Method and system for mobile communications

• US 7,953,414 B2
• Filed: 01/28/2009
• Issued: 05/31/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/1997
• 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: Watanabe, Yasuyuki, Sato, Takaaki, Hata, Masafumi, Tamura, Motoshi, Uchiyama, Nobuhide, Igarashi, Daisuke, Uchikoshi, Akihiro, Okamoto, Akiko, Ishikawa, Nobutaka, Hagiwara, Junichiro, Miki, Mutsumaru, Hamajima, Takuya, Yunoki, Kazufumi, Yasuda, Yoshiyuki, Kusunose, Kenya, Yamagata, Katsuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Le; Danh C
• Application Number:
  US12/361,346
• Publication Number:
  US 20090191924A1
• Time in Patent Office: 853 Days
• Field of Search: 455/436, 455/439, 455/522, 370/331, 370/328
• US Class Current: 455/436
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/022 Site diversity; Macro-diversity using two or more spaced independent antennas H04B7/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/03 Protecting confidentiality, e.g. by encryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• 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 52/04 TPC
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/12 Outer and inner loops
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/04 Network layer protocols, e.g. mobile IP [Internet Protocol]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/12 Access point controller devices

Abstract

When a network pages the temporary user mobile identifier of a mobile station, the mobile station sends a response to the network. Next, the network checks the authenticity of the user using a ciphering key, corresponding to the temporary user mobile identifier and a random number. If the temporary user mobile identifier is authenticated, a normal incoming call acceptance procedure is executed. If the mobile station is authenticated although the temporary user mobile identifier is wrong, the network reassigns a new temporary user mobile identifier to the mobile station and stops the current communication. In communication, the network and the mobile station mutually notify encipherment-onset time and negotiate about encipherment manner with each other. In addition, diversity handover is commenced upon a call attempt. Furthermore, if a branch replacement is necessary, the current branch is replaced by new branches capable of executing the diversity handover. Additionally, when a new call occurs to or from the mobile station capable of treating a plurality of calls simultaneously, the mobile station uses the same branch structure and the same communication frequency band for all of calls. Additionally, when a new call occurs to or from the mobile station capable of treating a plurality of calls simultaneously, a branch structure and a communication frequency band, which can continue all of the calls, are selected and used. Therefore, the mobile communications system is suitable for transmission of various sorts of data in accordance with the development of multimedia.

Claims

1. A method for determining a radio zone and an uplink transmission power, comprising:

transmitting, by each of base stations, broadcast information via a corresponding perch channel, the broadcast information indicating a specified channel transmission power level and an uplink interference level; and

receiving, by a mobile station, the broadcast information from near base stations around the mobile station;

detecting, by the mobile station, respective reception levels of the perch channels for the near base stations;

calculating, by the mobile station, respective path losses between the mobile station and respective near base stations on the basis of the respective reception levels and the respective specified channel transmission power levels indicated by the broadcast information;

calculating, by the mobile station, respective necessary uplink transmission power levels between the mobile station and respective near base stations on the basis of the calculated respective path losses, the respective uplink interference levels indicated by the mobile station, the broadcast information, and required signal-to-interference ratios involved in reception by the near base stations;

selecting, by the mobile station, a radio zone in which the necessary uplink transmission power level is minimum among the respective necessary uplink transmission power levels, the base station of the selected radio zone being ready for communication with the mobile station or being able to commence communication with the mobile station-after handover; and

controlling, by the mobile station, an uplink transmission power in the selected radio zone based on the necessary uplink transmission power level of the selected radio zone.

2. A mobile station, comprising:

receiving means that receives broadcast information from base stations around the mobile station via respective perch channels, the broadcast information received from each of the near base stations indicating each of a specified channel transmission power level and an uplink interference level;

detecting means that detects respective reception levels of the perch channels for the near base stations;

first calculating means that calculates respective path losses between the mobile station and respective near base stations on the basis of the respective reception levels and the respective specified channel transmission power levels within the broadcast information;

second calculating means that calculates respective necessary uplink transmission power levels between the mobile station and respective near base stations on the basis of the calculated respective path losses, the respective uplink interference levels indicated by the broadcast information, and respective signal-to-interference ratios involved in reception by the respective near base stations;

selecting means that selects a radio zone in which the necessary uplink transmission power level is minimum among the respective necessary uplink transmission power levels, the base station of the selected radio zone being ready for communication with the mobile station or being able to commence communication with the mobile station after handover; and

controlling means that controls an uplink transmission power in the selected radio zone based on the necessary uplink transmission power level of the selected radio zone.