Power control and resource management method of femtocell base station in wideband wireless access system

• US 8,301,183 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2009
• Issued: 10/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kim, Sung Kyung, Yoon, Chul Sik
• Primary Examiner(s): KIM, WESLEY LEO
• Application Number:
  US12/603,892
• Publication Number:
  US 20100144338A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,104 Days
• Field of Search: 455/443, 455/444, 455/445, 455/448, 455/435.2, 455/522
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/16 Deriving transmission power values from another channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/244 Interferences in heterogeneous networks, e.g. among macro and femto or pico cells or other sector / system interference [OSI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/245 taking into account received signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/045 using private Base Stations, e.g. femto Base Stations, home Node B

Abstract

Provided is a power control method and resource management method of a femtocell base station in a wideband wireless access system. A macrocell base station receives received signal strength from a femtocell base station in a macrocell of the macrocell base station, compares it with received signal strength reported by a terminal in the macrocell, and when a difference between the two received signal strength is less than a threshold value, it receives received signal strength on a signal received by the terminals in the macrocell from the corresponding femtocell base station. Further, the macrocell base station determines whether the corresponding macrocell terminal is located in the coverage of the femtocell base station based on the reported received signal strength of the femtocell base station, and transmits information for controlling power of the femtocell base station or managing a radio resource to the femtocell base station according to the determination result.

Claims

1. A method for a femtocell base station to control power in connection with a macrocell base station in a wideband wireless access system in which macrocells and femtocells coexist comprising:

transmitting first received signal strength on a signal provided by the macrocell base station and femtocell information including preamble information of the femtocell base station and a femtocell base station identifier to the macrocell base station;

receiving power control information from the macrocell base station, the power control information being generated by comparing the first received signal strength and second received signal strength reported to the macrocell base station by a corresponding macrocell terminal, and the second received signal strength being measured by the macrocell terminal based on a signal provided by the macrocell base station; and

controlling transmitted power based on the power control information, wherein

when a difference value between the first received signal strength and the second received signal strength is less than a threshold value, the macrocell base station determines whether the macrocell terminal is located in the coverage of the femtocell base station based on third received signal strength of the femtocell base station measured by the macrocell terminal by using a signal provided by the femtocell base station, and includes a determination result in the power control information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein

the controlling of transmitted power includes

reducing the transmitted power when the macrocell terminal is located in the coverage of the femtocell base station.

3. A method for a macrocell base station to control power of a femtocell base station located in a macrocell of the macrocell base station in a wideband wireless access system in which macrocells and femtocells coexist comprising:

receiving first received signal strength on a signal provided by the macrocell base station and femtocell information from the femtocell base station;

calculating a difference value between the first received signal strength and second received signal strength measured by the macrocell terminal in the macrocell by using a signal provided by the macrocell base station;

when the difference value is less than a threshold value, receiving third received signal strength measured by the macrocell terminal by using a signal provided by the femtocell base station from the macrocell terminal;

determining whether the macrocell terminal is located in the coverage of the femtocell base station based on the third received signal strength; and

transmitting power control information for controlling power of the femtocell base station to the femtocell base station based on the determination result.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein

the receiving of third received signal strength includes

requesting the macrocell terminal to scan the femtocell base station by transmitting the femtocell information including preamble information and femtocell base station identifier of the femtocell base station to the macrocell terminal;

and

receiving the third received signal strength acquired by the macrocell terminal by performing scanning based on the femtocell information.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein

the power control information includes the difference value or the third received signal strength.

6. The method of claim 3, further including,

when the difference value is greater than the threshold value,

transmitting power control information including the difference value to the femtocell base station.

7. A method for a femtocell base station and a macrocell base station in cooperation with each other to control a radio resource in a wideband wireless access system in which macrocells and femtocells coexist comprising:

the femtocell base station transmitting first received signal strength on a signal provided by the macrocell base station and femtocell information including preamble information and femtocell base station identifier of the femtocell base station to the macrocell base station;

the macrocell base station transmitting control information generated based on at least one of a difference value between the first received signal strength and second received signal strength measured by a corresponding macrocell terminal by using a signal provided by the femtocell base station, and third received signal strength measured by the macrocell terminal by using a signal provided by the femtocell base station to the femtocell base station; and

the femtocell base station determining whether to use a specific radio resource agreed in advance with the macrocell base station based on the control information.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein

the transmitting to the femtocell base station includes

the macrocell base station receiving a report on the third received signal strength from the macrocell terminal when the difference value is less than a threshold value.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein

the transmitting to the femtocell base station further includes

the macrocell base station determining whether the macrocell terminal is located in the coverage of the femtocell base station based on the third received signal strength;

and

the macrocell base station generating the control information based on the determination result.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein

the determining includes

using no specific radio resource when the control information corresponds to the case in which the macrocell terminal is located in the coverage of the femtocell base station.