Communication system, base station apparatus, server apparatus, mobile station apparatus, and transmission data amount determining method

• US 8,050,211 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2005
• Issued: 11/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Nakata, Koji
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid; Lester
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jama; Isaak R
• Application Number:
  US11/236,154
• Publication Number:
  US 20060067291A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,227 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/315
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/022 Site diversity; Macro-diversity using two or more spaced independent antennas H04B7/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/026 Co-operative diversity, e.g. using fixed or mobile stations as relays
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/155 Ground-based stations H04B7/204 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control

Abstract

It is advantageous for present invention to suitably determine amounts of transmission data for links in a multilink communication. In a mobile communication system (10) for making a multilink communication through which a communication is performed by using a plurality of links relayed by a plurality of base station apparatus (30), respectively, each of the base station apparatuses (30) acquire transmittable data amount information representing amounts of data able to be transmitted through the respective links by a mobile station apparatus (20) or a server apparatus (40), and the mobile station apparatus (20) or the server apparatus (40) determines amounts of transmission data to be transmitted to the respective links in correspondence to the transmittable data amount information, and transmits communication data of amounts of data corresponding to the amounts of transmission data determined to the respective links.

Claims

1. A communication system in which a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus make a multilink communication by simultaneously using a plurality of links, each of the links partially includes a radio link, wherein

each of said links is a link through which data is relayed by each of a plurality of relay communication apparatuses,

each of said relay communication apparatuses comprising:

transmittable data amount information determining means for determining transmittable data amount information representing an amount of data able to be transmitted from the first communication apparatus to the second communication apparatus through the link relayed by said relay communication apparatus; and

transmittable data amount information transmitting means for transmitting the transmittable data amount information to said first communication apparatus, and

said first communication apparatus comprising;

transmittable data amount information receiving means for receiving the transmittable data amount information transmitted thereto;

distribution rate determining means for determining rates of distribution of communication data to the respective links, based on amounts of transmittable data represented by the transmittable data amount information relative to a sum of the amounts; and

communication data transmitting means for transmitting communication data of amounts corresponding to the determined rates of distribution each of said links, wherein

the radio link is a part between each of the relay communication apparatuses and the second communication apparatus in each of the links, and

the transmittable data amount information is information representing amounts of data able to be transmitted through the radio link from each of the relay communication apparatuses to the second communication apparatus.

2. A communication system according to claim 1, wherein the transmittable data amount information is determined in correspondence to the number of communications using the same frequency as that of the radio link.

3. A communication system according to claim 1, wherein the transmittable data amount information is determined in correspondence to an error rate in the radio link.

4. A communication system according to claim 1, wherein the transmittable data amount information is determined in correspondence to a data rate in the radio link.

5. A communication system according to claim 1, wherein

the radio link is a part between each of the relay communication apparatuses and the first communication apparatus in each of the links, and

the transmittable data amount information is information representing amounts of data able to be transmitted through the radio link from the first communication apparatus to each of the relay communication apparatuses.