Mobile communication system

• US 8,520,608 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2007
• Issued: 08/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2006
• 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: Ofuji, Yoshiaki, Higuchi, Kenichi, Sawahashi, Mamoru
• Primary Examiner(s): RIYAMI, ABDULLAH A
• Application Number:
  US12/305,144
• Publication Number:
  US 20100027483A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,266 Days
• Field of Search: 370/344, 370/337, 370/347, 370/350, 370/208, 370/320, 370/328, 370/336, 370/341, 370/441, 370/329, 370/491, 375/150, 375/260, 375/130, 375/202, 375/231, 375/330, 375/326, 375/299, 375/296, 455/447, 455/63, 455/502, 455/449, 455/101, 455/67.6, 455/59, 455/65, 455/423, 455/226.1, 455/550.1, 455/561
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/0059 CAZAC [constant-amplitude and zero auto-correlation]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0037 Inter-user or inter-terminal allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0051 of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0091 Signaling for the administration of the divided path
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/02 Resource partitioning among network components, e.g. reuse partitioning

Abstract

A mobile communication system in which a finite number of reference signal sequences used for uplink channel estimation or the like are reused among multiple cells includes a determining unit configured to determine a frequency band used by user terminals to which a reference signal sequence with a predetermined sequence length is assigned in each of the cells within an interference area, wherein the frequency band is determined to be different from frequency bands used in the other cells.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system in which a finite number of reference signal sequences are reused among multiple cells, comprising a base station:

the base station comprising;

a measuring unit configured to measure interference power for each frequency band from another cell to which the same reference signal sequence is assigned by measuring a difference between a channel estimation value by means of sounding reference signals and a channel estimation value by means of reference signals for channel estimation; and

a determining unit configured to determine a frequency band based on the measured interference power.

2. The mobile communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the determining unit determines that the frequency band to be used is different from a frequency band in which interference is detected.

3. The mobile communication system as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the determining unit dynamically determines the frequency band at each subframe.

4. The mobile communication system in which a finite number of reference signal sequences used for uplink channel estimation or the like are reused among multiple cells, comprising as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the base station further comprises a shifting unit configured to shift transmission timings of radio subframes in each of the cells within an interference area.

5. The mobile communication system as claimed in claim 4, wherein:

the base station further comprises a detecting unit configured to detect collision between a reception timing of a reference signal within an own-cell and a reception timing of another reference signal received from another cell;

wherein the shifting unit shifts the transmission timings when the collision is detected.

6. The mobile communication system as claimed in claim 5, wherein:

the base station further comprises a transmitting unit configured to transmit information about the shifted transmission timings to the other cell.

7. The mobile communication system as claimed in claim 5, wherein:

the shifting unit shifts the transmission timings in consideration of control delay when the collision is detected.

8. The mobile communication system as claimed in claim 5, wherein:

information about the shifted transmission timings is included in control bits used for synchronizing reception timings of uplink signals from user terminals in the cell.