Communication control system, communication control method, base station and mobile station

• US 7,308,282 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2002
• Issued: 12/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Chen, Lan, Kayama, Hidetoshi, Umeda, Narumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid, Lester G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Figueroa, Marisol
• Application Number:
  US10/314,153
• Publication Number:
  US 20030114167A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,828 Days
• Field of Search: 455/574, 455/343.3, 455/522, 455/453, 455/63.1, 370/311, 370/229, 370/230
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/10 Flow control between communication endpoints
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/14 using intermediate storage
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/52 based on load

Abstract

It is an object to control the traffic that flows in a radio link to ensure the stability of the network as well as to prevent the deterioration of the communication quality due to the transmission of packets exceeding the capacity, and to increase the communication capacity. A communication control system in a packet mobile communication transmits a downlink packet from a base station to a mobile station via a radio network. The base station includes a transmission determiner that determines whether or not to transmit the downlink packet to the radio network in accordance with the state of congestion of the radio network and the traffic type (DSCP) of the downlink packet.

Claims

1. A communication control system in a packet mobile communication that transmits a downlink IP packet from a base station to a mobile station via a radio network, wherein:

the base station comprises an admission determiner configured to manage an admission threshold of an usage rate of transmission power resources in the base station for each traffic type of an IP packet,

to determine a traffic type of the downlink IP packet based on a code point of a DiffServ IP packet (DSCP) set in a packet header of the downlink IP packet from a superior network,

to compare the admission threshold of the determined traffic type with the usage rate of the transmission power resources in the base station,

to determine to admit the downlink IP packet from the superior network, when the usage rate of the transmission power resources in the base station is smaller than the admission threshold of the determined traffic type,

to determine not to admit the downlink IP packet from the superior network, when the usage rate of the transmission power resources in the base station is equal to or larger than the admission threshold of the determined traffic type and when the determined traffic type is a real-time traffic, and

to determine to buffer the downlink IP packet from the superior network, when the usage rate of the transmission power resources in the base station is equal to or larger than the admission threshold of the determined traffic type and when the determined traffic type is a non-real-time traffic.

2. A communication control method in a packet mobile communication that transmits a downlink IP packet from a base station to a mobile station via a radio network, the method comprising:

managing an admission threshold of an usage rate of transmission power resources in the base station for each traffic type of an IP packet;

determining a traffic type of the downlink IP packet based on a code point of a DiffServ IP racket (DSCP) set in a packet header of the downlink IP packet from a superior network;

comparing the admission threshold of the determined traffic type with the usage rate of the transmission power resources in the base station;

determining to admit the downlink IP packet from the superior network, when the usage rate of the transmission power resources in the base station is smaller than the admission threshold of the determined traffic type;

determining not to admit the downlink IP packet from the superior network, when the usage rate of the transmission power resources in the base station is equal to or larger than the admission threshold of the determined traffic type and when the determined traffic type is a real-time traffic; and

determining to buffer the downlink IP packet from the superior network, when the usage rate of the transmission power resources in the base station is equal to or larger than the admission threshold of the determined traffic type and when the determined traffic type is a non-real-time traffic.

3. Abase station that transmits a downlink IP packet to a mobile station via a radio network, the base station comprising:

an admission determiner configured to manage an admission threshold of an usage rate of transmission power resources in the base station for each traffic type of an IP packet,

to determine a traffic type of the downlink IP packet based on a code point of a DiffServ IP packet (DSCP) set in a packet header of the downlink IP packet from a superior network,

to compare the admission threshold of the determined traffic type with the usage rate of the transmission power resources in the base station,

to determine to admit the downlink IP packet from the superior network, when the usage rate of the transmission power resources in the base station is smaller than the admission threshold of the determined traffic type,

to determine not to admit the downlink IP packet from the superior network, when the usage rate of the transmission power resources in the base station is equal to or larger than the admission threshold of the determined traffic type and when the determined traffic type is a real-time traffic, and

to determine to buffer the downlink IP packet from the superior network, when the usage rate of the transmission power resources in the base station is equal to or larger than the admission threshold of the determined traffic type and when the determined traffic type is a non-real-time traffic.