on correct data using convolution codes.

2. A radio base station receiving data transmission system as defined in claim 1 wherein the transmission request means requests transmission of receiving data of a radio base station, which reports a non-error detection result firstly within the plurality of radio base station s with respect to a frame that the mobile station transmits.

3. A radio base station receiving data transmission system as defined in claim 1 wherein the transmission request means requests transmission of receiving data of a radio base station whose error frequency is the smallest within the plurality of radio base stations in the case where all sets of error detection information, contained in the error information, represent occurrence of error in all receiving data of the plurality of radio base stations.

4. A radio base station receiving data transmission system as defined in claim 1 wherein each of the first means for transmitting or receiving the control information and the receiving data with respect to the base station control means, the second means for transmitting or receiving the control information and the receiving data with respect to the radio base station, and the transmission means for transmitting the receiving data, for which the transmission request is issued, to the mobile communication exchange provides a line switching means.

5. A radio base station receiving data transmission system as defined in claim 1 wherein each of the first means for transmitting or receiving the control information and the receiving data with respect to the base station control means, the second means for transmitting or receiving the control information and the receiving data with respect to the radio base station, and the transmission means for transmitting the receiving data, for which the transmission request is issued, to the mobile communication exchange provides an ATM switching means.

6. A radio base station receiving data transmission system as defined in claim 1 wherein there are provided first and second base station control devices that control radio base stations respectively, and wherein the transmission request means of the first base station control device requests a radio base station to transmit its receiving data thereto on the basis of its error information, while the transmission request means of the second base station control device requests another radio base station to transmit its receiving data thereto on the basis of its error information.

7. A radio base station receiving data transmission system as defined in claim 1 wherein the mobile communication exchange provides a transmission request means for requesting each of the radio base stations, which is connected to the base station control device on the basis of the error information, to transmit its receiving data.

8. A radio base station receiving data transmission system for uplink site diversity that a mobile station establishes using a plurality of radio base stations under control of a base station control device with respect to a mobile communication exchange, said radio base station receiving data transmission system comprising:

error detection means for detecting an error frequency using convolutional codes contained in a frame of receiving data corresponding to receiving signals transmitted from the mobile station to each of the radio base stations, to produce error information;

selection means for selecting one of the radio base stations, which has a smallest error frequency, on the basis of the error information, which is transmitted from each of the radio base stations that are connected to the mobile station to the base station control device; and

transmission request means for requesting the selected radio base station to transmit its receiving data to the base station control device, so that the receiving data are further transmitted to the mobile communication exchange.

9. A radio base station receiving data transmission system as defined in claim 8 wherein the error information and the receiving data are provided with respect frames transmitted by said mobile stations.

10. A radio base station receiving data transmission system as defined in claim 8 wherein the error information contains error detection information representing occurrence of errors in the receiving data and an error frequency representing a degree of error in the receiving data.

11. A radio base station receiving data transmission method for uplink site diversity that a mobile station establishes using a plurality of radio base stations under control of a base station control device with respect to a mobile communication exchange, said radio base station receiving data transmission method comprising the steps of:

detecting an error frequency in receiving data using convolutional codes to produce error information with respect to each of the radio base stations;

obtaining the error information with respect to receiving data of each of the radio base stations;

making a decision as to whether there exists a radio base station that firstly reports a non-error detection result, based on the error information, within the radio base stations with respect to each frame received from said mobile station; and

requesting transmission of receiving data to the base station control device with respect to a radio base station corresponding to the non-error detection result.

12. A radio base station receiving data transmission method as defined in claim 11 further comprising the step of:

if a decision is made that there does not exist the radio base station that firstly reports the non-error detection result with respect to each frame, selecting a radio base station whose amount of error in receiving data is the smallest within the radio base stations, so that the transmission of receiving data is requested with respect to the selected radio base station.