Mobile communication method

• US 8,676,207 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2011
• Issued: 03/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Hideaki, Hapsari, Wuri Andarmawanti, Umesh, Anil, Iwamura, Mikio
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, JUSTIN YE
• Application Number:
  US13/805,721
• Publication Number:
  US 20130171992A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,002 Days
• Field of Search: 455/436, 455/438, 455/442, 455/443, 370/331
• US Class Current: 455/436
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0058 Transmission of hand-off measurement information, e.g. measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0064 of control information between different access points
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0088 Scheduling hand-off measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/08 Reselecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/38 by fixed network equipment

Abstract

A mobile communication method according to the present invention is a mobile communication method in which a mobile station is handed over from a cell #B and is subordinate to a radio base station to a cell #C and is subordinate to a radio base station, and includes a step of transmitting “Measurement Configuration” for instructing to measure and report a desired radio quality to the mobile station, a step of transmitting, by the radio base station, “HO Request”, which includes identification information assigned to the cell #B, to the radio base station, a step of transmitting, by the radio base station, “HO Request Ack” including “HO Command” not including “Measurement Configuration” to the radio base station in response to the identification information assigned to the cell #B, and a step of transmitting, by the radio base station, the “HO Command” to the mobile station.

Claims

1. A mobile communication method in which a mobile station is handed over from a first cell subordinate to a first radio base station to a second cell subordinate to a second radio base station, the method comprising:

a step A of transmitting instruction information for instructing to measure and report a desired radio quality to the mobile station;

a step B of transmitting, by the first radio base station, a handover request signal, which includes identification information assigned to the first cell, to the second radio base station;

a step C of determining, by the second radio base station, whether or not the second cell is an area inside a measurement-target area, on the basis of the identification information assigned to the first cell; and

a step D of notifying the mobile station of the instruction information, when it is determined that the second cell is the area inside the measurement-target area.

2. The mobile communication method according to claim 1, wherein in the step D, the instruction information is notified by a handover instruction signal to the mobile station.

3. A radio base station, which operates as a second radio base station in a mobile communication method in which a mobile station receiving instruction information for instructing to measure and report a desired radio quality is handed over from a first cell subordinate to a first radio base station to a second cell subordinate to a second radio base station, wherein the radio base station is configured:

to receive a handover request signal including identification information assigned to the first cell from the first radio base station,

to determine whether or not the second cell is an area inside a measurement-target area, on the basis of the identification information assigned to the first cell; and

to notify the mobile station of the instruction information, when it is determined that the second cell is the area inside the measurement-target area.

4. The radio base station according to claim 3, wherein the radio base station is configured to notify the instruction information by a handover instruction signal to the mobile station.