Mobile communication system

• US 8,498,236 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2010
• Issued: 07/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Hapsari, Wuri Andarmawanti, Takahashi, Hideaki, Umesh, Anil, Iwamura, Mikio, Ishii, Minami
• Primary Examiner(s): JAIN, RAJ K
• Application Number:
  US13/266,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20120069789A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,196 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/315
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2606 Arrangements for base station coverage control, e.g. by using relays in tunnels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0016 Hand-off preparation specially adapted for end-to-end data sessions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/047 using dedicated repeater stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/20 between access points

Abstract

A radio base station according to the present invention comprising: a mobile communication system, a relay node and a first radio base station are connected via a radio bearer, the first radio base station and a second radio base station are connected, a mobile station is configured to perform a handover process between a state in which a radio bearer is set with the relay node so as to communicate via the relay node and the first radio base station, and a state in which a radio bearer is set with the second radio base station so as to communicate via the second radio base station, and the handover process is configured such that a radio bearer is set between the relay node and the second radio base station, and the control signals involved in the handover process are sent and received via the radio bearer that has been set between the relay node and the second radio base station.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system in which a relay node and a first radio base station are connected via a radio bearer and the first radio base station and a second radio base station are connected, wherein:

the relay node comprises;

as a radio bearer function of setting a Un interface between the relay node and the first radio base station, a physical layer function;

an MAC layer function provided as an upper layer function of the physical layer function;

an RLC layer function provided as an upper layer function of the MAC layer function;

a PDCP layer function provided as an upper layer function of the RLC layer function;

an RRC layer function provided as an upper layer function of the PDCP layer function,

an IP layer function as an upper layer function of the radio bearer function;

an SCTP layer function provided as an upper layer function of the IP layer function; and

an X2AP layer function provided as an upper layer function of the SCTP layer function,

the first radio base station comprises;

as a radio bearer function of setting a Un interface between the first radio base station and the relay node, a physical layer function;

an MAC layer function provided as an upper layer function of the physical layer function;

an RLC layer function provided as an upper layer function of the MAC layer function;

a PDCP layer function provided as an upper layer function of the RLC layer function;

an RRC layer function provided as an upper layer function of the PDCP layer function,

an IP layer function as an upper layer function of the radio bearer function;

an SCTP layer function provided as an upper layer function of the IP layer function; and

an X2AP layer function provided as an upper layer function of the SCTP layer function,

the second radio base station comprises an X2AP layer function, and

a control signal relating to a handover process is configured to terminate between the X2AP layer function of the relay node and the X2AP layer function of the first radio base station and between the X2AP layer function of the first radio base station and the X2AP layer function of the second radio base station; and

the SCTP layer function of the relay node and the SCTP layer function of the first radio base station are configured to perform keep-alive processes for the radio bearer.