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

• US 8,559,368 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2009
• Issued: 10/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Isonuma, Yutaka, Hasegawa, Hajime
• Primary Examiner(s): Harper, Kevin C
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHOUDHRY, SAMINA F
• Application Number:
  US12/547,752
• Publication Number:
  US 20100067466A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,511 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/10 using broadcasted information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/045 using private Base Stations, e.g. femto Base Stations, home Node B
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A wireless communication system having a plurality of wireless base stations (BSs), and a second BS included under at least one of a first BS among the plurality of BSs and usable by a specified mobile station, the wireless communication system includes registering first identifiers as identifiers of the first BS and a second identifier as an identifier of the second BS in the specified mobile station in advance. The wireless communication system includes transmitting first information to the second BS when an identifier of a present cell is other than the first and second identifiers, and transmitting second information to the second BS when the identifier of the present cell is the first or second identifier, and controlling an operation of the second BS based on the received first or second information.

Claims

1. A wireless communication system comprising:

a mobile station;

a first wireless base station for forming a first cell; and

a second wireless base station for forming a second cell which is included in the first cell and for being usable by the station when the mobile station is one of at least one registered mobile station;

wherein the mobile station stores, in case that the mobile station is one of at least one registered mobile station, a first identifier of the first wireless base station and a second identifier of the second wireless base station;

the mobile station transmits, in case that the mobile station is one of at least one registered mobile station, first information to the second wireless base station when a third identifier of a serving wireless base station is other than the first and second identifiers, and transmits second information to the second wireless base station when the third identifier is the first identifier or the second identifier; and

the second wireless base station reduces or stops a transmitting power of the second wireless base station, when the second wireless base station detects all of the at least one registered mobile station being out of the first cell and the second cell based on the first information or the second information.

2. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile station further transmits the first information when the third identifier is the first or second identifier at the time of power OFF, and transmits the second information when the third identifier is the first identifier or the second identifier at the time of power ON.

3. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein the first information or the second information is transmitted to the first wireless base station via an IP network, and the IP network is coupled to a mobile communication provider network of the first wireless base station.

4. The wireless communication system according to claim 1, wherein the second wireless base station updates a mobile station state management table which stores the state of the registered mobile station based on the first information or the second information.

5. A mobile station apparatus in a wireless communication system, the mobile station comprising:

a memory for storing, in case that the mobile station is one of at least one registered mobile station, a first identifier of the first wireless base station and a second identifier of the second wireless base station, the first wireless base station forming a first cell, and the second wireless base station forming a second cell which is included in the first cell and is usable by the mobile station when the mobile station is one of at least one registered mobile station; and

a transmitter for transmitting, in case that the mobile station is one of at least one registered mobile station, first information to the second wireless base station when a third identifier of a serving wireless base station is other than the first identifier and the second identifier, and transmits second information to the second wireless base station when the third identifier is the first identifier or the second identifier;

wherein the second wireless base station reduces or stops a transmitting power of the second wireless base station, when the second wireless base station detects all of the at least one registered mobile station being out of the first cell and the second cell based on the first information or the second information.

6. A wireless base station being usable by a mobile station when the mobile station is one of at least one registered mobile station, the wireless base station comprising:

a transmitter for forming a second cell which is included in a first cell formed by another wireless base station;

a receiver for receiving first information from the mobile station when the mobile station is one of at least one registered mobile station and a third identifier of a serving wireless base station is other than a first identifier of the other wireless base station and a second identifier of the wireless base station, and for receiving second information from the mobile station when the mobile station is one of at least one registered mobile station and the third identifier is the first identifier or the second identifier; and

a controller for reducing or stopping a transmitting power of the wireless base station, when the wireless base station detects all of the at least one registered mobile station being out of the first cell and the second cell based on the first information or the second information.

7. A communication method in a wireless communication system including a mobile station, a first wireless base station for forming a first cell, and a second wireless base station for forming a second cell which is included in the first cell and being usable by the mobile station when the mobile station is one of at least one registered mobile station, the communication method comprising:

storing by the mobile station in case that the mobile station is one of at least one registered mobile station, a first identifier of the first wireless base station and a second identifier of the second wireless base station;

transmitting by the mobile station in case that the mobile station is one of at least one registered mobile station, first information to the second wireless base station when a third identifier of serving base station is other than the first identifier and the second identifier, and transmitting second information to the second wireless base station when the third identifier is the first identifier or the second identifier; and

reducing or stopping a transmitting power by the second wireless base station, when the second wireless base station detects all of the at least one registered mobile station being out of the first cell and the second cell based on the first information or the second information.