Apparatus and method for TDMA-TDD based transmission/reception

• US 6,907,014 B1
• Filed: 10/23/2000
• Issued: 06/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kitade, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Wellington
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fox, Jamal A.
• Application Number:
  US09/693,839
• Time in Patent Office: 1,695 Days
• Field of Search: 370/280, 370/310, 370/321, 370/329, 370/344, 370/333, 370/336, 370/337, 370/339, 370/347, 370/442, 370/276, 370/277, 370/332, 370/334, 370/326, 370/335, 370/345, 370/328, 370/341, 370/431, 370/331, 370/294, 455/437, 455/442, 455/443, 455/436, 455/525, 455/562, 455/101, 455/73
• US Class Current: 370/280
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0072 of resource information of target access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/08 Reselecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/18 for allowing seamless reselection, e.g. soft reselection
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/30 by measured or perceived connection quality data

Abstract

Despreading section 203 extracts a common control channel signal from each base station by performing despreading processing on a baseband signal from RF section 202 using a predetermined spreading code. Propagation loss measuring section 206 measures a propagation loss for each base station using the reception level of the common control channel signal and the transmission level of this common control channel signal. Propagation loss comparator 207 detects a base station whose propagation loss is a minimum from among all base stations. Transmission data control section 208 controls the timing of transmission data in the data composition section so that an dedicated traffic channel signal is transmitted to the detected base station and controls the spreading code in spreading section 211.

Claims

1. A TDMA-TDD based transmission/reception apparatus mounted in a mobile station and transmitting and receiving signals by providing a downlink traffic slot and an uplink traffic slot alternately in a traffic frame, the transmission/reception apparatus comprising:

a detector that receives signals transmitted from a plurality of base stations in a traffic frame during a handover, and, based on these signals, detects propagation conditions with the plurality of base stations respectively;

a selector that, based on detection results of the propagation conditions, selects a base station corresponding to an optimal propagation condition from among the plurality of base stations; and

a transmitter that assigns an uplink slot only to the selected base station in a same traffic frame in which the signals from the plurality of base stations are received during the handover and transmits a dedicated traffic channel signal only to the selected base station.

2. The TDMA-TDD based transmission/reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detector detects the propagation conditions using the transmission levels of common control channel signals communicated by the plurality of base stations and the reception levels of the common control channel signals transmitted by the plurality of base stations.

3. The TDMA-TDD based transmission/reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detector detects the propagation conditions using the transmission levels of dedicated traffic channel signals from the plurality of base stations and the reception levels of the dedicated traffic channel signals transmitted by the plurality of base stations.

4. The TDMA-TDD based transmission/reception apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmitter transmits the dedicated traffic channel signal to the selected base station using a transmit power value set with an open loop and based upon the propagation condition detected for the selected base station.

5. A TDMA-TDD based transmission/reception method in a mobile station, the method comprising:

receiving signals transmitted from a plurality of base stations in a traffic frame during a handover, and, based on these signals, detecting propagation conditions with the plurality of base stations respectively;

selecting a base station corresponding to an optimal propagation condition from among the plurality of base stations based on detection results of the propagation conditions; and

assigning an uplink slot only to the selected base station in a same traffic frame in which the signals from the plurality of base stations are received during the handover; and

transmitting a dedicated traffic channel signal only to said selected base station.

6. A base station that carries out a radio communication with a TDMA-TDD based transmission/reception apparatus mounted in a mobile station and transmitting and receiving signals by providing a downlink traffic slot and an uplink traffic slot alternately in a traffic frame, the transmission/reception apparatus comprising:

a detector that receives signals transmitted from a plurality of base stations in a traffic frame during a handover, and, based on these signals, detects propagation conditions with the plurality of base stations respectively;

a selector that, based on detection results of the propagation conditions, selects a base station corresponding to an optimal propagation condition from among the plurality of base stations; and

a transmitter that assigns an uplink slot only to the selected base station in a same traffic frame in which the signals from the plurality of base stations are received during the handover and transmits a dedicated traffic channel signal only to the selected base station.