CDMA mobile communication system in which updating of a reference value for controlling closed-loop transmission power is realized in a base transceiver station

• US 7,203,510 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2003
• Issued: 04/10/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Tanoue, Katsumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Orgad; Edan
• Application Number:
  US10/418,992
• Publication Number:
  US 20040203993A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,452 Days
• Field of Search: 455/522, 455/226.1, 455/342, 455/127.1, 455/226.3, 455/341, 455/334, 455/500, 455/69.11, 455/69.13, 370/320, 370/335, 370/318, 370/322, 370/333
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/12 Outer and inner loops
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/386 centralized, e.g. when the radio network controller or equivalent takes part in the power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/40 during macro-diversity or soft handoff

Abstract

A CDMA mobile communication system is disclosed in which a reference value, an uplink signal SIR value, which is used in a closed-loop transmission power control is updated in base transceiver stations. The uplink signal target SIR value is updated independently at base transceiver stations and not at the base station controller. At the base transceiver station, when a decoder detects a loss of synchronization of a user signal from a mobile station, a demodulator adds a step value ΔSIR that has been set in advance to the uplink signal SIR value that has been reported from the base station controller to obtain an uplink signal target SIR provisional value. When this uplink signal target SIR provisional value is smaller than an uplink signal target SIR maximum value that has been set in advance, the uplink signal target SIR value is updated to the uplink signal target SIR provisional value.

Claims

1. A method of controlling transmission power in a CDMA mobile communication system wherein an uplink signal target SIR value that serves as the reference in closed-loop transmission power control is updated in a base transceiver station, said method comprising the steps of:

when a loss of synchronization of a user signal from a mobile station is detected, adding a predetermined step value Δ

SIR to an uplink signal target SIR value that has been reported from a base station controller and making the result an uplink signal target SIR provisional value;

if this uplink signal target SIR provisional value is smaller than an uplink signal target SIR maximum value that has been set in advance, updating the uplink signal target SIR value that serves as the reference for closed-loop transmission power control to said uplink signal target SIR provisional value;

comparing said uplink signal target SIR provisional value with a value obtained by adding the uplink signal target SIR value (RNC;

Radio Network Controller) that is set from said base station controller to a threshold value α

that has been set in advance;

transmitting an uplink signal target SIR value update message to said base station controller when said uplink signal target SIR provisional value is greater than the value obtained by adding the uplink signal target SIR value (RNC) that was set from said base station controller to threshold value α

; and

upon receiving an uplink signal target SIR value report message from said base station controller, updating the uplink signal target SIR value that serves as the reference in closed-loop transmission power control to a new uplink signal target SIR value (RNC) that has been reported by means of the uplink signal target SIR value report message.

2. A base transceiver station for implementing closed-loop transmission power control using an uplink signal target SIR value that is reported from a base station controller as reference, said base transceiver station comprising:

a synchronization loss detection means for detecting loss of synchronization of a user signal from a mobile station; and

an updating means for adding a step value Δ

SIR that has been set in advance to the uplink signal target SIR value that has been reported from said base station controller to obtain an uplink signal target SIR provisional value when said synchronization loss detection means detects loss of synchronization, and when said uplink signal target SIR provisional value is smaller than an uplink signal target SIR maximum value that has been set in advance, updating the uplink signal target SIR value that serves as the reference in closed-loop transmission power control to said uplink signal target SIR provisional value, wherein said updating means comprises;

a means for comparing said uplink signal target SIR provisional value with a value that is obtained by adding the uplink signal target SIR value (RNC) that is set from said base station controller to a threshold value a that has been set in advance;

a means for sending an uplink signal target SIR value update message to said base station controller when said uplink signal target SIR provisional value is greater than said added value; and

a means for updating the uplink signal target SIR value that serves as the reference in closed-loop transmission power control to a new uplink signal target SIR value (RNC) that has been reported by the uplink signal target SIR value report message, upon receiving an uplink signal target SIR value report message from said base station controller.

3. A CDMA communication system provided with at least one mobile station that communicates with a base transceiver station via radio signals, a base station controller for controlling base transceiver stations, and a base transceiver station for implementing closed-loop transmission power control using, as a reference, an uplink signal target SIR value that has been reported from said base station controller, wherein said base transceiver station comprises:

a means for adding a step value Δ

SIR that has been set in advance to the uplink signal target SIR value that has been reported from said base station controller and uses the result as an uplink signal target SIR provisional value, when a loss of synchronization of a user signal from said mobile station is detected; and

a means for updating the uplink signal target SIR value that serves as a reference in closed-loop transmission power control to said uplink signal target SIR provisional value, when this uplink signal target SIR provisional value is smaller than an uplink signal target SIR maximum value that has been set in advance;

a means for comparing said uplink signal target SIR provisional value with a value obtained by adding an uplink signal target SIR value (RNC) that has been set from said base station controller and a threshold value cc that has been set in advance;

a means for sending an uplink signal target SIR value update message to said base station controller when said uplink signal target SIR provisional value is greater than said added value; and

a means for updating the uplink signal target SIR value that serves as the reference of closed-loop transmission power control to a new uplink signal target SIR value (RNC) that has been reported in the uplink signal target SIR value report message, when an uplink signal target SIR value report message from said base station controller is received.