High-speed downlink packet access system, base station, mobile station, and communication control method during a soft handover

• US 8,228,866 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2003
• Issued: 07/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Takano, Nahoko, Hamabe, Kojiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Brandt, Christopher M
• Application Number:
  US10/509,867
• Publication Number:
  US 20050277419A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,400 Days
• Field of Search: 370/331, 455/442, 455/436, 455/522, 455/466
• US Class Current: 370/331
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/16 in which the return channel carries supervisory signals, e.g. repetition request signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/12 Outer and inner loops
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/16 Deriving transmission power values from another channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/32 TPC of broadcast or control channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/36 with a discrete range or set of values, e.g. step size, ramping or offsets
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/40 during macro-diversity or soft handoff
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/48 during retransmission after error or non-acknowledgment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/50 at the moment of starting communication in a multiple access environment

Abstract

Immediately before transmitting a packet signal, a packet transmission base station (BS1) increases a target ISR of UL DPCH (S12), increases the TPC transmission power transmitted by the DPCH (S13), increases a power balancing reference power, and increases a DL DPCH transmission power (S14). In a mobile station (MS3), during packet reception, only a packet transmission base station (1) controls the UL DPCH transmission power (S15). This improves the reception quality at the base station (1) of HS-DPCCH including ACK/NACK and reduces the error ratio of the ACK/NACK signal.

Claims

1. A cellular system comprising a mobile station and a plurality of base stations that are in a handover state with said mobile station, one of said base stations, as a packet transmission base station, performing transmission of a packet to said mobile station by the use of a shared channel, characterized in that:

said mobile station comprises;

means for improving, a reception quality of a transmission power control signal included in a downlink dedicated channel sent only from the packet transmission base station among the base stations being in the handover state with said mobile station, by increasing a target SIR and by producing the transmission power control signal indicating the packet transmission base station to increase a transmission power of the downlink dedicated channel based on the increased target SIR.

2. A cellular system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said mobile station further comprises:

means for producing the transmission power control signal for controlling transmission power of the downlink dedicated channel on the basis of the target SIR to transmit the transmission power control signal to the packet transmission base station through the uplink dedicated channel.

3. A mobile station that performs handover with a plurality of base stations, said mobile station comprising:

means for receiving a packet by the use of a shared channel sent from a packet transmission base station that is transmitting the packet among the base stations; and

means for controlling a target SIR to improve a reception quality of a transmission power control signal included in a downlink dedicated channel received only from the packet transmission base station among the base stations being in the handover state with said mobile station, by increasing the target SIR and by producing the transmission power control signal indicating the packet transmission base station to increase a transmission power of the downlink dedicated channel based on the increased target SIR.

4. A mobile station as claimed in claim 3, wherein said mobile station further comprises:

means for producing the transmission power control signal for controlling transmission power of the downlink dedicated channel on the basis of the target SIR to transmit the transmission power control signal to the packet transmission base station through the uplink dedicated channel.

5. A communication control method of performing handover in a mobile station with a plurality of base stations, comprising:

receiving a packet by the use of a shared channel from a packet transmission base station that is transmitting the packet among the plurality of the base stations; and

controlling a target SIR to improve, a reception quality of a transmission power control signal included in a downlink dedicated channel transmitted only from the packet transmission base station among the base stations being in the handover state with said mobile station, by increasing a target SIR and by producing the transmission power control signal indicating the packet transmission base station to increase a transmission power of the downlink dedicated channel based on the increased target SIR.

6. A communication control method as claimed in claim 5, said communication control method further comprising:

producing the transmission power control signal for controlling transmission power of the downlink dedicated channel on the basis of the target SIR to transmit the transmission power control signal to the packet transmission base station through the uplink dedicated channel.

7. A cellular system comprising a mobile station and a plurality of base stations that are in a handover state with said mobile station, one of said base stations, as a packet transmission base station, performing transmission of a packet to said mobile station by the use of a shared channel, characterized in that:

said mobile station comprises;

a module that improves a reception quality of a transmission power control signal included in the downlink dedicated channel sent only from the packet transmission base station among the base stations being in the handover state with said mobile station, by increasing a target SIR and by producing the transmission power control signal indicating the packet transmission base station to increase a transmission power of the downlink dedicated channel based on the increased target SIR.

8. A cellular system as claimed in claim 7, wherein said mobile station further comprises:

a module that produces the transmission power control signal for controlling transmission power of the downlink dedicated channel on the basis of the target SIR to transmit the transmission power control signal to the packet transmission base station through the uplink dedicated channel.

9. A mobile station that performs handover with a plurality of base stations, said mobile station comprising:

a module that receives a packet by the use of a shared channel sent from a packet transmission base station that is transmitting the packet among the base stations; and

a module that controls a target SIR to improve, a reception quality of a transmission power control signal included in a downlink dedicated channel received only from the packet transmission base station among the base stations being in the handover state with said mobile station increasing a target SIR and by producing the transmission power control signal indicating the packet transmission base station to increase a transmission power of the downlink dedicated channel based on the increased target SIR.

10. A mobile station as claimed in claim 9, wherein said mobile station further comprises:

a module that produces the transmission power control signal for controlling transmission power of the downlink dedicated channel on the basis of the target SIR to transmit the transmission power control signal to the packet transmission base station through the uplink dedicated channel.