Base station and communications method for storing base station information including a base station ID

• US 7,764,975 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2007
• Issued: 07/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2006
• 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: Mori, Shinichi, Hosono, Hiroyuki, Sugiyama, Takatoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Gesesse; Tilahun
• Application Number:
  US11/738,140
• Publication Number:
  US 20070249344A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,194 Days
• Field of Search: 455/525, 455/524, 455/562.1, 455/561, 455/560
• US Class Current: 455/524
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/14 using intermediate storage
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/00835 Determination of neighbour cell lists
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/12 Wireless traffic scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A base station and method of communication of a base station is provided. The base station includes a storage configured to store a predetermined number of base station information, each including a base station ID, an acquisition unit configured to acquire base station IDs, an aggregating unit configured to aggregate a number of times that each of the base station IDs is acquired, and a determination unit configured to determine a priority of each of the base station IDs. The base station also includes a judging unit configured to judge whether or not there is a base station ID having a priority higher than the base station ID stored in the storage, and a manager configured to delete from the storage, and store in the storage, base station information including a base station ID.

Claims

1. A base station that communicates with a mobile station by using radio signals, comprising:

a storage unit for storing a predetermined number of base station information, each including a base station ID for discriminating a specific base station and parameter information for radio communications set for the specific base station;

an acquisition unit for acquiring base station IDs of base stations forming destination cells of the mobile station, or base station IDs of base stations forming source cells of the mobile station during a first time period;

an aggregating unit for aggregating a number of times that each of the base station IDs is acquired by the acquisition unit;

a determination unit for determining a priority of each of the base station IDs on a basis of the aggregated results obtained by the acquisition unit;

a judging unit for judging among the base station IDs whose acquisition numbers are aggregated whether or not there is a base station ID having a priority higher than the base station ID stored in the storage, and whose acquisition number is larger than a predetermined number of times; and

a manager for deleting, from the storage, a base station information including a base station ID having a priority lower than a base station ID judged to have a higher priority, and to store, in the storage, a base station information including the base station ID judged to have a higher priority, in a case where the judging unit judges there is a base station ID having a higher priority than the base station ID stored in the storage and whose acquisition number is larger.

2. The base station according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit acquires a base station ID when the mobile station hands over or when the mobile station changes a current cell of the mobile station.

3. The base station according to claim 1, wherein, on the basis of location information of the mobile station measured by the mobile station, the acquisition unit acquires a base station ID of another base station forming a cell corresponding to the measured location information.

4. The base station according to claim 1, wherein

the acquisition unit acquires condition information which indicates conditions in communications between the mobile station and one of the base stations corresponding to a base station ID;

the aggregating unit aggregates the condition information for each base station ID acquired in the first time period; and

the determination unit determines the priority of each of the base station IDs on a basis of the aggregated results of the condition information.

5. The base station according to claim 4, wherein the condition information is any one of a reception level of a radio signal measured by the mobile station and a delay time for communications.

6. The base station according to claim 1, wherein the manager deletes the base station information stored for more than a second time period.

7. A communications method of a base station that communicates with a mobile station by using radio signals, comprising the steps of:

storing a predetermined number of base station information, each including a base station ID for discriminating a specific base station and parameter information for radio communications set for the specific base station;

acquiring a base station ID of a base station forming a destination cell of the mobile station, or a base station ID of a base station forming a source cell of the mobile station during a first time period;

aggregating a number of times that each of the base station IDs is acquired in the step of acquiring;

determining a priority of each of the base station IDs on a basis of the results of the step of aggregating;

judging among the base station IDs whose acquisition numbers are aggregated whether or not there is a base station ID whose priority is higher than the base station IDs stored in the storage, and whose acquisition number is larger than a predetermined number of times; and

deleting, from the storage, a base station information including a base station ID having a priority lower than a base station ID determined by the step of judging to have a higher priority, and storing, in the storage, a base station information including the base station ID judged to have a higher priority, in a case where the judging step judges that there is a base station ID having a higher priority than the base station IDs stored in the storage and whose acquisition number is larger.