Mobile communication method and mobile station

• US 8,665,833 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2010
• Issued: 03/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Iwamura, Mikio, Umesh, Anil, Ishii, Minami
• Primary Examiner(s): Hamza, Faruk
• Assistant Examiner(s): OH, ANDREW CHUNG SUK
• Application Number:
  US13/505,476
• Publication Number:
  US 20120263064A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,225 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/332
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/00835 Determination of neighbour cell lists
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/00837 Determination of triggering parameters for hand-off
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0085 Hand-off measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/04 Reselecting a cell layer in multi-layered cells

Abstract

To appropriately transmit “entering/leaving proximity indication” while preventing the wastage of radio resources. A mobile station UE according to the present invention is configured not to transmit “entering proximity indication” even when an entry into a predetermined area #1 is detected, and not to transmit “leaving proximity indication” even when an exit from the predetermined area #1 is detected, when a predetermined period has not elapsed since the time of transmission of “entering proximity indication” or “leaving proximity indication”.

Claims

1. A mobile communication method, comprising:

a step A of transmitting first instruction information to a radio base station configured to manage a cell of a first frequency when a mobile station communicating in a cell of the first frequency detects an entry into a predetermined area corresponding to a particular cell using a second frequency; and

a step B of transmitting second instruction information to the radio base station when the mobile station detects an exit from the predetermined area;

a step of the radio base station transmitting, when receiving the first instruction information, a measurement configuration instructing the measurement of a radio quality in a cell of the second frequency to the mobile station; and

a step of the radio base station transmitting, when receiving the second instruction information, a measurement configuration instructing an interruption of measurement of the radio quality in the cell of the second frequency to the mobile station, wherein

in the step A, when a predetermined period has not elapsed since the time of transmission of the first instruction information or the second instruction information, the mobile station does not transmit the first instruction information even when the entry into the predetermined area is detected, and

in the step B, when a predetermined period has not elapsed since the time of transmission of the first instruction information or the second instruction information, the mobile station does not transmit the second instruction information even when the exit from the predetermined area is detected.

2. The mobile communication method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined period is a fixed value.

3. The mobile communication method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined period is a value notified by the radio base station.

4. The mobile communication method according to claim 1, wherein in the step A, the mobile station further transmits the first instruction information to the radio base station when the mobile station does not possess a measurement configuration about the second frequency.

5. The mobile communication method according to claim 1, wherein in the step B, the mobile station further transmits the second instruction information to the radio base station when the mobile station possesses a measurement configuration about the second frequency.

6. The mobile communication method according to claim 1, wherein in the step A, the mobile station transmits, to the radio base station, the first instruction information including cell identification information used in a scrambling process for synchronous signals broadcast in a particular cell, when the entry into the predetermined area is detected.

7. The mobile communication method according to claim 6, wherein in the step B, the mobile station transmits, to the radio base station, the second instruction information including cell identification information used in the scrambling process for the synchronous signals broadcast in the particular cell, when the exit from the predetermined area is detected.

8. The mobile communication method according to claim 1, wherein in the step B, the mobile station transmits, to the radio base station, the second instruction information including cell identification information used in the scrambling process for the synchronous signals broadcast in the particular cell, when the exit from the predetermined area is detected.

9. A mobile station, comprising:

a transmission unit configured to transmit first instruction information to a radio base station configured to manage a cell of a first frequency when an entry into a predetermined area corresponding to a particular cell using a second frequency is detected during communication in the cell of the first frequency, and to transmit second instruction information to the radio base station when an exit from the predetermined area is detected;

a step of the radio base station transmitting, when receiving the first instruction information, a measurement configuration instructing the measurement of a radio quality in a cell of the second frequency to the mobile station; and

a step of the radio base station transmitting, when receiving the second instruction information a measurement configuration instructing an interruption of measurement of the radio quality in the cell of the second frequency to the mobile station, wherein

the transmission unit is configured not to transmit the first instruction information, even when the entry into the predetermined area is detected, when a predetermined period has not elapsed since the time of transmission of the first instruction information or the second instruction information, and

the transmission unit is configured not to transmit the second instruction information, even when the exit from the predetermined area is detected, when a predetermined period has not elapsed since the time of transmission of the first instruction information or the second instruction information.

10. The mobile station according to claim 9, wherein the predetermined period is a fixed value.

11. The mobile station according to claim 9, wherein the predetermined period is a value notified by the radio base station.

12. The mobile station according to claim 9, wherein the transmission unit is further configured to transmit the first instruction information to the radio base station when the mobile station does not possess a measurement configuration about the second frequency.

13. The mobile station according to claim 9, wherein the transmission unit is further configured to transmit the second instruction information to the radio base station when the mobile station possesses a measurement configuration about the second frequency.

14. The mobile station according to claim 9, wherein the transmission unit is configured to transmit, to the radio base station, the first instruction information including cell identification information used in a scrambling process for synchronous signals broadcast in a particular cell, when the entry into the predetermined area is detected during communication in a cell of the first frequency.

15. The mobile station according to claim 14, wherein the transmission unit is configured to transmit, to the radio base station, the second instruction information including cell identification information used in the scrambling process for the synchronous signals broadcast in the particular cell, when an exit from the predetermined area is detected during communication in a cell of the first frequency.

16. The mobile station according to claim 9, wherein the transmission unit is configured to transmit, to the radio base station, the second instruction information including cell identification information used in the scrambling process for the synchronous signals broadcast in the particular cell, when an exit from the predetermined area is detected during communication in a cell of the first frequency.