Wireless communication system, wireless base station, mobile station, and wireless communication method

• US 8,543,101 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2012
• Issued: 09/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kunugi, Takeshi, Hattori, Reiko, Hasegawa, Noboru, Watanabe, Teruyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, DANH C
• Application Number:
  US13/558,622
• Publication Number:
  US 20130079041A1
• Time in Patent Office: 425 Days
• Field of Search: 455/418, 455/550.1, 455/562.1, 370/252
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

A mobile station that includes a mobile station controller which performs a process of responding to a call signal and a wireless base station that includes a base station controller which performs a determination of a priority of the call signal to be transmitted to the mobile station and a baseband unit that transmits a first call signal having a first priority to the mobile station and that stores a second call signal having a second priority in a queue and performs a transmission process wherein when the second call signal has been discarded, the baseband unit notifies the mobile station of information representing that the second call signal has been discarded and the mobile station controller executes, when deciding the second call signal has been discarded, a processing of an inquiry response to the wireless base station.

Claims

1. A wireless communication system comprising:

a mobile station that includes a mobile station controller which performs a process of responding to a call signal; and

a wireless base station that includes a base station controller which performs a determination of a priority of the call signal to be transmitted to the mobile station and a baseband unit that transmits a first call signal having a first priority to the mobile station and that stores a second call signal having a second priority which is lower than the first priority in a queue and performs a transmission process,

wherein when the second call signal has been discarded since a limit of the queue is exceeded, the baseband unit notifies the mobile station of information representing that the second call signal has been discarded, and

the mobile station controller executes, when deciding the second call signal has been discarded, a processing of an inquiry response to the wireless base station.

2. The wireless communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the baseband unit divides a plurality of the mobile stations into groups, stores the second call signal in one of a queues of the groups, and notifies the mobile stations of information representing whether or not the discarded second call signal for individual groups when the second call signal has been discarded, and

the mobile station controller executes, when recognizing that the second call signal has been discarded from one of the groups to which the mobile station controller belongs, the inquiry response to the wireless base station.

3. The wireless communication system according to claim 2,

wherein when a group from which a call signal has been previously discarded exists, baseband unit discards the second call signal from the group when the baseband unit discards the second calling signal.

4. The wireless communication system according to claim 2,

wherein the baseband unit ranks the mobile stations in accordance with the number of incoming calls and performs grouping in accordance with the ranking.

5. A wireless base station, comprising:

a controller configured to determine a priority of a call signal to be transmitted to a mobile station; and

a baseband unit configured to transmit a first call signal having a first priority to the mobile station and to store a second call signal having a second priority which is lower than the first priority in a queue and perform a transmission process,

wherein when the second call signal has been discarded since a limit of the queue is exceeded, the baseband unit notifies the mobile station of information representing that the second call signal has been discarded.

6. A wireless communication method in a wireless base station,

comprising:

determining a priority of a call signal to be transmitted to a mobile station;

transmitting a first call signal having a first priority to the mobile station;

storing a second call signal having a second priority which is lower than the first priority in a queue and performing a transmission process; and

notifying, when the second call signal has been discarded since a limit of the queue is exceeded, the mobile station of information representing that the second call signal has been discarded, and

in the mobile station

executing, when discarding of the second call signal is recognized, an inquiry response to the wireless base station.