Method of assigning frequency using propagation loss

• US 6,781,974 B1
• Filed: 06/03/1999
• Issued: 08/24/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Tsumura, Soichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Gelin, Jean
• Application Number:
  US09/324,930
• Time in Patent Office: 1,909 Days
• Field of Search: 370/320, 370/330, 370/332, 370/333, 370/342, 370/335, 370/348, 370/338, 370/341, 370/441, 455/509, 455/450, 455/452, 455/448
• US Class Current: 370/335
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/32 Hierarchical cell structures
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/06 Reselecting a communication resource in the serving access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality

Abstract

A process of assigning frequencies uses propagation loss in a CDMA communication system. A base station measures propagation loss over a channel between the base station and a mobile station. If the measured propagation loss is greater than a certain fixed value, the base station determines that since the mobile station is present in a position distant from the base station, the mobile station may possibly interfere with a base station of another CDMA communication system. The base station assigns a frequency channel which is not adjacent to the frequency band assigned to the other CDMA communication system to the mobile station.

Claims

1. A method of assigning frequencies where at least a first and a second CDMA communication system provide services in the same area, where different frequency bands are assigned to each CDMA communication system in which a base station of the first CDMA communication system selects a frequency channel to be used from the respective assigned frequency band and assigns the selected frequency channel to a mobile station, comprising the steps of:

measuring a propagation loss over a channel between said base station and said mobile station present in a cell of said base station;

assigning a frequency channel which is not adjacent to the frequency band assigned to the second CDMA communication system from among the frequency channels assigned to said first CDMA communication system to the mobile station if the propagation loss is greater than a first value; and

assigning a frequency channel which is adjacent to the frequency band assigned to the second CDMA communication system from among the frequency channels assigned to said first CDMA communication system to the mobile station if the propagation loss is equal to or smaller than a second value.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said step of measuring a propagation loss comprises the step of:

measuring the difference between the transmission power level of said mobile station reported to said base station and the reception power level of a signal transmitted from said mobile station and received at said base station.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein said step of measuring a propagation loss comprises the step of:

measuring the difference between the reception power level at the mobile station of a signal from said base station, reported from said mobile station to said base station, and the transmission power level of said base station to the mobile station.

4. A method of assigning frequencies where at lest a first and a second CDMA communication system provide services in the same area, where different frequency bands are assigned to each CDMA communication system in which a base station of the first CDMA communication system selects a frequency channel to be used from the respective assigned frequency band and assigns the selected frequency channel to a mobile station, comprising the steps of:

indicating the transmission power level of the mobile station from the mobile station to the base station;

assigning a frequency channel which is not adjacent to the frequency band assigned to the second CDMA communication system from among the frequency channels assigned to said first CDMA communication system, to the mobile station if the transmission power level is greater than a first value; and

assigning a frequency channel which is adjacent to the frequency band assigned to the second CDMA communication system from among the frequency channels assigned to said first CDMA communication system to the mobile station if the transmission power level is equal to or smaller than a second value.

5. A CDMA communication system comprising:

at least one mobile station; and

a plurality of base stations, a particular base station measures a propagation loss over a channel with said mobile station present in a cell of the particular base station, assigns a frequency channel which is not adjacent to the frequency band assigned to another CDMA communication system which provides services in the same area as the CDMA communication system from among the frequency channels assigned to said CDMA communication system to the mobile station if the propagation loss is greater than a first value, and assigns a frequency channel which is adjacent to the frequency band assigned to the other CDMA communication system from among the frequency channels assigned to said CDMA communication system, to the mobile station when the propagation loss is equal to or smaller than a second value.

6. A CDMA communication system according to claim 5, wherein the mobile station measures said propagation loss based on the difference between the transmission power level of the mobile station reported from said mobile station to said particular base station, and the reception power level of a signal transmitted from said mobile station and received at said particular base station.

7. A CDMA communication system according to claim 5, wherein the mobile station measures said propagation loss based on the difference between the reception power level at the mobile station of a signal from said base station, reported from said mobile to said base station, and the transmission power level of said base station to the mobile station.

8. A CDMA communication system comprising:

at least one mobile station which indicates a transmission power level to a base station; and

a plurality of base stations, a particular base station assigns a frequency channel which is not adjacent to the frequency band assigned to another CDMA communication system which provides services in the same area as the CDMA communication system from among frequency channels assigned to the CDMA communication system to the mobile station if the transmission power level is greater than a first value, and assigns a frequency channel which is adjacent to the frequency band assigned to the other CDMA communication system from among the frequency channels assigned to said CDMA communication system to the mobile station if the transmission power level is equal to or smaller than a second value.