Method and base station system for channel allocation in a radio communication system

• US 6,519,240 B1
• Filed: 11/08/2000
• Issued: 02/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Schindler, Jürgen, Dillinger, Markus
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Huy D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HO, DUC CHI
• Application Number:
  US09/708,294
• Time in Patent Office: 825 Days
• Field of Search: 370/320, 370/321, 370/322, 370/314, 370/330, 370/337, 370/347, 370/328, 370/342, 370/331, 370/468, 370/478, 370/477, 370/442, 370/280, 370/281, 370/329, 370/341, 370/335, 455/442, 455/507, 455/436, 455/422, 455/509, 455/517, 455/524, 455/525, 455/464, 455/452
• US Class Current: 370/337
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2618 using hybrid code-time division multiple access [CDMA-TDMA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/06 Hybrid resource partitioning, e.g. channel borrowing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/10 Dynamic resource partitioning
• 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

According to the invention, a first portion of the timeslots is allocated to a first base station and a second portion of the timeslots is allocated to a second base station, in particular, in the downlink direction of a radio communications system having a TDD frame structure and broadband radio transmission with CDMA subscriber separation. The interference between adjacent base stations is thus considerably reduced without the assistance of any FDMA component, that is to say, in the worst case, for a radio communications system having a frequency reuse cluster of unity.

Claims

1. A method for channel allocation in a radio communications system, which comprises:

using a TDMA transmission method to carrying out radio transmission between mobile stations and at least two base stations;

allocating at least partially different timeslots to a first base station and to a second base station for transmissions in a downlink direction such that cetain timeslots are allocated to the first base station and not to the second base station and certain other timeslots are allocated to the second base station and not to the first base station; and

transmitting in an uplink direction without splitting the timeslots between the first base station and the second base station.

2. The method according to claim 1, which comprises:

using timeslots in one frequency band for the uplink direction and the downlink direction in accordance with a time division duplex transmission method.

3. The method according to claim 1, which comprises:

permanently allocating first timeslots to a plurality of base stations; and

dynamically allocating further timeslots.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, which comprises allocating the further timeslots to the plurality of base stations on a load-related basis.

5. The method according to claim 3, which comprises allocating one timeslot of the further timeslots for a mobile station with a higher priority than a handover to an adjacent base station.

6. The method according to claim 1, which comprises:

selecting a suitable timeslot for a connection by carrying out interference measurements with a station selected from the group consisting of a base station and a mobile station; and

when a timeslot is released by another connection, initiating a handover of the connection to the released timeslot.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein adjacent base stations use the same frequency band.

8. The method according to claim 1, which comprises using a TDMA/CDMA subscriber separation method to carry out the radio transmission.

9. A base station system for a radio communications system, comprising:

a first base station and a second base station for carrying out radio transmissions to mobile stations in accordance with a TDMA transmission method such that timeslots in one frequency band are used for an uplink direction and a downlink direction; and

a device for allocating radio resources, said device for allocating at least partially different timeslots for transmissions in the downlink direction to the first base station and to the second base station, said device configured for transmissions in the uplink direction such that timeslots are not split between the first base station and the second base station.