Base station and mobile station in dedicated short range communications system

• US 7,366,467 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2004
• Issued: 04/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Takikita, Mamoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung; Nay
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TUAN HOANG
• Application Number:
  US10/795,303
• Publication Number:
  US 20050020211A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,512 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 455/500, 455/552.1, 370/337, 370/347
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/04 Scheduled access hybrid access H04W74/02

Abstract

A dedicated short range communications system can warn mutual approach between vehicles having mobile stations installed thereon through dedicated short range communications. Each mobile station includes: a data processing unit that performs data processing of radio transmission signals received by and to be sent from its own mobile station; and an other station allocation determination unit that determines, based on a frame control information slot of the received signal, whether a message data slot of the received signal is allocated to another mobile station. Each mobile station further includes: a message data slot allocation request unit that requests, in an activation slot of the radio transmission signal to be sent, the base station to allocate a message data slot to its own mobile station; and a warning command unit that generates a warning command when a message data slot of the received signal is allocated to another mobile station.

Claims

1. A mobile station of a dedicated short range communications system capable of performing dedicated short range communications between a base station and at least one mobile station by using a radio transmission signal of a communication frame configuration having message data slots to be allocated to mobile stations, respectively, a frame control information slot including allocation information of mobile stations allocated to said message data slots, respectively, and an activation slot for a mobile station to request said base station to allocate one of said message data slots to said mobile station, each of said mobile stations comprising:

a data processing unit that performs data processing of radio transmission signals received by and to be sent from said mobile station;

an other station allocation determination unit that determines, based on a frame control information slot of said received radio transmission signal, whether a message data slot of said received radio transmission signal is allocated to another mobile station;

a message data slot allocation request unit that requests, in an activation slot of said radio transmission signal to be sent, said base station to allocate a message data slot to said mobile station; and

a warning command unit that generates a warning command when a message data slot of said received radio transmission signal is allocated to another mobile station.

2. The mobile station of a dedicated short-range communications system as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a radio electric field strength measuring section that measures the strength of an electric field when a radio transmission signal sent from said base station is received by its own mobile station,

wherein said data processing unit performs data processing of said radio transmission signal thus received when said electric field strength is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, and

said other station allocation determination unit determines, irrespective of said electric field strength, whether a message data slot of said received radio transmission signal is allocated to another mobile station.

3. The mobile station of a dedicated short range communications system as set forth in claim 1, wherein during the time when said data processing unit is performing dedicated short range communications with said base station, said other station allocation determination unit determines whether a message data slot of said radio transmission signal received by its own mobile station is allocated to another mobile station.

4. The mobile station of a dedicated short range communications system as set forth in claim 1, wherein during the time when said data processing unit is performing dedicated short range communications with said base station, said other station allocation determination unit determines whether there is a message data slot allocation request from another mobile station in the activation slot of said radio transmission signal received by its own mobile station, and said warning command unit generates a warning command when there is a message data slot allocation request from another mobile station.

5. A mobile station of a dedicated short range communications system capable of performing dedicated short range communications between a base station and at least one mobile station by using a radio transmission signal of a communication frame configuration having message data slots to be allocated to mobile stations, respectively, a frame control information slot including allocation information of mobile stations allocated to said message data slots, respectively, and an activation slot for a mobile station to request said base station to allocate one of said message data slots to its own station, each of said mobile stations comprising:

a data processing unit that performs data processing of radio transmission signals received by and to be sent from its own mobile station;

a message data slot allocation unit that allocates a new message data slot to a new mobile station when there is a message data slot allocation request from said new mobile station; and

a danger notification unit that creates danger notification data for notifying the existence of another mobile station in a communicable area of said base station, and sends said danger notification data to said new mobile station to which the new message data slot has been allocated.

6. A mobile station of a dedicated short range communications system capable of performing dedicated short range communications between a base station and at least one mobile station by using a radio transmission signal of a communication frame configuration having message data slots to be allocated to mobile stations, respectively, a frame control information slot including allocation information of mobile stations allocated to said message data slots, respectively, and an activation slot for a mobile station to request said base station to allocate one of said message data slots to its own station, each of said mobile stations comprising;

a data processing unit that performs data processing of radio transmission signals received by and to be sent from its own mobile station;

a message data slot allocation unit that allocates a new message data slot to a new mobile station when there is a message data slot allocation request from said new mobile station; and

a danger notification data that creates danger notification data for notifying the entry of another mobile station, to which the new message data slot has already been allocated, into a communicable area of said base station, and sends said danger notification data to mobile stations which exist in said communicable area of said base station.

7. A dedicated short range communications system having a plurality of mobile stations, wherein dedicated short range communications between a base station and at least one mobile station is performed by using a radio transmission signal of a communication frame configuration having message data slots to be allocated to mobile stations, respectively, a frame control information slot including allocation information of mobile stations allocated to said message data slots, respectively, and an activation slot for a mobile station to request said base station to allocate one of said message data slots to said mobile station, each of said plurality of mobile stations comprising:

a data processing unit that performs data processing of radio transmission signals received by and to be sent from said mobile station;

an other station allocation determination unit that determines, based on a frame control information slot of said received radio transmission signal, whether a message data slot of said received radio transmission signal is allocated to another mobile station;

a message data slot allocation request unit that requests, in an activation slot of said radio transmission signal to be sent, said base station to allocate a message data slot to said mobile station; and

a warning command unit that generates a warning command when a message data slot of said received radio transmission signal is allocated to another mobile station.